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i have used SGS tools but it does not work for me (removes camera app completely). did anyone get the hacked camera to work on a vibrant?
drcrappants said:
i have used SGS tools but it does not work for me (removes camera app completely). did anyone get the hacked camera to work on a vibrant?
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hacked camera? with the power button as the zoom and picture taking? What exactly do you mean by camera hacking?
power button picture
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power button picture
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Triggers ROM has it, Simply Galaxy has it too
Im sure Bionix does as well haven't checked though
bi winning has the apk you can load on it as well in their thread............ it's ok
oka1 said:
bi winning has the apk you can load on it as well in their thread............ it's ok
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Triggers I have found as the best. I wish they would override the power menu when camera is running though. That would make it so much better
I know this thread is dead, but in case anyone gets here looking for a hacked camera (low power, power button shutter) I used the Fascinate CWR zip found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949566
Basic as the camera app gets, but does the job.
PS I can't find any of the lighting (daying, incandescent, flourescent) settings in this so find something else if you really need those from the stock app.
Simply Galaxy has it.
Bionix 1.3.1 does, hacked camera from SGS tools. Maybe you can find the apk and install it separate?
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Is it possible to mod the power button to make it act as a shutter button when inside the camera application ?
sorrowuk said:
Is it possible to mod the power button to make it act as a shutter button when inside the camera application ?
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I would also like this, it would just give my left hand something to do rather than getting in the way of the camera sometimes.
Also a hard ware button would feel so much more natural when aiming and shooting.
Its been done before cause look here for another device:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949566
Someone just needs to mod the camera.apk from the galaxy s2 I think. pulser has done some mods on it, maybe he can do this.
Not quite what you were asking, but Vignette allows you to use the volume keys as a shutter button.
Yeah the thing is the volume keys are set to zoom, and the power button isn't really doing anything in the camera app, so power button is better. Plus its on the top.
Once devs have bought SGS2 then expect work on stuff like this .
Speed the process up donate SGS to dev .
jje
Hello,
I'd like to have this too
Power button for shooting
This would help me out alot cuz I shake a bit!
This sounds like a great idea. Sometimes you can't hit the button. THis would go part way to taking the sting out of not having the slick Sense 3.0 lock screen to launch the camera.
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Well,for me taking photos with the home button(big as it is) would suffice too!
Yes!!! I didn't think of the home button. Great idea! In WebOS that'd be a patch.
I am working on this, i have allready decompiled camera.apk but camcorder.smali seems totally different. Mayabe the original developer can help us with that.
sorrowuk said:
Yeah the thing is the volume keys are set to zoom, and the power button isn't really doing anything in the camera app, so power button is better. Plus its on the top.
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The zoom is just digital zoom and you end up cropping the edges and getting a soft image anyway. Also, you can just flip the camera and then the volume button is on top. The camera app rotates to follow your orientation.
Home- or Power-Button!
Both solutions are greatly appreciated!
Sorry to post it here, but i can´t post in development area until i reach 10 posts :-D
I am working on several Camera-tweaks, here i´m testing 24 Mbit video at 44,1 khz and 192 kbit audio.
PS: Please admin let me post in development section I don´t want to fill 4 more posts......
hyperX- said:
Sorry to post it here, but i can´t post in development area until i reach 10 posts :-D
I am working on several Camera-tweaks, here i´m testing 24 Mbit video at 44,1 khz and 192 kbit audio.
PS: Please admin let me post in development section I don´t want to fill 4 more posts......
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maan this is wonderful, is there a big difference in quality between a 16khz sample and a 44khz?
Ive been searching for this for a while, i would like to be able to use the volume up button for my shutter in the default camera app. I saw some threads about this but either it wasnt compatible with my phone or it didn't work. Does anyone know of a mod that will do this for the AT&T S2? Thanks
To my knowledge they are working on it for our phone; however, this is a question and should be placed in the Q&A section in the future.
joshuadjohnson22 said:
Ive been searching for this for a while, i would like to be able to use the volume up button for my shutter in the default camera app. I saw some threads about this but either it wasnt compatible with my phone or it didn't work. Does anyone know of a mod that will do this for the AT&T S2? Thanks
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1) you have the same name and middle initial as me!
