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[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
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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 ?

sahilkhurana said:
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?
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA Premium App

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

Different Camera Application

I find this video and on this optimus black has different camera app.This camera app has video editing tool i using europe open 10e rom and there is no video editing tool.How can i find this camera.apk?Or anyone has video editing tool can u share your camera.apk in system/app...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hnqd5-XwBQ

First time I'm seeing those features, and I've watched a ton of video reviews about this phone both before and after purchasing it. Looks like the owner of the video is LG, as you can also see from the actual photos inside the phone of the LG Headquarters. This probably means that it's a developer preview or maybe the 2.3 Camera application

There's a german header on this video "This is not final Software, so apps and functions may vary"...

This feature is evident in the Australian version of the user guide.
I do not know whether it actually is in the roms for this region?

holy **** i want that!
i would flash back to stock just for that app.
the only reason preventing me is that the stock camera app is unable to disable the shutter sound, ass

yeomond said:
holy **** i want that!
i would flash back to stock just for that app.
the only reason preventing me is that the stock camera app is unable to disable the shutter sound, ass
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To the best of my knowledge, there's no such stock camera application. If there would, we surely would have it in each port (which means one so far...).

here is a (german) thread about removing shutter sound. there you'll find a modded camera.apk.
http://www.handy-faq.de/forum/lg_p9..._video_record_sound_entfernen_abschalten.html

notmatched said:
here is a (german) thread about removing shutter sound. there you'll find a modded camera.apk.
http://www.handy-faq.de/forum/lg_p9..._video_record_sound_entfernen_abschalten.html
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Man... we are not talking about camera without shutter sound! Please read the first post carefully.
The camera with removed shutter sound is here as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1165936

Wow, if they had this feature for awhile and only decide to release it along side gingerbread as a 'new' feature, it would just be poor taste :O

[Q] Camera App Recommendations

I'm not very fond of the camera app on MIUI, looking for a third party one if available.
Any fan favourites out there?

Hmm, I was expecting more of a response to this one, can anybody suggest any camera apps, or could someone get me the apk of the default Samsung camera app?
Thanks

Kops said:
Hmm, I was expecting more of a response to this one, can anybody suggest any camera apps, or could someone get me the apk of the default Samsung camera app?
Thanks
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Try using
1. Paper camera
or
2. Camera 360 ultimate (recommended)

Thanks, I'll check them out!

Hmm, Paper Camera seemed to be a little cartoony for my liking (very effects based), and 360 wouldn't let me use my front-facing camera
Just looking for a simple camera that can store to my external SD, and preferably allow the power button to take photos

Camera effects?

Hello all-
I downloaded the Camera Launcher for Nexus 7 app on my N7 and it work great except for one thing. No effects! In the app description it said you could access the new camera effects/filters introduced with Jellybean. My question is, how do you activate the effects? I have gone through everything in the app and couldn't find anything. Is anyone here using this and able to access the filters?
Thanks,
wws12

The effects are accessed through the gallery; view the photo after you've taken it, then menu > edit.

There are also special features like big eyes which are available in video mode.

Thanks so much. I was looking for the video effects, but the effects after you have taken the photo were something I didn't know about. Thank you both.

[Link Updated]HTC Camera For Nexus 6

I got HTC Camera this time i tested it on My Nexus 6 Indeed it Work Great For Me There are Few New Feature which HTC included in this camera is Amazing you can take your shot @ 16:9 ratio :good:
Main Feature:
1- Bokeh mode
2- Split Capture
3- Photo booth (Capture four photo in a grid )
Video Recording @4k 1080p , 720p , 240p, 176p(MMS)
Camera Quality is Awesome indoor and outdoor both shots are great Split Capture and Bokeh mode is great
Note: After taking a shot or a video you have to re-scan your internal memory Just download a media scanner from play store or if you are a CyanogenMod 13 user go into your setting>development option>Click on media provider then click on scan SD-card it will work or Direct you have to open your File manager then go into your DCIM folder then you will find "100MEDIA" folder in this folder you will find your photos or video which you took it from your HTC camera thxx
Tested on :
Stock 6.0.1
Chroma 6.0.1
PureNexus 6.0.1
CyanogenMod 13
Download- http://www.mediafire.com/download/7fhqzz1p027h2jd/HTC.Cam.apk
Screenshot: - http://infinityperfection.blogspot.in/2016/01/htc-camera-apk.html
Add-On = QHD Wallpaper collection - http://infinityperfection.blogspot.in/2016/01/qhd-wallpaper.html

