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Camera Zoom FX is wicked good

I just purchased this app yesterday and after a whole day of testing I have to say that its worth every penny. I felt the need to create this thread because the stock camera app is close to worthless in any sub-par lighting condition, and that everyone should get this app for their phone.
Focus speed of this phone is pretty good. I dont feel that bad anymore about not getting ICS Not to mention a plethora of other features which are useful to both the practical and creative user.
One of the more noteworthy features is the "stable shot" mode where it utilizes your phones sensors to detect movement and therefore eliminate blurry/unfocused photos (It will only shoot when the phone is still for a set amount of time)
I just intend to share this info with everyone since I myself am very happy with this app, and its not like there are better alternatives out there in the market.

Ya u r right ... i think we should use zoom fx in place of stock camera since it has nice focus and pictures are cryspy. while the stock cam always had blurity

if you are going to review an app from market then please also share some example photos too.

example shot? here it is... with a dim light from a resto bar... ^^
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example shot? here it is... with a dim light from a resto bar... ^^
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mjbri0613 said:
example shot? here it is... with a dim light from a resto bar... ^^
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Red Horse Extra Strong!
Anyway as for the pics, excellent timing since I'll be going to the zoo tomorrow

sicmofo said:
Red Horse Extra Strong!
Anyway as for the pics, excellent timing since I'll be going to the zoo tomorrow
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Good u shared, shall buy that soon.
I pity u dude, u r back to zoo (just pulling ur legs seeing ur avtar)...lol

As promised here are the photos http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150428497370818.385768.656605817&type=1&l=e5a6cf1173
let me know if you have any trouble viewing them.
I'll enumerate a few important details
- allows you to press anywhere on the screen to take a photo (no need to press that shutter button)
- no touch to focus, but auto focus and face detect is pretty reliable although I'm not sure how well it does with multiple faces
-stable shot; a feature that uses the phones sensors to take A photo only when your hand is somewhat stable for a set amount of time (sensitivity and time can be changed thru settings)
- macro actually allows you to
focus on close objects (stock app's macro was useless)
-burst mode
-voice (or clap) activated image taking
-time lapse (havent tested this extensively but a quick test implies it does what it says)
-front facing cam works (pics of me in blue)
-takes a bit longer to boot than stock app though so thats a negative, not to mention a random glitch where upon opening the app, all the lens see is black (like a non-functioning camera when flashing a rom). closing and re-opening the app fixes this.
Anyways I hope this will prove useful and instead of mouthing off any further I'll just let the pics speak for themselves. Please note I didnt include any blurry photos resulting from animals suddenly moving.
No animals were hurt in the making of this review

Froyo Camera in ICS?

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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dstarr3 said:
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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dstarr3 said:
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..

Still no 720p recording fix?

From ICS to JB and still no camera recording fix at 720p. I thought i read somewhere in xda infuse that 720p recording was fixed, maybe i'm wrong.

cat2115 said:
From ICS to JB and still no camera recording fix at 720p. I thought i read somewhere in xda infuse that 720p recording was fixed, maybe i'm wrong.
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It's a damn hard problem to fix. If you think about it it's a deep down driver level issue that requires a pretty broad skill base to diagnose and fix. Years of coding experience to understand yet alone begin to fix it... It doesn't help that this isn't supported by Samsung nor the camera developer.
So it's incredible that the damn thing even turns on. I'd say Entropy and jt are smart enough to fix it in time though
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I miss 720, imo its the only thing holding me back from flashing any other ICS Roms. I wonder if the camera can be fixed with an aftermarket app, like how TORCH was fixed by using an app.

I guess this could help you https://www.box.com/s/e122d0f656ea949f58c2 It's from this forum http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=432576&highlight=Fix+grabacion+720p+JB

SMiGGs said:
I miss 720, imo its the only thing holding me back from flashing any other ICS Roms. I wonder if the camera can be fixed with an aftermarket app, like how TORCH was fixed by using an app.
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in likely...I could be wrong but I believe the problem relays in the drivers/kernel
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I guess this could help you https://www.box.com/s/e122d0f656ea949f58c2 It's from this forum http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=432576&highlight=Fix+grabacion+720p+JB
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NOOOOOOOOO DON'T USE THAT YOU WILL LIKELY BRICK OR BREAK THINGS!!!
That was taking from an HTC website...we have Samsung...two COMPLETLY different company's with COMPLETLY different hardware....
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mg2195 said:
NOOOOOOOOO DON'T USE THAT YOU WILL LIKELY BRICK OR BREAK THINGS!!!
That was taking from an HTC website...we have Samsung...two COMPLETLY different company's with COMPLETLY different hardware....
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Sorry, but this forum is not only to HTC devices. If you take a moment, you see that it's like this web. The only mistake I maked is that this patch is for the Samsung Galaxy S i9000GT, but I post it just to help you. Maybe this patch could give you some idea to make one by yourself.

rodrigoalumno said:
Sorry, but this forum is not only to HTC devices. If you take a moment, you see that it's like this web. The only mistake I maked is that this patch is for the Samsung Galaxy S i9000GT, but I post it just to help you. Maybe this patch could give you some idea to make one by yourself.
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I wasn't mad at you or anything...I knew you were trying to help, I mainly made such a big deal to ward off newbs...they may flash it. May break something then they freak out...wanted to save them.the trouble
Anyways...some of our best devs have been trying to fix it for quite a few months (entropy, jt1134...).theyve tried to use/adjust the I9000 camera patches...but still nothing :/
I just saw HTC in the address and assumed it was an HTC patch
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Actually...720p is A LOT smoother then it used to be (haven't used it in months ) and just for the heck if it I flashed your linked I9000 zip...well after the flash it was back to how bad I had remembered (neither were good)
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Goodbye sweet 720p

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Goodbye sweet 720p
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Here's the fix for 720p recording.

