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[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
I think this deserves it's own thread.

Installation description and download link is given here: https://xdaforums.com/t/x90-pro-script-to-remove-vivo-system-app-ver-2-5.4533545/post-87946927

Right now only the version 8.4 is working - though 8.7 is already published.

It's a tiny bit slower - especially in the dark vs the vivo camera. The colors are very different - in general I feel in the dark Vivo is more correct - but gcam has the advantage of no auto night mode mwhich means you have to use Sports mode (which isn't perfect at night as it's exposure is very quick).

In general pictures - especially on the zoom lens are a bit sharper vs stock camera. On the zoom lens at 10x and above it's significantly sharper. I would say at 20x the Google camera manages 20-30% more detail minimum and avoids the oversharpening that the Vivo camera does (do not pixel peep at the 10x or 20x pictures of the vivo camera - it's mostly awful when the vivo AI for example detects text - but much much batter on the gcam).

However I think we somehow miss the HDR - or am I top stupid to find it? Could it be that because we need to select Pixel 2 - we only get features that are available on Pixel 2?

I'll attach a screenshot showing the missing HDR and the difference in zoom detail.

It's a bit annoying that at night the gcam sometimes is way off on white balance at night. With way off I mean way off. Otherwise I prefer it over the stock camera for pictures (I didn't really take videos so cannot comment there).

The really nice thing about gcam is how you can select each lens and force it to be used - unlike Vivo that especially at night does not use the 2x camera - and sometimes not even the periscope. All lenses work.

Edit - I found the HDR mode. You can enable it by clicking on HDR in the Auto white balance row - then another row pops up with HDR settings (off, on, enhanced).
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
Screenshots examples.

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Missing HDR+

Details in gcam - 1 level above the stock camera.

It's noisier but the colors are more accurate on the vivo stock camera except the dark green which is better on gcam. The orange in the middle in reality is a tiny bit darker than in the Vivo pic. But here it appears red. Besides that it's actually hard to tell which color is more accurate. There are many examples which I will not show here however - where the gcam was way off indoors at LED lightbulb light.

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Details on stock camera below

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Oh yeah - I did check that the Vivo here choses the periscope camera. Cropping into the main lens is a bit worse. Let me attach a sample too (taken with gcam as I cannot force the vivo stock camera to use the main lens). I really do feel Vivo should have gone for 4.5x zoom on the periscope camera. Up to 4x the main sensor doesn't do too badly. And just for the sake of it I will take one with the 2x cam too - I think the 2x is worst at zoom. It's a portrait camera only.

Main sensor (10x zoom is max so it's s but bigger than the other ones)

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2x sensor.

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Actually - well the 2x sensor does capture more detail than a crop into the pixel binned main sensor (or is gcam going into the unbinned sensor? But it's clear the lens of the 2x is too slow / surface too small so it suffers here at roomlight and is really really noisy.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] Dayuser:
@extremecarver Could you change thread title to Themes/ Apps/ Mods. I think is better than "Question"
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
done
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
Btw, the gcam from BSG version 8.7 (current) is also compatible.

Just if you mess up a setting you have to reinstall. Not sure why, changing the setting back doesn't help. It seems to have better colors on first try, but resolution identical to stock camera...

It's bad you cannot install BSG and bigkaka in parallel. It gives me an error notice when I try to do so
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] jericho246:
If you are trying to install 2 mods that have the same signature (Snapcam for example), it's normal that it doesn't work.

I know in the other thread I stated that SNAPCAM package is recommended for Vivo/Oppo/OnePlus devices because it allows access to all camera lenses, however it looks like something has changed for the better because I'm currently using the com.agc.cam signature for the AGC GCam, and all lenses are recognized without issues.

