Laggy Camera - LG Optimus 4X HD

Currently running the Revolt Rom which have the gallery3d camera preinstalled. The problem is that it lags insanely much, very difficult to take good pictures when it lags.
I have also tried the ASOP camera which lagged a bit less, but the quality becomes worse.
What should I do?

baxtex said:
Currently running the Revolt Rom which have the gallery3d camera preinstalled. The problem is that it lags insanely much, very difficult to take good pictures when it lags.
I have also tried the ASOP camera which lagged a bit less, but the quality becomes worse.
What should I do?
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The only camera that works without lag for me is the one in my sig.

Subtleone said:
The only camera that works without lag for me is the one in my sig.
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Awesome! It is way better!
Wondering about the kernel you are using, is it good for battery life? I'm on stock right now.
Hm well the camera app is great but...I can't acces my gallery from within the app and if I switch to the front facing camera it lags and the video camera doesn't work either.

baxtex said:
Awesome! It is way better!
Wondering about the kernel you are using, is it good for battery life? I'm on stock right now.
Hm well the camera app is great but...I can't acces my gallery from within the app and if I switch to the front facing camera it lags and the video camera doesn't work either.
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Well, I have none of those problems, so cannot really comment. I video Skype regularly with no issues whatsoever. My setup is as my sig says. The kernel is excellent, and allows voltage and clock control. You need to add it after applying any ROM since the ROM will usually bring its own kernel.
I use Juice Defender Ultimate, and Trickster to underclock and undervolt (max 1300MHz and 1050mA). A basic rule for battery life aside from this is to never leave your screen at over 40% brightness as it is the ultimate battery drain.

Subtleone said:
Well, I have none of those problems, so cannot really comment. I video Skype regularly with no issues whatsoever. My setup is as my sig says. The kernel is excellent, and allows voltage and clock control. You need to add it after applying any ROM since the ROM will usually bring its own kernel.
I use Juice Defender Ultimate, and Trickster to underclock and undervolt (max 1300MHz and 1050mA). A basic rule for battery life aside from this is to never leave your screen at over 40% brightness as it is the ultimate battery drain.
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Made a backup and installed the kernel. Used Rom Toolbox to set the maxium mhz to 1300 and i set it to be at 1050 there. Gonna se what will happen.

Subtleone said:
The only camera that works without lag for me is the one in my sig.
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I like the camera apps~~thanks.:good::good:
However, I would like to launch the "QuickPic" rather than the per-installed gallery after pressing the preview icon.
How can I set this action??

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Dynamic Over-Clocking Solution!!!

