[Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra] ish4d0w123:
Hi!

Many of us want to have working GCAM (Google Camera) on the S22 Ultra but for some reason, this forum only seems to care for the Snapdragon model that is available in the USA. And there seems to be just a generic "tossing-aside" attitude towards Exynos phones which I am furious about and I will attempt to fix this issue by providing the help I sought, for everyone, right here.

But before I go into details on

how to get GCAM working on S22 Ultra EXYNOS,

I wanted to tell you that S22 Ultra is available in many other major markets too, not just in the USA. This includes Europe, where the ROW (Rest of the World) model is available that is having Exynos chip instead of Snapdragon. While it is theoretically capable of running GCAM, it has completely different signal processing and requires a different app and config.

I am opening this thread because there isn't a proper thread for those who want to have working GCAM on S22 Ultra Exynos model only.

S22 Ultra deserves a dedicated topic firstly because the Snapdragon version also has it's own exclusive topic, in which help is only provided for the Snapdragon model, and if someone needs help for the Exynos model, they are told that "they are in the wrong topic" Example of such a turning-away post

Exynos is not any lesser than Snapdragon and if Snapdragon can have it's own thread, then so can Exynos.

I ask the mods to take this into consideration and not close the topic for a duplicate as long as users are allowed to tell Exynos users that "they are in the wrong forum"

Sometimes Exynos users were directed to a generic, blended-soup like thread called GCam for Exynos which is wrong, because users of DIFFERENT devices (including low-budget, non premium phones which require absolutely different configs) ask for help in there and it gets all mixed up in there. I think it just isn't justified that the Snapdragon variant of S22 Ultra has it's own topic while the users of the Exynos versions are just directed away to a topic that collects "all" Exynos models, like if they were any similar in terms of GCAM development. (I will they you: they are not. They are just as different as two snapdragon-chipset-equipped phones can be)

And therefore it is almost impossible to find help for specific device (such as the S22 Ultra EXYNOS variant) as this "Exynos GCAM" soup thread is littered with unrelated info for the type, and worse. Sometimes it is not even named what device the given config is good for, or what device the asker needs help with. I want to have a focused thread so real development for Exynos S22 Ultra Gcam can begin. This is not possible with the generic thread and those who say so are just ignorant. (If this was true, why would you have a topic for the Snapdragon variant but not the Exynos variant???)

The S22 Ultra's camera sensor set is very unique and therefore it shouldn't be butchered together with other devices, and actually, not even with it's own Snapdragon "sister" variant. They are not alike at all in terms of GCAM development, even though functionality-wise they are pretty similar (as designed to be).

And to get the discussion going on here. The most promising find for Exynos S22 Ultra GCam is this. I'm testing it currently.

https://xdaforums.com/t/gcam-for-exynos.4449511/post-88509475