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[Q] Lollipop Camera API, is it available on G3?

Has the New camera API for Android 5.0 become available now that we are getting 5.0 roms?
Really looking forward to using the new features.
If not, what aspect of these new things are we waiting for to get support? Is it something in AOSP that we have to wait for, or something with the apps or roms themselves?

WACOMalt said:
Has the New camera API for Android 5.0 become available now that we are getting 5.0 roms?
Really looking forward to using the new features.
If not, what aspect of these new things are we waiting for to get support? Is it something in AOSP that we have to wait for, or something with the apps or roms themselves?
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Do you mean for AOSP 5.0 or LG's own 5.0 rom?
I know that AOSP and all the roms using it's base, can't really handle the camera of the G3.
Could you specify?

Derduden said:
Do you mean for AOSP 5.0 or LG's own 5.0 rom?
I know that AOSP and all the roms using it's base, can't really handle the camera of the G3.
Could you specify?
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I suppose the question applies to both, but in this case I'm just asking about CM12.

WACOMalt said:
I suppose the question applies to both, but in this case I'm just asking about CM12.
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Well you're gonna get the new API, but it's going to be drastically limited since the LG camera needs an LG driver.
So you might have a feature more or two, but it's really no use when the camera is degraded to 2011 quality and video is only 15 fps.
There is a lot more to this than the API of the operating system. The driver is where the magic is at.

Derduden said:
Well you're gonna get the new API, but it's going to be drastically limited since the LG camera needs an LG driver.
So you might have a feature more or two, but it's really no use when the camera is degraded to 2011 quality and video is only 15 fps.
There is a lot more to this than the API of the operating system. The driver is where the magic is at.
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isn't there a way to port that driver to AOSP? i find it hard to believe we are going to get stuck with this quality

sooti said:
isn't there a way to port that driver to AOSP? i find it hard to believe we are going to get stuck with this quality
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I actually put up a post some time ago asking the same question, but the answer remains the same, it's probably not going to happen any time soon. Not to mention other problems that relates to G3 + AOSP. Example could be the IR remote controller.
I know that some developers had luck with AOSP + LG G2 with the camera, where they ported it, but AFAIK it was more or less crashing all the time and missing features and functions, so at the end of the day it wasn't really worth the effort.
Now what I have done is simply use LG's Lollipop and then tweak it all the way to AOSP, retaining all the good stuff
LG's rom can actually be made very nice including in performance and that comes from a guy whose old phone was a Nexus 5 with Lollipop

The ports of LGs camera always worked great for me on AOSP. And given how ridiculously simple the camera app is for the G3 I'd expect it to be even easier to get working.
I'm OK with sticking on stock Lolipop Roms if that means having access to the 5.0 Camera API. I just have to wait to get there since I'm on VZW.
Are you able to use the API on your Lollipop stock rom?

WACOMalt said:
Has the New camera API for Android 5.0 become available now that we are getting 5.0 roms?
Really looking forward to using the new features.
If not, what aspect of these new things are we waiting for to get support? Is it something in AOSP that we have to wait for, or something with the apps or roms themselves?
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The lollipop roms from LG do not feature a camera driver for the new camera2 api. That is a shame for two reasons. First of all the new api gives you a lot of new options (manual mode, raw export among others) which in turn enable developers to implement neat tricks like the super sensor from A Better Camera. Overall a huge opportunity! Secondly the LG Flex2 with the exact same camera module (AFAIK) has the new api.
So please everyone ask LG about that. They might eventually listen. Or maybe some rom developer could port the driver over from the Flex2.

matthias.matthias said:
The lollipop roms from LG do not feature a camera driver for the new camera2 api. That is a shame for two reasons. First of all the new api gives you a lot of new options (manual mode, raw export among others) which in turn enable developers to implement neat tricks like the super sensor from A Better Camera. Overall a huge opportunity! Secondly the LG Flex2 with the exact same camera module (AFAIK) has the new api.
So please everyone ask LG about that. They might eventually listen. Or maybe some rom developer could port the driver over from the Flex2.
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That's really sad. If the gflex 2 Roms have it and it is indeed the same module, is there any way to get it from there and add it to our stock based Roms?

WACOMalt said:
That's really sad. If the gflex 2 Roms have it and it is indeed the same module, is there any way to get it from there and add it to our stock based Roms?
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That's what I'm hoping for. . . Anyone?

is there any luck of us getting this functionality on our phone ? does it require a firmware update from lg for the camera ?
because cyanogemod/aosp has the api already included. so it makes me think its the firmware which is lacking

lixxus said:
is there any luck of us getting this functionality on our phone ? does it require a firmware update from lg for the camera ?
because cyanogemod/aosp has the api already included. so it makes me think its the firmware which is lacking
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Indeed it is the firmware. However XCam LG by xdabbeb acheives much if what I'd hoped for from the camera API. Bitrate/compression control, RAW (DNG format) support, ISO control and some shutter speed settings.

