I recently upgraded to 4.2.1(ParanoidAndroid 2.9.9) and the new camera(which I assume is the standard Google 4.2 camera) is very basic, and very weak compared to what I had. The old camera(which was also Google stock) had a lot of filters built in, and some hilarious distortions such as "Big Eyes" and "Big Head". My kids LOVE those. They are now gone, as is most of the awesome functionality I had. In it's place is Photo Spheres which I personally consider useless. Is there a way to get my old camera back? I don't want to be stuck on 4.1.1 forever but I hate this new camera!
Landara said:
I recently upgraded to 4.2.1(ParanoidAndroid 2.9.9) and the new camera(which I assume is the standard Google 4.2 camera) is very basic, and very weak compared to what I had. The old camera(which was also Google stock) had a lot of filters built in, and some hilarious distortions such as "Big Eyes" and "Big Head". My kids LOVE those. They are now gone, as is most of the awesome functionality I had. In it's place is Photo Spheres which I personally consider useless. Is there a way to get my old camera back? I don't want to be stuck on 4.1.1 forever but I hate this new camera!
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You can install camera ICS from the market. The layout isn't exactly the same ( I assume it's mimicking the ICS camera layout) but it will give you back the filters, funny faces. And yes I wondered the same thing why did google remove them. Kids get tonnes of laughs out of those. I'd love to know how those decisions are made... 'Hey you know those features we've had in the wild for over a year? Yeah let's remove them'
my exact thoughts also, when i had the 16gb nexxy i updated and was VERY annoyed to find the effects deleted, so much it was one of the "cons" that pushed me into refunding for a non-updated 32gb version
im still 4.1 now lol i seriously dont understand why google would :
A: release nexus 7 without a camera app.....(yea i do know why but lame excuse)
B: when you update to 4.2 it deletes any camera app and replaces it with dah dah duh daaaaa a broken one with non-working photosphere.....wtf?
sooooooo mmmmm yeah ill remember this thread when i come to updating
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B: when you update to 4.2 it deletes any camera app and replaces it with dah dah duh daaaaa a broken one with non-working photosphere.....wtf?
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Removing those "cute" functions is one thing, but how is the 4.2 camera "broken"?
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Removing those "cute" functions is one thing, but how is the 4.2 camera "broken"?
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Well I assume he meant the PhotoSphere which as best I can tell is not functioning correctly. I have not yet gotten it to work at all.
How come i didn't get a camera? I'm on PA 2.99 beta 6.
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Well I assume he meant the PhotoSphere which as best I can tell is not functioning correctly. I have not yet gotten it to work at all.
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Because it's not supported for front facing cameras? That's not broken, that's design.
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Because it's not supported for front facing cameras? That's not broken, that's design.
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First of all, the app doesn't know which way your camera is facing, nor does it care. Second, I didn't even try it on my Nexus 7, I tried it multiple times on my Galaxy Nexus. Still broken. Never got a decent result. You may say it's operator error, but that's a ridiculous statement as well because it's pretty self explanatory.
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Because it's not supported for front facing cameras? That's not broken, that's design.
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ok so look basically it would be very stupid putting diesel into a petrol as it wouldn't work......
acer made it to remove any cam app we had previously then installed a app exactly the same but without the working effects, .... only 1 broken one..photosphere,
saying that its supposed to only work with a front face cam....well then why go to the trouble of jacking our old app and putting one with a feature we cant use......? :good:
Just saying, the app does know which way the camera faces... I assume something in the data for the camera tells the app its front facing. This is probably useful for apps such as Skype too.
When you try photo sphere, it says sorry not supported with front camera.
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Element515 said:
Just saying, the app does know which way the camera faces... I assume something in the data for the camera tells the app its front facing. This is probably useful for apps such as Skype too.
When you try photo sphere, it says sorry not supported with front camera.
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the strange thing is, you would think panoramic shot wouldnt work, yet in the cam effects pre-4.2 you can use panoramic efect albeit frontcam only, it did work thou.
i think photsphere from front cam, while your in the middle of the shot with the world spinning around you would be a great effect anyways.
