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Wanting old Sensation 1080p Camera or equivalent back.

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.

ClipTy said:
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.

ClipTy said:
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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Camera: CM10 vs 4.0 Sense stock

Hallo guys,
I read on the CM10 dev thread that the camera in that rom isn't as good as the 4.0 Sense stock camera. Can anybody please explain what exactly is the difference between those two camera apps in terms of picture quality, focusing, shutter, velocity and video recording? And why is it not possible to make the camera as good as it is on the stock rom?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
br3ak

br3ak said:
Hallo guys,
I read on the CM10 dev thread that the camera in that rom isn't as good as the 4.0 Sense stock camera. Can anybody please explain what exactly is the difference between those two camera apps in terms of picture quality, focusing, shutter, velocity and video recording? And why is it not possible to make the camera as good as it is on the stock rom?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
br3ak
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First of all, im not a developer but ive noticed that the cm10 camera loses all the sense software like continuous shutter and shooting photos while recording. Moreover, colors seem to have better contrast and saturation with sense. Can anyone else confirm this?
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I think the sense cam makes really good pictures. I use it for snapshots in holidays aswell. I don't wanna miss the good cam, That's why I hesitate to switch to CM10.

br3ak said:
I think the sense cam makes really good pictures. I use it for snapshots in holidays aswell. I don't wanna miss the good cam, That's why I hesitate to switch to CM10.
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Yeah it's great and if you dont wanna lose the cam it may be best to stay on sense till we get the official jb update
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I'm no developer too, so i could be wrong.
But as far as i know, this phone has a dedicated chip called 'ImageSense' powering the camera.
So far only the Sense camera app is able to fully utilize this chip, and thus having many features which are not available on AOSP rom's camera app.
As for the AOSP roms, the devs are able to get the camera working, but not able to fully utilise the ImageSense chip.
As for porting the Sense camera app to AOSP roms, i think it is close to impossible because of some framework issue which means the sense camera app only can run on sense roms.
Please correct me if im wrong.

From what I remember reading, HTC also didn't supply the drivers to the ImageSense chip, so it couldn't be integrated into AOSP ROMs. Hence, only Sense based ROMs which already have the drivers built in can fully utilise the ImageSense chip.

[Q] Lost default camera after rooting.

Dear all,
Need help in having a nice camera app for my HTC Sensation. I recently root it, and installed Jelly Bean 4.2.2. The camera app which came with this ROM is not good enough. I want to use back light adjustment option while taking pictures. The default HTC camera app has that back light option which makes my pictures more clear.
Please let me know about any camera app.
Regards.

mhk_144 said:
Dear all,
Need help in having a nice camera app for my HTC Sensation. I recently root it, and installed Jelly Bean 4.2.2. The camera app which came with this ROM is not good enough. I want to use back light adjustment option while taking pictures. The default HTC camera app has that back light option which makes my pictures more clear.
Please let me know about any camera app.
Regards.
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I'm sorry to disappoint you but you can't use Sense based apps on non-Sense roms. Get a sense rom like ViperS or Elegancia.

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careslo said:
I'm sorry to disappoint you but you can't use Sense based apps on non-Sense roms. Get a sense rom like ViperS or Elegancia.
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Can you tell me any good camera app, something similar like Sense Camera of HTC Sensation.

[Q] Camera on a custom ROM

I was going to post this in the Droid Kang ROM thread, but I don't have enough posts to post in the developers forum.
I finally jumped ship from stock and ended up on the Droid Kang ROM. I'm liking it quite a lot, but two issues with the camera that I didn't have before:
- Is there any way to make the volume keys take a picture?
- Face detection isn't enabled anymore (which links to focus and exposure)
Is there an option somewhere that I'm missing? Or a camera apk update that I could do?
Thanks in advance!

bump...any thoughts?

Your best option would be to use a different camera app like Camera FV-5.. ProCapture...

jonflo said:
I was going to post this in the Droid Kang ROM thread, but I don't have enough posts to post in the developers forum.
I finally jumped ship from stock and ended up on the Droid Kang ROM. I'm liking it quite a lot, but two issues with the camera that I didn't have before:
- Is there any way to make the volume keys take a picture?
- Face detection isn't enabled anymore (which links to focus and exposure)
Is there an option somewhere that I'm missing? Or a camera apk update that I could do?
Thanks in advance!
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Have you tried flashing the photosphere camera module from 0day gapps thread that will replace the camera apk with the stock camera apk
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vin4yak said:
Your best option would be to use a different camera app like Camera FV-5.. ProCapture...
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I've bought a ton of camera apps but never found anything I liked more than the stock camera. Most of them seemed too clunky and not actually improve the photo taking experience or quality. I'll check these out, thanks!
kevtrysmoddin said:
Have you tried flashing the photosphere camera module from 0day gapps thread that will replace the camera apk with the stock camera apk
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I can't believe I hadn't thought of this... it worked and all is good in the world again. Thanks!!

