Does anyone have any before/after pictures, or have an opinion as to how bad it gets?
1. take a picture with the stock sony camera app
2. take a picture with any other camera app on play store, for example Google camera https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.GoogleCamera
3. transfer both pictures to your computer
4. look at them and see for yourself
Oh I didn't realise you could do that. The Google Camera photo I took looks, if anything, better
Thanks for your help. No reason not to flash then, cheers.
RedMist said:
Oh I didn't realise you could do that. The Google Camera photo I took looks, if anything, better
Thanks for your help. No reason not to flash then, cheers.
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Its just about one chip on the motherboard which reduce the amount of pixel noise in the image and its only the stock sony camera app that can use the server interface to send data back and forth to this chip. If you flash any sony based rom you can now flash a .zip file with the lib files and server apk to make the chip work again even if you unlocked your bootloader.
But to me..its a stupid gimmick that just ruins the image. This is not a camera phone.
You can find the mod in the cross dev forum part. Nothing special really... keep moving towards the lollipop roms :silly: those are the fun around here
the camera on this phone is nothing to write home about... stock or AOSP...
We won't see any better photos on the Ultra until we get the camera2 API implemented, which allows RAW capture and better control of the sensor. Only the Nexus 5 and 6 are supported right now as far as I know.
The issue today is that Sony is controlling the camera hardware and its software, so it's impossible to reduce or change anything major. Camera2 in Lollipop changes this, giving regular third party devs direct access to the camera hardware, and with that we can potentially use the sensor, which shouldn't be that bad, to its fullest. Snapping photos in RAW would for example eliminate the freaking compression that Sony uses.
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Does anyone know if there's a program that lets you take more control over the HD2s camera?
I'm not even asking for shutter speed and aperture settings (although that would be awesome ;-).....I just sometimes wish I had some simple controls like exposure value (EV) to control the...well...exposure of the image. And I'm not talking about the "brightness"-setting which is just digital....
Am I the only one there?
I don't expect my HD2 to replace my SLR but it would certainly make many pictures better to have this kind of control...
Hope you guys know something!!!
cheers,
borg
The problem is HTC haven't publicly (i.e. accessible to programmers) made available any way of interacting with their camera driver libraries. All you have access to in programming code is the ability to 'ask' it to prompt the user to take a picture (and then do something with the taken pic afterwards). There's no way of interacting with the way the camera takes the picture.
This is also why we've not got any augmented reality apps etc. on the hd2 as there is no straight-forward way of accessing the camera live feed from code (without some serious hacking) all you can access is pictures taken by it.
Thanks for the info!
That's a real pity....do you think there's any chance, they're gonna release an api or something anytime in the future???
Hi all.
I have a galaxy s3 mini running cm11. It does not support exposure lock ( isAutoExposureLockSupported returns false). Is there any way to enable exposure lock and also white balance lock as it seems to be a software limitation. I have searched around and cannot find where the file that contains these parameters about exposure, focus, white balance, etc. Could I change the isAutoExposureLockSupported=true to achieve exposure lock. The camera also seems to not support many focus modes which have been common to all lower end phones I have owned, and also exposure lock was supported on these too. Has anyone any idea of how to do this?
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I don't do much beyond taking a few random pics of nice scenery or my pets (yea, I'm lame, but they're cute, so what? ) , but from reading a bit, seems like you might just have to use another camera app that might have that feature. Probably not going to be as good as a stock camera set up that has it built in, but you gotta work with what you have... Maybe something like this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45806383
Has an exposure settings option that might do what you are looking for. There are some others, but many of them are very device specific, and not likely something that just spoofing the build.prop would help with. This is mainly due to so many different cameras/camera drivers to get working with generic camera apps that don't have access to the proprietary drivers from the manufacturers. If your phone stock doesn't have this feature, then probably going to be very hard to maybe not enable, but to get it to work like you would hope or expect.
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I don't do much beyond taking a few random pics of nice scenery or my pets (yea, I'm lame, but they're cute, so what? ) , but from reading a bit, seems like you might just have to use another camera app that might have that feature. Probably not going to be as good as a stock camera set up that has it built in, but you gotta work with what you have... Maybe something like this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=45806383
Has an exposure settings option that might do what you are looking for. There are some others, but many of them are very device specific, and not likely something that just spoofing the build.prop would help with. This is mainly due to so many different cameras/camera drivers to get working with generic camera apps that don't have access to the proprietary drivers from the manufacturers. If your phone stock doesn't have this feature, then probably going to be very hard to maybe not enable, but to get it to work like you would hope or expect.
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Thanks but its not the app that I need, I have a few in mind (camera fv-5, cinema fv-5, etc) but its the fact that the phone doesnt support autoexposurelock even though the app has it implemented (therefore I cannot use it). I was wondering could I change some code around to enable the phone to support it?
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Thanks but its not the app that I need, I have a few in mind (camera fv-5, cinema fv-5, etc) but its the fact that the phone doesnt support autoexposurelock even though the app has it implemented (therefore I cannot use it). I was wondering could I change some code around to enable the phone to support it?