In short, if you want to have both BSG GCam and Big Kaka AGC ,

Download the BSG version that has Snapcam signature (others like com.android.mgc could possibly work as well, it's just that I haven't tested them):

BSG: MGC_8.7.250_A11_V6

Download MGC_8.7.250_A11_V6 by BSG.

www.celsoazevedo.com

And for AGC, download the one that's on top (com.agc.cam)

BigKaka: AGC8.4.300_V9.3

Download AGC8.4.300_V9.3 by BigKaka.

www.celsoazevedo.com

IMPORTANT FOR AGC USERS:

Noise models for our X90 Pro+ have been submitted by user Viktor. The .c files can be imported in AGC settings. BSG doesn't have this feature.

If you don't know what this stuff is, you can read on the topic here https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/morgenman/noise-modeller-how-to/

Download noise models for all 4 back cameras here: https://drive.google.com/drive/fold...rIYRBKKq_6NlufPwrgGQMNXkbNJA-OInawB64cO9U9zSJ

the models can be imported in

Lens settings > choose lens (Main 1x, Ultrawide 0.6x, Tele 2.2x, Tele 3.9x) > Noise model > and finally Import noise model

from my short testing, the OV64B tele benefits the most from the custom noise model.

"Auto switch of lens" should be disabled

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[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
Okay got it running again. I think it happened because the two versions influenced each other. If one Version is crashing it may somehow take the other one down too.

If there is a crash report, it makes it easier have a look at it in chrome and sometimes it has something useful. It said something about lense and then I disabled all lenses and re enabled one by one (starting with the 3.9) and somehow that fixed it .

bsg actually has a super macro mode - on bigkaka it's missing. If you mess up BSG, you need to do a full reset. Just changing the function that you set to break the app back - usually does not help. That's really strange.

I think easiest is to use stock camera and if your not happy then gcam. Because stock camera is faster and has better modes. For Landscape could default to bigkaka. At night it depends - it seems to be really a lottery which one takes better shots - and each setting is wildly different. Photos against sunlight - the stock camera seems to fail consistently. So that is a case for bigkaka.

We would need a proper auto white balance and color profile for bigkaka - then it could outclass the default camera quite easily. Missing this it's a bit hit or miss. That is if you need the better sharpness - go for bigkaka and HDR enhanced or night view.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] PILLS2389:
How do you make BigKaka app work? It keeps crashing when I open it, I can go directly to settings, but if I open the camera normally, it crashes.

The BSG version works.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
Start with a single Lens like 3.9x for debugging only. You may need to set interface as pixel 2 xl, and stream as sdk28. Then add other lenses, 1,3,4,,5,6 afterwards.

I think for bigkaka only snapcam and aweme version works. Try snapcam first. BSG for me also default version works. But yeah as soon as you set something wrong BSG needs full reset.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] Deleted member 11872899:
No, every package works perfectly. When you set something wrong in bsg you can access the settings with an "activity launcher" from Playstore. You can easily skip the viewfinder and jump directly into the settings. Change back what caused the crash and you are good to go.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
On bigkaka you can do a long click and get right into settings without activity launcher. And yes on bigkaka restoring what caused the crash seems to work mostly. Not always but I think that is due to some instabilities. Some settings will launch if you ijstantly after opening click into the camera field, without it will crash.

Only on BSG you need activity launcher and for some settings restoring them doesn't help. Only way to get BSG working again then is to use activity launcher into settings and full reset (somehow there is something different from uninstall/reinstall vs reset - though I haven't found out what. Maybe some files are written outside of the app folder and therefore require reset via full reset menu point).

I guess this is somehow hardware related and the lenses remember what position was used or similar and with instable settings it can lead to crashes ...

I'm not even sure we can create a colour model that works universally. I guess the stock cams have quite a few models depending on the AI settings and what they detect regarding white balance. We would need a separate model of white balance for each kind of light type (except if having identical sensors to a Pixel model)

I also miss manual white balance on the gcams...

