NR Mode

[Anonymous]

After the two last updates (from playstore) the NR mode isn't selectable anymore on my Huawei P10.
The apk 1.44.1 (2018-09-28 available for download on sourceforge) works fine and the NR mode is still selectable. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks Mark

[Anonymous]

Hello,
I can confirm this behaviour on my Honor 8.
NR is not available anymore. Neither HDR.

It worked fin with version 1.44.1

Cheers,
Nicolas

[Anonymous]

Oh, and manual exposure and manual ISO disappeared aswell...

Nicolas

[Mark]

Thanks for the info, hoping to release a fix for this shortly.

I'd tightened up the Camera2 capability checks, as part of allowing Camera on more devices. Problem is that some devices declare that they don't support CameraCharacteristics.REQUEST_AVAILABLE_CAPABILITIES_MANUAL_SENSOR, even though they evidently do support manual ISO/exposure... Similarly these Huawei devices claim they don't support CameraCharacteristics.REQUEST_AVAILABLE_CAPABILITIES_BURST_CAPTURE.

How quickly was the burst of photos taken in NR and HDR mode, out of interest?

[Anonymous]

"How quikly was the burst ..."
Very rapid, imperceptible, on my huawei p10.
Thanks

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the fix, Mark.
With the new update (version 1.45.1) OC works fine again on my Huawei P10 :)

[Anonymous]

It's just me or the noise reduction process is a lot slower now, after the last fix.
My phone is an huawei p10

[Mark]

Thanks for confirming the fix works, and the info about the burst speed.

I did make some tweaks to the NR mode in the last release for some scenes (e.g., "dark" scenes now try harder on auto-alignment), testing on my devices didn't show a notable difference, but it's possible there are unfortunately some device specific affects depending on how a particular device optimises the code.

[Anonymous]

Thanks fo reply Mark.
After the last fix the NR process takes ~8 secs (vs < 4 secs) on my huawey p10, too long time...
I will stay with v.1.44.1 giving up all future updates ... :(

[Anonymous]

I confirm that the update works fine. Thanks!

The NR processing time may indeed be a little longer, even though I did not roll back to previous version to compare.

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[Anonymous]

Sorry for the strange post end above... seems that the reply window bugged on my phone...
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[Anonymous]

Hi ! After the 1.45 update NR is not selectable on my Moto G5 Plus (custom rom with camera 2 api enabled) but was working on 1.44 correctly.

[Mark]

This should be fixed in v1.45.2 (see Open Camera Settings/About for version number)?

[Anonymous]

