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[Q] Droid Incredible Front Facing Camera?

I'm new to xda and I did see one other post with the same idea as me, but I want to post my own thread because I want it to offer more information that I found and because it's going to be my first post.
So I was wondering if there is a possibility that the Droid Incredible could have a front facing camera put in it. I've always wanted one, but I will never part with my Incredible. I'm currently running it rooted, and with Cyanogen Mod 7.
Question time!
Do I need a specific camera or can it be any front facing camera from a phone that has it?
What software would I need for my phone to work with it?
Thank you in advance for helping me out!

I know I've seen some hardware modifications to the Galaxy S models to add the front camera. Not sure if it would work on the Inc, but it's worth looking into it. I'll check around in a bit and try to find them and post back later.
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That would actually be really cool and another reason for me not to upgrade.

cvbcbcmv said:
This doesn't sound like an easy, if even possible project.
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You're probably right. But when has that ever stopped anyone here?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770854
That's the thread for the GS FFC.

Thanks for everyone who responded so far! And yeah, I've seen the ones for the galaxy... They used a camera that was supposedly the same for in all versions of the phone and I saw that it even had a little space where the camera should be. I took apart my incredible and, depending on the size of the camera, it may fit.... Then of course I could follow the same instructions to make a hole for the camera to see out of.

Oh and I still would have to somehow connect it to the original camera, right? Or is there something more specifically it has to connect to... I also wonder if it's possible to replace the Incredible camera... So many ideas!

That sounds like more work than its worth
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Lazy8 said:
That sounds like more work than its worth
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that's exactly the kind of comment one would expect to see out of someone with your username

miketwoms said:
that's exactly the kind of comment one would expect to see out of someone with your username
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HA! That's some funny ****!!!

This would be waaaay cool if it was easy/cheap enough for my skills/wallet.

I saw a thread with some code to make g+ think the rear camera is front facing. That might be more do-able than a hardware mod. I'll look afound for the link.
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ibeabrian said:
I saw a thread with some code to make g+ think the rear camera is front facing. That might be more do-able than a hardware mod. I'll look afound for the link.
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What? Can anyone translate?

zapjb said:
What? Can anyone translate?
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His saying that he saw a code tricking the Google + app thinking that the rear camera was a front. If that's what your asking
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if you don't mind the hassle of modifying your inc, maybe you should just sell it and get an incredible 2 instead...

Or quit being cheap and buy a phone with one.

The only problems here would be
#1 where to Søder the new connection
#2 Someone to code the drivers into the rom and make it recognize it (we're not a PnP computer)
As for the trick of making back camera as front is easy. I've used several ROMs that have that set in.
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You should look up "Vainworks"... it is a mirror stand that lets you use the rear camera like a front-facing one. I can't post a link, but you shouldn't have a problem finding it.
Haven't tried it, and it is a bit bulky, but maybe easier than open-phone surgery.

Sense 4 Camera

Is there a port of the Sense Camera for the Galaxy Nexus yet???
I really hate the Vanilla Camera of ICS.

Dude if there was a port of the sense 4 camera there would be a port of the rom it self so obviously there is none currently right now next time please search before posting this
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Dude what's with your attitude?he as a simple question in which your response was not necessary or need it. Now next time when your having a pms problem don't take it with users seekingnfor help.
Have a nice day
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Xx_iDon_xX said:
Dude what's with your attitude?he as a simple question in which your response was not necessary or need it. Now next time when your having a pms problem don't take it with users seekingnfor help.
Have a nice day
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Wasn't having a bad day brah obviously he didn't searched hard enough for the answer so I answered it for him. There's no need for a topic like this at all he could have done a Google search & got his answer u have a good day
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raymond4 said:
Wasn't having a bad day brah obviously he didn't searched hard enough for the answer so I answered it for him. There's no need for a topic like this at all he could have done a Google search & got his answer u have a good day
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Yea but you yourself trolling isn't making anything better now is it?
Tell him no and be on with your day or if you want to make a point use lmgtfy.com, it gets the point across without you making an ass out of yourself
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Whatever brah I'm not the troll okay he asked a question I answered it with no problem ya people think I was being rude I wasn't being rude anybody else would had been rude to the op I don't see how what I said was rude to him at all. Well have a great day to u.
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I think he was being rude. But, so many people ask this question or similar. Its irritating when a simple search or look at the dead Sense 4 ports in the Dev section would've answered his question, without needing a useless thread. The finger goes both ways guys!
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Jeez, it is the internet. People need to stop taking things so personally.
There is no sense camera port, and there never will be.

