So, I recently flashed up to Android 4.0.4 from 2.2, and all is well, except I liked the previous system Camera app more. More settings, more digital zoom, et cetera, et cetera. I just want my old camera back. I was happier.
I did some searching, and found out that people think it would be difficult to do (would take some decompiling and such) and still may not work, but as far as I can tell, no one's actually tried.
Does anyone have any more information for me on how to go about getting the Froyo camera on ICS? I can get a hold of the two camera APKs. I just don't know what to do from there. Someone dropped a big hint in this thread, but that's still not enough information for me to go and try this myself if no one has already.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Have you tried any free camera apps from the Play store to see if they might fill your need?
It would be extremely difficult as it has twframework dependencies...something that is not available on any aosp/aokp rom...I'm not saying its impossible but it would take an experienced app and/or moder to get the job done...it would be cool to have a stock like ics rom but unfortunately there is no source for that...only for aosp...I've tried porting stock Samsung Roms in the past but was never really successful I think one time I got one to boot but after days of constant work I didn't get any farther...it was unuseable cause everything would force close...most likely due to missing libs that we don't have available
Also...they are system apks from two different os so compatibility will also play a roll in it
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I was afraid it was as difficult as I've been reading. Sounds like so.
The biggest thing I miss is the zoom. With 4x zoom, even though just digital, I was able to take macro shots of textbooks all the time. I just bought (and returned)... what was it called, Camera Zoom FX. It did give me 6x zoom as promised, but it couldn't autofocus whatsoever.
The camera in this phone is capable of doing what I did most with it, taking photos of texts. But it seems the only app that allowed it to do so was on Froyo.
Do you think there'd be a way to hack the ICS camera app to supply more zoom?
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I was afraid it was as difficult as I've been reading. Sounds like so.
The biggest thing I miss is the zoom. With 4x zoom, even though just digital, I was able to take macro shots of textbooks all the time. I just bought (and returned)... what was it called, Camera Zoom FX. It did give me 6x zoom as promised, but it couldn't autofocus whatsoever.
The camera in this phone is capable of doing what I did most with it, taking photos of texts. But it seems the only app that allowed it to do so was on Froyo.
Do you think there'd be a way to hack the ICS camera app to supply more zoom?
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Sure, there's always a way...how difficult and how to do it is something that I do not know unfortunately...like I said earlier its probably gonna take an expiernced apk developer
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So, I recently flashed up to Android 4.0.4 from 2.2, and all is well, except I liked the previous system Camera app more. More settings, more digital zoom, et cetera, et cetera. I just want my old camera back. I was happier.
I did some searching, and found out that people think it would be difficult to do (would take some decompiling and such) and still may not work, but as far as I can tell, no one's actually tried.
Does anyone have any more information for me on how to go about getting the Froyo camera on ICS? I can get a hold of the two camera APKs. I just don't know what to do from there. Someone dropped a big hint in this thread, but that's still not enough information for me to go and try this myself if no one has already.
Thanks for your help in advance.
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Same thinking regarding porting 4.0.3 Camera as in Karbon A18 to my Micromax A100 Canvas which is having 4.0.4 ICS .The 4.0.3 have good autofocus and facedetection but the 4.0.4 is stock dumb crap. looking forward with you..
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I posted this in the normal Q & A, didn't get many answers so I wanted to get more specific.
So here's my issue: I have an HTC Sensation 4g (brilliant phone) which is rooted, and custom rom'd with CyanogenMod 9, the Nightly build. I have the latest version installed, and I love everything about it. I have one small issue though. I really miss the old camera from the Sense Rom. Is there any way to get the old camera back? Or is there a camera I can download that will basically replace it?
I loved taking 1080p photos with my phone, but now I feel like the quality and size of the pictures I take have dropped when I switched to ICS CM9. I read up on some mods to get the old camera back but they claim you need Sense installed on your phone. (Which I believe is a memory waster) I got rid of it to move on, but I wish I brought the camera with me.
Any suggestions?
The way sense is built, it's just all put together. You can't take one component and use it alone. You need sense to use the stock camera, no other way. If it was that easy, believe me, you would have heard about it already.
