Camera Quality very bad on anything except stock ROM - Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Hey guys, I've noticed that my camera is really grainy whenever I use any other ROM than the official JB ROM.
Anyone else found this to be the case, and is there any way around this? I really do need a functioning camera

seraphine said:
Hey guys, I've noticed that my camera is really grainy whenever I use any other ROM than the official JB ROM.
Anyone else found this to be the case, and is there any way around this? I really do need a functioning camera
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Bogus claim. The apk is the same and drivers are the same.
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Maybe your custom kernel's color setting is what makes you think that pictures look worse? Can you take a picture of a object with custom ROM and another one with stock ROM?

I actually firmly believe I get better camera quality on JB over ICS, but it shouldn't differ ROM to ROM.
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Smokeey said:
I actually firmly believe I get better camera quality on JB over ICS, but it shouldn't differ ROM to ROM.
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I feel that way too, what I think the reasoning is because the way the camera focuses was changed in JB which leads to better focused pictures and a happier me
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Smokeey said:
I actually firmly believe I get better camera quality on JB over ICS, but it shouldn't differ ROM to ROM.
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CM actually uses a modified Camera.apk which includes some extra features. My point is that not all cameras in all ROMs are the same.
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miketoasty said:
CM actually uses a modified Camera.apk which includes some extra features. My point is that not all cameras in all ROMs are the same.
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But the blobs are...we don't have open source access to them.
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kyokeun1234 said:
Maybe your custom kernel's color setting is what makes you think that pictures look worse? Can you take a picture of a object with custom ROM and another one with stock ROM?
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Hmmm that could be it actually. I'll take some comparison shots when I have a few free hours to resolve this once and for all. If it's something I'm imagining I'd be somewhat relieved...

seraphine said:
Hmmm that could be it actually. I'll take some comparison shots when I have a few free hours to resolve this once and for all. If it's something I'm imagining I'd be somewhat relieved...
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thanks, after the comparison shot, we'll know if it's the camera problem or not
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kyokeun1234 said:
thanks, after the comparison shot, we'll know if it's the camera problem or not
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Please let us know the result. I also think that stock gives better quality.
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berg82 said:
Please let us know the result. I also think that stock gives better quality.
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+1 I took a picture last night on aokp jb
Looks grainy to me compared to ICS.
I'm going to take the same pic tonight on stock ICS and/or stock jellybean
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Question- choppy/unstable Bluetooth?

K so when I fist got my gnex I could use it with my Bluetooth speakers from a far range I could be like two rooms away and could still here it fine and it would be smooth. That was stock. Now that I'm rooted and running aokp it is horrible. I can't be more than 4 or 5 feet from the speakers without it cutting in and out and being really unusable.... would this be the rom (aokp M5) or the kernel (latest Franco nightly)?
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Could be either, especially if AOKP is using the wrong bcmdhd.cal for the device.
adrynalyne said:
Could be either, especially if AOKP is using the wrong bcmdhd.cal for the device.
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Okay do is there anyway to check/fix this .Cal thing?
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Post it.
It is in system/etc/wifi.
I can't it won't let me unless you want me to make a zip?
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Hope this works
oilerseberle14 said:
... it would be smooth. That was stock. Now that I'm rooted and running aokp it is horrible.
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You answered your own question. Go back to stock if you need things to work properly. Custom roms are experimental at best, since they introduce all kinds of problems, including app incompatibility, hardware instability and broken features (like voicemail notifications not working).
Good luck.
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Sorry it took long lol I'm at work so I had to go on chrome and try to get it on there then I had to zip it with androzip ....
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Looking at it now.
Well, it is the right one. I know the Verizon version has been modified to fix choppy BT. It may or may not work for you. You are welcome to try it, but back up your current one.
Okay thanks I will try it when I get home
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Camera app

