Can someone pull the files for the stock 4.3 TW camera?
Currently using Camera Awesome and Snap Camera HDR but I prefer the stock camera app and it had video stabilization.
I'm with you. Pretty much the main reason I'm currently staying with a 4.3 based Rom. I like having ALL of the features available (slow record, fast record, etc).
kevind07 said:
I'm with you. Pretty much the main reason I'm currently staying with a 4.3 based Rom. I like having ALL of the features available (slow record, fast record, etc).
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Stock camera for galaxy s4 is just so beast..
can we pull the camera APK from a 4.3 Touchwiz ROM and install it on a AOSP or CM rom? The only reason I'm still on Touchwiz is for the camera, but I'd like to use it on a Google Play Edition 4.4 ROM. I believe there's a different Gallery app that must accompany the camera app.
I unzipped a 4.3 ROM and found there's a "cameradata" folder with 8.7mb of files in the systerm folder, which is separate from the "SamsungCamera2" APK. I can try loading an AOSP ROM, installing the APK, and placing the cameradata folder in the system folder. How do I install the APK? Would i need to put in the system/app folder then install via settings? Of course I'd make a Nandroid of my current ROM first.
HKSpeed said:
can we pull the camera APK from a 4.3 Touchwiz ROM and install it on a AOSP or CM rom? The only reason I'm still on Touchwiz is for the camera, but I'd like to use it on a Google Play Edition 4.4 ROM. I believe there's a different Gallery app that must accompany the camera app.
I unzipped a 4.3 ROM and found there's a "cameradata" folder with 8.7mb of files in the systerm folder, which is separate from the "SamsungCamera2" APK. I can try loading an AOSP ROM, installing the APK, and placing the cameradata folder in the system folder. How do I install the APK? Would i need to put in the system/app folder then install via settings? Of course I'd make a Nandroid of my current ROM first.
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The short version is simply no.
The long version is...
The issue with the camera in AOSP ROMS is that the stock TouchWiz camera has all kinds of proprietary software driving it. That software is built into different parts of the rom and absolutely requires the TouchWiz framework to run. (Which is also proprietary). You can't just pull the APK out of TouchWiz and install it on AOSP.
So there is no way to get the stock TW camera to run on any AOSP rom.
This means that any other app that is using the camera is using generic software to run the camera hardware. This leaves out the ability to do things that the TW software was specifically written to do like crisp auto focus and color depth and all those goodies that make the TW camera better. All that software was written specificly for the S4 hardware.
The Cyanogen camera or the Google stock camera is just an app using generic software not written specificly for this phone's camera hardware. That's no different than ANY other camera you can find on Google Play. They are ALL using generic software.
As a result, none of them are every going to be as crisp as the TouchWiz camera software. They almost all still take a really good picture with this phone, and many give various effects you might enjoy, but if you are looking for a downloadable camera app that takes a higher resolution, better focused picture than the CM camera, you're not going to find one that's substantially better.
It's the major drawback of AOSP roms on the S4. But unless you are a photog with a really decerning eye, you will eventually become used to the AOSP Camera quality. It's still better than most other phones on the market.
Thanks for clearing that up. That was tremendously helpful.
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Is it possible to have the MIUI camera app in the CM7 nightlies ? It is way better than the stock crappy android camera. Thanks in advance.
MIUI is based on cm7. So it should be. Extract the camera.apk from miui-rom.zip in /system/app and install it.
I tried it but it cannot be installed this way. Any other options ? I also tried manually pasting tha apk in the system/app, setting the permisions and rebooting, but even though it appears in the drawer, it gives FC.
kostelo said:
I tried it but it cannot be installed this way. Any other options ? I also tried manually pasting tha apk in the system/app, setting the permisions and rebooting, but even though it appears in the drawer, it gives FC.
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Why can't you install it?
It does not work that way. Missing some framework files from the MIUI Rom.
But Honestly - where did you see that MIUI camera is better?
I'm using MIUI Rom, with Android Camera, because the video recording on the MIUI camera is piss-poor quality. Photos are almost the same. no big differrence.
