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Best Google Camera on Android PIE

Hello! Today, I finally unlocked Camera 2 API, and searched for best GCAM modded version, with no luck. The mostly problem is focus. I'd like to see working focus mostly. There's any? I don't want to get back to Oreo, or root my phone.
Greeting Paweł
//nevermind, I posted it in wrong section

pawelik001 said:
Hello! Today, I finally unlocked Camera 2 API, and searched for best GCAM modded version, with no luck. The mostly problem is focus. I'd like to see working focus mostly. There's any? I don't want to get back to Oreo, or root my phone.
Greeting Paweł
//nevermind, I posted it in wrong section
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How you enable 2API??

all the versions recommended here, told "focus working", or any version you can try from celsoazevedo gcam mods website, will lose focus because reason is simple. after official upgrade to PIE from oreo, focus is broken in kernel so only way to fix it is to use custom kernel. i'm on pie and using butterfly kernel (or dragonheart kernel has same fix) so gcam focus is working properly as it's supposed to be. i try different gcams from that website regularly and custom kernel is the only way for it.

syndromtr said:
all the versions recommended here, told "focus working", or any version you can try from celsoazevedo gcam mods website, will lose focus because reason is simple. after official upgrade to PIE from oreo, focus is broken in kernel so only way to fix it is to use custom kernel. i'm on pie and using butterfly kernel (or dragonheart kernel has same fix) so gcam focus is working properly as it's supposed to be. i try different gcams from that website regularly and custom kernel is the only way for it.
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Wrong. Flashing a custom kernel was the old method, some gcams' focus works properly. Try the CameraX9 from here with the given config file : https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2-lite/themes/2-gcam-hdr-camera-t4053783
You can also try Urnyx05's ports of Gcam from here :
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-urnyx05/
GCam_v7.0.009-v4.4.apk works OK in both front and back cameras but you can't record videos with it. Gcam doesn't really improve video quality, so you can stick to stock cam for video, but most of the latest gcams work fine focus-wise.
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How you enable 2API??
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There is a big ass thread about it in the Guides section.

Error

try this https://f.celsoazevedo.com/file/cfiles/gcm1/GCam-6.2.030_Arnova8G2_Urnyx05-v2.5.apk

pawelik001 said:
The mostly problem is focus. I'd like to see working focus mostly.
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It's for this reason that I use san1ty's F1 mod: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/changelog738/
It's lacking many configs/features/selfie but I tend to prefer the reliable focus.

Overall best custom rom!!

So, I was tired with RealmeUI and decided to do some experiments with my phone. For the last few days I have been flashing numerous custom ROMs. I'm gonna share my experience with these ROMs. Hope it helps someone decide which one to flash. Earlier this post had some other ROMs mentioned too but I removed them as they were updated recently and I haven't tested them. So, can't provide my review without flashing them.
1. PIXEL EXPERIENCE PLUS & PIXEL EXPERIENCE
This is by far the best custom rom available for this phone. It's been one week and I'm still using it. The UI is buttery smooth. Gaming performance is awesome and battery life is good. The only downside of this ROM is that it doesn't have extra features like the other ROMs. This is purely STOCK. And damn I miss the OOS recorder from Derpfest. I know there's a Magisk module to get the oneplus apps and I did flash it. But the screen recorder was just not there. I tried installing ported apk. But the apk wasn't installed. So I used a app from the playstore- "SCREEN RECORDER". From my point of view this is the best rom for non gamers! I would recommend Evolution X for the gamers out there. I did install only two modules on this ROM - AML and Dolby Atmos!
2. EvolutionX
This is my daily driver now . The smoothness and performance is as good as PE+. But this rom has some extra features which is very essential (to me). If you game a lot and do screen recording, this is the one for you. There's a dedicated gaming mode which turns on automatically when you open games and oos screen recorder. It's a very feature rich rom. The latest version of EvolutionX needs RealmeUI firmware. So flash it first if you're on COS.
3. Havoc OS
Used this ROM for almost two days now and I can tell this is a good ROM. I didn't do gaming though. By the looks of it, I think it will handle gaming just fine. The XDA thread of Havoc is outdated. Join the Telegram Group to get the latest version(which is 3.8). And it needs RealmeUi firmware so flash it if you're on COS.

any bugs in Pixel Exp Plus or should I stick to Realme Ui

I can confirm. Been testing all the three and while I loved them Pe and pe+ are far the best in basic functions like speed, ui, battery, performance. Yet it is true it's very stock android like and missing some extra features but I don't mind for I'm a purist and you can always add extra content, apps, features by downloading and on a rooted device there is no such thing as completely impossible ?

