I searched everywhere but i couldnt find one alternate camera application.
I had a Nokia 6600 before (definitely a lame ass compared to my IMate!) but I had a billion 3rd party camera applications for it. I could tweak thousands of sliders like brightness, contrast, negative, polarize etc. at realtime and take pictures.
Isnt there something like that for the Pocket PC?
*sigh*
San
I just DLed upStream specifically so I can batch upload my camera shots (I use Vignette btw). Although it's not ideal, I can live with having to choose each shot one-by-one before I upload a set. It would be really nice if I could like swipe my finger over multiple thumbnails instead (I can't right?).
My real problem is with the gallery, namely that it scans for photos and videos every time it opens up - which is a real waste of time since I also use the SDrescan appe. Is there anyway to turn the gallery scan off?
Thanks in advance for the help.
i also wondered the same thing. i hated the fact that sooo my cpu and battery was wasted every time i opened the gallery..
never found a answer for this.
so i switched back to the older 2d gallery.
3d has a better interface.. but the 2d is well worth it if you don't want the continuous scanning.
Hello.
First of all, my compliments to everone that makes great things like custom roms, mods, and so.
I'd like to know if is there a way to mod/improve/change the camera app, so the shutter speed can be set.
Thanks.
Hello again. It seems this thread gained some interest, but no one could give an answer. What I asked was if is there any way to hack, develop, activate improved settings for htc chacha camera.
Videos are saved in 3gp format. Is there any way to make camera app to save them as mp4?
Pictures get blurry if the subject moves quickly, or you are not steady when shooting. Is there any way to set the shutter speed?
I don't know if the camera app can be disassembled or something, and hacked into make that things.
Maybe the camera app can be ported from another model that uses the same camera model, and can do that.
I asked HTC about this, and they answered "latest 2.3.5 version has many improvements", but none about the camera...
The camera is way better than Wildfire, which my wife owns, but I think it can be even better if the camera app is up to it.
Thanks for reading.
The big question revolving around this issue is if the cameras themselves are the same between the phones. It's not only the camera.apk that's connecting them, it's the hardware as well. Yes, there could be a possibility that the cameras are the same, between ChaCha and Wildfire (for example), but at the same time the proc or image sensor might be of a newer generation. Unfortunately I have no hardware specs on this, if anyone knows it would be nice to know.
Question: Do you know of any phone that has advanced settings inside the Camera.apk that allows you to set shutter speed? Would be interesting to compare them a bit.
In the camera.parameters public class there is a setting called scene_mode_sports that seems to be the only way to set a faster shutter speed.
I can't see it in my HTC Chacha/Status, and even lgcamera hasn't that option in the menu.
There is a profile.xml file that sets the limitations of the camera, but it seems people hack it to allow the camera to record movies in higher resolutions, because many times the limitations are imposed by the manufacturer and not the hardware.
Also, hacking the firmware and/or the drivers of a camera would allow to gain the full features of it.
This reminds me of people that upgraded the Nokia N900 to allow it to record movies in 720p, just by replacing binary files in the phone.
Is there an app that tells you what exactly hardware your phone has, and such drivers or modules it uses?
Thanks all.
Hello all.
I'm reviving this with some news. The camera module the ChaCha uses is a Samsung s5k4e1gx (http://www.samsung.com/global/busin...t/cmos-imaging/detail?productId=5622&iaId=220), the same found in several other HTC models: HTC Desire Z, HTC Mini and others.
It seems that in the Desire Z this camera is able to record 720p video.
I think this is determined by the firmware loaded for the camera, and the app itself.
I'd like to know if it's possible to port change the original ChaCha camera related modules and firmware from the Desire Z ones, so the camera can get taht 720p video shooting.
Also, I'm searching for a way to disable the auto light metering so a manual can be set. There are many 'better camera' apps in the market but they all seem to improve the original camera app itself, instead of getting the most of the actual camera sensor.
Thanks all.
Has anyone come across any app with a functionality similar to Sony's Timeshift or Asus' Time Rewind ?
Seems like a good feature to have, so that few images before and after shutter press are stored and the best one can be chosen.
I saw an app called Slider Cam, with similar functionality, but reviews not that good.
Any others ?
Thanks!
Is there any app for oneplus one, that can actually slow down just parts of a video.
I know oneplus as slow motion video, but it actually captures the whole video in slow motion. Want something that can actually just slow down parts of it.????
I don't know of an app that has this, perhaps one of the dozen camera apps has this feature
But, I know for sure that a video editing program on your PC/Mac has this feature. Try looking in any of those, it's not ideal but after a little effort you ought to have a nice result