[MOD]Camera Mod - Enhanced Camera by Jordon F (JF-Gino) - Honor 8 Themes, Apps, and Mods

Welcome to my Honor 8 Camera Enhancement Tweak.
Here you will find tweaks that should make your Honor 8 camera even better.
Hoping to get better quality out of this phone & seeing no real mod work happening, I decided to tackle improving this camera for myself. I have tested my tweaks extensively in all modes with my Honor 8 FRD-L04 model ever since I got it back in December of last year. I am confident that this tweak gives us the best performance out of our camera(s) without compromising the complex nature of how the dual sensor stuff works.
What does this mod do :
Basically, you should have in general better resolved photos with more detail, dynamic range, better low light performance and overall exposure handling. You will also have slightly higher quality video as well.
Enhancement Tweak Version 1
Full details of this tweak outlined below to the stock Honor 8 camera :
- Jpg Compression Quality set to 100%
- Larger Image Buffer
- Higher Bitrate 1080p Video Recording (28mbps)
- Better Chroma Conversion between B&W & Colour Sensor
- Higher rate of B&W Sensor Detail mixed with blend matrix
- Larger colour information flow from colour sensor in blend matrix
- Better overall handling of ISO exposure settings
- Better low light performance
- Less noise in low ISO
- More aggressive handling of high ISO aliasing
- Extra frame of bracketing for HDR modes
Hit Here for a sample of the results from this tweak :
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71516365&postcount=12
Note : Your images will now be significantly larger then before, on average between 6 to 8megs and over 12 to 16megs using DOF Focus mode.
Videos will also have larger filesizes as the bitrate has increased.
Hit Here for a sample of the file sizes & bitrate reported from this tweak :
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=71526530&postcount=16
Question: Does it work on nougat?
Answer: Even tho Im using Marshmallow, it seems to work on my friends phone with nougat but Im not guaranteeing it as I don’t know if any of the camera dependent system files changed.
Question: What is all this stuff and do you even know what your doing?
Answer : Sure……………
Question: How do I know what all this funkiness does and if it all works?
Answer: Im bloody magic, that’s how.
Question: Can you get the black & white sensor only to work like the P9?
Answer: No More Questions!
DISCLAIMER!
Please keep in mind that even tho my tweak works amazeballz on my phone, I can not be held responsible for any damage, craziness, you phone getting drunk at night and having sex with your girlfriend or even Trump getting angry at you and causing thermonuclear war. Please back up your system partition, nandroid, hemorrhoid or polaroid your phone to be safe before flashing strange zips barring candy.
Steps for installation :
You Obviously need to be rooted with custom recovery.
1) Restart in TWRP
2) Make a backup – nandroid etc.
3) Flash my zip file - Note - Make sure you have mounted r/w all required partitions - Thanks @cvkef
4) Reboot
5) Phone boots up and camera claims to know where the arc of the covenant is
- Joking! But … Camera should be working as advertised
Update 1 - Included now is a zip to flash back to stock settings
Thanks to @Telperion for the files to flash back to stock :good:
Update 2 - Magisk Support!
Thanks to @Telperion there is now a Magisk Module attached below for this tweak!
Hope you enjoy my mod! Keep fit and have fun!
( - See Below for files to download - )

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For original recovery??
Inviato dal mio FRD-L09 utilizzando Tapatalk

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Thank you, JF-GINO - sounds very interesting. Do you think it should work, at least in theory, on the European models as well (L-09)? Did anyone try it on the newest Nougat version(s) B360 / B380 on L-09 yet and can confirm that it is fully functional? A further suggestion: Maybe you could upload a flashable .zip with the "old", standard settings of the camera in case people encounter any problems. Thanks again, looks very promising!

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Will be trying this once I have twrp installed. Thanks for the work.

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Solitario88 said:
For original recovery??
Inviato dal mio FRD-L09 utilizzando Tapatalk
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TWRP.

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Just made some trials with poor lighting and it looks a bit less grainy. Nothing revolutionary obviously but noticeable and much appreciated. Thank you!

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Are there some comparison samples​?

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Flashed on FRD-L09 B120. Seem like social sharing from the Camera App is broken since then at least for me. Additionally the "smart wiping" feature of the fingerprint sensor is gone. But that isn't necessary related, had the problem before for a short time.
UPDATE - Ok, nevermind, it was probably unrelated. Phone needed a couple of reboots and a cache flush, now everything works again as expected.

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Hi dev congrats for your work!
I installed lineage 13 on my Honor and I'm not satisfied of camera, even using 3rd part app. Can I flash your mod or it's only for emui?
Thanks in advance.

