Lineage Aperture or GCam - General Topics

I've been digging around these forums to see if this has been discussed, but haven't found anything so far.
Is the new Lineage camera app, Aperture, good enough to remove the need for GCam for users of LOS20?
Or is GCam still the best at making the most out of a phones camera hardware when using custom ROMs?
My phone has just recently got official LOS20, so only been using it for 2 days. I haven't yet had chance to give Aperture any real tests.
I've not yet installed GCam and I'm wondering if it's necessary now?

Related

[Q] Is there a camera replacement app for Oxygen?

Hi,
Loving how stock oxygen OS is, but the google camera in it is terrible. Video almost NEVER focuses correctly, and pictures don't look as good as before.
Any good replacements that do both video/photo? There's plenty in the apps section for CM12, but not sure about oxygen?
Thanks!
CameraNext COS12 solved my issues AND seems to work fine on Oxygen.
Gabeloooooo said:
Hi,
Loving how stock oxygen OS is, but the google camera in it is terrible. Video almost NEVER focuses correctly, and pictures don't look as good as before.
Any good replacements that do both video/photo? There's plenty in the apps section for CM12, but not sure about oxygen?
Thanks!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I use the ColorOS camera port for CM11S with Oxygen, almost all of the stock features work well with OxygenOS (except 4K video, which looks pixelated for some reason). I haven't gotten around to trying plugins yet, but here's a topic I found that lists the plugins that work with Oxygen.
Yeah, I saw that post but it was too confusing.
The colorOS port you're using, can you link the post where you downloaded it? I saw a couple of 'ports' of it, not quite sure which one you tested and know to work.
Thanks!

Camera Focus Issue

Hi Guys,
As I'm sure you are aware there is an issue with the camera that affect some batches of Mi 4i phones.
This issue result in out of focus photos.
The phones work weel up to rom version 6.5.6.0 and from then onwards you get the issue, which means there was some in the rom development the conflicts with the phone hardware.
Xiaomi does not care less for for us as they are pure money driven, therefore I wonder if there are any devs willing to find a solution for this issue.
Meantime, me and many are stuck with firmwares up to June/2015.
With custom roms, or 3rd party firmwares, the camera works flawless, although the quality from photos and videos are miles away from the quality of a MIUI rom. This issue is only noticeable when using MIUI firmwares.
Hope someone can contribute for trying to solve this completly negleted and ignored situation by Xiaomi.
I can test if you need.
Thanks
Have you given a try to SnapDragon Camera?
Off course. I have tried everything within my limitations.
Something changed from firmware 6.5.6.0 onwards and it's within the firmware developing which means it affects any camera app.

Suggestions on ROM & camera app

Hey guys, new comer here.
So I've flashed lineage os 15.1 and it has been doing great, but the battery life is worse than that on latest global stable version of MIUI. Do you guys have any good suggestions? (Also tell me how to root Resurrection Remix if you're suggesting it, I tried but failed)
Also, all 3rd party camera apps (those I tried at least) can't take long exposure shots (longer than 4 seconds) and they're buggy to say the least. On that front, I missed MIUI since the stock camera can take shots up to 32sec shutter speed with ease. Do you guys have a fix for that?
Hope my questions got answered and happy modding guys.

Can anyone share the latest OOS CAM apk?

