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.
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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.
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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..
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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..
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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.
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It seems like most custom ROMs don't offer the instant camera shutter, which I think is one of the best features on our phones.
Since the camera bits are proprietary Google bits and are not part of AOSP, I'm guessing only ROMs that are mods of OTA's will have this included.
Does anyone know of any of the 4.0.3 ROMs that include the proprietary camera bits like instant shutter?
EDIT: I TAKE IT BACK!!!
It works after all. I think camera was just slow momentarily because of low light environment. I'm happy now
I don't know what roms you've been running but I've had the same camera functions as stock!
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I don't know what roms you've been running but I've had the same camera functions as stock!
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Ok so maybe you can share with me an example?
No issues over here.
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No issues over here.
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Your sig says you are using AOKP. There is no instant shutter in AOKP. Are you sure? Because I just tested AOKP amongst others.
Maybe people forget how instant shutter works on stock ROM?
No issue with slim 2.5
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Your sig says you are using AOKP. There is no instant shutter in AOKP. Are you sure? Because I just tested AOKP amongst others.
Maybe people forget how instant shutter works on stock ROM?
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AOKP's shutter speed is the exact same as stocks
You're probably talking about the camera auto focusing before taking the picture. If it stays focused you can take a boatload of pictures no problem.
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Ok so maybe you can share with me an example?
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I've ran Gummy and Milestone 3...no problems with camera
AOKP M3 works fine.
Re-focusing obviously slows things down a little but that is to be expected.
It is still lightening quick!
I run Manhattan (Mainly for the ability to change the navigation buttons... I wanted yellow to suit my case) ==
The camera you mentioned is slower than stock. Having said that its still faster than many phones out there. Once it focuses, you can use it like stock, but this one has the tendency to auto focus a lot
I didn't yet moved to any custom rom because of that, but it seems that most of the users don't care about it.
Is it that hard to port this from the 4.0.2 to 4.0.3 ?
MIUI ipone theme, the camera works the same way as stock.
I've been running modified stock TW ROMS and they seem to be the only ROMS capable of running the 4.2 camera with out it freezing. Anything CM10 based freezes. I've searched the forums for a fix to no avail has anyone found a fix for this? I really love this camera and want to use CM10 based ROMS in the future.
Also is it possible to use WiFi-Direct on CM10 properly to transfer files? I see the WiFi-Direct option in the settings but cant seem to send files this way.
Thanks a bunch.
c_86 said:
Please search next time. This has been covered.
What you need to do with the 4.2 camera is focus by touching middle of screen then take pic.
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did use the search, must not have used correct keywords. Touching middle of the screen doe not always work. Thank you for the response.
Just curious, were you able to get the 4.2 camera to work on any ICS TouchWiz roms or were they all JB?
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Just curious, were you able to get the 4.2 camera to work on any ICS TouchWiz roms or were they all JB?
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Yeah I had it working on stock ICS and I have it working on a Galaxy Note II port. For me only TW seems to work the camera flawlessly. Nerver got it 100% on any CM based ROMS.
Touch middle of screen to focus then take a picture...OR.......go to option and turn scene mode to "action"...that also fixes the problem
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Touch middle of screen to focus then take a picture...OR.......go to option and turn scene mode to "action"...that also fixes the problem
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Action never worked for me.
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dacornholio said:
Touch middle of screen to focus then take a picture...OR.......go to option and turn scene mode to "action"...that also fixes the problem
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Just tried this as well, doesn't work. Even used different 4.2 camera packages with the same result. Just going to stay on TW based ROMS for now.
I've done a fair amount of reading on this and I really don't think the 4.2 camera will work until we get the merged CM10 builds. I'm not sure why it appears to work with ICS TouchWiz roms, but as far as CM10 is concerned I think it's a pretty safe bet that it just won't work until we get 4.2.
Installed it on my device running a modified TW ICS rom,
Photosphere doesn't work that well :/
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I've done a fair amount of reading on this and I really don't think the 4.2 camera will work until we get the merged CM10 builds. I'm not sure why it appears to work with ICS TouchWiz roms, but as far as CM10 is concerned I think it's a pretty safe bet that it just won't work until we get 4.2.
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That makes sense thanks for the info.
Sianspheric said:
Installed it on my device running a modified TW ICS rom,
Photosphere doesn't work that well :/
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Try flashing this camera package. This is the only one that seems to work for me for some reason. A friend of mine discovered this. I wish I knew where so I can credit them but try flashing this zip
http://www.mediafire.com/?ppk3v9quq9ncnrf
I flashed a camera zip file from here:
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/10/31/download-camera-apk-from-android-4-2-photo-sphere-included/
think it's the same?
Sianspheric said:
I flashed a camera zip file from here:
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/10/31/download-camera-apk-from-android-4-2-photo-sphere-included/
think it's the same?
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It very well could be. The zip I sent you has photosphere working and with the gallery working. The editing portion works on few ROMS not all for some reason I've noticed. But the zip i sent you is the one I've been using.
This camera thing not working is starting to piss me off lol
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c_86 said:
This camera thing not working is starting to piss me off lol
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Actually on the ROM I'm on it works pretty flawlessly
DamageSource said:
Actually on the ROM I'm on it works pretty flawlessly
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Way to go unto detail there ....
/sarcasm
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c_86 said:
Way to go unto detail there ....
/sarcasm
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Here's the ROM I'm using since I was on my mobile responding before:
Serenity: ]=http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1951115
Everything is working except the photo editor options. Tiny world works but it's hit and miss on the others. So far this is probably my favorite ROm that I have had no problems with yet. I just use stock gallery to do my photo editing when i need to since 4.2 is mostly filters anyways but photosphere does work for me.
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...
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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 ??
Is there a fully functional, non-freezing galaxy s3 photosphere camera and gallery zip available?
Also out of curiosity since july I
If you find one, please let me know. I always think I can do the touch to focus workaround, but then end up reflashing or rebooting when I need my camera most.
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Is there a fully functional, non-freezing galaxy s3 photosphere camera and gallery zip available?
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There is no photosphere camera that is 100% functional for our phones. The photosphere is for the Nexus devices. The only work around is to set the camera to action under scene and you wont need the touch to focus before taking a picture
Not perfect but it's a start...
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Is there a fully functional, non-freezing galaxy s3 photosphere camera and gallery zip available?
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Here is what I have used since Nov. or Dec. I haven't any FC's or issues. It does contain all 4.2 GAPPS and gives you the option to replace current camera and gallery or leave the current camera and gallery in place. However like mentioned above this camera also has issues focusing. So I would recommend leaving your stock camera in place. or atleast making a backup if you dont like it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uol71qat51ikt6m/Nexus_Transformation_Pack_Stock_V6.zip
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There is no photosphere camera that is 100% functional for our phones. The photosphere is for the Nexus devices. The only work around is to set the camera to action under scene and you wont need the touch to focus before taking a picture
Not perfect but it's a start...
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lortay78 said:
If you find one, please let me know. I always think I can do the touch to focus workaround, but then end up reflashing or rebooting when I need my camera most.
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i am using AOKP's 4.1.2 ROM and have flashed the Nexus 4 camera. i too use the action setting and have no issues.
Nexus 4 camera: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1966426
I'm running a 4.2 camera with photosphere on my own custom TW ROM and I have zero issues with the camera. Don't even have to put it in action mode to take pictures..no freezing or FC'ing
Search for the APP its in themes and APP section and it's worked fine for me.
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.
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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