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[MOD] 480x320 Recording for CM6 ROMs

This is a cross post from my mau5 ROM thread, but I think other people might enjoy it too.
I've put together an update.zip that allows for 480x320 recording via camcorder. Currently, our device only allows 352x288(high quality), this simple hack just allows a greater resolution and I think a clearer picture IMO.
I've set 352x288 as the default "low" quality and 480x320 as the default "high" res recording so that you do have a choice whenever you want. I've also changed the file format to mp4 instead of 3gp since well.. no one uses 3gp for anything.
There are few drawbacks though. 480x320 is the last somewhat "stable" res where the OMX core won't **** bricks all over the place so be weary of any force closes. Also, gralloc likes to crap out when switching resolutions on the fly along with being unable to view the 480x320 video in the gallery app (since we have such bad gfx power).
I do plan on making this STABLE at one point, but it'll require kanging some memory for gralloc to use while changing resolution.
You can check for yourself on the differences with a 352x288 recording and a 480x320 recording
(low light vs direct light)
You can see an example of a video I shot last night at a xmas party HERE to see 480x320 when it comes to more 'motion' recording. (Warning: White people dancing)
Download the 480x320 update.zip here:
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Awesome. I remember darchstar had unstable 720p in his aosp rom. Glad to know someone is still working here
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brokentoaster24 said:
Awesome. I remember darchstar had unstable 720p in his aosp rom. Glad to know someone is still working here
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I've always been messing around with it. The proprietary blobs just get in the way a lot and you end up at a dead end with no resources. :/

Decad3nce said:
I've always been messing around with it. The proprietary blobs just get in the way a lot and you end up at a dead end with no resources. :/
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When are you due for an upgrade? I'm trying to follow the hero devs so I know what to get next
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Works great. You said we're unable to watch videos in Gallery, but I can view them. I just shot a test 480x320 video.

Does this work with Aosp rom
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raymond4 said:
Does this work with Aosp rom
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Not sure. Nandroid and find out

Why is the video quality in the CM/AOSP ROMS so bad? I know you said the 480x320 is better, but looking at both of your vides, while hte content was not fun (white people dancing never is) the quality is just unwatchable.
Just curious because on the HTC ROMs it is at least somewhat decent.
Not crapping on what you're doing here Dec, but just trying to understand what you're dealing with.

riggsandroid said:
Why is the video quality in the CM/AOSP ROMS so bad? I know you said the 480x320 is better, but looking at both of your vides, while hte content was not fun (white people dancing never is) the quality is just unwatchable.
Just curious because on the HTC ROMs it is at least somewhat decent.
Not crapping on what you're doing here Dec, but just trying to understand what you're dealing with.
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I get bored. You can only push the framerate so high on either quality, and the hero itself has never had that good of recording capabilities.
The htc roms are 'decent' looking because their encoding is handled better and optimized for the proprietary omx libraries which we have no source too

Decad3nce said:
I get bored. You can only push the framerate so high on either quality, and the hero itself has never had that good of recording capabilities.
The htc roms are 'decent' looking because their encoding is handled better and optimized for the proprietary omx libraries which we have no source too
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I was going to mention the video recording quality not more than two days ago and was messing around with the app a little here and there, but no need for that now
Thanks again Deca

Does the now low quality 352x288 save as mp4 as well?

bray424 said:
Does the now low quality 352x288 save as mp4 as well?
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Yes it does.

bro that video was priceless lol thanks for the little upgrade

The quality is definitely superior compared to the standard. I can't thank you enough. You continue to breathe life into my Hero. Arigato!!

Will it work with AOSP 2.2 ROM?