Well I thank you for the input, I've been using Camera360 as a replacement, it works really well. Only problem being it can't record video, so I need to use the stock camera for that.
Would you know of an app that had the "Full screen" style camera that records video + takes pictures? That's all I'm really looking for.
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Well I thank you for the input, I've been using Camera360 as a replacement, it works really well. Only problem being it can't record video, so I need to use the stock camera for that.
Would you know of an app that had the "Full screen" style camera that records video + takes pictures? That's all I'm really looking for.
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Unfortunately, there aren't any "camcorder" apps in the market. Only camera apps. That takes still pictures with effects and stuff. All you can use is the camcorder that comes with the ROM you're using.
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Well I thank you for the input, I've been using Camera360 as a replacement, it works really well. Only problem being it can't record video, so I need to use the stock camera for that.
Would you know of an app that had the "Full screen" style camera that records video + takes pictures? That's all I'm really looking for.
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blackwing182 has an aosp based miui rom in the dev section that you may be able to extract a working camera from. I'm not saying it will work, but it may be worth a shot...
uCam is a great camera app and has all the functionality you need. It's free too
Yes! This is what I am looking for! UCam is THE camera app for me! Thanks!
Also give lgcamera a try from the market. Camcorder app is pretty good in it. You can get real aac 128 44khz audio out of it. In my opinion I use that for my camcorder app even on Sense rooms just because the audio doesn't get clipped like the Sense camcorder does.
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I fell in love with Sense 3 on my Evo 3D, but I think I'm over it now. I'm tired of the behemoth ROM downloads, etc.
However, I am in love with this fast focus, pic in video, etc camera that this One S has stock. What can I do ROM wise to cut the fat but keep the amazing camera? I want CM10, but the camera sucks. I understand that the camera is probably something sense framework related isn't it?
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I fell in love with Sense 3 on my Evo 3D, but I think I'm over it now. I'm tired of the behemoth ROM downloads, etc.
However, I am in love with this fast focus, pic in video, etc camera that this One S has stock. What can I do ROM wise to cut the fat but keep the amazing camera? I want CM10, but the camera sucks. I understand that the camera is probably something sense framework related isn't it?
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Look at the Sense-based ROMs under the development forum. You won't find anything like it in AOSP/AOKP.
Try sense based miui (there are 2 different ones, make sure you get sense based). Personally not a miui user, but sounds like what you may be looking for.
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tgtoys said:
Try sense based miui (there are 2 different ones, make sure you get sense based). Personally not a miui user, but sounds like what you may be looking for.
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I'll try that out, normally I wouldn't but I'm intrigued on this phone. I can't imagine how sense would mesh with that.
I'm blown away by this camera though. Not to veer the thread off too far but anyone know how to do the burst mode? I found something about limit to 20 shots per second or something like that, but I can't get it to burst
Just keep holding the shutter button down and it will start bursting until you left you finger or reach the limit
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Ahh good , I was expecting mode
Found a great solution to my problem I got Viper One S ROM and unchecked Sense. Kept the lock Ring and the awesome camera
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Found a great solution to my problem I got Viper One S ROM and unchecked Sense. Kept the lock Ring and the awesome camera
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Yeah I was running that for a while. Still doesn't match the speed & smoothness of JB/CM10 (IMO) but true it does give you perks from both. Good news is we get official JB within the next month, so won't have to compromise much longer :victory:
So when official One S JB comes out then cyanogenmod can have the stock camera? I've been running Trickdroid but there's no updates on that and my phone starts to run like crap after a couple weeks. Just put CM10 Back on today, and forgot no good camera.
cm10 camera can do burst mode, but it's very clunky and in the menu.
When ever I take pictures their are black bars on the side of the pictures. Also when I'm in the camera app everything looks like it has a weird filter but when I take the picture they are clear.
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When ever I take pictures their are black bars on the side of the pictures. Also when I'm in the camera app everything looks like it has a weird filter but when I take the picture they are clear.
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Which ROM are you using?
Rom I'm using.
