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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mguel:
Shortcut lost issue

While testing stock vs potatoman vs hiperx on 2 times I had the shortcut lost from the bottom launcher bar of TouchWiz launcher. The first time I "installed" camera.apk (already copied to /system/app) but still had no shortcut, so on the Applications drawer -> menu -> Edit, I was able to add back the camera shortcut to the bottom drawer.

And the second time I lost the shortcut I didn't install it, I only made the steps I described above, and was able to restore the shortcut without installing the apk again.

Cheers,

Mguel
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] djbarry:
it seems to be the treble indeed, the rest of the frequencies are better...

So, what's next..? When i put my finger on the microphone, the sound is much better, but then the sound is really low...

That's logical ofcourse, but now i know its the treble, maybe i can put on some filter or something on the microphone so the sound will stay good even at high volumes..

gonna try that first, i will let you know the difference! :-)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] sepipe-l0:
is it possible for a "manual focus" tweek?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] dem000n:
+1

Or just disable auto-focus at all (in video recording mode).
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] JF-GINO:
I agree, the thing takes 50% of my videos out of focus, especial in lower light conditions. Dont know why sammy would not implement this option as its just not acceptable. Stereo is also quite possible as posted before - would be the 2 greatest improvements.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] jastonas:
Typical File Expert problems. Just use root explorer

Swyped from my Galaxy S II using Tapatalk
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] moro30:
what is better hack for best performance audio and video, patatoman or hiperx? i want to use the best version, for my rom lite'ning 1.4 KF1

this is the hack that i have used:

camera_HX-Mod
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] busterdan:
Same for me... rebooting now... just hope it is OK
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] busterdan:
Phew... it works... think I'll stick with it as it is thanks.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] knightnz:
How to install using adb with phone connected to your computer:

Copy the new .apk to the root of the internal sdcard of the phone. then run the appropriate set of commands:

STANDARD VERSION:

NO SOUND VERSION:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] NoOneCanHelpMe:
do u have root explorer?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mguel:
Here too... hating autofocus with ADHD :mad:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] knightnz:
Yes. I prefer to do the process via the shell so I can ensure permissions are correct, I find it faster doing it this way.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Potatoman:
Thanks for the ADB install guide, I put it up on the first page for people who want to do it that way (and gave you credit of course :))
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] sinzim:
Thanks for this, installing now =)

Edit: Works great!

Would love the feature of power button as a shutter! Good luck on that one =)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] falkenbein:
it works on KE2 very nice. Thx!!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] deaad:
Sorry wrong tread.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] M40TURBO:
Has anyone experienced the phone getting warm after the mod? That the display gets warmer then the back. I'm on the Lite'ning Rom v1.4 XWKF1 now.

I turned it off to let it cool down. Going to check if it gets warm again.

Then i'll have to go back to the old camera.apk:p
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] NoOneCanHelpMe:
ur phone is getting hot after u use the app to take pictures?

i think ur phone is hot because u play games or browse :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] M40TURBO:
It might have been because of when i used the wifi and installed a few things.

made a vid to check if it worked. No games played this time. But the screen doesn't get as war as it did this time, even after playing games or browsing.

I'll investigate some more and let you know if i find out anything.

But it should have been warmer on the battery side, and not the screen.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Potatoman:
I find my phone gets warm generally when browsing the web while downloading files and other CPU intensive activities like playing games, near the top half of the screen. It also happens when I record HD video for more than 15mins. As this happened before the mod as well, I felt I could safely release it since I'm assuming samsung is aware of what the device is able to take thermally, and I saw no increase in temperature when using my mod.