I have custom ROM, and I'd like to use the latest OOS cam apk, but in apkmirror there is only ports from OP7/P which are always crashing when I opening them.
Where can I download it?
lyor said:
I have custom ROM, and I'd like to use the latest OOS cam apk, but in apkmirror there is only ports from OP7/P which are always crashing when I opening them.
Where can I download it?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Let me Google that for you... https://lmgtfy.com/?q=oneplus+6+oos+camera+for+custom+rom
Apparently it's somehow super hard for some people to do a quick Google Search... It's that easy.
Here's some links to some threads that might be helpful:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/themes/magisk-oos-camera-3rd-party-roms-t3873821
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/themes/magisk-oneplus6-oos-camera-t3888204
If those ports don't work you might be out of luck, not every Custom ROM has support for the OOS Camera.
Not that it really matters, the OOS Camera sucks anyway. You'll be able to get way better results with a Google Camera port.
Also in many Custom ROM threads there have been reports of certain features of the OOS Camera to be not working, like Slow Motion and Portrait Mode.
So I wouldn't be expecting a fully working OOS Camera on a Custom ROM.
Mr.FREE_Bird said:
Let me Google that for you... https://lmgtfy.com/?q=oneplus+6+oos+camera+for+custom+rom
Apparently it's somehow super hard for some people to do a quick Google Search... It's that easy.
Here's some links to some threads that might be helpful:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/themes/magisk-oos-camera-3rd-party-roms-t3873821
https://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6/themes/magisk-oneplus6-oos-camera-t3888204
If those ports don't work you might be out of luck, not every Custom ROM has support for the OOS Camera.
Not that it really matters, the OOS Camera sucks anyway. You'll be able to get way better results with a Google Camera port.
Also in many Custom ROM threads there have been reports of certain features of the OOS Camera to be not working, like Slow Motion and Portrait Mode.
So I wouldn't be expecting a fully working OOS Camera on a Custom ROM.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Don't assume I didn't google that before if you don't even bother to ask
If you'd pay close attention, you would see that I even commented on the thread in your 3rd link, but it's a dead old port, and I'd like to use a newer one (like the one in OmniROM for example, which is somehow managed to do so) because all of the options that you gave are extremely old, and most (if not all) the issue you mentioned are already fixed in the newer versions which you didn't even bother to look into account.
And I don't know why do you think the OOS cam so bad, especially if you're recommending a buggy cam like GCAM, which is behaving like an early alfa stage and crashing randomly.
lyor said:
Don't assume I didn't google that before if you don't even bother to ask
If you'd pay close attention, you would see that I even commented on the thread in your 3rd link, but it's a dead old port, and I'd like to use a newer one (like the one in OmniROM for example, which is somehow managed to do so) because all of the options that you gave are extremely old, and most (if not all) the issue you mentioned are already fixed in the newer versions which you didn't even bother to look into account.
And I don't know why do you think the OOS cam so bad, especially if you're recommending a buggy cam like GCAM, which is behaving like an early alfa stage and crashing randomly.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well if you did search well than you would've already known that there isn't any great working port available but the ones included with certain ROM's. Something I already knew but you just assumed I didn't, now you are doing the exact same thing you were pointing out to me. So the advise you gave me would be fitting for you too. "Don't assume I didn't knew that before if you don't even bother to ask".
And I'm not going to read through all those threads just to see if you have already commented in them, why would I?
Beside that, yes the OOS Camera absolutely sucks. The unreliable post processing kills all the details, which results in very ugly digital looking, sometimes oversharpenend or soft picture's. A small crop isn't even possible due to that.
The Nightscape mode sucks too, makes every picture look like an oil painting. And it's funny you call GCam buggy, shows you didn't do much research on it. Currently I'm using Miniflex which works just fine and at least makes it possible to take usable pictures. The older xtreme GCam mod works fine too.
Both capturing details and night shots with GCam is superior compared to the OOS Camera. The only two things that work better with the OOS Camera are taking videos and Slowmo's, for which it actually is pretty good. But I don't need those features, maybe you do.
Look, you started a thread with your question without providing any basic info like which ROM you are running etc. Getting a bit tired of seeing new threads requesting stuff with hardly providing any info that might be useful to know. I might have sounded very rude so sorry for that, maybe I should've took a 10sec count before I wrote my response.
Mr.FREE_Bird said:
Well if you did search well than you would've already known that there isn't any great working port available but the ones included with certain ROM's. Something I already knew but you just assumed I didn't, now you are doing the exact same thing you were pointing out to me. So the advise you gave me would be fitting for you too. "Don't assume I didn't knew that before if you don't even bother to ask".
And I'm not going to read through all those threads just to see if you have already commented in them, why would I?
Beside that, yes the OOS Camera absolutely sucks. The unreliable post processing kills all the details, which results in very ugly digital looking, sometimes oversharpenend or soft picture's. A small crop isn't even possible due to that.
The Nightscape mode sucks too, makes every picture look like an oil painting. And it's funny you call GCam buggy, shows you didn't do much research on it. Currently I'm using Miniflex which works just fine and at least makes it possible to take usable pictures. The older xtreme GCam mod works fine too.
Both capturing details and night shots with GCam is superior compared to the OOS Camera. The only two things that work better with the OOS Camera are taking videos and Slowmo's, for which it actually is pretty good. But I don't need those features, maybe you do.
Look, you started a thread with your question without providing any basic info like which ROM you are running etc. Getting a bit tired of seeing new threads requesting stuff with hardly providing any info that might be useful to know. I might have sounded very rude so sorry for that, maybe I should've took a 10sec count before I wrote my response.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe I was running out of options, maybe it was just wishful thinking, but I thought at first that someone here knows something that I do not about it.
And regarding the OOS functionality, I don't know, but I was fully satisfied with anything I used from 3.8.72 and above.
lyor said:
Maybe I was running out of options, maybe it was just wishful thinking, but I thought at first that someone here knows something that I do not about it.
And regarding the OOS functionality, I don't know, but I was fully satisfied with anything I used from 3.8.72 and above.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well since there are some ROM's which do provide a pretty well functional OOS Camera there should be a way. But the best you could do is probably to run a ROM that provides the OOS Camera by default...
Regarding to camera quality it's probably because I'm a photographer, I'm probably looking at pictures differently than you do.
Mr.FREE_Bird said:
Well since there are some ROM's which do provide a pretty well functional OOS Camera there should be a way. But the best you could do is probably to run a ROM that provides the OOS Camera by default...
Regarding to camera quality it's probably because I'm a photographer, I'm probably looking at pictures differently than you do.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I prefer to stay with the rom that I have right now (havoc).
It combines the best from all the worlds into it.
The downside of it, of course, the lack of OOS (imo).

Best camera [Custom ROM]?

Hi everyone. I recently flashed a new ROM on this device trying to escape from the overheating, I was expecting a proper camera app but I only found bugs.
I tried Pixel Cam V1.1, I used it on MIUI and it was great but on RROS it became unusable.
Gcam MGC 8.1 by BSG worked but it only recognizes one sensor of 8mpx.
Also the UltraCVM UltraCam but it has so many bugs with lights that is unusable.
The chosen one was Tiger Camera Xmas release, it's almost perfect but trying panorama mode makes it unusable, fortunately the 2x and more are stable.
But I ask for someone that probably have tried another apps or xml config files.
I am considering install the MIUI stock camera from ANX but the POCO X3 isn't listed as compatible device and I don't want to root my phone to be honest. But if someone know about one functional version I will apply it as last resource.
I'm opening this thread to know your opinion, I researched on Gcam thread but it has too many versions that I've tried. I really liked all the sensors and the 64mpx so I need to find an app that takes me closer to use the full camera experience.
FYI, there a whole thread dedicated to Cams at https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/4164397/.
pnin said:
FYI, there a whole thread dedicated to Cams at https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/4164397/.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah thanks, I put the same above "I'm opening this thread to know your opinion, I researched on Gcam thread but it has too many versions that I've tried" everybody are talking about updates of the updates with different dates and versions

Categories

Resources