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[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] sirdicholas:
Best Google cam mod so far. Thank you!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] zzman31:
Hello, must i root the phone?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Needs magisk, so yes

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My gcam settings says it's a b-s-g mod, not anova.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Yea, they are all bsg mods, it's a matter of the porting
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Settings will never say arnova8g2 because he just optimizes bsg port for OP3/3T devices, rather than redo from scratch.

On the other note, new version up and I believe BSG fixed hdr mode for front! Not hdr+ though... Kinda odd because his picture sample he uploaded on 4pda showed pretty clear picture lik hdr+. https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/changelog26/

However, I think portrait mode doesn't work last time I checked for some odd reason on 1.4! Can you implement what you did on v4 for this one?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
There's no control over the fix. It's all in the camera app. Here is what you can try and report back.

1. Uninstall magisk mod

2. Install bsg new camera, it will be in data/app... Don't bother opening, it won't have the fixes.

3. Copy the folder containing the new camera app (in data/app) to your computer desktop

4. Open the zip (magisk mod) and browse to system/priv-app/arnova 1.4 or whatever I called it.

5. Delete the contents inside, and replace it with what you dumped from your phone

6. Flash that new mod...tell me how it goes

I'm at MOST in Syracuse with the kid today. Not near a computer.

The recipe for how the zip works is in the OP. Use the force [MENTION=3266378]xterminater07[/MENTION]
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Enjoy time with the kids... I will attempt this later
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] sirdicholas:
I never really thought the essential camera was that bad. I got my PH-1 after all the camera updates, and I still don't think the stock camera is bad. But Holy crap with this mod, my pictures have never looked so crisp. Using the settings from OP.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
What made me mad is update, update, update....yet they can't seem to fix the oversaturation and the super compression. The one time every 6 months that I want a b&w photo, I'll use it. If there was a way to use it in gcam, it would be uninstalled already.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
I don't get this either! I mean their chief camera engineer is a lady who has a PhD in imagery field. They also kept praising on how good their softwares are on their site yet it looks like crap even at superb lighting before. Then they fixed it and it looks great in day light, but still very smothered out, and lack of details. Low light still thrash because they do not do image stacking or use the monochrome sensor yet. Portrait is great in daylight though for first release.

They just need to figure out low light issue, which they should have by now but don't know what's the deal. Also they need to implement EIS to their drivers because it has none. Even gcam couldn't activate EIS.

Oh I tried version 1.4 and 1.4a by itself... Portrait mode do noy work at all.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
U try the bsg version?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Yes I did.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
I think they know the Google algorithm is superior so she is on xda telling us how to install gcam.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
[MENTION=4860033]Arnova8G2[/MENTION] posted a 1.5 beta, I'll give it a whirl in a bit when the kid goes down. Also, anybody running nougat? I need a guinea pig later.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Niiiice... Let me check the log
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Also, [MENTION=4860033]Arnova8G2[/MENTION] I have camera2 API profile for you to look at. Only screwy thing is we have dual rear sensors and only reports one.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U51MwRFLffBs1HCBcdBxqDpFZ9wzyIVO4G9CfQannM4/edit?usp=drivesdk
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Couldn't find a changelog for the beta 1.5. Also the camera 2 api what does it do.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Give it a read, it's the front and rear camera profile
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Does it matter if it reports as one instead of two? I don't think this would help anymore would it since essential has not implemented mono plus rgb
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
It's for arnova, he can modify the gcam around our sensor profile. It's why he asked for it on the other threads
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Lol, I deleted them. What was in 7
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
Simply worked in Axon 7, trying a 15 now just not sure which one to use a,b, etc
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Use the bsg or tolyan version
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
Thanks works great
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Which one you end up going with?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
I downloaded both and started with the bsg. Will try the other one later. Is there a way to check what is working and/or compatible? Pics look better than without the add-on. Thanks again.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Tolyan is bsg with more stuff
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
Thanks for the heads up. The BSG works great with the Google Camera. Will try the Tolyan today.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
Tried the g as well but it was a no go.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] geminihc:
anyone post some comparison with the best GCAM vs stock camera on Oreo 8.1 beta?

can some please post some comparisons with the best GCAM against the stock essential on 8.1b?

i havent yet rooted my essential and dont find i need it, unless the difference is sigificant for camera quality...

thanks!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Oh man, you don't know what your missing. I'd recommend either arnova or cstark mod
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
You tried tolyan?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] mobileman88:
There's no absolute best. Some builds have better color, some have better shutter response, some are better in low light. That's why the OP offers multiple builds

Why not download a couple and see which one works best for you.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
Yes, it worked fairly well and then tried CSTARK but the camera just kept crashing.