With manual I mean photographing a white sheet and then the camera adjust the white balance for getting the white sheet perfectly white. That's what you do on any kind of professional camera, especially in film when you want your actors to look the same skin tone no matter the lighting.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
Oh yeah - and supposedly our cam features camera2 Level 3+ access - but if you set that on BSG it crashes. Only level 3 works sadly.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] Deleted member 11872899:
I have tried bsg once only. I prefer Shamim or LMC.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
Could you please post screenshots of how you set up the lenses on LMC and shanmin? Both crash on me (got LMC to open with 2 lenses, then tried to add more now cannot even get into settings again even though I reset data and uninstalled/reinstalled).

On Shanmin I didn't even find the lens selection section (are you using 8.7 beta v3?)

Edit: found the bug on not being able to get into settings. First need or let it start and crash once...
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] Deleted member 11872899:
I'm using the latest 8.4 version of Shamim right now because I have made a lib some months back which doesn't work in newer gcam versions.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
Thanks, well I figured it out don't activate id5. But the preview in LMC in the dark is unusable. Too dark to focus except on main lens. Have to see a bit right now it's the worst but I haven't set up anything yet besides the order of the cameras. Right now at night it's really not useful yet.

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[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
By now I got them all running on default settings, but well I have to say details wise at night clear win for bigkaka, then stock camera in night mode , then auto night mode, then quite a bit worse LMC/Shanmin..

I'm not sure anymore which gcam mod had Pxl in its name - that one was quite good too quality wise - but I think it wasn't as stable. In general bigkaka seems to be quite unstable if you mess around in the settings. LMC/Shanmin accept much more settings - but the quality at night (didn't test during the day) is just horrible in comparison to AGC and stock. At first the stabilization doesn't seem to work in night mode - meaning lots of blur, second in HDR+ mode they are as good as the stock cam in normal mode - but bigkaka blows them out of the water so to say.

How much is this difference - actually quite a lot. While bigkaka in night mode will look sharp on a 4k screen in full size - it's hdr+ mode and the stock camera night mode are about sharp enough for 0.75 of the size. The normal mode on the vivo stock cam and the HDR simple mode are about the same at 0.5 the size - wile LMC and Shanmin can only fill 0.4 of the screen while still looking sharp enough.

bigkaka the big problem is auto white balance - not sure about LMC/Shanmin here. They seem quite similar but I haven't tested in many locations yet.

I didn't get Shanmin 8.7 to run, maybe that one is much sharper. It seems to be quite different from the 8.4 version. The strange thing is - settings that crash one mod, will run fine in another . Sometimes it will only crash after stopping the app and restarting - or similar. It's really frustrating if the app crashes to find out what causes it.

I miss a high resolution mode on bigkaka - it doesn't seem to exist. However the high resolution mode in LMC is pretty strange too - it takes pictures at half the sensor resolution (instead of default 1/4). Clearly this will only matter under very good light. Roomlight 10MP is plenty big, at night well 5MP would likely easily cut it.

I will not play with RAW before I get the jpg somehow better than stock. I still don't understand why bigkaka is soo much sharper vs the other gcam mods.

If bigkaka would not be so unreliable on colors it would be the clearly best choice.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] Deleted member 11140537:
So let's make things more interesting for our device.

Vivo already makes an excellent job controling the lights so whenever theres artificial lights or HDR scenes involved it's the best to use Stock.

But it lacks on textures and details sometimes.

That's why we've been working on GCam to make our experience even better.

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techinbermudas.com

Download and Install the APK

Move the XML's to Internal Storage/LMC 8.4/

Long press the GCam icon > Take Video

Load the XML by double clicking near the shutter button area.

Option 2 follows other path

Internal Storage/SGCAM/LIB

Internal Storage/SGCAM/XML

Place the files there and load the XML like above.