WACOMalt said:
Indeed it is the firmware. However XCam LG by xdabbeb acheives much if what I'd hoped for from the camera API. Bitrate/compression control, RAW (DNG format) support, ISO control and some shutter speed settings.
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yeah thought so. thanks for the info. its a shame really. i hope LG come with a firmware update ,
I cant use the xcam as i use cyanogemod. I guess i will be patient

Is there any options for aosp camera use?

Hi, Guys absolutely love aosp roms and only use them hate stock as there are so many ugly and annoying features that are implemented that cannot be removed and slow downs the device and the appeasing looks of the use, so aosp is only roms i use however the camera on aosp is really poor on my lg g3, put them next to my partners stock camera, shows how off the colors are on aosp its so washed out and colours are wrong, also the laser focus is not being used on aosp, any options or will there be any this year? or is it go aosp and kill the camera?
thanks

Whelan189 said:
Hi, Guys absolutely love aosp roms and only use them hate stock as there are so many ugly and annoying features that are implemented that cannot be removed and slow downs the device and the appeasing looks of the use, so aosp is only roms i use however the camera on aosp is really poor on my lg g3, put them next to my partners stock camera, shows how off the colors are on aosp its so washed out and colours are wrong, also the laser focus is not being used on aosp, any options or will there be any this year? or is it go aosp and kill the camera?
thanks
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It is "go AOSP and lose camera"
No, it's very hard to fix it, and LG won't release it's sources.
Assume that it will never be fixed.

YaDr said:
It is "go AOSP and lose camera"
No, it's very hard to fix it, and LG won't release it's sources.
Assume that it will never be fixed.
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Didn't they find a way to use the LG remote app in aosp ? Would the process involved be the same ?

Professor Jones said:
Didn't they find a way to use the LG remote app in aosp ? Would the process involved be the same ?
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IR blaster was already supported by CM, and apps like AnyIrRemote worked on G3 before the port. Laser autofocus is not supported by cm in any way.
... Though, miracles do happen. Someone may be able to port it.

YaDr said:
IR blaster was already supported by CM, and apps like AnyIrRemote worked on G3 before the port. Laser autofocus is not supported by cm in any way.
... Though, miracles do happen. Someone may be able to port it.
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I hope they will. Thankfully for me, I don't use the camera of my G3 all that much.

The lasers do switch on when the camera is being used.

¿Fully manual camera focus Lollipop 5.1.1؟

Hello my question is simple, someone knows how and if we can use this new possibility that is included on the new camera2 api of lollipop? I tried camera fv5 and camera51 and open camera too, and they don't give me the option for manual focusing.

Someone?

The drivers Samsung provide for our device doesn't support camera2 API, and probably never will. Even many new devices doesn't support it.

arco68 said:
The drivers Samsung provide for our device doesn't support camera2 API, and probably never will. Even many new devices doesn't support it.
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That sucks thanks for answer!

Any chance the Camera2 API will come included in a future update?

My A2 Lite is arriving today and I'm looking at the great results people are seeing using Google Camera mods, but I'm kind of stumped why we need to go through the whole process of rooting our phone to enable the Camera2 API. Why isn't something like this included? I always just assumed it was part of Android itself. Any chance of it being included at some point in the future?

I really don't think so. Never happened before AFAIK.

adakaya1994 said:
I really don't think so. Never happened before AFAIK.
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Well read the article about the mi2s and mix3 getting it recently in China developer preview along with libraries that fixed camera https://www.xda-developers.com/miui-china-8-11-8-google-camera-mix-2s-mi-8/

rockycocky said:
Well read the article about the mi2s and mix3 getting it recently in China developer preview along with libraries that fixed camera https://www.xda-developers.com/miui-china-8-11-8-google-camera-mix-2s-mi-8/
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They are camre2 api enabled out of the box as far as i know and just having a update about it plus they are flagship phones

push on google
what about push on google? here: issuetracker.google.com/issues/117853983 A1/A2/A2 Lite using Android One ROM and google release this, so it on them to do it, or?

Front Camera not working with new hardware in custom ROM

I searched a new phone with good ROM support. After some readings of XDA's threads, I just bought RN8Pro, waited a week for unlocking and tried few ROMs.
It ended up that some newer RN8Pro has a slighty different front camera's hardware that is not actually supported by custom ROMs, as it has been discussed in some threads (like this one : https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...xperience-official-aosp.4059977/post-83570951 )
I didn't saw this information before buying, so maybe it is useful that this will be more visible to people who want to buy this phone.
If you have some news about fixing front camera, feel free to respond.

That is a problem that I also face
The front camera does not work on any MIUI with Android 9. But on MIUI with Android 10 it works well...
The problem is that every ROM requires me downgrade to MIUI with Android 9.

