I appreciate the replies. I was hoping for a simple solution. If it requires rooting or installing roms, I will pass.
Thanks again though
I've looked into it a bit over the last few months and I don't think you can even if you were to root and have a custom rom.
When I was using nova launcher and making widgets on it I noticed, when giving the widget some functions, that some of the other camera modes were listed to select. I never actually tried any to see if you could make shortcuts to open directly to beauty shot for example. I did notice HDR wasn't listed anywhere though.
Now maybe there's a 3rd party camera that can open straight to HDR? Idk. I always wanted 2 things out of the stock camera though, open to HDR and to use a different gallery as default in camera mode.
I'll post back if I ever find out how, but I'm not counting on it.
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