How to enable unlimited 4K video recording on your Galaxy Note5
The Galaxy Note5 is already outfitted with one of the best mobile cameras you can carry around, as attested by our own comparison, but what if you could make it even better. Manufacturers put plenty of restrictions on today's handsets camera abilities, in order to balance thermal throttling, storage space, or both.
Thus, 4K video footage warnings pop up when you fire up this mode, telling you that the phone might become hot, and you might be restricted in the duration of your video recording. Alternatively, makers compress the output JPEG files too much, leaving you with a manageable size, but lesser amount of details in the photo. Fret not, however, as there is a way to circumvent these restrictions on your brand new Note5, thanks to an enterprising developer, who hacked the camera app to lift the more annoying restrictions. Here's what you need to do:
1. First, root your Note5 with the help of Manh_IT's Noble Kernel for the Note5 (Verizon and AT&T models needn't apply yet);
2. Download the V3.1 zip file, and extract the SamsungCamera4.apk from it
3. With a system file explorer, navigate to the system/apps/SamsungCamera4/ folder on your phone, and backup everything in there, just in case, then delete it;
4. Place the new SamsungCamera4.apk file in the system/apps/ folder, and set the file's permissions to rw-r-r;
6. Restart the Note5 and go to the camera app - if you see the KRM mark in the icon at the top of the shutter key, then the mod has been installed. The developer has done more than half an hour of continuous recording this way already, though the footage gets split in the usual 4 GB chunks of 8-9 minutes each.
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