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[Q] Hearing a click when exiting camera

Try this: open camera, take a picture, and when pressing the back button to exit the camera put your ear close to the phone and can you hear a little "click"? I can hear it from my device, and as much as I can tell, it's mechanical, not from the system or any software.
This doesn't make sense unless there are moving parts associated with the camera hardware.

yes....i can hear it... and it was there in my DHD too... something related to camera lens hardware.....i feel so

I heard it in my previous phone too (SE Vivaz, piece of ****, but the camera was awesome! (Also 8 MP)) It's something with the camera hardware (probably)
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You can also hear it when focusing
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It did it with my inspire. It's normal don't panic
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oh well, guess I was just paranoid. thanks!
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syfang said:
oh well, guess I was just paranoid. thanks!
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No prob we all get paranoid with new devices
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Have you never used a non-mobilephone camera in your life? It's simply the camera adjusting focus, or rather resetting it when you close the app. Older phones can't do this, the Sensation can. There is effectively a mechanical movement.

It happened to my Dell streak too. It 's not a problem I think.
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Its the auto-focus relaxing
Happens on all HTC devices since the diamond

hello everyone.
i'm an x10 user and i'm planning to buy a sensation this sunday.
about the sound u hear is due to the camera auto focus relaxing and i have the same thing on my x 10. try getting someting hard to focus on with the phone'c camera and u may hear it trying to fucus and sometimes feel it as in my x10.
cheers
VIPER

Mytouch 4G slide camera?

Does anyone know if the camera is actually that different from the sensations or is it just a different camera app?
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Couple diff lines in the script for the no shot delay, and the panorama shot. The camera has been somewhat ported over in our apps section. Some people report it working, others can't get it to work.
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The slide has a better hardware camera. It has a f2.2 aperture lens. Basically it can let in more light. HTC says its the best camera ever on a phone which I say is BS. They probably forgot about Nokia's Lenses. They make the best camera phones.

Sensation camera macro

Hi is anybody elese having problems with the camera in macro or auto focus. In that it will focus then go out of focus when you press the shutter button. So far it is just 8mp of digital rubbish. If this is the best it's going to get I am going back to my HD2 because so far I am far from impressed with it. HTC stop playing worm and leave apple alone and sort this device out.
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I would imagine the DOF (depth of field) is very small and the slightest moment would make you're subject out of focus.
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Maybe but the strange thing is if I get in in the right position and just tap the shutter button it will hold it, again not ideal. I use the camera to take pictures of small QR codes located on electronic assemblies.
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I find that if I uncheck auto-focus especially on macro shots, it focuses better if you tap screen to focus.

Thanks, that is a whole lot better.
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Camera - any way to manually focus?

When working with the camera, sometimes the autofocus seems fickle and does not get the focus good. Is there any way I can do manual focus? Do I need another app for that?
Thanks

tk_xda said:
When working with the camera, sometimes the autofocus seems fickle and does not get the focus good. Is there any way I can do manual focus? Do I need another app for that?
Thanks
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Yes just touch the screen when you are in the camera app. A small white box will appear and you can manually focus.

dr9722 said:
Yes just touch the screen when you are in the camera app. A small white box will appear and you can manually focus.
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So long as he's using the stock Camera app!

No...he wants to set the focus distance by putting values like 5 cm, 6 cm or so...
This feature is mostly found in LG's cam appz
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[Q] camera button

is there a way to get the camera to take a photo by pressing the vol button?
When taking a snap of me and the lady its hard to click on the on-screen button.

Would like to know as well companies should always dedicate a shutter button..
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shahkam said:
Would like to know as well companies should always dedicate a shutter button..
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Yeah, I was literally shocked when i got the device. Is there a button shortage in htc land.
I would love to know why they chose not to have one

I'm pretty sure this question has been addressed somewhere but I don't know if they got anywhere with it. My solution is to use a 3rd party camera app for those instances. There are a few that support the volume key as a shutter. Camera360, Camera ZOOM FX and Vignette are all capable of taking regular pictures using the volume. Just make sure you go through each ones settings to make sure its setup how you like. Vignette likes to take pictures with random effects until you tell it to stop on first startup for example.