yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] warpjavier:
I tried wiping cache and date, restarted the camera app, and same thing.

No PD settings at all.

So I started playing with my phone settings, and disabled USB debug and developer settings on my phone and for some reason, the camera started working.

I tried to reproduce the problem, and nothing.

Also now I can see the PD settings you were talking about.

So strange.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Hey, whatever works.... You g2g now?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
OP, 2nd & 3rd posts updated for v8
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Can this be installed on top? Or do I have to uninstall, reboot, install, reboot, and configure?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Uninstall, reboot, install, reboot is safest. You can try however you like
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] warpjavier:
Yes I am.....thanks for all your help!

Even in the video recording mode, AF is working now. WTF???? lol!!!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Yay for you :victory:
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] sarcoptic:
Awesome work [MENTION=5447216]aer0zer0[/MENTION]! I look forward to trying both this and the aptx module when I move to Oreo. I am unlucky that I have sprint and dealing with their sms issues. For some reason Oreo beta was worse at causing the double text messages so I had to roll back to Nouget. However developers like yourself is what is making this phone great!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] emowing:
try disabling enhanced lte/volte.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Text yourself
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Logcat of switching phone to portrait mode

https://en.pastebin.ca/3960173
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
What happens? FC, black screen? No pics?. I'm wondering if your magisk install is wonky? I had a wonky magisk last night
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
If I set HDR to 2017 pixel zsl.... Black screen

If I set it to auto... Portrait mode freezes with a black screen.

Using 15.3... perhaps need to roll back?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Are you closing gcam fully and re opening?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Hold on.... Re installing magisk
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Send me a PM
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
I think I had this too, in developer settings check camera: enable_gcam and see if that works for you.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] warpjavier:
Kind of what was happening to me.

I cleared the Cache and Date of the camera app. (Didn't fix it for me but anyway)

Then, I went to Developers options of the phone, Turned off OEM unlock, USB Debug, Then turned off developer options.

Went back to the Camera, en everything started to work.

I know it doesnt make sense, but was the only way I was able to get it to work.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] emowing:
i'd be very cautious when turning off OEM unlock when you're not 100% stock. you can accidentally turn your device into a paper weight.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gk1984:
No issues for me with one unlock turned on, developer settings enabled, but USB debug off. I haven't tried to replicate this with USB debug on though.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
I have everything on and unlocked and it works fine. I'm wondering if we have magisk Gremlins. I had one Saturday night
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Magisk gremlinry 101.....

I think, after a while, at least me (flashing this mod 100 times testing, lol)... i ended up boogering up my magisk.img in data. I am a believer in the clean way is the best way.

Instructions for uninstalling/reinstalling magisk....Its a little janky since we dont have a clean twrp/boot.img combo yet

1. boot to bootloader

2. flash twrp v11

3. boot to recovery

4. flash oreo stock boot.img

5. mount system in mount tab

6. flash magisk 15.3

7. flash magisk uninstaller. (since we swapped boot.img's twice, we no longer have a magisk patched boot.img, which is why we need to install it to unistall everything) if the uninstaller doesnt work the first time, just flash it again.

8. reboot to bootloader

9. flash twrp v11

10. flash oreo stock boot.img

10A. flash rey, or whatever kernel if you want to.

11. mount system in mount tab

12. flash magisk 15.3

13. reboot to OS

14. reset everything root related back up

15. if you dont have wifi, just reboot, it will come back on reboot (happened to me) i have several magisk mods installed.

16. profit???

This is what i did, then i stopped having magisk problems, mine may be different than yours. Bu this may help.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gk1984:
Forgive my ignorance but is losing audio still a problem with this? I only ask because it seems whenever my father calls me after I've played around with this, he can't hear me. I restart the phone and all is well. I thought that was fixed and I don't take enough calls to really identify what's happening. Could just be a fluke.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Fixed my problem...

Is it possible that the Bluetooth mod doesn't play well with the camera mod, even if unchecked.

Got camera working now... Investigating further....
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
afaik it works. seems to be fine here.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
the aptx? im using that, iytbp, camera, busybox and no problems here. Im wondering if the magisk install got boogered?

if you see these problems, grab the magisk log for me?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Hung0702:
[MENTION=5447216]aer0zer0[/MENTION] Is v8 available for Nougat or will I have to be more patient. I don't really care for the AR stuff. I just want very slightly better image quality/quality of life improvements.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
i never got around to finishing it, oreo is right around the corner.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
My magisk
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] freshlysqueezed:
I don't know if this was coincidence, but when I installed v8, I immediately set all the recommended settings all at once, and got the black screen.

