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AOSP vs TW camera

Been using TouchWiz since I got my phone (FreeGS3), now switched to LiquidSmooth (4.2.1), and it's awesome...
BUT, the photo quality on TW was MUCH better. So much that I think I'll switch back.
UNLESS anyone knows ... is there a camera app for AOSP that can match the quality of the TW camera?
Has anyone else noticed the inferior photos? Blurrier, less colorful, no HDR ...
And most idiotic of all, the whole "viewfinder" rotates from landscape to portrait ... which makes NO sense.
On a side note ... I wish someone would create a camera app like the HTC Evo 4G LTE where there are TWO buttons on the screen, one for photos, and one for video ... so that you don't have to switch apps!

Samsung's tw camera is the best...I have downloaded camera zoom fx and still the two camera is better by far...I wish there was an apk for the the tw camera on my aosp...all other cameras are slow
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Porting the TW camera to AOSP is possible. The TW dependencies just have to be removed. I remember an old friend of mine posted a how to in the OG Epic forums... Might take a look and see if it's something I can poke into
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Ceelos09 said:
Porting the TW camera to AOSP is possible. The TW dependencies just have to be removed. I remember an old friend of mine posted a how to in the OG Epic forums... Might take a look and see if it's something I can poke into
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That would be freaking awesome.
Like, donation awesome
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Ceelos09 said:
Porting the TW camera to AOSP is possible. The TW dependencies just have to be removed. I remember an old friend of mine posted a how to in the OG Epic forums... Might take a look and see if it's something I can poke into
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Yes please!
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Same here if you can find tw camera which will work on aosp that will be great.
Didnt google tried to improve camera in 4.2.2 ??
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That's what I thought as well.... However it doesn't appear that way.
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This app is AOSP based and has two buttons for stills and video.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marginz.snaptrial
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Didn't want to make another thread but... I am running Liquid Smooth (Stable) and I was wondering if there was a mod to get Photosphere?? I have tried many times and it never works lol... just wondering if there is a working Photosphere mod? Thanks!

Joe0113 said:
Didn't want to make another thread but... I am running Liquid Smooth (Stable) and I was wondering if there was a mod to get Photosphere?? I have tried many times and it never works lol... just wondering if there is a working Photosphere mod? Thanks!
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I believe photosphere only works on 4.1.x AOSP based ROMs and not 4.2.x AOSP ROMs...

kwheaties said:
I believe photosphere only works on 4.1.x AOSP based ROMs and not 4.2.x AOSP ROMs...
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I have it working on my phone running LiquidSmooth. I have the zip that I used but cannot find the xda thread that I got it from. I'm a little hesitant on posting it, because it's not my work, but I also want to help.
Here is a link to the file: 4CamNex2.zip
This is the stock camera for the Nexus. All you have to do is flash it in your Recovery (I used TWRP). It has a working photosphere, but is very limited in the settings you can change. For instance, I cannot choose the storage location or HDR or any of the fancy stuff that comes with the LiquidSmooth Rom. You can see my screenshots I just took to see what it looks like.
What I have done to mitigate these limitations is that I kept the LiquidSmooth camera. When I want to use Photosphere (which isn't too often), I use the Nexus Camera, and all other pictures are taken with the Stock LiquidSmooth camera. When I do things like set wallpaper, I have to choose my gallery (two cameras = two galleries), but it's not too much of an issue for me.
Hope this helps, and if anyone can find the original thread with this camera, let me know and I'll link it (and remove my dropbox link). I want to give props to whoever created it.

So are the pics quality better with this camera mod compared to whats in liquid smooth ??

Working Photosphere Camera!

