I'm really rooting for Linux phones
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It took me a while to stop reading financed as: finance daemon.
After trying to run postmarketos on an old phone of mine, I'm really excited for anything that improves support for android devices to mainline linux !
Whybis the camera such an issue for linuxphones? The few I checked had untested or partial results for camera.
Openness. Most cameras for android phones are proprietary because it's easier to save money by not having a common controller for cameras and just using a proprietary blob.
But are the sensors not third party, generally Sony or zeiss?
Pure pain, similar with graphene, the pixel camera is a selling point and it is sbite on graphene.
There if a foss pixel camera app that does a good job though
Right. But the processing pipeline is not. If you took one single image from the sensor of the pixel or iPhone it would look like ass compared to what the processed one looks like. The poeple capable of writing those pipelines don’t typically do it for free.
Interesting, is it called the camera processing pipeline? Id be interested in reading some more and seeing if there is a foss project
I highly doubt there would be one. I imagine entire optics engineering departments are deployed to write that software. Phone manufacturers don’t usually write that software either; it’s more often than not licensed.
Fun fact, Sony’s phones break the camera software if you root them. I wonder how much of it is to protect their blobs.
OpenCamera? Used it for years but on my FP5 the auto brightness / exposure is only working 10% of the time 😭
Its just slow and blurry on pixel 10 pro
Shutter times are ridiculous on mine. The preview will be perfectly focused already, but then it takes a good second to actually capture, by that time it might already have lost focus. Capture resolution aside, it's literally faster to screenshot the preview. And got into an argument with a friend once because the shutter time made miss a shot.
Have you tried changing this setting?
I was so excited I could finally solve it, but unfortunately, it already was set to Latency.
Sorry. To be fair, I know I made more than that adjustment to get rid of the latency, but I don't remember the exact changes. Though I'm pretty sure disabling RAW and changing to JPG was part of it.
It’s kinda hard to accept they are debuting paid work on something that only works on pre-2022 devices... I do understand the recycling idea behind this, but next time I change my phone and look up for a linux compatible phone, I already know I won’t be buying a pre-2022 device :(..
perhaps there are markets where this is much more common than we are used to.
There are more recent devices (ie Fairphone 5) that seem to be pretty good spot (check the wiki, and regardless this is a really good phone to get) But I get your point.