hello.
Does anyone know if it is possible through registry to change some of the camera parameters like automatic exposure compensation? The thing is that the polaris camera isn't the best i've seen, It gets to 19fps maximum when shooting with day light but as soon as you darken a bit it will reduce to 2.43fps (!). I wonder if there is a way of choosing a fixed exposure setting. Also, a pause option on the video camera would be interesting too for some stop motion stuff. (not trying to get it through registry ehehe). I'm using Bepe's latest ROM 0.67 Premium.
Cheers!
btw, polaris is wonderful
I am interested in that.. even if there is not a tweak, isn't there a 3rd party app that can do the job?
Try tweaking the "Camera" section in the registry.
Use "SmartReg" and when "Camera" has found in your registry, bookmark the section in SmartReg's Favorites for future experiments/comparing with quick access to camera parameters.
Hi everybody,
With regard to development of open source all-purpose camera app (see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=46488220), we'd like to ask you to share your opinion - what kind of features would you like to have in a Camera application? Any new modes, settings, or improvements to features of existing apps?
We'd appreciate your comments and we are going to implement as many features required by the users as possible. Thanks!
Number one thing: Fast start-up
I'm not sure if it's possible, but a good idea would be to load the app and make all the initializations during the phone start-up. Then, once I tap camera icon - the camera works immediately, with no 1-2 second delay.
I have had my Motoactv watch rooted for quite some time now and its been working flawlessly, however, the two problems I cant seem to troubleshoot are
1.Where for the love of god do I find a perfect calculator app that fits the screen perfectly. Every app ive downloaded the screen shrinks to the point where several buttons get mashed together.
2. On a similar subject, I have been trying to use the mouse & keyboard remote app to control my pc but when attempting to add a new server on the watch I get as far as adding the name & ip numbers but I cant save it due to the screen being too small for the save button to be shown.
Is there any way to resize the screen on certain apps or perhaps have a scroll option of some sort that will allow me to view these apps in full size somehow?
dorkgeniuz21 said:
I have had my Motoactv watch rooted for quite some time now and its been working flawlessly, however, the two problems I cant seem to troubleshoot are
1.Where for the love of god do I find a perfect calculator app that fits the screen perfectly. Every app ive downloaded the screen shrinks to the point where several buttons get mashed together.
2. On a similar subject, I have been trying to use the mouse & keyboard remote app to control my pc but when attempting to add a new server on the watch I get as far as adding the name & ip numbers but I cant save it due to the screen being too small for the save button to be shown.
Is there any way to resize the screen on certain apps or perhaps have a scroll option of some sort that will allow me to view these apps in full size somehow?
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1. There is a good calculator app included with DPRom. I can pull the apk and post later today/tonight if you need it
2. Download the Xposed framework installer and App settings module found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2490548
This will allow per-app DPI settings. It's better than changing the DPI globally as that can adversely affect other apps. In order to install the Xposed framework and modules, you need to make sure the apks are moved/installed to phone storage first before running them or the changed will not go into effect.
I just recently bought Xperia XZ and I'm very disappointed to see that the "Full Manual Controls" in the camera UI and Camera2 API are actually pretty limited. Manual settings, such as "Saturation", "Contrast", "Sharpness", available since a long long time in Samsung and HTC devices, are absolutely unavailable and inaccessible here, neither in the default camera UI, nor in third-party applications, such as FreeDCam, Camera FV-5 and so on. For example, if you check this video, showing the capabilities of the FreeDCam application - youtube.com/watch?v =PWg0KaXbv5I (I can not post links yet, so you have to remove the spaces) , you can see how many settings at the bottom of the screen can be manually adjusted. But when I installed this application on my Xperia XZ, I got only "Manual focus", "ISO", "Manual exposure time", "Exposure compensation" and "Zoom". All other settings are missing. I read some time ago that Sony finally enabled the full manual settings, but from what I see quite a lot of settings are missing... Is there any way to enable them, maybe by rooting the device or I don't know, but I need them, otherwise I'll have to sell the phone and look for other options...
