Evo 4g Camera App APK

TheCowGod · August 28th, 2010, 12:08 AM

Here is the evo 4 camera app with the nice onscreen button. I installed the OTA yesterday and that was one of the things I misssed the most about frankenrom. So I decided to rip the camera app out of frankenrom and see if it would work with the OTA. Surprise it actually does!

I made a zip that is installable through clockwork recovery. Just download and put on the root of your sd card and update it from within clockwork. One thing to keep in mind is that you should probably backup the stock camera app to app.disabled or your sdcard so you can go back incase there is an issue.

I tested this on my phone and it worked fine, please let me know if you have any issues so I can try to fix it.

http://www.filedropper.com/evocamera

Old Instructions and file for manual installation:
http://www.filedropper.com/htccamera

Boot into recovery and mount /system
Move /system/app/HTCCamera.apk to /system/app.disabled/ just incase
Then adb push HTCCamera.apk /system/app/
Then adb reboot

If you have issues with the camera showing up after installation you will need to change the permissions of the .apk. You can do this through root explorer if you have it, just change the permissions to:

Quote:

User: Read, Write
Group: Read
Other: Read

You can also do this from a adb shell by typing:

Quote:

chmod 644 /system/app/HTCCamera.apk

roninld · August 28th, 2010, 12:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheCowGod

Here is the evo 4 camera app with the nice onscreen button. I installed the OTA yesterday and that was one of the things I misssed the most about frankenrom. So I decided to rip the camera app out of frankenrom and see if it would work with the OTA. Surprise it actually does!

http://www.filedropper.com/htccamera

Boot into recovery and mount /system
Move /system/app/HTCCamera.apk to /system/app.disabled/ just incase
Then adb push HTCCamera.apk /system/app/
Then adb reboot

Sweet! I like the EVO Camera way better than the standard Incredible one.

Thanks. Going to try this.

BreakTheStatic · August 28th, 2010, 12:53 AM

Didn't work for me using 8/26 2.2 leak.

TheCowGod · August 28th, 2010, 12:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BreakTheStatic

Didn't work for me using 8/26 2.2 leak.

Thats weird, that the same thing im running and it works fine...
What happened? Force Close or something else?

BreakTheStatic · August 28th, 2010, 12:59 AM

Doesn't even show up as an app. When the oem apk is restored the camera appears again but the second i replace it with the evo one it just disappears totally. I tried doing it both via recovery and with root explorer (nand unlocked).

TheCowGod · August 28th, 2010, 01:00 AM

Maybe try clearing the cache for the camera? Are you sure it got pushed to the right directory?

Are you running the Odexed or DeOdexed version of the leak? This will only work on the DeOdexed version as there is no odex file for the replacement apk...

jayno20 · August 28th, 2010, 01:13 AM

What difference is there? Anyone have any screen shots?

TheCowGod · August 28th, 2010, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by jayno20

What difference is there? Anyone have any screen shots?

Basically there is a button to take the picture rather than having to press the trackball or hold your finger on the screen. It makes it MUCH easier to take steady pictures that way. Also the metering seems to be a little better ie. not as many blown out areas of the image.

jayno20 · August 28th, 2010, 02:01 AM

any force closes or anything negatives to this?

DIncmanDan · August 28th, 2010, 06:17 AM

This is great, thanks for being a genius!

Spart · August 28th, 2010, 07:21 AM

Didn't work for me either..deodexed version, in the right directory, doesn't show up even though it's in the system/apps folder

BreakTheStatic · August 28th, 2010, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spart

Didn't work for me either..deodexed version, in the right directory, doesn't show up even though it's in the system/apps folder

Same Here. I also have deodexed in system/apps. I'm going to try clearing the data/cache today and will report back.

yojoe600 · August 28th, 2010, 09:26 AM

been using this for a while on third wave but i had the one that is themed from evoelite theme

TheCowGod · August 28th, 2010, 10:49 AM

Hmm...
Can anyone confirm that this is working other than me?

patchnauty · August 28th, 2010, 09:56 PM

ok i must be a total newb. i cant get this to install. running a leaked 2.2 de oxed.

kenshinxl · August 29th, 2010, 11:26 AM

Worked for me on the 8/26 deodexed r2 leak

JustDroid · August 29th, 2010, 12:15 PM

Did not work for me on the Fourth Wave from Adrynalyne. Camera and Camcorder apps do not show up at all even after a reboot.

ThatDudeButch · August 29th, 2010, 12:30 PM

damn mixed reviews

TheCowGod · August 29th, 2010, 02:22 PM

To the people who this works for are you running a custom kernel?
It works fine on my phone, I am running the 8/26 leak deodexed with adrenalynes kernel.

tmellen · August 29th, 2010, 05:23 PM

Doesn't work for me. Stock OTA, just rooted.

Apparently from all the posts here, it's only working for deodexed people.

yojoe600 · August 29th, 2010, 05:33 PM

usually things like this require a de-odexed rom since its a de-odexed file

johnbrain · August 29th, 2010, 07:09 PM

Could I uninstall stock camera with Titanium backup and install the evo apk with Astro? I know how to move files with adb but not push them

yojoe600 · August 29th, 2010, 07:19 PM

if you have s-off you can install it over top or rename the old one

kenshinxl · August 29th, 2010, 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheCowGod

To the people who this works for are you running a custom kernel?
It works fine on my phone, I am running the 8/26 leak deodexed with adrenalynes kernel.

