Hello! I know I probably should post this in the dev thread for my ROM, but I mostly lurk here so I don't have enough post count to be granted posting privilege in dev forums yet... x_x
Anyway, I am running Slim Bean 4.3 on a Samsung Galaxy S2 (T-Mobile model, T-989 AKA Hercules). The ROM works great for the most part, but I am having some issues with the camera.
First off the camera app that came bundled with Slim Bean seems to be a modified version of the stock Android 4.3 app, and had the PhotoSphere mode removed... I uninstalled it using Titanium Backup and then installed the stock 4.3 camera app, and now PhotoSphere is working, which is great. But that wasn't the main issue...
The main issue is that in both the camera app that came with Slim Bean, as well as the stock Android 4.3 camera app, the photos I take from Panorama and PhotoSphere modes come out extremely blurry. It's almost as if these two modes have absolutely no control over the camera's focal settings.
Strangely, this issue does NOT affect the standard photo mode (thankfully), so everyday photos aren't affected. But as it stands, I pretty much cannot take photos using the Panorama or PhotoSphere modes.
I was just wondering if this issue is device-specific? Or have other people on non-4.3-supported devices who flashed a custom 4.3 ROM also experienced this issue?
Thanks in advance for your answers!
Lorien_Silmaril said:
Hello! I know I probably should post this in the dev thread for my ROM, but I mostly lurk here so I don't have enough post count to be granted posting privilege in dev forums yet... x_x
Anyway, I am running Slim Bean 4.3 on a Samsung Galaxy S2 (T-Mobile model, T-989 AKA Hercules). The ROM works great for the most part, but I am having some issues with the camera.
First off the camera app that came bundled with Slim Bean seems to be a modified version of the stock Android 4.3 app, and had the PhotoSphere mode removed... I uninstalled it using Titanium Backup and then installed the stock 4.3 camera app, and now PhotoSphere is working, which is great. But that wasn't the main issue...
The main issue is that in both the camera app that came with Slim Bean, as well as the stock Android 4.3 camera app, the photos I take from Panorama and PhotoSphere modes come out extremely blurry. It's almost as if these two modes have absolutely no control over the camera's focal settings.
Strangely, this issue does NOT affect the standard photo mode (thankfully), so everyday photos aren't affected. But as it stands, I pretty much cannot take photos using the Panorama or PhotoSphere modes.
I was just wondering if this issue is device-specific? Or have other people on non-4.3-supported devices who flashed a custom 4.3 ROM also experienced this issue?
Thanks in advance for your answers!
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most of the time cyangenmod always has issues with the camera, plus android 4.3 like just recently came out and you were expecting everything to work?
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most of the time cyangenmod always has issues with the camera, plus android 4.3 like just recently came out and you were expecting everything to work?
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Thanks for the reply ^_^
I just flashed back to 4.2 (CM 10.1) but it looks like the camera is still blurry in panorama mode... I don't see this on the known issues list for CM though. Does anyone know if this is a known issue for this specific device?
Lorien_Silmaril said:
Thanks for the reply ^_^
I just flashed back to 4.2 (CM 10.1) but it looks like the camera is still blurry in panorama mode... I don't see this on the known issues list for CM though. Does anyone know if this is a known issue for this specific device?
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i remember flashing cm 4.2 back i think a year ago when 4.2 came out and the camera had some bugs still, i would recommend using a downloaded camera app that normally works.
Lorien_Silmaril said:
Thanks for the reply ^_^
I just flashed back to 4.2 (CM 10.1) but it looks like the camera is still blurry in panorama mode... I don't see this on the known issues list for CM though. Does anyone know if this is a known issue for this specific device?
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I'm having the exact same problem with CM 4.1.2 and 4.1.3. Looks like it just gets stuck on the minimimum focus distance.
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Hello All,
This post is about my recent experience with CM10 stable build on SGS3 verizon. I did not like the many problems with the stock camera app.
It takes only 1.3MP when my phone is capable of 8MP. The camera app frequently crashes, and stops connecting to the camera. only a reboot brings it back. Also, it saves pictures only to the internal memory, and not to the external SD card I have. The TouchWiz camera is way better and has so many awesome features that the market camera apps and the stock camera app does not have.
I have done some research on all of these issues and after finding there is nothing we can do at the moment to fix them, I came here to ask for expert opinion.
Things I did.
