I have had my G2 since last october.
I am a bit of serial flasher, mostly I have been flashing AOSP based roms but that changed as I was using more of the camera and was quite disappointed with the results I am getting.
I finally flashed Cloudy G3 (lg stock based) and I am noticing better quality pictures, at least I think they are.
My question is,
Would AOSP based rom never have the quality of the stock rom when it comes to picture quality?
What determines the quality of the camera? Kernel? Algorithm?
Any input would be appreciated
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I'm running CM11 M3 on my G2. The one thing I miss from LG's stock ROM is the quality of pictures from the LC camera app. The kitkat camera app baked into CM11 has pretty average picture quality.
Is there anything I can do to improve the camera quality? I've tried installing an APK of the camera app someone extracted from the G2 rom but it seems to be an older version, there are some modes that crash and the quality isn't as good as the lg stock camera app.
I was just wondering if anyone knows anything about a camera app or some other tweaks/threads that talk about this stuff. If I can improve the camera quality on the CM11 G2 it would be awesome.
humayunl said:
I'm running CM11 M3 on my G2. The one thing I miss from LG's stock ROM is the quality of pictures from the LC camera app. The kitkat camera app baked into CM11 has pretty average picture quality.
Is there anything I can do to improve the camera quality? I've tried installing an APK of the camera app someone extracted from the G2 rom but it seems to be an older version, there are some modes that crash and the quality isn't as good as the lg stock camera app.
I was just wondering if anyone knows anything about a camera app or some other tweaks/threads that talk about this stuff. If I can improve the camera quality on the CM11 G2 it would be awesome.
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Several ideas here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=48963205&postcount=2
I'm considering moving from TW to AOSP but what kept me on TW on the S4 was the Camera. I had horrible quality compared to the TW roms while being on AOSP. Flashed many ROMs and it was always the same but maybe it was just me.
Anyone that tried an AOSP ROM, how is the camera picture and video quality compared to the TW one?
Edit: Please delete this post, wrong forum.
DallaryPT said:
I'm considering moving from TW to AOSP but what kept me on TW on the S4 was the Camera. I had horrible quality compared to the TW roms while being on AOSP. Flashed many ROMs and it was always the same but maybe it was just me.
Anyone that tried an AOSP ROM, how is the camera picture and video quality compared to the TW one?
Edit: Please delete this post, wrong forum.
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I think if you try Google camera from the playstore it will give you an accurate representation of AOSP rom's camera.
Possibly not that accurate if they use different different camera drivers.
Exactly. I've also noticed that Google Camera also does not catch details like Samsung TW Camera while testing it on my TW Rom :/
I'm considering moving from TW to AOSP but what kept me on TW on the S4 was the Camera. I had horrible quality compared to the TW roms while being on AOSP. Flashed many ROMs and it was always the same but maybe it was just me.
Anyone that tried an AOSP ROM, how is the camera picture and video quality compared to the TW one?
Hello,
so, basically everywhere you can read that the camera quality is better with the stock ROM and worse with AOSP based ROMs...
Is it possible to emulate the AOSP camera quality on the stock ROM to be able to see what the AOSP camera quality would look like without actually having to flash an AOSP based ROM?
So, for example:
If you install Open Camera on the stock ROM and then take a picture with it, will the resulting picture have the same image quality as if you would have taken a picture on an AOSP based ROM?
Or will the camera quality still be better?
Is there any way to test what the camera quality will be like on an AOSP based ROM without actually having to flash an AOSP based ROM?
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Hi There,
one of the main reasons why I bought the S7 Edge initially was its great camera.
The reason why I haven't yet installed a Custom Rom was because I wasn't sure if the custom rom / camera app would provide the same picture-quality as the original one.
Will the Picture quality suffer from a custom camera app, or is the relevant software "build into" the chip, and therefor independent from the actual camera app?
Thanks a lot!
If a TW based ROM is used, the stock camera app can be used, so the phto quality will be the same. If you got root on this ROM you can even access more features of the camera with the Zerocam MOD.
If an AOSP base ROM is used, the quality is not equal. Samsung did not release all the libraries needed to access the hardware of the S7 camera properly. But nowadays you can reach, with third apps, the same quality of the photos as the TW based ROMs.
ushiyama said:
If a TW based ROM is used, the stock camera app can be used, so the phto quality will be the same. If you got root on this ROM you can even access more features of the camera with the Zerocam MOD.
If an AOSP base ROM is used, the quality is not equal. Samsung did not release all the libraries needed to access the hardware of the S7 camera properly. But nowadays you can reach, with third apps, the same quality of the photos as the TW based ROMs.
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I have tried many of the proposed solutions to achieve good camera quality in an AOSP based ROM and can only say that none of them came even close to the quality of the stock camera. Also, the speed was not comparable.
To compare I used a test scenario with poor lighting conditions and always took the same pictures. While for instance on images taken with the stock camera one could read the text on a package, on the other images you couldn't even tell that it was text.
Any news on this? As the S7 is end of life, the TW based ROMs are also not an alternative anymore. Is there any chance to get roughly the same camera quality with a LineageOS ROM? What third party apps deliver a decent quality?
you can use google camera. lol