Alright, I've been really upset with the performance of the video camera & playback on my Tilt. In desperation I installed an HTC Application for the Apache which allows you to overclock to 520 or 624. I've been playing with this for a full 10 days now & have to say that aty the 520mhz video is bettyer than bearable, I've had no freezes & my battery draw is roughly the same as before I installed HTC Performance. This does not scale with steps like other over/under-clocking programs, so I just activate it when I need video cam or with TCPMP. It's working Great for me.
The original OEM app it was extracted from has helmi's name on it. I can't figure out what it does, but there is a significant diference for me when running at 520mhz especially in Video Cam mode.
If you want it, get it here: http://rapidshare.com/files/72529266/HTC_Performance__with_shortcut_.cab
GSLEON3 said:
Alright, I've been really upset with the performance of the video camera & playback on my Tilt. In desperation I installed an HTC Application for the Apache which allows you to overclock to 520 or 624. I've been playing with this for a full 10 days now & have to say that aty the 520mhz video is bettyer than bearable, I've had no freezes & my battery draw is roughly the same as before I installed HTC Performance. This does not scale with steps like other over/under-clocking programs, so I just activate it when I need video cam or with TCPMP. It's working Great for me.
The original OEM app it was extracted from has helmi's name on it. I can't figure out what it does, but there is a significant diference for me when running at 520mhz especially in Video Cam mode.
If you want it, get it here: http://rapidshare.com/files/72529266/HTC_Performance__with_shortcut_.cab
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I installed - I enabled - I checked my Device Info (still 400). I ran sk benchmark with it on and off and results almost exactly the same. On what are you basing your info?
Tried it here to, doesn't seem to do anything for me either
sugar pill
I tried it too and noticed no difference LOL, I think its one of those times when someone thinks there running faster due to there special shoes
what's really interesting is that this program isn't even working writing the registry entries correctly. Under HKLM/Software/HTC/ this app writes a key called HTC_Misc. In that key are 2 sub-keys regarding the overclock. With the option to overclock turned off in the application, if you look at the registry you'll find that the ovefclocking is turned on. When you select 500mhz it turns off the overclocking registry. If you set it to 624 mhz, the keys are both set to 1 (on). I think this app needs some more work as it's not working correctly.
Maybe it's a sugar pill...
Yeah, I know fast shoes & all that. The funny thing is that almost all the Apache users found that the benchmarks were simillar to not using this app. but the majority of them also said that their unit was much more responsive. If it's a Placebo effect, it's a good one & I'll take it because my video cam actually captures things that are moving now, not just a blur. I'll reset & see if Tracker picks up any other changes anywhere else in the registry.
As far as what I'm currently basing my oppinion on, it's just that my camera is capturing moving people & items clearly.
GSLEON3 said:
Yeah, I know fast shoes & all that. The funny thing is that almost all the Apache users found that the benchmarks were simillar to not using this app. but the majority of them also said that their unit was much more responsive. If it's a Placebo effect, it's a good one & I'll take it because my video cam actually captures things that are moving now, not just a blur. I'll reset & see if Tracker picks up any other changes anywhere else in the registry.
As far as what I'm currently basing my oppinion on, it's just that my camera is capturing moving people & items clearly.
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what speed are you using?
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what speed are you using?
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Funny enough, the 520 setting feels faster & camera works better for me. Strange though.
a faster processor isnt going to reduce the required exposure time
I understand that, & I'm strictly talking about overall sys. response & the Video Cam. Before when people were moving it as horrible, they appeared as just a blur of motion. Now it records movements much more clearly. The only other thing I've done is installed TomTOm6 w/ a few maps.
I'll tell you what, I'll make a screen recording of video with & with out this applied & you will see what I mean.
Are you sure you're not just taking photos in better light conditions at the moment? The kaiser automatically switches to night mode when the light is poor, and then the camera becomes unusable.
also please review the post I meade eralier about registry keys. When this app is set to 520, the actual registry entries show that overclocking is turned off.
This is DEFINITELY Placebo effect.
dang, this got me pretty excited...
Just as a final nail I tested corecodec benchmark of the spiderman3 movie I have on storage.
Non Over - 97.43% playback rate
520 - 96.62
640 - 96.00
So all in all I think we can call this one dead.
PS: Yes it does piss me off the playback isnt 100%+ but thats the drivers thread not this one.

Allow music player to run on low battery fix?

When the battery goes under 15% music player stops... how can we bypass this?
I´m using Btunes. It is working with low battery. But is there any fix for the camera ? I really like the camera and I don´t really want to use another app for the cam..
mazurson said:
I´m using Btunes. It is working with low battery. But is there any fix for the camera ? I really like the camera and I don´t really want to use another app for the cam..
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me too... a year and some odd days late.
me too.
unclefishbits said:
me too... a year and some odd days late.
me too.
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There is a hacked camera allowing this in the themes and apps section
No music player hack though yet :S

[MOD] Gr1 Camera modded - no shutter sounds, better quality for videos & pictures