1. Rooted the phone using the instructions from this site.
2. Backed up all user apps and data using titanium backup.
3, Got RomManager, and clockwork mod
4. downloaded the latest CM10 stable and GAPPS (latest)
5. Roboot into recovery
6.backed up the current image
7. Wiped Cash
8. Wiped data partition
9. wiped dalvik cache
10. wiped battery stats
11. fixed permissions
12 flashed the CM10 zip file
13 Flashed the GAPPS zip file
14. Reboot
now the phone boots into CM10 running JellyBean 4.2. It looks awesome in everyway.
but the first thing I tried after setting up all the google accounts, was the camera. and It was crashing after 3 pictures, and they were pretty poor quality.
I installed some of my apps from the App store, and noticed that the battery was draining really fast. I got about 2 hours of screen time, and the phone gets really hot.
The Gallery in TouchWiz automatically syncs with facebook, and shows all my FB albums. The stock gallery does not do that.
From what I see, there are tons of optimizations that samsung did in TouchWiz that I don't know how to achieve with CM10.
I really missed the awesome Camera app. If there is any way to get full device functionality and perfomance on CM or any other custom ROM running Jellybean, I am all ears.
Thanks for your time.
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The 4.2 camera is known to have issues on aosp on the s3 right now. As for the actual aosp camera it's not bad at all, in fact I think it takes amazing pictures (used it on my vacation in Hawaii this past summer) and the pictures turned out amazing. I'd suggest not using the 4.2 camera for now until it gets worked on.
As for a touch wiz camera port to aosp that's highly doubtful, it requires the touch wiz framework to work completely.
And for my personal opinion going back to touch wiz solely for the camera is rather sad, while the touch wiz features are nice after being on aosp for so long it just feels so slow and behind in the times, I'd recommend using liquid smooth aosp and just staying on aosp
If u like touch wiz and the look of aosp then I would suggest trying jelly beans build 4. Check it out. It has a thread. Ktoonsez kernel works great with it. No problems at all. GPS is a lil slow. The ROM is nice. U also need ROM toolbox. Love that app
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Camera is still only at 1.3MP
Neverendingxsin said:
The 4.2 camera is known to have issues on aosp on the s3 right now. As for the actual aosp camera it's not bad at all, in fact I think it takes amazing pictures (used it on my vacation in Hawaii this past summer) and the pictures turned out amazing. I'd suggest not using the 4.2 camera for now until it gets worked on.
As for a touch wiz camera port to aosp that's highly doubtful, it requires the touch wiz framework to work completely.
And for my personal opinion going back to touch wiz solely for the camera is rather sad, while the touch wiz features are nice after being on aosp for so long it just feels so slow and behind in the times, I'd recommend using liquid smooth aosp and just staying on aosp
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The Camera in CM10 will only go up to 1.3MP. Is there any other apk that uses the SGS3 camera to the full potential?
Liquid smooth
Neverendingxsin said:
The 4.2 camera is known to have issues on aosp on the s3 right now. As for the actual aosp camera it's not bad at all, in fact I think it takes amazing pictures (used it on my vacation in Hawaii this past summer) and the pictures turned out amazing. I'd suggest not using the 4.2 camera for now until it gets worked on.
As for a touch wiz camera port to aosp that's highly doubtful, it requires the touch wiz framework to work completely.
And for my personal opinion going back to touch wiz solely for the camera is rather sad, while the touch wiz features are nice after being on aosp for so long it just feels so slow and behind in the times, I'd recommend using liquid smooth aosp and just staying on aosp
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I have never heard of Liquid smooth aosp. Is it a custom rom similar to CM10 ? Where to get it?
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The Camera in CM10 will only go up to 1.3MP. Is there any other apk that uses the SGS3 camera to the full potential?
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little confused here; mine on CM10 (latest build) goes up to 8mp, so how are you saying it only goes up to 1.3mp?
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I have never heard of Liquid smooth aosp. Is it a custom rom similar to CM10 ? Where to get it?
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goldsmitht said:
little confused here; mine on CM10 (latest build) goes up to 8mp, so how are you saying it only goes up to 1.3mp?
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I was wondering the same thing actually
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I was wondering the same thing actually
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I used the latest stable build for the S3 verizon, published 11/13/2012
Should I use the latest nightly build of CM10?
The Settings in the camera app gives only 3 options for resolution. VGA, 640, 1.3MP nothing more.
Also, I used the GAPPS from the latest build
/the forum won't let me post the links.