Decad3nce said:
You can see an example of a video I shot last night at a xmas party HERE to see 480x320 when it comes to more 'motion' recording. (Warning: White people dancing)
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Thanks .. Side note, what was with the guy checking himself out in his "hand mirror"? Great video for the laughing

Twolazyg said:
Thanks .. Side note, what was with the guy checking himself out in his "hand mirror"? Great video for the laughing
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Lets just say he had a little bit too much "eggnog"

Hay decad I'm on asop and flash this the only thing I see so far is that after taking video it fc no big deal. When I got to video info it shows mpg4 for mat like it should. I think. If I go to video setting it show some thing different and can't change it. So it works for the most important part the video. Zoom works too
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Thanks this works excellent Happy New year / New years Eve
Root-Hack-Mod-Always™

this works on liquidsense rom perfectly
it seems like at least one person is still dedicated to making our htc hero cdma camcording quality better it may not be 720 HD but.... I can't wait to see your future camcorder improvements

WORKING Camera ICS Sensation

Heads up!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1533238
[MOD] HQ Camera For ICS - v1.2 ([email protected]/s)
Looks like they got the camera working for the Sensation
This should help put us in the right direction, no?
Our phone is essentially the stepsister of the sensation

that's great but unfortunately i guess it's only a tweak of the sensation's stock camera.
which means that we would still need an official ICS rom for our phone to be able to (maybe) enjoy the same tweaks

im running desensed 1.1.3 and flashed the virtuous inquisition file it worked but still no 1080p video it force closes......but the iso 1250 is now present in the camera menu

this does enhance picture quality my previous pics were about 1.5 mb where now they are about 4.5 mb

I'm fairly certain that we actually have the Amaze's camera, and not the Sensation's camera.

Limewirelord said:
I'm fairly certain that we actually have the Amaze's camera, and not the Sensation's camera.
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no definetly not the amaze camera it is almost identical to stock mt4gs camera. You can take a look here:
http://htc.t-mobile.com/amaze-camera-phone

Cool, definitely bumped the pic size up to about 2.5 MB, even using ICS camera app. Now my question is, does anyone know what the size is on stock doubleshot?
Edit: nevermind, the size on stock DS camera is about 1.5 MB! So with this mod, the camera on pyro ice may be better than stock DS! Camcorder is still out, obviously, but still cool.

HTC ONE X Camera on Sensation

Any possibility to be able to use it on sensation?

ziaulh.ch said:
Any possibility to be able to use it on sensation?
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MAYBE it is possible to port "some parts", e.g. the interface or effects etc. But the features such as taking photos while recording isnt possible because they require the HOX special camera hardware. (I think you wont see any port tbh). Hope it helped a little.

ziaulh.ch said:
Any possibility to be able to use it on sensation?
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Apolzan said:
MAYBE it is possible to port "some parts", e.g. the interface or effects etc. But the features such as taking photos while recording isnt possible because they require the HOX special camera hardware. (I think you wont see any port tbh). Hope it helped a little.
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If you want the interface its already in all sense 4 roms....

pottyvick said:
If you want the interface its already in all sense 4 roms....
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Too bad not all is features are carried since sense 4 is just a port.. like the camera burst action feature is still missing..

monchi69 said:
Too bad not all is features are carried since sense 4 is just a port.. like the camera burst action feature is still missing..
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That's true. Could be hardware related. The shutter speed of HOX camera is way above the Sensation.
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monchi69 said:
Too bad not all is features are carried since sense 4 is just a port.. like the camera burst action feature is still missing..
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Theres a fiff cam app ehich super for continuous shot. I use it. So bursting is not harware entirely.
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Fast Burst Camera in the market does the job for multiple burst shots and the ZLS.
Swyped on HTC Sensation 4G

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1765416
Here's a link. I just downloaded this today. It's been giving me great results. There are a couple cons to this.
1) Manual focus does not work.
2) Can't remap button to vol+/- unless you download the Button Remapper.
------------> The Button Remapper is found somewhere on XDA. Just use the search function. However, there are downsides to this as well. Let's say you remap your camera shooter button to vol+. You can't vol+ anymore and etc.
3) Slow Motion Video does work.
Pros
1) It seems to have better quality than Sense 4.0 stock camera. This means that file size is a bit larger. Let X denote the file size. I have been getting 3 < X < 5 MB per picture. (I believe you might better a Class 6+ SD card. I am not sure about this since I've always been using a Class 10.)
2) For the Sensation, regardless which one you flash, the highest Mbps is ~20.
3) Panorama picture seems to be a bit wider than stock Sense 4.0.
4) This is comparable to Sense 3.6 HQ Camera mod by NODO.
I haven't used all of the functions yet. But this is what I know as of now.