Hi all,
I'm using Paul's great Gr1 (GB 2.3.4) from almost day one and even as my "daily driver" .
I tried the usual camera mods and found none of them working (just experienced boot loops).
So, I was longing for a respective camera mod - similar to somemadcaaant's mod but for GB/ Gr1. As no mod for Gr1 surfaced until now, I decided to rip apart the app by myself.
After some googling and a time intensive code analysis, I figured out how to accomplish what I was looking for (no shutter sounds, quality improvements).
I finally decided to share my mod with the community.
You can flash it with the update zip in CWM or just copy the apk to \system\app using a root file explorer.
NB: Unfortunately I was not able to make most of the Full-HD video mods work. After some testing I came to the conclusion, it must be some kernel bug because there are no hints in the logcat, that something is going wrong. And even the stock app behaves in the same way!
Maybe it's just happening to me, so provide some feedback/ hints here please!
I'm sharing it anyway, because maybe somebody finds it useful like it is.
Please find the resulting apk (plus update script) attached to this post. Enjoy!
Installation:
Flash the attached zip with CWM ("install zip from sd-card") or copy the apk to your \system\app folder manually.
I modded the following (please note the current restrictions!):
Disabled shutter & AF sounds (still & video) - timer sounds are still enabled (on purpose --> no change!)
Increased preview fps to 40 (--> reduced page tearing)
Changed default to show video after capture to false
Picture quality:
Set normal picture quality to 80
Set fine picture quality to 95
Set superfine picture quality to 100
1080p:
*Set FPS to 30
*Set normal video quality to 7Mbs (=fine in LG app)
*Set fine video quality to 12Mbs
*Set superfine video quality to 17Mbs
Set audio bitrate to 128Kbs
*not working due to buggy kernel (Gr1)? --> reverts to default 15fps & 9Mbs
720p:
Set normal video quality to 4Mbs (=superfine in LG app)
Set fine video quality to 9Mbs
Set superfine video quality to 14Mbs
Set audio bitrate to 128Kbs
PS:
1. Zoom is working now (no crash on Paul's Gr1) !!
2. If you have a darker icon for your camera app, then update script worked like it should!
3. Please be polite, as a) this is my first mod b) operation iron fist
4. If this is useful for you, hit the "Thanks" button on the lower right!
This mod is valid for stock roms?
Enviado desde mi LG-P990 usando Tapatalk
@Lo_RaT_PeNaT
I don't think so , this mod is for Modaco GR1 (Gingerbread)
the ROM Stock are Froyo
AndiCP said:
Hi all,
I'm using Paul's great Gr1 from almost day one and even as my "daily driver" .
I tried the usual camera mods and found none of them working (just experienced boot loops).
....
3. Please be polite, as a) this is my first mod b) operation iron fist
4. If this is useful for you, hit the "Thanks" button on the lower right!
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Thanks for your efforts. Going to try this out.
Anyway you can make widescreen photos option available? Don't like 4:3 ratio.
how did you disable shutter sound ?
in cm, focus sound is played by camera app, so it is easy to reduce, while shutter sound is hard-coded in libcameraservice.so and you have to modify frameworks/base/services/camera/libcameraservice/CameraService.cpp (maybe Gr1 is different ?)
another question is that in cm, picture quality drops once you go to video recording mode and back to still image mode. do you also have this ?
Good work
i have a gr2 i will test your camera mod
thanks
Thanks for your posts guys!
el_liberator said:
@Lo_RaT_PeNaT
I don't think so , this mod is for Modaco GR1 (Gingerbread)
the ROM Stock are Froyo
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yup
ksekhar said:
Thanks for your efforts. Going to try this out.
Anyway you can make widescreen photos option available? Don't like 4:3 ratio.
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You're welcome!
I don't like 4:3 too. Let's see what I can do.
pastime1971 said:
how did you disable shutter sound ?
in cm, focus sound is played by camera app, so it is easy to reduce, while shutter sound is hard-coded in libcameraservice.so and you have to modify frameworks/base/services/camera/libcameraservice/CameraService.cpp (maybe Gr1 is different ?)
another question is that in cm, picture quality drops once you go to video recording mode and back to still image mode. do you also have this ?
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It's sort of a hack. I disabled it by removing the middle layer.
To make it short: The app actually plays the sound, but the sounds won't be loaded in the first place There isn't even an error message in log cat about that though!
If you just remove the actual playing part, it simply plays the default sound instead (like you mentioned).
About pic quality...didn't notice that so far, will test it.
vekkio said:
Good work
i have a gr2 i will test your camera mod
thanks
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Thanks! I'm eager to hear your feedback for the Gr2 (esp. if it also reverts the Full-HD settings)!
Looking forward to more feedback!
vekkio said:
Good work
i have a gr2 i will test your camera mod
thanks
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I'm going to test it too today.
Update: can you post the zip file, because I can't overwrite the camera apk ...
Nice work, you read my mind...
