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I use Greenify (Oasis Feng) to "hibernate" nuisance background activity and save the battery, but the Google Play Store and Play Services are pretty essential so I don't interfere with them.  I've ...

The Play Store app Settings give some choices to fully automate in the background, provide app update notifications, or simply let the updates sit unseen until the Play Store is actively opened to ...

Can't vouch for tag treatment, and don't in fact use the gallery app often - normally I review phone files in X-plore file manager (including excellent support for online storage, but no tags) and ...

I don't do tags, but you might try Piktures (Diune) , which will search and create them - no idea if it recognizes Google tags though it accesses Drive. The free version has nearly complete ...

Not only do GCams not save JPEGs to microSD but they send DNGs to a different folder. I have used the app "Files to SD Card" (Bukacek) to one-click transfer - not intuitive to set up but once done ...

I looked into this stuff years ago after buying my Android 5 ZTE, before learning that Camera2 was being intentionally disabled by most manufacturers except on premium devices - never willing to ...

... A shame. My pet beef with Android is the OEM sabotage of implementation of Camera2 API (along with the systemic stupidity of letting manufacturers and contracting telecoms manage or withhold ...

My Moto phone luckily supports several fully functional GCams by different devs from versions 6.x to 7.3 - in fact more of them than I want, worth poking around in buried Settings for very ...

The first clue about the little button battery is failure to show or save images with the proper date / time, that fixed a problem about 9 years out on an S5IS, and I replaced it on an SX10IS at ...

Not sure how you've tried, but I'd concur with advice to use a tripod with the head tilted to horizontal to steady the phone, and try a bubble level to line up properly with the flat subject - ...

Never owned a Samsung, but a couple of general things. Hand holding phones has a learning curve, for stability and keeping fingers out of the frame. Your particular project and odd positioning ...

Xplore (Lonely Cat) is free and dual pane (I prefer, others don't.) Decently viewable thumbnails (including DNG) and simply check its box for the center Rename button. Tap the image to bring up its ...

Piktures gallery app is free in the Play Store, rename from the "three dots" - probably not unique: I haven't seen a "dedicated" single shot renaming app.  Some file managers will rename in ...

I'd agree with above that the Samsung gallery app might be fine for viewing, and Google's Snapseed app is pretty powerful for DNGs and JPEG editing. If you plan to import and process the proprietar ...

Sadly the 8" format is getting rare but there is still a range of choices . The information about your use case is helpful - the question about phone brand is very relevant if you're in Apple ...

I see the Q1 Adonit charges the phone, in my case it would be important that a grip fits over the Mophie Moto Mod that doubles the phone's 3000mAh.  For me, with the several advantages the worst ...

Thanks to you and others for responses - getting the idea here, I was able to try bluetooth with my fitness watch app's "shake wrist" release of its crude built-in (inadequate) camera. It really ...

These Adonits have tempted me, though I read there's some bluetooth shutter lag that might interfere with capturing an active scene.  I wouldn't glue a mounting bracket onto the back of my phone - ...

Both Open Camera and Hedgecam2 have manual white balance showing a slider when selected.  In Open Cam (with Camera2 API on) the WB "Manual" setting is under the "3dots" menu - default is "Auto".  ...

Good luck. Too late to update my earlier post, but since you mention Open Camera might be aware of this "Help" note to its HDR Mode: (1) If you have a Google Pixel with Pixel Visual Core, you should ...