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Hey all,
I just got (and totally love) the Fuze. I've already flashed it to NATF's 2.2 and it's just amazing. The only problem is that somewhere between yesterday and today, the camera has totally flaked out on me :-(.
I'll take a picture (and regardless of if its set to store on the memory card or internal mem) and once I opt to save it, the Fuze just hangs with the "Windows thinking" ball spinning. After a while it goes back to "Albums" and the recently shot picture isn't there.
I implemented the GPS fix and have been toying in Advance Config -- but I don't think any of those changes should have affected the camera. Even weirder, the picture counter is incrementing and I do have open storage on both the card and internal.
Any ideas?
- Matt
same thing happened to me.
Turns out autoconfig has a bug for the fuze.
For the camera options in autocofig
there's something called portrait, and was initially disabled.
changing it to enable breaks the camera.
took me days to figure that out...l o l
funnysam said:
same thing happened to me.
Turns out autoconfig has a bug for the fuze.
For the camera options in autocofig
there's something called portrait, and was initially disabled.
changing it to enable breaks the camera.
took me days to figure that out...l o l
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Thanks! That was the problem and now the camera works fine! Is there a FAQ or something this should go into? Without your help I would never have found that.
- Matt
haa..np at all..just sharing something that i've found out after hours of hard resetting, flashing, installing, etc... l ol
maybe tomorrow'll be you helping me...
cheers!
-sam
Thanks!
I had this problem too, on both my Sprint Touch Pro and AT&T Fuze. Wouldn't save in photo mode (though video, contacts photo, panorama etc. modes were okay). There was no error message on the Fuze so I didn't realize there was a problem until I went looking for some pictures and couldn't find them. After I figured out what has going on I checked the Sprint version to see if it had the same problem. The Sprint Pro at least gives an error message about not being able to save the file.
I had installed Advanced Config on both devices, so I thought it might be one of the settings in there that had killed the camera. However, telling AC to restore all settings didn't fix it so I've been tearing my hair out looking for other causes. Fortunately I found this thread before rendering myself completely bald.
Is this a bug in AC, or was I wrong in my assumption that "restore all settings" would restore everything to default?
I wonder how many people with Fuzes have this problem but don't know about it due to the lack of an error message.
Cheers,
Elizabeth
Thanks, saved me hours. My pictures would save sometimes, but only half of the picture. Works perfectly again now.
glad someone helped you out!
funnysam said:
same thing happened to me.
Turns out autoconfig has a bug for the fuze.
For the camera options in autocofig
there's something called portrait, and was initially disabled.
changing it to enable breaks the camera.
took me days to figure that out...l o l
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Thank you for sharing. Can't say how much time you saved me but you did!
Some searches I used to find this were:
raphael camera issue
raphael camera pause
raphael camera saving problem
touch camera issue
touch camera pause
touch camera saving problem
omg! this has bugged for the last month or so, and i've been too busy to do a good search on it! i thought i didn't try the right combination. i don't remember changing anything with AC, still thanks so much for the solution funnysam
Does new Autoconfig version fix the bug?
The latest version is 3.3.0.0.
Does anyone know if that bug was fixed?
I ask (instead of providing feedback from my own experience) because I had the older version installed first, and then installed the new version over it, so maybe the bug persisted.
AdvConfig 3.3 doesn't list the option for portrait now.
AdvConfig 3.3 doesn't list the option for portrait now.
Hmm, interesting.
I performed a "Reset all settings" did a soft reset, and the option for the Portrait is now visible, with "Enabled (default)" selected.
Once I disabled that option, camera is working great.
bwb8771 said:
...Option for the Portrait is now visible, with "Enabled (default)" selected.
Once I disabled that option, camera is working great.
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Same problems, and this works for me
Thanks, Bros
I'm using AC3.3 and have some weird camera issues. The closest option I can see in AC3.3 is to "Encode photos in portrait mode" and have NO selected. Is this the option you guys are talking about?
Yes. That's the option.
For me, that fixed the issue of the camera taking *forever* to save the picture and then display the options buttons. Even if I left the camera to finish, the picture never saved.
And, it didn't matter whether the shot was landscape or portrait - with that option enabled, the problem persisted until that setting was disabled.
Too bad, because that would be a nice feature!
Thank you!!!
This problem has been plaguing me for the last 2 days. Seems that whenever I get my Fuze working just the way I like, something else happens to irritate the crap outta me. Thanks for posting this!
Hm.. I'm using Advanced Config 3.3 as well and it doesn't display the portrait option. Does anybody know the registry setting this is modifying?
I am glad I stumbled across this series of posts. My experience with the Autocofig Bug gave me several days worth of heartburn. Thank you for the help!! It was much appreciated!!!
I am looking for somebody to please attach to this thread a .reg of virgin (or nearly) settings stored in HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera
I'm trying to figure out a problem I've read about in other threads with unsatisfactory resolutions (hard reset and/or disable a feature). There are actually two problems.