It isn't a nightly. Go to their website and they have a stable 4.1.2 build. It more than likely will b the final build on 4.1.2 due to newer releases coming out that they r working on. I tried it and went back to touchwiz based roms for the features.
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RobIsRight said:
I used the latest stable build for the S3 verizon, published 11/13/2012
Should I use the latest nightly build of CM10?
The Settings in the camera app gives only 3 options for resolution. VGA, 640, 1.3MP nothing more.
Also, I used the GAPPS from the latest build
/the forum won't let me post the links.
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I haven't used official CM10 so i can't be sure exactly, but unless your using the front facing camera i'm not sure what to tell you. Could be a bug in the rom itself, i'm not entirely sure.
For the last month or so, I have had ROM a.d.d. I would sometimes flash 6 different rom's a day. I really liked the CM nightlies for awhile. Then, I would get bored with that and jump over to a Touchwiz. The whole time I was with touchwiz, I wanted it to be like an AOSP. Then I would go back to CM and the cycle would start itself all over again. Then, finally, one day the madness stopped. I don't know how I ever skipped over the liquid smooth rom's before. I went with liquid smooth and I have been fine ever since.
I would actually sacrifice megapixel resolution on the camera, although I don't remember any of the CM builds being only 1.3 megapixel- rather then go back to touchwiz.
Take liquid for a ride.
Hi all.
I'm just wondering what do you think about JB 4.2 camera. I've noticed that all 4.2 cameras are laggy. Few days ago I've tested ICS with Sense camera and it was blazing fast!
Do you have any workarounds to use fast camera on 4.2 JB?
Cheers.
I was testing CM10 and 10.1 today and yes, they have much slower cameras than sense roms like sabsa prime 14 that i am testing now. I think it's all about drivers, however you can also try with different camera app.
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Most JB 4.2 cameras are laggy when compared to Sense cameras....As in the above reply its said, It is may be due to driver...Also in some JB roms there is a slight issue with the images captured...A green/colourful line comes in the image...In some roms its fixed though..
I've looked for alternatives but both UCam and Camera360 were worse for me. Still looking for a decent third-party camera app.
Im having the same lag trouble on jellytime 4.2. I just installed Camera ZOOM FX app. In my opinion, its twice as fast as the stock one, and doesn't have any green/pink lines. It changes to stock for recording a video though, but its ok with me... It has built in image editor with lots of stuff. Hope i helped
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For Infuse 4g does anyone know a ICS or preferable 4.1.2 Jelly Bean rom with working video camera (still photos are fine video capture is the issue). I have tried numerous Cyanogen, Paranoid Android, Liquid Smooth, roms for Jelly 4.1.2 and 4.2.2.
Always go back to Paranoid Android 4.1.2 pa_infuse4g-2.53-04NOV2012-152548 . Camera is fine but video capture is glitchy. Same for all the other roms I tried. Only other problem with the rom is that Wifi will stop working but a quick toggle will get it back. Otherwise smooth sailing.
All the 4.2.2 roms I have tried have been extremely buggy and laggy. I was wondering if there was a rom I overlooked running ICS or 4.1.2 that had working video. I put the video camera down to 480p like I was told on a couple of forums and it still crashes if you point it at a bright light.
If no modern roms have a working video camera, what rom should I be following that may resolve this issue. A dev that works primarily on stability vs adding features I can probably download from the app store or find a hack for on XDA. This is for my sister that likes to complain so it has to be stable. I really don't want any features just a modern non Gingerbread rom with a working video camera / and stills (she needs ICS VPN or later for work).
Thanks for any pointers in the right direction.
The video is as good as its gonna get for now for us. We don't have access to the correct drivers and code to get the video working 100% on ICS and jb. I am sure that one day one of the devs will crack it but I wouldn't hold my breath. Best thing is just do what you did and drop down in resolution and hope for the best. I've been having great luck with beanstalk, and Scott is an extreamly active dev working hard to make the ROM run smooth as well as add features. And if a feature hurts the stability he removed it.
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Yianaki said:
For Infuse 4g does anyone know a ICS or preferable 4.1.2 Jelly Bean rom with working video camera (still photos are fine video capture is the issue). I have tried numerous Cyanogen, Paranoid Android, Liquid Smooth, roms for Jelly 4.1.2 and 4.2.2.
Always go back to Paranoid Android 4.1.2 pa_infuse4g-2.53-04NOV2012-152548 . Camera is fine but video capture is glitchy. Same for all the other roms I tried. Only other problem with the rom is that Wifi will stop working but a quick toggle will get it back. Otherwise smooth sailing.
