I found this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2340993
And i gave it a try on my Samsung Galaxy Camera with really good results:
I did install this manually on my Samsung Galaxy Camera (rooted Stock 4.1.2) by placing the so's and apk in /system/lib and /system/app folders and setting permissions accordingly and it works almost perfectly:
- taking photospheres result in much better pictures than the JB 4.2 cam (less stitching errors)
- no crashes after stitching if GPS is ON! (sadly 4.2 cam always FCd on stitching GPS Photospheres)
- Also taking topmost and bottommost picture improves the overall quality a lot!
Definitive worth a try if you're into Photospheres!
But on the donwside. the whole Gallery app freezes for me as soon as i view a photosphere and tap either the pencil (i guess editing photo comments or something) OR tap on the TinyPlanet button. After this the whole camera app is slow and extremely sluggy and unusable. Rebooting cures it.
At least the tinyPlanet was working with JB 4.2 here from the forum.
Just to clarify: This is just my experience - i did not create the package or something. I'm just a user! All thanks belong to victorator for giving us this package!
I haven't seen any serious problems yet, and I installed it as a regular app.
it does seem to have a few odd issues.
the camera is limited to 8MP, and the scene mode names are shuffled(no scene says night mode, party mode says sunset, etc.)
thedicemaster said:
I haven't seen any serious problems yet, and I installed it as a regular app.
it does seem to have a few odd issues.
the camera is limited to 8MP, and the scene mode names are shuffled(no scene says night mode, party mode says sunset, etc.)
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Yep, i can confirm this - removed the manually installed apps and libs and installed as normal app - works really nice.
Have the sam quirks you mention.
Thanks for your help!
@MaHoff you beat me to it
But for those wanting to install it with just the apk I have uploaded it here http://db.tt/L8DIRiHY
The file was originally available from the thread mentioned in the OP, but has since disappeared.
I have installed the APK on my camera, Note 2 and Note 10.1, all work with it fine, it will add another camera and gallery app to your app draw.
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Question....The LG G3 takes some outstanding pictures and the Laser really helps for snappy focusing, but I wanted to know if 3rd party apps can take advantage of that as well? For Example, Camera FV-5 is usually my go-to app, but I don't really want to lose the snappiness that the Laser Focus gives the standard App. Do other apps take advantage of it or is this something that only works within the actual LG Camera App? Also, what about AOSP roms? Does it work on Camera apps if I'm on, let's say, CM or Paranoid?
I think I just found my own answer.....I swear I googled this before and couldn't find an answer, but came across this:http://www.reddit.com/r/LGG3/comments/2ncdjs/best_app_for_camera_photovideo/
As suggested, I opened another camera app and looked to see if the laser had a red blinking light, and it surely did. This makes me "think" that other apps DO use it. As far as CM and/or Paranoid or any other AOSP OS goes, I guess I just have to install and see.
hi just wondering if theres an option to make photo sphere as tiny planet. i took a surrond shot completing all unfortunately at gallery theres is no option to make it tiny planet. can some one help thanks
I was looking for this too -- I hear that it's no longer available and to use Google Camera. Unfortunately, I cannot create a tiny planet using Google Camera from photospheres I already took with my s6 camera. Still researching though...
edit: I take that back -- I just saw the "create tiny planet" within the Google Camera app, using an existing photosphere!
edit 2: I got 1 tiny planet, but now Google Camera keeps crashing when I try to create another one - even after reboot, un-install/install.
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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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tasnim_tamim said:
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.
We finally got a version of 6.1 with the updated libraries and features (Night Sight, etc) that doesn't kill the front camera!
I've been working on this with DefconG and Cstark for a while now, trying to figure out how to fix the noise profile / black levels in the front cam so we aren't stuck with 5.1 (and its arguably inferior image quality and sharpness), and this seems to be the first major breakthrough!
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/changelog924/
It says for Pie, but don't worry. It will install fine on Oreo. You may need to uninstall other 6.1 ports if you are having trouble installing it (on my device it conflicted with a 6.1 Arnova installation).
Front cam and both rear cams are fully supported with HDR+ Enhanced now. Night Sight is also an option. Some new funky feature too like zoom enhancements and other fun things that aren't entirely documented. Use the attached settings XML for the best V20 experience.
Definitely looks sharper, much more config options to fiddle. But after taking more than 2 photos it crashes, both with hdr, hdr enhanced, hdr off and hexagon dsp disabled.
If going for version 6 this looks like the choice.
Thanks for the good work.
Pardon my ignorance, but how do I apply the xml settings?
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I think I got it. Writing steps for others here. Thanks man! You're the hero we need.
1. A quick search led to this: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/settings09/
2. Downloading the xml seemed oddly difficult, so I downloaded it on my laptop and transferred it to my phone. It seems to be working fine
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Pardon my ignorance, but how do I apply the xml settings?
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Double click the any empty black area near shutter button, it will as for the config. But be sure to copy the xml file to your \gcam\configs directory first.