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ok so look basically it would be very stupid putting diesel into a petrol as it wouldn't work......
acer made it to remove any cam app we had previously then installed a app exactly the same but without the working effects, .... only 1 broken one..photosphere,
saying that its supposed to only work with a front face cam....well then why go to the trouble of jacking our old app and putting one with a feature we cant use......? :good:
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You lost me at "Acer". And I hope you realize this is a general "4.2 Google Apps" statement, not something Asus did.
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You know i been wondering... the camera application in our phone is after all a program that runs just like any other program in our phone right? thus being said... with all these applications made for the dash why has anyone yet to make an upgrade for the camera app? even tho the application is set to manufactures default settings so was the T-Mobile rom settings, but people were able to upgrade roms so why is it that we cant upgrade the camera app? maybe there is someone smart enough out there to think of this app. i mean all in all it would be nice to have some extra effects options or a brightness option you know... something to that effect would be a cool thing to have.
There are many Camera applications, I personally use the "stock" camera in conjunction with Cool Camera
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There are many Camera applications, I personally use the "stock" camera in conjunction with Cool Camera
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would you mind providing some links? so that i can check em out? please... =) Thanks.
Here you go:
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There are many Camera applications, I personally use the "stock" camera in conjunction with Cool Camera
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ok i just downloaded "COOL CAMERA" and i must say it sucks. lol what the hell its like 100 times worse then the stock camera i tryed messing with the setting to try and make it look better but its all blurry and its like ZOOM on everything wth? lol how do you enjoy using this thing?
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ok i just downloaded "COOL CAMERA" and i must say it sucks. lol what the hell its like 100 times worse then the stock camera i tryed messing with the setting to try and make it look better but its all blurry and its like ZOOM on everything wth? lol how do you enjoy using this thing?
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Works perfectly fine for me
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Works perfectly fine for me
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yeah its kinda screwed up this app... maybe if you provide the settings you have set on your phone that way i can try to set the same thing on mine and then see if it will work or maybe you can guide me to a website that has more then one camera app on it that way i have a few apps to choose from cause you mentioned there was more then one. thanks so much.
does anyone knows if the BT works full on the new htc froyo rom????
im asking this coz im using my wii controller on CM6 BUT I WANT THE 8MPX CAMERA too
or some one knows any fix for the bt or the wii controller on sense
i home some dev around see this and find a fix
thanx in advance
Questions belong in Q&A. TIA
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Nor possible without extensive mod. You need a new bluetooth stack as far as I know. CM6 does support the 8 megapixel camera.
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Nor possible without extensive mod. You need a new bluetooth stack as far as I know. CM6 does support the 8 megapixel camera.
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Yea just tried it doesn't work HTC still using same crappy stack
so the 8 megapixel camera doesn't work in CM6????
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nor possible without extensive mod. You need a new bluetooth stack as far as i know. Cm6 does support the 8 megapixel camera.
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the cm6 camera is like 3mp is not 8!!! the quality is poor and have no
quality options for change
if i switch to the official froyo rom i win camera and lose wii mote!!
kaokollaa said:
the cm6 camera is like 3mp is not 8!!! the quality is poor and have no
quality options for change
if i switch to the official froyo rom i win camera and lose wii mote!!
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I show CM6 as having an 8MP option, 6MP, 5MP, etc..
kaokollaa said:
... on CM6 ... I WANT THE 8MPX CAMERA too
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the camera on cm6 is 8mp. what makes you think it isn't?
kaokollaa said:
the cm6 camera is like 3mp is not 8!!! the quality is poor and have no
quality options for change
if i switch to the official froyo rom i win camera and lose wii mote!!
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megapixels has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of the picture; only the size.
Well the quality is poor in cm6 and i see no options to chage the sizes or the quality if you know how let me know
kaokollaa said:
Well the quality is poor in cm6 and i see no options to chage the sizes or the quality if you know how let me know
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Don't bash something that you don't know how to use properly.
kaokollaa said:
Well the quality is poor in cm6 and i see no options to chage the sizes or the quality if you know how let me know
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When running CM6 click the gear looking icon in the menu strip, it will pop out a scrollable menu including options to choose resolution. There was one or maybe two nightly builds where it lost the 8mp setting, but it was back a day later. Also that is in the nature of nightly builds, they are made for the developer to test things, not really for users. All the other nightlies and the RC support 8mp.
