Hardware Camera Key - General Questions and Answers

Folks, I've a question.
Am I the only one who misses the good old days when phones used to have proper hardware camera keys on upper right corner (in landscape) where they're supposed to be?
I've searched and searched but can't find the reason or inspiration to get rid of that. Is it just that we're going towards a fully mechanical keyless device evolution?
Not happy about that!
What do poeple think?

My sidekick 4g has one and it came out only a year or two ago.
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That's an exception
Most HTCs are without it.
And my 10 posts are up. I can now post in dev threads.

Xperia S came in March and it have it.
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My G2 has one and it is very useful, but just recently flashed a rom that has touch to focus and lately haven't use the hardware button that much, the one x, s, and galaxy s3 will have the option of taking pictures while shooting video so there is an excuse of not having the button

Atrix doesn't but atrix 2 does. I like camera buttons. It feels much more like a camera.
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Amaze has one as well. But I'm also frustrated that they seem to be doing away with it.
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My Droid had one. My current Droid x has one. My upcoming razr maxx has one.

85gallon said:
My Droid had one. My current Droid x has one. My upcoming razr maxx has one.
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Sorry to piss in your puddle but the Maxx doesn't have a physical camera button.
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Seems kind of pointless to have a hardware camera key these days. Because of the touch screen. And also the size of my One X plays a big role in that too.

TJBunch1228 said:
Sorry to piss in your puddle but the Maxx doesn't have a physical camera button.
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You bastard! ooh well. I thought the review I watched showed one. Thanks.

My Dell Venue too has a hardware button

If you still have buttons on your phone you can remap them to be the camera key.
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Rather than having a specific camera key (after all, not everyone uses the camera) it would be more useful to have one or two wakeup keys, for which the user can target whichever apps he wants.

There are MODS for that. Example: HERE for Droid Charge.

sony xperia pro, not even a hardware camera key, also hardware keyboard. Feel's so good when you can actually USE the display, and don't have to use half of it for onscreen keyboard.

I use to like using the hardware camera button on my G2, but for some reason when I do use it the picture comes out blurry due to the force needed to depress the button. I found it much easier to use the touch screen to take the picture. But that's probably user error? I'm hopeful.....

SE Xepria X10a- Has one
Samsung Captivate (i897)- Nope
Motorola Atrix 2- Has one
HTC Vivid- Nope
But I do miss the actual hardware key, though touching the screen to focus is cool, somewhat miss that "click" feeling.....

I wouldn't mind a hardware key. It makes it a lot easier to open the camera quickly from any app which is good if you only have a few seconds to capture a shot.
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imho
in my opinion when the screen gets bigger and the phone has less hardware buttons, like the new one x it is more than useful to have a f'king camera button.
thats the thing i really like on the windows phone 7 phones and missing on the android side.

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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.
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Poor up close pictures

Hi all,
Got a slight issue here, not sure if i'm not doing it right but i have tried all kinds of settings and nothing worked.
Anyway, heres what happened...... A butterfly flew into our work and was bugging everyone pretty much all day it eventually landed pretty much right next to me and i wanted to test out the macro on this phone, so i switched to close up and attempted to take a picture but it just came out all blurry, so i changed to different combinations of settings, always getting the same results, it kept focusing past perfection to blurriness??
Either way it was really annoying, I don't actually give a **** about butterflies i just wanted to be able to take a pic up close?
I'm running coredroid at the moment however i believe the camera is the native Sensation one. ??
Any ideas?
I notice that too. It focuses amazingly, and then instantly goes blurry. You have to be a couple of inches away before the macro works.
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Is there a decent guide for the sensation camera? I find this to be worse than the desire hd. E.g. if I take a picture of my dog with flash his eyes are always glowing (flash reflection) on the sensation, but never on the desire hd
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The camera is good enough for a phone. Buy something dedicated for that kind of work. And never use flash for making pictures, ever.
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Poor close up photographs is a general photography issue. Having trouble avoiding blurry photos up close goes for any type of photography when you're taking shots handheld. That said, I just tried the close-up setting on a wireless mouse and a pen, and at about 4 inches away I'm getting clear shots even though I'm in low light right now.
pr0x2 said:
The camera is good enough for a phone. Buy something dedicated for that kind of work. And never use flash for making pictures, ever.
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But my point is flash works great on the desire hd and it's shocking on the sensation. That's not how it should be!
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pr0x2 said:
The camera is good enough for a phone. Buy something dedicated for that kind of work. And never use flash for making pictures, ever.
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You obviously don't know anything about photography. Flash is absolutely needed in cases where there is insufficient lighting. Otherwise the output will lack detail and be noisy. If the direct flash is too intense, you can always use a reflective surface to produce a softer lighting.
Are you using the macro setting for the camera?

[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.

[Q] Zooming the camera

On all of my past HTC phones I was able to use the volume buttons to zoom in and out but I cannot figure out how to do it with the One X. Is it possible?
94loranger said:
On all of my past HTC phones I was able to use the volume buttons to zoom in and out but I cannot figure out how to do it with the One X. Is it possible?
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not with stock but I imagine it will be possible once we can really start customizing this phone
ah that sucks I wonder why they removed that option. It was convenient when I needed to quickly zoom now I have to touch the screen and often it zooms too much....Oh well thanks for the reply
94loranger said:
ah that sucks I wonder why they removed that option. It was convenient when I needed to quickly zoom now I have to touch the screen and often it zooms too much....Oh well thanks for the reply
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It was an option/feature with an OEM ROM?
Billy
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JeepFreak said:
It was an option/feature with an OEM ROM?
Billy
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I remember being able to do this with cheap ass "feature phones" such as the Samsung Eternity and Impression.

