Redmi Note 5 with Google Camera Port (HDR+) Samples

yu jhang

5 min readJun 2, 2018

Redmi Note 5 with Google Camera HDR+, use lightroom to adjust the DNG RAW files

Here are all photos in this album:

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Before using the Google Camera HDR+, you have to enable Camera API 2 in the MIUI, unless any version of Google Camera you install WILL HAVE NO HDR+ EFFECT OR CRASH IMMEDIATELY!!!

The way I choose to enable Camera 2 API on MIUI is through the Magisk platform, and there are 4 steps of prerequisites to get to this purposes:

Unlock the bootloader

You need to go to MIUI unlock page and follow the instructions to unlock your phone’s Bootloader.
During the process, you will also need to install the driver in computer for your phone.

Flash the 3'rd party recovery, like TWRP

Go to TWRP devices page to download the TWRP recovery for your model, and boot your phone into Fastboot Mode by holding the volume down & power button until it boot into fastboot.

Also download the Android platform tools, unzip, and launch CMD on windows or terminal on macOS and cd (move) to your unzip directory.

After that, flash the TWRP recovery into your phone.

fastboot flash recovery $your_download_recovery.img

Check the flash process is success or not (you will see the “OK” in the command line), and boot your phone into recovery temporarily:

fastboot boot $your_download_recovery.img

and slide the button to right to enable modification, prevent the MIUI’s recovery flashing back at next bootup process.

Flash the Magisk platform

Now the custom 3’rd part recovery is installed, we can install Magisk now.

Download the magisk from the developer’s XDA page, copy into your phone’s SD, select and slide to flash the download zip file with TWRP install function .

Flash the Camera 2 API enabler

The previous Camera 2 API enabler is decrepit, so I rewrite an newer version that can work on Magisk 15+.
As previous step, flash the zip to enable enable Camera 2 API.

You can check whether you successfully enable the Camera 2 API by using Camera 2 API probe:

Install Google Camera Port (HDR+) App

Now all the prerequisites are complete, we can finally install the Google Camera Port App now.

Here is a Port Google Camera collection page, I recommend using MGCamera_5.1.0.18_R4X series which maintain by @arthur, and here are my recommend settings: