[Q] CM focal vs stock GE camera - AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin

Has anyone tried the new CM Focal camera app who previously used a Google Edition ROM with stock camera?
How does it compare with stock GE 4.3 camera?
Picture quality, responsiveness, features, etc....

Focal was very buggy a couple of days ago. I'll probably switch to it eventually though.

gravedigger76 said:
Has anyone tried the new CM Focal camera app who previously used a Google Edition ROM with stock camera?
How does it compare with stock GE 4.3 camera?
Picture quality, responsiveness, features, etc....
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yeahmann said:
Focal was very buggy a couple of days ago. I'll probably switch to it eventually though.
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agreed. Focal will stabilize over the next few weeks or so. we'll all have a better idea of how to compare it then.

Also read the moto x camera works as well. Look here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2387369
I made a dropbox link with the moto x apk if anyone wants it.
http://db.tt/Jxlif8RC
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Phoneguy589 said:
Also read the moto x camera works as well. Look here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2387369
I made a dropbox link with the moto x apk if anyone wants it.
http://db.tt/Jxlif8RC
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Is it ROM in depended and will it work in parallel with existing camera or replace existing?
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You'll have 2 camera icons and it's just a camera app like focal.
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maybe its just me but i much rather prefer the samsung camera app over focal

Little Bigboy said:
maybe its just me but i much rather prefer the samsung camera app over focal
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Which ever gives better pictures is my preference but I can't justify stayingbon touchwiz just for camera. Looking for alternatives that ate just as good.
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Camera Fuzzyness On Cyanogen Mod 7

Hi there guys, I'm posting this topic to discuss the fuzzyness on my camera on my desire HD
Well I recently flashed the nightly cyanogen mod 7 rom, and well the camera is really fuzzy when it takes pictures ..... wondering if anyone has this same problem, or if there's a solution for me? Thanks so much $
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To be honest I never really much liked the CM7 camera, I just grabbed the Camera.apk from MIUI rom and installed. No issues whatsoever, good luck.
sparky_boi said:
To be honest I never really much liked the CM7 camera, I just grabbed the Camera.apk from MIUI rom and installed. No issues whatsoever, good luck.
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+1 Totally agree. That's the only reason I switch back to sense
sparky_boi said:
To be honest I never really much liked the CM7 camera, I just grabbed the Camera.apk from MIUI rom and installed. No issues whatsoever, good luck.
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Any link for the apk?
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CM for the One is out

Not sure if anyone has posted this yet but dripper just told me there's CM 10.1 nightly out. Win!
http://download.cyanogenmod.org/?type=nightly&device=m7
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Yep waiting for a new build to come out but they are pretty solid nightlies! Almost everything working on them except IR
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I hate cm it's the ultimate battery drainer so over hyped
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gemini002 said:
I hate cm it's the ultimate battery drainer so over hyped
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You are nuts
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eallan said:
You are nuts
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Back in my milestone days it just turned me off I never went back...
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gemini002 said:
I hate cm it's the ultimate battery drainer so over hyped
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In the 4 years on my galaxy s s2 s3 and ntot 2 I have had the same experience. Never could last on a cm based rom for more than a week. Battery has always been horrible on cm based roms.
anilkuj said:
In the 4 years on my galaxy s s2 s3 and ntot 2 I have had the same experience. Never could last on a cm based rom for more than a week. Battery has always been horrible on cm based roms.
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Do you have a htc one bro? Just wanted to make sure your a fanboy lol
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Becool0130 said:
Do you have a htc one bro? Just wanted to make sure your a fanboy lol
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Of course why else would I be in this forum. For the first time I skipped buying a Samsung phone. Though htc used to be my first smartphone back in the windows smartphone days tilt , kaiser etc.
CM is an acquired taste, it's not for everybody.
advantages are that it's light and practical with some excellent options, I like the sense camera to much to stay on CM for too long, but I always try it out .
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schrickm5 said:
CM is an acquired taste, it's not for everybody.
advantages are that it's light and practical with some excellent options, I like the sense camera to much to stay on CM for too long, but I always try it out .
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Also, having a solid build of CM is great for development of other non-sense based ROMs but I totally agree with you about the sense camera, it is better than the AOSP camera
Very early days but I am running the latest nightly and apart from some niggly performance issues (fixed in the next nightly) it is running very well on my phone and the camera is ok but yeah the sense camera is much better.
kxfrog said:
Also, having a solid build of CM is great for development of other non-sense based ROMs but I totally agree with you about the sense camera, it is better than the AOSP camera
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Have you changed the DPI yet? Are you having many crashes? Also whats the sound like?
schrickm5 said:
Have you changed the DPI yet? Are you having many crashes? Also whats the sound like?
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Haven't changed the DPI no, and very impressed with stability of the build I have had pretty much no crashes at all. However there are some performance issues, FPS is much lower than in sense based ROMs in a number of games, hopefully should be addressed in the next few nightlies.
Audio is of good quality if perhaps slightly quieter out of speakers than on sense. Some random dipping of volume though listening to sound through headphones
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gemini002 said:
I hate cm it's the ultimate battery drainer so over hyped
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drop the pipe and back away slowly
CheesyNutz said:
drop the pipe and back away slowly
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lol just every time I try that rom something does not work bluetooth or it crashes or it eats my battery or random reboots or it performs worse than stock imo ...i prefer stock roms rooted with some tweaks if i choose to flash...Right now I have the 1.29xxxxx.13 that I dirty flashed over my rogers rom rooted it added modaco tools removed 3 dots and the battery life is crazy my benchmarks are much higher than stock 1.29.xxxx.3 and i have the new fixed camera if I want I can flash a custom kernal ...not a fan but glad that its out for those who love it...off topic but was creeping on the Samsung forums and they have few roms lol long live htc
gemini002 said:
lol just every time I try that rom something does not work bluetooth or it crashes or it eats my battery or random reboots or it performs worse than stock imo ...i prefer stock roms rooted with some tweaks if i choose to flash...Right now I have the 1.29xxxxx.13 that I dirty flashed over my rogers rom rooted it added modaco tools removed 3 dots and the battery life is crazy my benchmarks are much higher than stock 1.29.xxxx.3 and i have the new fixed camera if I want I can flash a custom kernal ...not a fan but glad that its out for those who love it...off topic but was creeping on the Samsung forums and they have few roms lol long live htc
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There is a great deal of development for the HTC One definitely! CM is always my personal preference but as you say it's just preference, if you like the look and feel of sense then at the moment that has better performance than AOSP builds anyway
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kxfrog said:
Also, having a solid build of CM is great for development of other non-sense based ROMs but I totally agree with you about the sense camera, it is better than the AOSP camera
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Does...anyone like the AOSP camera?
I got the One for its camera mostly and body 2nd. Because 2 years down the road, when other iterations are released this camera will still be king of the hill.
The AOSP camera is good but it still has a few bugs atm and obviously it can't take full advantage of the image processing chip on the one.
mettleh3d said:
Does...anyone like the AOSP camera?
I got the One for its camera mostly and body 2nd. Because 2 years down the road, when other iterations are released this camera will still be king of the hill.
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CM chews the battery until it's well developed on a device. Plus you'll lose the HTC Camera app, HTC Zoe etc....that alone is enough to put me off.
the_scotsman said:
CM chews the battery until it's well developed on a device. Plus you'll lose the HTC Camera app, HTC Zoe etc....that alone is enough to put me off.
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Even Release Candidates CM's have always had a devastating effect on the battery of all my galaxy phones ( S, S3, S3 and Note 2) , from what i understand it was down to the proper samsung drivers not not being available to use with CM, is this the case with HTC too ? do other HTC phone CM roms have similar battery lift to the stock Roms?