All the 4.2.2 roms I have tried have been extremely buggy and laggy. I was wondering if there was a rom I overlooked running ICS or 4.1.2 that had working video. I put the video camera down to 480p like I was told on a couple of forums and it still crashes if you point it at a bright light.
If no modern roms have a working video camera, what rom should I be following that may resolve this issue. A dev that works primarily on stability vs adding features I can probably download from the app store or find a hack for on XDA. This is for my sister that likes to complain so it has to be stable. I really don't want any features just a modern non Gingerbread rom with a working video camera / and stills (she needs ICS VPN or later for work).
Thanks for any pointers in the right direction.
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You might try videocam illusion in playstore
Works fine in mine
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The kernel in jt's cm9 rom over at rootzwiki allows for perfect 720p video recording.
It can be flashed over entropy's cm9 builds using sgs kernel flasher. WiFi doesn't work and perhaps other things as well...
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prairied0gg said:
The kernel in jt's cm9 rom over at rootzwiki allows for perfect 720p video recording.
It can be flashed over entropy's cm9 builds using sgs kernel flasher. WiFi doesn't work and perhaps other things as well...
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That's interesting, was never aware Jr had once had working 720p...maybe someone could compare that kernel to the current cm9 kernel...and than try and port that fix to jb...
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any luck for 720p recording in JB Rom?
There are two very fast and smooth ROMs for JB, Scott's Beanstalk and Andros11's Vanila rootbox for infuse, but unfortunatly video recording for 720P is still the issue, i am hoping some day some one will find the solution for it, Too much hope on our champ- Scott.
any luck tilll now >?
videocam illusion is not the solution, stock camera is much better than the app, its not snapy as 720p recording ,but its not looks good at all.
Yianaki said:
For Infuse 4g does anyone know a ICS or preferable 4.1.2 Jelly Bean rom with working video camera (still photos are fine video capture is the issue). I have tried numerous Cyanogen, Paranoid Android, Liquid Smooth, roms for Jelly 4.1.2 and 4.2.2.
Always go back to Paranoid Android 4.1.2 pa_infuse4g-2.53-04NOV2012-152548 . Camera is fine but video capture is glitchy. Same for all the other roms I tried. Only other problem with the rom is that Wifi will stop working but a quick toggle will get it back. Otherwise smooth sailing.
All the 4.2.2 roms I have tried have been extremely buggy and laggy. I was wondering if there was a rom I overlooked running ICS or 4.1.2 that had working video. I put the video camera down to 480p like I was told on a couple of forums and it still crashes if you point it at a bright light.
If no modern roms have a working video camera, what rom should I be following that may resolve this issue. A dev that works primarily on stability vs adding features I can probably download from the app store or find a hack for on XDA. This is for my sister that likes to complain so it has to be stable. I really don't want any features just a modern non Gingerbread rom with a working video camera / and stills (she needs ICS VPN or later for work).
Thanks for any pointers in the right direction.
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hey guys... i've searched on this for a bit now but havent found people with similar issues
Got my 727r ... which is using CM10.1 nightlies... been updating once a week since january
the one issue that drives me nuts is that i cant use my front camera... in stock camera app if i switch to front camera gallery crashes and then i cant open the camera app at all anymore... if i use another camera app i just get black feed from the front camera.... i have the latest Gapps and currently the latest nightly build...
if i revert to 10.0 the camera works again.
anyone else running into this?
MartinCA1980 said:
hey guys... i've searched on this for a bit now but havent found people with similar issues
Got my 727r ... which is using CM10.1 nightlies... been updating once a week since january
the one issue that drives me nuts is that i cant use my front camera... in stock camera app if i switch to front camera gallery crashes and then i cant open the camera app at all anymore... if i use another camera app i just get black feed from the front camera.... i have the latest Gapps and currently the latest nightly build...
if i revert to 10.0 the camera works again.
anyone else running into this?
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Nope you need to do a full clean install.
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Agreed, front camera works fine for me on i727R
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Agreed, front camera works fine for me on i727R
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Ok... Finally had some time to do more investigating on the issue and things only got worse.
I do a full wipe/clean install on all my flashes.... that means wipe all caches, wipe the isd cards, and factory reset
anyways... flashed with the official stock ROM for rogers in Odin and the front camera seems to be broken in there too now... so just to to test i then wiped everything, and installed CM10 to see if it still works... no dice... now the front camera is broken in all roms ive tested, and non standard camera apps exhibit this behaviour too... I'm starting to think this is a hardware issue which would really suck.