I couldn't fix the 1080p issues either since the camera app looks to be unfinished, looks like its missing updated libs (libcamera.service.so|libnvmm_camera.so|libcamera_client.so) as I could restore some functions like 1080p higher compression via using the froyo code [cameraengine.java|modevideonormal.java] but it would screw other features, all LG seems to have done is started a quick and dirty port to GB.
Also looks like their trying to make a universal GB camera app for GB phones using the media_profiles.xml like the sgs2 and aosp frameworks have, this looks like where the 1080p issues reside as it will be looking to this file for fps and audio/video compression in the O2X Gb update.
Done well so far matey keep it up.
-smc
Are you planning on adding MIUI compatibility? Currently it force closes on 1.8.12
Sent from my Optimus 2X using XDA App
somemadcaaant said:
Nice work, you read my mind...
I couldn't fix the 1080p issues either since the camera app looks to be unfinished, looks like its missing updated libs (libcamera.service.so|libnvmm_camera.so|libcamera_client.so) as I could restore some functions like 1080p higher compression via using the froyo code [cameraengine.java|modevideonormal.java] but it would screw other features, all LG seems to have done is started a quick and dirty port to GB.
Also looks like their trying to make a universal GB camera app for GB phones using the media_profiles.xml like the sgs2 and aosp frameworks have, this looks like where the 1080p issues reside as it will be looking to this file for fps and audio/video compression in the O2X Gb update.
Done well so far matey keep it up.
-smc
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Thanks man! really appreciate it!
Good to hear, that its not just me having trouble with this
Actually I already thought that exactly these probs would keep you from posting a GB mod
Thanks for this valuable info! But I was almost sure this would be related to a buggy kernel, as I developed another cam app which is working great on Froyo but behaves on Gr1 exactly the same strange way as the LG cam app does in Gr1. I think the drivers are simply f*cked up for LG's GB port at this point of time. So let's wait and see what comes down the pipe...
PS: tried the media_profiles.xml as well (and included it into the update zip) - even b4 your post - but obviously no impact on said probs.
action294 said:
Are you planning on adding MIUI compatibility? Currently it force closes on 1.8.12
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Nope. Plain modded LG GB cam app.
AndiCP said:
Thanks man! really appreciate it!
Good to hear, that its not just me having trouble with this
Actually I already thought that exactly these probs would keep you from posting a GB mod
Thanks for this valuable info! But I was almost sure this would be related to a buggy kernel, as I developed another cam app which is working great on Froyo but behaves on Gr1 exactly the same strange way as the LG cam app does in Gr1. I think the drivers are simply f*cked up for LG's GB port at this point of time. So let's wait and see what comes down the pipe...
PS: tried the media_profiles.xml as well (and included it into the update zip) - even b4 your post - but obviously no impact on said probs.
Nope. Plain modded LG GB cam app.
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Dude this is great that your working on this for GB for the O2X. I have a thread in the G2X forums working on the same thing. Question how did you fix the zoom crash, I also use apktool , so let me know thanks.
Is this working for CM7 or people having some problems ?
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Is this working for CM7 or people having some problems ?
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+1 here, would it work with CM7?
Does it actually removes the "mist" effect from the camera when taking pictures? stock v10d removes(without any fix), tho in CM7 it's still there.
Any chance of updating this work with the camera module from the latest leaked V20c ROM (eg. Flair GB) or V20f (Korean??)?
LG have fixed the video zoom problem and upped the frame rate for 1080p to 24fps in V20c.
But I am still really disappointed with LG's lack of progress with the still photo quality. The white haze problem is not so noticeable (color saturation still no where as good as the Nokia cameras) but the image is still very grainy and I suspect that is all we are going to get Could do with your tweaking magic
greetings, I wonder if you think some mod make the camera view has achieved stability with ginger roms version based on 20c?, a greeting
Modded V20e stock camera
Hi all,
I went on and successfully modded the stock camera app of V20e.
In contrast to Gr1, everything I modded is working well in V20e now.
Please go ahead and dl my latest mod here.
Enjoy!
AndiCP
Installed the mod successfully.
Enhanced fotos before and after the mod, but no vissable difference between them.
What should be improved with this mod, except the missing shutter sound?
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mach2005 said:
Installed the mod successfully.
Enhanced fotos before and after the mod, but no vissable difference between them.
What should be improved with this mod, except the missing shutter sound?
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA Premium App
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You said that before on the corresponding thread.
Read my answer there.
does it work on latest v20l? can you see if with this new update, you can enhance 1080p again? you wrote it couldn't be enhanced due to kernel problems... probably with the final one, have been resolved?
thanks