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We also created a Google Photos Album for users to share their Vivo Pics (Stock or Not)

Vivo X90 Pro Plus [PHOTOGRAPHY]

645 new items added to shared album

photos.app.goo.gl
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
I really prefer AGC gcam (except for sunsets or zoom lens in low light where AGC fails often).
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] :
i don't really like his approach to the UI with useless buttons. Rather use the options above :D
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
I get much better texture with AGC - clearly a big difference if viewed at 100% or 200% on a decent screen. The user interface for me isn't really different...
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
Not sure this works with .AGC as attachment, but after being super frustrated with every gcam colors, I adjusted the colors as well as possible for a start indoors at LED light.

Colors for my test setup are much better than stock, light is realistic not overexposed like stock camera and sharpness is great anyhow on AGC.

Essentially it's chosing the most fitting color model for each lens (usually either mi10 or mi12s) then adjusting the saturation and red levels which were still too much. Using the x90pp noise models from Viktor.

Selfie cam isn't well adjusted yet.

I'm pretty sure it works better than gcam default during the day but very likely still need a different setup for daylight colors. And a separate color profile for night outdoors colors, and a different setup for dark indoors.

I really hate the stupidness of all mobile phone cameras. I don't know any (maybe that super expensive Sony) that can do a manual white balance by taking a picture of a white sheet. Then one would save that for 4-5 light modes and the AI should chose the best match or even adjust better.

Any kind of review complains/mentions natural or whatever color, yet all mobile phones get this plain wrong while any 20 year old prosumer Video or Photo camera can do that manual white balance by shooting a white paper and get it 99% correct.

And yeah I know white balance depends on the light, that's why manual is king but really AI should be able to get it 10 times better than what we currently have on the stock camera (yeah gcam is horrible by default). For s23U there are pretty good profiles available, and Vivo x90 pp stock camera cannot compete. While for x90pp gcam it would need at least 20-30 hours adjusting the colors for different configs to get to the same level.

Oh I tried the LMC 8.4 config above. Colors are horrible too. Sharpness nowhere near AGC. No picture from LMC which I would prefer over stock camera before extensive editing.

Edit, rename from .txt to .AGC and place it into 8.4 AGC folder.

And yes I know some people prefer to talk directly about kelvin for white balance. To me this is too abstract, I rather prefer to chose a mode according to things I know. The attached is somewhere around 2500kelvin I guess. As the default gcam white balance on x90 is horrible, anything is better. Especially on the 2.2 and 3.9 cams which otherwise have way too much red saturation. That's kinda the problem anyhow. Kelvin is only about cold and warm and assumes you got a somehow sensible white balance at some point already. However the camera2api puts out way more red on the two zoom lenses vs main or ultrawide.

I kinda feel this was changed in some update 2 weeks ago. So we're at another point that sucks badly, if vivo decides to adjust camera2 white balance like they obviously did, can do all the work again.

Actually that's one reason to ditch android and go iOS, they got white balance much better integrated into the pro mode (and yeah if you shoot RAW you may not care. I don't want to shoot RAW on the X90pp because it's too much work for what I want).
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] extremecarver:
Oh yeah another big disadvantage of gcam is, the preview is camera2 and your color settings aren't taken into account. The picture looks way different from preview. The stock camera has lousy preview too, but it's way better than anything you can achieve with gcam. Iphones have way better preview be it colors or HDR. Makes taking pictures much easier.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] mbfamily:
I loaded your settings into AGC 8.4 and now it keeps crashing :cry:

Looks like the settings need to be entered manually instead of loading the file.

GCam captures more details in 50MP images with upscaling enabled than Vivo's stock camera in high resolution mode, because Vivo's demosaicing algorithm is quite bad and GCam "upscaling" is actually a more clever demosaicing algorithm. So I'd really like to be able to use GCam for high resolution images, but I need to get the colors fixed...
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] luontokoodaus:
I would like to see some comparisons before I play around with this.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] Lexxmark:
Guys, please share some night pictures, taken with gcam. Too much text here and almost no proof😂
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] Matusr1:
Is some version of gcam work with sphere option?
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] :
I think most users don't use GCam on the x90 pro+.

