CM7 touch to focus camera? - Fascinate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My brother who's on the latest CM7 nightly says that there's a touch to focus camera. Since I can't post in that thread, I figured I'd ask here. Is it possible to sideload the new camera into my current build of CM7? I pulled the apk from the nightly and installed it over my current camera. It works fine with some new features, but I can't touch to focus. Does anyone know if there are associated files (framework etc) that I need to transfer over as well?
Also, FWIW, my geo-tagging is broken but it's not a big deal.

Why not just update rip the latest cm7?

what do you mean? i pulled the apk from the latest nightly but touch to focus didn't work

It doesn't work because there is no touch to focus feature in CM7 camera to begin with. Your brother misinformed you. The camera app will only let you focus when you hold the shutter button, or it will auto focus when you take a picture. It does not touch-to-focus like TouchWiz camera app. Besides, why aren't you updating to the latest nightly?

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pcpark87 said:
It doesn't work because there is no touch to focus feature in CM7 camera to begin with. Your brother misinformed you. The camera app will only let you focus when you hold the shutter button, or it will auto focus when you take a picture. It does not touch-to-focus like TouchWiz camera app. Besides, why aren't you updating to the latest nightly?
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huh... interesting.. he's on the latest nightly, and apparently he had touch to focus...
and i don't run the latest nightly since i'm on the glitch kernel

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[Q] [REQ] Stock Camera [blurcamera.apk]

So I just installed CyanogenMod 7 Beta5 on my Defy and it's AWESOME!
But the only thing that disturb me is the Camera app in the ROM,
It does not have widescreen option for photos and The flash comes too early when taking pictures (photos becomes way too bright)..
So I'm asking that if someone could provide me the Stock BlurCamera.apk of froyo Defy please!!....
And if you could please explain how to install a stock app...
Many thanks
moment i try it
sorry, deos not work... i pulled the apk from pays ROM and tried to install it or put it to system/app both does not work.
If you want to trie it your own here the apk
IE-coRe said:
moment i try it
sorry, deos not work... i pulled the apk from pays ROM and tried to install it or put it to system/app both does not work.
If you want to trie it your own here the apk
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Thanks anyway!! I'll test it...
EDIT: Doesn't work unfortunately :'(
Thanks
The BlurCamera uses libs from Blur core, I checked some files inside the .apk, it requires Motoblur.
I'm no android dev so I don't know what is possible here, but it would be awesome to have the BlurCamera (in my opinion the only good Blur app) on CM7, so if anyone of the devs has some time, BlurCamera fully supports Defy hardware, has an option to turn shutter sound off, and provides widescreen pictures as well as many effects and a decent UI.
the camera is the only bug of cm7,after AGPS being fixed today
fix flash focus maybe?
I am not using CM7 ( going to install it in the next few days). As i was reading i understood on a thread that in Camera Settings there is and option to pre-focus that fixes your problem??? Don't really know if it's there, maybe i red it elsewhere.
Any news on this? If there are no legal problems regarding motorola, I think this would be worth to work on, I could try but I think one of our great developers like Quarx or dexter could do it faster and more professional
Here again a short summary of the features:
- nice UI designed for fullscreen recording (16:9 pictures, maybe soon 16:9 videos?)
- up to 5mp pictures
- 6x zoom
- some effects (grayscale, color inversion etc.)
- camera modes (night, macro, motion)
- many options (shutter sound, shutter animation, ...)
- autofocus and flash optimized for defy (very good pictures, especially with jpg compression patch)
- google camera somehow always is on full brightness... blurcamera can manage brightness levels of the screen that the display doesn't blind you while taking nightly images
- some things I forgot
Quarx already posted a zip with the blur camera for cm7 its only a test and I think video does not work at least no sound.
Sent from my Defy on EphuNord rom.
ephumuris said:
Quarx already posted a zip with the blur camera for cm7 its only a test and I think video does not work at least no sound.
Sent from my Defy on EphuNord rom.
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Thanks for the info!!
I just hope that the blur camera will be worked and integrated in CM7... Because the UI is sleek and simple..
When the BlurCamera works and most of the minor bugs are fixed CM7 by Quarx will be the perfect rom, but until now it's also the best I've ever seen
I hope that we'll find soon a way to install original MotoBlur apps separately on any unofficial ROM. It will be great to have the BlurCamera and the Blur Music Player on CM7.
I agree, although does slow phones down quite a bit, I've yet to find an app that integrates contacts as well. Hopefully there will be a way to bring motoblur to CM7.

The HTC Hero Camera on ROMs beyond 2.1

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

Has any progress been made towards running the TW camera on AOSP ROMs?

