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HTCCamera on Cyanogen 6 (Aug 30 release)?

I tried doing it the dirty way - first upgrading from the HTCCamera.apk, which didn't work... then I tried just replacing the original system/app/camera.apk to the new, htc camera.apk. That didn't work either...
I noticed that Cyan's changelog says that it's now supported.. So is there a way to install it on the Cyan's latest release?
On a related note, they say that 720p video recording is supported, so I hope this ROM just needs a camera app that supports it.
I tried it in TheOfficial ROM - worked great, I loved it. Hopefully same can be done on Cyan's.
Anyway to get that working?

Cyanogen already has 720p video recording support. What's this HTCCamera? Is it a camera app that's supposed to be better than the original camera app?

espeanage said:
Cyanogen already has 720p video recording support. What's this HTCCamera? Is it a camera app that's supposed to be better than the original camera app?
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Yeah, HTCCamera is a really sweet camera app with very cool controls and looks. Just very convenient and pretty looking.
Regarding the 720p support in Cyan - is it the "Custom" setting? I see High, Low, MMS, YouTube and Custom in video quality.

on the options bar, press on the first icon, the circle one which will give u "color effect" scroll down. should be on by default anyways

Zephyron said:
on the options bar, press on the first icon, the circle one which will give u "color effect" scroll down. should be on by default anyways
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Aha, found it, thanks!
Now if only there was a way to also use the htccamera app on cyan.. that app is awesome.

+1 desperately wanting that htc cam

It isn't as simple as just putting the HTCCamera.apk... you need the supporting HTC framework jar and resources APK (which BTW, are present in enomther's ROM). And you need a modified init.rc which loads these in the classpath (and this involves a modified boot.img). If I get the time, I'll try to whip up a modified CM kernel to do this...

craigacgomez said:
It isn't as simple as just putting the HTCCamera.apk... you need the supporting HTC framework jar and resources APK (which BTW, are present in enomther's ROM). And you need a modified init.rc which loads these in the classpath (and this involves a modified boot.img). If I get the time, I'll try to whip up a modified CM kernel to do this...
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that would be badass

yes that would be really appreciated!

Progress update... did a quick boot.img and tried it out... but camera FC'd... some error trying to pull up the camera settings... didn't have time to investigate... will try when I have more free time @ the weekend...

craigacgomez said:
Progress update... did a quick boot.img and tried it out... but camera FC'd... some error trying to pull up the camera settings... didn't have time to investigate... will try when I have more free time @ the weekend...
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Thanks for updating us..
Yeah I'm thinking that TheOfficial ROM has desire camera and all the stuff for it. Maybe we can contact him and ask to share the goods, or just rip it from there. I'm sure he won't mind, since it's HTC's camera anyway..

Possible 720p camcorder fix for CyanogenMod.

Instead of trying to keep up on the two CM threads that are already going and talking about the exact same things I figured I would start up a new thread and see if this fixes anything.
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I will admit... I don't know jack about programming... but I am good at messing with stuff and seeing if it works. I got a little bored tonight and noticed there was a new change to the MIUI ROM that adds 720p recording. So being Halloween... why not Frankenstein a little!
I grabbed the camera.apk from the MIUI ROM (its an AOSP ROM.. so it should work right? lolz). Copied it over to my clean install of CM6.1 RC2 and boom... no crashing recording using 720p.
I have recorded about 30 videos now that are anywhere from 2 seconds in length to 5 minutes... one after another... without a crash.
There are a couple options missing that CM has... but I think this would be a good start to resolving the issues.
Please keep in mind.... there are a couple things you will need to do.
1. Download the following APK. (see below)
2. Using root explorer... browse to /system/app and check the current permissions for the existing camera.apk. It should be rw-r--r--.
3. Copy the downloaded camera.apk and replace the one in /system/app.
4. Change the permissions of the new camera.apk to rw-r--r--.
5.Close root explorer and reboot your phone.
6. Open the camera app, switch to camcorder. Using the onscreen menu, change the quality setting from high to custom.
6. Now select the top option to change the video quality. Select 720p.
7. Profit.
If you don't know how to change permissions... or know how to copy apks... please.. please.. please don't do this. If you are comfortable with it... let me know if it keeps crashing.
I know it doesn't have all the fancy settings the CM camera does... but I think this may be a very good step forward. So far.. It hasn't crashed out on me.
If you are going to do this and record one video and say its fixed... please dont bother. We need REAL testing.
The camera.apk can be downloaded here....
http://www.mediafire.com/?q9y8zst9aeqlgc7
Thanks all... if this ends up not working... I blame the to much beer.
If it does... we may be on a good start to getting this fixed. Cheers.
Oh yea... if you are using the camcorder.. you can turn of the screen and it wont force close when you turn it back on. Win.