joshnichols189 said:
Jeez, it is the internet. People need to stop taking things so personally.
There is no sense camera port, and there never will be.
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Yeah, anyway "brah"... haha. But I did an article on OpenSense. No idea what that's about, but it may help in the future I guess.
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wyattyoss said:
Yeah, anyway "brah"... haha. But I did an article on OpenSense. No idea what that's about, but it may help in the future I guess.
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Sense 4 has a proprietary imaging chip. Ports will never be anything more than an interface.
"Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light."

joshnichols189 said:
Sense 4 has a proprietary imaging chip. Ports will never be anything more than an interface.
"Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light."
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The rezound has a sense 4 rom Your point?
Its completely possible to do, I lack the knowledge but from what I do know you basically have to remove the dependencies from the framework to make the camera app depend upon itself or make a framework app specifically for it and include it with it
Not that anyone wants to, the sense 4 camera isn't much better than ours. Its a little more visually appealing but that's it
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The HTC V phone doesn't have one does it??? The chip meant specifically for the camera.
And I did search. And ports are either for sluggish in development because the Dec has a life or development is dead.
That is why I'm asking here. Because sometimes there is some one out there who has a working camera.
I have stuff other ppl don't have who are trying port apk that I extracted and got working.
This is why is asked.

[REQUEST] Note II's Multi Window feature

Hey guys,
just saw today a short clip with the note 2 in action. And the phablet got rocked the **** out of it
The guy using it just made a swype and a bar on the left side appeared, that contained a lot of shortcuts for some apps like video player etc.
So, there were two apps running at the same time. Just looked awesome, really awesome.
It would be great if some of our devs would be able to port this killer feature to our beloved phone. I think there is almost no limitation expect the 1gb ram -.-, but nevermind it will be okay.
In regards,
alex.

+1
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Yeah someone take this. Good request :angel:

Hopefully some devs will see this thread That would be really awesome to have this feature for our awesome phone, I would even think about to buy a s-pen to use all the features

Very good request !!! :good:

+1 it's awesome
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Safe0716 said:
+1 it's awesome
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+1 ! Would be really nice, as sgs3 contais screen big enough for that!

+1 !
hope will be up soon..

+1 and link to that clip please

they are both same resolution.
it could work right?

to OP:
please change your thread title to [REQUEST] Note II's Multi Window feature. Every android phone have "multitasking" capability, not just Note II.

+1 wouldn't mind this either, always a bonus to have more
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I think we can make our CPU to work at 1.6Ghz and not 1.4 without heating as Note II.
I believe the processors are same.

stfudude said:
to OP:
please change your thread title to [REQUEST] Note II's Multi Window feature. Every android phone have "multitasking" capability, not just Note II.
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Topic changed to your title I just couldnt point it out as good as you But actually only 2 devices in the world can do the multi window feature Note 2 and Note 10.1 But this is imo a step further to real multitasking. Cause the "multitasking" we have on our phones at the moment isnt even comparable to the one of windows... If I hear MT, then I think that a lot of apps run at the same time, but when I just got out of the FB app with Home-button and then go in again, the **** reloads -.-' thas not really what I imagined...

+1
must have

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOX3HYDwTCY&feature=player_embedded
Go to minute 2:04

+1 !!

absolutely +1 :fingers-crossed:

FD10 said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOX3HYDwTCY&feature=player_embedded
Go to minute 2:04
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Broken link?

jfrm said:
Broken link?
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just copy the url into your browser
... joined in 2008 and still not allowed to post links

Attn. Devs. Sense 5 that might be able to get ported to our devices

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2321867
Some one should try to port this to our phones would be very cool they have it booting on the sgs 3
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elry567 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2321867
Some one should try to port this to our phones would be very cool they have it booting on the sgs 3
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Port it? Nothing even works in it yet...
Thread= waste of time

crixley said:
Port it? Nothing even works in it yet...
Thread= waste of time
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The dev is doing good work at getting things fixed though
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crixley said:
Port it? Nothing even works in it yet...
Thread= waste of time
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That's a little harsh.