jonflo said:
I've bought a ton of camera apps but never found anything I liked more than the stock camera. Most of them seemed too clunky and not actually improve the photo taking experience or quality. I'll check these out, thanks!
I can't believe I hadn't thought of this... it worked and all is good in the world again. Thanks!!
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No problem its what XDA is here for
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LG G3 AOSP Camera quality solution

Hi everybody,
A lot of people buy that model because of camera quality, a lot of us like AOSP based roms. But the camera lost quality because of LG framework issue. I tryed i lot of camera programs, but results are worst. Only the apk LG camera for AOSP (for LG2) get very good quality, and i compared to stock LG G3 camera. But that apk not give any settings, also flash setings on CM12 based roms. I am sure it is big issue for all of us. If simebody can recommend some solution, will be great!
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Hi, same for me. I only hope some dev can give it a try and solve this issue... Fix the G2 apk could be a nice start ! At least fix the settungs like you said.
Btw, give a try to resurrection remix rom, cause the camera quality is very nice. I'm on it since the beginnig and recording is so far better than the others, smooth and fast. It's probably between stock LG camera and XCam

i Think its a Driver Problem

Camera quality cant be solved yet.I read somewhere that devs are trying to improve but i think that quality wont even get close to stock .
Hope for the best

Jishnu's Camera f40
Jishnu's Camera f40 give perfect quality, i compared to stock LG Camera on stock firmware, and no difinerenses. But settings works not properly. And problem with size of camera monitoring on display, but size of pictures are right. I tryed on Resurrection Lollipop v5.2.5 and 5.0.2 Euphoria-OS 1.0. I think some little tuning of mod and we can get best present to ney year.

Rafael Pershing said:
Jishnu's Camera f40 give perfect quality, i compared to stock LG Camera on stock firmware, and no difinerenses. But settings works not properly. And problem with size of camera monitoring on display, but size of pictures are right. I tryed on Resurrection Lollipop v5.2.5 and 5.0.2 Euphoria-OS 1.0. I think some little tuning of mod and we can get best present to ney year.
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i remember his work for G2. i hope someone could pick this up where he leaved!
i think many of us would honor this and donate for a aosp quality cam solution!

Jishnu's Camera the MOD for the Stock anyone has some news about it? for the Lollipop

Maybe it's possible to port the LG framework to aosp or just the libs it require to make the camera works. I remember the folks at miui used to make a ton based on the stock one so all the things works fine. So if we could make a port of cm inside the stock or the other we could make it work.

I am also thought about that. I hope one of developers will give us good solution. I am sure a lot of us will donate for that issue.
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Rafael Pershing said:
I am also thought about that. I hope one of developers will give us good solution. I will. I am sure a lot of us will donate for that issue.
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Count me in

Jishnu's Camera
Very good news guys, Jishnu, one of best masters, port today new mod for Lollipop. I will donate for the motivation. Only the camera issue did me sad in AOSP rom till now.

Can you provide a link to the topic on which you have this information

lars79 said:
Can you provide a link to the topic on which you have this information
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https://plus.google.com/communities/105192843938506663262

Rafael Pershing said:
https://plus.google.com/communities/105192843938506663262
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This wouldn't work for me. It mounts and installed into /system/app, but I noticed in Illusion, that folder is filled with folders, unlike in older versions of android. I also tried manually installing the APK into the same folder as the original camera app, removing it and correcting permissions, but no go.

Rafael Pershing said:
Very good news guys, Jishnu, one of best masters, port today new mod for Lollipop. I will donate for the motivation. Only the camera issue did me sad in AOSP rom till now.
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Doesn't work, install is all wrong.

Interesting to see how/if this develops...

He is banned on xda, maybe because he copies others works..
He's porting badly G2 camera, that someone else has already done..

AKDMA said:
This wouldn't work for me. It mounts and installed into /system/app, but I noticed in Illusion, that folder is filled with folders, unlike in older versions of android. I also tried manually installing the APK into the same folder as the original camera app, removing it and correcting permissions, but no go.
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You have to flash it through recovery. That works, but it's not otimized for the QHD screen yet, and it only registers as 8 megapixels

SolsticeZero said:
You have to flash it through recovery. That works, but it's not otimized for the QHD screen yet, and it only registers as 8 megapixels
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That didn't work for me. It simply installs the apk into /system/app, unlike any other application in there. Might just be the ROM I'm on.

AKDMA said:
That didn't work for me. It simply installs the apk into /system/app, unlike any other application in there. Might just be the ROM I'm on.
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Must be. I flashed it on CM12 and it worked fine.