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I just recently bought Xperia XZ and I'm very disappointed to see that the "Full Manual Controls" in the camera UI and Camera2 API are actually pretty limited. Manual settings, such as "Saturation", "Contrast", "Sharpness", available since a long long time in Samsung and HTC devices, are absolutely unavailable and inaccessible here, neither in the default camera UI, nor in third-party applications, such as FreeDCam, Camera FV-5 and so on. For example, if you check this video, showing the capabilities of the FreeDCam application - youtube.com/watch?v =PWg0KaXbv5I (I can not post links yet, so you have to remove the spaces) , you can see how many settings at the bottom of the screen can be manually adjusted. But when I installed this application on my Xperia XZ, I got only "Manual focus", "ISO", "Manual exposure time", "Exposure compensation" and "Zoom". All other settings are missing. I read some time ago that Sony finally enabled the full manual settings, but from what I see quite a lot of settings are missing... Is there any way to enable them, maybe by rooting the device or I don't know, but I need them, otherwise I'll have to sell the phone and look for other options...
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Most likely it's an app limitation. Just like when I tried to install Camera FV-5 and Manual Camera apps for lower shutter speed but unfortunately they only provide 1/10 SS while the stock camera has 1 second.
ermond012 said:
Most likely it's an app limitation. Just like when I tried to install Camera FV-5 and Manual Camera apps for lower shutter speed but unfortunately they only provide 1/10 SS while the stock camera has 1 second.
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That one as well, I forgot about that one, as well as the ISO limited only up to 800, and many others, all these limitations are set by Sony to their Camera2 API so that no third-party apps can use the full potential of that sensor, which is a shame. Clear evidence is that when you install the same application, even from the same apk file, on other phones, such as Samsung or HTC, these additional manual contrrol options are present, they are missing only on Xperia phones...
The reason why I need these settings is because of the camera's very poor performance with the default camera app, mostly because of the dull and poor colors, and I want to compensate that by boosting the saturation and the contrast. Even my trustworthy 5 years old Xperia Pro takes much better photos - with less noise and better colors... I'm very disappointed with Xperia XZ's camera...
mediar said:
I just recently bought Xperia XZ and I'm very disappointed to see that the "Full Manual Controls" in the camera UI and Camera2 API are actually pretty limited. Manual settings, such as "Saturation", "Contrast", "Sharpness", available since a long long time in Samsung and HTC devices, are absolutely unavailable and inaccessible here, neither in the default camera UI, nor in third-party applications, such as FreeDCam, Camera FV-5 and so on. For example, if you check this video, showing the capabilities of the FreeDCam application - youtube.com/watch?v =PWg0KaXbv5I (I can not post links yet, so you have to remove the spaces) , you can see how many settings at the bottom of the screen can be manually adjusted. But when I installed this application on my Xperia XZ, I got only "Manual focus", "ISO", "Manual exposure time", "Exposure compensation" and "Zoom". All other settings are missing. I read some time ago that Sony finally enabled the full manual settings, but from what I see quite a lot of settings are missing... Is there any way to enable them, maybe by rooting the device or I don't know, but I need them, otherwise I'll have to sell the phone and look for other options...
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Try switching to camera 1 api in freedcam
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defcomg said:
Try switching to camera 1 api in freedcam
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I made two screenshots with my Xperia XZ, the first one with Camera1 API, the second one with Camera2 API, and the third screenshot, which I took from this site - en.miui.com/thread-269521-1-1.html , shows the UI of the application as seen on Samsung, HTC, MIUI and other brands or ROMs (basically the default manual controls, provided by stock Camera2 API in stock Android). Clearly the ones from the Xperia miss quite a lot of manual options...
mediar said:
I made two screenshots with my Xperia XZ, the first one with Camera1 API, the second one with Camera2 API, and the third screenshot, which I took from this site - en.miui.com/thread-269521-1-1.html , shows the UI of the application as seen on Samsung, HTC, MIUI and other brands or ROMs (basically the default manual controls, provided by stock Camera2 API in stock Android). Clearly the ones from the Xperia miss quite a lot of manual options...