Jamison904 <=The awesome Recognized Developer
Came out with a working photosphere Camera!
It leaves your old camera as is and adds a new camera shortcut in app drawer
Seems to be working on 4.1.2 Touchwiz stock based roms
So far it works with Team Infamous rom and I have tested it myself on JMT JB V4 as well
*EDIT: XDA user Sojay tested on CM based 4.2.2 and reported it working
(I owe you a thanx ran out today hit u up tomorrow m8 )
here is the link folks
Cheers and enjoy m8's
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41580981&postcount=64

IVIorph said:
Jamison904 <=The awesome Recognized Developer
Came out with a working photosphere Camera!
Seems to be working on 4.1.2 Touchwiz stock based roms
So far it works with Team Infamous rom and I have tested it myself on JMT JB V4 as well
here is the link folks
Cheers and enjoy m8's
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41580981&postcount=64
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take some screenshots and I'll backup+flash, until then no go

It works but sometimes force closes for me.
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troyism said:
take some screenshots and I'll backup+flash, until then no go
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I already posted screen shots in last page of JMT JB 4
but just for you I will post fresh ones m8

richardlibeau said:
It works but sometimes force closes for me.
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Really... I was playing with it for an hour and took about 6 full 360 pics with no issue...
what mod and kernel you running?

IVIorph said:
I already posted screen shots in last page of JMT JB 4
but just for you I will post fresh ones m8
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Thanks. Hadn't checked all my daily threads and just saw them when I got your m msg. Time to go outside and play
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IVIorph said:
Really... I was playing with it for an hour and took about 6 full 360 pics with no issue...
what mod and kernel you running?
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KKO Kernel Liquidsmooth rom. It's ok but video little blurry

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KKO Kernel Liquidsmooth rom. It's ok but video little blurry
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That's because this zip was extracted by a nexus phone, but you can always use your regular app for that.
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No offence to anyone but the several ZIPs were already released to the public, but some of them were taken down so this is a good thing. I just hope if video works in this

Works on Jedi CM

idbl_fanatic said:
Works on Jedi CM
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Jedi CM? And how's the video recording and playback?
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bor3d2damax said:
Jedi CM? And how's the video recording and playback?
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I think he means PTMR3's Sons of Android build.

iburnhearts said:
I think he means PTMR3's Sons of Android build.
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Ohh ok ok. I'll prob give it a go on SOA. Just need to know if recording and play back works if not ill try it on a TW ROM. Thanks for the response :good:

Yeah, that's what I meant............Recording does not work, it just shows green "noise"

This installs a new camera app alongside the regular one .... Would suggest removing your current before flashing to avoid any confusion
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Chosen_on184 said:
This installs a new camera app alongside the regular one .... Would suggest removing your current before flashing to avoid any confusion
CM Nightlies for Samsung Galaxy 2 Hercules Version
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Actually keeping both is better because this one doesn't have working video, correct me if I'm wrong..
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camera not working
I downloaded the photoshere camera and installed it using clockworkmod recovery. It installed fine. Camera works but no photosphere icon. Is there a work around? Custom rom installed on my phone is cyanogenmod 10.1/android 4.2.2

rcarteraz said:
I downloaded the photoshere camera and installed it using clockworkmod recovery. It installed fine. Camera works but no photosphere icon. Is there a work around? Custom rom installed on my phone is cyanogenmod 10.1/android 4.2.2
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Do you mean no icon in the camera app or the home screen? The icon is in the camera app if you thought it was an actual app
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Thank you for this. I had another photosphere app before, but it required me to change my build.prop to look like a Nexus which is not ideal. This one works great without having to modify the build.prop.

The camera flashed just fine but the camera gets stuck everytime i switch to photo sphere. On JMT 5
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why is auto focus not working in every single rom?

Hi everyone,
I was wondering why is Auto focus in the camera app on this phone not working in every single rom? I think Touch to focus not works with some of the nightly roms out there, but did auto focus ever work on this phone? I don't remember...I really wish the camera preview would auto focus when getting close to an object, without me tapping the display or long pressing the shutter button. Any way we can get this to work? And did this ever work in touchwiz as well?
Another question is that I'm using Sons of Android rom, which is pretty old but has the best performance for me, but this one doesn't have the touch to focus version of camera. What rom has the touch to focus these days? I will download the rom and extract the gallery2.apk from the zip file if you let me know what rom has the feature.
Thanks for your help!

im on 4.1.2 stock and i have auto focus
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jason4962 said:
im on 4.1.2 stock and i have auto focus
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Thanks for letting me know. I would like auto focus, but definitely not to the extent that I would go back to stock..I just can't live without themeing, especially the status bar. I really don't like the look of touchwiz status bar..
Hope someone can answer my other questions!

