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Captivate's Camera

What up guys..just got my Samsung captivate this week..but I'm not new to android scene.. (all hail ANDROID)...I have my personal cell a moto Droid.. and I had a nexus one, which I lost/got stolen
I missed my Nexus one..until yestarday..I was playing around with the camera app the captivate comes with and I found something that made my day...the PANORAMA MODE!!!!!
I have to say guys...so many extras..so many settings..so many modes...
thank you samsung..I always had choosen my moto droid over my nexus one..but now I have a new favorite ..

yeah the camera is hella good. man, especially the 720p recording!

I thought panoramic was awesome too.
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Remember to apply all the appropiate mods, and fixes to get your phone running 400% faster even though froyo's not even out yet!
This phone is stupid fast.

The panarama is better than any I tried before.the fact u don't have to snap each picture is ap plus
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my phone says 0.3M with a rectabgular shape around it kind of at the top left of the camera screen. any idea what that means?

,3M means 0.3 megapixels...thats probably the only downside..but the picture still looks great!!
I removed the twiz or whatever is called home app..and deleted all crapware..and yes..is really fast....faster than froyo on nexus one..I can believe is running android 2.1....what other mods can I install??

thindery said:
my phone says 0.3M with a rectabgular shape around it kind of at the top left of the camera screen. any idea what that means?
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Thats your camera's resolution. Change it by going into the camera settings....

well first read up on the pimp my captivate guide
http://www.multiupload.com/4X0O96JYTV
it'll explain the basics for backing up, nandroid, etc.
But here's my set-up:
Flashed stock JH2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7614957&postcount=6
(How to flash tut = here) Basically shows you how to access dl mode.
First download all the files for the JH2 (the firm, tar, and pit) then you must have odin running first, select the tar, and pit file in their respective directory and extracting. THEN you enable download mode in phone.
After you have stock JH2
SRE 1.0
here
Roots, overclock, integrated wireless hotspot/usb tethering, market fix, lag fix, ad block, market uncensor, allows you to install apks directly from phone, removes att crapware, and boot animation, adds fonts, and gps fix.
After all's ready, enjoy your amazing fast phone (Raped my friend's evo nasty)

This is from the Vibrant forum. They have the panorama feature as well.
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All of this is done INSIDE the phone. No post processing or anything needed. Press a button one time, just follow the green box and your done. Samsung makes real digital cameras by the way.
You can also make action shots when you select the action mode. Not sure if the Captivate has this:

I cant seem to change the resolution in panoramic mode

I believe thats normal. Having a higher pixel count might lead to massive picture sizes and would probably cause a problem for the phone imho.

Belaflek said:
I cant seem to change the resolution in panoramic mode
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Its resolution is fixed to 0.3 mp.

ConceptVBS said:
This is from the Vibrant forum. They have the panorama feature as well.
All of this is done INSIDE the phone. No post processing or anything needed. Press a button one time, just follow the green box and your done. Samsung makes real digital cameras by the way.
You can also make action shots when you select the action mode. Not sure if the Captivate has this:
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OMG!!! Do they have panoramic with a higher res or is that at the .3 mp res?

tytdfn said:
OMG!!! Do they have panoramic with a higher res or is that at the .3 mp res?
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I believe its the same 0.3mp

All cameras even high end sony digital cameras when shooting panaroma shoot in a lower then their native.

No big deal..ill use my 7d for that

Photostitch lets you make panoramas with a much higher res but you have to manually snap each shot. Anyone had success with vertical panorama shots?

I love the camera on the Captivate. It blows my old iPhone camera away. These pics aren’t the best, but its more than capable of performing well. The detail is amazing especially when viewing on the phone.