Hi there! I recently found out that Siyah Kernel allows dual booting on the S3, so I took the plunge and used it to install RootBox as my second ROM. I'm quite happy with it, but I'd love to have the Samsung camera's features back - particularly, the HDR and low light modes.
Does a mod exist that allows the TW camera to work, or has there been any previous technical discussion of this that may help me in my quest to make one?
I tried to port it myself with my minimal modding skills, but it turned out to be more complex than I expected: the furthest I got was getting the Samsung camera UI to appear and then pop up "Camera failed". I broke camera functionality entirely for all other apps, too
I'm now [slowly] downloading the Android source to see if I can make the necessary modifications to make Samsung's camera libraries work, but in the meantime, I'd love to know if there's something I missed in my searches. All I found was an XDA thread requesting a port of the GS3 camera to the GS2, and a thread on another board which included some interesting info from someone who had tried porting the GS3 camera to AOSP but nothing I didn't already know.
Any info on this would be appreciated. Thank you!
I dont think anyone is even trying. The aosp mod 2.60 in themes section is good but I recommend installing camera 360 from play for effects and cool hdr
The hdr is only an effect though
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Not going to happen.....ever.....Samsung sources needed
slaphead20 said:
Not going to happen.....ever.....Samsung sources needed
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I took that as a challenge and have been working on it nonstop since yesterday
I have the camera working on my modded ROM now, I'm hoping to release the ROM and the source patches (for applying to other ROMs) once I get more of the features working (I would like to at least fix Low Light and the Camcorder) and knock out a couple issues like the app launching the non-existent TW gallery to view photos.
Here's a video as proof. Apologies for the quality, but I couldn't find a decent screen recording app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYX4PSVDiIU
Now that I'm here again, I may as well ask- where would the best place be to post this? It's related to both a modded app and a modded ROM so I don't know whether it would fit better in Development or Themes/Apps.
Themes and apps, definitely
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Treeki said:
I took that as a challenge and have been working on it nonstop since yesterday
I have the camera working on my modded ROM now, I'm hoping to release the ROM and the source patches (for applying to other ROMs) once I get more of the features working (I would like to at least fix Low Light and the Camcorder) and knock out a couple issues like the app launching the non-existent TW gallery to view photos.
Here's a video as proof. Apologies for the quality, but I couldn't find a decent screen recording app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYX4PSVDiIU
Now that I'm here again, I may as well ask- where would the best place be to post this? It's related to both a modded app and a modded ROM so I don't know whether it would fit better in Development or Themes/Apps.
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Release this as soon as possible been waiting for this for so long !
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[Q] Camera Won't Focus After Cyano 10.2

Hi everyone,
I'm writing to understand why my camera is no longer working properly after changing my ROM from stock to CYANO 10.2,
basically the camera focus correctly when I tap the screen but as soon as I push the shutter button, it focus back (refocus) making a blurry photo. It doesn't have any sense because It was working smoothly before CYANO and now seems that doesn't want to make sharp photos.
Two photos attached, one with sto ROM and one with CYANO.
If anyone can help It would be great because I can't keep a ROM that doesn't allow me to shoot photos.
Thank you very much to everyone.
David
DavidLiuc said:
Hi everyone,
I'm writing to understand why my camera is no longer working properly after changing my ROM from stock to CYANO 10.2,
basically the camera focus correctly when I tap the screen but as soon as I push the shutter button, it focus back (refocus) making a blurry photo. It doesn't have any sense because It was working smoothly before CYANO and now seems that doesn't want to make sharp photos.
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try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2505973
maybe it helps you. For me it did.

[Mod][All Variants] Camera Improvements [Flashable ZIP]

