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why has no-one tried to hardware mod the camera for the nexus 4? I've not yet seen anyone at least try to fit an Optimus G camera into a Nexus 4 slot, or tried to see if we can squeeze a samsung camera in there? I'm surprised no-one has just ordered the parts and seen if they could mod the kernels to accept them. Is there a reason why no-one has done this?
Don't tell me to get a better phone/camera either - XDA should be trying to push these limits by default.
Who's willing to take a shot, or message someone who knows more about these? I haven't found anyone talking about if the connectors are the same/different.
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Not a bad idea... I don't have the skills for software, but I'd happily try that if I could get my hands in a câmera module. I'm already considering going for the battery mod anyway...
Maybe if someone is happy to send one of these down to Brazil, I'd try to snuggle it on the camera slot...
Do we have working drivers for custom roms for the Optimus G?
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Well, just bought Optimus G camera for my Nexus 4 just because of curiosity. It will take some time for it to arrive. (about 2 weeks) I will swap it and we will see what happens. Will keep you posted. Im not a software dev, so if it wont work plug and play style I would appreciate some help from software devs
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Well, just bought Optimus G camera for my Nexus 4 just because of curiosity. It will take some time for it to arrive. (about 2 weeks) I will swap it and we will see what happens. Will keep you posted. Im not a software dev, so if it wont work plug and play style I would appreciate some help from software devs
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it would be good for a dev to outline what we would need for them to make it work.
syrusas said:
Well, just bought Optimus G camera for my Nexus 4 just because of curiosity. It will take some time for it to arrive. (about 2 weeks) I will swap it and we will see what happens. Will keep you posted. Im not a software dev, so if it wont work plug and play style I would appreciate some help from software devs
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Unless you know how to solder and know how the circuitry is, I'm pretty sure it won't fit, unless I'm wrong. Manufacturers come up with different connector for every camera module to prevent them to be interchangeable, forcing you to buy their new phones.
It's pretty easy to interchange it. I had a broken screen and back glass nexus which I transplanted to a new front housing and it was basically plug and play.
From what I saw in the pictures, the Optimus G module is pretty much the same.
I guess that extracting the modules from an 4.3 Optimus Rom and using on a N4 custom rom should do the trick if a skilled rom cooker is involved.
I'm no heisenberg, but could try doing the swap, but as I said, didn't had the cash at the time I saw this thread, and when I got it, due to the lashing, I prefered to go on with the parallel battery mod (which btw is awesome, got almost 6 hours of screen on and 24h device on with very heavy use)
AdrienC said:
It's pretty easy to interchange it. I had a broken screen and back glass nexus which I transplanted to a new front housing and it was basically plug and play.
From what I saw in the pictures, the Optimus G module is pretty much the same.
I guess that extracting the modules from an 4.3 Optimus Rom and using on a N4 custom rom should do the trick if a skilled rom cooker is involved.
I'm no heisenberg, but could try doing the swap, but as I said, didn't had the cash at the time I saw this thread, and when I got it, due to the lashing, I prefered to go on with the parallel battery mod (which btw is awesome, got almost 6 hours of screen on and 24h device on with very heavy use)
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Go for it!
(also, mind linking to some more detail on that battery mod?
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Go for it!
(also, mind linking to some more detail on that battery mod?
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Sure, I followed this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239829
The battery voltage equalization is very important. I've done some research about it because I was having issues to make them the same voltage and read some physic academic articles and forum threads warning for serious damage if it's not followed(battery can explode).
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Hello everyone,
Now we are having fun with the Lollipop in our device. But our device doesn't seem to support every features of Lollipop. I was longing to use
the new features of android.hardware.camer2 API. But when i tried apps like Manual Camera, L Camera ; they report " It is not supported in your device". Devs isn't there anyway to integrate Camera2 support in any ROMs.