I took this panoramic today, was pretty excited to mess around with it
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Pictures taken with xt720

Since mighty Zn5 i have greatest respect for Motorola camera phones. Soon enough I hope I will change my X10 for xt720.
I would like to see your shots and hear your thoughts about xt720 cam, cause its a shame that this phone doesn't have thread like this of its own.
Thanks

actually the photos taken are not as good as it's counterparts..

well, only photos taken with xt720 you can find on internet are those on Esato forum http://www.esato.com/phonephotos/index.php?make=Motorola&model=MilestoneXT720 and most of them are mediocre except those indoors which are excellent. Majority of other photos, are taken from car or something, so they dont represent true quality. So I wanted to see some representative specimen here

If you check out XT720 reviews, most of them have pics from the camera (for the purpose of the review). I find the camera is pretty good (amazing with the flash in dark environments).

syrenz said:
If you check out XT720 reviews, most of them have pics from the camera (for the purpose of the review). I find the camera is pretty good (amazing with the flash in dark environments).
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yes I am aware fo that, but those photos are quickly taken during 1-2 days needed for review. But when you use cell and know its strenghts and weakneses you tend to make much better pictures. General story about xt720 camera is, pictures are mediocre, it has shutter lag bla bla bla etc. in which I dont believe according to few samples and specs of camera.
In some cases I like x10 camera, but I dislike: fake colours, low sharpness, idiotic flash, poor night mode, slow interface etc.
Check this xt720 picture out
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Amazing sharpness even strong light goes directly in lens

I don't believe the quality of the pics are bad, they tend to look great for me for the most part. Shutter lag is there kind of though (sometimes takes a good moment for it to take the picture after pressing the button) .

and what camera apps do you use?
i has been using the stock app but found out that it compressed the jpeg file too much...

shutter lag as if "time between pressing shutter and actual taking of the photo"? And how big it is? half second, 1 sec?
I ve read somewhere that nightmode is not functioning at all, that its like normal mode + flash, not like normal nightmode with higher iso and exposure?
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xt has good camera quality (I would say better than ZN5)
I don't know of what shutter lag are everybody talking about, but the only lag is happening when you take first picture with xenon flash (this is normal behavior because flash capacitor needs to fill up)
it has very good macro mode, light metering is great (ZN5 would burn some photos with xenon, but with xt this is not case)
auto focus is really quick, and noise is acceptable (mind you this is not camera, but cameraphone )

I fully agree with pajo.
This is a great camera and all functions well. I do notice the shutter lag, but it only happens SOMEtimes, 99% of the time there is no lag. So that 1 time it does happen is not worth mentioning. I use the stock app btw.
I also dunno what people are talking about the modes. Night mode doesn't work? Then why does it work fine here? Same for macro. Also works. Everything in the camera works (I use Dexter 2.2 btw, but even on stock 2.1 it works fine).
I love this phone and the camera

well since I consider Zn5 to be best camera phone after N8, than you put up quite a challeng here . Go post some night landscapes and normal night shots so I can see quality.
Btw concerning HDMI, is it only for playing videos, or you can use TV for playing games, browsing etc.?

Disappointed with the camera quality
Actually I have XT720 with standard OS 2.1
I'm VERY disappointed with quality of pictures.
Here is some comparison I made between my NEW 8Mpixel XT720 and my OLD 5Mpixel Nokia N95.
Please check at attached pictures (name of the pictures should be self explanatory)
Now you really think the camera is good....
I also compared the phone with Sony X10 and Samsung "latest galaxy something" and the worst quality is with Motorola XT720
If you want more test (even more official) take a look at
GSMarena website where they have picture comparison of latest cameraphone and, please, address me to a phone that is worst that XT720.
I just have a question:
Is the camera performing better with 2.2 Update?
Thanks

[Q] Auto Orientation Problem w/ Provision ROM - Nexus S 4G

I got the latest Provision[JellyVision] ROM from Team D.I.R.T last night and it was lovely; smooth, fast, feature filled.
I went from stock and the difference was night and day (Google Now opens up like its nothing in this ROM, something that used to irk me w/ stock) Just as I finished up setting up the phone and was laying back for a nice continuation of the GOT on my Kindle app, I discovered an unfortunate bug....there was no auto-orientation! I couldn't pull my phone out of portrait mode...all the settings were enabled/disabled, the phone was restarted/put-in-all-sorts-of-awkward-angles and I finally just gave up and installed the latest Cyanogenmod nightly; I used it for a full day and felt like I went to back to a hoopty from a Benz.
Now I want to go back, I'm thinking of just figuring out how to get Kindle into landscape mode without the accelerometer and enjoying the Provision goodness while looking for a fix for the auto-rotation. Any suggestions/fixes?
I checked the development thread and there is one other person who has a similar problem, and the developer (evol4g) is aware of it but does not really utilize auto-rotation like that. I also would post on that thread but I'm a virgin poster and I can't play mess w/ the big developers yet, so I came here. I'm new to posting, so please be nice.