Basically, it's just the phone. You get used to it pretty fast, it's not like it gets BURNING hot, just warm to the touch. It's because your hand is less than 10mm away from a 1.2GHz Dual Core CPU :P
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] maormark:
HI,

i install

"Hacked Camera.APK mod of Potatoman"

one of the change is

"- Records Audio in 192kbps/44.1Khz quality (CD Quality) rather than stock (64kbps/16khz quality)"

my question is

1. the mic is more sensitive to noise if i change from 16khz to 44.1 khz??

here shows comparison of camera quality:

iphone 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKm-7...mbedded#at=124

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGAte...embedded#at=59

s2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TFm9...embedded#at=65

the iphone 4 sound more beter from galaxy s2

2. if i return the original stock (16khz) this will improve my sound quality when i record video??

3. Is there a way to reduce the sensitivity of the record microphone and raise the sensitivity of mic noise filter?

4. what is the problem in my s2?

thanks
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] MZWiZard:
+1 on manual focus and stereo :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] milance86:
mhm manual focus and stereo would be great to have !
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] angel of other:
I believe that stereo is impossible as there's only one mic on the handset
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] OHDUSER:
well I believe that you are wrong about that o-o

the sgs2 SURELY contains 2 mics.. 1 at the top and 1 at the bottom. the top 1 is exacly above the bottom 1..
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Potatoman:
He is correct, there are two mics, so I don't think it's impossible.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] sinzim:
Hmm how do you guys go about creating mods like this? Is there a samsung firmware repo i can pull? I think I just found the one for the kernel repo.

I havent done any android projects yet, but Im curious =)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] JF-GINO:
Here is your very short and basic explanation:

OK, an APK file is essentially a ZIP file so first you need to extract all files in the APK (in their proper structure) and decompile all the xml files extracted. This stuff is all Java binaries. Once you convert the binaries into something readable (and editable) you can look thru the file to see what can be modded. After you make changes, you need to re-compile the files. They will now need to be signed.

(of course there is a little more to it than this)

You can use tools like AKPTool or APK Manager, Dex2Jar & AXMLPrinter2

Google it and you will find tons of info on it – I tried porting apps back when I had my Liquid and that’s how I learned about apk files.

And this is more than possible. It is easy to make the video encode with stereo sound by modding channels to 2 from default 1.

The problem would be actually activating both mics at once (at the hardware level) I mentioned in an earlier post that 'Tapemachine' will allow you to change which mic you want to use, but not both at the same time. Once this is figured out, then its easy to implement this mod.

The manual focus thing is beyond me tho...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] sinzim:
Thanks JF-GINO, i shall look up them tools :) I just did not think people usually worked with decompiled binaries (ugly code isnt it, ive never tried) as I think i read somewhere that samsung provided an open source, but seeing as I havent found this as of yet I guess that is how to go about it :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] idealforyou:
Upcoming features for v2-

Ability to listen to Music while filming/taking photos!

POSSIBLE- Power key as camera shutter (more research needed before I can commit to this one :P) (Thanks sorrowuk for giving me the reference, I'll try to implement this on sunday )

POSSIBLE- Faster Refocus/Autofocus while filming video (Needs LOTS of research, no clue where to start for this xD)

POSSIBLE- Higher Resolution Panorama shots (Unsure of how feasible th

I see this few Month in the first Post. When this should come out?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] NoOneCanHelpMe:
have u read the middle of the thread :P :D modder said he cant do anything for now, because of personal issues :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] alex_time:
Does anyone have noticed that on samsung app there is a firmware upgrade for camcoder?

Do you think it is possibile to install it with the hacekd camera apk installed? What does it mean "firmware"?! Does the camera has a firmware?! I have not ever seen it on odin...Or maybe they call it firmware while it is just a new versione of the camera apk...Maybe they are implemented the camera hack...Does anyone have tried it?!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bruno77:
Can't change Camera.apk name?

hi, SGSII

VillianROM 1.4

Root Explorer.

Won't let me rename Camera.apk file?

/system/app

says "Warning - Camera.apk cannot be renamed because the file system is read-only."

