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[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] grangermoch:
Hmm I think I am seeing the same issue. After installing the apk and loading the corresponding S21U AGC v7 config file, I'm still only seeing .6x and 1x options. Screenshot attached. Am I missing something? Thanks for the help and for all of your efforts.

Edit: I tried a different apk (ruler vs snap) and the issue was resolved 🤷‍♂️.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] hallo dare:
Great apk, but is there a Google lens feature or do you have to take a picture for to use it? I've enabled it in settings but nothing happens. Thanks

Exynos version.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] beserker15:
Google lens work just fine with Google Photos, no need to take a picture in order to use it.

Updated links and config for latest 9.2 AGC.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] hallo dare:
Thanks. Coming from OnePlus and lens was a feature of the camera apk which made it very handy to have an all in one.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Gent':
Hi, has anyone tried this for S22+ snapdragon, it's supposed to work right?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] grangermoch:
There's a separate XDA post for s22, but this one is dedicated to S21U.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] YUAman:
AGC is not working for night cam
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] diffidatipk:
Guys .. from all the reading and trails I didn't manage to get any GCAM port to work properly on my S21 Ultra (Exy) . Is there actually a working one wether with custom config or not?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Dayuser:
Search here.

https://xdaforums.com/t/gcam-for-exynos-s21-ultra.4285393/
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] yoyosquad:
Anyone tried the new BSG 8.6? https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-bsg/f/dl112/
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] franello:
Hello, I installed AGC cam and it crashes multiple times, so I went ahead and installed arnova and whichaya. Both work fine until I load their xml and when I do they crash endlessly. Any suggestions?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] franello:
I cannot make any of these cameras work, tried everything, either app crashes or can't load configs or can't take pictures. Followed any step described in first post for each app. Is it only me?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] tenjou00:
Did anyone managed to get the 108MP mode on S21 Ultra to work on Gcam?

Anyone managed to hack the API restricted by Samsung?

I am guessing CameraAPI2 do not have the necessary info to use the 108MP mode on Gcam... Anyone can confirm this?

It is a bugger that Gcam cannot take 108MP photos with the S21 Ultra. I can only imagine the results will be insane if we can do it.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] LordGrinko:
Help me plz.

"LMC 8.4 R12 Fixed APK and XML for it (based on Arcide's 5.1 Config, no lib needed)"

I'm installed this gcam, but fron cam (portate, night and just a camera) don't work.

Video work 🤷🏼‍♂️
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Dryster:
Hey @beserker15 ! Firstly thank you for all your hard work! I'm using your recommended AGC 8.4 GCam v9.2 and Latest "Standard" Config for it and I love it, especially indoors, but would like to ever so slightly lower its sharpening in strong daylight.

I also tried @Matzinger87 config for it which has the best picture quality in strong daylight but dark areas of the pictures get smudgy real fast in less than ideal lightning conditions (indoor, in shade or in the evening). So IMHO the ideal config would be either AGC's Standard config with less sharpening or Matt's config with less noise reduction/detail smearing in darker areas of pictures.

Can you please help me which advanced settings do I need to change to "fine tune" either config (lower sharpness or noise reduction) or direct me to source with more detailed explanation of every advanced Gcam setting?

I think I should change settings under Lens Setting -> Main -> Image processing -> Config 1 -> Sharpness (or Noise Reduction), but for the love of me I cannot find anywhere on the internet the explanation of those settings (Sharp Shasta Motion, Sharp Depth, Sharp mini, Sharp macro, Sharpening Edge, Soft Sharp a, etc.) to know what to change and how much.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Matzinger87:
Did you use Arcide's lib together with my XML? Because I don't experience excessive noise reduction on my S21U (in case it's a noise reduction you are referring to).
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Dryster:
Hey Matt, thank you also for your hard work. I used the config and lib from first post of this thread (S12U_SD_AGCv9.2_ArcideLMCv5.1rev.zip, so ArcideLMCv5.1rev.so), but now that you mentioned it, I checked .agc config file which custom lib does it reference and noticed this:

<string name="custom_lib_open_key">ArcideLMCv5.1se.so</string>

So.. could it be that the config is "calling" the wrong filename? I'll try to change the config from se to rev when I finish work..