Great work, really appreciated.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
No problem, gonna dust off the axon 7, one of these days.....
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] p82maarj:
Hello all. Firts of all thanks for your sharing.

I have an Axon 7 with Resurrection Remix 6 (Android 8.1 based on LOS). I have flased the 15F version and selected Pixel II in "Model" and Auto in ·Config camer HDR+".

I have Front camera hdr+ working on front camera....Incredible improvement of quality in special at night!!

But back camera is not working (only work when I remove gcam data and "Model" is not selected).

I hava compared the logcat on front and back camera opening and the error in the back camera is this:

E Camera3-Device: Camera 0: sendRequestsBatch: RequestThread: Unable to submit capture request 2 to HAL device: Function not implemented (-38)

I know our device camera has not Google camera API 2 implemented, but why front is working and not back? Any advice?

Thanks!!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Set the model and HDR settings first. Close and swipe out of recents. Reopen and set the other settings.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] p82maarj:
Thanks. Yes I did. I have done a lot of tests with all models and HDR settings.. sometimes the camera crash just at the opening and I had to clear data and start from the begining.

I have noticed each time you make a change in the setting you have to close the app from recents and open it again to apply the changes.

Front camera is working but no back one.

Thanks anyway for your answer.

Regards
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] sabi95190:
video looks good with this mod?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
What version are you using. Axon 7 should use the bsg or tolyan version from the OP.

Ok looks like the tolyan version. try the bsg version then. Maybe [MENTION=7244251]2CanSan[/MENTION] can help?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Seems decent. My opinion is slo-mo is stupid, but ti works on the ph-1. Im having a hard time getting it to work on other phones though. We are just lucky.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
I left the Model blank as I could not get any model selection to work but all features worked. While on the topic for photos the absolute best for PNW was Version 7, so I would like to give it a go on RR and/or AEX. The resolution was incredible. If someone on this thread has a copy please post a link.

Thanks

Here is an example of an indoor test I did with Version7, Footej camera in PNW. If downloaded (file size 5.23) viewing is better to see quality.

Edit: Uploaded photo was reduced in size.?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
Screenshot from Gallery blown up
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] sabi95190:
thanks what about the stabilization?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Auto is Nexus 6
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
On 15F it is a no go. I have not tried on 15C yet.:)
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] iamprabhuantony:
Bro, Which zip is best one for Nexus 6p?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Hello Tony Prabhuan, how are you today? Hope things are good. I have no idea which one is the best. I don't own a Nexus 6p. You can probably try any of them [MENTION=3266378]xterminater07[/MENTION] might know

[MENTION=6983383]iamprabhuantony[/MENTION]
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
No need to use any of this magisk mod for the 6p because charles chow created cameranx solely for this purpose of having portrait on the nexus 5x, and 6, and 6p. Go to chromeloop and get it.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
A bunch of cams incomng
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
OP, 2nd, and 3rd post updated. Sorry it took so long, been busy. Anyways, i personally recommend J or K but urikill is nice too.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Loaded up 15k, so far so good. Thank you!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
More tonight...

Thoughts? Think I should just rev the links for the builders, instead of having a myriad of versions? Might make it easier for linking.

Maybe skip a round? Is there any camera from the

https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/

That has anything really game changing for us. It doesn't take me very long to put these together. I just don't want others to Wade through the myriad of pointless updates.

Let me know.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
I usually just use Arnova's pixel mod. I like that it has a greatest amount of options and close to the Google experience.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] jmkarnai01:
Are there any versions with a manual camera control. That would be an option you could throw in. Not even sure it's possible with the gcam.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
as in manual iso & focus, or just fully manual operation. I think a couple of GCAMs have the manual iso/focus or its toggleable. Nothing with full manual however

OP, 2nd, and 3rd posts updated BTW
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
You only have 26 letters in the alphabet... What you going to do after that? ?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Same thing i do at work with work instructions and different chart revs AA AB AC and so on
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] rignfool:
Yo...

Watching you zip up all these magisk modules has just got to be exhausting...

Why not make a universal installer... That let's people rename their preferred apk to like gcam.apk and then install the gcam.apk in the same directory as the zipped magisk module...