This might be of interest. http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-g-2014/general/moto-g-2014-camera-sensor-t3053476
Heck even newly launched M9 and S6 premium phones camera also don't support all feature of camera 2 api,,, for our moto g ,,this is sure not possible. Its The reason that not even a single OEM go bang on this bad boy api, it requires lot of hardware elements to be in. Don't keep your hopes with Moto g on this ,,I an damm sure even moto x' 14 will not get this
This is the 4th or 5th thread i am going through which talks about Camera API 2.0 its pretty evident that our phones will never ever get the Camera API 2.0 support, please stop creating threads which wont yield anything!!
May I add somthing?
The Moto G has the same camera sensor as the nexus 5, the nexus 5 has camera2 api.
Also the camera2 is no hardware stuff, its an api to controll the camera manually.
Hey, maybe we could get 1080p through some camera2 api majic
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The Moto G has the same camera sensor as the nexus 5, the nexus 5 has camera2 api.
Also the camera2 is no hardware stuff, its an api to controll the camera manually.
Hey, maybe we could get 1080p through some camera2 api majic
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I was going to answer that. Our phone is pretty capable of almost everything Camera API 2 provides to N5 (except 4k). If some dev be interested and start dig arround i bet we would end with something. We have all sources from both devices.
4k would be a tiny bit too boss
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4k would be a tiny bit too boss
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4k wouldn't be possible i believe because of the SoC pipeline. It would be too much data to be handled.
But things like ISO selection this would be perfectly possible, once on N5 this option was selectable even before camera api v2.
sky0165 said:
4k wouldn't be possible i believe because of the SoC pipeline. It would be too much data to be handled.
But things like ISO selection this would be perfectly possible, once on N5 this option was selectable even before camera api v2.
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I would help, but I don't think I would be able to help mutch, I have no idea about kernals/libs.
But I'm looking forward to better shots.
It would be possible with some devlopment... Just mutch slower.
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I would help, but I don't think I would be able to help mutch, I have no idea about kernals/libs.
But I'm looking forward to better shots.
It would be possible with some devlopment... Just mutch slower.
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Indeed. It would be very nice some enlightenment over this question even to people stop creating threads like this. What about @LuK1337 @luca020400 @Pizza_Dox @Shawn5162 ?
sky0165 said:
Indeed. It would be very nice some enlightenment over this question even to people stop creating threads like this. What about @LuK1337 @luca020400 @Pizza_Dox @Shawn5162 ?
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I personally never use camera so I won't even try porting it from N5.
Hi guys, is it possible to change the location folder to SD instead internal memory on this app? I can't find an option to do this.
ErickST18 said:
Hi guys, is it possible to change the location folder to SD instead internal memory on this app? I can't find an option to do this.
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swipe settings on camera and then touch on the SD Card pictogram. (????????)
sky0165 said:
swipe settings on camera and then touch on the SD Card pictogram. (????????)
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Can't see that option, can u post a screenshot or something, please?
Here you are.
I rely on the Phone for my snaps
LuK1337 said:
I personally never use camera so I won't even try porting it from N5.
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The thing is we have a hardware then with a small amount of work we can record even better memories or even full hd videos. Y don't you just lend out your knowledge to help us!
He is a ROM developer dude
The_Ace said:
The thing is we have a hardware then with a small amount of work we can record even better memories or even full hd videos. Y don't you just lend out your knowledge to help us!
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He is a ROM developer dude the software side of things Camera API 2.0 needs support of hardware as well as all those library files and modules. In short a complete rewrite of existing underlying Camera software which is very difficult since it requires proprietary files drivers etc. Seeing S6 or S6 Edge or any other major phone lacking it at the moment i feel we will never it until someone develops an open source driver kinda thing for it
I'm not sure what the big deal is with the camera thing. There are literally dozens of camera apps out there that are as good or better than the stock cameras. On the suggestion of someone at XDA that I forget who, I tried A Better Camera and liked it so much I purchased it. It will save to the SD card and has more features than the standard camera.
Tel864 said:
I'm not sure what the big deal is with the camera thing. There are literally dozens of camera apps out there that are as good or better than the stock cameras. On the suggestion of someone at XDA that I forget who, I tried A Better Camera and liked it so much I purchased it. It will save to the SD card and has more features than the standard camera.