Is there any properly working call recorder in pe+?

akshaybhanushali86 said:
any bugs in Pixel Exp Plus or should I stick to Realme Ui
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I encountered no bugs in PE+. Smooth as phaak!!

Madhuvrata said:
Is there any properly working call recorder in pe+?
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I never use call recording soI never tried any app!

Wolverinedd2 said:
I encountered no bugs in PE+. Smooth as phaak!!
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Will i get all features of realme ui or i need to install third party apps & can you tell me about camera ,all camera features which we have in realme camera is working?

greenys' said:
I can confirm. Been testing all the three and while I loved them Pe and pe+ are far the best in basic functions like speed, ui, battery, performance. Yet it is true it's very stock android like and missing some extra features but I don't mind for I'm a purist and you can always add extra content, apps, features by downloading and on a rooted device there is no such thing as completely impossible
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Actually, there is one impossible thing- " you can't install the OOS screen recorder (I couldn't). Tried the ported version and the magisk module Oxy-ify. The app just doesn't install.

akshaybhanushali86 said:
Will i get all features of realme ui or i need to install third party apps & can you tell me about camera ,all camera features which we have in realme camera is working?
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You have to sacrifice some things. The private safe of realmeui isn't there. You have to use Gcam. Stock camera features(48MP) won't work. Slo mo does work but is kinda useless. The secondary lenses work but the macro is pretty useless I guess.

Wolverinedd2 said:
Actually, there is one impossible thing- " you can't install the OOS screen recorder (I couldn't). Tried the ported version and the magisk module Oxy-ify. The app just doesn't install.
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Well, there will always be stuff that won't install on different ROMs. I tried so hard to get 48 mp on custom ROMs but found out that it's kind of faux yet a good 12 mp gcam shot can be just as sharp and detailed as an oversaturated stock 48 mp shot on stock ROM. So I gave up on it and I don't mind. There are some stuff you can't install but if you're creative enough you can get around them. I'm sure there are good enough screen recorders out there ?

greenys' said:
Well, there will always be stuff that won't install on different ROMs. I tried so hard to get 48 mp on custom ROMs but found out that it's kind of faux yet a good 12 mp gcam shot can be just as sharp and detailed as an oversaturated stock 48 mp shot on stock ROM. So I gave up on it and I don't mind. There are some stuff you can't install but if you're creative enough you can get around them. I'm sure there are good enough screen recorders out there ?
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I never cared for the 48MP mode. Even in stock rom I used it only twice. Normal 12MP images turns out better than the 48MP images.
I know there are screen recorder apps available out there. But none of them were as good as the OOS screen recorder so I shifted from PE+ to EvolutionX.!

Best rom, lineageos. But it seems nobody is developing it anymore... But still using it and it's great

Let me use this thread to ask this: is there any custom rom being actively developed, that does not have gapps included? Thanks.

