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[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

But can it run Lineage

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[–] pm_boobs_send_nudes@lemmy.world 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Not a single phone has released their proprietory camera driver blobs in recent history. I wish that would happen. There will always be a loss of image quality in custom roms which don't use the stock version on the phone.

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[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Fairly sure Pixels can use GCam just fine on third party ROMs and the basic photography modes give identical output

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[–] pm_boobs_send_nudes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Yeah, but pixels have a low market share unfortunately. Something like Samsung will have the majority market share in most countries. I had a one plus 5 and even with the gcam mod the image output was significantly low (pixels back then only had 12mp and the aspect ratio etc was terrible.)

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[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Pixels are the standard for how custom ROMs should work, blame other OEMs for not confirming to standards and breaking APIs.

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[–] pm_boobs_send_nudes@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

I do blame them. I also blame google for not offering those features in android in the first place.... A lot of custom rom features are available in the Samsung rom so I don't really use rooted devices anymore.

Especially hate how android changed with their anti-call recording stance, which now requires root, exposed and an xposed module just for this basic feature. Samsung offers this out of the box.

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