(Q) Camera drm questions - Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi CM camera quality seems to be very low, especially when taking photos in low light.
Does anyone know of mods to improve quality or re enable BIONZ?
Or maybe a port of stock camera+a drm hack? Anyone tried the stock camera on CM with the new DRM hack?

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[Q] A little camera related question..

As we all know, the X8 has a fixed focus camera, is there anyway that instead of fixed focus we could have an auto-focus feature added? I know the camera is hardware but wouldn't it be possible for someone to create a module or plugin of some sort that adds a focusing option?
No. As you said this is hardware-limitation. So if you trying to solve this by software, this is a no-go.

Very bad camera - some fix?

Hello,
Is there some app or something else for fixing photo qualitty?
I tried pexo cam, cyberian cam...
I tried also another photo app...
I know, than camera sucks but some users have got good results (without photoshop etc...) - hardware is good so that is software problem
I've got z3c slimm 3.6 (.291 marchmallow) with xposed
Thank you
Did you open bootloader? If you have open bootlader is normal because you lost DRM, you could use a kernel o rom with DRM fix.
No, i didnt
pajos.gabros said:
No, i didnt
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If the phone was brand new you should ask to sony for warranty because is not normal mine take great photos with sony camera and I use camera fx as well with great performance, have you check that bootloader is not open, did you?
It was new one, never be unlocked
Have you tried with camera fx? Do you still have warranty? You should ask for it to Sony I have one z3c, and some friends had one and the camera work fine with a good quality. You can read and see others users on internet and camera is ok.
pajos.gabros said:
Hello,
Is there some app or something else for fixing photo qualitty?
I tried pexo cam, cyberian cam...
I tried also another photo app...
I know, than camera sucks but some users have got good results (without photoshop etc...) - hardware is good so that is software problem
I've got z3c slimm 3.6 (.291 marchmallow) with xposed
Thank you
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This phone's camera lens are bad, sony fixes it with its software, drm. If you unlock your bootloader, drm will be gone and you will see the real quality of your lens.

Camera Noise Reduction - Remove this awful 'feature'

Hi everyone,
I thought I'd post this as since I've had my S5 (within last 6 months) I have been quite disappointed by the quality of the camera images, particularly in mid to low light. Having had a Xperia Z2, LG G3 and G2 I had seen that the S5 was meant to have by far the best camera out of its peers. Unfortunately, while not as anywhere near as bad as the Z2, the S5 is significantly worse than both the G3 and the G2, mainly due to the awful noise reduction implemented by the Samsung firmware. The Z2 also had this problem in spades, and the only way to remove it was to unlock the bootloader and erase the DRM keys.
I though that this was the same on the S5 (or even completely impossible), but have recently discovered a camera app called 'Snap Camera HDR' in the Play Store. There is a free version and a paid version.
The app is the most fully featured camera app I have seen (I have used Open Camera, Camera FV-5 and many others), with tonnes of options and manual controls.
They key thing though is that it allows you to disable the built in noise-reduction: Go through the menu and select, then deselect the option 'Denoise'
There are also options to select 'Samsung Camera Mode' which enables real-time HDR (you have to select 'Use OpenGLES 2.0' under 'Other'), and you can also increase image sharpness and
change compression levels.
I've done some real world tests and I think the difference is huge. I'd rather have a little bit of noise and keep a sharper, more detailed, more natural image.
Here are some comparisons (I've cropped them down so you can see the detail more easily):
(P.S.: I have absolutely nothing to do with the Snap Camera developers)
Hm, nice find. I'm not sure if I'd need it thought since I'm on the Note 7's camera app. Any idea if the Note's camera app has this problem or not? I'm no picture taking guy so i can't tell by myself. I've barely used my camera during the past 3 years.
PS: The S5's camera was never good in low light, its strength was only during the day
great, great discovery I was propio looking for a good room for lineage 15.1 unofficial, thanks
This also seems to work without root (I have root but the app has never asked for SU permissions). I'm not sure why other camera apps don't have this feature.
Camera FV-5 has several image adjustments (such as saturation and sharpness) but they don't actually seem to work.
I have an AT&T S5 so I'm unfortunately stuck with stock based ROMs. Does anyone know if this heavy handed noise reduction exists on AOSP or other ROMs?
This might actually make me like my S5. I'm looking forward to getting out and taking some decent shots with the phone now!
Here is an example of the highly customisable UI
Also the built in camera of LineageOS 14.1 has the option to disable camera noise reduction.
With this camera you also have the possibility to take pictures in RAW mode without compression and you can also use HDR mode (but without flashlight) :good:
regards
j1gga84 said:
Also the built in camera of LineageOS 14.1 has the option to disable camera noise reduction.
With this camera you also have the possibility to take pictures in RAW mode without compression and you can also use HDR mode (but without flashlight) :good:
regards
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RAW? I didn't think Camera2 was supported on the S5 hardware..? Is the Lineage camera available as an apk?
Here: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/linea...a-2-0-002-776519c100-30-android-apk-download/
I don't know if it is RAW but pictures in best quality mode have a very big filesize.
Regards
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j1gga84 said:
Here: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/linea...a-2-0-002-776519c100-30-android-apk-download/
I don't know if it is RAW but pictures in best quality mode have a very big filesize.
Regards
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Probably not RAW then. You'd know if it was RAW as you'd have to use a special image viewer and process the photographs afterwards.
I can't install it to test unfortunately as I'm limited to Lollipop.
Resurrecting this.
Tried the app in a hope it would allow me to disable the noise filter on my Galaxy Note 7 LDU. It does. But it also restricts the shutter speed to 1/10th of a second. Unacceptable having up to 10 seconds capability. Overall the app has a hard to use and confusing UI. Users complain that there is no support at all to ask devs for help or features. Ditched it.
halx said:
Resurrecting this.
Tried the app in a hope it would allow me to disable the noise filter on my Galaxy Note 7 LDU. It does. But it also restricts the shutter speed to 1/10th of a second. Unacceptable having up to 10 seconds capability. Overall the app has a hard to use and confusing UI. Users complain that there is no support at all to ask devs for help or features. Ditched it.
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Fair enough. I still use it and as far as I'm concerned it's the best camera app for Android. I get what you mean about the UI, but what I like is that you can customise it quite a lot.
You can use the 'gesture' / 'pie' controls, or (as I do) chose to add all the required switches and adjustments as static buttons around the camera edge.

