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Mi Max 3 + Night Sight (GCam 6.1.021)

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Mi Max 3 + Night Sight (GCam 6.1.021)

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  1. Pimplefacedsysadmin

    Me too using LineageOS 16 pie.
    Made Max1 great again.

  2. JosVermeulen

    There are plenty of posts about this already on the subreddit. Probably on the wiki as well.

  3. aceCrasher

    Use Arnovas Pixel 3 builds. They work on the Mix 2, I have one myself.

  4. rafaellorenzodeleon

    Can you send a brief tutorial for this? Planning on installing gcam on my wife’s max 3, she’s envious on my A2 lite because I got it installed.

    Another question, with this enabled, can you still get OTA Updates? Or does it require you to uninstall stuff?

  5. aksyong

    How do you activate it?

  6. WinterHasArrived1993

    Alright thank you I’ll try it

  7. Darth_Traya

    Wig, i thought OIS would be a must for Night Sight but i’m glad it’s not

  8. Chlastusiek

    You should go to “More” and there you’ll find “Night Sight”. Or, if you’re in a poor lightning on a default “Camera” mode, a pop-up “Try Night Sight” might appear in the bottom of the screen.

  9. Chlastusiek

    I used [this custom](https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=78335340&postcount=93) zip enabler and it works fine. Magisk isn’t the problem but the “enabler”, those from Oreo,Nougat don’t work anymore on Pie.

  10. StinkNugs

    I’d guess it is because gcam is proprietary while android is open source

  11. JamesRealHardy

    Why is gcam not included in stock Android?

  12. WinterHasArrived1993

    Do you have one for pie at all? As far as I can see camera 2api is enabled but then the camera apps you’ve linked refuse to open whatsoever. Before I updated to the xiaomi.eu pie build I was on Oreo and had a gcam port working fine so no sure entirely what to do now. I’m on magisk 18 too btw

  13. zrk2k19

    Wroclaw is such a cool city, I miss it

  14. Dragonasaur

    Some versions do have manual mode, but they might not be compatible with all phones (might crash on launch)

  15. Dragonasaur

    Why would it “break” SafetyNet?

    All it does is add a line to your phone’s build.prop

  16. gordo_humilde

    Everyday I get surprised by GCam

  17. romiustexis

    Ahh no. My bootloader is locked…

  18. Chlastusiek

    Have you activated Camera2Api on MM3? Unlocked bootloader is required.

  19. Chlastusiek

    Night Mode does up to 1/3 shutter speed and all of my photos- you can see the whole album I linked in the other comment- are made by hand.

  20. romiustexis

    Worked on my note 8 but force closes on my max 3….hmmm

  21. Splash_II

    This is a comparison of the stock camera and Gcam w/night sight on my A1

  22. Chlastusiek

    I can’t remember how it was with Global Oreo but right now (beta Pie) it is broken.

  23. Chlastusiek
  24. Chlastusiek

    No, there Camera2Api isn’t supported out of the box, it requires minimum unlocked bootloader.

  25. Chlastusiek

    For Oreo or Pie?

  26. Chlastusiek

    It worked on MIUI Global 10 (official update which MM3 recieved mid-October) but for a week I use it with a custom C2API enabler I found on XDA on beta xiaomi.eu MIUI 10.2 on Pie. In both cases I run Magisk 17.1.

  27. Piggymojo1101

    Gcam is immense, just proves how important software is there the camera also.

  28. Eph3drin3

    it can just turn of hdr+

  29. G40-ovoneL

    Thanks!

  30. G40-ovoneL

    Is this from Mi Max 3 or the one on your flair?

  31. Splash_II
  32. JosVermeulen

    You don’t need root to enable Camera2 API, only an unlocked bootloader and TWRP support for your phone.

  33. Dokiace

    How did you find this? This one also works on my Redmi Note 3, even tho it’s laggy as hell, but the picture it produces is amazing

  34. 3doggg

    Is it as simple to install as it is on the Pocophone? On the pocophone no root or complicated procedure is needed, just installing the .apk.

  35. PeterPun

    So basically every late xiaomi phone has a night sight now but not my mi mix 2. fml

  36. dsrlxz

    If camera2api is not activated you need root

  37. Chlastusiek
  38. Chlastusiek

    It’s an original, obviously unedited, JPG from the GCam. I’ve linked in the other comment the full album on Flickr, you can check those photos out as well.

  39. G40-ovoneL

    Can you do a comparison with the stock camera?

  40. androiddumpling

    Even blowing up this image on my mobile looks great. Must be RAW

  41. nieistniejacy

    yaay wroclaw 🙂

  42. Chlastusiek

    That version of GCam doesn’t have any settings (some of them do) so you just have to make it work (in my case Camera2Api with Magisk)…and more importantly, GCams are only “auto” nevertheless and then simply turn on Night Mode.

  43. Chlastusiek
  44. szarkadani

    Welcome to reddit.

  45. Aldairoh

    Cand you send a link to the app (?) Pls , and if it needs root ?

  46. auron_py

    Man, no one ever answers these questions.

  47. Stidza

    Can you link me the one you used?

  48. szarkadani

    Did you use manual settings?

  49. Chlastusiek