Hello!
I have been working on this for awhile now.
The stock camera libraries suck. They over sharpen, over saturate, and over noise reduce the jpeg images into garbage.
I hate this.
So I decided to fix this.
With the help of @defcomg , I started to learn how to edit chromatix files etc.
I present you my initial XDA release of this mod.
It affects manual and auto mode in the stock camera and impacts all camera apps.
I have altered tons of aspects of image quality. These are all subjective changes to *my* tastes. I will continue updating this as I can but there can be weeks between updates.
Download: http://buildbox.justbeca.us/jcarlson.html
Please test out and let me know how it goes.
Nice to see more developers overhere .. I 'II flash this late tonight ... Thanks on advance
Gabe2014 said:
Nice to see more developers overhere .. I 'II flash this late tonight ... Thanks on advance
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Lemme know what you think and if you have any issues
@helf
Thanks for the update I was trying out your previous build but haven't gotten very far on it.
One question so far is there a reason why Auto HDR is gone? I'm guessing inconsistency??
helf said:
Hello!
I have been working on this for awhile now.
The stock camera libraries suck. They over sharpen, over saturate, and over noise reduce the jpeg images into garbage.
I hate this.
So I decided to fix this.
With the help of @defcomg , I started to learn how to edit chromatix files etc.
I present you my initial XDA release of this mod.
It affects manual and auto mode in the stock camera and impacts all camera apps.
I have altered tons of aspects of image quality. These are all subjective changes to *my* tastes. I will continue updating this as I can but there can be weeks between updates.
Download: http://buildbox.justbeca.us/jcarlson.html
Please test out and let me know how it goes.
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Thanks for this. Will this affect the ported gcam? I'm plenty pleased with its performance and quality. Difference Vs the stock cam is night and day. I wish to have the same quality in manual mode as well hence the question.
Ps. Can you add a few images for comparison between stock and after the mod?
Hmm will it work on LOS? Edit: Never mind. Seems like it's only for stock.
KUSOsan said:
@helf
Thanks for the update I was trying out your previous build but haven't gotten very far on it.
One question so far is there a reason why Auto HDR is gone? I'm guessing inconsistency??
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It's on my "to fix" list. It was causing a lot of problems.
I'll update the post with knowb issues.
RainbowJudge101 said:
Hmm will it work on LOS? Edit: Never mind. Seems like it's only for stock.
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Stock only. I can see about editing the LOS files though.
nkirk said:
Thanks for this. Will this affect the ported gcam? I'm plenty pleased with its performance and quality. Difference Vs the stock cam is night and day. I wish to have the same quality in manual mode as well hence the question.
Ps. Can you add a few images for comparison between stock and after the mod?
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It will improve gcam results as well
I'll try to put up some comparisons. For now here's some samples:
LG V20 Camera Mod - Initial release sample https://imgur.com/gallery/FE7rBm3
LG V20 Modded Camera Libraries Sample Set - Full resolution roses https://imgur.com/gallery/S1pxEZF
Modded LG V20 Camera software - Sample set - All images unedited. Taken with stock camera with HDR set to 'On'. This set is for v010 of the mod. https://imgur.com/gallery/RT7qRMC
helf said:
It's on my "to fix" list. It was causing a lot of problems.
I'll update the post with knowb issues.
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It's not a big deal because I've been using Gcam mainly for anything I need HDR for but if your tweaks have helped the LG cam's HDR in any way it would be nice to try since LG hid the stupid option in the settings menu instead of having it as a quick select option like Gcam
I ran into an issue that I haven't been able to replicate yet but I activated one of the shooting modes and the camera crashed and I had to clear data to get back into the camera. I'll test it out again later but I have a feeling it's a bug related to the V30 port as opposed to something you specifically changed.
KUSOsan said:
It's not a big deal because I've been using Gcam mainly for anything I need HDR for but if your tweaks have helped the LG cam's HDR in any way it would be nice to try since LG hid the stupid option in the settings menu instead of having it as a quick select option like Gcam
I ran into an issue that I haven't been able to replicate yet but I activated one of the shooting modes and the camera crashed and I had to clear data to get back into the camera. I'll test it out again later but I have a feeling it's a bug related to the V30 port as opposed to something you specifically changed.
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Yeah the v30 port has some issues. One reason I removed it from my release. It's buggy. I prefer it to the v20 app but it does have some issues.
helf said:
Yeah the v30 port has some issues. One reason I removed it from my release. It's buggy. I prefer it to the v20 app but it does have some issues.
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Yeah just for future reference, it's the 360° panoramic/Photosphere mode that kills the camera I found out. If you go into this mode then the camera wont open after you close it and you will have to clear data as force close will not help either. At least on mine running WETA ROM on H918 it does.
So do not open 360 panoramic mode.
Haven't tested out all the other modes yet so there may be another one that does it as well just FYI
Haven't really shot many pictures yet but so far it's night and day better than the stock camera.
KUSOsan said:
Yeah just for future reference, it's the 360° panoramic/Photosphere mode that kills the camera I found out. If you go into this mode then the camera wont open after you close it and you will have to clear data as force close will not help either. At least on mine running WETA ROM on H918 it does.
So do not open 360 panoramic mode.
Haven't tested out all the other modes yet so there may be another one that does it as well just FYI
Haven't really shot many pictures yet but so far it's night and day better than the stock camera.
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Thanks for the headsup! I havent tested all those mods as I never use them and didnt think about it. I will see what else crashes it.
Post photos when you get time to take some I am always curious to see other peoples.
I'm keen for the magisk module, I never really liked replacing system files without some kind of easy way to go back, if I don't like the results
UL7RA said:
I'm keen for the magisk module, I never really liked replacing system files without some kind of easy way to go back, if I don't like the results
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It's fairly easy to backup the system partition in TWRP and just restore the backup. That's what I've been doing. Not quite as convenient as magisk but alot better than dirty flashing the ROM in my experience.
Can you revert back to the stock V20 camera after install of this mod? Thanks
Just flashed this and tried it out.
What would help from me to fix a fc bug?
Stock camera app start
Everything is fine
Press mode button
Immediately force closes
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Good to see you posted this. I'll stalk here, it's easier. Thanks again for all your work.
philosophics said:
Just flashed this and tried it out.
What would help from me to fix a fc bug?
Stock camera app start
Everything is fine
Press mode button
Immediately force closes
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Tried force closing the app and then wiping the camera app's data? Not just it's cache?
zcus said:
Can you revert back to the stock V20 camera after install of this mod? Thanks
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I have a zip on the site with all the stock files that should work.i would definitely back up your rom first tho.
I will hopefully have a magisk module up next week.

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