[Q] Camera tick sound? - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Does anyone of your NS make 'tick' sound? For example, when I capture a QR code, it makes very brief 'tick' sound. It's not the camera shutter sound. I can tell the difference...
I think there were few more instances where my NS makes tick sound but I can't recall.

it is app related, the barcodescanner makes an other sound than the camera app

eiabea said:
it is app related, the barcodescanner makes an other sound than the camera app
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I use Google Goggles. Would it be the same reason?
I think I had an instance with Google Camera app too. I can't recall though.
I honestly thought my camera didn't make such noise until few days back. I had this phone for more than 3 months now..

I've heard my Nexus S 'tick' after using Google Goggles but it doesn't happen all the time. Used to get it with my old SGS, too.
Only happens with Google Goggles though so its probably app related.
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This tick sound is the mechanical focus mechanism of the camera lense. It continuously focuses from macro to infinity to reset in one short moment.
As hardly any application focuses repeatedly, except for let's say barcode readers, you won't hear that ticking in the standard camera app.

In a couple of days since buying my NS (9023) I noticed this click noise coming from the camera and quickly discovered it was from the camera's macro-to-infinity focus switch mechanism. The thing I would like to know if this happens to everybody else or is my NS "special" in some nasty way.
Also, sometimes after taking a macro pic the camera app gets stuck on displaying the picture taken without going back to the live-view camera screen to take the next picture. The only solution out of this is pressing the home button which makes the same clicking noise as above but louder. This makes me think that the macro switch mechanism inside the camera hardware gets stuck somehow.
Should I send it to be repaired? :-|

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Camera Shutter Noise Weirdness

I've noticed a few times when taking photos with my HOS, the shutter noise will play, even though I have it set to off, and then it gets stuck in a loop playing over and over until I reboot the phone.
Anyone else getting this? It's really annoying, but not worth sending the phone back over it. :-/
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No, haven't experienced that. But I have heard the shutter sound 3 or 4 random times when the camera isn't even on. Didn't seem to affect anything.
I have had this problem twice. When it has happened to me, I was snapping a picture (with shutter sound turned OFF) and then afterwards it makes continuous shutter sounds like it would if I was shooting in burst mode. This continues until I close the camera app and then open up the app switcher and close it there as well.
Yep ... Seen the same thing. It is freaking annoying, but quitting the camera seems to make it stop. Wish there was a recognized error and fix for it though.
There is... it's called "installing a custom ROM"

How to turn off Camera Shutter sound on Huawei MediaPad M2 8.0

I recently bought this tab work fine exept one problem the camera sound, I'm using my company app on this tablet and these app requires to take some photos but the camera sound is huge. I tried different camera apps but every time I click on take photo from my company app it open default camera. I really appreciate if someone help me.
Thanks
Turn your volume down?
No, it won't. I tried every possible way.

weird problems with camera apps.