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Try finding an app for manual focus, RAW support, exposure time and ISO sensitivity.
BTW also try Camera FV5. It kicks A Better Camera's a** in terms of bringing powerful features to your phone.
raju sesharaj said:
He is a ROM developer dude the software side of things Camera API 2.0 needs support of hardware as well as all those library files and modules. In short a complete rewrite of existing underlying Camera software which is very difficult since it requires proprietary files drivers etc. Seeing S6 or S6 Edge or any other major phone lacking it at the moment i feel we will never it until someone develops an open source driver kinda thing for it
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We are all speculating here, even you. No one has a digged to find if we can use anything from Nexus 5. The ones who has skills for this kind of thing is simply not interested.
The only thing we don't share with N5 is SoC.
The video below shows it best, but basically, the touchscreen on my Turbo 2 doesn't seem to track the touch point until after it's moved about 60 or so pixels away from the original point of touch. After that, it tracks just fine. It's somewhat problematic when trying to finely control something like the slider on a video player's progress bar, because if you want to seek only a few seconds behind, you have to make a larger drag backward in order for the touchscreen to pick up the drag and then drag back to where you wanted to seek.
I'm confused by this because my previous smartphone (Galaxy S4) tracked movement instantly from the original touch point without this kind of "dead zone." Is this normal for this handset?
The forums won't allow me to post a link or embed yet, so here's the copy/paste link to the video: youtu.be/J35FE4inzJo
I used the "Yet Another MultiTouch Test" app in the video (and the stylus to make it easier to see).
My phone acts the same as your video. It is not something that has caused me any issues so far.
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Back in Atrix 4G, Moto implemented feature to prevent digitizer to be confused by rain drops. Years after looks like that they're still doing the same. Back then it was easy to fix but root access is needed.
Here is the original topic about that "feature" for Atrix 4G (still have it, not feature, Atrix ) and here how to fix it with just editing conf file. Maybe something similar can be done for Turbo 2/Force.
calash said:
My phone acts the same as your video. It is not something that has caused me any issues so far.
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Thanks for confirming this for me. At least now I know it's an intentional behavior of the phone and not something wrong with mine. I really wish it didn't exist though because it can be annoying at times. Though having come from the Galaxy S4's slow and buggy TouchWiz, I suppose the Turbo 2's butter smooth Android experience and really nice Moto features make up for it, Verizon bloatware and slow updates not withstanding. :good:
Zeljko1234 said:
Here is the original topic about that "feature" for Atrix 4G (still have it, not feature, Atrix ) and here how to fix it with just editing conf file. Maybe something similar can be done for Turbo 2/Force.
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Thanks for looking that up. It'd be quite nice if editing a file could fix it. I'll look into, but i'm betting it won't be so simple, if possible at all.
NobleOne18 said:
Thanks for looking that up. It'd be quite nice if editing a file could fix it. I'll look into, but i'm betting it won't be so simple, if possible at all.
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If is not hardware limitation (doubt it is) or hard coded in the kernel or system should be easy to fix. Even if is in the kernel, Moto should release source soon and it's fixable again. So only remains that Moto may have special digitizer...
I've read a lot about this phone lacking a good camera. I own a S6 and an S7, so I dumped the camera app from my Samsung phone as well as the frameworks required for the camera app to work.
I'm not sure if this will work because I don't have a OnePlus 3T phone on hand (I am planning on getting one though), so this hasn't been tested. These files are stock files and unmodified. From what I've read as long as the frameworks are available, the APK files should function, so if anyone would like to test these out and report back to let me know how it works I would appreciate it.
Recommendations:
Just to cover all bases, I do recommend everyone to make a backup of their system. This archive won't make any changes to your system outside of installing the stock samsung camera app, but I don't want to be responsible for any issues if something stops working for you.
I don't foresee anything causing any trouble because if this doesn't work, you can just uninstall it like any other app and remove the *jar files and everything should be fine.