Any help much appreciated.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] NoOneCanHelpMe:
I have just updated the firmware to:

Cam FW : OCEF02

Phone FW: OCED11

I made a video and got this. has anyone got the same result?

the video was made in a very dark room :)

yes i have the modded camera app, but after a firmware update I had to always reinstall the mod because it would default everything, may be this time the modded app hasnt changed :confused:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] NoOneCanHelpMe:
click on top right the small "R/W" button :) it would give u write permissions :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] shanume:
I have try both version one I get 44khz and other I get 48khz with audio?

this with 44khz is from my stock camera with litening rom 1.5 with KF2 and this 48khz audio is from HyperX-'s SuperHighBit version but I can't hear any difference :(

and I can't find this camera.odex files?..

p.s. I can't recorder with stereo :( only recorder with 1 audio channel!

hope someone can help me out :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] shanume:
I can see yours video is stereo! how can u do that? I can only recorder with 1 channel = mono even I have install this mod camera.apk, I use litening 1.5 rom

with KF2 kernel.

EDIT: nvm I just find out how to get it to 2 channel (stereo on ) recording on sgs2 is only mono but after upload it to youtube and download this video again is will give me stereo sound :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Yarymo:
woops, why did it say me "installation not done", exactly like if it was done ? With green tick and everything... O.o strange...

Omg... it's not working at all !

I'm unable to use it now... And my titanium backup of the camera don't have any restore option anymore o.O help ?

Well, i guess, I'll maybe find tyke answer to my problem in those posts here...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] reilord:
Which APK is the latest version? The one from first post or the high bit version from the second post?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] forgetmyname:
How to odex the camera.apk

Hi there,

I am running CF-Root stock XXKF2. Its odexed.

I know that the camera.apk in this thread is deodexed, but I would like to add it into my handset. The camera.apk (as expected) will FC.

Is there a method to take the deodexed version here and compile/odex it for my stock XXKF2 installation?

Regards, f.

P.S Actually I care only that it runs on stock KF2, but think that the deodexed version won't run on the stock KF2. Perhaps I misunderstood.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] reilord:
I've took the version from the second post but the bitrate is quite normal: 25 seconds and 60124 Kb in MP4
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] vegetaleb:
Any way to get rid of the pink spot???

Oh and touch screen to capture please :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kultus:
yeah Im interested too...interier photos are horrible with pink tint!!!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] aussiebum:
download and install the camera firmware update from Samsung Apps.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] |ErosizeD|:
-for me, im getting arround 18/21mbps ( with the higbitsound camera mod )

i whant to try the superfine mod to.

PD: Can you ORGANIZATE, a bit your post? i'm scared... xD
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] shanume:
there are no camera firmware update from samsung app here in denmark :(

I have try samsung app online website and I can't find camera firmware update too!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] slind:
does not help at all - for no one I know.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Dexter666:
Why does not power/home button taking photos? If thats camera hack that feature should be for sure.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] MikeMaMan:
And I am sure he will implement it, as soon as he sort out more important problems in his life. ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mpower91:
Hi there,

I was wondering if somebody could tell me how much time it takes from taking a photo to the foto being shown. I hope you know what I mean.

I press on the foto button, then it takes the photo but takes up to 2seconds until the foto is shown. (Show foto after capturing enabled).

Actually i don't think this is normal but my phone takes up to 2seconds to handle a foto :(

I installed this camera.apk directly after i got my phone and so i have no comparison to the original apk.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] takato23:
yes, same to me.. but happens also with stock camera... it's too slow comparing with the Atrix (sh**) and the iPhone...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] garanixx:
I have tried both of these mods, but I only ever get 21k bitrate, and that's in broad daylight. In lower light conditions it goes much lower than that. If it's really dark it falls as low as 10k(stock or modded camera app)

Is anybody else experiencing this mysterious "bitrate cap" at 21k?

EDIT: Are all you guys who are getting over 21k bitrate using SD cards to store your videos? I'm thinking there may be a remote possibility that the phone's internal memory is slower than an SD card? I don't see why but.. Asking just in case.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] |ErosizeD|:
Me to my friend... me to...

