G Camera App is Ruining Everything

[Jake Blue1]

I picked up a discounted N6 about 3 months ago from Amazon. I cannot stress how in love i am with this phone. It hits all of my check marks and then some. But the Google camera app is a steamy pile atop my beloved phone.

The camera it's takes great pics, especially in low light, when the app works and saves my photos. When I double tap the power button or swipe the camera icon on my lock screen the lag is so severe that by the time the shutter button responds to my touch the subject has changed or moved, killing the shot. The few times I do snap a good shot, there's about a 50% the image itself won't even save to the device.

I'll never understand why this expensive, powerful behemoth can run graphic intensive apps and videos without breaking a sweat but the lightweight and very basic camera app brings it to its proverbial knees.

I've uninstalled updates, cleared the cache, wiped the phone, and still it hasn't improved. I searched the app store and most 3rd party camera apps either have ads or look like they were last updated in the honeycomb era.

Any advice would be appreciated. I'm desperate to have a functioning camera.

 

[scaots]

The newer marshmallow camera app ruined the Nexus 6. I cleared camera cache and it was better, but still pretty slow and after a couple shots you have to wait until they finish processing before another. Miss lots of shots if you need to rapid fire. I don't think it is only the app either as third party apps also have poorer performance with Marshmallow. Before marshmallow with the old camera app it was great.

 

[SactoKingsFan]

Haven't had any of these issues with the camera app on my Nexus 6. It also takes pics much faster if HDR is disabled. I only turn HDR on in certain situations.

 

[Trigati]

Use a different camera app? There's only like dozens of them of them in Google Play, and about 8 were reviewed recently on this site.