I installed Pixel Experience AOSP ROM on my redmi 5 plus and I really enjoy the simplicity and design. However, one annoying problem is that GCam doesn't work as well as it used to be on MIUI. The main problem is the lens blur option - If you set the megapixel count to 12MP in lens blur mode - The feature becomes extremely laggy and unusable, it only works smoothly on 8MP and that's really disappointing. On MIUI I was taking lens blur pics on 12MP easily.
The second problem which is less infuriating is that installing the custom rom still haven't fixed the non-working front camera w/ HDR+ issue on gcam 6, but since this is a widespread issue I could live with that and only use the rear camera. (Unless someone did manage to find a solution then I will be happy to hear)
Thanks for the help
You can try the BSG Arnova version of Gcam.
Version is 6.1.021.220943556
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Ever since I upgraded my note 8 to Oreo I have not been able to get a working Pixel camera port apk. When I was on Nougat I never had any problems, now I get focusing problems for front camera, blurry portraits for front camera, the camera will crash at times, and even rear shots dont look as good. Anyone out there know of a camera port that works good ?
You're beautiful and everyone knows it. That's why you take selfies. Rate this thread to express how the front-facing camera of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 performs. A higher rating indicates that the front camera produces fantastic results consistently.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
Unless you have really good light, selfie's aren't the best. Ridiculous amount of face smoothing I just can't seem to get rid of. Even with the settings turned off, it just does smoothing so it looks terrible.
Rear camera is good.
I have a big issue with my front camera...
When I try to take a selfie, if behind the subject there's a light(natural or artificial), the photo become blurry.
I compared my device with one exposed in a store and only my device has this issue(the settings were the same on both devices)....
Anyone has/had the same problem? If yes, how did you solve it?
I've already tried a factory reset but the problem still remain...
Gcam mod on the Note 9 takes considerably better selfie pix than the stock camera. No smoothing and a lot more detail.
Unfortunately the selfies are terrible. I have tried Android pie on the note 9 and I can say with that OS upgrade the selfie cam does get marginally better thank goodness.
The selfie cam in my opinion is bad quality. The photos are usually blurry except you are stood very still and have very good light. I think perfomance is not good enough for a €/£1000+ device and hopefully a software upgrade will fix the issue particularly the time it takes to focus
The gcam port makes the quality so much better
DanC4250 said:
The gcam port makes the quality so much better
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Exynos or Snapdragon?
Care to share which exact gcam version are you using? Thanks!
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Exynos or Snapdragon?
Care to share which exact gcam version are you using? Thanks!
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Snapdragon.
The version I'm using is on the XDA gcam port hub
HuStLaZ said:
Unless you have really good light, selfie's aren't the best. Ridiculous amount of face smoothing I just can't seem to get rid of. Even with the settings turned off, it just does smoothing so it looks terrible.
Rear camera is good.
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I have this phone for a day and I'm experiencing the same problem. All selfies look unnatural. Everything is too smooth, and blurry, just bad quality I think.
The only complain I have about the front camera is the angle. With my old LG G6 I could easily get the whole family in while talking with relatives and friends on video call.
With the Note 9 I can barely get myself in.
Someone has noticed improvements in selfie quality after oneui 2.5 update?
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Someone has noticed improvements in selfie quality after oneui 2.5 update?
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I'm still waiting for the update as I'm from Canada, Otherwise, I've had my N9 snapdragon for less then a month and I've used Urnyx's 7.3 v2.4: GCam & PixelCam_7.3_V5.0 by jairo_rossi and those camera apps are stable and work better than the stock camera (One UI 2.1)
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-jairo_rossi/
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-urnyx05/
jmk32 said:
Gcam mod on the Note 9 takes considerably better selfie pix than the stock camera. No smoothing and a lot more detail.
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Can you attach a gcam mod for note 9 please? i've tried to search that mod and couldn't find,
update - found it , not working so well on my Exynos version
Thanks.
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rich204 said:
I'm still waiting for the update as I'm from Canada, Otherwise, I've had my N9 snapdragon for less then a month and I've used Urnyx's 7.3 v2.4: GCam & PixelCam_7.3_V5.0 by jairo_rossi and those camera apps are stable and work better than the stock camera (One UI 2.1)
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-jairo_rossi/
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-urnyx05/
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I didn't tried to take selfie since the update
Quality
Selfie quality was superb in oreo 8.1, I don't see much quality after updating the phone to Android 9 or 10 versions
The self-camera on the Note 9 is actually pretty good quality when compared to most laptop and 3rd party USB Webcams. I have use it for video conferencing via Zoom, MS Teams and Cisco. All of the time the picture quality from my Note 9's selfie-camera seems to be much better quality than others who are using a laptop or traditional USB webcam
What is the best gcam for Android pie in Redmi 5 plus??