A better camera quality for apps like - Skype, Instagram , Whatsapp etc

Since I have succesfully activated HAL3 on our device, I started getting amazing pictures with the help Google Camera. The noise reduction is off, the quality is crystal-clear, which means that we haveamazing sensors on both our cameras, the rear and front one.
But even with this feature turned on, the quality of the built-in cameras of Instagram, Skype, Google Duo , Whatsapp and Viber offer a very low quality of the image even when taking photos but most important - when making a video call. The quality is awfull, just like the stock camera with it's noise reduction on. Blury image and very low FPS while in a videocall. We have great camera modules on our phone, so how to find in the ROMs a way to make these apps use the best quality available of our cameras? Is it related to HAL1 or HAL3 or is there a code in the kernel that can be modified? Or what is the key to make it work better?
When opening the video camera of the stock camera app - the image is clear and the noise-reduction is off...so it is amazing, even the fps is high, no glicthes. As soon as I switch the camera back to the photo, I get a blury image and low fps in of the viewfinder.... exaclty the same is within any of the above meantioned apps. How to make a better camera quality when using them? I haven't found any solution anywhere on the XDA forum not even on the 4pda forum.
Am I the only one concerned about this fact?
The front camera of this device is OV5675 Sensore and read on their page, it says it can handle video recording of Full HD at 60FPS
Than why did the MIUI limit it's capabilities so low? To make it look like a cheap sensor and sell the phone as budget?
Anyone?

Improve Mi8 Camera quality without changing ROM?

I'm on latest Global MIUI stable ROM, and the camera quality is lacking. Is there a way to improve camera quality without changing ROM?
If not, what is the best ROM for camera quality? Xiaomi.eu?
download google camera
best way is to use miui camera for video and 2x zoom
and google camera for selfies and rear camera hdr and night pictures
i you dont want to change rom thats the only way
tinimc said:
download google camera
best way is to use miui camera for video and 2x zoom
and google camera for selfies and rear camera hdr and night pictures
i you dont want to change rom thats the only way
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Totally agree with this tactic. Lets hope we get 60fps in miui camera soon.

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