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Which ROM are you using?
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Im using CM 9.1 by scverhagen.
Yeh I have the same rom as you CM9 R8 and to me the image on the screen isnt as clear but when you take a pic it seems the resolution turns out better than you expected. I also noticed that the camera button on the side of your phone doesnt work which is lame I really liked using that for picture taking it was handy but oh well cant be perfect for a rom. If you want also do what I did, I just downloaded other camera and video apps. Way better than the stock app and on the screen they show up as better resolution than the stock app
Yeah, unfortunately the camera apps that come with CM/AOKP ROMs are very lacking on this phone, compared to the stock camera app. There are some third-party apps that do reasonably well, though. I like Camera360.
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When ever I take pictures their are black bars on the side of the pictures. Also when I'm in the camera app everything looks like it has a weird filter but when I take the picture they are clear.
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The black bars on the side is because the phone has a 16x9 screen but the picture is being taken in the 4:3 ratio. It's the same thing as watching an old tv show on a new widescreen tv.
Talking about our camera, has anyone figured out a way to port our camera to Cyanogen? That's the only thing that's stopping me from flashing a Rom, considering I've had this phone for a year.
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The black bars on the side is because the phone has a 16x9 screen but the picture is being taken in the 4:3 ratio. It's the same thing as watching an old tv show on a new widescreen tv.
Talking about our camera, has anyone figured out a way to port our camera to Cyanogen? That's the only thing that's stopping me from flashing a Rom, considering I've had this phone for a year.
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CM will never run a Sense camera because of framework/libs
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Give ICS Camera or Camera JB+ a try. They are definitely fitting replacements for stock and you'll be very happy with results.
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I've tried both apps but have serious issues with those and the included ICS or JB camera apps. So far none have worked to record video.
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1080 does not work on anything but a GB ROM with this phone, make sure that at most 720 is selected...
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rorytmeadows said:
Give ICS Camera or Camera JB+ a try. They are definitely fitting replacements for stock and you'll be very happy with results.
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Well I'm running the RemICS_UX port from the HD2. Not bad of a rom. It's over samsungized but I'll find a theme for it. It claims to have the 1080p recording so lets see how that works out.
I personally don't care for all the "features" of the stock CAMERA app since I can always download a 3rd party app that will be on par. I only use night mode, macro and automatic. My main concern is 1080p recording (and that the mic doesn't sound so crappy).
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Well I'm running the RemICS_UX port from the HD2. Not bad of a rom. It's over samsungized but I'll find a theme for it. It claims to have the 1080p recording so lets see how that works out.
I personally don't care for all the "features" of the stock CAMERA app since I can always download a 3rd party app that will be on par. I only use night mode, macro and automatic. My main concern is 1080p recording (and that the mic doesn't sound so crappy).
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I believe the 1080 not working has more to do with HTC Android drivers for the camera, rather than the available choice in the software.
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rorytmeadows said:
I believe the 1080 not working has more to do with HTC Android drivers for the camera, rather than the available choice in the software.
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Yeah, trying to record in 1080 makes the button useless. I'm starting to feel that the phone doesn't have real 1080p feature. My last phone was a Huawei Comet/U8150 and I had a very similar issue with the camera. Turned out that the phone had a 2.0 megapixel camera that was made to look like a 3.0 by the stock software. It was a sorry excuse of a camera.
I'm going to have to think about this one. I wonder if we could somehow port or rewrite a code to get 1080p working. Sadly, I know nothing about android development. My main thought was to sit the htc camera apk on top of cyanogen but I've read up that it's not that simple.... which I find weird considering someone has the beats by dre stuff on their mytouch4g slide rom.
Its not to complicated to understand but it is to fix. You see it does have true 1080 recording and it still one of the best cellphone cameras to date. Thing is if you want to run a custom ROM that is not based of the original T-Mobile release then some things may not be the same, the camera being one.
Unless you can get ahold of the proprietary camera drivers or write you're own you will be missing much of what is available. And any app based off the HTC framework will not work of different, such as cyanogen or even aosp.
