LG G2 Night camera MOD - G2 General

Hey everyone, so decided to release some files I have worked on that gave me excellent night photos and long exposure images from our trusty G2.
First of massive shout out to @defcomg who inspired me and guided me along the way, non of this would be possible without his vast knowledge of working with libs and Android in general!
Download links:
V1 (MM/N (For sure) - try this on LP/Stock it might just work...): https://goo.gl/6qv41c
V2 coming soon (Hopefully it'll be compatible with Stock LG ROMs)
Got a Xiaomi Mi 5s, so this is as far as this mod goes. Cheers
Instructions:
1.) Download file from my Drive
2.) Unzip file so that you have a folder in your main directory called G2NightMod, inside this should be 4 folders
3.) I recommend you download some sort of script executor such as "SH Script Runner" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adamioan.scriptrunner)
4.) Once you are ready open the app (script runner) and navigate to the "G2NightMod/Scripts/" There are a few scripts which I will explain lower in this post
5.) Before running any of my scripts make sure to backup the following files found in /vendor/lib/:
-libmmcamera_imx135.so
-libchromatix_imx135_snapshot.so
-libchromatix_imx135_preview.so
6.) Execute the script you want, depending on your preferences
Explanation of each script:
Now Android Cameras have have a mode called ZSL, which allows fast image capture, however not all apps use it, so I had to make 2 versions, for apps that have it enabled and those that don't.
ResetAll: Resets all files back to stock, therefore no mod involved here
ResetZSL: Resets apps using ZSL back to stock
ResetLibMM: Resets apps not using ZSL back to stock
MediumNight and MediumNightZSL (Only one can be used at a time so if want to change between them just execute ResetAll first):
Enables this mod with a great improvement and longer shutter speed, not too long but long enough for dusk photos
ExtremeNight and ExtremeNightZSL (Only one can be used at a time so if want to change between them just execute ResetAll first):
Enables this mod with a massive improvement and very long shutter speed, Very long so you will need a tripod perfect for astrophotos, shoot ISO 400+ for good star pics.
Then we have the mother of all mods, UltraNight(ONLY-ZSL-APPS) (Only one can be used at a time so if want to change between them just execute ResetAll first): This can only be used with ZSL apps, this gives you a realtime view of what you will capture.
I repeat again, only use one mod at a time, otherwise I some unexpected behavior will occur. This mod also should not cause any bootloops or problems so no worries about that, if something does go wrong, just reflash ROM
Enjoy brothers and sisters! :fingers-crossed:
Many thanks to @defcomg
P.S: FreeDcam, Camera FV-5 and Open Camera all are non-ZSL. Snapdragon Camera, sock LG camera (ported and original are ZSL)
FreeDcam is my preferential app!
Please upload your shots to show others and I'll also post some samples.

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Samples:
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Change-log:

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Let me know if this is working/not working for you and especially those on LP/Stock ROMs, tell me if it works

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Tnx man wil try it...

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Sadly it doesn't work for me. Tested on D802 with CloudyG3 (LP) and stock-cam & Xcam. But thanks for your work!

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Jan Philipp said:
Sadly it doesn't work for me. Tested on D802 with CloudyG3 (LP) and stock-cam & Xcam. But thanks for your work!
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Try the ultra zsl and and hold it still and just leave the phone for a few (5 - 10 secs) and see if the display becomes laggy?

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It seems that it does not work on stock based roms. I have google edition 1.5 and tried ExtremeNight, ExtremeNightZSL and UltraNight. I tried them on Xcam, stock cam and Freedcam (option zsl disabled) and with ev +2 (that is the higher can set). None of these libs and apps seems to have any noticable difference in preview (it wasn't laggier than stock) and cannot get longer exposure than 1/9. I may try coping the files by myself in the folder just in case I did anything wrong while trying to run the script.
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shaneel1491 said:
5.) Before running any of my scripts make sure to backup the following files found in /vendor/lib/:
-libmmcamera_imx135.so
-libchromatix_imx135_snapshot.so
-libchromatix_imx135_snapshot.so
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Maybe you meant:
-libmmcamera_imx135.so
-libchromatix_imx135_snapshot.so
-libchromatix_imx135_preview.so

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Antretng said:
It seems that it does not work on stock based roms. I have google edition 1.5 and tried ExtremeNight, ExtremeNightZSL and UltraNight. I tried them on Xcam, stock cam and Freedcam (option zsl disabled) and with ev +2 (that is the higher can set). None of these libs and apps seems to have any noticable difference in preview (it wasn't laggier than stock) and cannot get longer exposure than 1/9. I may try coping the files by myself in the folder just in case I did anything wrong while trying to run the script.
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Maybe you meant:
-libmmcamera_imx135.so
-libchromatix_imx135_snapshot.so
-libchromatix_imx135_preview.so
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Good find thanks. I will see if I can find some answers of making this work on stock, seems LG framework might bypass the libs, maybe. I'll upload some test files tomorrow modded from Cloudy and that will be V2, then you can test that. Anyway thanks for the effort, I'll try to get it working!