2) wrong section.
3) I'm sure its being worked on
Sent from AT&T SGS2
It's easy, but I'm not sure if I like it. I like using the volume buttons to zoom in and out. I was able to make long pressing the power button take pictures, but it also pops up the extended power menu lol. Hopefully I can figure out how to get a short power button press to take pictures instead of turning off the screen. It's a lot trickier on this phone than it was on the original galaxy s and infuse.
gtg465x said:
It's easy, but I'm not sure if I like it. I like using the volume buttons to zoom in and out. I was able to make long pressing the power button take pictures, but it also pops up the extended power menu lol. Hopefully I can figure out how to get a short power button press to take pictures instead of turning off the screen. It's a lot trickier on this phone than it was on the original galaxy s and infuse.
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Looking forward to you getting the power button mod to work. That's definitely a feature I've been waiting for.
gtg465x said:
It's easy, but I'm not sure if I like it. I like using the volume buttons to zoom in and out. I was able to make long pressing the power button take pictures, but it also pops up the extended power menu lol. Hopefully I can figure out how to get a short power button press to take pictures instead of turning off the screen. It's a lot trickier on this phone than it was on the original galaxy s and infuse.
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im excited! i hope you can get it to work! would you add to the unnamed?
ayoteddy can you bump this to the QandA
I've been using the volume up mod that I found from the i9100 forums for about a week. Used it quite a bit on my visit to Alcatraz over the weekend. It has tap to take direct picture or hold to focus and release to take a picture.The digital zoom is useless to me as all it does is just blow up a cropped imaged anyways. I'll attach it in case anyone wants to try (and as always, back up the old Camera.apk). Just push/copy to system/app
tysj said:
I've been using the volume up mod that I found from the i9100 forums for about a week. Used it quite a bit on my visit to Alcatraz over the weekend. It has tap to take direct picture or hold to focus and release to take a picture.The digital zoom is useless to me as all it does is just blow up a cropped imaged anyways. I'll attach it in case anyone wants to try (and as always, back up the old Camera.apk). Just push/copy to system/app
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Yeah, was more worried about zooming with the volume buttons while recording 720p video. It would be a pain to record everything in 1080 and then run it through video editing software to do the zooming.
Guess I could do the volume button hack for photos only and leave it as zoom control for video recording.
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Yeah, was more worried about zooming with the volume buttons while recording 720p video. It would be a pain to record everything in 1080 and then run it through video editing software to do the zooming.
Guess I could do the volume button hack for photos only and leave it as zoom control for video recording.
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I didn't think about the video recording part. BUT! I just gave it whirl and surprisingly enough, the volume keys don't start the recording and still function as zoom buttons. So it looks like the video recording part is untouched.
tysj said:
I've been using the volume up mod that I found from the i9100 forums for about a week. Used it quite a bit on my visit to Alcatraz over the weekend. It has tap to take direct picture or hold to focus and release to take a picture.The digital zoom is useless to me as all it does is just blow up a cropped imaged anyways. I'll attach it in case anyone wants to try (and as always, back up the old Camera.apk). Just push/copy to system/app
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PERFECT just what i wanted, your the best!!
tysj said:
I've been using the volume up mod that I found from the i9100 forums for about a week. Used it quite a bit on my visit to Alcatraz over the weekend. It has tap to take direct picture or hold to focus and release to take a picture.The digital zoom is useless to me as all it does is just blow up a cropped imaged anyways. I'll attach it in case anyone wants to try (and as always, back up the old Camera.apk). Just push/copy to system/app
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Awesome mod. I've been missing a physical camera button for awhile now! Pretty awesome thus far, however, I always get a force close on the camera app after I restart my phone. Anyone else encounter this and or find a solution other than reinstalling the app to make it work?