I don't know if the individual apks have specific changes... But you have to be up to 200 individual zips
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] croat.hvar:
Yes please!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Lol, you sound like I am a smart man ?, problem is I need the lib and oat files too, so they can be placed in priv-app. Which is why I do it for you. Then I can test it, I know it works, I know what to expect when someone says this or that doesn't work.

Also, if anyone wants, they too can make their own files.

1. Uninstall magisk mod, reboot

2. Install new gcam apk of your choosing

3. Copy contents from data/app/wherever gcam went

4. Unzip magisk mod

5. Delete contents of system/priv-app/GCAM

6. Put contents of data/app/wherever gcam went in GCAM folder

7. Update config.sh and module.sh to reflect your changes (good practice, not necessary)

8. Rezip it

9. Install and reboot

10. Underwear gnomes!!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] KODrizzle:
Rear Portrait Mode

Anyone else experience the rear portrait mode not working? Takes photos, but not blurred? Front portrait mode works lovely. I'm currently using v15K but have tried a few other ones with the same result. Curious if anyone else ran into this and solved it. Haven't had time to dive to deep into it myself.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Only works on faces.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] return.of.octobot:
I'd like to install this (one of these) but holy sh*t, the amount of options available is overwhelming. Have you considered condensing things down into a universal installer similar to ahrion & zackptg5's V4A module which allows you to select between ViPER versions and UI styles during install? It'd be on a larger scale I suppose and might require some effort, but I imagine it would have to be easier in the long run to go through that process once and only having a single module to worry about updating than it is to maintain a dozen different modules simultaneously. I want to say I'd be willing to assist in doing this, but there's a few things I need to wrap my head around to make sure it'd be feasible rather than just sounding good on paper.

Anyway, in the meantime, does anyone have any recommendations as to which version(s) I should start with on my Essential PH-1? I'm not so much interested in third party hacks, mods, and improvements as much as I am in keeping things as close to stock Pixel configuration and functionality as possible. Thoughts?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
See that's the problem though, they are all a little different.

I put those zips together in about 3 minutes. I don't maintain them once they are up.

Here is a brief synopsis

Artz has imx258 (our sensor) color profile, probably the best picture (others argue, that's why I have so many)

Cstark is probably the best overall

Arnova is very complete and the video stabilization works well

Urikill had the most "things"

I can't keep adding 130mb every time a new camera comes out, to build a "super installer" that's why they are all one offs.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] return.of.octobot:
I guess my thought was more along the lines of, let's say you consolidate down to the 4-6 most popular 'variants' - Artz, Cstark, Arnova, Urikill (BSG/Tolyan) which you select from during install. Each variant is updated to it's latest release, for example, if Cstark is updated from 3.4.1 > 3.6 then the module is updated accordingly as opposed to having multiple legacy versions of the same mod you would always be installing the latest version when you select CStark. I mean I guess you would be trading the pump and dump approach for ongoing maintenance but I imagine the workload would reach an equilibrium pretty quickly. I hope you don't take this as a negative, I'm rather impressed with the effort you're expending on this project. I guess I'm just proposing an approach that I would be looking to take if I were in your position for the sake of navigation and user-friendliness, but I'm sure you have more insight into the nuances of these mods than I do.

That being said, I greatly appreciate the overview. Definitely helps refine the decision making process for someone who just stepped into the gcam mod scene and feels like they're trying to order off of a Chinese menu.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
each camera is 130mb x 4 or 6 and 110mb for stickers.......... it would be like 7-800 mb when done. Thats the problem. I was considering reving the versions and just having 5-6 posted in the OP based on dev.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] return.of.octobot:
Ah I see the hangup. In that case I understand where you're coming from. The only half way feasible option I can conceive of is compressed archives that would self extract when your variant selection is made. You could likely shave ~100mb off per gcam directory this way, but I'm honestly not even sure if that's a thing within the context if Magisk modules and the resulting zip would still be pretty hefty.

In lieu of that, you've probably got the right idea of boiling things down to a small handful of modules being updated to each dev's current release in the OP, not to say that you couldn't still make older versions available on AFH. I think that would make things a bit more intuitive.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] itsme.Ronjie:
Can we save the Portrait Images on the same location?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
GCam Tool in Playstore will do that.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] itsme.Ronjie:
thank you sir.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
[MENTION=7244251]2CanSan[/MENTION] you find your gcam you need?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
Not the one I had my heart set on
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Did anybody download v7 that has a copy of it still....