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Does the phone support it while on the stock TW rom? If so, there might be a way, but if not, then probably out of luck.
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Does the phone support it while on the stock TW rom? If so, there might be a way, but if not, then probably out of luck.
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I dont think so, although I have never used the stock rom but on any rom for it I have used it hasnt been supported.
Did someone find a working apk of Google Camera for Android 8.1? I found several, but all of them crash.
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Did someone find a working apk of Google Camera for Android 8.1? I found several, but all of them crash.
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Hi,
Sorry for asking, but what's the difference between the default YotaCamera and the Google Camera app?
@vevgeniev
Which GCam versions have you tried so far? Are all of them crashing? I would try first the versions for 8.1 and below.
@Yotafreak
The potential difference would be huge. Like night and day. The Yota camera app is quite bad. The image is always underexposed, colours are lacking and if it's dark, it's dark. The camera is also very slow. I found some 3rd party (paid) apps (e.g. Footej Camera and others) produce better images and shoot way faster pictures, but the images were not stabilized. The phone has good hardware and lens but the camera is not.
The difference factor would be whether Google Camera works and whether it works with Camera2API in Yota 3+. That is apparently the case so I came across this post and seems 3.2.040 works on Yota 3+. I tested on my Yota 3+ and yes it does work. So far I haven't seen any difference in quality though, but the weather isn't good to test these days, so I may have to dig further.
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?forums[]=336&topics[]=814085&act=search&source=pst&query=camera
Here are various versions but the one mentioned above is not listed here, not sure:
https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=564748&st=0#Spoil-30881940-1
If you have Yota 3 (not 3+) I wouldn't mess with that phone. You can expect Yota 3 (Chinese release) may not work the same way as 3+. There is some talk there about that ... "And after a patch to activate it, the camera stops working altogether." On the other hand, there are mods of the Gcam that enable the GCam to work on any any phone without Camera2API. "To Use Google Camera, the smartphone should have enabled Camera2API, if not then it should be rooted but now you no need to do these things to use GCam for your low end Devices because Google Camera Go Port is available for all Smartphones without rooting, unlocking bootloader or enabling Camera2 API on them." But you still could use either the mods of Google Camera or the Camera Go Mods.
Camera Go mods (unrelated to Google Camera) question here... https://www.cyanogenmods.org/google-camera-go-apk-download/
To check your camera, you can run app called Camera2 Probe to confirm if the phone supports Camera2API to verify.
Yota 3+ ... Hardware Support Level 3
Yota 3 ... would probably say Limited
The Google Camera 3.2.040 doesn't seem to have any of the features of the GCam app in later Pixel phones... e.g.
Portrait Mode on all smartphones, on front and back both.
Night Mode
Beauty (Face Enhance) Mode
Astrophotography feature
Blur mode (object portrait)
Flash Mode
Self timer
Video Mode
Translate Mode
4K video
My objective is to replace the Yota camera app, I am not so much concerned with the additional features GCal can offer. I just want a better picture that's all.
There are also number of mods of GCam so there is a chance there are some that work...
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/
But wait, that's not all. Here are some more .. enough testing for whole year in case the quarantine is extended.
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-tolyan009/#apk615
And some more...
https://www.cyanogenmods.org/google-camera/
Somebody says this is working for better shots but some functions not available.
MGC_6.1.021_BSG_Arnova-based_v.1.2_TlnNeun-1.apk
That's in-line with what I see with 3.2.040 is the pictures didn't look spectacularly different and it had missing features. Since better shots is all I care about, I may give it a try.. But too many to try.. As long as it doesn't brick the phone, I am willing to test the higher versions.
If you happen to find one that has good results, I would appreciate if you could share.
@itoldusoandso
Thanks a lot for the information!
So I found on a device without Camera2API and with a decent manufacturer's camera app already installed is the Google Camera without any effect. The only small difference I have seen is in night shot mode seems, it seems to improve the night shots in Google Camera slightly but not significantly enough. So unless you need to do a lot of pictures without flash after sunset.. makes little sense. The device I tested was Samsung A7 20017, so it's a low-mid range device. Samsung camera app is acceptable so I couldn't see difference between that at Google Camera.
Not sure if this is the right place for this or not, but the admins can always change it if it's in the wrong place.
So put plainly, 90% of the camera apps I see just use the image processing on your rom/kernal. Gcam mod is the only camera app I know of that actually uses it's own image processing, as far as I'm aware. So I wanted to know how many, if any, other camera apps use their own image processing? A lot of stock image processing tends to be terrible in comparison to something like Gcam, it'd be nice if there was some others like it.
I am trying to use a bank app, which wants to scan my face but only uses the selfie camera with no option to use a picture from the gallery - but my selfie camera has too bad of a image quality even under perfect conditions. I have a rooted device with lineagos.
Is there any way to: 1. Change the android kernel so as to use the back camera? 2. Use a hack/app that would hijack the JavaAPI somehow? 3. Disallow permissions for the selfie camera to provoke the usage of the back one?
I have never really worked in the android java API so I really dont know what can be done without for example knowing if the selfie and back camera have a seperate API call