I'm running kingxkernel BFS #1

poolguy · August 29th, 2010, 07:58 PM

I had to change the permissions on the new apk before this would work. Used Root Explorer and basically changed the permissions to match the rest of the apks in system/app. Running Virtuous 2.3 w/stock kernel.

CatsTide · August 29th, 2010, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by poolguy

I had to change the permissions on the new apk before this would work. Used Root Explorer and basically changed the permissions to match the rest of the apks in system/app. Running Virtuous 2.3 w/stock kernel.

what did you set the permissions to?

nm i got it...thanks

poolguy · August 29th, 2010, 08:40 PM

I'm too late, but for posterity:

I just checked what the permissions were on other files in /system/app/ and applied permissions thusly:

User: Read, Write
Group: Read
Others: Read

TheCowGod · August 29th, 2010, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yojoe600

usually things like this require a de-odexed rom since its a de-odexed file

There were a couple of people further up in the thread that said they had the deodexed version and it still didn't work.

Quote:

Originally Posted by poolguy

I had to change the permissions on the new apk before this would work. Used Root Explorer and basically changed the permissions to match the rest of the apks in system/app. Running Virtuous 2.3 w/stock kernel.

Thats an interesting find. I run Linux and just grabbed it out of the frankenrom zip. I bet when it uploaded and windows users downloaded it the permissions went back to default windows and thats where the issue lies...

Can anyone whom this didn't work for before go into an adb shell and do:

Quote:

chmod 644 /system/app/HTCCamera.apk

and see if it fixes the problem.

Spart · August 29th, 2010, 09:52 PM

That did it..pretty cool. Thanks!!

Spart · August 29th, 2010, 09:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by poolguy

I'm too late, but for posterity:

I just checked what the permissions were on other files in /system/app/ and applied permissions thusly:

User: Read, Write
Group: Read
Others: Read

That did it. Thanks!

pkmn760 · August 29th, 2010, 10:18 PM

anyone got pix?

jayno20 · August 30th, 2010, 01:05 AM

Works for me

bradm23 · August 30th, 2010, 07:44 AM

Some reason I can't download the file in that link. Also is there any way I can do all of this from my phone?

patchnauty · August 30th, 2010, 08:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pkmn760

anyone got pix?

Sorry for delay

ethon · August 30th, 2010, 08:48 AM

couldn't get this working on CM6 6.0.1 after I changed permissions

Just force closes

bradm23 · August 30th, 2010, 09:39 AM

Anyone else getting an error on downloading that link?

Also can this be done all from the phone

j-money · August 30th, 2010, 10:18 AM

Hmmm, so i moved HTC camera to app.disabled, pushed the new HTCcamera to app
Permissions were already set to

User: Read, Write
Group: Read
Others: Read

But neither the camera or camcorder even show up in my app list, did i miss a step?

Spart · August 30th, 2010, 10:28 AM

Did you reboot after moving the file?

j-money · August 30th, 2010, 10:33 AM

Yeah, a couple of times, im running Virtuous 2.3 btw, trying again using root explorer instead of recovery

j-money · August 30th, 2010, 10:41 AM

Success! Redownloaded the file and noticed the size was much larger than last time, copied it via root explorer, permissions were all out of wack, set to

User: Read, Write
Group: Read
Others: Read

Rebooted and bingo,

Many thanks all, and Root Explorer is now the second app ive paid for and been very happy with!

(BW was the other lol)

JustDroid · August 30th, 2010, 03:15 PM

I also got it working on Fourth Wave by changing the permissions using Root Explorer and rebooting. Thanks for this one!

intersys · August 30th, 2010, 03:47 PM

Nevermind - after about 10 tries it finally worked

Any mirrors for the file?

Sorry, we can't find "http://www.filedropper.com/htccamera". Please check the spelling of the web address.

terpsarlington · August 30th, 2010, 04:22 PM

Can someone make a ROM out of this so it can be flashed using recovery. it will make it much easier.

Thanks

ethon · August 30th, 2010, 05:35 PM

Is the apk supposed to be 861k? Still can't get it working after changing permissions with Root Explorer

TheCowGod · August 30th, 2010, 05:40 PM

I would make a zip installer for this, but I have no idea where to start. If someone else doesn't get it done before tonight ill try to figure out how to go about doing it.

Stam2000 · August 30th, 2010, 06:54 PM

Anyone have this running on skyraider 3.0?

terpsarlington · August 30th, 2010, 07:43 PM

followed all the instructions and everything works perfect. i am running 100% stock deodexed r2 version of the 8/26 leak.

thanks for the apk.

CatsTide · August 30th, 2010, 07:53 PM

if it's not showing up after you changed the permissions...reboot. that's what worked for me

incredibler · August 30th, 2010, 08:02 PM

Please help... I used titanium backup to remove the original camera app then tried to use astro to install the new one and it keeps failing. Any suggestions?

CatsTide · August 30th, 2010, 08:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by incredibler

Please help... I used titanium backup to remove the original camera app then tried to use astro to install the new one and it keeps failing. Any suggestions?

i believe you need root explorer to change the permissions