You should rename title to include "sense 5 port" or something. Helps with searches in case this ever becomes reality for our phones.
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9wire said:
That's a little harsh.
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I'm saying this thread not the original thread..
Just saying why port something that isn't even functional yet?

crixley said:
I'm saying this thread not the original thread..
Just saying why port something that isn't even functional yet?
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I have a feeling it will be
xda devs are freakin brilliant. :beer:
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freakboy13 said:
I have a feeling it will be
xda devs are freakin brilliant. :beer:
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Agreed that's why I posted it
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freakboy13 said:
I have a feeling it will be
xda devs are freakin brilliant. :beer:
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Not to be negative but have you seen how many sense ports have been attempted?
You have to write drivers from scratch, which takes a very long time since sense is not open source.
I have seen 1 successful sense port (if you could even call it that) since owning android phones for about 5 years.

crixley said:
Not to be negative but have you seen how many sense ports have been attempted?
You have to write drivers from scratch, which takes a very long time since sense is not open source.
I have seen 1 successful sense port (if you could even call it that) since owning android phones for about 5 years.
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If every who ever engineered anything quit because a majority of people said it couldnt be done we would probably still be carrying around those gigantic 1980s phones.
Just sayin.
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freakboy13 said:
If every who ever engineered anything quit because a majority of people said it couldnt be done we would probably still be carrying around those gigantic 1980s phones.
Just sayin.
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We will see...
I'm an electrical engineer actually so funny you mention that. Anyhow there is a difference between pessimism and realism

Sense is private source. ..
Devs may not take interest in this simply because of the time needed to create source to drive the OS...
By the time a port is achieved...the target device is nearing end of life anyway. ..
Then the cycle repeats itself. ..
Who knows. ..maybe they can nail down the files needed to run it...But likely they will stick to the open source that is treating us so well already. ..g

gregsarg said:
Sense is private source. ..
Devs may not take interest in this simply because of the time needed to create source to drive the OS...
By the time a port is achieved...the target device is nearing end of life anyway. ..
Then the cycle repeats itself. ..
Who knows. ..maybe they can nail down the files needed to run it...But likely they will stick to the open source that is treating us so well already. ..g
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I've never seen a fully functional sense port and I've owned a lot of android phones.

This has actually peaked my interest and it makes me wish I knew how to do these things.
I could try.
I could ask the dev of the GS3 version questions.
But I probably won't succeed... but hey, it's summer vacation and I have all of the time in the world~

estabien said:
This has actually peaked my interest and it makes me wish I knew how to do these things.
I could try.
I could ask the dev of the GS3 version questions.
But I probably won't succeed... but hey, it's summer vacation and I have all of the time in the world~
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That's cool it would be cool to play with I'm no dev or I would give it a go but was going someone would attempt it
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gregsarg said:
Sense is private source. ..
Devs may not take interest in this simply because of the time needed to create source to drive the OS...
By the time a port is achieved...the target device is nearing end of life anyway. ..
Then the cycle repeats itself. ..
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THIS...
and, dont take this wrong, but if you wanted sense, you probably should have gotten an HTC phone..

crixley said:
I've never seen a fully functional sense port and I've owned a lot of android phones.
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Ditto....
It would be like starting over from scratch to get a fully functional sense rom...
It's just not worth the effort...imho...g

gregsarg said:
Ditto....
It would be like starting over from scratch to get a fully functional sense rom...
It's just not worth the effort...imho...g
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Exactly..
If you can rewrite all the drivers from scratch you must be a hell of a dev and should be doing it for a living

wase4711 said:
THIS...
and, dont take this wrong, but if you wanted sense, you probably should have gotten an HTC phone..
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That's like me telling you if you wanted cm10 or miui you should have gotten something other than the note 2
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elry567 said:
That's like me telling you if you wanted cm10 or miui you should have gotten something other than the note 2
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What? They are open source though....
What a fail comparison lol
It'd be more like getting a htc one and complaining that you don't have touchwiz

s5 camera apk?

Is there a S5 camera download for our phones?

92bubble said:
Is there a S5 camera download for our phones?
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I was also looking for this but I searched and searched and I read somewhere that in order for it to work you need two things: 1) be running a 4.4 rom or higher, and 2) have an aosp rom. Atleast that's what I got from what I read.

coolwater22 said:
I was also looking for this but I searched and searched and I read somewhere that in order for it to work you need two things: 1) be running a 4.4 rom or higher, and 2) have an aosp rom. Atleast that's what I got from what I read.
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Damn, I guess that means no

92bubble said:
Damn, I guess that means no
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Yeah. Im disappointed too. I want to be able to take a picture and be able to focus on an object in the back and have yhe front blurry and vice versa. Cant find a camera app to do that :/.

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coolwater22 said:
Yeah. Im disappointed too. I want to be able to take a picture and be able to focus on an object in the back and have yhe front blurry and vice versa. Cant find a camera app to do that :/.
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Get the s5!!!!!
From my Smoked Waffle n2!!!!

Chaz187 said:
Get the s5!!!!!
From my Smoked Waffle n2!!!!
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no thanks. I love my note 2. Its still one of the best phones out there ?. Thanks for the recommendation though haha

There is a camera app called defocus I think. It will do that. Look on play store
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