Since upgrade to the Cyanogenmod, the camera on my i9100 is making zoomed pictures.
Digital zoom is set to 1.0, so theoretically there is NO zoom set, however when compared with another i9100 pictures are cropped.
To have the same view area I had to zoom to 2x on stock rom!
Picture quality is also very poor especially in macro mode (it's having problems focusing).
Currently I have the 11 revision (4.4.4) of the Cyanogenmod (nighty from 07/07/2014). Previous CM was behaving the same way.
All photos are saved as 3264 x 2448 resolution.
I like this software and don;t want to go back to stock rom but I also need a good camera, so your help would be highly appreciated.
Edit: I have downgraded to stock ROM and problem is now gone, so it must be something with CM.
I have since tried 3 different KitKat ROMs (C-Rom, Neat and Slim) and all suffer from the same problem - poor quality of BOTH cameras (front and rear) compared to stock Samsung ROM.
All rear cameras capture cropped photos compared to old stock ROM.
I don't think it's a fault of my mobile, since after downgrading to stock ROM everyhitng is back to normal, so it must be KitKat. I am just surprised that no one else noticed this problem
Did you disable True View in the camera app?
sangbuana said:
Did you disable True View in the camera app?
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I could not find this feature in CM11, but found it in other KitKat system. After disabling camera crops a bit, I can live with that, however quality of photos is still bad compared with stock ROM. I will try to upload some photos today to show the difference.
After upgrading to SlimSaber, camera is taking good quality photos again, so problem solved.
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Well, it's basically my understanding that the camera in aosp is, to keep it nice, less good than the one in BloatWiz roms. Although, what is the actual difference, photo quality-wise? I currently run CM10 and have no photos (serious ones, at least) to compare with CM10 camera ones.
Is it worse, much worse or almost on par with the one in bloatwiz roms?
The software of Touchwizz makes for nicer pictures than the stock camera app imo. I hope Google will improve their camera software greatly and will add a native HDR function.
That said, most functions can be added with a third party camera like Pro Capture.
The only reason I am using Omega ROM (TouchWiz based) is because of the camera quality, ESPECIALLY in night mode. CM/AOKP night mode is horrendous!
I love AOKP but the camera quality just isn't up to scratch. If they can fix that I will go back to AOKP right away.
Edit: Also CM doens;t have metering mode on the camera which is a feature I regularly use.
BoogWeed said:
The only reason I am using Omega ROM (TouchWiz based) is because of the camera quality, ESPECIALLY in night mode. CM/AOKP night mode is horrendous!
I love AOKP but the camera quality just isn't up to scratch. If they can fix that I will go back to AOKP right away.
Edit: Also CM doens;t have metering mode on the camera which is a feature I regularly use.
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Just try Camera FV-5 in play store.
Good photo quality (You can fine tune to set the sharpness, contrast and photo quality in apps)
Metering mode and adjust of exposure etc are also included.
I use this app with CM10.
BoogWeed said:
The only reason I am using Omega ROM (TouchWiz based) is because of the camera quality, ESPECIALLY in night mode. CM/AOKP night mode is horrendous!
I love AOKP but the camera quality just isn't up to scratch. If they can fix that I will go back to AOKP right away.
Edit: Also CM doens;t have metering mode on the camera which is a feature I regularly use.
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They can't fix it because of Samsung Korea.
I'm using the latest nightly of Rootbox + latest dorimanx 8.1. Here is my problem: in photo app settings I set 6.4 MP (wide photo) after took a photo it has 8MP 4:3 ratio. I've tested jb camera+, camera ZOOM FX, camera FV-5 and camera zoom. Every time was the same result instead of wide photo settings. Any advises are appreciated. Does anybody know which part of code is responsible for taking wide photos?
I was searching through xda today and I found answer for my question. All new AOSP roms are not capable of taking 16:9 photos. Below quote why it is in this way:
„moving to the open source camera hal it removed additional resolutions with 16:9 this is not rom related but device tree related something every aosp rom has in common”
It's really sad for me I love to take 16:9 photos but now I'm not able to. I hope it's going to change in the nearest future.
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.
Hello XDAers,
I'm on Lineage OS 14.1 with the GCam installed. It works well except for when I zoom to take a picture (or even the portrait mode on the rear camera) the image after clicking is shifted to the right. I'm attaching examples below.
The first picture is a screenshot of what I'm actually focussing on. The second pic is the actually picture clicked. As you can see it always shifts to the right!
This happens with the LOS stock cam and all versions of GCams when I zoom. Portrait mode (which is 1.5x zoomed by default) also has the same problem!