sw6lee said:
Hi everyone,
I was wondering why is Auto focus in the camera app on this phone not working in every single rom? I think Touch to focus not works with some of the nightly roms out there, but did auto focus ever work on this phone? I don't remember...I really wish the camera preview would auto focus when getting close to an object, without me tapping the display or long pressing the shutter button. Any way we can get this to work? And did this ever work in touchwiz as well?
Another question is that I'm using Sons of Android rom, which is pretty old but has the best performance for me, but this one doesn't have the touch to focus version of camera. What rom has the touch to focus these days? I will download the rom and extract the gallery2.apk from the zip file if you let me know what rom has the feature.
Thanks for your help!
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I understand what you mean. I think iPhone has this feature and so does the MIUI ROM. Sadly I've heard no other camera that has this feature
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Don't all 4.1.2 roms have touch to focus? Which is what miui is as well.
Yeah, I don't think any 4.2.2 roms have it. But they do auto focus when you click your pic. So not sure about the title of this thread.
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Koragg618 said:
I understand what you mean. I think iPhone has this feature and so does the MIUI ROM. Sadly I've heard no other camera that has this feature
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Hey, I really appreciate your reply, but I think you may be wrong..almost all recent (and a lot of not recent) phones have the feature..I also have a HTC One V which is a low end phone where they release it at the same time as One X and S, and that phone with 5 mp camera has this auto focus feature that works really well. It focuses really fast when I move the camera close to an object. And apparently we also have this on stock roms as well? So.. why don't we on the aosp roms..

kj2112 said:
Don't all 4.1.2 roms have touch to focus? Which is what miui is as well.
Yeah, I don't think any 4.2.2 roms have it. But they do auto focus when you click your pic. So not sure about the title of this thread.
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Hmm..i haven't used much 4.1.2 roms, but I did use MIUI (the new one) and I don't remember it having auto-focus. And not all 4.2.2 have touch to focus. Only newer nightlies started having them I think. I'm on Sons of Android, which is 4.2.2 but released and ended updating in March this year, but this one doesn't have touch to focus Nor Auto focus..

sw6lee said:
Hmm..i haven't used much 4.1.2 roms, but I did use MIUI (the new one) and I don't remember it having auto-focus. And not all 4.2.2 have touch to focus. Only newer nightlies started having them I think. I'm on Sons of Android, which is 4.2.2 but released and ended updating in March this year, but this one doesn't have touch to focus Nor Auto focus..
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I was saying 4.1.2 roms should have it...unless the dev changed it. I'm on northern touch infamous, its touch to focus.
And I said 4.2.2 roms don't have it. Unless some have started using it. But none I used.
As far as what you mean by auto focus....they all auto focus when you click. You mean focus just by pointing, before you touch a thing?? I've never seen that on this phone ever. Sorry.
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kj2112 said:
I was saying 4.1.2 roms should have it...unless the dev changed it. I'm on northern touch infamous, its touch to focus.
And I said 4.2.2 roms don't have it. Unless some have started using it. But none I used.
As far as what you mean by auto focus....they all auto focus when you click. You mean focus just by pointing, before you touch a thing?? I've never seen that on this phone ever. Sorry.
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Hmm okay..yes I mean auto focus just by pointing my tiny affordable htc one v has this feature but how can gs2 not have it and for sure most phones that come out these days have that feature..
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sw6lee said:
Hmm okay..yes I mean auto focus just by pointing my tiny affordable htc one v has this feature but how can gs2 not have it and for sure most phones that come out these days have that feature..
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I'm running a T989 with CM10.1 (which is 4.2.2) and the default camera app has tap-to-focus, and autofocuses when you go to take the picture. It still looks out-of-focus in the preview, but the version in the gallery looks fine.

