Hi all, as we all know the HTC Hero has it's weak spot in the camera.
On many ROMs that go beyond the official 2.1 Release it is very variing wether it work or not and wether it has certain features or not.
What I know and speculate so far.
-To use the camera, Android needs a camera driver.
-Apparently these drivers are kexts (kernel extentions) witch are only compatible with certain versions of the Linux kernel.
-On CyanogenMod/AOSP based ROMs the camera app gives us more raw images with less post processing as there are no information about the sensor color proprieties.
-On HTC Sense ROMs photos are more saturated, contrasty as HTC knows about the sensor and has engineers who optimised the post processing algorithms accordingly.
So why can't we have HTCs camera apk everywhere? at least it relyes on some HTC Sense (that reside inside at least one external APK) frameworks to do some UI/UX shenanigans. I suppose also that HTC uses a dedicated camera driver and not a generic AOSP one additionaly.
What I don't know and want to know is where all the features in the little settings overlay in the AOSP Camera App come from. At first I thought it was a hardware capability but all of the sudden came FroydVillain (at least for me) and had touch to focus etc.
So my question is: can we decouple camera development to make(and keep up to date) the ultimate, full featured camera driver/app for the hero that works up to 2.3.4 ?
t.l.d.r. : I want touch to focus and spot metering in all ROMS up to 2.3.4
Previous Questions in the forum have been answered pretty vagely and unsatisfactory, so I try to gather as much info as I can here. Please complete, correct and link me to what I'm missing out here.
Try using the WildHeroWWE-1.2 rom by erasmux, Its got a working camera but the camcorder doesn't seems to be working.
hisham027 said:
Try using the WildHeroWWE-1.2 rom by erasmux, Its got a working camera but the camcorder doesn't seems to be working.
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Camcorder does work you have to change the it from 640 480 to 320 240 in the settings
Thanks, I love this rom but the only setback for me is the SMS + prefix issue that I m experiencing with this rom, let me know if you have a fix for it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1097334
So after the ridiculous upgrades to 4.4.3/4.4.4 that broke the camera, I went to CM11 and have been there happily ever since. Well, the 5.0 update was too sweet to pass up so I flashed back to 4.4.2 stock, then OTA'ed to 4.4.3/4.4.4, then 5.0.
Bad news gang, the camera is busted again. Rear camera is dead, selfie cam is fine... just like 4.4.3.
Thanks Sony!
Anybody else do the upgrade yet? Any luck getting the camera back?
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So after the ridiculous upgrades to 4.4.3/4.4.4 that broke the camera, I went to CM11 and have been there happily ever since. Well, the 5.0 update was too sweet to pass up so I flashed back to 4.4.2 stock, then OTA'ed to 4.4.3/4.4.4, then 5.0.
Bad news gang, the camera is busted again. Rear camera is dead, selfie cam is fine... just like 4.4.3.
Thanks Sony!
Anybody else do the upgrade yet? Any luck getting the camera back?
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back camera is working here, just not auto focus (unlocked BL)
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back camera is working here, just not auto focus (unlocked BL)
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Well actually, I have the same issue. My rear camera is *working*, but the auto focus is dead as well.
What are you doing to get around that?
ekrunch said:
Well actually, I have the same issue. My rear camera is *working*, but the auto focus is dead as well.
What are you doing to get around that?
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on 4.4.4 third party camera app worked didn't they? I guess the same will apply for 5?
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on 4.4.4 third party camera app worked didn't they? I guess the same will apply for 5?
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Well, they load and operate as well as the stock app, still no auto focus on the rear camera and they'll freeze or just silently fail when you try.
Looks like I need a Nexus 6. Special thanks to Sony for this one.
I had the same camera issue for on my bootloader unlocked ZU GPE.
Here is what I did.
I flashed 4.4.2, flashed the stock recovery, and then relocked the bootloader.
Then I called Google play customer support and had mine replaced under warranty.
It looks like that is the only option to fix the this camera mess that Sony created.
BTW, I did this before the lollypop update became available.
I'm using Android 5.0 on my Z Ultra GPE, and the front (8M) camera works fine in Camera FV-5, a paid app.
Do you have manual focus/DNG capture/manual exposure settings in Camera FV-5?
Camera FV-5
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Do you have manual focus/DNG capture/manual exposure settings in Camera FV-5?
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You can read about Camera FV-5's features here.
Manual Focus and RAW-DNG are supported by the application, but not by the Z Ultra GPE. You would need to be using a Nexus 5 or Nexus 6 (and Android 5.0). For the rest of us, the app offers lossless PNG.
There's no a Manual exposure mode (M) or Aperture-priority (A): just Program (P) and Shutter Priority (S). In P, you can easily override the nominal exposure by using your finger to move an exposure compensation slider. But whether this override is provided by the shutter or the aperture is decided by the app, not by you.
Shutter-priority (S) is crude; you must manually type the shutter speed you want! It's more for long exposures than for everyday use.
What I like most is how easily I can change ISO (Auto-50-100-200-400-800-1600-3200) without going to the menu.
(added Dec. 10. 2014): You can tell Android 5.0 to save your pictures (and for Cinema FV-5, your movies) to your external micro SD card.
Similar flexibility is provided for movies by the maker's Cinema FV-5. In that app, you can choose not just your resolution, but your recording quality level, recording codecs for video and audio, and frames per second. The only feature not supported by the GPe seems to be "unsupported resolutions"; I don't see any additional resolutions.
i am on the latest rr rom. the rom is great but the only problem is camera performance. camera is really bad. but the camera in miui is good. is there any way to port the miui camera to RR or any mod to increase the performance of RR camera?
I'd love to know that. On CM even HDR doesn't work and camera takes photos worse than 5yo phones.
I use a software called open camera , its working great . I can use manual focus on it, my friends who underestimated my phone began to adore it
Try to install Camera.apk search on google miui camera apk and dowload it
i have tried some different versions with camera2api enabled but didn't work.
is there any version that will work on this phone ?
I have the same question, I tried many but because our camera hardware is classed as legacy it keeps force closing.
Currently if you have GC 2.7 it's gonna work but no special feature at all, except the lens blue and if you have the virtual gyroscope you'll have the photo sphere option
This version is working,but without hdr+,on snap 615 hdr+ is not supported
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jGYpCPSMlA2m0fwabJUlZwb9yui_ULN7
I've tried custom Base AOSP rom for Sony Xperia XZ1 (G8341) Single sim
But on average I found a bug on the camera that is auto focus not working .
after opening the camera it is like normal but when will take pictures it happens the camera's focus changes to focus macro
I have tried to change focus but still , change to macro focus
Is there a way to overcome the bug it?
or maybe anyone has a custom AOSP rom suggestion that is stable enough for daily use .
I am looking for a Fire Camera 2 / HAL3 camera to work