Wanna make a link?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
Thanks bud been asking for 2 weeks.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] guliver365:
Would it be possible to get an extensive description with pro and cons of each camera? I am getting a little bit lost!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
[MENTION=1638057]guliver365[/MENTION]

Hello guliver, read the 3rd post. I don't really do "extensive" camera testing. Just enough to make sure the basics work properly. It is up to you guys to determine what you like. I'd suggest the v15k
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] wolfu11:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPepR_shCSxixnBC9P9yy-cui3urwEXx/view?usp=sharing

Here is a link to verison 7

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPepR_shCSxixnBC9P9yy-cui3urwEXx/view
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
Thanks so much guya
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
[MENTION=7244251]2CanSan[/MENTION] what version f GCAM is it?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
5.1.018
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
What version, arnova 1.5, bsg 2d, something else?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
That I am not sure of, however in some respect the search was in vain as it will not run on AEX. But I saved that copy for future endeavors. Ran great in PNW, haven't tried in RR yet.

:(
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
What did it not do?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
Any and all Cameras crashed. All ran fine on PNW

Oh well I will just switch Roms
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Ok... Help me help you....

Fill out the questionnaire

1. Is it a Oreo rom

2. Define crash (full crash? Can you get a log) black screen (you set profiles?) Get me a logcat of it crashing.

3. Where is the media profile this rom is using? The one in the zip is vendor/etc/media_profiles_v1.0.xml

4. I sold that piece of s!!! Axon 7, so I can't test myself anymore (didn't want to anyways)

I also think camera2 API needs to be enabled for any of that to work (ZTE camera is janky) see if the build prop has hal3 enabled. If not, I can add it to the build prop.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] 2CanSan:
No big deal, no worry.

I uninstalled 15c and installed v7 again.

This time it worked. Weird.

This time the actual camera APK was missing as it was in PNW, and Footej works fine.

I did a Camera2 FYI.

Everything cool.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] killer86th:
Many thanks for the great mod [MENTION=5447216]aer0zer0[/MENTION], however there seems to be problem with 15O zip, I can't get it to install though I have downloaded twice, previous versions were running fine, I'm using AOSIP with Magisk 16.0 btw.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Hmm, It flash fine on stock, what's the error?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] killer86th:
Let me try to attach the log, please have a look.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Just downloaded and installed from afh. Works fine, what version magisk?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Arju:
Installed 15O on LOS 15.1 6th of March and it works great. Haven't had any issues installing the .zips found here on LOS. Once AOSiP comes out with a new build, I'll test it again then.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] killer86th:
Sorry for the false alarm! I redownloaded the 3rd time and it works, could be AFH derping at the time of my previous downloads. Thank you for looking into this!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Lol, afh derp.... It's great and crappy all at once
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] runderekrun:
I love this mod but I found out Google Photos thinks the phone is a Pixel when I use it and won't let you choose the unlimited "high quality" backup plan instead of the "original quality" backup plan. Pixel's get free original quality uploads so there is no reason to use high quality so the option isn't there. It's not a deal breaker as you can still get into google photos and convert all images to "high quality" but makes it kind of annoying. I don't know if this is in your scope for this project [MENTION=5447216]aer0zer0[/MENTION] , but just thought I would let you know.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Sure I know......it was a secret, lol. The Google lens support is what causes that. I'm not going to remove, as I like Google lens. I don't cloud store anything, so I don't really care.

If you want to remove it...

1. Open the zip

2. Browse to system/etc/sysconfig

3. Delete the entire folder

4. Open config.sh in root of zip

5. Delete all instances of sysconfig directory, without breaking bracketing.

6. Reflash
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
OP, 2nd, and 3rd post updated.....NEW BSG!!!!!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Google released Lens in their latest photos app. I think this can be removed.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/06/google-brings-lens-to-all-google-photos-users-on-android/
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
But....unlimited original quality photos....
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Arju:
Installed it and woaw it has a lot of features. The picture quality seems crisp and great! Will have to test it out more tomorrow during the day. Thank you for making these available to us through modules.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] convolution:
Uh, so I read OP, 2nd, 3rd post, and I still don't know how to install the .zip. Is it a TWRP flash? It says magisk based... can I flash it via magisk? I've never done that before. Any procedures I should know about before I do this?

nvm, instructions on page 2.