Any help will be appreciated!
Known bug
Is it a bug in LOS or in the device itself? I bought it as an X829.
It would be great if you can share what this bug is called and any links describing it
It's a bug with Nougat and this device (camera blob problem). It's only digital zoom anyways, so nobody really cares.
True. My only gripe with it is the problem caused in the portrait mode (GCam). Otherwise doesn't bother me so much.
Thanks!
The only way to have correct zoom is by using pic size of 16:9.
hope some one else have a batter solution with the size of 4:3 so we can enjoy the full power of the camera.
I have the same problem but left-shifted and only on Messenger camera. In GCam i haven't this problem .
Thanks @ali7_has !
That's pretty unusual that you have a problem only with the messenger cam.
I haven't this problem on stock ROM or other based stock but I have this in Nougat and Oreo ROMs ( i tested 2 roms Nougat and one Oreo ROM). I have this only in Messenger cam, in GCam or preinstalled cam iI have no issue
thanks to @prsapphire the zoom is working correctly even for 4:3.
fist I installed his EUI 6.0 from this link https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-max-2/development/rom-eui-6-0-0617t-prerc-port-x850-t3739612
than I clean install AICP oreo and now the zoom is working correctly.
I think his modem firmware is the solution for our zoom problem.
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thanks to @prsapphire the zoom is working correctly even for 4:3.
fist I installed his EUI 6.0 from this link https://forum.xda-developers.com/le-max-2/development/rom-eui-6-0-0617t-prerc-port-x850-t3739612
than I clean install AICP oreo and now the zoom is working correctly.
I think his modem firmware is the solution for our zoom problem.
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Are you sure? That didn't solve it for me. Still right shifted in 4:3 ratios.
EDIT: Just installed latest Pixel Experience and low and behold, zooming works correctly. However I think this might be to do with the fact it's now using the open source Camera HAL?
Heyyo, use Camu from the Play Store. It's the only camera app without that issue... Not sure why tbh.
As for Oreo ROMS? If they use the new Open Source Camera HAL? They won't have the zoom issue. It's a known bug with the camera shim used in Nougat and early Oreo ROMs.
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If you don't like the camera's quality it is because the google camera app is not the best for the grand prime, actually this is the problem of all ROMs based on the pure android, isn't the image clear enough? does the image looks blurred?
I've been comparing my camera on android oreo with my another phone (both are the same model), one has the stock Android and the other one has the pure Android 8 and the differences are huge, how to work around this problem?
Well... I have researched and talked to devs about this and it turns out that the drivers of the camera are the same as the stock firmware, but the only thing what changes the quality is how the image is processed by the camera application.
So who's the one to blame? The camera app.
What is the solution?
The real solution is to use ROMs based on the stock ROM, i.e. touchwiz, but I have noticed that many people still prefer using the pure Android so this solution is not possible. There is still another way.
CyanogenMod camera and fine adjustments
That's what you read, with the 'old' Cyanogen camera app you can have better pictures.
First, install this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.maartendekkers.cyanapps
It's called Cyan Apps if the link isn't working.
and then...
Choose 'camera' on CM's 13 sectionNote: Don't choose the CM 14.1 version because it crashes when you start recording a video or change to frontal camera.
Download and install it.
Adjustments
Open the camera and go to settings, drag down until the last options and turn off the Denoise option, then go to the sharpness and set to the level 0 (or do whatever you think is better) and go to the picture quality and set to it 100%. The rest of the options you can leave in the default level.
Optional
You can, alternatively, with root access make this a system application and delete the other one just to have only one default camera for your ROM.
In the images attached below I want you to pay attention in the sharpness of the image and the quality, I hope you don't mind if I'm a bad photographer.
UPDATE: I know the link is broken and the reason is because the Cyan Apps has been removed from playstore, I don't know why, but you know now the secret to make the image good-looking, you have to turn off denoise option which comes by default turned on in all Samsung cameras. Find an APP that can make this for you. Best Regards
Holt sh*t dude.. it fixed my camera quality. Now the photo quality can be compared to stock cam.
Although now the photos are a little noisy and kinda looks little bad on low light..but it's really good on places with light.
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Holt sh*t dude.. it fixed my camera quality. Now the photo quality can be compared to stock cam.
Although now the photos are a little noisy and kinda looks little bad on low light..but it's really good on places with light.
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Low light is always an enemy for the camera
This WILL also work on Snap-based (that's the camera included on most AOSP ROMs) cameras.