And i understand why...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] garanixx:
Please do tell what you think it is.

I am suspecting hardware problem because my camera is also one of those that has FPS drops when trying to autofocus in low light. :(
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] |ErosizeD|:
Maybe our devices have a different camera models, with diferent performance?

Mine isn't dropping frames, but in low light conditions Bitrate goes down to 15K

i tryed all those mods ( 24MB and 30MB ) and anything is working good... the fastest bitrate i get ever is 23k.

And the quality, is the same, only the framerate is fair better.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] djase:
exposition -2 no more drop fps
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] levelone:
I just installed Hyper-X's Super High Bitrate Camera.apk on my SII with KE7.

I recorded a sample, opened it with Quicktime Pro and the media info stated correctly the 48.000Hz sound sampling rate, but i get 20mbps in video in superfine setting, where it should be 30...

Any ideas?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] takato23:
what i really like to have is a very fast shutting camera :p, like in the Atrix.. or iphone
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] djase:
v2 please !!!!

cheers
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] vandunga3:
yeah. Same to me. Can u guys mod it to make it taking foto as fast as the iphone ( or faster than the iphone :) ) please? I really really want it. thax
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] brynweb:
Disable 'blink detection' and it's plenty fast enough.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] DimICE:
Is it possible to hack camera to make big-size photo in panoramic photo mode? :)

It's very bad that photos 300px in height(

will be fine if it can be done:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] vandunga3:
I already turned it off but it still takes 1s to focus. what we want is the camera auto focus first then we just need to press the button ( like the iphone or artrix ) .
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] fairyshacker:
An CWM file will be cool.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] smohanv:
will this hack work when on a call....
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] xheroxkefx:
wow

man, i am absolutely thankfull for this!

i wish you the best with your exams and your (ex)girlfriend.

keep in mind that there are more women in the world!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] p5x:
ignore....
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] KaliKot:
Same here, Am I doing something wrong? it just force closes Im running Villian 2.0 btw
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] loinenavant:
After copying Camera.apk to /system/app, just install it from there, like any other .apk.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] viva.fidel:
That isn't necessary..

Delete the stock camera.apk and camera.odex from system/app (or back them up somewhere) and then use RootExplorer to put the modded camera.apk in system/app, reboot to recovery, wipe dalvik cache and reboot phone, should work
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] opixantos:
I put the camera.apk to the system/app/ with the right permissons and restart many times.. but they won't install. I have the stock-xxkg1 is there a version for the xxkg1 out ore have someone the xxkg1 stock camera.apk that i can re-install?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Bart1981:
I use KG1, but I can easily install this camera mod..
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] opixantos:
you use the deodoxed?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Budske:
The best mod.. Love this camera app

Sent from my Big mother fu$&#@g SGS2
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Hamst0r:
When i click on it it says app is not installed.

The normal HX mod is working, but the high quality HX mod doesnt work for me.

wiped dalvik cache, but it doesnt work.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Potatoman:
Please ensure you are following the updated instructions carefully. I have long since removed the bit that instructed you to "install" because it was causing so many issues for so many people. You should be able to just copy and replace the Camera.apk (BACKUP THE ORIGINAL FIRST) and run it from the app menu like normal.

All the mods are identical in method, and working on all FW's. As far as I can tell there is also no conflict with Modded ROMs- I'm running it on InfusionROM 1.5.2 and it runs fine.

Please note that all the mods provided are Deodexed, you should rename the odex file to .bak as well otherwise you will experience issues.

Updated first post.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Hamst0r:
Sry for that ive edited my post.

I dont have any odex file in my system/app ?!?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Potatoman:
Youre probably already using a deodexed rom then. What rom are you using?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Jason93:
Can we install it in VillainRom2.0 or there will be problems?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Potatoman:
It should work fine. The method I described backs up the original camera app anyway, so try it and if it doesnt work just restore your backup by deleting my App and renaming Camera.apk.bak to Camera.apk again.

