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[Q] Best camera app other than stock?

I am running cm10 nightlies on my sgs3 and was wondering what app is a good replacement to aosp camera app? It doesn't take as good of photos as the touchwiz camera on stock, the light balance is too dark and flash gives it a weird hue. I love cm10 but need a better camera app and from what I gather, touchwiz camera apk only works with touchwiz ROMs. Suggestions?
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ccole22653 said:
I am running cm10 nightlies on my sgs3 and was wondering what app is a good replacement to aosp camera app? It doesn't take as good of photos as the touchwiz camera on stock, the light balance is too dark and flash gives it a weird hue. I love cm10 but need a better camera app and from what I gather, touchwiz camera apk only works with touchwiz ROMs. Suggestions?
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Yes, the AOSP camera sucks big time and the interface is super, extra, ugly and outdated.
you can try lgcamera

eortizr said:
Yes, the AOSP camera sucks big time and the interface is super, extra, ugly and outdated.
you can try lgcamera
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For the majority of people, myself included, the stock Camera is just fine for PointAndShoot. I've even purchased CameraZoom when it was on sale, but prefer the simplicity of the default camera. "Best Shot", "Smile Shot", and the other TouchWiz gimmicks are almost never used.

Well I actually don't use any of the gimmick features of the stock touch with camera app, the thing that I liked about it was how it handled low light situations and getting the true color. I will try LG camera.
* I also purchased camera zoom on sale and am currently trying it out.
Any more suggestions? I don't need gimmicks and I don't need photo editing, I just need a very good basic photo taking ability
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ccole22653 said:
I am running cm10 nightlies on my sgs3 and was wondering what app is a good replacement to aosp camera app? It doesn't take as good of photos as the touchwiz camera on stock, the light balance is too dark and flash gives it a weird hue. I love cm10 but need a better camera app and from what I gather, touchwiz camera apk only works with touchwiz ROMs. Suggestions?
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The best one I've used (and I've tried a bunch!) is the camera app that was included with the Serenity rom....which i think is just the ported Note II app. If you can get your hands on that, try it!

When I was on CM10 I used ProCapture. It lacks HDR which is a big deal for me, but it's pretty good apart from that. The TouchWiz camera is one of the main reasons I switched back.

i have cm10 and i use camera zoom fx it work just fine for me

Yeah...back to touchwiz myself... I am sorry but cyanogen mod just can't equal the picture quality of stock camera... I love aosp...but I have found a good compromise... use a touchwiz rom, use a good aosp launcher and keyboard, and messaging and gallery.... and you get to keep your good camera! Though on another note I am somewhat disappointed with the aosp keyboard now....the Swype is cool but just isn't add accurate as I would like... actual Swype I never have to correct... stock 4.2 keyboard is always getting my words wrong...
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eortizr said:
Yes, the AOSP camera sucks big time and the interface is super, extra, ugly and outdated.
you can try lgcamera
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wow.
I find the AOSP camera interface great.
are you suggesting the tw camera app is more modern and less ugly interface, because it doesnt look that way here.
For the past week I had aokp on my phone, I was trying to make it work, and had used the camera a dozen or so times to take photos of the weather. I was pretty happy with it initially.
But then yesterday the camera started crashing and not working, a reboot made it work for exactly one photo so not good enough, so I switched back to neatrom (TW). Now by comparison this camera seems a lot worse in functionality. Is probably 70% configurable options missing, seems slower, so the menu responds slower and the focus is pretty bad in comparison it takes a while to focus and then doesnt stay in focus. On top of this I see can only have limited shortcuts at once meaning all the options are never accessible at same time, have to choose which shortcuts. I think the s3 TW camera app is poor, and am currently looking for AOSP camera to put on TW (but seems noone has bothered except chaos?) but would AOSP camera app still be unstable on a TW rom.

I like camera JB+... It does have a similar UI to the aosp camera though (I think I'm one of the few people who love the aosp camera UI).
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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!
Sent from my Galaxy S3. Long live the original Galaxy S

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 ??

camera app for aosp with ttf working

Hey. I just wanted to leave this around since I see many people not trying aosp roms because of the lack of touch to focus.
Try camera jb+. This isn't free (2euros) but its rather cheap and does work great while it remains really close to what aosp camera is (also has a gallery, panorama and lets you choose where to store stuff you capture).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...google&utm_medium=organic&utm_term=camera+jb+
This works great for me.
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Shame photosphere isn't in aosp. This camera would have been so much more popular then.

Can anyone recommend a camera app?