GB vs ICS vs JB
I have better pic's on GB camera apk
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grassyloki said:
GB vs ICS vs JB
I have better pic's on GB camera apk
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Any photographic evidence to support your statement?
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My best pics were on cupcake
grassyloki said:
GB vs ICS vs JB
I have better pic's on GB camera apk
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I'm pretty sure your imaging things my friend.
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are you talking about all SGS II? Also Stock GB vs AOSP ICS or? we need more information!
grassyloki said:
GB vs ICS vs JB
I have better pic's on GB camera apk
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According to my experience the camera for gb is better in preview as compared to ics. But the outcome seems pretty much the same.
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We dont even have a working jb camera yet
I would say they are the same. So maybe what op is talking about is that touch to focus thing on gb that makes the gb camera better? Idk
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xxKamikazexx said:
I would say they are the same. So maybe what op is talking about is that touch to focus thing on gb that makes the gb camera better? Idk
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AOKP you just hold the camera button down and it will focus on what your looking at.
I'm waiting on my dongle so I can connect my good camera from my _________, fill in the blank.
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JaZart said:
Any photographic evidence to support your statement?
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This. :good: Why don't the OP post pics and we'll be the judge for him?
I've always felt like the stock ics camera looked better than the cm9 camera results.. Never put them side by side though..
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baronsamedi said:
I've always felt like the stock ics camera looked better than the cm9 camera results.. Never put them side by side though..
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I agree. I have gone back to TDJ's rooted stock Telus ICS ROM (TLLE4) because I find the pictures are grainy in low light with a lot of other ROMS.
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GB vs ICS vs JB
I have better pic's on GB camera apk
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I would have to agree. Everything's gone south w/ my SGS2 since the ICS update. I have way more blurred photos w/ ICS than I ever did w/ GB. I'm going to look up going back to GB. I've had nothing but issues w/ ICS. My phone is stock as well.
I don't have any photo's really to prove what I'm saying but most of the pics I take in ICS are blurry and out of focus.
I think its the shutter speed or many the camera apk has not benn fully fitted for our phone
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My ics pictures are fine, you should treat your parkinsons
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I would have to say I am very unimpressed with the photo quality on the s2 with aokp ics. I can't say if it was better on gb because I've only played with ics on the s2, but I have an htc sensation that takes way better pictures at close to mid range. I find the focusing a total pain in the butt. On the htc with ics I can touch to focus so if I'm getting a reflection in the middle of the screen instead of it focusing on what's being reflected I can click on the frame and tell it to focus on what the camera is actually pointed at. I'm trying to take pictures of the sensation to sell it and everything is out of focus when I try to take pictures of the screen because it tries to focus on whatever is being reflected. The reflection shows up great but then the boarder of the screen is out of focus and by a lot.
I'm going to try third party camera apps to see if I can get the touch to focus back but I can't find an option for it in the darksipe aokp stock camera app.
Other than that, at mid to long distance where it focuses properly the pictures are gorgeous.
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In case anyone else was annoyed by this I was able to find a single app that allows you to use touch to focus. It is camera 360. I had some FC's at first but after playing with the settings and fixing permissions it's working great.
Try procapture too, it's actually pretty good for close pictures
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I have had no issues with my camera app in ICS not did u have an issue with gingerbread. They both seemed to perform very well and I am rather picky with the photos that I take....here's an example
This picture was taken while it was raining and my screen was wet
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Elizabeth nchadze
I have to go with ICS.

[FIX] Lag fix for cm10 based roms (cm10, paranoid android, jellybro)