I am also torn over the missing 720p recording, but I am still incredibly happy with JB! The only other major issue is the banding I get in photos, although someone had mentioned that possibly JB changed the shutter/refresh speed in the camera which produces the banding under fluorescent lighting conditions. Unfortunately I saw nowhere to manually adjust this.
The other major issue was the darn thing disconnecting from Bluetooth in my Toyota Entune system, but supposedly version 2.12 and the OC V2 Kernel fix the issue. Will be testing it out today.

I get the same lighting effect on my pics as well. Paranoid Android, is working flawlessly. Besides 720 and other issues, its a great rom, and good on battery life.
Everything is almost fixed, so we might get lucky w/ 720

SMiGGs said:
I get the same lighting effect on my pics as well. Paranoid Android, is working flawlessly. Besides 720 and other issues, its a great rom, and good on battery life.
Everything is almost fixed, so we might get lucky w/ 720
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I just wanted to update and say that the banding lines I was receiving seem to be isolated to a specific building at my university. I am guessing the JB Rom somehow changed the shutter rate setting and in doing so it introduced a "flicker" banding line effect due to the fluorescent lighting in the building. If I go outside, or to other buildings with fluorescent lighting it does not do this, so the bulbs in the original building must be perfectly attuned to a rate that interferes with the imaging sensor.
I haven't found a way to tweak or fix this issue, but as long as photos in most other lighting and outside are fine I am alright with it.
Please try this out and let me know if this is also your issue.

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I just wanted to update and say that the banding lines I was receiving seem to be isolated to a specific building at my university. I am guessing the JB Rom somehow changed the shutter rate setting and in doing so it introduced a "flicker" banding line effect due to the fluorescent lighting in the building. If I go outside, or to other buildings with fluorescent lighting it does not do this, so the bulbs in the original building must be perfectly attuned to a rate that interferes with the imaging sensor.
I haven't found a way to tweak or fix this issue, but as long as photos in most other lighting and outside are fine I am alright with it.
Please try this out and let me know if this is also your issue.
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That's cool! I wish I could find a way to reproduce that!

[Q] Rooted my phone have some camera questions.

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.

RAdical_Future said:
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.
Fuzi0719 said:
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.

RAdical_Future said:
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.

Nas Escobar said:
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).

Nas Escobar said:
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...

HOLY #$%^ a video camera that does INFINITY focus!

If know how sucky it is to take action shots with the G2 and have it constantly hunting for focus ...
You would pay a million bazzillion freeking dollars for this app:
Open Camera
No it's not my app. I found it on F-Droid apps and then also discovered it is on Play store:
100% Free (unless you are inspired to but the paid donate cheap app too)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera
EDIT: see my post below a few comments down
OMG!! Seriously glad be cause this is the only good camera app I have found that allows video with infinity focus for video on LG G2.
What is INFINITY focus? Well, pretty much everything past 2 meters is infinity. This will work well if panning a video shot of your buddy passing on the ski trail or mountain bike trail or for any panning shots that confuse the G2.
Thought you would all want to know.

Nice find, thanks for sharing

natureburger said:
Open Camera
Thought you would all want to know.
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Nice find. >A Better Camera does infinity focus too. Great quality!

AyDee said:
Nice find. >A Better Camera does infinity focus too. Great quality!
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Except, A Better Camera, in infinity mode, retains the last held focus. In other words,
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I does not work properly!!!!!
Try this:
1) Put it in Continuous Focus mode in Video mode.
2) Focus on something as close as possible.
3) Without moving camera, put in Infinity focus.
4) Take Video and slowly move away and look to the distance.
Bzzzzttt. It fails.
But then I tried the Open Camera...
Even worse, it also fails!
So ... both work as long as camera is first focussed on a distant object and then switched to Infinity mode. They should both rename it to 'Last Exposure Lock' mode!!!
* This post brought to you by the International Software Testing Association in cooperation with camera testers everywhere. *

I really miss fixed focus in video coming from a sammy device, but as a solution i found the camera awesome app, where you can lock focus and exposure even in video, but ofcourse you lose the video modes of the stock camera. And is not free. But i haven't found a solution for the terrible sound of the mic

Jonous said:
I really miss fixed focus in video coming from a sammy device, but as a solution i found the camera awesome app, where you can lock focus and exposure even in video, but ofcourse you lose the video modes of the stock camera. And is not free. But i haven't found a solution for the terrible sound of the mic
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LG Camera does a nice job with audio

NuclearEMP said:
LG Camera does a nice job with audio
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Maybe you missed the part about this thread being for cameras that use a true 'Infinity' mode.
The camera app link you posted is for another one that does not truly use a proper Infinity mode. Do the test I posted above and you will see that!

this is awesome

natureburger said:
Maybe you missed the part about this thread being for cameras that use a true 'Infinity' mode.
The camera app link you posted is for another one that does not truly use a proper Infinity mode. Do the test I posted above and you will see that!
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So basically, it does not exist, according to your second comment.
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Very awesome. This is what the stock LG camera needed. Works great to prevent the over correcting focus.
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Idan73 said:
So basically, it does not exist, according to your second comment.
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That's right. It does not exist. The only way to get the similar effect is as posted in 2nd comment: focus, then set to infinity.
Shame ... because Android camera programmer interface does come with Hyperfocal fixed focus setting that would be good for anything from 2 metres to unlimited.
Hoping someone makes a convenient button to activate that soon.