Will New Features ever be on AOSP ROMs?

I reallllllly hate Touchwiz. Back from the days of the Mesmerize on good ol' US Cellular I always have. But the S4 has some cool features, specifically smart stay, air gestures, and the likes. It also has a lot of battery killing BS that I don't need.
Just wondering if it will be possible for developers of AOSP ROMs like AOKP and CM to have the pure google experience with some of the S4 specific features integrated.
I remember on the Epic 4G Touch getting S-Voice from the S3 and it was sketchy and didn't work great. So I'm kind of doubtful, but curious nonetheless.
dbaybay said:
I reallllllly hate Touchwiz. Back from the days of the Mesmerize on good ol' US Cellular I always have. But the S4 has some cool features, specifically smart stay, air gestures, and the likes. It also has a lot of battery killing BS that I don't need.
Just wondering if it will be possible for developers of AOSP ROMs like AOKP and CM to have the pure google experience with some of the S4 specific features integrated.
I remember on the Epic 4G Touch getting S-Voice from the S3 and it was sketchy and didn't work great. So I'm kind of doubtful, but curious nonetheless.
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Hopefully when the Google galaxy s4 is released it will be pure aosp with the added gs4 features.
As with other TW based features the only way we'll see them for AOSP is if Samsung decides to release them ready-to-go on an AOSP build. Based on their history I wouldn't bet on it happening. Look for alternate apps where possible in App Store.
I thought the aosp s4 version that is to be released is probably not going to have all the cool features as our phones just pure stock which probably means none of the air gestures and such which come intergrated with touchjizz.
Why not just root and remove the junk you don't use. Given they aren't tied together somehow.
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durandetto said:
Why not just root and remove the junk you don't use. Given they aren't tied together somehow.
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Already rooted and removed bloatware, but I still dislike Touchwiz. It's colors, fluidity, etc... are just wrong wrong wrong. I want my AOKP back, even CM would be fine. Just dislike Touchwiz so much!
opz187 said:
Hopefully when the Google galaxy s4 is released it will be pure aosp with the added gs4 features.
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I never thought of it like that.
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garwynn said:
As with other TW based features the only way we'll see them for AOSP is if Samsung decides to release them ready-to-go on an AOSP build. Based on their history I wouldn't bet on it happening. Look for alternate apps where possible in App Store.
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would be nice to have a working ir blaster for cm builds..
you think samsung will release the needed materials to get that working?
or do you think the google version will have open source that we can port it to get it working?
opz187 said:
Hopefully when the Google galaxy s4 is released it will be pure aosp with the added gs4 features.
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It would be nice, but it won't happen. Google has already said that it will be a Nexus experience device. No Touchwiz features, I'm afraid.
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maxpower7 said:
It would be nice, but it won't happen. Google has already said that it will be a Nexus experience device. No Touchwiz features, I'm afraid.
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we'll see. especially with jelly bean 4.3 being launched with it, I think they might take advantage of the s4s features
Most S4 features are just that features. Why buy an S4 if those cool features are AOSP (Open Source). HTC can just put it in a future update. We are at a point where going pure android really takes away from a device. Some features aren't worth losing.
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dbaybay said:
I reallllllly hate Touchwiz. Back from the days of the Mesmerize on good ol' US Cellular I always have. But the S4 has some cool features, specifically smart stay, air gestures, and the likes. It also has a lot of battery killing BS that I don't need.
Just wondering if it will be possible for developers of AOSP ROMs like AOKP and CM to have the pure google experience with some of the S4 specific features integrated.
I remember on the Epic 4G Touch getting S-Voice from the S3 and it was sketchy and didn't work great. So I'm kind of doubtful, but curious nonetheless.
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I am running Free GS4 with the 3minit framework and app with nova launcher and I don't really have any tw other than the lockscreen which is really nice with the widgets and everything
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dbaybay said:
Already rooted and removed bloatware, but I still dislike Touchwiz. It's colors, fluidity, etc... are just wrong wrong wrong. I want my AOKP back, even CM would be fine. Just dislike Touchwiz so much!
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o/
opz187 said:
we'll see. especially with jelly bean 4.3 being launched with it, I think they might take advantage of the s4s features
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uhh i think you are mistaken, no phone has any plans currently for 4.3.
dtr145r said:
would be nice to have a working ir blaster for cm builds..
you think samsung will release the needed materials to get that working?
or do you think the google version will have open source that we can port it to get it working?
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the ir blaster is actually just a mix of 2 apks....i pushed them over to /system/app then i flashed slim and ive been using it ever since...just had to fix permissions and whamo.
xxaddictedxx said:
the ir blaster is actually just a mix of 2 apks....i pushed them over to /system/app then i flashed slim and ive been using it ever since...just had to fix permissions and whamo.
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Oh yea?
which 2 apks?
I'm gonna give it a try.
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xxaddictedxx said:
the ir blaster is actually just a mix of 2 apks....i pushed them over to /system/app then i flashed slim and ive been using it ever since...just had to fix permissions and whamo.
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Bump.
Which 2 apks?
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dtr145r said:
Bump.
Which 2 apks?
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Just a guess but "Peel" and "Watchon"?
mick3444 said:
Just a guess but "Peel" and "Watchon"?
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I figured watch on would be one but not sure what the other would be....
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mick3444 said:
Just a guess but "Peel" and "Watchon"?
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did you try this? did it work?
CallumMarks77 said:
did you try this? did it work?
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I tried it and it did not work.
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Leaked 4.3 for the SGS 4 GE

http://phandroid.com/2013/06/27/and...ad/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
That was fast lol
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and we should care, why?
shiningarmor said:
and we should care, why?
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we know android 5 KLP isn't about to be released but 4.3 is almost ready, it runs on the 9505 which has almost identical hardware as our one
If 4.3 is out in the wild for the GS4 GPE what's to stop a leak for the One? I kind of believe the rumor that the phones will ship with 4.3.
I hate the new camera interface personally.
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I kinda have a sense that a mod will close this thread soon
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I Am Marino said:
I hate the new camera interface personally.
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Trying it out on my one today, I much prefer it to the Sense camera app.
Nothing to do with the HTC One, and links to the camera app are all over the HTC One forum. Thread closed.

Focal anyone?

Anyone running CM10.2 wanna extract focal and put it up here for people to try. There are obvious bugs but would still be cool to check it out.
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Pixelcreativ said:
Anyone running CM10.2 wanna extract focal and put it up here for people to try. There are obvious bugs but would still be cool to check it out.
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Not trying to be rude but I searched the forums and found this link that supposedly fixes something in it. Apparently the original was FCing and that apk runs but is missing functionality.
I downloaded it from the Play Store and haven't had any issues. Is the version in 10.2 modded or something? I've read that no camera works well yet.
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Phoneguy589 said:
I downloaded it from the Play Store and haven't had any issues. Is the version in 10.2 modded or something? I've read that no camera works well yet.
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From the play store? What are you talking about? Focal is the new cyanogenmod camera.
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That's where I thought I downloaded it from. Maybe it was the camera from the moto x. Either way, they work fine on touch wiz. Not exactly sure if that was what you were asking. I like the moto x one a lot but can't seem to snap a photo while taking video. Each apk while make is own icon so it won't replace stock camera. Replaced links. Hit Thanks if I've helped.
Focal apk
http://www.4shared.com/android/KGc8VeGt/Focal.html
Moto X apk
http://www.4shared.com/android/uGXEHWiq/MotoXCamera.html
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