I have a fix for the lagginess in builds from the past week and a half or so. The culprit is the surface flinger library. It is the android compositing system and some changes recently made to it are responsible for the significant lag in recent builds. Most noticeable spot is if you hit the home button if you have the notification drawer down. It becomes extremely laggy without this patch. Scrolling is also less smooth whenever multiple things on the screen are being drawn. This fixes all those issues.
Just flash this in cwm or whatever recovery you choose. Should work on all cm10 builds and cm10 based roms like paranoid android.
Merged into cyanogemod on September 19th
http://www.mediafire.com/?dbi25egli253q1b
no wiping necessary, right?
supguise said:
no wiping necessary, right?
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Yup. Shouldn't need a wipe. You can wipe cache though if you want though.
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Thanks for this! The lag was literally the only thing that kept me going back to JellyBelly. I love me some CM!
Thought this might be another placebo thing but damn, this really works! The usual spots of minor lag like scrolling the app lists in the play store, gmail, play music are now smooth as eggs.
Good job, man.
supguise said:
Thought this might be another placebo thing but damn, this really works! The usual spots of minor lag like scrolling the app lists in the play store, gmail, play music are now smooth as eggs.
Good job, man.
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To be fair, eggs aren't really that smooth: http://iaq.dk/image/egg_sem1.GIF
Just having a good time
Not using CM10 at the time but sounds like you got yourself a good find Nice job.
Jimmah555 said:
To be fair, eggs aren't really that smooth: http://iaq.dk/image/egg_sem1.GIF
Just having a good time
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Lol it was a Chappelle reference but fair enough.
Anyone try this on miui? It lags super bad. I would but not near WiFi atm.
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chukis13 said:
Anyone try this on miui? It lags super bad. I would but not near WiFi atm.
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You can try. I think they're cm10 based. Files also only like 190kb BTW. This actually should work on any device as well.
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What exactly does this .zip do, if you don't mind me asking? Will give it a try regardless
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You can try. I think they're cm10 based. Files also only like 190kb BTW. This actually should work on any device as well.
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I meant I'd have to redownload miui. I got rid of it because of its lagginess.
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THEbigSWEEN said:
What exactly does this .zip do, if you don't mind me asking? Will give it a try regardless
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Reverts surfaceflinger.so back to the previous version before someone borked it in the source.
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blackhand1001 said:
Reverts surfaceflinger.so back to the previous version before someone borked it in the source.
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Will this work for CM10 based Nexus 7 roms too or just Galaxy Nexus roms?
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Amin Sabet said:
Will this work for CM10 based Nexus 7 roms too or just Galaxy Nexus roms?
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Pretty sure it works on all devices. The issue is certainly present on both and this library seems to be the same across devices.
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What build did you get it from?
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What build did you get it from?
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Winner, I'm using your ROMs on both Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7. When possible please advise whether to flash this and if so whether to do so only on one or on both devices. Many thanks!
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winner00 said:
What build did you get it from?
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Your build from the 22nd.
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Amin Sabet said:
Winner, I'm using your ROMs on both Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7. When possible please advise whether to flash this and if so whether to do so only on one or on both devices. Many thanks!
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You should be able to flash it fine on both. I use winners build too and I made the fix on his build.
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Awesome, thanks!

[Request] stock camera.apk

I'm running slim Rom and notice the stock camera records video a lot better than the one on slim. I looked around and cannot find the stock camera.apk. any help would be appreciated.
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bigelroy123 said:
I'm running slim Rom and notice the stock camera records video a lot better than the one on slim. I looked around and cannot find the stock camera.apk. any help would be appreciated.
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It won't work on AOSP roms it's tired into the twiz framework
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That sucks
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style154 said:
It won't work on AOSP roms it's tired into the twiz framework
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Yeppp...all those effects and features are framework tied...until they can port it over you need to run tw to have the stock Samsung camera.
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I'll just have to wait for a port. I don't like the feel of the stock Rom.
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bigelroy123 said:
I'll just have to wait for a port. I don't like the feel of the stock Rom.
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Go check out wicked rom in development thread....it's awesome tw rom
Deviant Development Take Over!!!!!
It's cool. But I really hate the stock feel.
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Yup and sadly I haven't found an app on the play store that comes close to the quality of the TW camera.
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Actionx1 said:
Yup and sadly I haven't found an app on the play store that comes close to the quality of the TW camera.
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Did you find any that are better than the aosp one tho?
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bigelroy123 said:
Did you find any that are better than the aosp one tho?
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I think the best camera in the market is probably Camera FX. Stock AOSP camera is easier to navigate though.
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Will give camera fx a try.
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Camera fx don't have video record..or at least I cannot find it. And it's trying to connect me to Facebook just to use it.
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Just a question my dear AOSP lover friends( no offense ) if you dont need features of s4 why u buy it. Get some cheaper ones like s2 and s3 and use ported aosp/cm/ aokp ; they looks same on every device.
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bikrame said:
Just a question my dear AOSP lover friends( no offense ) if you dont need features of s4 why u buy it. Get some cheaper ones like s2 and s3 and use ported aosp/cm/ aokp ; they looks same on every device.
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Hardware.
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Check out Camera 360. I use that and Camera FX the most
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Check out Camera 360. I use that and Camera FX the most
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i gotta say... if youre waiting for a port, youll be waiting an eternity... i been waiting since the s3 first came out and i realized how crappy aosp camera is compared to the stock samsung... a port is beyonddd waiting for because itll probably never happen...
thats why i cant go back to aosp.. i bought this phone for the features, otherwise ide of gotten a google phone. all aosp does is rip the features this phone has away.
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i gotta say... if youre waiting for a port, youll be waiting an eternity... i been waiting since the s3 first came out and i realized how crappy aosp camera is compared to the stock samsung... a port is beyonddd waiting for because itll probably never happen...
thats why i cant go back to aosp.. i bought this phone for the features, otherwise ide of gotten a google phone. all aosp does is rip the features this phone has away.
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Have to agree on this I owned the galaxy nexus, galaxy 2, galaxy 3, And I always been a fan of cm or aokp but running them in this device in my opinion kills the whole experience I hate tw but it has come along way since the galaxy 2/3 days camera features are amazing to get rid and if you use nova launcher you kinda get the aosp feeling but stay with all the tw features..... with the hardware on this phone there is no lag whatsoever I run wicked 3 on nova launcher and phone runs perfect no lag ever.......
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Have to agree on this I owned the galaxy nexus, galaxy 2, galaxy 3, And I always been a fan of cm or aokp but running them in this device in my opinion kills the whole experience I hate tw but it has come along way since the galaxy 2/3 days camera features are amazing to get rid and if you use nova launcher you kinda get the aosp feeling but stay with all the tw features..... with the hardware on this phone there is no lag whatsoever I run wicked 3 on nova launcher and phone runs perfect no lag ever.......
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exactly.. but back on topic since the OP seems set with AOSP, im gonna almost promise you that you wont see a port of it unfortunately
My two most used cameras are FX and Camera 360.
Using the aosp jellybam Rom On my s4 and have the same Problem. I want the stock Samsung camera
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[MOD] Optimized Dalvik Libs from MOTO X #NO GO#

