Root Camera Question

[ccsoccer03]

Warning!!!: Please safely unmount your SD card before attempting this. It is very easy to completely wipe your SD card. It is also an easy way to brick your phone playing with options you dont know what does. You have been warned!!!

In the Service menu ##lgservicemenu (service code is all 0's)
When You Click All Auto Test -LG, Then click either Camera Test or Video Test, it Causes the Camera to appear, but its not the Arc Camera version. Somehow it causes the Camera to appear in what I know as the Stock Android Camera box. Can This be used to make the camera work outside of lgs build?? I know thats how the velocity Flashlight was made. Now I'm out of my league at making assumptions and it may very well still require the arc camera application... but i just stumbled on it myself today plundering around

Edit: Not to meantion its SOOO much faster loading and taking pictures/taking video and stopping video.

 

[ccsoccer03]

bump please

 

[MikeW]

Very interesting this worked for me too and if this works we should be that much closer to being able to port many roms

 

[Cl8rs]

I have wondered for the longest time to access that camera...

 

[NickAVV]

Definitely worked better/faster than the LG Camera app. Cool find sir.

 

[azuma73]

How come I've never known about this sneaky menu before? Are there any others I'm missing?
How do I set this as default camera?

 

[savoxis]

Very interesting this worked for me too and if this works we should be that much closer to being able to port many roms

Well take a step back here.

Why would an AOSP rom have this LG Specific menu?

 

[ccsoccer03]

Well i understand that. All i was wondering is if it meant that the camera works the same as the others, only written in a different way.

Why would the test use androids native app if its totally proprietary? Does this app have the same logs as the other camera? Thats my curiousity. If this is a differently written app that can be copied.

 

[Cl8rs]

How come I've never known about this sneaky menu before? Are there any others I'm missing?
How do I set this as default camera?

I would like to know this....

 

[savoxis]

Well i understand that. All i was wondering is if it meant that the camera works the same as the others, only written in a different way.

Why would the test use androids native app if its totally proprietary? Does this app have the same logs as the other camera? Thats my curiousity. If this is a differently written app that can be copied.

It isnt the app thats the problem, it is the libraries for the camera. To get the camera to work you need the proprietary lib files that work with aosp (kinda like drivers). If we had these it wouldnt matter what app we used to take pictures

 

[ccsoccer03]

Ohhh i see. Ok, well in our current velocity roms, can we use this stock camera app?

 

[j2cool2012]

DON'T Use this app. Everytime you use it and take a picture, it wipes your SD card. NOT pleasent to find out. :-(

 

[savoxis]

DON'T Use this app. Everytime you use it and take a picture, it wipes your SD card. NOT pleasent to find out. :-(

I have been trying to get it to wipe my sdcard all morning. How'd you manage this?

You sure you didnt hit some other things in the testing menu?


As for making this the default camera app that would be nice. Ill look into it a bit

 

[ccsoccer03]

Its the ALL AUTO Test feature. At the end... for some odd reason it wipes your sd card. I found that out the hard way and had to use recovery tools to recover my pictures. And that would be awesome sav if you could find out how to use that camera app instead. Meanwhile, D2A and I are hounding LG to see why they wont release all the code.

Edit: I've been able to reproduce it multiple times now. What happens is, I click Video test, then press the back button repeatedly after its loaded. It will go to a solid blank screen and the next thing you see in the notification bar is "preparing sd card..." Which means you just got formatted.

 

[Cl8rs]

I have been trying to get it to wipe my sdcard all morning. How'd you manage this?

You sure you didnt hit some other things in the testing menu?


As for making this the default camera app that would be nice. Ill look into it a bit

You're the best!

 

[savoxis]

Yes, I see now.

I was not backing out. D2A, J2 and I have verified. I can make this at least accessible without using the menu by making a shortcut (much like Tridents flashlight) but I dont want to until we can figure out this sdcard wipe thing, last thing I want is a program killing peoples nandroids/personal stuffs

 

[ccsoccer03]

Update: I've also confirmed that logging into the service menu more than once causes a wipe. Interesting

 

[Cl8rs]

I'm getting a force close now?

 

[ccsoccer03]

Did you set the quality to vga or wvga?

 

[j2cool2012]

I'm just glad to see that it wasn't just me. Would have been so mad if I had been the only one whose camera was screwed.

 

[Cl8rs]

Tried a reboot, nothing. Help?

 

[ccsoccer03]

Youll have to clear dalvik cache or cache maybe? I had to nandroid restore when it fc'd on me. Didnt think to try to clear cache

 

[azuma73]

Is there any way to use this camera as default? I like having the options right there on the screen.

 

[ccsoccer03]

Well the deal is that currently its way to easy to format your sd card lol. A shortcut can be made, but until the formatting issue is resolved. Its unlikely a shortcut will be posted

 

[j2cool2012]

If you really want to take the risk, look into AnyCut to create a shortcut for you.