EDIT: I should also clarify that by "excessive noise reduction" I was referring to detail smearing that I notice mostly in indoor pictures under artificial light, specifically in shadowy areas, for example under tables or picture areas with fine texture detail as are carpets or woodblock floor/parquet
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Dryster:
@Matzinger87 : Looks like this was it - with default config file Gcam does not load your library and I immediately noticed much better picture quality when I edited the config (changed "ArcideLMCv5.1se.so" to "ArcideLMCv5.1rev.so") and the correct library was being loaded.. no more "smearing" and looks like I can finally use your config exclusively :D

Just one more thing - can you please tell me what those 4 configs mean ("M3. Sharp", "M3. Soft", "M1. Sharp" and "M1. Soft") - in which situations should I use which one? And I would still pretty much appreciate if you can point me to some documentation about Gcam advanced settings that I mentioned earlier :)
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] dazed1:
Share results, and ill give you hints what to improved and how.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Dryster:
Hey dazed1. After a few days of testing I gotta say that I'm finally satisfied with Matt's config (after I changed the config to reference the correct .so) so I think I'll use this one.. But I haven't seen any defining difference between his 2 different Sharp and 2 different Soft profiles.. OK, there is noticeable difference between Sharp and Soft but I'm unable to notice the difference between M1 and M3 profiles.. do you know what is the difference between those 4 profiles ("M3. Sharp", "M3. Soft", "M1. Sharp" and "M1. Soft") - what does M1 compared to M3 mean and in which situations should I use either (low light, good light,...)?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] dazed1:
What you prefer is what you use, higer sharpening = more noise and artifacts in low light usually, if you like the pics you use that xml and that's it
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] yoyosquad:
does BSG8.7 or AGC8.6 work for S21 ultra?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] dazed1:
Exynos?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] yoyosquad:
no snapdragon
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] dazed1:
132.02 MB file on MEGA

mega.nz

129.4 KB file on MEGA

mega.nz
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] lestra7:
Hi everybody, I am new here and know nothing about gcam. I installed latest version from here on s21 ultra sd. My problem is that app wont record 1080 60fps. It just freeze. Any idea what can be done? Thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] yoyosquad:
In some gcams video doesn't work.

The BSG 8.6 does work. You can go upto 4K60
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] lestra7:
Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Mark_JR:
Hi. Someone is so kind to pass me your configurations for the S21 Ultra Snapdragon. I am new to this. I would be very grateful. 🙏🏻😩
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] YaoSta:
Has anyone been able to find a well working gcam mod for Android 13 using GSI? I'm currently using Pixel Experience Plus but the default camera doesn't recognize any of the lenses besides the wide angle one. I also found a gcam mod from celsoazevedo.com which works for the back cameras but doesn't even give the option to use the front camera, any help will be appreciated this is the only actual issue I have with GSI and fixing this would be beyond amazing thanks in advance..
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] ericbig66:
Have problem while using gcam, when opening the camera in photo mode the camera frame would freeze in 3 seconds until I switch lens and then it would unfreeze for another 3 second then freeze again.

But it works normally in video mode, no freeze or crash.