I Have tested several and none are with the proper quality. Thanks.
Arnova gcam 6.1.021.
Only problem i have is that it doesn't save selfies and portrait gets stuck at editing HDR photo. Everything else is working perfectly and picture quality is really nice. And you also have night mode which makes wonders.
I use
https://www.mediafire.com/download/8b1chhrp8cx26yv
It's the one before all night shot got introduced (it's a Pixel 2 port) but all features work as intended (camera, video, slow-mo, portrait, front and back flash) all stable and nice picture quality.
Night sight in the front camera is not working!!
Whereas in the back camera it does wonders
Is there any workaround?
I am using this and also does not work the front camera.
Hello guys, I am a POCO user running on 9.0 ROM. I have tried many Google Cameras and also the ANX camera, but camera quality just sucks.
I mean Google Camera clicks very good pictures in real lighting condition, but sucks in low light. Even if it click good photos in real light photos, the background and face looks almost same. For example, Oneplus, Apple and all other phones make face look vivid or atleast different from the background but in Gcam the background looks better than the face and it doesn't even beautify the face at all. iPhone, Oneplus, Samsung all manipulates the face to make it better but GCAM sucks at this.
About ANX it is not stable. It randomly closes and even it does not deliver good photos...
I posted it on telegram but no one replied. Is that no one has got a life or everyone is using stock rom lloll
We can get sharper pictures with google camera as compared to stock MIUI camera. I really like the ported google camera for poco f1 in terms of picture quality.
If you really concerned to selfies with beauty mode to distiguish you from the background, I would suggest you to download third party camera apk like b612 or similar.
B612is cringe. By selfie and beauty mode, samsung's stock, oneplus' stock and every phone has beauty mode. Some show like OPPO vivo but some don't.. Poco's camera is outstanding but not having face enhancement feature sucks. You can't distinguish between object and background... Gcam fails in this
Hello devlopers and friends Ever since I brought poco f1 and installed gcam and other third party camera apps my front camera resolution drops to 5mp. Only official camera app is able to use 20 mp resolution.
I know there are many threads about pixel Bining and stuff but i don't agree with them. The main problem is at the end a 5Mp Image is 5Mp and 20 Mp is 20 mp.
But i think and request devlopers to please look to it.
## According to my theory As confirmed by Device info Harware app There are three camera sensors in poco F1 out of which the one with camera ID 0 is 13 the one with camera ID 1 is 20 and with camera ID 2 is is 5 megapixel.
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13 Mp back camera primary Camera Id 0
5mp back camera primary camera Id2
20 mp front camera Id 1
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According to my theory the five megapixel and the 20 megapixel camera are conflicting with each other and gcam is taking the values from 5 megapixel instead of 20 megapixel sensor. So I request that developers that they can try I and confirm if it is the case and if it is true please make a fix for it
thanks
On specs sheet, the front facing camera has 20mp but in gcam it says 5mp. Google Camera is using what they called "Pixel Binning" and it is a software implementation.
This process is the procedure of combining a cluster of pixels into a single pixel. As such, in 2x2 binning, an array of 4 pixels becomes a single larger pixel, reducing the overall number of pixels.
13mp back camera is the main camera shooter
5mp back camera is the depth sensor
20mp front camera is the secondary camera shooter
One good example is this
Darklouis said:
On specs sheet, the front facing camera has 20mp but in gcam it says 5mp. Google Camera is using what they called "Pixel Binning" and it is a software implementation.
This process is the procedure of combining a cluster of pixels into a single pixel. As such, in 2x2 binning, an array of 4 pixels becomes a single larger pixel, reducing the overall number of pixels.
13mp back camera is the main camera shooter
5mp back camera is the depth sensor
20mp front camera is the secondary camera shooter
One good example is this
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Thanks for replying
The question is that why gcam and other apps detect only 5mp sensor.
Lets agree gcam uses pixel Bining and stuff.
But why other apps detect and capture 5mp are they all using pixel Bining.
And why only Mi Camera can capture at full potential of the sensor. Is there a catch we all are ignoring.
Pixel Bining or not at the end when zoomed 5Mp image is storing lesser data .
And also imagine a 20mp full resolution shot with gcam cam make things go from OK to wow.
harshgohan said:
Thanks for replying
The question is that why gcam and other apps detect only 5mp sensor.
Lets agree gcam uses pixel Bining and stuff.
But why other apps detect and capture 5mp are they all using pixel Bining.