Here's an update.zip for it. Flash via recovery. Also added the original CM camera from the Incredible build. I'll post a few cameras for you guys to test.
Thanks goes to the OP for getting this in motion.

touchpro247 said:
Here's an update.zip for it. Flash via recovery.
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Thank you... I'll admit it... I fail. lol. Just trying to be of some help getting this fixed.

I have tried the Nexus camera.apk in the past... it had the same issue.
It seems that the 720p issue exists on most if not all of the CM builds.
The only difference I see from face value is that CM camera builds have the crazy auto focus. If you are in a quiet place, listen to the camera itself. It physiclly moves inside the housing.
If you ever happen to hear the camcorder app FC, you can hear a little "click" right before it force closes. That is the camera lens moving.
It appears that the auto focus is messing everything up. Without autofocus (the MIUI camera.apk)... everything appears to work as it should.
As soon as you throw in the fancy auto focus stuff... it causes crashes.
Food for thought. I don't know a lot about it... but progress is progress.

Thank you for a zip version, Root explorer doesn't work on AOSP roms for me, is this common across the board?

mikeymop said:
Thank you for a zip version, Root explorer doesn't work on AOSP roms for me, is this common across the board?
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Works for me. Are you sure you gave it root access in SU with the remember button ticked?
Also, good to see that somebody took the initiative. I had posted in the CM forum this afternoon that the MIUI Rom had functioning cam but nobody seemed to notice and I don't have much skills - glad to see camalus did - going to try this right away...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8931211#post8931211

I swapped the MIUI camera with root explorer and recorded 10 videos in 720p. The camera didn't fc on me at all. The videos looked good and playbacked smoothly on my phone and computer. The camera at times would get hung up for a second or two but I'm not complaining at all. Got a working camera now!

I just found that if you turn the focus mode to off in the camera settings with the camera that comes with cm6, this also allows you to record in 720p with no force closes. Funny its such an easy fix. As long as auto focus doesn't mean the world to you.

I have suspected for a while that the auto focus was causing issues.
I just loaded the patch on the newest nightly... no fc either.
I sent a message to koush on twitter. Hoping his intelligence can pinpoint this in more depth.
Here's to hoping!
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Anyone else testing this? Could use more help here.
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camalus said:
Anyone else testing this? Could use more help here.
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Works perfectly for me. Taken 4 test videos in quick succession, no issues whatsoever.
Did not realize this was even an open issue. I believed this was already in the CM6.1 chain for inclusion in RC3 or whatever.

Ok. Just wanted to report my findings after flashing the zip file. The only settings I change in the camera was quality to custom in order to get the 720 resolution enabled.
Video #1: 1 min, 22 sec
I stopped recording of first video and without closing the camera app I started a 2nd video,
Video #2: Started recording and the camera freezed (FC would have been better) after 22 seconds. Had to pull out the battery to restart the phone.
In summary, is still not fixed. I'll revert back to the original Camera.apk.