GaidinBDJ said:
I'm running a T989 with CM10.1 (which is 4.2.2) and the default camera app has tap-to-focus, and autofocuses when you go to take the picture. It still looks out-of-focus in the preview, but the version in the gallery looks fine.
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Yea, I think you are running pretty recent version of CM10.1, right? I remember having it with some 4.2.2 roms but didn't remember which rom it was. I will try to take the gallery2.apk from my cm10.1 zip file i downloaded before. Thanks. And I guess we won't be seeing autofocus in the preview without touching anything..

sw6lee said:
Yea, I think you are running pretty recent version of CM10.1, right? I remember having it with some 4.2.2 roms but didn't remember which rom it was. I will try to take the gallery2.apk from my cm10.1 zip file i downloaded before. Thanks. And I guess we won't be seeing autofocus in the preview without touching anything..
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For what it's worth, I sprung a couple of bucks for CameraZOOM, and have found it worth the price as a camera replacement. Most notably (for me at least) is it has a macro mode and better focusing options in general.

[REQ] Similar GS4 camera on Note 2?

I know that since the Galaxy S4 runs 4.2.2 and Note 2 runs 4.1.2 (for some reason -.-) that the actual apk is not going to work, but does anyone have a different camera app that can do the same features, in particular i like the sound and shot feature, but I am looking for an app that can do most if not all the same features the s4 can do. Any suggestions?

I'm using this and it works beautifully
Just put this in your browser...
//galaxy-note2.wonderhowto.com/how-to/get-new-jelly-bean-4-3-camera-gallery-apps-your-samsung-galaxy-note-2-no-root-required-0147690/

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I'm using this and it works beautifully
Just put this in your browser...
//galaxy-note2.wonderhowto.com/how-to/get-new-jelly-bean-4-3-camera-gallery-apps-your-samsung-galaxy-note-2-no-root-required-0147690/
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I think he is talking about the TW camera from the GS4 not the AOSP one.

klbjr said:
I think he is talking about the TW camera from the GS4 not the AOSP one.
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As far as I can tell, this does everything but the sound and shot, otherwise the same camera and it is an .apk so very easy to install even for a noob like me

bigg fella said:
As far as I can tell, this does everything but the sound and shot, otherwise the same camera and it is an .apk so very easy to install even for a noob like me
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The problem with the 4.3 camera is my note 2 stock camera can do everything it does. The gs4 camera does even more than my stock camera. That is what im looking for
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Multicm said:
The problem with the 4.3 camera is my note 2 stock camera can do everything it does. The gs4 camera does even more than my stock camera. That is what im looking for
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Just curious but, what other features are you looking for? The only other things I see that are lacking are sound and shot, dual shot, and eraser shot, of which none interest me personally. Truthfully, the only extra I was looking for was the 360 shot. I do like the gallery better but it's missing a thing or two I like from the stock gallery

Camera can't connect

Hello all, as the title states, I'm getting a camera error when flashing any aosp based Rom. Camera works great on tw based roms, but not aosp. I ONLY clean flash, and even tried fixing permissions with no luck. Can anyone help?
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Can you explain, connect to what?
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edfunkycold said:
Can you explain, connect to what?
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sorry, i guess i had better get detailed (i've been around long enough to know better). So here goes.....
up until here recently i've been comfortable and satisfied enough with TW. i haven't really wanted to try aosp. but the times they are a changing and im really interested in halo and the different UI changes that come after 4.1.2
i'm very comfortable flashing between cwm and twrp and have a decent enough knowledge about android flashing(4th modded android device).
Now on to it.....
The past few days i've wanted the new features enough to break away from TW and try something fresh and new. I'm not a dirty flasher and 9 out of 10 times i format /system right along as part of the process using both twrp and cwm(depending on op's installation instructions). so far i've tried slim bean, liquid smooth, pac-man, and paranoid with the same outcome...
when trying to open up any camera app, whether native or downloaded from play store, an error message pops up that states 'Can't Connect to Camera', then the app closes itself
at the suggestion of someone else, i've rebooted into recovery, wiped cache/dalvik, fix permission, then rebooted with a 0% success rate.
i just can't seem to figure it out and have been using google with no luck...........PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Thanks
edit: is there any way to make a tar file out of a rom zip and flash via odin?- nvm