Thanks!
sopdogg said:
Awesome mod. I've been missing a physical camera button for awhile now! Pretty awesome thus far, however, I always get a force close on the camera app after I restart my phone. Anyone else encounter this and or find a solution other than reinstalling the app to make it work?
Thanks!
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No force closes for me on Serendipity 8.1
tysj said:
I've been using the volume up mod that I found from the i9100 forums for about a week. Used it quite a bit on my visit to Alcatraz over the weekend. It has tap to take direct picture or hold to focus and release to take a picture.The digital zoom is useless to me as all it does is just blow up a cropped imaged anyways. I'll attach it in case anyone wants to try (and as always, back up the old Camera.apk). Just push/copy to system/app
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sopdogg said:
Awesome mod. I've been missing a physical camera button for awhile now! Pretty awesome thus far, however, I always get a force close on the camera app after I restart my phone. Anyone else encounter this and or find a solution other than reinstalling the app to make it work?
Thanks!
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no force close on unnamed 1.10 for me....
Reboot camera mod fix!
sopdogg said:
Awesome mod. I've been missing a physical camera button for awhile now! Pretty awesome thus far, however, I always get a force close on the camera app after I restart my phone. Anyone else encounter this and or find a solution other than reinstalling the app to make it work?
Thanks!
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Same thing was happening to me but I fixed it! In root explorer go to system/app/camera.odex and rename the camera.odex to camera.odex.Bak
then reboot and it should be GTG!!!
Forgot: May have to reinstall the modded camera.apk after too as well.
iteam said:
Same thing was happening to me but I fixed it! In root explorer go to system/app/camera.odex and rename the camera.odex to camera.odex.Bak
then reboot and it should be GTG!!!
Forgot: May have to reinstall the modded camera.apk after too as well.
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an alternative is the new unnamed Rom has this feature built in, just a fyi
iteam said:
Same thing was happening to me but I fixed it! In root explorer go to system/app/camera.odex and rename the camera.odex to camera.odex.Bak
then reboot and it should be GTG!!!
Forgot: May have to reinstall the modded camera.apk after too as well.
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Just tried it out. Working well for me so far. Hoping for no FCs in the near future!
joshuadjohnson22 said:
an alternative is the new unnamed Rom has this feature built in, just a fyi
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I've got the zip file downloaded but haven't pulled the trigger on it yet. Stock is running real well for me and really haven't seen a feature that is a must have in a custom rom yet. Shoot, with Entropy's DD and stock rom, my phone is still blazing. Just to test things out, I've gotten a 5034 on quadrant so things are working awesome.
If this were my X10, I would be a flash whore because that thing needs optimization just like a crack head needs his next hit.
sopdogg said:
Just tried it out. Working well for me so far. Hoping for no FCs in the near future!
I've got the zip file downloaded but haven't pulled the trigger on it yet. Stock is running real well for me and really haven't seen a feature that is a must have in a custom rom yet. Shoot, with Entropy's DD and stock rom, my phone is still blazing. Just to test things out, I've gotten a 5034 on quadrant so things are working awesome.
If this were my X10, I would be a flash whore because that thing needs optimization just like a crack head needs his next hit.
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just back up your current ROM, and flash... if you dont like it just restore
Works on ICS?
core720 said:
Works on ICS?
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No. see the dates on this thread? ICS was a dream back then.
Some ICS builds have options for power button shutter/vol zoom.
Anyone else having this issue? After the upgrade to ICS (Android Revolution 2.2), the dedicated camera shutter button will turn the phone's screen on to the lock screen, but not launch directly into the camera.
Not sure if this is an ICS thing, or an ARHD thing...
Thanks,
Massiv.
Post on the thread...
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Post on the thread...
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Would love to .... this 10 post thing is a lesson in pure frustration for me since I've had a Hero, Desire, Desire HD, and an Amaze, all of them rooted and upgraded with various ROMs, as well as having beta tested Mike's ARHD 2.1 for him [nuking my internal SD in the process].... yet I still don't have 10 posts and thus am prevented from posting a list of potential issues where it matters.