So I then cleared the camera app storage and cache, then restarted the app,only setting the model and and camera hdr+ settings. The screen worked normally. Backed out, restarted the camera app to finish all the recommended settings. All works as expected.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
I believe you.

It's probably something goofy on my end.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Oreo beta 3 is out
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Mania626:
Is there a version of this gcam that doesn't require to be rooted?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
[MENTION=5447216]aer0zer0[/MENTION], how do we update this with the Oreo Beta 3? When I tried to do the OTA it didn't work...then I uninstalled Magisk and soft bricked my phone. :( I had to do the flashall.bat (thank god that they have this) then restore it to 7.1.1, now I'm about to sideload Oreo Beta 3 and restore everything.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Get magisk going, and re-install. Everything still works. I hear rumors in the other thread that sound doesn't jank with stock install.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Jmar72:
I'm the one who installed gcam on stock Android and it works. However, my buddy has an essential and he went from 7.1 straight to Oreo 3 via side load. After the upgrade he tried the gcam app I installed and he now has the jank. My question is, could there be a difference in how I got to Oreo 3 because I did an ota and my buddy used sideload?

He's probably pissed at me now because he was fine using gcam using 7.1........lol. I'm half laughing.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gk1984:
I just fastboot flashed twrp, booted recovery, used adb sideload in TWRP's sideload mode to push the Ota, then installed Magisk.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Your didn't need to load the new boot image again then flash magisk?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gk1984:
Honestly, not sure. I flashed Rey kernel right away before Magisk then realized Essential probably made kernel changes since B2 and pushed the stock kernel a little later.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] reverenddak:
Damn, why didn't I think of that. I had to do extra steps to get to the same place.

FYI, when you sideloaded the OTA, you effectively flashed the new boot.img in one step. I went: Flash B3, then TWRP, then boot img, then Magisk. But now I remembered that I wanted to test to see if root was enabled.

Now only if there was way to do all this without the bootloader shuffle.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] skd1993:
Doesn't work for Nougat?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] mobileman88:
Note the OP... it only works with OB1 and OB2 at the moment.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] M!tch:
i had the same issues (black screen everywhere when using any other setting than "auto" at "config camera hdr+:" and black screen in portrait mode with every setting, i always forced quit of gcam between testing a new setting). the quoted solution worked for me without reinstalling magisk or module. i think it should be in the op.

fyi: my essential phone is 2 days old and i'm on ob3 (updated from ob2 without flashing critical partitions) with magisk 15.3.

thanks for your great work, aer0zer0.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] kivenage:
i'm a little lost on the process. i was running ob2 with magisk 15.3, then sideloaded to ob3. after the update, magisk says it's uninstalled. how do i get magisk back in this scenario? do i install from the magisk manager, create the patched_boot.img, boot to fastboot and flash the patched img? i tried that and got into a bootloop. so i sideloaded ob3 again and am back to square 1.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] M!tch:
you have to root like you've never been rooted. (flash twrp -> boot into twrp -> flash stock boot image (ob3!) -> flash magisk -> reboot)

https://xdaforums.com/essential-phone/how-to/guide-rooting-essential-ph-1-magisk-t3701976
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] kivenage:
* ah nevermind... just me being a dumba$$

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thanks! i figured that out just before reading your message. long day... =0)
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Working fine on OB3 for me.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Kiddo has the dire aids, been a long night. I'll update the OP in a little bit. Also, anybody try from the other forum to see if they don't lose sound by just installing gcam normally? I highly doubt it, but would be curious?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
I didn't work properly when I had to go back to stock Nougat and after flashing OB3 unrooted. I had to magisk and use your mod.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
So it's voodoo still is what your saying
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Yeah, I think that you discovered is really the permissions that it requires. Unless essential adds those in magisk is probably the way to go. Unless the devs can work the permissions with some other trickery.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] ervman1:
I just sideloaded Beta 3 and flashed your module v8. I am having issues with your suggested settings. I rooted bc it seems like your setting including zero shutter lag was working.