Wolverinedd2 said:
So, I was tired with RealmeUI and decided to do some experiments with my phone. For the last few days I have been flashing numerous custom ROMs. I'm gonna share my experience with these ROMs. Hope it helps someone decide which one to flash.
1. DERPFEST
The initial impression of this ROM was great. Performance and battery life was way better than the stock ROM. And the games ran very smoothly(including cod mobile and pubg mobile). And it had great features too e.g. - OOS Screen Recorder. You can't find the app anywhere on the app drawer. It sits quietly in the quick settings. If you don't see it just add from the tiles. But after two days to usage ROM started behaving weird. Occasional lags and stutters in the UI. And some apps were crashing. And sometimes the will go to a bootloop. To get out of the bootloop you have to go into TWRP and flash caches. It is not a solution though as the bootloops would occur again. So I decided to dump this ROM. I didn't know what the reason was. I posted a comment on the post of derpfest but I got no reply. Well, I had installed too many magisk modules, which were useful actually. Viper,ICE sound, Dolby Atmos, Audio Modification Library. Can this be the reason?? Is there something called "Module Overload" exist?
2. POSP
Here I only didn't face the bootloop problem but faced others mentioned above. So I got rid of it before it begins the stucking in bootlogo problem.
3. PIXEL EXPERIENCE PLUS
This is by far the best custom rom available for this phone. It's been one week and I'm still using it. The UI is buttery smooth. Gaming performance is awesome and battery life is good. The only downside of this ROM is that it doesn't have extra features like the other ROMs. This is purely STOCK. And damn I miss the OOS recorder from Derpfest. I know there's a Magisk module to get the oneplus apps and I did flash it. But the screen recorder was just not there. I tried installing ported apk. But the apk wasn't installed. So I used a app from the playstore- "SCREEN RECORDER". From my point of view this is the best rom for non gamers! I would recommend Evolution X for the gamers out there. I did install only two modules on this ROM - AML and Dolby Atmos!
4. EvolutionX
Been using this for the last few days. The smoothness and performance is as good as PE+. But this rom has some extra features which is very essential (to me). If you game a lot and do screen recording, this is the one for you. There's a dedicated gaming mode which turns on automatically when you open games and oos screen recorder. It's a very feature rich rom. But remember you have to be on ColorOS firmware to install this rom. Just flash the firmware and flash the rom. Don't need to boot into COS.
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Evolution X has also a bug, the ported screen recorder doesnt support internal audio recording but great recorder because of 60 fps reolution. Only the default recorder works.

Anyone tried havocOS?

Hi, I was considering installing Pixel Experience plus on my phone. Do I need to have coloros or any specific version of realme ui to install it? I'm currently on Realmeui v11_c.05. I haven't rooted/flashed a recovery yet and plan to do it tomorrow. Should I download coloros before trying to flash this rom?
P.s Thank you for your detailed post, I was quite confused between PE/PE+, evox and derpfest.

chewballs said:
Evolution X has also a bug, the ported screen recorder doesnt support internal audio recording but great recorder because of 60 fps reolution. Only the default recorder works.
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Dude, I have been using the ported screen recorder for all of my PUBG recordings and it does support internal audio! Try messing with the settings

ohgodnonono said:
Hi, I was considering installing Pixel Experience plus on my phone. Do I need to have coloros or any specific version of realme ui to install it? I'm currently on Realmeui v11_c.05. I haven't rooted/flashed a recovery yet and plan to do it tomorrow. Should I download coloros before trying to flash this rom?
P.s Thank you for your detailed post, I was quite confused between PE/PE+, evox and derpfest.
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You don't have to be on COS for PE+ or EvolutionX. RUI will do the job