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trojjacker said:
Thank you, JF-GINO - sounds very interesting. Do you think it should work, at least in theory, on the European models as well (L-09)? Did anyone try it on the newest Nougat version(s) B360 / B380 on L-09 yet and can confirm that it is fully functional? A further suggestion: Maybe you could upload a flashable .zip with the "old", standard settings of the camera in case people encounter any problems. Thanks again, looks very promising!
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This should work on all models as the camera depended files are all the same. As for Nougat, I have tried it on a phone with B360 and it seems to work but I dont know what they did in the update to improve the metrics for the camera as Im still on MM. Im assuming they left the dependencies alone and just updated the camera app itself as nougat users have not complained yet & are getting the same positive results.
As for a rollback zip or uninstaller, I was going to put one together but I realized I did not keep any of the original files since a Nandroid back in early January. after that, I was using settings from the P9. I also dont know if each version has slightly different files as stock either. This is why I released it this way and stressed you do a backup. Maybe later if I have the time I can look into extracting the original files from a stock rom.
valk791 said:
Hi dev congrats for your work!
I installed lineage 13 on my Honor and I'm not satisfied of camera, even using 3rd part app. Can I flash your mod or it's only for emui?
Thanks in advance.
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If Lineage is CM based then no, I would think that none of this would work on that rom. The stock emui camera app is dependent on this mod. Sorry.
microserf said:
Flashed on FRD-L09 B120. Seem like social sharing from the Camera App is broken since then at least for me. Additionally the "smart wiping" feature of the fingerprint sensor is gone. But that isn't necessary related, had the problem before for a short time.
UPDATE - Ok, nevermind, it was probably unrelated. Phone needed a couple of reboots and a cache flush, now everything works again as expected.
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Glad you sorted your problem out as non of these modded files should affect what you where having issues with :good:

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Dev in words seems a great job but I would also expect a comparative pre post photographic sample under different conditions. You do not think to post the results of your work?

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Dottorfox said:
Dev in words seems a great job but I would also expect a comparative pre post photographic sample under different conditions. You do not think to post the results of your work?
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For those of you who want some sort of example of the effectiveness of this mod, here are two below.
Example 1 - Low ambient light
{
"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"
}
Example 2 - Daytime sunny
hope this helps some of you as my examples clearly show more detail, dynamic range & less noise.
As for video quality, the raised bitrate should speak for itself.

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So, if I understood correctly, there is no point of using this mod in Nougat has it already has the same improvements implemented?
nevertheless, great job!

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Hi @JF-GINO,
Is there any safe way to validate that the patch is applied? (photo filesizes seem the same)

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ViCioPT said:
So, if I understood correctly, there is no point of using this mod in Nougat has it already has the same improvements implemented?
nevertheless, great job!
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Wrong, I never said that... these improvements are mine alone.. I did however indicate that I thought the file dependencies did not change from MM to Nougat. This mod should work on both and was tested on nougat with no Ill side effects. If there are any problems tho, I would like to know.

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cvkef said:
Hi @JF-GINO,
Is there any safe way to validate that the patch is applied? (photo filesizes seem the same)
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Hmmm,...
Standard default filesizes should be between 2 & 3 megs max depending on the detail in the image.
My settings increase this as per my screenshot examples below of both file size & video bitrates after the mod. Remember that if you take a photo in a dark environment with little detail, then your file size can be as low as 2 megs.
That being said, Try to take a video and see what the bitrate comes out to,. should be as shown in my screenshot.

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Camera won't boot anymore
After flashing your mod everything worked fine for me but after a few reboots my phone didn't boot anymore. I did a backup in TWRP an restored my phone. After restoring it everything worked fine except that my camera won't boot. So the normal camera app is closing quickly after I try to start it and in apps like Snapchat or Instagram is only a blackscreen. I don't want to reset my whole phone so if you could help me this would be amazing. L09C432B380 (Nougat).
Sorry for my rather bad English.

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developersam said:
After flashing your mod everything worked fine for me but after a few reboots my phone didn't boot anymore. I did a backup in TWRP an restored my phone. After restoring it everything worked fine except that my camera won't boot. So the normal camera app is closing quickly after I try to start it and in apps like Snapchat or Instagram is only a blackscreen. I don't want to reset my whole phone so if you could help me this would be amazing. L09C432B380 (Nougat).
Sorry for my rather bad English.
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Im not sure why your phone would be working fine and then after a few restarts just stop working like that and then your camera not working after a full restore? All my files would have been overwritten. Very strange.
I did however send you a PM on the issue - see your inbox.

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developersam said:
After flashing your mod everything worked fine for me but after a few reboots my phone didn't boot anymore. I did a backup in TWRP an restored my phone. After restoring it everything worked fine except that my camera won't boot. So the normal camera app is closing quickly after I try to start it and in apps like Snapchat or Instagram is only a blackscreen. I don't want to reset my whole phone so if you could help me this would be amazing. L09C432B380 (Nougat).
Sorry for my rather bad English.
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Same device, same firmware and no issues for me.

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Solved the problem by rolling back to MM (B131) and updating to Nougat. I'll try your mod again and will see if it works now.