Okay so I started using the stock ROM but then I moved over to cyanogen for a little while only to find out that the camera in cyanogen was really bad so I move back to stock and I'm not saying I regret the decision but I really would love to go back to cyanogen so I was wondering if anyone might know of a camera app that is comparable to the stock app for this device any help would be appreciated!
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UCam pro is one I like.
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I'm using Focal (Beta) at the moment and i realy like it
It's buggy but hey that's ok its just a beta.
This app is gonna be great when it's released !!
Just my opinion.

Cymera has been good to me:
http://cymera.m.en.softonic.com/android
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MaxiDOME said:
I'm using Focal (Beta) at the moment and i realy like it
It's buggy but hey that's ok its just a beta.
This app is gonna be great when it's released !!
Just my opinion.
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yes I was using focal but i cannot have a buggy camera. im a photographer and I use my phone a lot for scouting for shoots rather than carrying around my main gear. need something that will replace the cm10 sh*t camera with good features and functionality as the stock camera on the s4.

ProCapture!

There's an .apk for the Google Edition camera over in the Themes/Apps section. I use it alongside the stock camera and it's every bit as good I think.
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DigitalHeretic said:
There's an .apk for the Google Edition camera over in the Themes/Apps section. I use it alongside the stock camera and it's every bit as good I think.
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got a link by any chance my brother?

Indeed I do. Also check out the boot animation and live wallpaper.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43007400
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sdmark said:
ProCapture!
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looks awesome thank you so much!!!

Ucam in play store is very nice as stated by elesbb
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I disagree with the assessment that AOSP camera is sh*t. Kudos to the developers - it's pretty fast and very, very usable, and the swipe to gallery is great (haven't seen that in any other party camera app). I'm picky about the camera.
That said, if you're set to find a 3rd party camera, then look at Camera FV-5.
Compared to all the other apps listed on this thread, it's superior with basic camera features missing in the other apps, such as focus mode, manual ISO, exposure compensation, exposure bracketing, grid layovers, etc. No gimmicky filters or effects like the others listed here. It makes a decent 'manual' camera out of the limited capability that the phone comes to begin with. It shows the 'life' shutter speed. Its auto ISO has a bias to go higher ISO than AOSP camera - up to 2000, so it may guard against shake but at the expense of grainier pics in the darker settings, but these phones aren't meant for that anyway. ProCapture is the closest to FV-5, but not as good for manual settings (i.e., after you set the exposure compensation on ProCapture, you won't see the value explicitly shown, so that could trip you). The one thing about FV-5 is it has a tad slower startup than the stock AOSP camera.

Updating my recommendation to either "A Better Camera" or Lenovo Super Camera.

google camera is here at last

Hi
here's the google camera. an updated version of what is currently preinstalled on nexus devices.
photo sphere and more
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.GoogleCamera
mediafire mirror: http://www.mediafire.com/download/e...android.GoogleCamera-2.1.037+(1122348-30).apk

*Only for 4.4 and above
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mastor10 said:
*Only for 4.4 and above
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yes, most of the guys here are already on 4.4

akahroba said:
yes, most of the guys here are already on 4.4
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yeah probably, but i think most are in stock
anyways if anyone tried this can report back if is close to the performance of the stock lg camera app?

Blur option force closes, video recording is choppy, photo sphere and panorama do not work and image quality is not impressive. That is on CM 11 16.04 nightly.

e34v8 said:
Blur option force closes, video recording is choppy, photo sphere and panorama do not work and image quality is not impressive. That is on CM 11 16.04 nightly.
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WOW! seems to be a piece of ... but reportedly, it works better on Mahdi ROM

every thing works fine on liquid smooth v3. official build... :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Currently on CM11 20140418 nightly.
Pros:Minimal Interface
Nicer Icon
Full HD recording is smooth
Cons:Average Photo Quality(Normal on Cyanognenmod ROMs though)
Lens Blur DOES not work(Presses the button,then FC)
Panorama and Photosphere DOES not work(Gives Black viewfinder)
Overly Simplified UI does not have much settings.(By much I mean nearly NONE)
Verdict:Can be much improved if all the bugs were fixed and some of the settings return.The UI is slick but too simplified IMO.
I recommend you get it once bugs are fixed.Hence,getting a much better experience.
Score:3/5

Photosphere works fine on CM11(Unofficial).

Hi, did you know where I can find Google camera for stock rom?
Thanks

Aruken said:
Hi, did you know where I can find Google camera for stock rom?
Thanks
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Unfortunately there isn't any.It only works on 4.4 and above and as you know stock is currently 4.1.2 and has yet to be updated by LG.
But you can find the apk file here:http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/04/16/breaking-google-releases-stock-camera-app-to-the-play-store/
I am not responsible if your phone bricks or anything though.

search new google camera for jelly bean and you'll find some results. I've downloaded but not tested yet.