Edit: even the small telegram group isn't really active and the xmls shared there are bad. Too much noise especially with aux cams.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] :
mine is fine. Stock is oversharpened all the time for my taste.

Updated it now:

techinbermudas.com
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] :
Stock isn't worth to talk about.

I have checked your xmls they're better than the older ones. But colors are very bad configured lol. Dunno who did that but it's pretty bad.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] SyCoREAPER:
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[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] luontokoodaus:
imo GCam is specifically for phones which don't have a "Pro" mode and/or old phones which aren't getting any updates. For Vivo X90PP we also even have their proprietary image chip, so I don't see the point of using GCam at all.
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] Matusr1:
Will have some gcam working sphere mode? Or will it be supported? I cant to find any version of gcam where spehere mode is working. :( Any ideas?
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] mbfamily:
Has anyone made a working config for GCam yet, with correct colors?
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] ChromaX83:
Go to the x90 pro+ group on Telegram, you can try the day and night xml that work with the LMC v8.4 R18 gcam mod 😉
[Vivo X90 Pro Plus] Lexmoke:
Actually, there are lots of people developing special versoin of GCam. I have also tried BSG version and others, but most of them failed (withing lots of strange problem, e.g. sudden exit app). attached one I got throug some local forums, tried on my x90 pro+, so far it works stabel.
[General Questions and Answers] nemacx:
Hello, everybody.

I'm looking for an app that'll allow me to select specific contact(s) from which I won't get phone calls. Basically, a selective do not disturb mode, without them knowing I blocked them.

Any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] V0latyle:
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[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
There are call blocker apps in the Playstore that don't actually block the number but prevent it from ringing or prevents SMS notifications but still shows the call as a missed call. I don't know of any by name though.
[General Questions and Answers] nemacx:
This is exactly what I'm looking for.

I've tested a couple of apps, but they all seem to reject the call, instead of silencing it. I haven't seen any where you can explicitly state that you want to mute the call and hide the call screen altogether.
[General Questions and Answers] Droidriven:
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[Huawei mate 50 / 50 Pro] nathan30:
Hi,

I have the Mate 50 Pro Orange since a while and I notice the gesture to change application by swiping at the bottom of the screen isn't working

Is there any people with the same issue as me ?

Here is a little demonstration video :

Thanks in advance
[Huawei mate 50 / 50 Pro] fire_z:
In Settings, Search for "System Navigation" then choose Gestures
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Questions & Answers] mort!:
Hello! I think it's worth telling everything from the beginning. In the middle of summer, I discovered that my front camera refused to work. At that time, I did not pay attention to it, because I almost do not use it at all. Then, in October, there was a problem with the sound on the phone, it disappeared and did not work without headphones. Before the sound was lost, there were some problems and the sound partially disappeared, but it was solved by rebooting. After the loss of sound without headphones, it came to the loss of sound with Bluetooth headphones connected. With headphones connected, audio and video (in other things, everything where there is sound) stopped playing, I checked, and the problem was not in them at all. Next on the list. On December 20-27, the phone stopped seeing the second SIM card! I decided to pull it out and put it back in, and the problem was fixed for a while, then it stopped being solved with this method. And this morning my camera and flashlight stopped working at all. I'm terribly upset. I decided to check what was wrong with the camera using the CIT, and it said "cameralist don't match". I'm wondering what ways it's possible to eliminate all this ****, and if it's possible at all. and which is easier, to solve these errors or buy a new phone?
[Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC Questions & Answers] Noter2017:
Which ROM are you using
[Google Pixel 6] Galaxea:
I am trying to patch the bootloader of T2B2.221216.008 but every time I flash it and reboot Magisk says it is not rooted.

I have tried the Factory image bootloader as well as the OTA bootloader and nothing works.

Am I missing something? Thanks.
[Google Pixel 6] ne0ns4l4m4nder:
You have to use the boot.img from pixel 7 still
[Google Pixel 6] Galaxea:
Ugh, I remember reading this ages ago - must have forgotten. Thanks!