Wolverinedd2 said:
So, I was tired with RealmeUI and decided to do some experiments with my phone. For the last few days I have been flashing numerous custom ROMs. I'm gonna share my experience with these ROMs. Hope it helps someone decide which one to flash.
1. DERPFEST
The initial impression of this ROM was great. Performance and battery life was way better than the stock ROM. And the games ran very smoothly(including cod mobile and pubg mobile). And it had great features too e.g. - OOS Screen Recorder. You can't find the app anywhere on the app drawer. It sits quietly in the quick settings. If you don't see it just add from the tiles. But after two days to usage ROM started behaving weird. Occasional lags and stutters in the UI. And some apps were crashing. And sometimes the will go to a bootloop. To get out of the bootloop you have to go into TWRP and flash caches. It is not a solution though as the bootloops would occur again. So I decided to dump this ROM. I didn't know what the reason was. I posted a comment on the post of derpfest but I got no reply. Well, I had installed too many magisk modules, which were useful actually. Viper,ICE sound, Dolby Atmos, Audio Modification Library. Can this be the reason?? Is there something called "Module Overload" exist?
2. POSP
Here I only didn't face the bootloop problem but faced others mentioned above. So I got rid of it before it begins the stucking in bootlogo problem.
3. PIXEL EXPERIENCE PLUS
This is by far the best custom rom available for this phone. It's been one week and I'm still using it. The UI is buttery smooth. Gaming performance is awesome and battery life is good. The only downside of this ROM is that it doesn't have extra features like the other ROMs. This is purely STOCK. And damn I miss the OOS recorder from Derpfest. I know there's a Magisk module to get the oneplus apps and I did flash it. But the screen recorder was just not there. I tried installing ported apk. But the apk wasn't installed. So I used a app from the playstore- "SCREEN RECORDER". From my point of view this is the best rom for non gamers! I would recommend Evolution X for the gamers out there. I did install only two modules on this ROM - AML and Dolby Atmos!
4. EvolutionX
Been using this for the last few days. The smoothness and performance is as good as PE+. But this rom has some extra features which is very essential (to me). If you game a lot and do screen recording, this is the one for you. There's a dedicated gaming mode which turns on automatically when you open games and oos screen recorder. It's a very feature rich rom. But remember you have to be on ColorOS firmware to install this rom. Just flash the firmware and flash the rom. Don't need to boot into COS.
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I don't know what's wrong with this post but I can't seem to get the edit option. So I'm writing this in the comments-
"The latest version of EvolutionX doesn't need COS. It needs Realme UI firmware. So, if you're already on RUI don't need to downgrade"

savrin said:
Anyone tried havocOS?
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I'd like to hear about havoc too, it sounds like a promising os, but i can't find anything about it, other than the 6-page havoc thread.

Laggy front cam viewfinder for gcam on an unrooted stock Redmi Note 5 Ai (global)

I think the reason for this is because the global variant has a different sensor for the front cam. I read somewhere before that I need to flash something to fix this. How do I do this exactly?

Do you have problems in stock rom? That's new.
If you are talking about custom roms you only need the recovery (and you already have it because you have needed it to install the rom).
Check the pixel experience thread because the other day I put the file you need.

Yippee-ki-yay said:
Do you have problems in stock rom? That's new.
If you are talking about custom roms you only need the recovery (and you already have it because you have needed it to install the rom).
Check the pixel experience thread because the other day I put the file you need.
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I'm looking now how to install a custom recovery. Do I just have to flash only the file you linked and nothing else? Also, I don't have a problem with my stock rom.

Flash evolution x Rom there you have gcam working fine and patch for global version. I have all this and front camera looking so much better that miui.

0veR said:
Flash evolution x Rom there you have gcam working fine and patch for global version. I have all this and front camera looking so much better that miui.
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Is there a custom rom similar to miui and that also fixes all the gcam-related problems? I don't want to ditch miui because I really like it because of features like dual apps, second space, app locker, native scrolling screenshot, etc.

Question Are camera Apps limiting custom ROMs?

Hello everybody!
I have downloaded and installed Lineage OS on my Poco F3.
It's a great device but there are some software problems that really bugs me (proximity sensor is a mess, some GUI element are not good for usability, the "everything you need, nothing you don't" thing and then the phone is full of useless apps that i don't need...)
Lineage OS solved all of my problems except for one: the camera.
I'm realizing that there is no real alternative for the native camera app because it offers you the full potential of the hardware with all the features.
Don't get me wrong: i tried Open Camera, GCam Port and other popular apps.
Really good projects but there is always something missing or not working.
In addition on Lineage some camera apps are just not available on the Play Store (for example Footej Camera... using another store, dumping the APK from another device... all useless... the app will recognize my device as not compatible).
Why is that?
Lastly i even tried to install the stock APK on Lineage without success.
What is your opinion on that?
What are the software limitations involved?
Is this a limiting factor for you?
What camera app do you use?
Best regards.