All in all i'm out of ideas short of taking it to someone who can look at the hardware.
I have been getting a bit frustrated. I'm not sure if its a CM 12.1 issue, or just a hardware + lollipop issue.
Here is my opinion on cameras that 'work' with the rom, but have issues.
1. Stock CM 12.1 camera. Has known "cannot connect' issue. I believe this ASOP camera is the same as the Google Camera. Each version seems to have small tweaks /settings, but IMHO this camera lacks tons of useful features other stock cameras have. These are useful if all you care about is point and shoot, versus filters, scenes, etc.. I am lumping Google Camera in this, even though the icons are different.
2. OpenCamera. This is the one I am currently using, and seems to be stable for me, and I am running Nightly 12.1 July 15 nightly with DKP kernel (tweaked) and july 13 GAPPS. My only gripe is I still feel like the quality of the pics isn't what you get with stock, but also the delay between pics is annoying, as opposed to Google Camera which gives you pretty instantaneous snaps. Even with the thumbnail animation disabled, there is a 1/2 - 1 sec delay between pics.
3. Someone recommended the HTC Camera. I was able to find a series of APK versions from googling, and this camera had really good promise. You did need the HTC Gallery for it to work, BUT..and this was the deal breaker, the front camera broke for me. The front camera only worked, for a short time, with the most recent HTC Camera version...but would eventually freeze, and couldn't even force close. A reboot was required. Very annoying.
It would be awesome if we could flash another stock camera app in this, like the S4, S5, S6, etc.
Any other recommendations besides apps from the Play Store?
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I have been getting a bit frustrated. I'm not sure if its a CM 12.1 issue, or just a hardware + lollipop issue.
Here is my opinion on cameras that 'work' with the rom, but have issues.
1. Stock CM 12.1 camera. Has known "cannot connect' issue. I believe this ASOP camera is the same as the Google Camera. Each version seems to have small tweaks /settings, but IMHO this camera lacks tons of useful features other stock cameras have. These are useful if all you care about is point and shoot, versus filters, scenes, etc.. I am lumping Google Camera in this, even though the icons are different.
2. OpenCamera. This is the one I am currently using, and seems to be stable for me, and I am running Nightly 12.1 July 15 nightly with DKP kernel (tweaked) and july 13 GAPPS. My only gripe is I still feel like the quality of the pics isn't what you get with stock, but also the delay between pics is annoying, as opposed to Google Camera which gives you pretty instantaneous snaps. Even with the thumbnail animation disabled, there is a 1/2 - 1 sec delay between pics.
3. Someone recommended the HTC Camera. I was able to find a series of APK versions from googling, and this camera had really good promise. You did need the HTC Gallery for it to work, BUT..and this was the deal breaker, the front camera broke for me. The front camera only worked, for a short time, with the most recent HTC Camera version...but would eventually freeze, and couldn't even force close. A reboot was required. Very annoying.
It would be awesome if we could flash another stock camera app in this, like the S4, S5, S6, etc.
Any other recommendations besides apps from the Play Store?
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It was in the KK builds also but some of the ROMs in KK had fully functioning camera but it went crap again with CM12.
I installed the FL-5 Camera and Cinema apps, paid for both. So far I am enjoying them and feel the quality and speed is great.
Camera 360 works suitably well. Solid filters and features if bloated. Its a veteran app and has seen its worst days long behind them. The magic skin filter is the best on android. Black is the color of Korean selfie sorcery. You purchase beauty but at what cost? Your soul of course, and an excessive UI.
A better camera is my personal go to.
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Be weary when flashing or porting camera apk's and firmware.
Basically a few weeks ago I hard bricked my SCH-I535 by flashing the wrong firmware for the camera to try to get it to work. So my only caution to you is the be absolutely sure the firmware of apk is compatible. I tried to port the firmware for the galaxy S5 to the S3 however I think the difference in firmware is what caused the problem. I extracted the S5 firmware for the stock camera app and then zipped it and signed it to be flashed on the S3. Well I knew what I had done when the phone buzzed once and never turned on again. I had an unlocked boot loader running CM 12.1 (if I remember correctly) and had CWM set as my custom recovery.
I wish you luck in your quest to find a working camera app for your S3. I know I wish I still had mine to fiddle with and maybe even downgrade while we wait for a solution to the non-working lollipop camera.