yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
chmod -R a-w /data/data/com.google.ar.core/files/device_profile2_database

I ran that, updated to 1.5, it doesn't wipe those files out, but it's still checking or doing something somewhere.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Hmmm
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] starcms:
Ah, very interesting, so I guess it's meant to delete them on all devices, even supported ones, because they came out with a new calibration_jni file to replace the proto file. I can probably extract it from the apk, but any way from that log to be able to tell where it's trying to create it/put it?

Exit: Or possibly, I can extract the apk, find all the new jni files, simply rename one to mata, and recompile it. That should definitely work. Don't have time right now unfortunately.

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Haha that was easy!!! Thank you so much!!

Download a Magisk module called MagiskHide Props Config.

It lets you change your device fingerprint to tons that are on file. I changed mine to Pixel 2 XL 9.0, rebooted, installed ARCore 1.5 and it works perfectly!!

I still pass SafetyNet and Play store still shows as certified. Suck on that, Google!!!

Edit:. And the files folder is still empty. So pretty sure it's not even installing that new jni file, but instead it installs a version of ARCore calibrated specifically for the device detected. I bet I could turn off the Magisk Module and it would continue working. Only needed for ARCore installation.

And honestly, this is even easier than before imo.

Edit2: The Magisk module does need to stay activated or you get same error. ARCore 1.5 must check the device fingerprint each time it is loaded and load the config on the fly. But the module only changes the fingerprint (not the model, so doesn't affect which programs appear in play store), doesn't break SafetyNet (Google pay, etc), and Play Store still shows as certified. It changes the fingerprint in a special way (simply editing build.prop yourself would probably get ARCore working but would almost definitely break SafetyNet and Play Store certification). So zero side effects with module. Definitely easier than before I think. If you want to try a different "profile" just select a different certified device's fingerprint using the module and reboot. Otherwise, just leave it installed and forget about it. The module has literally dozens of fingerprints built in. After installing the module and rebooting, simply run the command "props" from a root elevated terminal (type "su" first) and choose option 1, the rest is self explanatory)

Thanks for that picture aer0!!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Lol, I'm glad I could help
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] arealcoolhand:
Just a heads up for anyone using MagiskHide Props Config as mentioned by starcms above. The new Android security update was released today but nothing I did seemed to trigger it. Randomly I remembered installing this module over the weekend and reverted my key to the default Essential one. Immediately after rebooting I checked for the update and it was there. After I updated I switched it back to Pixel 2 XL key and AR worked fine like before.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Does your essential cam work after switching to pixel2xl fingerprint?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] arealcoolhand:
Yes, both photo and video appear to work like normal.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] CamoGeko:
Nice thread mate, thanks!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
No problem,if your on stock pie, hit me up on PM.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] CamoGeko:
I am on stock Pie with EX kernel mate, there's really not much choice atm in the custom ROM department. :(
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] rignfool:
That's not really true...

You have the wealth of trebbel development and GSIs to play with...

It's the wild west... But it's there...
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] CamoGeko:
I don't know about that.

Looks pretty slow to me. Maybe I was just spoiled with the wealth of the OP5 development haha

Most of the stuff in Essential forum is 8.1 Oreo.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Numark88:
Does this work for nexus 5?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Prolly not. Its for essential phone
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] whymoo:
After changing my fingerprint arcore 1.5 works but I no longer pass saftey net, idk what I did wrong, as soon as I disable the module saftey net passes again.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
What's more important to you?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Harsu04:
Please make gcam available for kirin chipsets for honor phones with portrait mode because the Portrait mode is very bad and the original honour phones like the honour 6x does not have a good portrait mode so I request the developers to build a gcam for honour 6x
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Lol, seriously r/xdacirclejerk here we go
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] RandomPooka:
Can you build gcam for my coffee pot?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] thelangosta:
Yep, I need gcam in my pants
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] eric672913:
Anyone knows how to enable pixel3 camera night sight mode?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
plz mk gcam jio volte wen mediatek nigtsigt magsk brofam requst l33t hax0r wen?

Lol, no one has it yet that isn't pixel family or [MENTION=4860033]Arnova8G2[/MENTION] it'll get here when it gets here.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Scarfa:
Gcam with Night Sight for PH-1 here
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] TheIronLefty:
you forgot sir ?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] tzzeri:
Ar Stickers is now Playground. It's a big update, and apparently the stickers now can interact with the real world
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] thehappydinoa:
Is anyone else getting a similar issue:
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Everyone is, someone's made a thread already about it
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] thehappydinoa:
Could you possibly link it here?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
https://www.reddit.com/r/essential/comments/9vp7io/how_to_fix_double_click_power_to_open_camera_on/
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] dennis46419:
works this still? I'm on November stock rom and can't get to work.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
What to work?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] dennis46419:
ar Sticker and arcore?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
It works fine if your using older gcams. The new 6.1 is a crapshoot if it picks up a pattern. Nov update doesn't matter.