I have updated to Android 13 with One UI 5.1 currently

App ver: Arnova Gcam-8.1.101.build-V6.2.211013.2159

Config file: config for it

Is there any solution or any one have same problem please help
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] yoyosquad:
any new updates?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] ZayaanAhyaan:
Thank you sooo much. By far the best Gcam out there....the difference between selling my S21U and keeping it honestly..... thank you again!!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] dazed1:
Lets not overreact please, the camera is still very good
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] ZayaanAhyaan:
Not when you got kids and pets and need to take 10 snaps to get 1 right.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] ledvedder:
Which apk are you using? There are 3 different ones on the link. And which config are you using?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] sahed01:
Wow. We really really need someone to keep pushing gcam for S21 Ultra.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Soepersoeper:
Seriously thanks beserker15. I've had the nexus 6p, pixel 3xl and 4xl. I skipped the 5 since it was really a downgrade and finally pulled the trigger for the s21 ultra. Once you're used to the google cameras, the processing and reliability, it's tough to go to anything else. Immediately on the s21 ultra I noticed the portraits aren't great especially taking portraits of objects. The overprocessing of the hair/fur and detail is just ridiculous on samsung's part. Thank you for the GCam because I know the hardware is superior on the s21 ultra which was why I bought it. The pictures taken with GCam are so much greater! Thanks again. Wished that the portraits with GCam would be more like the pixel but that is asking too much.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] dazed1:
Can anyone post night mode photos versus? but try to be a bit more darker, not street lights night mode, thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] uniQ_87:
@dazed1

Gcam night sight

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Samsung cam app

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The original is wayyy better imo
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] uniQ_87:
And, also, same problem I had back than with the Xiaomi Mi5s and gcam. The device gets SUPER hot while using the gcam
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] nixnixnixnix4:
It's about high time that Google showed some respect to Samsung and gave it access to GCam tech, even if it is as a binary blob or something.

I'm not saying reveal all secrets, but provide something.

In the US, Samsung is all that stands in the way of total iPhone domination.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] p40403:
Samsung camera will force the use of the main lens at 10X, is very bad

Samsung cam

gcam
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] ZayaanAhyaan:
The Samsung cam does that....you'll have to point towards some light source and move around sometimes to activate it in 10x, or just zoom until 20x and come back to 10x as a workaround.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] jmontalbo:
That 4k video with wide lens tho 🔥🔥🔥
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] sahed01:
wow, will try that. nice to know
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] p40403:
I was far away and there was no light source to point to
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] p40403:
There are a lot of noise in the sky when shooting night view, which custom lib can I apply?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Matzinger87:
Just curious if the snapdragon version also has issues with excessive noise in the corners of images when using HDR+ enhanced in Gcam? There is no such problems on shots taken with normal HDR+.

Samples from the exynos version attached (hdr+ and hdr+ enhanced).

If you face the same problem with Gcam on snapdragon, is there any setting in Arnovag82 8.1 version to fix that issue?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] beserker15:
No issues with corner noise here. The Arnova test group I'm in has an Exynos S21U user and he's been giving feedback to hopefully help get that corner issue resolved on those phones. Definitely not an issue with Snapdragon though.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] meroupow:
Is it something useful to try and mess around with libs? Or by default GCAM is optimised enough for S21 Ultra?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] piyush7243:
The corner noise issue is partially fixed in bsg version
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] iamnotkurtcobain:
But HDR is kinda broken. Strange colors on objects and light sources.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Ipse_Tase:
@beserker15 are you still happy with the current Config file? I'm finding a ton of noise in indoor night shots and not in a good way comparative to the stock app (I.e.e not pulling more detail, quite the opposite).

Unfortunately I deleted the samples as they looked so bad, but they would have supported my point.

I find in my (limited) testing that daylight shots, especially with telephoto (both) come out better from GCam.

Night shots...it's a crap shoot. Could be either.

I have NOT touched any advanced GCam configuration as I need to read more about what every setting does. Maybe I'm missing some setting...I mainly played with HDR.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] beserker15:
It depends on how dark you are referring to. At very dark scenarios, stock will always win out because it significantly boosts exposure and noise reduction. In normal indoor/medium light scenarios though, GCam still offers a lot more detail.