I'm not someone who uses camera that much but I can tell you that I totally agree with people who think that native camera is the best. I use Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus and there is no alternative to camera which comes originally. That's one of the reasons why I tend to use ROMs with camera very close to stock one or even the same like stock one.
Lineage is known to cripple cameras.

you sound pretty knowledgeable, so i'm probably not offering much here... but, ANXCamera (miui camera port) is being worked on for our device, as far as i can tell... the following is copied from T.Gram... may show promise later on, but for now it's not fully functional
How get ANX working (partially)—
1. Download the MiUI Core from here (MOD EDIT: Link Removed)
2. Download the latest ANX (full version modded for R) from here (https://camera.aeonax.com/)
3. Flash the MiUI Core and ANX Zip through Magisk
4. Reboot
5. Paste the device-feature XMLs (MOD EDIT: Link Removed) in–
/storage/.ANXCamera/features/
6. Download ANXCamera Pro (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aeonax.camerapro) from the Play Store and use it to enable all the desired features in ANX.
What doesn't work for now:
UW, Macro and 48MP

Question Any tips to "customize" the 12X?

I'm totally sick of MIUI in a way that I'm almost buying a new phone and leaving Xiaomi for good. I used to run custom roms on my old Redmi Note 5 Pro, maybe that's why I never had a big problem with MIUI, I wasn't stuck to it. Now I'm getting more and more dissapointed with Xiaomi/MIUI, gestures navigation locked to default launcher, ads all over system apps, more and more bloatware and "locking" the user in Xiaomi's ecosystem with every update, and now this new "Mi Picks" crap that no one asked for.
I just wanted a simple Pixel Experience, but I know that I can't expect custom rom development for this flopped phone, so is there any alternative? As I could see, the few cusom roms that we have struggle with the same bugs with fingerprint, OIS, safety net and Google Play Protect issues, etc. Same for GSI roms.
Anyone has a path to share to get a phone that has less bloatware and locked features? It could be custom rom, GSI, even MIUI customizations, anything that works (included fingerprint, OIS, security standards, etc)

AOSP
Xiaomi 12X
The Xiaomi 12X is a 6.28" phone with a 1080x2400 resolution display. The Qualcomm SM8250-AC Snapdragon 870 5G chipset is paired with 8/12GB of RAM and 128/256GB of storage. The main camera is 50+13+5MP and the selfie camera is 32MP. The battery has a 4500mAh capacity.
forum.xda-developers.com
GSI
Generic System Image (GSI) list
Notes about tinkering with Android Project Treble. Contribute to phhusson/treble_experimentations development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
EU rom
MIUI 14 - 23.4.25
Status: RELEASED RULES WHEN POSTING 1. If a ROM is not published DONT ASK ABOUT ITS ETA 2. If a ROM is not published DONT ASK why! 3. If a ROM is available, download it and use it 4. If a ROM has bugs, post the bug to the bug section if the BUG is not already listed 5. If you use any form of...
xiaomi.eu

Elite Rom is Miui not Aosp?!
I also really like the size of this device, very sad that there are no custom roms

Splitter11 said:
Elite Rom is Miui not Aosp?!
I also really like the size of this device, very sad that there are no custom roms
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Elite rom is based on Xiaomi EU rom and there are AOSPs here.

NOSS8 said:
Elite rom is based on Xiaomi EU rom and there are AOSPs here.
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Unfortunately the AOSPs have issues with fingerprint sensor, optical image stabilization and security checks to run some apps.
I may try the EliteRom thats based on MIUI, it seems to have interesting features, but I couldn't get info about gestures navigation locked to the MIUI launcher.

rdadalte said:
Unfortunately the AOSPs have issues with fingerprint sensor, optical image stabilization and security checks to run some apps.
I may try the EliteRom thats based on MIUI, it seems to have interesting features, but I couldn't get info about gestures navigation locked to the MIUI launcher.
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Regarding the AOSP roms, they are in ALPHA version.
For the Elite rom ask the question precisely on the thread.

NOSS8 said:
Regarding the AOSP roms, they are in ALPHA version.
For the Elite rom ask the question precisely on the thread.
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Oh yeah, for sure, I'm just saying that they aren't realiable for daily use for me yet, but I hope they fix those issues someday, ArrowOS was one of my favorites roms.
About the gestures, I think I'll test the rom today and check it by myself.

Why not using pixel launcher with pixelify 2.2 per examples?