Anyways, the latest working I found is v17 from 1.4.22:
Miui Camera
Is there anyway to transfer stock features/apks safely from rom to rom let's say the motion controls, or sdcard encryption or led control and svoice or apps likes that. It seems like there's a lot of control over the phone that I don't want to lose if I go to CM9 or other roms.
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Is there anyway to transfer stock features/apks safely from rom to rom let's say the motion controls, or sdcard encryption or led control and svoice or apps likes that. It seems like there's a lot of control over the phone that I don't want to lose if I go to CM9 or other roms.
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i want to know that too! i want the stock calendar app on cm10
I was just thinking about using titanium for apps. But as for other options like motion controls I have no idea.
It is impossible to get touchwiz apps on AOSP ROMs. PERIOD.
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Nothing that requires the touchwiz framework will work on AOSP ROMs.
So no motions, stock calander, stock message app etc.
If moving from tw based to another tw based ROM, just copy the apk from system > apps to your SD card and put them back oh the new ROM with the correct permissions.
Hi all,
I run an AOSP Rom called LiquidSmooth.
If you do a clean flash of the rom, without flashing GAPPS, you get the standard AOSP camera.
Whenever I flash the GAPPS package for Liquidsmooth, it is replaced with the Google Camera.
Ordinarily this wouldn't bother me, but Google camera will reboot the phone if you try to use the front facing camera. I wiped everything and flashed JUST the rom, and the FFC on the AOSP camera works fine, so i would love to keep it.
When i look through the zip of the GAPPS package I don't see any camera. So what is causing one camera to delete and the other one to be added?
I want the rest of the gapps, obviously, but i want to keep the AOSP Camera.
The latest nightly can be found here if anyone wants to take a look at the ROM zip.
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Hi all,
I run an AOSP Rom called LiquidSmooth.
If you do a clean flash of the rom, without flashing GAPPS, you get the standard AOSP camera.
Whenever I flash the GAPPS package for Liquidsmooth, it is replaced with the Google Camera.
Ordinarily this wouldn't bother me, but Google camera will reboot the phone if you try to use the front facing camera. I wiped everything and flashed JUST the rom, and the FFC on the AOSP camera works fine, so i would love to keep it.
When i look through the zip of the GAPPS package I don't see any camera. So what is causing one camera to delete and the other one to be added?
I want the rest of the gapps, obviously, but i want to keep the AOSP Camera.
The latest nightly can be found here if anyone wants to take a look at the ROM zip.
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There you go, straight from the nightly zip.
Also, the reason the stock camera gets deleted is because the updater-script in the GAPPs package contains a line to overwrite the stock camera app.
You should be able to prevent this by modifying the updater-script with a text editor such as Notepad++, or by removing the Google Camera .apk from the GAPPs package.
Just to further clarify one more thing. The AOSP camera is in the nightly zip and Google Camera is in the GAPPs zip.
I hope this helps.
I've been using the Android L port and I'm loving it. The only problem is that I hate all the official google apps. Plus the ROM only comes with Google photos. I really want to put something together once the ROM is more stable (although it really is good right now) that includes aosp style apps.
Does anyone know where I can get the apps? Can I just pull them from a custom ROM? Or can someone put together a zip that has a few aosp apps? I'm mainly thinking browser, gallery and a file manager, but suggestions are welcome.
EDIT: I was able to pull the apks out of another ROM, I chose the latest (7-20 at time of writing this) CM11 and put the files where they should be /system/app and I changed the permissions to match other files in the same location. Then I rebooted to recovery and wiped both caches. File manager (CM File Manager) and gallery worked fine, I can't figure out browser though. I found an app on the play store that was an AOSP Browser installer and tried that too, but browser keeps crashing on launch. So if anybody knows how to make AOSP browser install please enlighten me.
Thank you.
Does anyone have the file for this in apk format? I was on an AOSP ROM and installed the lenovo super camera. However now I've gone back to stock and my camera app is crashing. It looks like its trying to boot the lenovo camera, but this only works in aosp. An apk for the camera or any knowledge in how to fix this would be greatly appreciated!
I am guessing you did not clean flash the new ROM and that is why you are having issues with the camera.
And to answer your question such an apk does not exist yet.