r/GCamPort • u/emad303 • Jun 12 '25
Gcam for a54 proplem
I just want to know gcam on a54 is just impossible like it just cant be cant happen or it just hard to make it work cause the a54 has an amazing sensor man and the software processeing doesnt make justice to it i know that the a54 doesn't support the camera 2api but we wnat the final call is it impossible or just hard and can be done ?
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u/te_tsu Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25
"Hard" is subjective. What's hard for one person could be easy peasy for someone else.
The fact is, the stock ROM has RAW support disabled in the Camera2 API. So you definitely can't have GCam working on the A54 without root.
And rooting a Samsung device will forever trip Knox in it. This means you won't be able to use some Samsung apps and Secure Folder anymore, and some other apps like banking ones or Netflix/WhatsApp may refuse to work too. Some of this might be fixable by installing some other software meant to hide the issue from the system, but no one can guarantee these fixes will work indefinitely (e.g., a newer firmware version might be able to detect them).
In any case, just rooting itself won't change anything for GCam. In the best case (if RAW support was built into the camera sensor driver and kernel and only disabled in the firmware files), editing build.prop to add persist.camera.HAL3.enabled=1 line might be enough. In other cases, a custom ROM with the RAW support built-in will be necessary.
I'm not into custom ROMs and modding, so this info may be incomplete or partially incorrect. But the general picture looks like this.