Same problem here.
Bought 2 devices 2 weeks ago, unlocked a few days ago and installed crdroid 6.11.
Front camera is not working, GCam crashes on start.
On another device, bought in october the front camera works well with GCam and other camera apps.
Hopefully someone finds a quick fix.

If this camera is a different model, can we identify it using AIDA64?
In AIDA64 -> Peripherals , mine says Samsung ISOCell S5K3T1. I don't know if this is the new model.
EDIT: I read that it's a new revision of the same model so I think this "method" won't work.

Thordgar said:
EDIT: I read that it's a new revision of the same model so I think this "method" won't work.
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I read that too.
Same hardware for me : Samsung ISOCell S5K3T1

Gwynned said:
I read that too.
Same hardware for me : Samsung ISOCell S5K3T1
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Did your front camera work in custom roms?

My sensor is too Samsung ISOCell S5K3T1 and not work on Android 9 with MIUI and custom roms.

Same case for me, the front camera is "Samnsung ISOCell S5K3T1" and I installed evolution X 4.7 and everything works except the front camera, how sad, I haven't found a way to make it work. I asked in an official rn8pro telegram channel and they only told me to stay in Rom Stock with miui until Xiaomi releases the firmware code for these new sensors. The newer rn8pro devices are the ones that have this problem since their front camera sensors are new.

It seems I have the same problem. I wasn aware of that when buying!
I tried the Roms:
Pixel Experience
Evolution
crDroid
Same result on all Roms, everything works except the front camera. As soon as I install another cam app like Gcam, it crashes.

I wish I knew this before buying Note 8 Pro
I hate MIUI, I was going to flash custom ROM as soon as possible. But... Revolut doesn't work without selfie camera. I hope I can relock bootloader and return the phone.

The strange thing is that no custom rom developer can solve this problem

+1 for me being a victim of this new front camera module!
Given the situation right now I/we have to compromise. Working front camera with MIUI (it's unusable for me and I've tried) or no working front camera + custom ROM.
I chose the latter (Pixel Experience 10).
If I do need a front camera I'll have to get my LG G2 (LineageOS 16.0).
Either Xiaomi releases the code for the new front camera module or it leaks somehow. Whichever comes faster.
Compass.

I have also the same Problem.
Samsung ISOcell S5KGW1

Same problem here. Does it need just a rebuild with a more recent kernel? Anybody have any advice how to start that?

camccar said:
Same problem here. Does it need just a rebuild with a more recent kernel? Anybody have any advice how to start that?
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Same question here!
What I can confirm that the newest Pixel Experience ROM has the selfie cam working perfectly, I am just not a friend of that level of Google integration.
So I guess we have to wait for one of the other maintainers to take a stab at this, or try it ourself ...
I guess it's a lot more than linking some new libraries, so if anyone can point me in the right direction, maybe a howto, that would be much appreciated.
Greetings
hoshy42

hoshy42 said:
Same question here!
What I can confirm that the newest Pixel Experience ROM has the selfie cam working perfectly, I am just not a friend of that level of Google integration.
So I guess we have to wait for one of the other maintainers to take a stab at this, or try it ourself ...
I guess it's a lot more than linking some new libraries, so if anyone can point me in the right direction, maybe a howto, that would be much appreciated.
Greetings
hoshy42
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Wow thats super good news !!! Thanks for sharing

hoshy42 said:
Same question here!
What I can confirm that the newest Pixel Experience ROM has the selfie cam working perfectly, I am just not a friend of that level of Google integration.
So I guess we have to wait for one of the other maintainers to take a stab at this, or try it ourself ...
I guess it's a lot more than linking some new libraries, so if anyone can point me in the right direction, maybe a howto, that would be much appreciated.
Greetings
hoshy42
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I was curious about that rom, and just about to try it out.
Thanks for the confirmation.
But i dunno anymore what is better miui 12 or pixel experience?

hoshy42 said:
Same question here!
What I can confirm that the newest Pixel Experience ROM has the selfie cam working perfectly, I am just not a friend of that level of Google integration.
So I guess we have to wait for one of the other maintainers to take a stab at this, or try it ourself ...
I guess it's a lot more than linking some new libraries, so if anyone can point me in the right direction, maybe a howto, that would be much appreciated.
Greetings
hoshy42
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+1
The front camera is working with Pixel Experience 11 (Build: 16th of march of 2021).
I installed Pixel Experience 11 today and the front camera works (didn't crash so far either).
Compass.

Front camera is also working on HyconExperience 1.0.

Any suggestions for fix nusantara 3.1
Any one try this
For Devices which have new camera sensor and not working front camera in any Non Cfw roms.
This fix will make your front camera working in any Non Cfw roms.
Steps:- go to twrp and flash
1. MiUi12- kernelsupport
2. boot.img
If you feel crashing only than flash
3. Permissiver