Androidnite said:
Ok. Just wanted to report my findings after flashing the zip file. The only settings I change in the camera was quality to custom in order to get the 720 resolution enabled.
Video #1: 1 min, 22 sec
I stopped recording of first video and without closing the camera app I started a 2nd video,
Video #2: Started recording and the camera freezed (FC would have been better) after 22 seconds. Had to pull out the battery to restart the phone.
In summary, is still not fixed. I'll revert back to the original Camera.apk.
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What version of CM are you running? What kernel? Did you do a full wipe before trying this?

camalus said:
What version of CM are you running? What kernel? Did you do a full wipe before trying this?
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I did not flash the zip file and instead did it manually and it works for me.
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camalus said:
What version of CM are you running? What kernel? Did you do a full wipe before trying this?
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I had a clean install:
1) wipe data/cache/dalvik
2) Install CM6.1 RC2
3) Install gapps
4) Wipe dalvik
5) Flash Adrynalyne's kernel: I have SLCD and the stock kernel does not work for me
6) Reboot until the homescreen
7) Go to recovery and flash camery fix
8) Reboot to homescreen and try camera

Which camera did you install the MIUI or CM6?
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masully1984 said:
Which camera did you install the MIUI or CM6?
Sent from your mom's phone
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The CM6 one

Androidnite said:
The CM6 one
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The MIUI camera has the fix, not the CM one.

Fretless said:
The MIUI camera has the fix, not the CM one.
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LOL!!!! So why they posted a separate CM6 one? Are you saying you were able to use the MIUI one with CM6?

Androidnite said:
LOL!!!! So why they posted a separate CM6 one? Are you saying you were able to use the MIUI one with CM6?
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Yes. The MIUI adds the 720p non-fc functionality, or at least it has so far.

[FIX] Possible fix for CM 6.1 Camera FC issues-MERGED 20101122

The fix below has been merged into the nightlies!! expect to see it on the 23rd.
If you're impatient, you can install a compiled version of the apk from recovery...
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The camera issue is for ALL of cyanogenmod, not just us dinc users.
I've grabbed some of the patches that are being worked on and put some of my own work into it.
Please let me know what you find.
For me, it crashes almost every single time if I use continuous focus, but it's fine with infinity.
Screen off and on works without FC, but the camera is hard coded to not allow recording with screen off.
1. Backup
2. Flash aosp-camera-fix-v1.0.zip
3. reboot..

flashed
Just flashed, off to a meeting but will report back shortly. I would love to be able to shoot video in 720.

in to see the responses

no issues
No FC in continuous or infinity mode. Shot about 10 minutes of video in both. Screen off then on kills recording. Still no 720p recording mode though (not that this was supposed to fix that, I was just hoping).
Recap: No camera/video FC in either mode (continuous or infinity)
Thanks for this

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To get 720 p.. Make sure quality is set to custom and file type is mpeg4, then it should show up in the settings.

Someone alert camalus!

I will be flashing this after work today! Thank you!!!
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jimmypopulous said:
Someone alert camalus!
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Its Christmas!
Weeeeeeeeeeeee! LED and camera fix in the Same day!
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That does it. Thanks again.
seanzer said:
To get 720 p.. Make sure quality is set to custom and file type is mpeg4, then it should show up in the settings.
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camalus said:
Its Christmas!
Weeeeeeeeeeeee! LED and camera fix in the Same day!
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
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Indeed. well done seanzer, well done!

rom manager now shows build #157 (11-23) does this include both the cam and led fix?

radiohead14 said:
rom manager now shows build #157 (11-23) does this include both the cam and led fix?
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Maybe cam fix, definitely not led fix tho.. hasn't been approved.

hi seanzer. on cm nightly build #161 - issue: when on videocam, and i turn off the screen (recording or not), when you unlock, the videocam becomes almost half the size of the screen (with the preview screen almost a quarter the size, and is now on the lower left), and it's unresponsive.

radiohead14 said:
hi seanzer. on cm nightly build #161 - issue: when on videocam, and i turn off the screen (recording or not), when you unlock, the videocam becomes almost half the size of the screen (with the preview screen almost a quarter the size, and is now on the lower left), and it's unresponsive.
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Same thing happened on my friends moto Droid 1.. i think the latest commit to the camera broke it. Try a nightly before the 24th... which only contains my camera fix. I haven't had time to test the latest nightly yet, but I will have to investigate more what happened..