Hello,
trying the video camera with third party apps, i noticed this weird squeak sound while autofocusing
clip here: youtu.be/bNSNSiVkiQg
with the native camera app i don't have this problem, but the stereo sound is inverted! even weirder: it does this from the second video i record after i reboot the phone. the first one is fine, then they all have audio inverted right<->left
any advice? (other than factory reset)
can you please test if you have the same issue? if it is, it mean it is a problem of the device itself and should be noted to huawei.
it's easy checking the left/right channel simply by blowing on the sides of the phone (lower mic is right, upper mic is left) with the audio recorder app it works always fine. with video, you need to make at least 2 of them because the problem comes from the second one. at least for me...
thanks
mghire said:
Hello,
trying the video camera with third party apps, i noticed this weird squeak sound while autofocusing
clip here: youtu.be/bNSNSiVkiQg
with the native camera app i don't have this problem, but the stereo sound is inverted! even weirder: it does this from the second video i record after i reboot the phone. the first one is fine, then they all have audio inverted right<->left
any advice? (other than factory reset)
can you please test if you have the same issue? if it is, it mean it is a problem of the device itself and should be noted to huawei.
it's easy checking the left/right channel simply by blowing on the sides of the phone (lower mic is right, upper mic is left) with the audio recorder app it works always fine. with video, you need to make at least 2 of them because the problem comes from the second one. at least for me...
thanks
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For me bottom is left upper is right
faizalotai said:
For me bottom is left upper is right
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thanks! have you tested with the video app or with the audio recording app? if with video it's like this and with the audio recorder it's bottom/right; upper/left. i'm not the only one.
edit. also, turning the phone while recording (bottom to the right or to the left in portrait mode), it's always swapped. when bottom is to the right, audio of that side is on the left, and vice versa
mghire said:
thanks! have you tested with the video app or with the audio recording app? if with video it's like this and with the audio recorder it's bottom/right; upper/left. i'm not the only one.
edit. also, turning the phone while recording (bottom to the right or to the left in portrait mode), it's always swapped. when bottom is to the right, audio of that side is on the left, and vice versa
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Yes,same as mine..maybe thats an honor features...lol.
Btw, im still with mm, we need people with nougat to test this out also
faizalotai said:
Yes,same as mine..maybe thats an honor features...lol.
Btw, im still with mm, we need people with nougat to test this out also
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thanks a lot!
if the third party camera app audio issue is confirmed too, we may confirm another "fature"... :/
i did the video with google camera (but also tried cinema fv-5) and the auto focusing noise it there, not always, but most of the time. expecially when it struggles focusing.
anyone willing to try? this is not as easy to reproduce, but definitely there.
hi all,
testing again, I noticed that the noise is most likely mechanical. it is possible to ear it in a silent environment while switching from camera to video with the stock camera app.
here's a recording of it
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzRd4ezyPZACZXY4WkoyREFESnM/view?usp=drivesdk
it's the same of the video in the opening post youtu.be/bNSNSiVkiQg
can you guys check if it's a common problem? the customer service just keep saying to factory reset, but that does nothing... (also cleaned camera app cache many times)
thanks
mghire said:
Hello,
trying the video camera with third party apps, i noticed this weird squeak sound while autofocusing
clip here: youtu.be/bNSNSiVkiQg
with the native camera app i don't have this problem, but the stereo sound is inverted! even weirder: it does this from the second video i record after i reboot the phone. the first one is fine, then they all have audio inverted right<->left
any advice? (other than factory reset)
can you please test if you have the same issue? if it is, it mean it is a problem of the device itself and should be noted to huawei.
it's easy checking the left/right channel simply by blowing on the sides of the phone (lower mic is right, upper mic is left) with the audio recorder app it works always fine. with video, you need to make at least 2 of them because the problem comes from the second one. at least for me...
thanks
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Did you ever solve this, or is it purely hardware? I noticed a horrible squeak on PA Rom and on 3rd party cameras on stock.
It's hardware, cannot solve this

Question Camera vibration/delay

Noticed today when i was taking some pictures with my S21+ that when you snap a photo there is a slight vibration from the phone. i believe its mechanical from the camera itself but wanted to double check.
also noticed a slight pause after taking the photo, kind of like a processing delay. is this all normal?
dansan382 said:
Noticed today when i was taking some pictures with my S21+ that when you snap a photo there is a slight vibration from the phone. i believe its mechanical from the camera itself but wanted to double check.
also noticed a slight pause after taking the photo, kind of like a processing delay. is this all normal?
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No, in camera settings, turn off vibration.

Microphone is not working properly in third-party apps

So I've seen this on a bunch of other phones where like it'll use the wrong microphone when you go into third party apps. When I record video on the camera app it's amazing like best quality microphone I've ever had on a phone but when I try and record a video on Snapchat where I'm talking even if I turn the volume up all the way I can't make out what I'm saying. I'm not really sure where I'm posting this because there's never a solution and any of these other posts that have the exact same problem. It almost seems like it's using the phone microphone like the one it would use if you had the phone held up to your ear.
what phone are you using?

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