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Some quick thinking. Both GE1.5 and Cloudy 3.3 use the camera binaries of xdabbeb and I have installed the XCam Settings. Is there any chance to produce any conflict with your mod ?

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Antretng said:
Some quick thinking. Both GE1.5 and Cloudy 3.3 use the camera binaries of xdabbeb and I have installed the XCam Settings. Is there any chance to produce any conflict with your mod ?
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I think it's actually the LG framework that stands in the way, AOSP and CM use a different wrapper to interface with the camera, which is why people claim Stock ROM quality is better than CM/AOSP, which I would disagree, when shooting in RAW, you get equal quality. I posted in xdabbeb's thread to ask which libs it gets the camera settings from, so I'll just have to wait for him to respond, Maybe if someone could also just pull a log of opening the camera and taking a pic on a stock based ROM I could maybe have a look at that.

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Well the main difference is the jpeg engine. So the unedited RAW files cannot have any difference for same ISO (I think the stock libs can push the ISO a little bit further in low light). However the stock libs I think they use some kind of multiframe NR so the final jpeg have big difference in terms of noise
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shaneel1491 said:
Maybe if someone could also just pull a log of opening the camera and taking a pic on a stock based ROM I could maybe have a look at that.
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I would be glad to help but I am not sure what you mean (I am noob). How can I pull a log ?

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It' workink perfect. Cr droid android 7.1 rom. I m using freedcam.

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gokhanbilgin said:
It' workink perfect. Cr droid android 7.1 rom. I m using freedcam.
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Awesome, this is exactly what I hoped we'd get when making the mod. Solid pic mate :good:

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Antretng said:
Well the main difference is the jpeg engine. So the unedited RAW files cannot have any difference for same ISO (I think the stock libs can push the ISO a little bit further in low light). However the stock libs I think they use some kind of multiframe NR so the final jpeg have big difference in terms of noise
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I would be glad to help but I am not sure what you mean (I am noob). How can I pull a log ?
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I think the noise reduction has a lot to do with which ever apk you use, I can get quite good noise reduction from ported LG apk.
Too pull a log you must download any log cat app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nolanlawson.logcat&hl=en) then start the catlog app and click home button, open camera, take a pic, then go back to catlog, and click pause/stop. Then click the menu button to bring up options and just save. Then you can upload it here Thanks

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work in Miui 8 (cm13 based)?

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petersonldp said:
work in Miui 8 (cm13 based)?
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Yes, it should work

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I just flashed the stock camera libraries of lp (not the advanced of xdabbeb). Again there is no difference when I use your libs. However, when I increase the minimum shutter speed on xcam settings it lowers the maximum iso that it can reach (e.g. If i increase speed to 1/15 I cannot get iso higher than 1000). This wasn't an issue on the advanced libraries. Furthermore, if I use non zsl apps I can reach a 1/6 shutter speed at iso 3100 which is longer exposure than the one it could be reached with advanced, i.e. 1/9 shutter and iso 2900.
I don't know if those finding are any helpful but I felt that it might be worth to share.

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Can you make this for LG G Pro 2 running Cm13? It have same camera/SoC

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Antretng said:
I just flashed the stock camera libraries of lp (not the advanced of xdabbeb). Again there is no difference when I use your libs. However, when I increase the minimum shutter speed on xcam settings it lowers the maximum iso that it can reach (e.g. If i increase speed to 1/15 I cannot get iso higher than 1000). This wasn't an issue on the advanced libraries. Furthermore, if I use non zsl apps I can reach a 1/6 shutter speed at iso 3100 which is longer exposure than the one it could be reached with advanced, i.e. 1/9 shutter and iso 2900.
I don't know if those finding are any helpful but I felt that it might be worth to share.
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Thanks, I contacted xdabbeb and he said he'd help me look into it, so maybe in the next week or so, we will make some progress, hopefully.
coavasic said:
Can you make this for LG G Pro 2 running Cm13? It have same camera/SoC
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Attach, 3 files from /vendor/lib
-libmmcamera_imx135.so
-libchromatix_imx135_snapshot.so
-libchromatix_imx135_preview.so
I'll look into it

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shaneel1491 said:
Thanks, I contacted xdabbeb and he said he'd help me look into it, so maybe in the next week or so, we will make some progress, hopefully.
Attach, 3 files from /vendor/lib
-libmmcamera_imx135.so
-libchromatix_imx135_snapshot.so
-libchromatix_imx135_preview.so
I'll look into it
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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4kfGU1z_PClelJiVm1ZakFKUjQ?usp=sharing