Android Front Camera Replacement - General Questions and Answers

Is it possible to to replace the front camera of any android with a different type of camera that is not OEM? I was curious if I could replace the front camera on my android with a USB/UVC webcam. If this is possible, are we able to see the camera change in android's APIs?

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[Q] Would it be possible to hack a rear facing camera?

Would it be possible to have front AND rear facing cameras on the GTab? Question is based on this link:
http://www.malata.com/en/product_detail.aspx?classid=661&id=92
If you click on specifications and browse to the bottom, in the Others section there is an optional 1.3M/5M Webcam optional. Is this referring to only upgrading the front facing camer to 5M, or having two cameras, one 1.3M and one 5M?
Anybody have any idea on this one?

[Q] Camera settings

Hello community.
I havent had much of a chance to mess around with the camera settings but i have a question. I want to try to take the best pics possible but using the most native settings based on the sensor size. Does anyone know what the true native sensor size is and what is the native resolution of this device. It seems to default to 8MP but its branded as a 20MP picture. I want to avoid overly processed photos.
The back camera module is a Sony RS IM20 (Same as Z1/Z2.)
20.7 MP (5264 х 3960)
7.87 mm, 1/2.3"
Source, includes all Sony camera modules and phones using them:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exmor

[Q] Does camera2 api affects front camera ?

well guys, i asked this Question in Ask Any Question thread...but still din't get any reply..
so i think this is not well known and this thread give some attention to it
The question is simple ( and may be silly ) but i really don't know about this....Does camera2 api affects front camera ?
does it improve quality of selfie ? like rear camera does with applications like manual camera or better camera ?
if it does plz share some pics for caparison and the camera apps you are using
The camera2 API can be used for almost any camera sensor. Each sensor has different capabilities (e.g. focus, raw), see here: https://gist.github.com/PkmX/fefff90bab3b6eb2847f
It CAN theoretically be used for the front facing camera, but it's capabilities are extremely limited and somewhat pointless.
Elluel said:
The camera2 API can be used for almost any camera sensor. Each sensor has different capabilities (e.g. focus, raw), see here: https://gist.github.com/PkmX/fefff90bab3b6eb2847f
It CAN theoretically be used for the front facing camera, but it's capabilities are extremely limited and somewhat pointless.
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finally some useful info about this.... thanks !

Stock ZTE camera app on Lineage?

Is the stock (Android 9) ZTE camera app able to be exported and used on a third party ROM (Lineage) ? I've tried multiple third party camera apps and it appears the main rear camera hardware is being reported as only being 12MP.
That's really confusing because the rear camera array is advertised as being a 48MP for standard & wide angle shots, a 8MP for "telephoto" shots (but who seriously 3x optical zoom is telephoto?) , and 20MP for ultrawide shots.
Are they pulling a Bait-n-Switch by software interperlating the main camera up to 48MP?
I'm guessing there are closed source libraries / drivers which allow the OEM camera app to access all of the various cameras? Maybe someone from the Axon 7 group may know?
Has someone already attempted to do this? Does anyone want to take a crack at this before I spend two or seven weeks attempting to do so?
That's 4to1 Pixelbinning. Don't worry about that. 12 MP delivers better results than 48 MP!

Camer2 API support on auxiliary OnePlus Nord cameras?

I read somewhere that one plus has not provided access to Nord auxiliary (apart from the main camera), like wideangle , macro and telephoto for developers. Is this correct?, Is there a way to enable the same using build/prop or any other method.
Stock OOS11 doesn't work. Works on custom ROMs tho.
This is the current status for GCam on the original Nord:
OxygenOS 10 (Android 10) or any custom ROM (Android 10 or 11) with any package name.
Front main
Front wide
Rear main
Rear wide
Rear macro
Rear depth
OxygenOS 11 + the "snapcam" package:
Front main
Front wide
Rear main
Rear wide
Rear macro
Rear depth
OxygenOS 11 + other packages:
Front main
Front wide
Rear main
Rear wide
Rear macro
Rear depth
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tl;dr: Best support on custom ROMs or OxygenOS 10. Less cameras work on OxygenOS 11.
No idea about OxygenOS 12 (will this phone even receive the update?), but on the OnePlus 9/Pro with the ColorOS-based OxygenOS 12 only the main front and rear cameras works.
S4turno said:
This is the current status for GCam on the original Nord:
OxygenOS 10 (Android 10) or any custom ROM (Android 10 or 11) with any package name.
Front main
Front wide
Rear main
Rear wide
Rear macro
Rear depth
OxygenOS 11 + the "snapcam" package:
Front main
Front wide
Rear main
Rear wide
Rear macro
Rear depth
OxygenOS 11 + other packages:
Front main
Front wide
Rear main
Rear wide
Rear macro
Rear depth
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tl;dr: Best support on custom ROMs or OxygenOS 10. Less cameras work on OxygenOS 11.
No idea about OxygenOS 12 (will this phone even receive the update?), but on the OnePlus 9/Pro with the ColorOS-based OxygenOS 12 only the main front and rear cameras works.
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I can confirm function range for Android 10 custom roms....
BUT: Front only 8mp, rear 12mp for custom roms....
Yes, it's the binned resolution. On these sensors, each 4 pixels are used as 1, so 48MP becomes 12MP and 32MP becomes 8MP.
12MP is also the default resolution on the stock camera, btw.
Ok. Didn't knew that. Why is there only binned resolution on custom roms?
It's the same on stock and custom. OnePlus is one of the many brands that restrict access to the full resolution and since custom ROMs still need to use the proprietary camera libraries, they have the same restriction as OxygenOS.
As far as I know, the only way to use the full resolution on OnePlus, Xiaomi, Samsung, etc, devices is with the stock camera app. 3rd party apps like GCam, Open Camera, etc, only get the binned resolution.
There was for a while full res with GCam on some OnePlus phones, but apparently it's a lot of work to get it to work and quality wasn't great.
Hi there,
have the same problem with the poor picture quality for every cam APP for the NORD
currently running build lineage-17.1-20211216-nightly-avicii-signed from official page
LineageOS Downloads
download.lineageos.org
The rom works very stable (great work) and i love Lineage OS - the only thing is the worse picture quality which forces me to change OS
Are there any custom roms without gapps ? only way to flash back to oxygen OS to get full 48MP access on main CAM ?

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