How to custom the lock screen camera - Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

xperia z on rooted stock
In the lock screen, there is a camera button. I am not using the stock camera by default, and wish to mod this button to change to my default third party camera app. Is there any means to do this? Many thanks.

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Power button as shutter/focuser in camera mode

It would be great if someone could mod the camera app to use power button as shutter button similar to how right shoulder button was used in the xperia play mod app allowing you to hold it to focus and release it to take a picture.
ps3taker said:
It would be great if someone could mod the camera app to use power button as shutter button similar to how right shoulder button was used in the xperia play mod app allowing you to hold it to focus and release it to take a picture.
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Already been talked about here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2141755&highlight=dedicated you will need root access but it can be done
Thanks - the other posts were slightly broader discussing lack of dedicated camera button, etc - I can live without a hardware button to launch camera up and very happy how zooming works with the volume rocker and would not want to lose that.
Also old camera mod app for xperia Play did not require root but xperia play mod used R trigger not power button so maybe you are right about root access.
I know power button can be used for ending calls in other xperia phones if enabled in accessibility menu - I wonder if the camera shutter option can be added in the similar fashion as an alternative to modding the stock camera app.
ps3taker said:
Thanks - the other posts were slightly broader discussing lack of dedicated camera button, etc - I can live without a hardware button to launch camera up and very happy how zooming works with the volume rocker and would not want to lose that.
Also old camera mod app for xperia Play did not require root but xperia play mod used R trigger not power button so maybe you are right about root access.
I know power button can be used for ending calls in other xperia phones if enabled in accessibility menu - I wonder if the camera shutter option can be added in the similar fashion as an alternative to modding the stock camera app.
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I hope so, I was a bit miffed when I found out their wasn't a camera button but it was the speaker....as this will be my first Sony device and most of their devices have had dedicated buttons....but I'm sure someone in XDA will bring out a mod
It should be a camera setting. Yes you'd lose digital zoom but that's fine for me as I'd never use digital zoom anyway.
The positioning of the volume keys would make it ideal and vastly improve the camera thanks to the shortsighted decision not to add a camera button (and thus lose the quick launch feature, which isn't possible to replicate just by having a camera icon on the lock screen).
When I went to take a picture yesterday I assumed that the button was to take a picture, was very disappointed when the screen just went black lol
Looks like this is going to be yet another phone that I am never going to take pictures with, I hate having to find the correct place on the screen to take a picture, once it has finally auto focused properly.
wonneil said:
When I went to take a picture yesterday I assumed that the button was to take a picture, was very disappointed when the screen just went black lol
Looks like this is going to be yet another phone that I am never going to take pictures with, I hate having to find the correct place on the screen to take a picture, once it has finally auto focused properly.
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Or you can download and use CameraZoom FX.

[Q] Change lockscreen's camera mode or app

Hi does anyone know how to change the camera mode (Intelligent Auto+) when accessed from the lockscreen camera switch? My camera app is set to "Normal", for I'm not comfortable with using Intelligent Auto+, but when accessed from the lockscreen, it goes to the Intelligent Auto+ mode.
Also related - possible to change the default camera app?
Thanks!
scoopdreams said:
Hi does anyone know how to change the camera mode (Intelligent Auto+) when accessed from the lockscreen camera switch? My camera app is set to "Normal", for I'm not comfortable with using Intelligent Auto+, but when accessed from the lockscreen, it goes to the Intelligent Auto+ mode.
Also related - possible to change the default camera app?
Thanks!
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in the camera app under settings,
click quick launch and set your desired mode
That setting don't work - it just allows me to choose whether
1) capture a shot right after launching
2) launch camera IN INTELLIGENT Auto mode
3) launch video cam and start shooting
4) launch video cam
5) remove lockscreen camera launcher
None of this option allows me to launch camera in NORMAL mode.
Any other ideas!
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Sony Xperia Z C6603 Purple | RomAur 1.1

Fixing Camera Button

Hello all. Since I destripped my .108 I use Google Camera and now my camera doesn't work from Lock screen is there anyway of binding it to G Camera?

Can the cam app that launches when pressing the camera button be changed?

Is it possible to have say the google camera launch instead of the sony camera when you press the camera button?
JCBomb said:
Is it possible to have say the google camera launch instead of the sony camera when you press the camera button?
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The Camera button seems to be tied to the "intelligent auto" mode.
Even when I press the shutter button while I'm in the Whatsapp Camera Mode, the Sony Camera App opens and the Whatsapp Camera Mode vanishes into background without taking a picture.
When phone is rooted, try freezing stock camera app and then try again while you have another app installed. That could work
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On non root, simply decativate stock camera app . Install new one from playstore, and the button will open your new app. Sadly with a lockscreen you don't get a fast track to the cam, but you will have to unlock your device prime of shooting pictures.
cyphomatic said:
On non root, simply decativate stock camera app . Install new one from playstore, and the button will open your new app. Sadly with a lockscreen you don't get a fast track to the cam, but you will have to unlock your device prime of shooting pictures.
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That's a bummer. =(
Thanks guys.

Is it possible to change the default camera in OOS?

I am loving the new "hacked" Google Camera that supports HDR. Both my wife and I are getting far better results from our OP3Ts. However, frustratingly it seems to be impossible to change the default camera in OxygenOS so that we can access it from the "double-tap power" shortcut. The default camera setting has no effect, and disabling the stock camera completely merely causes the shortcut to simply not work at all. By all accounts, OnePlus seems to have tied this functionality to the stock app.
Anyone know of a way to fix this?
Not yet. I have the same problem.
You can change the default camera, but it only works when phone is unlocked. So if you have lockscreen with password/fingerprint, no luck, only OOS camera opens then. But when unlocked, then Google camera (if changed to default) will open with double press powerbutton -shortcut. I think it's tied with the OOS lockscreen.
I've got this same issue. When you change defaults to a 3rd party app (I was using the Pixel ZSL HDR+ port for the 3T) the FIRST time you double press power it luanches the Pixel camera. Then after that it reverts back to the Oneplus camera. I submitted a bug but who knows if that really gets looked at. I also have a friend with a 3T who had the same problem. It happens to me on stock AND on all the open betas
You can't. In Lineage there are some patches to snapdragon camera to call it oneplus camera because oneplus spaguetti code
https://review.lineageos.org/#/c/169111/

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