The newer arcore looks at props to determine compatibility
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] dennis46419:
Thx I try.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] starcms:
ARCore and ARStickers working 100% perfectly on all the new GCam version 6.1 variants. Using latest version of ARCore (was 1.5, 1.6 just came out today, still works great) along with Arnova's latest modded version of ARStickers.

To get ARCore to work, you need the MagiskHide Props Config module for Magisk. Just set it to use the fingerprint from a P2XL. SafetyNet still passes fully, Play Store shows as certified, Google Pay still works, no I'll effects whatsoever.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] arealcoolhand:
Well, one ill effect but it's not a big deal if you know about it. The OTA from Essential won't show up while the fingerprint is anything other than the original. All you have to do is reset the fingerprint and reboot. Otherwise, I haven't seen any other issues. That being said, when I try to use AR Stickers I just get a message saying that it can't find a surface so I've given up.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] starcms:
You're right, I forgot to mention that as I always manually download the OTA and install it from TWRP. But yes, simply disable the MagiskHide Props Config module to revert your build's signature to normal, reboot so it takes effect, and the OTA will show up.

Regarding ARStickers not being able to find a surface, don't give up immediately when that message pops up. It usually takes about 30 seconds, but it can take up to more than 1 minute depending on what's in the room, lighting conditions, etc.

Try first in a brightly lit room that has medium to large flat non-reflective surfaces like a table or even the floor. Move the phone in the way the animation shows you to, then move a little while keeping the same area on the screen and repeat the motion. Sometimes kneeling down or otherwise changing the angle helps alot. Remember to keep moving the phone like it shows you to as you move around the area.

You'll know when it has found a surface (or multiple ones) when you start seeing rectangular shapes appear for just a second or two that are filled with dots. They fade away within just a couple seconds, but that's now an acquired surface you can place ARStickers on. I haven't found any difference in it working better in GCam v5 vs v6.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] arealcoolhand:
Thanks for the tips! Finally got it to work again doing what you suggested and think I'd just been giving up too quickly. I think the first few times I had done it must have been in a brighter room as it was much quicker then. Glad to know it's just a little patience necessary and not something wrong with my phone. haha
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] muhammadwildanyusuf:
Not work on my ph-1

I have followed those steps but not working for me "arcore is out of date"
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
[MENTION=9407240]63c[/MENTION] is dareal mv p
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] omegaorgun:
I'm stupid, I haven't a clue what this zip file does. Could someone explain it to me as there are no instructions.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] RandomPooka:
The entire op explains what it does with magisk.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
seriously?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] :
This page may help.. its always good etiquette to read the posting.

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/themes/magisk-based-gcam-port-ar-sticker-t3730837/post75092952
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] omegaorgun:
Is there any versions that were meant and optimized for the Essential since the 1.0.11 version? Do they utilize the monochrome camera?

I was confused as to what way i use the zip file, do the settings apply to any gcam app that is inastlled? sorry for being a noob on it I just wonder what advantage the zip has over just using an apk.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
so to answer your questions

1. The OP, [MENTION=9407240]63c[/MENTION] doesnt do a good job maintaining this thread :cyclops:

2. No, the cam firmware doesnt allow for monochrome access.

3. The gcam mod, to my recollection, just allows for use of slomo, and mods to prevent issues with using other gcams (so thst way YOU can determine what mod you like the best, since its all subjective and whatnot)

4. rule of thumb, anything with tolyan is pretty good last i remember.

5. [MENTION=9407240]63c[/MENTION] do ya job..... ?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] omegaorgun:
I used the recommended version below, slow mo works and the pictures look amazing compared to the stock

app.

MGC_6.1.021_BSG_Arnova-based_v.1.3d_TlnNeun_2.apk(Arnova8G2, 2018-12-30

https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-suggested/
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] kivenage:
by far the best on essential

thanks for getting this mod out to the masses, by far the best working version without compromises. just wondering if it's expected behaviour to see a 1/2 sec delay in taking portrait mode pics using the rear cam? not a big deal coming from stock cam, but wondering it does mean i miss intended shots sometimes.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] freedomli:
i try on my phone with nougat 7.11, AR Sticker can't work, i can try nougat version, please send me, thanks
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
think thats the default HDR+ working. You can try different profiles to see if ZSL works to hasten HDR+.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Ive got a couple people working on a beta i built. [MENTION=1953674]Mistar Muffin[/MENTION] and [MENTION=1607529]Hung0702[/MENTION] whats going with that testing
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Raimundim275:
I want to test I'm with Nougat 7.1 1
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
alright whatever then......

