Great to see @inubu you have informed CalyxOS and they already have updated their repo
I am confused though, when this patch is incorporated in the next update of non-Google OS (such as CalyxOS), will it improve any camera app installed or is it targeting only the FP Camera app?
Thanks to the fairphone team for the update and their different philosophy.
But I haven’t understand how to get the update? I’m running /e/ on my FP4. Can I get the update too? And how?
Thanks for helping!
Good News for CalyxOS users and also a little downer.
They working on getting the new stock FP camera app to work.
Unfortunately they didn’t add “libtctcameraalgo_jni.tct.so” to there recent 4.5.1 release. It’s in beta now and I installed it right away.
I was hopping to install the new FP camera app. But I guess only adding the library is not the solution. But I’m happy that CalyxOS invest some of there resources.
Old FP camera app is still working great, except some features are still missing, like before. I just did some quick tests.
Switching between the two main cameras is much faster. Taking pictures seems to be faster too.
I don’t see any improvements in the pictures. They are good, but not different than before the firmware update.
I use the following apps:
OpenCamera 1,52
CalyxOS Stock (camera2)
GCam sgcam 8.5 (only 8MP)
FPcamera 2.0.039
There might be some details I missed. Please write your experiences.
I’d like to give it a shot as well, but I’ve installed /e/ on my FP4 long ago. Is the FP4 camera app only available as part of the official image or also standalone so I can install it on /e/?
As of now, I am not aware that anyone has been able to make it work and available as a standalone app. However, some are trying, and Murena has not ruled it out yet either:
At the CalyxOS front there are no news apparently. I just tried to install the stock camera app on my FP4 with CalyxOS 5.6.0 from April 5. This is what I got:
I have no idea why but for me installing FPCamera.v7.00.04.0007.4.0.apkuploaded by @hirnsushi worked just fine on CalyxOS. The camera app seems to work, I can open it, take pictures and videos, change settings, switch to the gallery and so on.
I am running CalyxOS 5.6.0. Before attempting the install, l had already installed
the previous FP camera version (which I rarely used because I preferred gcam and it always crashed when opening into photo mode, only Pro mode worked via the launcher shortcut)
out of curiosity, how did you download the .apk? I used Firefox on my phone, but perhaps it garbles the file in some weird way and there’s no such problem when downloading on PC.
huh. I just downloaded in on desktop and got the same error as on my other attempts (App not installed as app isn’t compatible with your phone), so I guess that’s not that.
same happens to me. Just tried it on the phone directly. Installed gcamphotospreview from the calyxos page, downloaded the apk from the mega link. Installation fails because app is not compatible with the device.
Did you both have the previous FP camera version installed before attempting to install the new one? If not, what else could be different on my end that may effect the camera installation?