That's the version I'm using. This is what I have.
Open Camera v1.45.2
Code: 69
(c) 2013-2019 Mark Harman
Released under the GPL v3 or later (Open Camera also uses additional third party files, see online help for full licences and attributions.)
Package: net.sourceforge.opencamera
Android API version: 27
Device manufacturer: motorola
Device model: XT1680
Device code-name: qcom
Device variant: potter
Language: es
Standard max heap?: 192
Large max heap?: 384
Display size: 1080x1807
Display metrics: 1080x1807
Current camera ID: 0
No. of cameras: 2
Camera API: Camera2 (Android L)
Preview resolutions: 1920x1080, 1440x1080, 1280x960, 1280x720, 720x480, 640x480, 352x288, 320x240
Preview resolution: 1440x1080
Photo resolutions: 4032x3024, 4032x2268, 3840x2160, 3264x2448, 3264x1836, 2592x1944, 2592x1458, 1920x1080, 1440x1080, 1280x960, 1280x720, 720x480, 640x480, 352x288, 320x240
Photo resolution: 4032x3024
Video qualities: 1, 6_r3264x1836, 6_r2592x1944, 6_r2592x1458, 6, 5_r1440x1080, 5_r1280x960, 5, 4, 7_r640x480, 7_r352x288, 7
Video resolutions: 3840x2160, 3264x1836, 2592x1944, 2592x1458, 1920x1080, 1440x1080, 1280x960, 1280x720, 720x480, 640x480, 352x288, 320x240
Video quality: 6
Video frame width: 1920
Video frame height: 1080
Video bit rate: 17000000
Video frame rate: 30
Video capture rate: 30.0
Video high speed: false
Video capture rate factor: 1.0
Auto-stabilise?: Disponible
Auto-stabilise enabled?: false
Face detection?: Disponible
RAW?: Disponible
HDR?: Disponible
Expo?: Disponible
Expo compensation?: Disponible
Exposure compensation range: -12 to 12
Manual ISO?: Disponible
ISO range: 63 to 8163
Manual exposure?: Disponible
Exposure range: 10743 to 421194700
Manual WB?: Disponible
WB temperature: 1000 to 15000
Video stabilization?: Disponible
Tonemap max curve points: 64
Can disable shutter sound?: Disponible
Flash modes: flash_off, flash_auto, flash_on, flash_torch, flash_red_eye
Focus modes: focus_mode_auto, focus_mode_macro, focus_mode_locked, focus_mode_infinity, focus_mode_manual2, focus_mode_continuous_picture, focus_mode_continuous_video
Color effects: none, mono, negative, solarize, sepia, posterize, whiteboard, blackboard, aqua
Scene modes: auto, landscape, snow, beach, sunset, night, portrait, sports, steadyphoto, candlelight, fireworks, party, night-portrait, theatre, action
White balances: auto, manual, incandescent, fluorescent, warm-fluorescent, daylight, cloudy-daylight, twilight, shade
Magnetic accuracy?: -1
Using SAF?: false
Save Location: OpenCamera
Save Location SAF:
Parameters: None

[Mark]

"Large max heap?: 384"

The large max heap must be at least 512MB for NR photo mode I'm afraid.

Note that this was also the case in the previous versions - I just checked the source of 1.44 and 1.44.1. It's possible something else might have changed (e.g., a phone update), or maybe there was a bug in older versions of Open Camera that meant this was enabled when I didn't intend it. (To be sure, there are older versions at https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencamera/files/ if you want to test.)

If there is/was a bug, note that this seems separate to the issues mentioned above, which meant other modes like manual exposure/ISO were also lost.

[Anonymous]

Ohh, thank you ! I played a little with the settings. I changed the large max heap to 512 and now it works and doesn't crash. Takes several sec though. Thank you again

[Anonymous]

How did you change the large max heap size?

I lost NR mode after doing a reset of my Bold N1 phone. Doesn't matter which APK of Open Camera I use. Really baffled since it was working before the reset.

[Anonymous]

Turns out my problem was that Camera2 API was not selected! (Settings->Camera API->Camera 2 API in Open Camera app).

Once I selected that, NR mode is accessible on Bold N1 phone again :)

[Mark]

Glad it's working again, thanks for the update!

[Anonymous]

Vers 1.45.2 brings NR processing time back to previous values (on my Huawei p10). Thanks Mark.
Still trying to figure out why the max resolution is random halved in NR mode.

[Anonymous]

Hi ,
NR doesn't work in my galaxy note 3 9002 .. ( Version 1.45.2 ).

[Mark]

I wouldn't expect it to be supported on a phone that old I'm afraid - the Note 3 was released before Android's Camera2 API was released I believe, so even if you're running a more recent Android version, it likely doesn't have the required support in the camera drivers.

[Anonymous]

motorola g7 plus doesn't have it :(.. Why do some of the phones have it and some don't?

[Mark]

This requires the device have 512MB of "large heap". (And Settings/"Camera API" should be set to "Camera2 API".)

[Anonymous]

Thanks for answering. According to ABD logs app my max heap size is 192. However, my wife's phone, Motorola One Vision, has also 192 MB and NR mode is available in her Open Camera. Both phones are set to Camera2 API. Why is that? Also, is there a way to increase the heap (sorry for possible silly question)?