Awesome find bro..! will try this too once i get home.. thanks for the share!

DeactivatedProtocolDroid said:
That's true. Could be hardware related. The shutter speed of HOX camera is way above the Sensation.
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I think this is because of the snapdragron S4 and the quadcore processors,
but there is a port on the amaze the it boots and all but a lot is broken like gsm, wifi, data and i tried the camera shutter while im recording and it works fine,
now the amaze have the same snapdragon s3 as the sensation. I dont know if there might be a tweak or something to make it work

The burst mode used to work but was unstable sometimes it would just close the app all of a sudden ...
Sent From My Sexy Sensation.

silverboi17 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1765416
Here's a link. I just downloaded this today. It's been giving me great results. There are a couple cons to this.
1) Manual focus does not work.
2) Can't remap button to vol+/- unless you download the Button Remapper.
------------> The Button Remapper is found somewhere on XDA. Just use the search function. However, there are downsides to this as well. Let's say you remap your camera shooter button to vol+. You can't vol+ anymore and etc.
3) Slow Motion Video does work.
Pros
1) It seems to have better quality than Sense 4.0 stock camera. This means that file size is a bit larger. Let X denote the file size. I have been getting 3 < X < 5 MB per picture. (I believe you might better a Class 6+ SD card. I am not sure about this since I've always been using a Class 10.)
2) For the Sensation, regardless which one you flash, the highest Mbps is ~20.
3) Panorama picture seems to be a bit wider than stock Sense 4.0.
4) This is comparable to Sense 3.6 HQ Camera mod by NODO.
I haven't used all of the functions yet. But this is what I know as of now.
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By the way I tried to flash this but Aroma installer wont let me click next!

Try this, Sense 4.0 camera with working burst mode.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1779466&highlight=burst+mode

[REQUEST] JB Camera App?

After trying many JB I've found that the only thing I significantly liked was the Camera/Gallery.
Would the JB camera/gallery work in ICS or GB Roms?
Any thoughts?

Normally I would say create a backup then try for yourself...but since I'm already on cm9 I'll test...iop report back in a bit...
Chances on working on ics... I think its possible
Chances on working on gb...unlikely
EDIT 1: so here's what I've done so far...I deleted camera.apk and googlegallary.apk from my phone using a root explorer. I the extracted gallery2.apk from cm10 and placed that in /system/app using a root explorer. I then edited the permissions to "rw-r-r". Rebooted. As of now gallery works flawlessly...camera doesn't...which doesn't surprise me...
Also...gallery2.apk is two apps in one...its the camera and the gallery...
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GB Camera on JB
How about the other way around? I'm in the same boat with having tried a bunch of ICS and JB roms. The difference is that the only thing I DIDN'T like was the camera (gallery ok.) - laggy, panorama mode often not working (forced into macro), really poor video recoding - limited to 720p and even with that very laggy and choppy, even 480p is sluggish and keeps recording sound a few second after you tap stop - overall really bad compared to GB which has way more functions and flawless 1080p recording.
Is there a way to replace the stock SGS camera in JB roms with the Infuse GB camera?