I get a black screen with the below settings:

Model: Taimen

Config HDR: Pixel 2017 zsl HDR+

HDR+: Super High

Manual Black Level: 64

Lens Blur: 8mp (matter of taste)

Final Quality Jpeg: 100%

Portrait mode: ON for all models

Increase HDR+ Detail for front: On

Smartburst: On

Max. Sensitivity analog gain: Auto (No idea if it works, so whatever)

Minimal HDR+ Smoothing: On (No idea if it works, so whatever)

Advanced/HDR Control: On

Video Stabilization: Off

Dev setting: stock

It's only when I change the Config HDR to something else like auto or Nexus 6 that it works and even then HDR does not seem to be enabling. Does anyone have B3 working with the above settings and HDR/portrait/ZSL?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
The magisk module just automates everything.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Did you force stop the app and then try to bring the app up?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Go to settings-> apps -> wipe cache and data.

Set step 1 (model)

Set step 2 (config)

Hit the square (recents) on the nav bar.

Swipe camera away. (force stop)

Re open app

Set all the other settings

Take lots of great photos.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
I thought people knew they had to force close/reopen the app to get settings to take. Ill put that in the OP. Thanks [MENTION=1967037]avd[/MENTION] wiping data/caches might be overkill, but if it works, it works
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Once it's screwed up it's the only way to recover.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Jmar72:
I installed the gcam app without root after upgrading to Oreo beta 3 via ota. Works fine. Just no slo-mo and rear camera portrait not working properly. Slo-mo crashed and the portrait doesn't bokeh, just takes the pic
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] ervman1:
Yeah it was a little confusing. I kept setting the model and hdr+ settings but I would use the back button to exit out which would for a brief bit go back to the camera and it would be black, and no matter what i did after (even force close) it did not work. Thanks to [MENTION=1967037]avd[/MENTION] I closed the app while still in the settings menu. Then when I reopened it worked.

Thanks for your work.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Jmar72:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PX0l6OlMTctsg9LRDe1pTIx_fpYFG5qC/view?usp=drivesdk

That's the version I used
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Jmar72:
The version that worked for me did not work for my buddy. See above link. The only different is I went from an ota from Oreo two to Oreo three, then installed the version of gcam in the above link.

My friend, who already had gcam working and was on nougat 7.1, sideloaded straight to Oreo beta three. No matter which gcam installs he loses sound if he uses hdr+ or video.

Can anyone explain why my ota from 2 to 3 method worked and not my friend flashing to Oreo better three
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
OP, 2nd, 3rd posts updated with v9.

Also, I'd like to get the temperature on this: Do you think it would be better to make the AR stuff a separate flash? let me know?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gk1984:
No. I hardly use it anyway but I'd hate to forget that step when I do want it.

If the concern is over support for Nougat, it might be ok to have a Nougat version excluding AR but sounds like final Oreo isn't far off.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
This might be the best version yet! Really finally becoming stable for me.

As for AR stickers don't mind it. Rather it be there than not.

There is a magisk mod to enable Google Lens, pretty interesting. I flashed it and working fine.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] rignfool:
You could also use e2fsck from terminal in TWRP to repair the image...

Just can't be mounted
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] reverenddak:
Having trouble with this one. Successful with every other one, last was on v7 before trying to update to v9. Uninstalled v7 in Magisk, rebooted. Tried to install v9, I get this :

- Copying zip to temp directory

- Installing GCAM+with+AR+Stickers+version+9.zip

- A/B partition detected, current slot: _b

- Mounting /system, /vendor

- Device skip_initramfs detected

update-binary[73]: unzip: not found

! Unable to extract zip file!

Failed!

! Installation failed

Tried two separate downloads, may try a third. Never had an issue before.

Re: AR stuff, keep please. If it's stock on Pixel 2, we want it too.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Do you have twrp installed still? Try installing BusyBox from magisk repo.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] reverenddak:
Tried a couple more times. Also tried with v7 again (the last one I had already downloaded) and now it gives the same error.

No, don't have TWRP installed. Reinstalled stock b3 boot.img before flashing Magisk.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Try BusyBox, acts like it can't find the unzipbinary
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] avd:
Works for me. Sounds like magisk is booked.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] reverenddak:
Ha. You called it. I reinstalled Magisk. Now installed and seems to be working great. Thanks ya'll.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Toyeboy:
Any idea why the Google camera icon would disappear after flashing any other module in Magisk?