Remember: i need logs, logs, logs of fails. I cant fix stickers without logs. I need logs. This is what i need....logs.... Help me help you, with LOGS. Dont just say, it doesnt work, ar stickers dont work, this or that doesnt work, tell me what build, what magisk, which zip, what broke, when, and attach a LOG, so i can see it......DID I MENTION LOGS?????
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gk1984:
Did you say log? [youtube]-fQGPZTECYs[/youtube]
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] contagous:
This magisk mod is working great on my OB2 phone, finally a working Slow MO :)

Great work [MENTION=5447216]aer0zer0[/MENTION]

Only thing I can find that is funny is the camera doesn't work via Hangouts. When you click the camera on Hangouts you get a red record button that takes a photo but doesn't move on. Not a huge thing but had anyone else seen the same thing?

I can take a pic and pay to Hangouts afterwards with no problems.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Hmm suppose that's a bug, I'll logcat and see what happens. It acts like it snaps for me, just doesn't process it in hangouts
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] contagous:
Yeah that's the same here. Not going to stop me using it but good to log the bug.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] karkand:
not working on redmi note 3 pro running 8.1. camera app not showing on app drawer. and there is fc's in android system if i'm not wrong.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
.... [MENTION=4469248]karkand[/MENTION] ....
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] karkand:
wow i never heard that Essential Phone is a phone. and the codename is PH-1..uhm it is ok..sorry btw...
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Well, had you actually read the OP, I would have at least attempted to look at a logcat of all the FCs, maybe could help..
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Raimundim275:
Do I have to uninstall the magisk? what is the procedure to install on nougat 7.1.1
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Codename is mata

Ph1 is model number
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
No, just install it as a magisk mod. Do you actually have a essential phone?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] mobileman88:
Thanks [MENTION=5447216]aer0zer0[/MENTION] ! This is the most reliable GCam mod so far. If only I can take shot to shot much faster. But I guess I am asking too much.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] spr33:
Couple of questions:

- Does it need a human face for Portrait mode to work?

- Odd that no one has posted any sample images comparing stock camera app to this mod - does anyone have any samples comparing apps?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] mobileman88:
No need a human face. Any object will do. The focal object needs to be close by
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
In case anyone is wondering. If you disable the mod, the camera app gets uninstalled.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] mobileman88:
Yup. Because it is systemless
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
[MENTION=1306570]mobileman88[/MENTION] try a zsl profile and turn on zsl in settings. No guarantees

[MENTION=396391]spr33[/MENTION] it does actually need a human face. When in portrait mode, you get 2 pics if it works, if it doesn't you only get 1

[MENTION=396391]spr33[/MENTION] it's Soooooo much better than stock camera, it doesn't require samples
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
I am wondering how it recognizes human faces or not since we do not have a pixel core AI embedded in our snap835
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
[IMG="@xterminater07"]https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/500x/62546564/how-exactly-doe-posi-track-work-on-the-back-of-a-plymouth-it-just-does.jpg[/IMG]
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
I'm just saying, it's no big deal to try it to see if it works.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Hahaha... [MENTION=3095699]Charles_l[/MENTION], can you explain why is this?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
https://chromloop.com/2017/12/apk-enable-portrait-mode-nexus-5x6p-og-pixel-phone-google-camera-mod/

Joe Dirt is right dude...
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Bahaha... I did read that, but I am still curious because forcing it will analyze depth, but not human faces. There has to be a way to force like recognize for example eyes as requirements, and deleting that line or something. Bc portrait in pixel 2 can do both objects and human.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] mangordi8901:
Portrait on the rear camera is not working for me. Everything else works perfectly! Awesome job
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
how is it not "working"

need a face to focus on
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] chiadrum:
I'm on Nougat w/ Magick 14.3. I would be willing to test
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] mangordi8901:
Ah ok, I didn't know that. Yeah that works. Thanks
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
I don't think you meet the minimum requirements unfortunately :laugh:
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
hey I went into the data/app folder and found the gcam folder but there's only two folder cache and files, both are empty. Where do I go to copy what's needed on the phone to your zip?