I'm guessing no 7.0 support?
Night sight seems to be crashing now.. on the main cam especially. Anyone else facing the same?
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I'm guessing no 7.0 support?
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As far as I know, any GCam after 5.1 needs Oreo or higher, and any GCam from 6.2 on needs Pie or higher.
Sadly doesn't work on H990DS Oreo, I have version mismatch maybe because of that.
Have to go back to 5.1
Hello everyone. First off thank you so much for your work and development. I have been playing around with the 6.1 camera and I think I have everything working, but lens blur keeps force closing while processing the image.
I did download the XML file and double tap in the black area next to the shutter button change to the correct config file. But I'm still having the issue with lens blur is there something that I'm missing? Also, is there a way to make it save directly to the SD card? And any way to brighten up lens blur?
Thanks again for the awesome work. It would be really nice to only need one camera!
Onnit vs995 running Alpha Oreo 1.3.1
kaluna00 said:
Hello everyone. First off thank you so much for your work and development. I have been playing around with the 6.1 camera and I think I have everything working, but lens blur keeps force closing while processing the image.
I did download the XML file and double tap in the black area next to the shutter button change to the correct config file. But I'm still having the issue with lens blur is there something that I'm missing? Also, is there a way to make it save directly to the SD card? And any way to brighten up lens blur?
Thanks again for the awesome work. It would be really nice to only need one camera!
Onnit vs995 running Alpha Oreo 1.3.1
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Haven't tried Lens Blur yet, but regarding directly saving to SD card, that's not a feature since no Google Pixel phone has an SD card slot. You'll have to rely on an automatic process to move the files for you via something like Tasker or a specific app that someone made:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-gcam-tool-automatically-photos-t3752115
In Settings I changed both front and back cameras to be 16:9. However if I press the camera switch button then the settings does not stay. It goes like this:
Main Camera (16:9) -> Front Camera (16:9) -> Wide Camera (4:3) -> Front Camera (16:9) -> Main Camera (4:3)
Is it possible to fix this behavior so that switching to the Wide camera doesn't remove my Main camera settings?
Apologize for my ignorant. Does this app need root? What is the xml file for?
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Apologize for my ignorant. Does this app need root? What is the xml file for?
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From my experience:
1. No root required
2. Xml file sets the settings/parameters which are optimal, and also somehow save the app from crashing.
Someone else might be better informed though.
@Dishe
Thanks for your work, really appreciate it
I've noticed that the link goes straight to the Joker version. I've tried latest one: "eldiablo" and it seems to be working fine. Should I stick with the joker version or eldiablo is just fine?
I'm on h990ds with lineage 16
Just installed this on my H990DS. Is there a wide angle option?
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Just installed this on my H990DS. Is there a wide angle option?
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Yes widescreen works fine on h990ds.
itm said:
Just installed this on my H990DS. Is there a wide angle option?
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Yes widescreen works fine on h990ds.
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There's a couple of ways to toggle the cameras which can be set in the settings menu. One is to long-press the front/back toggle button, the other is to alternate each time you go from rear cam to front cam. The long press seems makes more sense on paper, but in reality it then pauses as it resets the app. Toggling to front cam and then back to rear seems to happen faster so you are ready to take a picture sooner. But then it is confusing because taking a selfie and then back to rear you forget which camera you are on now at first. I wish there was a toggle that worked like in the stock LG app, but the quality of Gcam is so good its worth it.
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Just installed this on my H990DS. Is there a wide angle option?
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Yes widescreen works fine on h990ds.
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@Dishe
Thanks for your work, really appreciate it
I've noticed that the link goes straight to the Joker version. I've tried latest one: "eldiablo" and it seems to be working fine. Should I stick with the joker version or eldiablo is just fine?
I'm on h990ds with lineage 16
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I haven't tried it yet- I'm just reporting info as the guys tweaking LG cams are filling me in.
The V20 is my wife's phone, and while I spent a considerable amount of time trying to make it take awesome pictures for her, I haven't tried the latest updates. She doesn't always like me stealing her phone to tinker. Let us know how it goes?
Dishe said:
There's a couple of ways to toggle the cameras which can be set in the settings menu. One is to long-press the front/back toggle button, the other is to alternate each time you go from rear cam to front cam. The long press seems makes more sense on paper, but in reality it then pauses as it resets the app. Toggling to front cam and then back to rear seems to happen faster so you are ready to take a picture sooner. But then it is confusing because taking a selfie and then back to rear you forget which camera you are on now at first. I wish there was a toggle that worked like in the stock LG app, but the quality of Gcam is so good its worth it.
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Quality of this camera is rather impressive, better than the other 6.1 I had. Is it OK to use eldiablo version or should we use joker one? Thanks
EnterTHEvoiD said:
Quality of this camera is rather impressive, better than the other 6.1 I had. Is it OK to use eldiablo version or should we use joker one? Thanks
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Doesn't hurt to try it and let us know!