Ok you should go into app manager in settings and clear data there or if you use Titanium backup clear data for that particular app itself.
You do know the camera and gallery Ecole one in the same on 4.2 or higher. Which means that if you have deleted or frozen the gallery itself or done anything to it it will also do what you are describing.
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edfunkycold said:
Ok you should go into app manager in settings and clear data there or if you use Titanium backup clear data for that particular app itself.
You do know the camera and gallery Ecole one in the same on 4.2 or higher. Which means that if you have deleted or frozen the gallery itself or done anything to it it will also do what you are describing.
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thanks again for the quick reply, i was unaware of the gallery being the same app as the actual camera app, that's good info to have
but that fact makes this even weirder as i can access the gallery just fine, still no camera
i took your suggestion and cleared data for the gallery in both 'manage apps' and 'titanium' with no success.
the aosp roms boot up and operate just fine with the exception of the camera
anything else you could think of, thanks again

Anyone else have any idea?
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Look in the thee and app section you will find 4.2 camera there, just delete yours ad flash one of the ones you find.
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edfunkycold said:
Look in the thee and app section you will find 4.2 camera there, just delete yours ad flash one of the ones you find.
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FYI - With some of the newer phones (Like my Virgin Mobile MG2 baseband) the camera will "not connect" with any CM / AOSP ROMs. Ive tried several different camera (Photosphere and such) with no joy. Ill keep checking though.

Should I try flashing a different baseband? I'm on md4 right now.
Also, I tried flashing the nex2zip 4.2 camera with the same results. Gallery works, no camera
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No, I didn't drop phone recently. This is not a hardware issue as the camera works just fine on tw based roms. Also, I don't believe this is a "newer" s3 as aosp roms boot up and operate just fine.
Thanks for the response tho
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Do you have any other gallery, camera, photo app etc... That could be interfering? It doesn't make sense. Also anything synced like Picasa, G+ etc... Shut that down.
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lancemulvihill85 said:
No, I didn't drop phone recently. This is not a hardware issue as the camera works just fine on tw based roms. Also, I don't believe this is a "newer" s3 as aosp roms boot up and operate just fine.
Thanks for the response tho
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Exactly which ROMs have you tried? Sorry, just getting in some details.
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Exactly which ROMs have you tried? Sorry, just getting in some details.
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no need to be sorry, I appreciate you trying to help. In my 3rd post, I mention the roms I've tried, so far....
Slim bean 4.2.2
Slim bean 4.3
Liquid smooth 4.2.2
Pac man 4.3
Paranoid android 4.2.2 and
Paranoid android 4.3
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lancemulvihill85 said:
no need to be sorry, I appreciate you trying to help. In my 3rd post, I mention the roms I've tried, so far....
Slim bean 4.2.2
Slim bean 4.3
Liquid smooth 4.2.2
Pac man 4.3
Paranoid android 4.2.2 and
Paranoid android 4.3
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Have you tried one of the cyanogenmod 10.1.3 RCs? Do a clean install and try that. I would also try the Cm10 (4.1.2) version to see if it fails there too.
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Do you have any other gallery, camera, photo app etc... That could be interfering? It doesn't make sense. Also anything synced like Picasa, G+ etc... Shut that down.
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Never thought about g+ interference. Great idea, I'm out off town right now, when I get home tomorrow I'll definitely try getting rid of or disabling that
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Have you tried one of the cyanogenmod 10.1.3 RCs? Do a clean install and try that. I would also try the Cm10 (4.1.2) version to see if it fails there too.
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I never thought to try cm 10. I'm currently running moar Rom as my daily for now, I'll definitely try that one and the rc3. I've been away from home for a couple days and will try when I get back
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Have you tried one of the cyanogenmod 10.1.3 RCs? Do a clean install and try that. I would also try the Cm10 (4.1.2) version to see if it fails there too.
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Never thought to try cm10, and will also try the rc, thanks a lot for trying to help guys
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I'm interested in this thread as the same thing is happening to me. Currently running MD4 stock, and each time I back up to flash a non-Touchwiz ROM and flash it, the camera stops working. Currently tried CM 10.1.0 stable, CM 10.2 nightlies, Slim Bean 4.2.2, Slim Bean 4.3, Vanilla Rootbox 4.2.2, Vanilla Rootbox 4.3, and PAC-Man 4.3. Reflashing stock MD4 from Odin, restoring the TWRP backup, or flashing MOAR or a similar Touchwiz ROM gets it working again. Want to get this working since I want a different ROM, preferably Slim or the like. Camera firmware starts with GK.