Is there any way to make the Sense ICS camera compress images less? None of my images ever seem to top 2MB, even if they're taken in broad daylight in a setting with lots of different colors. Fiddling around with build.prop does nothing
[ICS Roms] Image compression
- Thread starter billobob
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It's for both video and still pics.
Either way, be careful with it because I have been playing around with it and have managed to make the camera freeze upon taking a shot.
FYI, these changes used to be enough to remove image processing, at least in my experience on Gingerbread ROMs. However it doesn't seem to work for me now on ICS (though feel free to test and report your findings).
1 - changing this,
<!ATTLIST ImageEncoding quality (90|80|70|60|50|40) #REQUIRED>
to
<!ATTLIST ImageEncoding quality (100|80|70|60|50|40) #REQUIRED>
(or just adding 100 in front of 90, either way).
2 - changing these lines (which appear twice),
<ImageEncoding quality="90" />
<ImageEncoding quality="80" />
<ImageEncoding quality="70" />
<ImageDecoding memCap="20000000" />
to
<ImageEncoding quality="100" />
<ImageEncoding quality="100" />
<ImageEncoding quality="100" />
<ImageDecoding memCap="500000000" />
Either way, be careful with it because I have been playing around with it and have managed to make the camera freeze upon taking a shot.
FYI, these changes used to be enough to remove image processing, at least in my experience on Gingerbread ROMs. However it doesn't seem to work for me now on ICS (though feel free to test and report your findings).
1 - changing this,
<!ATTLIST ImageEncoding quality (90|80|70|60|50|40) #REQUIRED>
to
<!ATTLIST ImageEncoding quality (100|80|70|60|50|40) #REQUIRED>
(or just adding 100 in front of 90, either way).
2 - changing these lines (which appear twice),
<ImageEncoding quality="90" />
<ImageEncoding quality="80" />
<ImageEncoding quality="70" />
<ImageDecoding memCap="20000000" />
to
<ImageEncoding quality="100" />
<ImageEncoding quality="100" />
<ImageEncoding quality="100" />
<ImageDecoding memCap="500000000" />
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Worked! Many thanks! I had been struggling with this issue all weekend.
Which ROM are you running?
I tried on the Ultimite ICS ROM and it caused the camera to crash. I will try on Virtuous Inquisition soon.
Come on, it's a matter of editing ONE file for a total of 9 small changes, it's not going to take much longer to make the changes yourself than it is to download the file, make a back-up of the original, move it in place of the original and set file permissions.
Just tried with Virtuous, no good.
Some indoor, low light shots work but when taking outdoor shots it crashes the camera.
Some indoor, low light shots work but when taking outdoor shots it crashes the camera.
Im not on about for me, ive done it and did so as soon as i read the post.Im on about newbies that dont have a clue
I made the changes but with 99 as max quality.
Doesn't seem to crash but the image quality isn't as good as i used to have with the AmazeCamera mod
Will continy to experiment
Doesn't seem to crash but the image quality isn't as good as i used to have with the AmazeCamera mod
Will continy to experiment
I tried this and while there's an improvement, it still isn't as good as the mod I had on gingerbread
setting it to 99 also makes it still periodically crash for me, but I can get some pictures off
kristofpetho claims lossless compression on photos with his ICS ROM here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350492
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1350492
95 seems to be stable... Still experimenting.
I've also decompiled HTCCamera.apk and tried to increase bitrate, but with no succes.
I've also decompiled HTCCamera.apk and tried to increase bitrate, but with no succes.
It's most likely this one,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1188310
Quality on this is fantastic, but make sure you pick the right one for your ROM.
I've changed bitrate under 0x780 to 18mb. As result camera is recording at 14mbps but there is no video when I'm trying to play it.
Anyone with some camera modding exp?
try contacting cdtdroid or baadnews, they pulled out the amaze camera mod with improved bitrates. maybe contacting a kernel dev would help too, dunno if they can do much w/o the leaked kernel source but it's worth a try