[Galaxy S6 Original Android Development] G A S T:
Hey U99Dev (Usaamah99),

hey guys,

I recently flashed the latest LOS 14.1 Nightly (2018-11-26) via Odin/TWRP on my Galaxy S6 (SM-G920F) and can confirm that this is a great and very stable build, except for some decent lags and occasional freezing. Both phenomena I really can't explain because the rest of the time, the exact same tasks or apps work properly and run as somoothly and fluently as intended. There must be a way to identify and fix that problem.

But my main point (and main disappointment) is a real big deal: The horrible camera!

It sucks. It's the worst camera performance I have ever seen on a LOS-device with that advanced hardware and camera potential. I tried lots of different cam apps (including offline .apks here from XDA) in the last week until today with no success. I really know that it's not Lineage's or Usaamah's fault, because the stock cam app from samsung is closed source and embedded with frameworks and even hardcoded into the ROM. But I recognised a lot of users alongside myself complaining about this issue and throwing in the towel, flashing back and using the outdated original Samsung ROM.

But knowing all this does not really help. The camera for me seems to be most important deal-breaker. On daylight the LOS-cam produces - let's say - after all halfway sufficient pics an vids. But especially in low-light situations the samsung stock camera performs way much better (I luckily have another SG S6 with the samsung stock ROM/stock cam for direct comparison with the SG S6 with LOS). At night, the LOS-cam and other cam apps on LOS are just impossible to use. Every setting you make, every picture you take - you instantly want to dump it! At low-light/night it's truly much worse than the cam of lots of low-end android devices from 2014/2015.

Is nobody with the necessary expertise out there who cares or could care about the cam-capability-recognition in LOS and try to engineer just a decent improvement for the Samsung cams (I know that LOS-Users with a S7 - S9 struggle with similar camera issues) on LineageOS?

Just let me state one last thing: We are on "peak smartphone". The camera has become probably the most important smartphone equipment. The whole LOS-Team can no longer shrug of the shoulders and say that that's not their problem. Because it is! Keeping LOS interesting and alive over the next years will mostly depend on the provisioning of adequate camera capabilitys. So something must be done here. Better sooner than later.

[MENTION=7597880]usaama[/MENTION]h99:

You did a really great Job and we are really thankful for your maintanance work. Could you please tell us something about those two points (lag/freeze and cam) I mentioned before? In the official LOS statistics the Galaxy S6 is now ranked as No. 19 on the list of the most active LOS-devices. In my Opinion this is very impressing when you think about the short period of time, that LOS 14.1 is officially available for this device(s). The SG SG is a very famous, powerful and widespread device. There are Millions of devices out there which are waiting for further update support through Lineage since the last official update (SPL June 2018 - probably the last update for the S6 ever) from Samsung randomly occured five months ago. So it would be a shame and a bad, big waste of ressources to ignore the huge camera problem of the S6 on your Lineage-Version for too long. The solution for SG S7-S9 is very easy; Just don't switch to LOS. But in the long run it's not, just like for the SG S6 right now.