ditto..
hamakobe said:
I got the latest Provision[JellyVision] ROM from Team D.I.R.T last night and it was lovely; smooth, fast, feature filled.
I went from stock and the difference was night and day (Google Now opens up like its nothing in this ROM, something that used to irk me w/ stock) Just as I finished up setting up the phone and was laying back for a nice continuation of the GOT on my Kindle app, I discovered an unfortunate bug....there was no auto-orientation! I couldn't pull my phone out of portrait mode...all the settings were enabled/disabled, the phone was restarted/put-in-all-sorts-of-awkward-angles and I finally just gave up and installed the latest Cyanogenmod nightly; I used it for a full day and felt like I went to back to a hoopty from a Benz.
Now I want to go back, I'm thinking of just figuring out how to get Kindle into landscape mode without the accelerometer and enjoying the Provision goodness while looking for a fix for the auto-rotation. Any suggestions/fixes?
I checked the development thread and there is one other person who has a similar problem, and the developer (evol4g) is aware of it but does not really utilize auto-rotation like that. I also would post on that thread but I'm a virgin poster and I can't play mess w/ the big developers yet, so I came here. I'm new to posting, so please be nice.
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i feel ya.. that rom is so sick! i have the same problem... had to wipe/reset and go with my miui backup till the problem is solved!

Try this: download sensor display app from Market(it has pink icon). Open it and press gyroscope, than go back and press accelerometer. See if there are some numbers on right indicating that sensor is working. I have accelerometer problems with cna, rasbean, sometimes it just stops working, and it comes back again after a while. So when its not working i open that app, press gyroscope(because that is working all the time), go back, press accelerometer and numbers shows there, so gyroscope triggers accelerometer sensor somehow and its working then.
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That method did not work for me, gyroscope seems fine but accelerometer is completely blank.
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I think it's a bug with the ROM. In the time being, you can force one orientation with Rotation Locker.
I mapped the rotation locker action to the long press search key, when I press it it pops up and shows the dialog. Then I can longpress Landscape (it runs a service when long pressing to make sure it doesn't get killed by Android) and it locks it there no matter what.
It's a bit of an annoying work around, but for the time being until it gets fixed, that might help you.

That's an awesome temporary fix! Thank you. This should hold me over until a proper fix (or a better ROM) comes my way.

Front facing camera terrible quality

Hi does anyone else have a grainy and noisy front camera experience? I mean in the view finder is horrible and then when saved the picture gets kind of fixed, but still snapchat doesn't make this arrangement for example.. Of course it's more noticeable in poor lightning conditions

Nothink u can do ,all xperia z3 have same engine : Take a photo and then remove noises .The problem is snapchat only "take a photo" ,this app won't remove noised (i think its related with DMR keys algorithm)

Zaiid said:
Nothink u can do ,all xperia z3 have same engine : Take a photo and then remove noises .The problem is snapchat only "take a photo" ,this app won't remove noised (i think its related with DMR keys algorithm)
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But in a dark environment If you cover the front camera with your finger what do you see exactly, I mean is it completely dark? Would you upload a screenshot for me please? [emoji16]

If i using default camera my screen is almost perfectly black (of corse i talking about photo ,not camera viewer) ,in snapchat i have little blue noises ,its all of high ISO (if camera see low light ISO get high ,and noises become more visible) its normal for everyone ,cuz as i said snapchat can't use our algoritms to remove noises (its feature only for default camera ;/)

Zaiid said:
If i using default camera my screen is almost perfectly black (of corse i talking about photo ,not camera viewer) ,in snapchat i have little blue noises ,its all of high ISO (if camera see low light ISO get high ,and noises become more visible) its normal for everyone ,cuz as i said snapchat can't use our algoritms to remove noises (its feature only for default camera ;/)
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these is my snapchat photo whit my finger on top of the lense, the default camera app is the same in the view finder, not in the pics though ad you mentioned, is it normal?

tel033 said:
these is my snapchat photo whit my finger on top of the lense, the default camera app is the same in the view finder, not in the pics though ad you mentioned, is it normal?
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Black screen while you have your finger over it? Yea that's what you want...
Looks like we are trouble shooting your nude pics being too blurry for snapchat based off that second pic ahha

dannycalgary said:
Black screen while you have your finger over it? Yea that's what you want...
Looks like we are trouble shooting your nude pics being too blurry for snapchat based off that second pic ahha
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Please I'm talking seriously, it's not just snapchat instagram as well I just want to know if other people experience the same

As i said, photos from your smartphone look corect

Sad indeed.
Guess when i finally get a Z3, I probably wont be snapchatting much because I already dont on my Moto G due to poor front camera

LOL!! You guys should check out the front camera comparison at phonearena. Z3 came last. Surprisingly in both front and rear camera comparisons....