Found it... now uploading to drive, had to use esfileexplorer to upload to google drive, windows 10 cannot see the system partition.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Should be there, that's where I pull mine. I can't imagine the install path changed. Should be an apk, oat, and lib folder.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gk1984:
Why? Magisk 15.2 has been out and much more stable than 14.3.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Check the other thread of google camera. Btw... Front hdr works now :)
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I7b7lFjySIFeTWR1WzT_Ala7QifMgR1J/view?usp=drivesdk

New version by me based on BSG's latest version BSG Mi5S 2b 7.0-8.1! In bsg mod settings, change value of front camera offset to 64 to get rid of the pink tint! Can someone, [MENTION=3135253]emowing[/MENTION], decompile the apk and change the default value of 16 to 64, and repackage my zip please?

Edit: with help from the OP, now the ridiculous zoom is gone! Back to normal zoom mode
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
OP and Changelogs updated
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] emowing:
[MENTION=3266378]xterminater07[/MENTION] [MENTION=5447216]aer0zer0[/MENTION]

Here is the modified version of MGC_5.1.018.177470874.41362666__A7.0-8.1_MI5S_v2b.apk for the essential. The front camera black level offset is defaulted to 64. I've also made it so video stabilization is disabled automatically when 1080p 60fps is selected. You can still have video stabilization when you're shooting with 30fps. I am still trying to figure out how to keep stabilization for 60fps without the crazy zoom.

camera apk: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PX0l6OlMTctsg9LRDe1pTIx_fpYFG5qC

Here is the media profile I've been playing with.. video will record sound in stereo for what it worth. I do notice that I am getting much louder sound than the one aer0zer0 currently use in his magisk package.

media profile: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HmTrzBMBLODkyEUjfB5el_C0IMrjr52n
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] warpjavier:
I flashed V5.

Model: Nexus 6p

HDR+: Nexus 6p

I only get black screen.

If I set the Camera HDR+ to Auto, I get picture, but no HDR.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] hizzy06:
For V5 I used:

Model: Pixel XL

Config: Pixel 2017 Zsl HDR+

Parameters: Super High

HDR auto

Works perfectly and seems to give better results than Nexus 6P settings.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] sirdicholas:
Can't get over how great this camera looks. These settings are great too!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Video stabilization was never implemented in the essential to begin with, so I think removing it all together is fine. The toggle is there but it does absolutely nothing as I tried many times as well as using multiple different camera app. How do I tinker with media profiles?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
I used many of the values from Pixel 2 xl, as i preferred that level and bitrate. Have you tried switching audio codec to heaac? I'll update the magisk zip again. Thanks [MENTION=3135253]emowing[/MENTION]

[MENTION=3266378]xterminater07[/MENTION] n++
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] emowing:
Eis works with or device. Go into 1080 30fps then shift your phone left or right sightly, you'll see an easing effect. Do the same with 60fps or turn off video stabilizer and you won't see that.

Eis is software.. we don't have ois.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] chiadrum:
Aah ok, didn't know you were looking for a Dev
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Lol, not looking for a Dev, you need magisk 15.2.... template doesn't work otherwise. I figured you read the minimum requirements I explicitly stated for testing.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Hmm... I will try that. I know EIS is software based, but the reason I said that is because Essential even said they don't have EIS enabled, but will try to in the future. With the current magisk mod, google photos stabilization feature kept freezing so I will add the eis line back to see if it won't freeze.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Not sure, I'm using 6p for both, seems work, the zsl settings are banging though
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] emowing:
I don't know what EIS line you're talking about.. if you're talking about build.prop.. I didn't add anything to my build.prop.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
There's a eis enable line in the build prop of magisk mod. Doesn't make a difference with the weird zooming of the camera. I added originally for posterity, as 1.4b2 didn't care
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] emowing:
sorry I should have mentioned that I am not using the magisk package posted here. I have my own to debug and tweak to my liking for my personal use and just sharing my findings with the rest of the community.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
are you using through magisk, or hard modifying the system?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
Even with the stock bsg or arnova gcam mod, the EIS seems not to work at all :( You're a much smarter developer than me by miles, but I was just saying how do you see EIS when I don't at all. I used to have a pixel xl and the EIS on is was AMAZING! My dog was pulling me left and right, phone bout to fall out my hand, but the video was like perfect, like it's on a stabilizer.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Isn't that ois?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] xterminater07:
All of google's phones was always EIS. I think the new Pixel 2 series might have OIS, not sure.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] hizzy06:
Yeap! 1st Gen pixels use EIS only whereas 2nd gen pixels employ both EIS and OIS :)
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
lol, i googled it afterward, i was thinking of my 10, which by the way, i have something about working