jche1 said:
How about the other way around? I'm in the same boat with having tried a bunch of ICS and JB roms. The difference is that the only thing I DIDN'T like was the camera (gallery ok.) - laggy, panorama mode often not working (forced into macro), really poor video recoding - limited to 720p and even with that very laggy and choppy, even 480p is sluggish and keeps recording sound a few second after you tap stop - overall really bad compared to GB which has way more functions and flawless 1080p recording.
Is there a way to replace the stock SGS camera in JB roms with the Infuse GB camera?
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No, gb camera has touchwiz dependencies (not the touchwiz launcher), you would need a Samsung based Rom to use a Samsung camera...
And the laggy camera isn't related to the camera app, its much deeper then that...if I am correct it needs driver/kernel fixes...
Also, when did it have 1080p recording? Last I checked the infuse doesn't even support 1080p recording...and I never had it on any gb Rom that I cam remember (I've tried em all...except some of the newer ones...)
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mg2195 said:
No, gb camera has touchwiz dependencies (not the touchwiz launcher), you would need a Samsung based Rom to use a Samsung camera...
And the laggy camera isn't related to the camera app, its much deeper then that...if I am correct it needs driver/kernel fixes...
Also, when did it have 1080p recording? Last I checked the infuse doesn't even support 1080p recording...and I never had it on any gb Rom that I cam remember (I've tried em all...except some of the newer ones...)
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Sorry, my bad, I thought I saw it there somewhere but it must have been the 1280x720p mode - u're right, no 1080p recording on Infuse in GB but 720 is nice and smooth.
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mg2195 said:
No, gb camera has touchwiz dependencies (not the touchwiz launcher), you would need a Samsung based Rom to use a Samsung camera...
And the laggy camera isn't related to the camera app, its much deeper then that...if I am correct it needs driver/kernel fixes...
Also, when did it have 1080p recording? Last I checked the infuse doesn't even support 1080p recording...and I never had it on any gb Rom that I cam remember (I've tried em all...except some of the newer ones...)
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I did, I think, use Samsung based ICS and JB roms (ported from Galaxy S II or III) - still no way to drop a GB camera into those? .. just curious but obviously if it was possible it would probably have been done already...

jche1 said:
Sorry, my bad, I thought I saw it there somewhere but it must have been the 1280x720p mode - u're right, no 1080p recording on Infuse in GB but 720 is nice and smooth.
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I did, I think, use Samsung based ICS and JB roms (ported from Galaxy S II or III) - still no way to drop a GB camera into those? .. just curious but obviously if it was possible it would probably have been done already...
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All of the ics and jb roms are cyanogenmod based/aosp based...so allthough they come from other Samsung devices they are still missing the twframework-res.apk and other dependencies...I started working on porting a stock Samsung Rom, but I'm just not skilled enough for that kind of a port...
Even if we did have a Samsung base o think the camera would still be laggy due to drivers/kernel
(I know all this port stuff, and dependencies is pretty confusing...)
I will agree hat I do miss that smooth 720p recording :/ maybe one day we will have it again...
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mg2195 said:
All of the ics and jb roms are cyanogenmod based/aosp based...so allthough they come from other Samsung devices they are still missing the twframework-res.apk and other dependencies...I started working on porting a stock Samsung Rom, but I'm just not skilled enough for that kind of a port...
Even if we did have a Samsung base o think the camera would still be laggy due to drivers/kernel
(I know all this port stuff, and dependencies is pretty confusing...)
I will agree hat I do miss that smooth 720p recording :/ maybe one day we will have it again...
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Thanks for all the info! - Very helpful. Went back to GB for now and I guess I'll wait patiently until you or someone cracks this nut..

[MOD] HTC One 1080p Front Camera Video Recording (for AOSP ROMs)