1. My camera started locking up after taking pictures and pictures would not save. In Camera\Image there's a setting EnableEncodePortrait that controls whether the camera automatically rotates the picture 90 degrees. If you disable this, the camera WILL take pictures again, but...
2. The Album shows all new pictures rotated incorrectly 90 degrees. Basically, every picture is portrait and not landscape.
Now, these two problems seem to oppose each other. If you want the pictures autorotated to the correct orientation, you need the setting enabled. But if you don't want the camera to freeze you need it disabled. lol
Obviously somewhere along the line in my tweaking I've fouled something up. I'm thinking it's just a matter of finding some setting to tweak back to an appropriate value, so I wanted to compare the registry from a virgin install to mine. I would hard reset myself, but then I can't test to see if I fixed the problem or not.
Can I get a hand, my fellow tweakers?!
Thanks!
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EDIT: I've found that my problem was the Diamond 2's gsensor. After I uninstalled that, and set EnableEncodePortrait back to zero, my problems magically disappeared.
are there anyway to have camera work proper with diamond 2 gsensor?
i dont think the solution is to uninstall and forget about it. i never have any problems with camera. i know the camera uses the accelerometer to decide whether to have the picture in landscape or portrait. i have an issue with double rotate in album though. ill have to get some proper screenshots of what i mean. other problems i have is teeter freaks out. i solved that by deleting the entry for it in gconfig. the rest i havent decided yet.
thanks
i uninstalled and live happily ever after~
Well the compass does point at the right direction but when I fired up street view and turned on compass mode, (which is pretty sweet btw) no matter how still I hold the phone or even place it flat on a table for that matter, the image keeps quivering. The image just does not stay in one place! Went into test mode and under sensors I checked it out it was the same quivering. Also under settings>display> theres an option for Horizontal calibration, funny thing is even when placed on a absolutely flat surface (I tried at different places), the small ball in the center does not stay still! Why is this so? This issue makes using sky map,street view,layar etc quite unusable because of all the jitter! Any fix for this?
Jumping around happens when you are near a magnetic field such as speaker,computer etc. move away in open area, jumping should reduce.
In the compass settings> noise filter set to strong, sensor rate slowest & buffer display ticket with green check mark.
This should solve your problem, if not then report back.
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Jumping around happens when you are near a magnetic field such as speaker,computer etc. move away in open area, jumping should reduce.
In the compass settings> noise filter set to strong, sensor rate slowest & buffer display ticket with green check mark.
This should solve your problem, if not then report back.
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Which compass settings are you referring to? Where do I find these settings?
Compass is a app which you can download from the market in that you will have those settings, once set you wont face that jumping issue. Mine stay still.
By saying street view are you referring to layar which shows a compass too?
Ok I'll try that out, but will changing those settings in the app apply to the whole system?
The street view I was referring to is from google maps with compass mode on.
I had the same problem as your since i installed compass & set it the right way that problem was never noticed, earlier it use to jump, so my best guess is that those settings are somehow being read by other apps too.
In my case google maps with compass mode remains quite still.
Do report back with the results.
Well I tried your fix and it worked kinda, the twitching has reduced but its still there which is very annoying. In service test under sensors it still keeps jumping around. I've also tried using it in a place free from magnetic signals but still the same. Is it this way for all galaxy s users our could mine be faulty?
Mine stays perfectly still (FW ddkb1) whats your FW?
Compass on google map works only when gps is enabled & locked, if gps is not able to lock then it might have the problem which you are describing.
Are you able to lock on to the gps (icon stops flashing)?
Well I'm on the same firmware as you (kb1). (kies keeps crashing if I try to update to kb2, but that's another issue)
The twitching issue I'm talking about should not be related to gps, on the map itself it does not twitch at all, but when I go to say new york on the map and go to street view, and enable compass mode, even if I hold the phone vedas still the image on the screen still vibrates.
I tried to replicate at my end but i don't have any issues, maps don't vibrate, however they rotate as per compass pointing (locked) to north.
What do you mean by street view, there is no such option in maps at my end, when i go to new york I see a road map only, is there something which i am missing?
Seems some setting we have is different between you & me though we both are on kb1 but cant figure out what.
sgsI9003 said:
I tried to replicate at my end but i don't have any issues, maps don't vibrate, however they rotate as per compass pointing (locked) to north.
What do you mean by street view, there is no such option in maps at my end, when i go to new york I see a road map only, is there something which i am missing?
Seems some setting we have is different between you & me though we both are on kb1 but cant figure out what.
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Ok so i'm guessing you have never tried street view before, ok so just enter 'new york' into the search box and it will take you there, once there you will see a big red arrow pointing downwards to the map with New York written above. Click on the name and select the right most option (a man standing) that will take you to street view, once in there press the menu key and turn on compass mode. Try holding the phone still or even place it flat on a table and see if the image twitches. (Its a pretty cool thing anyways, you'll enjoy it! )
The probelm that I am facing is similar to this
Jumping Compass
Oh I have seen street view on desktop numerous time didn't know its a feature on our phones too. Now I tested street view as per your instruction & it does change its angle 5° approx & flicker but in compass mode it just show me the bottom of the 360° image & no more moves.