And why only Mi Camera can capture at full potential of the sensor. Is there a catch we all are ignoring.
Pixel Bining or not at the end when zoomed 5Mp image is storing lesser data .
And also imagine a 20mp full resolution shot with gcam cam make things go from OK to wow.
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It doesn't really change anything. And it doesn't mean more resolution = more quality. It is a matter of fact of image processing. If you really compare MIUI Stock Camera and Google Camera, you will see the big difference from the two since that Stock Camera doesn't uses Pixel Binning algorithm
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It doesn't really change anything. And it doesn't mean more resolution = more quality. It is a matter of fact of image processing. If you really compare MIUI Stock Camera and Google Camera, you will see the big difference from the two since that Stock Camera doesn't uses Pixel Binning algorithm
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Pixel binning gives better shots in low lighting conditions only. No significant difference in well lit conditions. Thats why i want to capture with full resolution in Google camera because its awesome.
Also if pixel binning is so justified why don't we capture 3 mp photo with rear camera and say its better than 13mp because its not
Justified ( That 20 mp shot from miui cam is not good than gcam)
Not justified ( That it is due to only pixel binning . It is due to google computational algorithms.)
#pixelbinning is justified only in badly lit photos not everywhere
Agreed doesn't mean More resolution=more quality
But More resolution =More information per inch in captured shot ( in case of gcam it means awesome shot)
More resolution =More information per inch in captured shot ( in case of miui camera it means ok shot cause it does not uses multiple shots and algorithms to produce good shots)
harshgohan said:
Pixel binning gives better shots in low lighting conditions only. No significant difference in well lit conditions. Thats why i want to capture with full resolution in Google camera because its awesome.
Also if pixel binning is so justified why don't we capture 3 mp photo with rear camera and say its better than 13mp because its not
Justified ( That 20 mp shot from miui cam is not good than gcam)
Not justified ( That it is due to only pixel binning . It is due to google computational algorithms.)
#pixelbinning is justified only in badly lit photos not everywhere
Agreed doesn't mean More resolution=more quality
But More resolution =More information per inch in captured shot ( in case of gcam it means awesome shot)
More resolution =More information per inch in captured shot ( in case of miui camera it means ok shot cause it does not uses multiple shots and algorithms to produce good shots)
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Then use the stock camera if you really wanted the 20mp. Use gcam if you wanted better image processing.
This was explained a long time ago and it is really not a big issue or some conspiracy about the 20mp sensor
Yes it is a issue One plus devices had this issue Zen devices had issues similar in Auxiliary camera regarding resolutions on gcam. All those were fixed due to efforts of devlopers.But i think people just want to accept everything and not work it out. If some one can try to find a fix there will be a fix. But if everyone just accept the fate lie down nothing is gonna happen
Similar issue, i can't change photo camera resolution on miui 11.0.5.0.
harshgohan said:
According to my theory the five megapixel and the 20 megapixel camera are conflicting with each other and gcam is taking the values from 5 megapixel instead of 20 megapixel sensor. So I request that developers that they can try I and confirm if it is the case and if it is true please make a fix for it
thanks
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Dude, you are suggesting your gcam is taking front selfies with rear 5MP sensor?
A 20MP image is only twice as big 5MP image. Not 4 times big.
Gcam 5MP selfie carries much more details than 20MP MiUi camera, day or night. Period. MiUi camera does a lot smoothening.
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Gcam 5MP selfie carries much more details than 20MP MiUi camera, day or night. Period. MiUi camera does a lot smoothening.
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Or maybe gcam does lot's of sharpening to make them look "detailed" zoomed out? When zoomed in you can see tiny coloured squares.
Update I used Redmi note8 Pro and Redmi k20 pro with gcam They all produce 5 mp front and 12mp back irrespective of the sensor resolution. Maybe gcam only supports these resolution maximum.
Honestly i would love larger resolution support with gcam .
In k20pro gcam can take images in 48 MP resolution
In back But issue is in front it only takes with 5mp resolution and this 5MP resolution is useless when you zoom the image or see it laptop you can see amount of noise.This really need a fix .
Can i disable Pixel Bining
I think no devloper is interested in This.
I wish there were devs who would look at it but sad thing is no one really care
True story
Actually Gcam detects full one Megapixel when individual pixel size is more that 1.1 π size..
Poco f1 or other Xiaomi phone with 20mp sensor has individual pixel size of 0.8/0.9/1.0 π size.
But Gcam detect full 13mp in my Redmi note 5 AI because the sensor's pixel size is 1.12 π.
Thus even in my old device has a 13mp insane Gcam selfie.