My configs are always aiming to target detail, even if they might have more noise. You can always work with the luma and chroma settings. With that said, there are a lot more work with noise profiles so the next release will be a little better with noise. Here's a crop of my current config with an unreleased beta version of Arnova in medium low light.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] beserker15:
It's a personal preference. My profile uses noise model rather than RAM patcher (sometimes known as lib patcher in other GCams). I think a good noise model can make messing with patchers unnecessary. Now if you are referring to lib files, like lib_R1_01Final.so and others Arnova has posted, that is also a preference thing as well. I am personally using lib_R1_01v3.3.so since I find that it is a good balance between shadows and highlights. Some libs make things darker, where others boost shadows too much.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Ipse_Tase:
Cheers for the quick response..I have my work cut out for me 🤣

Reading required.

RE your samples, I think you are right : good or moderate good lighting is favoring Gcam.

For really dark environment, stock is working it's magic to boost exposure and wipe out resulting noise (together with details...).

I'm absolutely OK with using BOTH apps, as long as I understand the environment I'm shooting in and which one is going to give me better results.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] meroupow:
Appart from pixel peeping what I really like is the general look of the pictures produced by GCAM that look more true to life. The grass looks like grass and not some overprocessed oil paintaing.

And also night mode is much cleaner than the samsung one and astro is amazing...

I am definitely going to go deeper in understanding the parameters.

Is there some kind of guide about all the settings where I should start learning from?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] meroupow:
Promising! Do you know if front camera support is in the work also for next releases?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] franagan75:
Gcam With aue1 update
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Ipse_Tase:
Finally some good reds...Samsung has struggled for ages with red color rendition.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] tenjou00:
@beserker15 Is there any update to this version of GCam? I am curious about the progress on GCam for S21 Ultra Snapdragon version.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] beserker15:
Unfortunately the best that can be done with front camera is BSG's implementation which doesn't work with HDR since we don't have front RAW. It can actually look worse than stock cam without HDR so front camera is kinda pointless right now.

The next release will have loadable noise models and AWB profiles similar to how this one has loadable lib files. So no real added functions per say but just more things that lets you tweak the image further. Admittedly, most of the time I just try to tweak the telephoto cameras since I use them 90% of the time.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] meroupow:
Agreed zoom lenses are not accessible by other camera apps and even Samsung own pro mode hence GCAM is the only option to get a different result from the overprocessed look that Sammy designed for them.

If you don't like the ultra wide and wide default look you can still tweak a bit in native pro mode.

And for the front camera it is a bit sad not to have the GCAM option as for my Xiaomi Mi9 the results were amazing in HDR quality compared to stock but at least the default Samsung is good now after years of crazy beauty effects.

I am hoping some day Samsung will understand that extra sharpening and smoothing effect is just destructive for the pictures and not all their customers like this look and just give us the option to turn it down. Just a little parameter somewhere... Maybe if we all ask on their forum they would listen?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] A709:
我有s21 ultar，我想加入测试组，可以吗？

Translation: I have s21 ultar, I want to join the test group, can I?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Ipse_Tase:
There are Samsung member forums (bad news...a LOT of them, country based) and some folks think that posting there might generate some traction from Samsung.

I for one would welcome a way to tweak sharpening....let me know if decide to go request it, I'll vote.

Also, it seems that the Reddit Ultra community is pretty active, might get some support for the idea there as well.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] tenjou00:
@beserker15 Thank you for your reply. Any tips on how to tweak for noise reduction and cleaner more details in the telephoto lens photos? DXOmark gave S21 ultra a pretty low rating on telephoto lens too ... Worse than Mi 10 ultra... That kinda makes me wonder if it is just Samsung not tweaking the telephoto lens properly....
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] jmontalbo:
What's the latest config file for us?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] meroupow:
Thanks for the idea, I did post that on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/S21Ultra/comments/nazvv5
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] meroupow:
I created a feature request on Samsung Dev forum:

Add a parameter to control sharpening in photo app

Hello, Although I appreciate the S21 Ultra camera, I find the default picture processing way too aggressive on sharpening. Leading to loss of details and an oil painting effect that I am sure not everybody like. I find GCAM results to be often more true to life and especially on the zoomed...

forum.developer.samsung.com

Please go and vote for it if you feel we should be able to turn down sharpening in the photo app.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] PhilMorin:
Thanks for your effort, I voted!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Ipse_Tase:
Done, thanks.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Lancyy:
Does anyone know how to use 108 megapixel camera in the GCam app?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] 1Condottiere:
I noticed that reloading the xml file fixes the issue of the 10X camera (choose update)
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] 1Condottiere:
Loading RAW (dng) pictures, which must be taken taken with HDR, into Lightroom produce files that have a Tint number maxed to 150 which makes the tint practically uneditable. Is there a solution to this? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] meroupow:
Again a comparison of GCAM crushing the stock app. I let you guess wich one is which.