Hi guys, just wanted to share this that I found over the N5 Forum.
Looks like they pulled the optimized libs from the Moto X and created a flashable zip.
I'm using KitKang and flashed this... Phone feels more responsive.
Feel free to try yourselves.
LINK REMOVED AS IT BREAKS ALL CAMERA APPS.
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Those are Dalvik and Bionic libs optimized for Qualcomm CPU and our GN has OMAP CPU so they shouldnt make any significant difference, its probably placebo
Godra said:
Those are Dalvik and Bionic libs optimized for Qualcomm CPU and our GN has OMAP CPU so they shouldnt make any significant difference, its probably placebo
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Yeah... Probably... But I do have the feeling that the little sluggishness is gone... Let's see!! I'll report back.
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wisefreakz said:
Yeah... Probably... But I do have the feeling that the little sluggishness is gone... Let's see!! I'll report back.
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I mean, they could give some boost, but not its fully potential as they arent made for our phone
wisefreakz said:
Hi guys, just wanted to share this that I found over the N5 Forum.
Looks like they pulled the optimized libs from the Moto X and created a flashable zip.
I'm using KitKang and flashed this... Phone feels more responsive.
Feel free to try yourselves.
The Linkhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537299
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I just read that entire thread as well as watched a posted video comparison on it. My verdict from all of that is this doesn't do much and ART fully trumps it as far as performance boost. That is my conclusion on it for the Nexus 5. I would imagine it does nothing on the Galaxy Nexus seeing as we have a completely different chipset.
Not trying to be discouraging, by all means if someone wants to do a thorough testing of this mod and give some feedback on the contrary I will absolutely eat my words, but from all that has been spoken about the mod on that thread It looks like ART is still the better choice.
Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention though, it's always good to have different options.
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I just read that entire thread as well as watched a posted video comparison on it. My verdict from all of that is this doesn't do much and ART fully trumps it as far as performance boost. That is my conclusion on it for the Nexus 5. I would imagine it does nothing on the Galaxy Nexus seeing as we have a completely different chipset.
Not trying to be discouraging, by all means if someone wants to do a thorough testing of this mod and give some feedback on the contrary I will absolutely eat my words, but from all that has been spoken about the mod on that thread It looks like ART is still the better choice.
Thanks for bringing this to everyone's attention though, it's always good to have different options.
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Hey Neph, I can say that with this somehow I feel my GN snappier. But just realized it breaks all camera apps.
So to me is a no go.
Cheers
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wisefreakz said:
Hey Neph, I can say that with this somehow I feel my GN snappier. But just realized it breaks all camera apps.
So to me is a no go.
Cheers
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lucky me i read this
wisefreakz said:
Hey Neph, I can say that with this somehow I feel my GN snappier. But just realized it breaks all camera apps.
So to me is a no go.
Cheers
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Thx for efforts but can title be changed please.
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n0ve said:
Thx for efforts but can title be changed please.
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Done!
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