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Agreed. People do a lot of hard work to make this stuff. Don't bash it, especially when you are wrong.
laydros said:
When running CM6 click the gear looking icon in the menu strip, it will pop out a scrollable menu including options to choose resolution. There was one or maybe two nightly builds where it lost the 8mp setting, but it was back a day later. Also that is in the nature of nightly builds, they are made for the developer to test things, not really for users. All the other nightlies and the RC support 8mp.
Agreed. People do a lot of hard work to make this stuff. Don't bash it, especially when you are wrong.
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thanx man and im sorry about what i said was not my intention
I want the one with the wifis... lol
It has the bigger gbs
audioeng said:
I want the one with the wifis... lol
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Somewhere???
Forgive the noob question, but it's pretty on-topic (even if the thread is on the wrong boards )... Could a custom kernel swap the BT stack being used w/a Sense ROM or is part of it still largely dependent on the ROM itself? I noticed that Damage made some note of using part of Cyanogen's BT code in the kernel they were working with for their Froyo Sense ROM (beta 3.5, prior to Sprint/HTC's official announcement, who knows what'll happen now). Just exploring some possibilities, I'm a noob when it comes to Android's inner-workings.
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Don't bash something that you don't know how to use properly.
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Wasn't going to say anything but I couldn't resist. The OP couldn't figure out that his question belonged in the Q&A section, are you really surprised he's bashing something for not properly understanding how to use it? RTFM comes to mind. Or in this case, RTFWiki
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Take a look here, took this pic yesterday while walking to get the mail.
http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/624963-81201021621AM
Thats a tiny thumbnail but you can see by the info there that the image itself is HUGE, if I bring it up to original size you can see the dew drops on the spiderwebs on the grass.
http://www.webpagescreenshot.info/img/789812-81201021951AM
As you can see (After it loads) the screenshot does not even get the entire image as it does not scroll sideways, this is an image using the CM6 RC.
As you can see the image quality is great (terrible focus right now though), but the image quality when you get the focus right is spot on.
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It has the bigger gbs
Somewhere???
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Awww I love the internetz.
Anyone here got a working Android 4.2 Camera that uses 5 Mega pixels instead of 3?
I've tried lots of mods out there but it doesn't seem to work.
Besides, I wonder why it only is able to use up to 3MP and not 5MP unlike other phones?
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Anyone here got a working Android 4.2 Camera that uses 5 Mega pixels instead of 3?
I've tried lots of mods out there but it doesn't seem to work.
Besides, I wonder why it only is able to use up to 3MP and not 5MP unlike other phones?
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It takes pictures exactly like it was 5mp not like you can see the different anyways
there is a difference
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It takes pictures exactly like it was 5mp not like you can see the different anyways
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Try zooming in using 4.2 camera .. you wil find that its a bit blurry. Where as if your using cm10's camera its much more clear when you zoom in.try it.
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Try zooming in using 4.2 camera .. you wil find that its a bit blurry. Where as if your using cm10's camera its much more clear when you zoom in.try it.
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I second that. The difference comes in when you're viewing it on the computer.
Hence, I was wondering if I could retain the 5MP on the 4.2 Camera because it's blazing fast.
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Try zooming in using 4.2 camera .. you wil find that its a bit blurry. Where as if your using cm10's camera its much more clear when you zoom in.try it.
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i dont take pictures with my phone , that what i have a dslr for
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i dont take pictures with my phone , that what i have a dslr for
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Good for you. I don't have one though. I wouldn't say I depend on my camera a lot, but should there be any events, I'll depend on my phone's camera. Too bad that the new camera only takes up to 3MP. I was hoping if someone would fix it. It can easily replace the previous CM10 camera
in any custom rom.
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Good for you. I don't have one though. I wouldn't say I depend on my camera a lot, but should there be any events, I'll depend on my phone's camera. Too bad that the new camera only takes up to 3MP. I was hoping if someone would fix it. It can easily replace the previous CM10 camera
in any custom rom.