Writing this helped though!!
Massiv.
i also noticed this.
the camera button for me sometimes goes to lock screen, and if i press it again or hold it long enough it would eventually get to the camera.
the positive thing that happened after ICS upgrade is that if you have a lock screen password, it goes to camera without asking for the password, whereas in GB it always asked for the password before opening camera app, making it impossible to take fast shots.
lets hope either tmobile or the devs will work on this
Please keep all question based threads in the Q&A section. Thanks.
Thread Moved.
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You don't have to be a farmer to know what sh*t smells like.
I have same problem in ARHD 3.0 - it works on Energy rom, but that rom is unstable (for me) ...
So - how do we get camera button to launch camera app when phone is locked? I really need this feature to work - please help if you know solution.
Thanks
same problem here as well
I made a quick fix. You'll need to mount your system directory as writable first, then browse to /system/usr/keylayout folder.
Then open Generic.kl file with a text editor and scroll down to key 212 (or the one that says CAMERA) and tab it (or space it) a couple of times and then add "WAKE" without quotes.
Like this:
Code:
# key 211 "KEY_HP"
[COLOR="Red"]key 212 CAMERA WAKE[/COLOR]
key 213 MUSIC
Save the file
After that, open ruby-keypad.kl file and scroll down to key 211 (or FOCUS) and tab it (or space it) a couple of times and then add "WAKE_DROPPED" without quotes.
Like this:
Code:
# CAMERA
[COLOR="red"]key 211 FOCUS WAKE_DROPPED[/COLOR]
key 212 CAMERA WAKE
Save the file again
When you're done, reboot the phone and test it out.
Note: This will make your shutter button launch straight into camera, but it makes it more sensitive. Half of a press of the shutter button will wake it up. So if you have a case or something that frequently presses the shutter button, it's recommended that you do not do this. If you don't like the changes, just undo the instructions.
Two things about the Evo LTE dedicated camera button.
1. When the phone is locked should this turn the camera on after a few seconds? I cannot get mine to do it.
2. I was using the camera in the dark with Auto Flash on and the flash did not flash when using the dedicated camera button. If I use the soft button on the screen it would work.
Any thoughts on either of these two items would be appreciated.
bkcoke said:
Two things about the Evo LTE dedicated camera button.
1. When the phone is locked should this turn the camera on after a few seconds? I cannot get mine to do it.
2. I was using the camera in the dark with Auto Flash on and the flash did not flash. If I use the soft button on the screen it would work.
Any thoughts on either of these two items would be appreciated.
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your first point is as designed the second point is probably a software bug
I noticed this problem too, and I just got the phone yesterday. I found that if you press the camera button quickly all the way that it will flash. It just doesn't flash if you do the half press first.
My auto flash works with fast full or half to full press from hardware button. However, I cannot get the camera button to launch the camera from the lock screen. I could have sworn that I saw review vids showing this feature.
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My auto flash works with fast full or half to full press from hardware button. However, I cannot get the camera button to launch the camera from the lock screen. I could have sworn that I saw review vids showing this feature.
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are you sure they weren't just pulling the camera shortcut into the unlock ring?
I cant say Ive heard of the camera button waking the phone. I know if you have it unlocked you can hold the button down and the camera will turn on no matter what screen you are on.
I sure hope there's some software updates coming soon, mainly to address memory management issues with Sense 4, but I would also love a more functional hardware camera button. I may just be ranting, but it honestly sucks. It's a 2-step button, but the first step doesn't do anything. I would love it to auto-focus at least, and properly control the flash would be amazing as well. The camera UI could use some tweaks also. The camera has a very powerful auto-focus, but a cross-hair type box wouldn't hurt so that we have a better idea of what exactly is being focused. Also, how about some AF metering settings? Taking a portrait of something when there's lots of light in the background will create a very dark, underexposed picture (of the primary target).
I think the camera is very powerful, and would love to see HTC make the software just as powerful... or at the very least fix the things that are broken.