Even phones that have been nearly torn apart by some super smart people doesn't mean that everything imaginable is possible or at least not easy. Try running sense on a Samsung phone, not too easy. Just saying be happy for what you have unless you know a sneaky backdoor to these issues that no one has thought of yet
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I knew it had to lay within the coding.
I already imagined that it would be hard. Such a shame...
So, I have been messing around. And I have come to find that the stock Camera.apk and CameraFirmware.apk from the SGS4G on froyo 2.2.1 are mostly compatible with the Sidekick 4G. In fact the camera looks better, and we could possibly port the zoom features somhow 0.0 so I have been trying to figure out how I can get started with this "idea". It would be awesome, there are a couple bugs so far.
Bugs:
-No zoom (yet)
-No highest res in Video Recorder
-Some resolutions have no review screen
-front camera is flipped 90 degrees cc ( I wanna work on this first really, if I can get some help starting it)
Just looking for stuff to do with my limited current knowledge.
(Sorry, still new to informative posting -_-)
I just linked some shots
Here is plain camera view, you can pinch and see the zoom box but the image doesn't change
--> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83829634/Android/Screenshots/device-2013-06-15-114243.png
Here is the flipped-sideways front facing shot --> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83829634/Android/Screenshots/device-2013-06-15-114814.png
And last, here is the said apks:
Camera.apk --> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83829634/Android/CameraApks/Camera.apk
CameraFirmware.apk --> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83829634/Android/CameraApks/CameraFirmware.apk
That would be nice to have if it works better. The camera is one of the weakest links on this device I think.
I know little to nothing about the cameras hardware or software, you may just need to match the libs but you also may need to rewrite drivers, that part is hard.
Keep us posted, very interesting!
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demkantor said:
I know little to nothing about the cameras hardware or software, you may just need to match the libs but you also may need to rewrite drivers, that part is hard.
Keep us posted, very interesting!
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It would be awesome to finally have a camera with zoom is what I have been thinking. I'm not very good when it comes to code, I've still been taking courses and practicing here and there. But as far as testing it out, I can practice on my own device and let you know if I figure some things out.
Maybe another thread somewhere has the information I need to get started. Flipping the screen should probably be easy. (Hopefully heh)
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Haven't found anything too helpful as for the screen flip. Maybe I am looking in all of the wrong places? Tried Google-- got nothing, and maybe the forums use a certain term or something.
Maybe try to change picture size instead of screen flipin as the only big issue would be on screen buttons but should still work ?
If you still look for screen flip its basically the same screen same size an everything so instead of looking to flip change the location of them?
Sorry going off the few post with no pics or video of it
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Sorry about that, I'll see if I can grab up a screenshot when I get home tonight.
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Ha! And here I've been thinking this is a good camera that takes pretty dang good photos! I also thought it did zoom but mine was broken
It's not the worst camera out there. I do wish they had included a flash though. The Sidekick LX 2009 (last Danger HiptopOS version) had a flash.
Just out of curiosity did they kinda downgrade i guess world be the word the sk camera. I notice in alot of aftermarket camera apps it registers as being 4.9mp like the sgs
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Hi,
Since the N5 has good camera with numerous functionnality i was wondering which camera app fits the best to it ?
I'm waiting for my n5 to arrived..
But i like camera FX, can someone try it on its nexus 5 and report if it's working well or not ?
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Stock Camera App
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I've tried CameraFX and Focal, and the pictures come out darker in low light and less precise... It seems the optimisation is built into the stock app at the moment so there's little point going 3rd party.
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I've tried CameraFX and Focal, and the pictures come out darker in low light and less precise... It seems the optimisation is built into the stock app at the moment so there's little point going 3rd party.
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Thanks for testing
I'm looking for third party app since stock doesn't allow us to choose ISO for instance
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What about focal? Not sure if it works for the nexus 5 since I don't have the phone yet but focal has been pretty good for me on the n4
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The stock Android app is rubbish and fiddly to use, but ive not found a third party one that works very well yet. As has been said they seem to be optimising the camera in the camera app rather than in the firmware and Kernel. Rather cheeky for a Nexus..
