The problem is that when using the stock camera app and opening a photo, it does always open Google Photos, even when another gallery app is installed and set as standard. If Google Photos is deactivated/uninstalled, the camera app crashes.
I have an open support ticket about this issue, and it has now been forwarded to another department. I will update this topic as soon as I have further information.
Same situation here but I add more details:
1 -take a picture with the stock camera.
2 -touch the viewer, bottom left button.
3 -you get a âniceâ message that the camera is still not working.
However, the camera does work, the only thing it doesnât do is open the photo just taken in the default, non-stock gallery.
Support gives me things to try out and even do a factory reset. I am not willing to do one because then I have to set everything up again. I am still convinced that this is a simple programming error in the camera app. Or is there anybody in this forum that can use another camera app than Google Photos with the stock camera app?
I have tried Open Camera downloaded from F-Droid and two versions of the GCam from Google Camera Ports Download :
MGC_8.1.101_A9_GV1x_ENG.apk from BSG modder
GCam_8.1.101_Wichaya_V1.5 Wichayaâs mod
The one I like the most is the BSG because of the way it takes indoor photos in low light and without flash. It works with the original stock camera without any problems.
The open Camera has one thing that I really like, it allows to print the date, time and location of the shot in a fully customizable way and very easy to enable and disable.
Having said all this with my very little knowledge of photography,
I was going to ask about the same issue. I have disabled Google Photos because I donât want to share my images with it, and I have another âGalleryâ app installed. The stock camera app on the Fairphone 4 doesnât recognize it and if I click on the ârecent photoâ icon in the camera it pops up a message saying âGoogle Photos is disabled. Please enable it.â or words to that effect.
I have found no way to associate the camera with a gallery app other than Google Photos. Poor, and annoying.
Same. I had to get a FP4 a few days ago after I lost my FP3 and was really surprised that this is even an issue now. Any news on whether theyâre working on change this? I donât wanna use Google Photos
Yes. It annoys me when this sort of thing is offered as âthe solutionâ. It smacks of âweâve reached the end of the scriptâ laziness and it can put a LAGRE amount of restorative work on the poor user when it is often not even guaranteed as a solution. I can accept it if there really is no other solution and it has been shown to work, but not as a âwell, nothing else worked so itâs probably thatâ shot-in-the-dark.
If you have to resort to this sort of âfixâ in even a modest fraction of cases then something else is very wrong.
After taking a foto, i like to tab on the I dont want to use Google Fotos. But the galerie linked in the standard camera app seems to be just Google Fotos.
is there a posibility to link another galerie app with the standard camera app?
or does anyone has a recommendation for an alternative camera app, that works good with the Fairphone 4?
Many thanks for advices!
Iâve replaced Google Photos on a FP4 running stock FPOS with that solution and it works fine with the FPCamera app.
You wonât get a full gallery, just a working preview and most importantly FPCamera wonât crash anymore. So youâll still have to use some other gallery app to actually view and manage your photos.
I get an error telling my GcamPhotosPreview was not installed, irrespective if I just deactive the Google Fotos App or uninstall it using adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.apps.photos. Any idea why or what I an do to install the Calyx apk to get a working preview without Google Fotos?