As far as I'm aware VillianROM doesn't change anything to do with the camera, so it should work perfectly.

If you decide to install it, let me know if it is working please so I can update the first post with that information. Thanks. :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Jason93:
I installed CameraSoundless in your first post.It works great;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Potatoman:
Glad you like it :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] zmirburger:
just a fyi, using the rename and replace method on villainrom2.0,

the normal soundless version works,

highbit version does NOT work,

superhighbit version works
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Hamst0r:
I use exynos extreme 2.4, the camera soundless apk ( normal quality, better sound ) is working great, but the high quality camera.apk doesnt.

Getapatalked von meinem SGS2
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Potatoman:
When you say the highbit versions don't work, what do you mean exactly? Do they force-close on open? Give you dodgy recordings? Some other error?

Please elaborate so I can look into it, if they're faulty I'll pull them down until I can fix. Thanks :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Hamst0r:
I send you a personal message with a video of my problems with v2 high bit hx mod.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] stefyno:
Hi Potatoman!...nice work! thanks!...

...but...can u mod (44.1 kHz - 192 kbps) the KG1 stock camera app?...i know that may sound strange...but i find the KG1 camera app more powerful and graphics (after shooting) very beautiful!...:p

...many thanks!...:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] zmirburger:
For me the normal soundless and superhighbit, after renaming and replacing, the camera app appears in the app drawer and works without problems

but for the highbit soundless, the camera app somewhat doesnt appear in the app drawer. tried it twice & redownloading it still doesnt work. not sure if its only an issue with me or not, even searching for the camera app doesnt have any results.

not that it bothers me though, using the superhighbit version now, just a FYI :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Potatoman:
I wasn't aware that the KG1 stock camera app was any different. When I updated it was exactly the same as it was when I bought it... so that would be kind of pointless. :p

Thank you to those who have given feedback on the faults, I'll look into them and act accordingly.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] stefyno:
...thank you! the KG1 stock camera app is a little different! I find it faster in the shoot and in focus!

...can u mod it? I have to pass the apk?

...thanks again!...:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] abhiwltya:
Since potatoman isnt working on this anymore,this goes to hx or any other developer,

I think the sound stuff for video recording is awesome after all you hardworking devs have done and so is the bit rate.Only thing that doesnt make the video look good is very low framerates on sgs2 in some situations such as low light.I had i9000 and even in very very low light the frame rate never went below 20fps.Since the bitrates on sgs2 are already fine , Is there a possibility of a mod where the lower cap of frame rate is set to say 20fps or so.I understand in variable frame rate mode ,the fps decreases due to hardware overloading but in that case the mod may keep up the frame rate and lower the bit rate bcause lowering the bitrate from 20mbps even to sumthing like 5 mbs for a while is ok as compared to lowering of fps ,which makes the video jerky.

Also is here a possibility of removing the zoom from 1080p bcoz it makes the video really jerky and then u have to finally use it at 720p only.I am willing to provide appropriate donations if i get this and i am sure others will join in too :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] zmirburger:
+ 1 to removing zoom and also not lowering fps in low light conditions! I'm also willing to make donations for these :)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Potatoman:
It's already been established that the zoom is a consequence of the area of the sensor being used to capture the 1080p video. Since this is a hardware limitation, there's no way of being able to mod it away.

As for the FPS cap, I'm not sure its as simple as simply setting a minimum FPS value. The reason it uses a variable framrate is because there are some points when the phone CAN'T record at a high framerate due to hardware limitations, so simply telling it never to record below 20fps won't do anything. The variable framerate always records at the highest FPS possible until the max FPS cap, so a minimum value wouldn't do much.

That being said though, my SGSII has never recorded at below 20fps, I've never seen it dip below 24fps, so I'm curious if maybe you've undervolted/clocked your CPU with another mod? If you have, that may be why you're having low FPS issues.

- Potatoman