To be noted that the eyes of the doll are blue... Samsung post processing is abusive...

But I have some focusing issues with GCAM sometimes. I tap on the screen to a spot and it does not focus. Do you know which parameters could affect that?

I saw a few focus parameters in dev settings but not sure what they change.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] ZayaanAhyaan:
I found a small workaround the focus issue...I tap the screen, when the exposure slider comes up, i just tap the icon without adjusting it and then it taps to focus wherever I want.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] nixnixnixnix4:
Please make sure you play with the settings before condemning the stock Camera app.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] meroupow:
Which settings???? Tick or untick scene optimizer? There is nothing or else i missed something.

If you are talking pro mode then you are losing zoom ability and HDR... Great improvement!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] beserker15:
No one is condemning stock camera app. I can admit that it has surprised me before, and is still very useful for selfies and group photos using voice trigger as well as macro shots. There's a whole thread called Camera Performance that details the strengths and weaknesses of stock camera. I also very welcome Samsung's continued efforts on updating and improving stock camera. GCam is just an alternative that I use because I can better adjust the pictures to my preferences without needing to rely on RAW and post processing.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Ipse_Tase:
You know, considering how Google and Samsung seem to be buddies again (after threats of Tizen OS and all..) I don't see why they don't join forces in camera software, the same way they have done with WearOS.

Most of Apple's photography and videography success comes from computational processing, not from amazing hardware...which is right up Google's alley. See what a 3 years old sensor can do in Pixel 5.

One can dream...
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] skinote:
Is it possible to install gcam side-by-side with the stock camera, without overwriting it?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] mistical:
It never overrides the stock app so yes you'll always have both. Then just decide on your preference as to what scenarios you'll use each for. Like always stock for video, etc.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] nixnixnixnix4:
Similar to a regular computer where you can have multiple apps that can open the same file -- in Android, you can use different apps to do the same thing. You can set a default camera app or no default camera app.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] nixnixnixnix4:
This x 100.

Google and Samsung need to cooperate or watch Apple eat their lunch.

Official GCam software embedded inside the stock Camera app would be great.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] skinote:
When I install the noaux version of gcam, it says it is updating Camera. I don't see that it's installed as a second option. Is it possible to have icons for both the stock and gcam cameras so I can just switch between them on the fly?

Edit: Nevermind, hah - I am blind! I see them both.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] 1Condottiere:
I would really appreciate a response to this question. If not resolved GCam is useless to me because I cannot fix colors. Thanks everyone

Loading RAW (dng) pictures, which must be taken taken with HDR, into Lightroom produce files that have a Tint number maxed to 150 which makes the tint practically uneditable. Is there a solution to this? Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] meroupow:
Is there a newer/better build of gcam yet? I am still on the March version.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Jammmmm:
I took an OTA and it seemed to automatically uninstall my gcam? Now when I install the app again, it never installs and just says "App Not Installed". Anyone know of a fix?
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Shoey Peachew:
Having same issue. I can't install gcam after ota update.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] beserker15:
Which OTA did you guys take? Did it auto install the Samsung Ruler app? That's the one that needs to be uninstalled as this GCam uses the same package name.

Quick Measure - Apps on Galaxy Store

Quick Measure provide the AR Measurement experiences quickly and easily using Camera and AR Technology. Devices equipped with DepthVision Camera provide the following functions. - Distance Measure...

apps.samsung.com
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Jammmmm:
That would be it! Thanks a million.