Here are the steps:
1. Extract the archive file. (you should see a readme.txt, SamsungCamera4.apk, and a system folder)
2. Install the "SamsungCamera4.apk" file like any other app (Don't open it up yet after you install it)
3. In the system\framework folder of this archive, you will see a bunch of *.jar files. You need to move those into the .\system\framework folder on your phone. (These are required libraries for the APK to work properly)
You can do this using an app like "Root Browser", but you NEED to be rooted for this to work.
4. After you copy the jar files over, reboot your phone.
5. (Optional) When your phone powers back on, try and clear the cache for your camera app.
6. Try and run the Samsung Camera app on your phone.
I hope this will work out on this phone, because I would really like to see a better camera option for such a great phone!
Let me know what you find!
Extracted the apk and doesn't install.
Do you get any errors? If so, what is the error?
m0d hipp¥ said:
Do you get any errors? If so, what is the error?
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I installed it as a system app because it can't be installed normally (package appears to be corrupted) and installed all frameworks with rw-r-r.
When I open the app, it flashes black for half a second and then closes
Dang, okay. Let me look into this and see what I can do. When you tried installing it as a regular app, did it say it's not compatible or anything came up?
m0d hipp¥ said:
Dang, okay. Let me look into this and see what I can do. When you tried installing it as a regular app, did it say it's not compatible or anything came up?
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I would like to be optimistic but if it was possible someone would have done it ages ago. You should be able to port from one Samsung to another as the frameworks are similar but you would need to build it from the source (i.e. build the app yourself from scratch) to have it working on Oneplus 3t and the source code is not open I believe.
You would have better chances at tweaking stock camera than porting Samsung's
Yeah, I might need to look into it a bit further. I was being optimistic and hopeful. I mean, I get that the hardware is specific to the device, but I don't see why a camera like Samsung's camera app couldn't be ported for all Android devices. After all Android is built off the same base platform.
Thanks for at least giving it a try. I think I will go and order my OnePlus 3T when I get home from work, then I'll be able to do more trial and error on my own as well!
Thanks for the attempts guys!
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Yeah, I might need to look into it a bit further. I was being optimistic and hopeful. I mean, I get that the hardware is specific to the device, but I don't see why a camera like Samsung's camera app couldn't be ported for all Android devices. After all Android is built off the same base platform.
Thanks for at least giving it a try. I think I will go and order my OnePlus 3T when I get home from work, then I'll be able to do more trial and error on my own as well!
Thanks for the attempts guys!
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Good luck in testing this once you get your phone but I doubt that you'll be able to port Samsung camera to Oneplus 3t. I think better idea would be working on the stock camera and improving the algorithms and post processing there.
If you get stuck and need experts view on your ideas or help with the code ask the greatest camera developer defcomg for help as he with his expertise will be able to assist you where possible
Thanks! I was actually looking at some other apps in the playstore that are considered "high def camera" apps. I know that a lot of the quality in pictures is based on the hardware itself, however I also know that the software is what drives the hardware to work the way it works. I mean, granted the specs of the camera might not be the same as Samsung's, but a 16mp camera should be pretty darn good quality nonetheless.
Has anyone played around with any of the other camera apps?
I know someone here tried the stock android\google camera. What about one of these?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marginz.snap
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.vipek.camera
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.riseupgames.proshot2
I realize some of these are paid apps, and I'll look into it once my phone comes in as well. I definitely think there is opportunity for some optimization to make the camera a little better based off everyone's feedback about it.
This is a good initiative to improve the software side of the camera. I know sultanxda has his own hals in his ROMs but I find stock oxygen ROM to have better images and videos with less distortion.
All the luck for your attempt. If you're able to tidy up the algorithms ,it's gonna improve the camera for sure.
Crossing fingers.
That being said, what camera hal version is the sammy cam? But even if it´s the same, I belive you have to build a wrapper to shim the sammy function calls to the qcom camera hal... Good luck!