The issue could be in street view as its in beta testing.
The jumping compass video is what I was having the problem but after I changed the settings it got stabilized.
We can ask bala who has updated his fw to kb3 to test this if the problem is same or not.
sgsI9003 said:
Oh I have seen street view on desktop numerous time didn't know its a feature on our phones too. Now I tested street view as per your instruction & it does change its angle 5° approx & flicker but in compass mode it just show me the bottom of the 360° image & no more moves.
The issue could be in street view as its in beta testing.
The jumping compass video is what I was having the problem but after I changed the settings it got stabilized.
We can ask bala who has updated his fw to kb3 to test this if the problem is same or not.
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Have you updated your google maps? Its at version 5.3.0 now. It could not be street view's fault because it used to work perfectly fine on my xperia x10 earlier. Come to think of it the x10 had far better gps and compass components (but seriously lacked in other areas).
Changing the settings in compass app worked only in that app itself, its not a general fix for it though.I would like to know if all i9000/i9003 have this problem...
magnetometergate?
I just bought this same phone and I'm experiencing the same jitter. This is a real show stopper since it renders useless apps like those mentioned here, panorama stitching, Google sky map and others. I'm really annoyed and thinking about returning the phone.
The Iphone 3Gs does not suffer this issue, the compass moves smooth and softly.
This seems to be a hardware problem, maybe Samsung can improve the software filter or update the sensor firmware.
Since I am using xxkb3 now I tested again but this compass jumping problem still is the same.
I remember that xxkb3 offers few calibration & tweaking of setting for compass but what these settings do is not known to us hence I have not changed anything, I still feel that this can be addressed by tweaking the settings & not really a hardware issue.
The compass in i9003 is more sensitive to magnetic field disturbance hence the problem.
I've searched high and low, but haven't been able to find a solution to this issue, hopefully somebody here has a good answer for this one.
I'm trying to run Waze in the foreground and DailyRoads Voyager in the background while driving, but any time DRV is running, Waze can't get a GPS lock. If I shut down DRV, I get a GPS lock quickly and without issue. The issue doesn't appear to be app related, as I can generate the same symptoms using other camera apps and 'gps status'.
I've seen a few references on other forums where people with S3's are having the same issue, but I haven't found a resolution yet. I'm running the current OTA build, never rooted/tweaked.
Any ideas?
PDXKris said:
I've searched high and low, but haven't been able to find a solution to this issue, hopefully somebody here has a good answer for this one.
I'm trying to run Waze in the foreground and DailyRoads Voyager in the background while driving, but any time DRV is running, Waze can't get a GPS lock. If I shut down DRV, I get a GPS lock quickly and without issue. The issue doesn't appear to be app related, as I can generate the same symptoms using other camera apps and 'gps status'.
I've seen a few references on other forums where people with S3's are having the same issue, but I haven't found a resolution yet. I'm running the current OTA build, never rooted/tweaked.
Any ideas?
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This is a seriously random suggestion, but did you try turning off geotagging in the main camera app?
aooga said:
This is a seriously random suggestion, but did you try turning off geotagging in the main camera app?
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I just double-checked, and GPS tagging was already turned off in the stock camera app. Thanks for the idea though!
Can anybody else confirm if they see this behavior as well?
Since my first post I've tried rooted OTA, ran numerous CM10.1 builds (doing full wipes in between), leanKernel, testing along the way all without any real success. It seems a little hit and miss, on occasion (maybe 10% of the time) it seems to work, but in those times GPS still takes 5-10min to get a lock usually has less accuracy than when using GPS apps alone w/o the camera on.
When the camera isn't in use, I typically get a GPS lock in <30 sec (sometimes in just a few seconds).
In my device Gps in google maps is not working properly.
First time it wont show the exact location after closing and reopening it sets the location correct. But if i move, it can't track it and go into grey dot.
But the google navigation works perfectly.
Anyone else facing this issue?
neeraj.17 said:
In my device Gps in google maps is not working properly.
First time it wont show the exact location after closing and reopening it sets the location correct. But if i move, it can't track it and go into grey dot.
But the google navigation works perfectly.
Anyone else facing this issue?
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I am facing the same issue but on LineageOS 16.0. I tried to use GPS Locker to find satellites but none were found. I was also using the magisk optimized GPS file replacement. If anyone knows anything, please help. Not having GPS sucks.
My GPS on stock android is also not to good. Sometimes it shows badly my location and often it does not detect directions well. Arrow is pointed in wrong direction and when I move it is moving to the sides not forward. Also when I launch Harry potter game my character is also walking sideways. I tried to calibrate compass but is does not help to much.
My issue is gone now... I did nothing different just regularly updated my phone...also haven't tried any of there games so can't confirm if this is present there