I found a way to fix this issue, but you need root:
- Uninstall the camera app with an app manager which supports uninstalling system apps (I used App Manager by MuntashirAkon)
- Launch an ADB shell from your computer and run this command:
pm install-existing com.asus.camera
It will reinstall the app for your user account since it isn’t actually removed from the system (because the system partition is mounted read-only).
Now relaunch the app and give it all the permissions, it should now work, don’t ask me how because I don’t know. It also works with the stock Gallery app which had the same issue.
Unfortunately the camera app has more issues, I made my own update addon package with the gallery addon and that’s what I have working now, but it doesn’t work properly.
I was able to partially fix it by modifying build.prop in the system partition and adding in the properties related to camera from OmniROM’s build.prop.
I can click pictures but it starts taking very long bursts instead of a single capture, video doesn’t work etc.
The problem might be that I extracted the apps from OmniROM’s Android 11 fork, but eOS is based on Android 10. To test that I want to make a new package with Android 10 apps but I can’t extract them:
If anyone wants to try it, they can download the updated package I made and side-load it from recovery, I uploaded it to MEGA.
If any developer is reading this and think they can help, please get in touch.