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Same thing happened on my friends moto Droid 1.. i think the latest commit to the camera broke it. Try a nightly before the 24th... which only contains my camera fix. I haven't had time to test the latest nightly yet, but I will have to investigate more what happened..
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thanks man. i just installed build #159 and cam is back to normal again.
on a different note: how come the vanilla cam doesn't support 8mp wide like the htc sense cam?

radiohead14 said:
how come the vanilla cam doesn't support 8mp wide like the htc sense cam?
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anyone know? is this the same with all aosp roms?.. the camera just isn't as good as the htc cam.

Fixed my Nexus One
Installed on CM 6.1 on a Nexus One, fixed the camera for photos, haven't tested the videos.
Symptoms: Camera keeps crashing after a few shots. Force Close the application and if I tried to run it I only got a blackscreen until the Force Close window appeared.
It also rebooted my phone one 2 occasions.
Installed using Rom Manager:
Install from SD
Selected .zip
Backup Rom (Yes)
Wipe (NO!!!)
Everything went smooth.
Now I'm taking pictures, modifying settings, Touch Focus, everything seems to work.
Took 20 pictures in a row and fast.
Thanks for the fix

I had high expectations on this one, I tried it but I still get FC on the camera.
I have a Magic and I am running the CM 6.1 Rom

radiohead14 said:
anyone know? is this the same with all aosp roms?.. the camera just isn't as good as the htc cam.
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If you look at the resolution of the 8mp wide setting on the stock sense camera, it's not actually 8mp. It's really the same as 6mp wide on the CM camera.
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gallery3d high res patch

has anybody tried flashing the high res gallery 3d patch from the nexus one/desire forums?

What patch is this? Do you have a link?
Should I assume, this means when you pinch to zoom in, it re-draws with a high res image again?

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What patch is this? Do you have a link?
Should I assume, this means when you pinch to zoom in, it re-draws with a high res image again?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=752007

Thanks. It doesn't appear to be device specific, so I don't see why it wouldn't work?
I think he says the thumbnail wall doesn't work though, so I'll give it a miss.
**EDIT** I also see it's taken from what's in CyanogenMod, which I have already

well anyone willing to try it on the latest modaco rom? if no one wants to help i guess ill have to do it alone lol

Well, as I have it already... yes, you go for it
I don't see it's any high risk. You're basically just trying an app.

I agree with Andy.
Since you're going to need to be root to do this anyways (right)...just use Titanium to back up the original app, then use Titanium to remove it, then install this one.
If it doesn't work out as you'd like, then just reverse the process.

I've just tested this on my stock gingerbread, it works! xD I used root explorer to remove the old gallery.

Just flashed and works perfectly! Can't believe how much smoother and faster it is and not to mention the image quality!

You really dont need this if you are using a rom based on CM

Moto X 2014 Camera.apk?

Anyone try it yet? Might have to do some engineering to work with our resolution, but curious if it installs/works. Would love to see if that multi-frame buffer feature works.
EDIT: apk for camera and gallery were posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=55296808&postcount=1
Gonna try it out.
EDIT2: Ok I tried it. Installs right over top. Nothing seems changed/improved, but it is recognized as a newer version.

I tested, and my videos are getting a ultra weird clicks in audio...
Anyone have the original camera from 4.4.4 ?

Here is the camera.apk from the new moto x works 100% tested......

djlucask said:
I tested, and my videos are getting a ultra weird clicks in audio...
Anyone have the original camera from 4.4.4 ?
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Working fine here, you can uninstall updates in app info to get back to previous version.

what is the reason going from the old one to this?

doesnt the new camera app have a "best shot" function or something? is it not on this apk?

jadeddjay said:
doesnt the new camera app have a "best shot" function or something? is it not on this apk?
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i've been running the apk since it was made available and i've never received the notification.