Propably logs (logcat and dmesg) from the crashing camera app would be usefull.
Bah, unfortunately it seems like I got ahead of myself. I did a little bit more looking into this, and it looks like the SamsungCamera app is actually using a custom SDK, so it doesn't follow the same practice your other universal apps use. Apparently SamsungCamera uses some more low-level technique that doesn't utilize HAL.
Hey Guy's
Have you tried Google Camera? You can get this on apkmirror.
Cheers
Right, it's like I suggested in one of my previous posts. There seem to be a few high def camera apps available across all android platforms which might be a great alternative. I'm not sure, but it's worth a look and test.
Neo+6210 said:
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Have you tried Google Camera? You can get this on apkmirror.
Cheers
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I tried Google camera and it crashes every time I open the app.. Any insight?
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I tried Google camera and it crashes every time I open the app.. Any insight?
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Use the link from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/one...oogle-camera-4-2-035-141213305-t3531566/page1
Last post I think. First one doesn't work.
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Use the link from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/one...oogle-camera-4-2-035-141213305-t3531566/page1
Last post I think. First one doesn't work.
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Same result
NoLunchBox_ said:
Use the link from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/one...oogle-camera-4-2-035-141213305-t3531566/page1
Last post I think. First one doesn't work.
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Having tried numerous Google camera versions unfortunately none of them give us the same controls (no HDR+, burst mode which no one uses ) that would give to Nexus line users as this is limited to just Google phones. If HDR+ worked on Oneplus 3T it would give the results that Pixel users get and since Samsung camera app is no-go as expected I think working on Google camera app to unlock HDR+ that Google/Pixel phones get would probably be the only solution to improve the results on OP3T.
@m0d hipp¥ can you port or arrange samsung Gallery app for Oneplus 3T???
It will be a great help bro
Title days it all, here are my specs
OnePlus 8 pro Android 11
Rom: crdroid 7.4 instantnoodlep
Gcam version:GCam 7.3.018 Urnyx05-v2.5
Config: nrG--Urnyx05-7.3.018-v2.0
On stock OnePlus rom the slowotion camera worked fantasticly, I happened to use it quite a lot. Since going to crdroid and using gcam I notice though I can set videos to film 144fps, as soon as I try to use the slow motion feature on gcam it will pause for a second and visibly drop frames while filming. Checking out the footage is even worse since, ya know, a 20 fps video slowed down is basically a slideshow. I've included an example and a matlog just in case, but does anyone have a workaround for this? I'd hate to go back to stock for something so arbitrary
Edit: literally won't let me upload the text file for some reason, so here's the logcat
GCam cannot do slow motion. One of the reasons the OOS camera getting ported to AOSP /Lineage type ROM's, amongst others
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GCam cannot do slow motion. One of the reasons the OOS camera getting ported to AOSP /Lineage type ROM's, amongst others
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That's a shame, would you happen to know if there's a port for crdroid floating around in the ether? I can't seem to find anything
yokonzo said:
That's a shame, would you happen to know if there's a port for crdroid floating around in the ether? I can't seem to find anything
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Check the OnePlus 8 unified forum, it's in the OnePlus 8 section.
Evo X I'd recommend.
It has the OOS camera with working slow motion and wide angle, plus Google photos provides unlimited back up for free at original resolution
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Check the OnePlus 8 unified forum, it's in the OnePlus 8 section.
Evo X I'd recommend.
It has the OOS camera with working slow motion and wide angle, plus Google photos provides unlimited back up for free at original resolution
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Looks like the author took down all his files, eh well. you said most aosp roms might have a port though right? ill look around and see what i can see
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Looks like the author took down all his files, eh well. you said most aosp roms might have a port though right? ill look around and see what i can see
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No mate, you're looking in the OnePlus 8 'pro' section..
I said OnePlus 8
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No mate, you're looking in the OnePlus 8 'pro' section..
I said OnePlus 8
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I actually lucked out and just installed the newest version of crdroid, turns out they just slipped the port in there at some point and it works great now