How To Enable Camera 2 API In Your Phone

Camera2 API – What is it?

The Gcam app can’t work whitout camera 2 api enabled, some new smartphones are already have this camera2 api Enabled by factory. but some phones, you have to enable camera 2 api function manually.

When launched, Google has deprecated the legacy Camera API and prompted the developers to implement the new Camera API 2 enable on Android smartphones. But it didn’t happen very quickly. Only a few handfuls of premium smartphones now come with this feature built-in. That’s not the thing Google wanted to happen. However, you can still how to enable Camera API 2 support in your Android smartphone with some simple tweaks.

Google Pixel 3, 4 use Camera2 API settings, and thats why its has such an impressive camera. I am sure there will be a lot of phones that will launch in 2020 that will come with Camera2 API.
How to enable Camera2 API in Android phones.

There are multiple methods to enable the Camera2 API in Android smartphones. But you have to understand that you will always require a properly Rooted Android phone to tweak the ROM settings. So a rooted phone is essentials to enable the Camera2 API. If you have it, follow each of the following methods and check if it is working.

How to check if your Android smartphone supports Camera2 API

• Download and Install the Camera2 API Probe Application.

• Launch the App, and look for two sections: Camera ID: 0 and Camera ID: 1. The former is the rear camera while the later is for the front camera.

• Under Camera-ID, explore a subcategory with the name “Hardware Level Support Category” Thats where you can figure out Camera2 API support level on your phone.

• For your phone to support Camera 2 API, you need at least Level 3 or Full. If thats the case, then Camera 2 API is enabled for you.

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Enable Camera 2 API Using Build.prop

It is one of the perfect methods to enable many of the hidden Android features in smartphones. You can enable the Camera API 2 also using the Build.prop. However, you need to understand that this method has an only fifty-fifty chance of success. It works on smartphones which come with Camera2 API support in the ROM but disabled its functionality for some other reasons. Follow the steps carefully.

Step 1 – Download and install any file manager app from the Google Play store, which supports root explorer. Here, we use the most popular one, ES File Manager. Click To Download
Step 2 – Navigate to the system partition in your Rooted Android phone and find the file named as Build.prop.
Step 3 – Open the Build.prop file using the text editor.
Step 4 –Inside the Build.prop file, search for this line: persist.camera.HAL3.enabled=0

persist.camera.HAL3.enabled=0

Step 5 –Change the 0 to a 1, then save and exit the Build.prop and reboot your phone.
Step 6 –You can then check if it worked by launching a third-party camera app “You can use Open Camera“.

How To Enable Camera2 API Using Terminal Emulator

First method to enable, camera2api, works on almost all rooted, and supported Android devices. However, in some cases, it won’t work as expected. If you are having bad luck with the first method, you can try this second method which is more comfortable and includes zero complication. Remember, you will need the root access on your phone to do this.

Step 1- Download and install the Terminal Emulator app from Play Store.

Step 2- Open the app and run the following commands:su su persist.camera.HAL3.enabled 1 exit exit

su
su persist.camera.HAL3.enabled 1
exit
exit

Step 3- Now reboot your phone and verify with the Open camera app.

That’s all about the steps to enable Camera2 API on supported Android smartphones. If you are trying the above steps in a non-rooted phone, it won’t succeed as expected. Anyways, try it and let us know your doubts in the comment section

Camera2 API Levels

There are 4 levels of Camera 2 API or rather Hardware Level Support Category (Camera 2 API Hardware Support Level)

1. Level-3 – Apart from FULL, the OEM has added their customization, have included features like RAW, Pro mode, etc.
2. Full – The camera on the smartphone supports all significant capabilities of the Camera2 API.
3. Limited – The camera supports only some of the features of Camera2 API.
4. Legacy – The phone only supports the Camera1 API features.

Camera2 API – Final Word

The difference between Camera 2 API level 3 vs. full is huge. OEMs can offer a lot of features on top of Camera 2 API to take it one step further like by adding YUV reprocessing, RAW image capture, and more.