This is very similar to my hugely popular mod for the Nexus 7 that I did. I did this because it seems CM on the One doesn't support 720p or 1080p, so maybe some vloggers or people who like to take videos of themselves (vain people?) would enjoy this very simple modification.
I got 1080p video recording working on my One under CM and felt you guys should know about this too. It's a simple fix as it's not a limitation of hardware or a kernel function or anything, rather for some reason HTC is using a weird way to enable 1080p in the stock firmware that doesn't carry over to CM. They aren't using the media_profiles.xml. This mod includes 1080p recording for the front camera, as well as some alterations to the bitrate of the audio and video to give it slightly better quality in the output videos. You won't really notice it unless you're really trying, but it's little things that all add up to give a better experience.
This is NOT needed under stock ROMs
Somehow, HTC have made their camera application NOT need to read the media_profiles.xml, and as a result the stock ROM does not need this modification. Only CM based ROMs need this. I don't know if it's needed under the Google Edition firmware or not. You'll have to let me know.
How To Install
Download the zip (M7-1080p-Camera-for-CM)
Reboot to recovery
Install
Reboot to Android
???
PROFIT!
The Mod
It's the same deal as on the Nexus 7: simply use my attached pre-modified file and push it to /system/etc/media_profiles.xml. I expect the permissions will be 644.
How It Works
I had to explain this on the Nexus 7, so I'll explain it again. The hardware already supports this functionality as the camera itself just sends RAW information to the processor, and then based on the settings the processor is given by Android, the processor encodes it in the format it's been told to, for example for the rear camera it would be told to record 1920x1080 @ a certain bitrate to H.264. The processor itself doesn't tell Android what the hardware is capable of (and considering the Snapdragon 600s enormous video encoder capabilities, they're very high), Android is told what it can do by the file media_profiles.xml.
No this will not improve video quality in Skype/Hangouts/whatever other thing you want to do, this will only work for video recording applications.
Download Link
Check the attachments below. There are two files: media_profiles and M7-1080p-Camera-for-CM - media_profiles is JUST the XML file, and M7-1080p-Camera-for-CM is the installer for CWM/TWRP. Most users will want that. Just install it from in CM.
Video For Your Delectation
I'll make a YouTube video of it soon

am I totally wrong or the HTC One front facing camera records on 1080p, so why this?
I'm guessing that somehow I'm wrong and this is actually useful

tyraelasd said:
am I totally wrong or the HTC One front facing camera records on 1080p, so why this?
I'm guessing that somehow I'm wrong and this is actually useful
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You are not wrong, I'm also seeing all the same profiles (MMS, 720P, 1080P) when switching to the front camera... so why this MOD? lol

fongz27 said:
You are not wrong, I'm also seeing all the same profiles (MMS, 720P, 1080P) when switching to the front camera... so why this MOD? lol
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Interesting. It appears to work in the stock firmware, but not on CM, but even in the stock firmware it doesn't have the 1080p media profiles. I'm guessing HTC are doing something sneaky to make it work. Well this mod still works for CM nonetheless. Guess I need to add this to CM like I did with the N7. Of course the purpose of this mod is slightly killed by the front camera working like *** on CM.
Good to know though.

Seeing this mod is rather pointless on the stock ROMs, I will make it useful and max out the encoder capabilities. Be back in an hour when I find the full abilities of the Snapdragon 600s video encoder.
EDIT: Updated first post to now include my updated media_profiles.xml for 1080p front camera recording and increased bitrate video and audio.

Just realised why CM doesn't do 1080p for the front camera. They use a common media_profiles.xml for ALL MSM8960 HTC devices.. which means older crappier phones have the same profile. Effectively, this limits CM on the One a lot. Lemme relearn how to make a commit to CM so I can add this into their repo.

Does this get rid of the green hue in the front camera too in CM?
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xjedi said:
Does this get rid of the green hue in the front camera too in CM?
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Unfortunately not. I'm not sure what causes that, but I want to look into it because it's really odd it only happens to the front camera. I suspect the sensor has a weird colour profile that isn't being set up right? Could be wrong.

hillbeast said:
Unfortunately not. I'm not sure what causes that, but I want to look into it because it's really odd it only happens to the front camera. I suspect the sensor has a weird colour profile that isn't being set up right? Could be wrong.
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In my case, that green hue is related to light surrounding (I ain't sure what's the term for it, but it's that sun/cloudy/AW/bulb thingy in camera settings circle).

Ramazor said:
In my case, that green hue is related to light surrounding (I ain't sure what's the term for it, but it's that sun/cloudy/AW/bulb thingy in camera settings circle).
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Yeah I find it changes depending on the lighting as well.

Glad to see you over here
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So much time past from last post but this mod works on GPE stock 4.4.3 (I'm not kidding).
Thanks a lot