[Q] CM7 Video Recording with LOW FPS

Yesterday i tried to mess a bit with the camera so i decided to try the "[MOD][CAM] [email protected]@20mbps + auto-focus on CM7" (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094424)
I did installed with the recovery. but after that i get very low fps on my videos..i tried every single file with about the same outcome.. so i wanna know how i can bring the cm7 default camera.apk back?
currently my videos are at 9 frames/sec wich is really bad...
I am using CM7.1.0 stable my phone is the greek version of Optimus X2 (its the speed) P990
My SD card speed is class 4 and i am using the sd booster app for a better performance..not big difference tbh...so either i would like to know where i can find the original camera.apk for cm7 or what i can do to fix this.. thanks in advance!
EDIT: I dont have experience on modding..just started messing around with phone following various step by step guides..
I have managed to put the default camera.apk and media_profiles.xml from CM7.1.0
to my mobile. I noticed small difference a bit better i think lik 12fps...
I have to mention that the light in the room was average.. when I had more light the frames gone up to like 25-26 fps... (i did monitored it with fraps) i have to try to daylight now...
Btw is that a general issue for all in dark video takes or its something wrong with my phone and/or software?
Any suggestions?
I am quite sure it has something to do with cm7 camera app. Alot of people do complaint about the quality of cm7's camera app comparing to the stock LG camera app on stock roms.
It's not a fault of CM team, the camera library is closed source, so it is hard to understand how O2X camera works.
Since I use the camcorder, I had to leave CM7 waiting for a fix
sodade21 said:
Yesterday i tried to mess a bit with the camera so i decided to try the "[MOD][CAM] [email protected]@20mbps + auto-focus on CM7" (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1094424)
I did installed with the recovery. but after that i get very low fps on my videos..i tried every single file with about the same outcome.. so i wanna know how i can bring the cm7 default camera.apk back?
currently my videos are at 9 frames/sec wich is really bad...
I am using CM7.1.0 stable my phone is the greek version of Optimus X2 (its the speed) P990
My SD card speed is class 4 and i am using the sd booster app for a better performance..not big difference tbh...so either i would like to know where i can find the original camera.apk for cm7 or what i can do to fix this.. thanks in advance!
EDIT: I dont have experience on modding..just started messing around with phone following various step by step guides..
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A library system/lib/libcamera.so was changed in newer CM releases and it features auto compensation, that's the reason why video sucks in low light compared to stock.
You can use a libcamera.so from older CM nightlies/stable releases. But make sure that you also copy Camera.apk from that version.
ktxed said:
A library system/lib/libcamera.so was changed in newer CM releases and it features auto compensation, that's the reason why video sucks in low light compared to stock.
You can use a libcamera.so from older CM nightlies/stable releases. But make sure that you also copy Camera.apk from that version.
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oh i see.. I'll try that thank you!
hmm this is interesting.. i too am not so happy with the camera on CM7.2 temasek
there's no way to install the stock camera apk on CM roms?
what i dearly miss from that camera is the ability for faster timer shots (2s).. the fastest timer is 10s for CM7 =\

Camera mode lag, normal?

Hello,
When I use creative effect mode with my Z3C I see a lot of lags on the screen when I move the phone (like... you know... when you make a video...). I thought it was normal and just on the screen but with normal final result. But when I record a video with creative effect, I see lags on the screen BUT also in the final video when I watch it.
Am I alone?
Thanks!
EDIT: NO I don't have Stamina mode
I've never tried video recording with creative effects, but it doesn't surprise me. Most of the creative effects seem to stress the processor and some have even experienced the camera app shutting down to prevent over-heating.
Too bad, I can't make "real" video with effect, always lags in some parts.
try clearing out all apps and running programs before recording one of the videos. have all processing power available.
OK thank you
`Ghost` said:
try clearing out all apps and running programs before recording one of the videos. have all processing power available.
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I should not have to do that on a 2014-15 flagship. Just to be able to use all the features.... I'd accept it for 4yo phone if you want to use the latest softwares, but a new one? Completely unacceptable.
actually..you SHOULD have to do that. A cpu intensive task needs all power available.
also the videos with these effects on dont get the best frame rates to begin with. theyre for entertainment purposes, not to film a super bowl commercial
Camera become laggy when free ram get under 300mb, I fix it with rooting then use greenify to manage ram.. Smooth camera and fluid multitasking

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