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The camera will be able to take 5mp shot when:
a. someone mods it
b. roms with android 4.2 starts coming for our device.
1ceb0x said:
The camera will be able to take 5mp shot when:
a. someone mods it
b. roms with android 4.2 starts coming for our device.
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Agreed. Since I've no experience in coding and modding, I can only come here to seek help from more professional people.
I wonder if 1ceb0x will give it a go? Since it's available in paranoid android rom, naturally it's good to get it fix and share it with the community.
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Agreed. Since I've no experience in coding and modding, I can only come here to seek help from more professional people.
I wonder if 1ceb0x will give it a go? Since it's available in paranoid android rom, naturally it's good to get it fix and share it with the community.
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Will have to look into it
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Will have to look into it
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Thank you so much. Will look forward to it.:victory:
Hey everyone. I am an Optimus G user, but coming from Sprint's side of the land. I know well enough that we have camera problems (no auto focus) on AOSP roms (camera is great on stock ROMs), but I was wondering if you guys had any issues with camera on your AOSP builds? Maybe some of us could collab with devs here and see what we can do. Our AOSP ROMs would literally be perfect (and a LOT would be officially supported) once the camera issue gets out of the way. I heard that we borrow a lot of custom code from the Nexus 4, which is why our camera is so screwed up, but I also heard the Sprint and International Optimus G's have the same 13mp camera, so here's to hoping for something. Thanks to anybody who takes out the time to look at this and respond!
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Anyone...?
Official cm works great, no camera issues (But pictures still ****ty though), i think thats the reason of no responses.
On aosp, auto focus stops working when you exit camera app for 1st time. And starting to work if you wipe camera, till next exit.
Probably on exit its sending invalid lense parking settings to camera, causng it to hang. Or something like that
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Official cm works great, no camera issues (But pictures still ****ty though), i think thats the reason of no responses.
On aosp, auto focus stops working when you exit camera app for 1st time. And starting to work if you wipe camera, till next exit.
Probably on exit its sending invalid lense parking settings to camera, causng it to hang. Or something like that
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This is definitely a start! I'll start getting some of our people over here for some brainstorming
I have it broken down to the api level but idk how to modify it....
I've also got the 4.3 aosp camera hardware file which idk how to input into ROM....
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Do you try other app camera?
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Do you try other app camera?
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Yes, nothing works.
Would anybody have any idea how to fix our camera? Its definitely a software issue and not hardware. A member of ours got down to the API level, but doesn't know how to edit stuff. Could anybody help us? Please?
Well i know there are lot of threats on this topic but i want to ask each and everybody for a while that is it possible to make a camera app similar to that of sense camera.
i will explain how. the sense camera has a great working on focusing the particular area on the screen. i mean for example you want click a flower then in sense camera app you just have to put your hand on the screen and it will tell the camera sensor to zoom on that particular level.
now this functionality is sort of supported by MIUI camera. but not a single app on the play store ever able come at par with the sense camera app. i tried and flashed almost all the apps available from marked, but in vain they failed. the image processing quality of sense app is also much better.
will we ever able to get like that kind of camera app for out willy. still in know that the sense framework is closed source but still getting the same fun of 2.3.7 will a great add on.
Impossible to have sense like camera on gb.Lgcamera can focus things decently.
I will check it out and will report
Wasimk32 said:
Impossible to have sense like camera on gb.Lgcamera can focus things decently.
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well this is such a sad news. why is it not possible can you explain.
sachoosaini said:
well this is such a sad news. why is it not possible can you explain.
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because sense camera libs that were created for willy.Plus sense camera requires sense framework to work with which is almost impossible to port.HTC has integrated a lot of things within framework unlike using an apk separately for some purpose.
Ohk
Wasimk32 said:
because sense camera libs that were created for willy.Plus sense camera requires sense framework to work with which is almost impossible to port.HTC has integrated a lot of things within framework unlike using an apk separately for some purpose.
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hmm so it means everything is interlinked.
sachoosaini said:
hmm so it means everything is interlinked.
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Exactly.
LG Camera Not make it too
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Exactly.
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well LG camera didn't take it too. it only focus in the center of the screen not on everywhere and the post processing quality not up to the mark even.