adnanahmad1786 said:
I got HTC Camera this time i tested it on My Nexus 6 Indeed it Work Great For Me There are Few New Feature which HTC included in this camera is Amazing you can take your shot @ 16:9 ratio :good:
Main Feature:
1- Bokeh mode
2- Split Capture
3- Photo booth (Capture four photo in a grid )
Video Recording @4k 1080p , 720p , 240p, 176p(MMS)
Camera Quality is Awesome indoor and outdoor both shots are great Split Capture and Bokeh mode is great
Note:just in cases if you took a pic with your HTC camera and u open your galaxy and u are unable to find your pic then Refresh it or open you file manager > DCIM > 100 media there you will find your pics
Tested on :
Stock 6.0.1
Chroma 6.0.1
PureNexus 6.0.1
CyanogenMod 13
Download http://www.mediafire.com/download/7fhqzz1p027h2jd/HTC.Cam.apk
Screenshot: - http://infinityperfection.blogspot.in/2016/01/htc-camera-apk.html
Add-On = QHD Wallpaper collection - http://infinityperfection.blogspot.in/2016/01/qhd-wallpaper.html
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Working great on chroma ROM thanks

Zayn1 said:
Working great on chroma ROM thanks
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Thxx for reporting ...

It says there was an error parsing the package?

Great find. Any way to get the pictures taken with the app to integrate into Google photos and the gallery app?

lazerus06 said:
Great find. Any way to get the pictures taken with the app to integrate into Google photos and the gallery app?
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There is an app called Media scanner that will Add those pic which you were taken from your Camera . or if you are a CyanogenMod user you can go into your development option you will find media scanner .. that think also can integrate into your gallery thxx

trizzv said:
It says there was an error parsing the package?
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can you please tell me which Version of Android you are using ????

I too am getting a parser error. Running Android 6.0.1 from January security update

Me too 6.0.1 and the latest chroma January version

This is what happens

Never MInd. Got it. It doesn't work with ES file explorer. Also when I go on the camera, why do the navigation buttons disappear

trizzv said:
This is what happens
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I will re-upload it today ...sorry for inconvenience ...

Thxx for telling me Guys Now the download link is work fine

Great app Adnan!

adnanahmad1786 said:
Thxx for telling me Guys Now the download link is work fine
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Yup works great. I also downloaded stk htc gallery and works flawlessly

trizzv said:
Great app Adnan!
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razrlover said:
Yup works great. I also downloaded stk htc gallery and works flawlessly
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Thxx guys for reporting back :good:

Bokeh not working for me (couldn't identify foreground object) on PureNexus rom.

Hi, a question. I would be existing if you could fix the problem with the recognizing the taken pictures.
Thanks for reading , lg ivi
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djcsurf said:
Bokeh not working for me (couldn't identify foreground object) on PureNexus rom.
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I never tried Bokeh mode but I don't think its not working I think you should have to see video on YouTube on how to use bokeh mode thxx
ivifly said:
Hi, a question. I would be existing if you could fix the problem with the recognizing the taken pictures.
Thanks for reading , lg ivi
Sure I will see thxx
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I don't think the bokeh mode is working. I've tried it in a some different environments and haven't had any luck. I get the "Couldn't identify foreground object" error each time. I also checked the HTC website for instructions and still no luck.
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