Root GingerVillain Camera - focus

[PazPez]

Hi,

I'm using Gingervillain but the camera seems to have lost the tap to focus function that I had with sense. I'm trying to take some photos of objects, but the camera just focuses on the background and not the object.

Does anyone know if I can change settings to solve this?

Or can I download a different camera from the market with tap to focus?

Thanks.

 

[Hadron]

No, the GV camera (the gingerbread CyanogenMod camera) does not have tap to focus. I find it a bit odd, but it has less functionality than the Froyo CyanogenMod camera.

Personally I remove the CM camera from the zip before flashing and flash the camera apk from Miui. Gotta go now, but will dig a zip out later.

 

[Hadron]

OK, here it is: MiuiCamera_only_English.zip. This gives tap to focus back.

It was posted a couple of months back in the GingerVillain thread at xda. Some people were able to just flash it, but I find it unreliable unless I remove the default camera first. If you are S-Off that is easy, otherwise you can do it using adb, or remove camera.apk from the ROM zip before flashing the ROM.

As with any flash, take a nandroid first.

 

[PazPez]

Thanks for your help. I'll give it a go!

 

[lowkey69ac]

OK, here it is: MiuiCamera_only_English.zip. This gives tap to focus back.

It was posted a couple of months back in the GingerVillain thread at xda. Some people were able to just flash it, but I find it unreliable unless I remove the default camera first. If you are S-Off that is easy, otherwise you can do it using adb, or remove camera.apk from the ROM zip before flashing the ROM.

As with any flash, take a nandroid first.

Do you know the commands to remove it with adb?

 

[SUroot]

Its in the removing system apps using adb guide in the sticky thread.

 

[geemacd]

OK, here it is: MiuiCamera_only_English.zip. This gives tap to focus back.

It was posted a couple of months back in the GingerVillain thread at xda. Some people were able to just flash it, but I find it unreliable unless I remove the default camera first. If you are S-Off that is easy, otherwise you can do it using adb, or remove camera.apk from the ROM zip before flashing the ROM.

As with any flash, take a nandroid first.

Can this be done on another rom, ie can I do this over the redux 1.2 rom and if so, is there a step by step somewhere to do this ???

help me hadron-kenobi, your my only hope lol

 

[SUroot]

Yes it can. Flash it like a rom.

 

[geemacd]

Yes it can. Flash it like a rom.

Cheers for that, can you help on how I can remove the current system set-up files etc from my phone before I flash this over the top ?

 

[SUroot]

Cheers for that, can you help on how I can remove the current system set-up files etc from my phone before I flash this over the top ?

You dont have to, it should just work but if like hadron you need to remove it...

Its in the removing system apps using adb guide in the sticky thread.

 

[Hadron]

Being S-Off, if I forget to remove it before flashing I can always just uninstall it using Titanium.

To be honest I only know from experience that I needed to remove the original camera app with GingerVillain (& even then it worked without for other people). I've used it on Redux and CM7 as well, but in those cases I removed the original camera out of habit, so don't know that it wouldn't have worked just fine if I had not.

 

[geemacd]

cheers everyone, flashed the other camera without removing the 1st one, cant see any real difference but at least my phone never failed lol

 

[Hadron]

You say "can't see any difference" - you mean the same look and feel, and no touch to focus? If so, that's the problem I had unless I removed the original camera first.

 

[geemacd]

on the original HTC camera, you would tap the screen and the camera would focus in where you tapped, dont have that fiunctionality now on either of the camera's I have flashed.

 

[SUroot]

Like hadron says, try removing the original camera. sounds like you are not loading the miui camera and each time it is loading the standard one.

 

[geemacd]

thanks for that

removed both camera's using adb then reflashed the Miui one and its a different look from the other one (which is a shame as it was quite a nice interface), but the auto-focus feature is much better which is what counts. Pity none do the self timer that I can see.

Would be good to let redux developer know about this as a suggestion on xda, unfortunately I cant as I dont have posting rights in that part of the forum yet.

Any chance someone can suggest it on my behalf ?

 

[SUroot]

Redux has only just changed from cm camera to aosp so doubt it will change so soon. Since it works by simply adding to the zip, don't really need to get the dev involved imo. It's not like it needs compiling at source level.

Everyone always wants something different in a Rom so things that are easily changed to suit are best.left to the individual imo