Google Photos - Video Creating and Editing option not available - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was in a trip, and I took a lot of photos and videos. I get home, upload the to google drive to be able to share them, and I see that a nice video has been created. I search about this option (cool feature), I wanted to edit the video that was created but I see that it is compatible with only a bunch of devices. Expand supported devices.
I killed the google by trying to bypass this "device compatibility", but no results.
What I have tried:
-Downloading an early version of Google Photos (as a result from reading from this )
-Renaming build.prop file to be like Samsung S6 How_to_here
-Installing some "wonder apps" this_one
None worked.
Feel free to try 'em too.
I mention that my phones hardware will surely support video processing (chinese/indian stuff Gionee Elife E7)
So, my question is: how to make that option (video creating & editing in Google photos) available from other phones, excluding the compatibility list.
Cheers!

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Google Photos - Video Creating and Editing option not available

I was in a trip, and I took a lot of photos and videos. I get home, upload the to google drive to be able to share them, and I see that a nice video has been created. I search about this option (cool feature), I wanted to edit the video that was created but I see that it is compatible with only a bunch of devices. Expand supported devices.
I searched in order to try to bypass this "device compatibility", but no results.
What I have tried:
-Downloading an early version of Google Photos (as a result from reading from this ) - maybe it is related to Google play services (see the update of the scrolling apps, instead of swiping for Google launcher)
-Renaming build.prop file to be like Samsung S6 How_to_here (renamed the model and the device, maybe I should have renamed more)
-Installing some "wonder apps" this_one
None worked.
Feel free to try 'em too.
I mention that my phones hardware will surely support video processing.
Chinese/indian stuff Gionee Elife E7. Android version 4.4.2, Kernel 3.4.0-svn464
I can provide all sorts of info, but I believe that it may be a simpler work around.
So, my question is: how to make that option (video creating & editing in Google photos) available from other phones, excluding the compatibility list.
Cheers! :good:

Is there any way to bypass the native camera as primary camera source on Android?

Is there any way to bypass the native camera as primary camera source on Android phones even if it involves deleting the default camera?
There are many apps which pretty much involve a 'fake camera' which you could use on snapchat/kik and such and they would prompt you so you could select videos and pictures from your gallery so you could upload stuff to your history that wasn't taken today.
Nowadays most of these apps automatically select your native or primary camera so even if you were to download a thousand apps it wouldn't work.
I wanna know if there's a way to make one of these apps your default camera or if one could use the concept involved in Manycam? Where the video source selected could be a video or photo which would then show if your native's phone camera and you could then use on snapchat-kik.
Thanks very much for your time.

RE: Google Photos

RE: Google Photos
I recently got a new budget phone, which I actually like considering the very little $ it cost. It's been flawless except one problem which makes it impossible for me to find any photos. The phone is a Umidigo Power running stock Android 9. The one and only app that is doing what I am about to show is VideoShow which I use frequently and want to keep.
The phone is pulling every single folder which contains a graphic file (hundreds of folders and thousands of thumbnails) and putting them in Google Photos be making it impossible to find my own stuff. I have emailed both phone maker & app maker with no success. Attached is a screenshot of a small percentage of what's showing up.

Video backup over data app

I'm looking for an app that can essentially do the same thing as Google Photos "Express" Backup or Facebook photo/video upload.
My issue is that I would like to be able to backup photos and videos right after I take them into drive. In order to conserve data and battery usage, I'd like to upload a lower quality version of the video and perhaps a lower quality version of photos too. That way, if I'm out all day and my phone gets lost/stolen/destroyed, I don't lose everything from that day and at least have a low quality version (which is better than nothing)
Facebook seems to be able to do this when you make a post with photos/videos attached. It seems to be able to compress them very quickly and upload them without using much data or battery. I think Whatsapp can do the same. Google Photos seems to have this feature in some countries. It has an "Express" quality which lets you upload a lower quality version. They say they are testing it before they make it available to everyone. It's been a year since they announced and still nothing.
Therefore, I'm asking the community here if anyone knows of an app I can use to do what I am looking for.
I have contemplated writing my own app, but I have no experience with the google drive interface or video/photo compression.
@eng3
If your device is rooted then install Root Explorer Pro.
IMHO Root Explorer Pro is one of the best file manager apps for users of rooted Android . It can access all the files involved in the Android OS, it consist of Google drive, Dropbox, sending files, network support, create and extract zip files, send files via Bluetooth, etc.pp.
No it is not rooted. Also, I don't think lossless compression is enough. Videos are already highly compressed so Zipping typically does not provide much savings. Lossy compression is the only way which requires use of a video codec.
I have found apps that can do the video compression using mediacodec. If I could find one that could automatically do it by monitoring a folder (my camera folder) and then place it in another folder, that would be enough. I already have a program that can auto sync the contents of a folder to google drive.

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