Nevermind, uninstall and then reinstall to version 9 fixed.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] viper98:
Edit: nevermind. Got it installed

Portrait mode doesn't seem to actually do anything though. :(
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Try pictures with people and not objects. I find it has better success with faces.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Because we don't have the pixel focus. We can only portrait faces due to hardware
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
derp

[IMG="derp"]http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/008/173/trooper_chipmunk.jpg[/IMG]
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
This
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Awesome! I probably should uninstall the other module that enables this before I go to v10.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
I would, but you can try
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Is the cstark one better? Or just because no config required?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
No idea, but it works out of the box. Which is nice when people can't figure out how to set a mod.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Shubhank0751:
flashed this: https://xdaforums.com/ess...icker-t3730837

gcam working fine but now am not able to play any kind of media (like playing video on youtube.. playback error, playing videos on whatsapp - black screen, instagram - stuck on 0:00)

what to do?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
No idea, I can only imagine something on your end.....
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Shubhank0751:
tried with wifi, mobile data.. almost everything.. what should i do? cant use youtube too
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Tested v10 out and works fine so far. Thank you so much for your work on this.

I uninstalled the Google Lens module, reboot.

Then uninstalled the v9 GCam, reboot.

Then installed v10, reboot.

Did some light config on the app and seems to work great including the Google Lens part.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
Uninstall it? Maybe you don't know how to use it?

Or give me a logcat?. Tell me OS?

but it's tested long before it ends up here....

I need more information from you other than it doesn't work. That's not how getting help works around here. Can you provide a logcat?, do you know what a logcat is? Anything useful?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] herwarth:
V10 crashes a lot. rolling back to version 9
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Boal:
I could have sworn that on some older version you could long press the camera icon to get quick actions like "take a selfie". Did that disappear for everyone or just me, or am I imagining things?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
Yep it appears with this one it doesn't have the quick actions like before.

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Looks like in order to prevent the zoomed video in v10 you still have to disable the video stabilization like before.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
See the post above yours.... It's something your doing, v10 has been solid for 2 days now. With 6 other people testing long before I posted it here.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
The zoomed in video is how eis works (crops aspect ratio). Move the phone quickly with it on, you will see it "soften" the sudden movement. Off, you will see that it does not. 1080p60 is still screwy, but better than before....
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] herwarth:
okay... did uninstall all magisk modules... (only 2: aptx V2 and camera v9). reboot between the two. reinstall magisk 15.3. reboot. install aptx V2. reboot. camera V10 reboot.

seems okay now!
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gk1984:
Off topic but the other night, I was recording some video with the Essential camera of my son and noticed a slight zoom and some pretty impressive image stabilization. I didn't think Essential had image stabilization. Did they add this or might something in this mod have "turned this on" by accident? I'd share but it's family. Haven't had time to test this otherwise.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
That is your video stabilization in settings. It works better in v10,1080p60 is still weird, but 720 1080p30 and 4k is pretty fantastic
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gk1984:
Yes, I know. To clarify, I was saying this was using Essential camera, not Google camera. I wasn't aware EIS was in the Essential camera.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
OP, 2nd, and 3rd post updated for V10 and V11....

[MENTION=3443130]gk1984[/MENTION] my bad, to be fair, i skimmed it while driving and thought something completely different. and as such, i shall now meme flame myself

[IMG="derp"]http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/263/866/403.gif[/IMG]
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] rignfool:
On v11...

First reboot after install was ugly... Like a new kind of ugly...

However... Forcing a second reboot even though I didn't get thru the original boot process got everything going...
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] gk1984:
No problem. Happens to all of us at some point.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] Genghis1227:
I didn't experience the same reboot. No issues here. Uninstalled, reboot, installed, reboot
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] rignfool:
Maybe I'm just speacil?
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
What do you mean a special kind of ugly.. every once in a great while, magisk does that.... It just spins and spins, you never get the vibrate circle square screen dim. I get that on occasion, but I flash it 9 different times before I release it.

Also I don't use the magisk beta, I use the builds from kantjer repo. They are more current than the betas.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] rignfool:
It did that... Came to the lock screen with the power menu open... Then went back to the dancing lights... And never came back...
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
That's new, sounds like magisk being flaky
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] rignfool:
Yeah... But not reproducible... So just a mention... No log...

If I see it again... I'll let you know
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
exactly what you described is what i have seen before. That used to happen with 14.3 -----> 14.6 magisk randomly. I have seen different variations of that happen. To see it on 15.3 is brand new to me. Anyways, if you are so inclined, i recommend this magisk repo

https://github.com/kantjer/MagiskFiles

im using the latest build. If you open the settings, and select update channel, you can set a custom magisk repo to update from.
[Essential Phone Themes, Apps, and Mods] aer0zer0:
I added a v11a to OP, its just v9 (with all the settings) with google lens support. If settings are your flavor, that is updated to suite