I use the screen as flash you can turn that on in the snapchat settings. The photo's now have much better quality.

Other camera apps can use the algorithms to correct noise, snapchat can't apparently

Guys an easy fix to this Snapchat problem is just to download the app SaveMySnaps. It allows you to use the default camera to take snaps. Im sure there are alternative apps for instagram too that use the default camera.

[Q] Front camera problems, even in safe mode

Hi there,
Since a few days, I'm having troubles using my front camera. It all started after upgrading to 5.1.1 (and using SnapChat afterwards), but now I can't get rid of it.
When I switch to the front camera (in SnapChat, or in the standard camera app), the camera might switch to front camera and show the images for a few seconds, or it might not switch at all. After that, the screen gets frozen. Then, it depends: the screen just stays frozen, or turns green/blue/glitched, or I get a message that my camera can't be found.
This also happens in safe mode, with or without clearing cache & data, and also happens after a full reset, even after downgrading to 5.0.1 again.
What is strange, is that sometimes my camera app opens with front-face camera enabled, and then everything works fine. However, when I switch to my back camera (which always functions correctly) and then back to the front-face camera, then it's the same all over again.
I have googeled a lot, yet found no threads that exactly describe my situation. Most threads suggest trying the camera in safe mode and presume that it works in safe mode. Mine doesn't.
Does this sound like I need to return it (I still have waranty), or is it a software bug nonetheless?
This is an image of my glitched screen:
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Ad Fundum said:
Hi there,
Since a few days, I'm having troubles using my front camera. It all started after upgrading to 5.1.1 (and using SnapChat afterwards), but now I can't get rid of it.
When I switch to the front camera (in SnapChat, or in the standard camera app), the camera might switch to front camera and show the images for a few seconds, or it might not switch at all. After that, the screen gets frozen. Then, it depends: the screen just stays frozen, or turns green/blue/glitched, or I get a message that my camera can't be found.
This also happens in safe mode, with or without clearing cache & data, and also happens after a full reset, even after downgrading to 5.0.1 again.
What is strange, is that sometimes my camera app opens with front-face camera enabled, and then everything works fine. However, when I switch to my back camera (which always functions correctly) and then back to the front-face camera, then it's the same all over again.
I have googeled a lot, yet found no threads that exactly describe my situation. Most threads suggest trying the camera in safe mode and presume that it works in safe mode. Mine doesn't.
Does this sound like I need to return it (I still have waranty), or is it a software bug nonetheless?
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method 1 on http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
be advised that there was a camera bug on 5.1 and below, so you should actually flash LMY48B factory image following the steps on the thread linked above.

beekay201 said:
method 1 on http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/tutorial-how-to-flash-factory-image-t2513701
be advised that there was a camera bug on 5.1 and below, so you should actually flash LMY48B factory image following the steps on the thread linked above.
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Thanks for the response!
I am currently on 5.1.1 (build LMY48B), flashed using the above methode (and even did another factory reset afterwards), yet the problem is not sobled.

Ad Fundum said:
Thanks for the response!
I am currently on 5.1.1 (build LMY48B), flashed using the above methode (and even did another factory reset afterwards), yet the problem is not sobled.
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Try to uninstall ANY apps that make use of the camera (except Google Camera/AOSP camera) and disable Trusted face on Smart Lock if you're using it.

Quick update: it was a hardware failure. A friend of mine had a quick look at my nexus 5, opened it up (he's in the repair business) and played a bit with the connector of the front camera, and everything works fine now.
So for those who are reading this: if you're like me, and are still having problems even in safe mode and after a factory reset, then a hardware failure might be the problem.
To beekay201: still thanks a lot for the replies, much appreciated!