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try save camera parameters from camera 1 Settings > Save camera parameters you should find txt file in dcim/freedcam
defcomg said:
try save camera parameters from camera 1 Settings > Save camera parameters you should find txt file in dcim/freedcam
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F8331_CameraParameters.txt is created with camera1 -> Settings > Save camera parameters (for some reasons I can't find "Save camera parameters" when using camera2);
log1.txt is created with Camera FV-5 with camera2 set;
log2.txt is created with Manual Camera Compatibility application.
Maybe someone should provide such logs from other phones so that we can compare them.
mediar said:
F8331_CameraParameters.txt is created with camera1 -> Settings > Save camera parameters (for some reasons I can't find "Save camera parameters" when using camera2);
log1.txt is created with Camera FV-5 with camera2 set;
log2.txt is created with Manual Camera Compatibility application.
Maybe someone should provide such logs from other phones so that we can compare them.
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i see the params its because the device is using sony camera hal and not qualcomms thats why the parameters in camera 2 you maybe able to control sharpness via edge mode and contrast via tone curve .
dunno if you have raw option in camera2 if you tap on jpeg to the left of ui there should be raw10 or raw_sensor if there is neither the best you can hope for is for an aosp rom with qualcomm framework on know the z5c had full qualcomm hal so it had all the options available including raw
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i see the params its because the device is using sony camera hal and not qualcomms thats why the parameters in camera 2 you maybe able to control sharpness via edge mode and contrast via tone curve .
dunno if you have raw option in camera2 if you tap on jpeg to the left of ui there should be raw10 or raw_sensor if there is neither the best you can hope for is for an aosp rom with qualcomm framework on know the z5c had full qualcomm hal so it had all the options available including raw
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It is known issue that the Xperia XZ (as well as all Xperias so far, not sure whether Z5 makes exception) have no RAW capture, so the jpeg option on the left of the UI has only option at all - jpeg and that's it But I'm very disappointed to hear that previous generations Xperias had more manual controls than the latest ones, that's really a shame
This seems like a simple question, but I can't find an answer. Any help would be appreciated.
0. Pixel 4A running Android 12
1. In Chomp (my default SMS/MMS app), when I want to send a picture, I click the small picture icon under Tools to select an image.
2. This opens an app with "Gallery" at the top and all my pictures.
3. The Gallery app has no date seperators or controls to change the layout of pictures - it is just one long grid of pictures.
4. Unfortunately, Gallery seems to sorted by date taken only. As I scroll down, there is no way to tell when a picture is was taken (no breaks between dates). So, when I need to find a picture from last year sometime, I scroll forever - back and forth - trying to figure out if a picture I see was before or after the picture I want. This is nuts.
5. So, I want to stop using Gallery and start using something better - preferably F-Stop (where my pictures are organized by folders, keywords and dates.)
6. My first try was to disable Gallery - however there is no app listed as Gallery, Photo Gallery, Google Gallery, etc (At least I could not find it)
7. My second try was to disable Google Photos (and it sorts by date taken but it has breaks between different dates ) - I disabled it but no change. Gallery still opened as the selection app.
8. My third try was to attempt to change the default app for pictures - but there isn't one. I see defaults for Browser, Calls, Digital assistant, Laucher, Phone app and SMS app - nothing about images.
I'm stumped (but that is not hard to do to me)
Does anyone know how stop Gallery from opening or use a different app when in Chomp?
I use Chomp but don't use it to send pictures, but try this
Let the gallery app open and in the top left hand corner there should be a Recents icon, this should open a file viewer that also shows a 'Browse in other apps' bar where hopefully your app of choice is shown, tap that and you should then be able to pick F-Stop organised the way you want.
You may have to do this each time though
Thank you. The frame in the upper-left corner looks like a broken picture. However, when tapped, it is a search box that also lets me change apps. Thanks again for solving my problem.