Camera FV-5
Lots of options to take advanced control of the camera. Buy the pro version.
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Camera FV-5
Lots of options to take advanced control of the camera. Buy the pro version.
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It doesn't work on the N5 so save your money.
Having tested a few 3rd party camera apps on my N5 yesterday I can say they all seem to be bugging out a bit at the moment.
I can also say, for gods sake, why are there no 3rd party camera apps for android with a UI that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out. All I want is something neat like camera+ for iOS, is it too much to ask?
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Having tested a few 3rd party camera apps on my N5 yesterday I can say they all seem to be bugging out a bit at the moment.
I can also say, for gods sake, why are there no 3rd party camera apps for android with a UI that doesn't make me want to claw my eyes out. All I want is something neat like camera+ for iOS, is it too much to ask?
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Sounds like opportunity knocking, better get yourself an Android SDK and a few development/programming books and crank out such an app - there's money to be made, man!
br0adband said:
Sounds like opportunity knocking, better get yourself an Android SDK and a few development/programming books and crank out such an app - there's money to be made, man!
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That's a damn good point. Although knowing me we'll see this grand project started a few years late.
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I've tried CameraFX and Focal, and the pictures come out darker in low light and less precise... It seems the optimisation is built into the stock app at the moment so there's little point going 3rd party.
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Does that mean no 3rd party cam app will likely ever operate acceptably with it?
Hope not, I was counting on some manual control options (that aren't in stock) to try and squeeze out some quality from this cam.
Give Focal a try.
I'm generally "not happy" with the camera so far (understatement). So far "A better camera" is the best. Here's what I've tried, I'll try to be brief:
Stock camera sort of focuses but can still be blurry, and sucks at low light and the menu stinks.
Focal isn't able to focus well.
Moto X camera seems to work but is lacking in options.
Camera FV-5 looks like a nice camera app with tons of features, but had a couple force closes and the demo is WAY too limiting to see if I can actually get a decent shot out of it. If android had a longer return period for purchases I would try it out.
A Better Camera does a good job of focusing and taking a sharp picture. It's fast and so far, has some nice features, the UI looks a little low res, but that's pretty minor.
if anyone has any others to comment about, please share.
paddylaz said:
Does that mean no 3rd party cam app will likely ever operate acceptably with it?
Hope not, I was counting on some manual control options (that aren't in stock) to try and squeeze out some quality from this cam.
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The phone has been out for less than a week. Give the devs the chance to at least update the apps.
If you're new to the nexus line, better get used to this. Your phone gets android updates first, which means that at Day0 of each update a lot of your 3rd party apps will stop working
Maybe the camera app from LG G2 is worth a try?
The camera apps are buggy. Maybe due to the bad auto focus in the stock camera ? Hopes this gets fix because when it focus right the pictures are gorgeous from looking at the screen.
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Try Lenovo Super Camera app. I used it on S3 and it kept crashing however on N5 its working a lot better than the stock app. I didn't try all mods and effects however I tested HDR mode and kind of liked it better than stock HDR+ but YMMV ... so give it a shot ... installs like a regular apk. Please post your experience here as I just got my phone a few hours ago so still looking for best apps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2427015
P.S. By the way I am using 3.1.3 and since its working I am not going to bother updating to 3.5.5
My problem is the lack of burst mode on the stock camera. Other than that and the limited settings, I'm quite happy with the way the shots come out. I've tried a few 3rd party apps so far with burst shot but they all seem to be geared towards slower phones so they tend to severely reduce output quality to compensate.
Come on Google....sort the camera app.
Maybe a petition might help?
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Try Lenovo Super Camera app. I used it on S3 and it kept crashing however on N5 its working a lot better than the stock app. I didn't try all mods and effects however I tested HDR mode and kind of liked it better than stock HDR+ but YMMV ... so give it a shot ... installs like a regular apk. Please post your experience here as I just got my phone a few hours ago so still looking for best apps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2427015
P.S. By the way I am using 3.1.3 and since its working I am not going to bother updating to 3.5.5
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How did you get it to work?
After installing the app I get force close every time i try to open it
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