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ELM Camera Modding - New Driver Here!!! |
MFire
Joined: May 03, 2011
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I am facing a lot of problems trying to mod the Elm's camera.
First of all Plummy Elm/Hazel hangs the phone when taking complex pics but I think I resolved that problem.
My greatest wish is to implement features like Image Stabilization in the phone cam driver but how do I make the option appear in the menu? I've tried everything but the option still will not show.
For Ex. : There is Burst Mode activated by default in the driver but no option in the menu. How do I make it appear?
I do not want to hear that "I can't" or "Not possible", that does not work for me, anything is possible if you really want it.
I am curious as to why aren't there any mods available for this cam driver, the Elm™ can be a very capable shooter (as we have seen in some other posts here), still all this ignorance is making me mad.
EDIT : Well, after many hours of testing (and testing ... and testing...) I can say that I've managed to get good results in modding the Elm's Cam Driver. Based on "Camdriver 07.08.2010 Plummy Elm / Hazel by Quasar84" (so some of the credits go to him) but without the freezing issues and with better low light pics. here it is -MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod-
Since I made a Cyber-shot like menu using Photoshop (thank god for this GR8 program, I love it for 10 years now), you might consider replacing the standard icons with the ones I've made, using SE Image Tool (credit to the author), so I've attached those as well.
Sample menu : 
Cam Driver and icons Here : MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod
PLEASE DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT UPLOAD THESE ANYWHERE ELSE!!!
PLEASE POST FEEDBACK.ENJOY.
Sample Cam. pics. : 1. Very Low Light
2. Macro
3. Sunny day
EDIT: Attempt to fix reported freeze issues, new driver here MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod Ver.2
NEW!!! - DRIVERS FOR ELM AND HAZEL - Please test and report back any eventual issues.
MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod - Latest - Elm™
MFire's Hazel™ Cam Mod - Latest - Hazel™
SAMPLE PICS> : 1. IN COMPLETE DARKNESS
2. SUNNY DAY
I ASK OF YOU (AGAIN) TO POST YOUR FEEDBACK AND REPORT ANY EVENTUAL ISSUES.
[ This Message was edited by: MFire on 2011-05-20 09:09 ] Sony-Ericsson - Acer - AMD - Nvidia |
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Boysie
Joined: Jan 17, 2008
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Lol look who we have here!
"anything is possible if you really want it" I don't think so.
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MFire
Joined: May 03, 2011
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LOL!!!
Can't get rid of you even here... 
Noticed there are no more intresting posts on se-nse, I alone went a looong way modding my Elm and about this post I am close, just found the burst mode option in Zylo's camera (ISX005) so it's a problem of transfering the code to ISX006.
Oh and about "anything is possible if you really want it" - I've been applying that all my life and got very far on my own, you should try it sometime.
[ This Message was edited by: MFire on 2011-05-07 15:54 ] Sony-Ericsson - Acer - AMD - Nvidia |
DivineJakiro
Joined: Apr 26, 2010
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From: Malaysia
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I think you need to learn vkp >
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Kirankj1724
Joined: Jan 21, 2009
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i sure would want to help u MFire if i could.. 
but i really appreciate the hard work u've put to get till dis stage 
happy to know dat some1 is trying to mod ELM cam 
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MFire
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FIRST POST UPDATED, CAM DRIVER LINKED
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reeflotz
Joined: Jun 15, 2010
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Hi MFire, I tried your cameradriver, I also appreciate your hard work in trying to develop Elm's Cameradriver, I wish I could help you but I really don't understand anything about those codes in the cameradriver .
anyway here's some comparison lowlight shots for now: my phone is Hazel
Original Camdrive
All Auto Flash off
-MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod-
All Auto Flash off
Original Camdrive
All Auto Flash on
-MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod-
All Auto Flash on
Original Camdrive
All Auto ev+1
-MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod-
All Auto ev+1
Original Camdrive
Twilight
-MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod-
Twilight
So far in my opinion the modded camera driver has:
better twilight mode (better color and warmer than the original camdrive)
focuses faster
larger picture file size
unfortunately the modded camera driver shows the lines much more than the original in auto flash off settings  .
but still great job  I appreciate your effort, I'm gonna try some daylight pics tomorrow.
[ This Message was edited by: reeflotz on 2011-05-16 12:28 ] |
MFire
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THNX reeflotz, wish there were more like you to post some very needed feedback, I will eagerly await your daylight photos. Gr8 feedback.
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reeflotz
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here's the daylight pics:
all are auto settings
Original Camdrive
-MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod-
Original Camdrive
-MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod-
Original Camdrive
-MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod-
Daylight pics have almost the same amount of resolved details whether modded or original. Modded ones have larger filesize, a little warmer and brighter which is good, I find the pics taken by the original one a little too cold and dark sometimes. Modded one is better.
But there's a bug in the modded driver, when there is a lot of light or strong lighting the camera fails to save the picture and freezes. Happened to me twice, had to remove/reinsert my battery to restart the phone.
This is taken using the original camdrive, when I use the modded one it freezes when taking this picture.
[ This Message was edited by: reeflotz on 2011-05-17 04:17 ] |
MFire
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OMFG I thought I fixed that, wtf, edited first post please try the new driver, hopefully this issue is now fixed.
Your feedback is really helpful, keep it up...
I noticed that the driver used in Elm has few lines of code compared to that of Hazel, also there are a few settings witch differ.
I will be making 2 different versions once I get rid (and hopefully I did) of the freezing issues.
Till then I NEED FEEDBACK PEOPLE PLEASE,
YOU'RE DOING THIS FOR YOUR OWN GOOD...
[ This Message was edited by: MFire on 2011-05-17 14:45 ] Sony-Ericsson - Acer - AMD - Nvidia |
reeflotz
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oh, so Elm's camdrive has a slight difference over Hazel? might be the reason why mine froze cause I'm using Hazel. But I've been using Elm's original ver 3.9 camdrive before and have had no problems. Anyway I'm looking forward to your new camdrive I haven't tested ver. 2 of your camdrive yet, been busy today, I'll try tomorrow. 
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MFire
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[*] I'm really interested to know if there are any more bugs, I will test myself but it's nice to have a person with Hazel to test it. Thnx man for all your feedback
We'll make the perfect one yet 
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reeflotz
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ok here's some of my tests on bright afternoon sunlight (around 2:30pm) on my first try the phone froze. On my second try it worked.
All Auto
Original Camdrive
-MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod- ver. 2
There's a bug when using snow settings
Snow Setting
-MFire's Elm™ Cam Mod- ver. 2
I took 2 photos using snow settings both of them ended up like that.
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MFire
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NEW!!! - DRIVERS FOR ELM AND HAZEL - Please test and report back any eventual issues.
FIRST POST UPDATED
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reeflotz
Joined: Jun 15, 2010
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I've just tested the Hazel Driver, so far no bugs
here's some samples:
the reds are pinkish, is there any way to make them more red?
Brown color is correct on daylight.
overall the driver is great!
EDIT:
Lowlight pics are the same as the ones before, lines start to appear at ISO higher than 160. Camera froze once when I tried taking lowlight at ev+2.0 but tried again and it worked fine.
[ This Message was edited by: reeflotz on 2011-05-24 11:58 ] |
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