[Q] I do need some advice on this phone, thanx in advance

I want to replace my DHD, but Im not sure whether to choose a one x or galaxy note2.
Personally I love the design of one x and im fantastic about its UI, but after so many problem exposed im not so sure now.
galaxy note2 seems like a powerful phone, no interest on its UI but maybe a good phone.
I want to know if the problem with one x on the web is true and how good its performance is. i saw someone in DHD forum go back to DHD from one x, and not sure why.
Sorry for my messy expresson( maybe because im in mess....) but I do need some help
Hi. I do own both a DHD and a HOX. Since I bought a 64gb SD for the DHD and installed ICS on it I felt in love with my DHD again.
Don't get me wrong, HOX is a great phone! It's fast, makes great pictures and so on, but it has no place for an external SD card. I do want to have everything on my phone, from music to videos to games. With my HOX I have to watch carefully it's space.
If I were you, I would buy the galaxy s 3.
Press thanks, if it was helpful.
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putti71 said:
Hi. I do own both a DHD and a HOX. Since I bought a 64gb SD for the DHD and installed ICS on it I felt in love with my DHD again.
Don't get me wrong, HOX is a great phone! It's fast, makes great pictures and so on, but it has no place for an external SD card. I do want to have everything on my phone, from music to videos to games. With my HOX I have to watch carefully it's space.
If I were you, I would buy the galaxy s 3.
Press thanks, if it was helpful.
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Thats one of my concerns. I always wonder know how i can transfer my files to one x, now it seems to be really tough...
sxrsxrsx said:
Thats one of my concerns. I always wonder know how i can transfer my files to one x, now it seems to be really tough...
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I just plug phone into USB on PC to transfer. I also use dropbox to transfer certain files like apps, photo's notification sounds etc
seanicca said:
I just plug phone into USB on PC to transfer. I also use dropbox to transfer certain files like apps, photo's notification sounds etc
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Im afraid i didnt get you, as far as i can see, pluging the phone to the pc can only load the tf card but the rom. am i missing sth?
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Im afraid i didnt get you, as far as i can see, pluging the phone to the pc can only load the tf card but the rom. am i missing sth?
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Lol there is an internal virtual SD card, of course it's possible to transfer stuff to and from a pc, leaving out such basic functionality would be ridiculous
Michealtbh said:
Lol there is an internal virtual SD card, of course it's possible to transfer stuff to and from a pc, leaving out such basic functionality would be ridiculous
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thats great, i thought one x turned out to work like iphone does...
sxrsxrsx said:
thats great, i thought one x turned out to work like iphone does...
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Works just like any other Android phone
sxrsxrsx said:
thats great, i thought one x turned out to work like iphone does...
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better than iPhone; you do not need any iTunes like prog to transfer files, you can use OneX int storage as an usb storage as usual, mine is 32gb international model, I had also similar thoughts and hesitations as well at the beginning but this is not really a problem. I can easily transfer my camera shots, videos etc without problem.
The only concern, with my OneX, is wi-fi policy; it goes sleep when screen off, and this turns out a problem if you use it for ex. as remote control for other devices like tv, stereo etc in your home network like me, because reconnection to network is required each time you wake your phone, also the same issue makes streaming music via home network through your sound system unusable, just due to that. Otherwise, if you will not use your phone in that way, no any matters at all.
Note: in some custom roms this is already fixed afaik.
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I think that the hox is the best phone on the market. My wife ownz a sensation, which is much better that the desire hd and the one x blows it away! The screen quality has no match and it is really fast. In the initial roms the hox had some problems but with that latest update from HTC everything works great.
I also use a custom rom which makes the one x to fly...
Buy the one that you like, all your options are great phones.
Get a Motorola razr maxx or wait and get a razr maxx hd.
Battery life is almost double, it is made by Google so you will get quick updates and there is an sd card slot.
I wish I knew it existed before I bought my one X.
ORStoner said:
Get a Motorola razr maxx or wait and get a razr maxx hd.
Battery life is almost double, it is made by Google so you will get quick updates and there is an sd card slot.
I wish I knew it existed before I bought my one X.
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Google bought Motorola for patents, they aren't in charge of their software updates.
Only Nexus devices get quick updates. No Motorola device (apart for the Xoom which is a Nexus) has got JB yet for example
iLHaNroID said:
better than iPhone; you do not need any iTunes like prog to transfer files, you can use OneX int storage as an usb storage as usual, mine is 32gb international model, I had also similar thoughts and hesitations as well at the beginning but this is not really a problem. I can easily transfer my camera shots, videos etc without problem.
The only concern, with my OneX, is wi-fi policy; it goes sleep when screen off, and this turns out a problem if you use it for ex. as remote control for other devices like tv, stereo etc in your home network like me, because reconnection to network is required each time you wake your phone, also the same issue makes streaming music via home network through your sound system unusable, just due to that. Otherwise, if you will not use your phone in that way, no any matters at all.
Note: in some custom roms this is already fixed afaik.
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Thanx for your pationt help,man.There's another thing coming to many mind that how much space we can use as Rom to install apps? If there is some storage work like the tf card, it cannot work like Rom at the same time.am I right on this?
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evilflipper said:
I think that the hox is the best phone on the market. My wife ownz a sensation, which is much better that the desire hd and the one x blows it away! The screen quality has no match and it is really fast. In the initial roms the hox had some problems but with that latest update from HTC everything works great.
I also use a custom rom which makes the one x to fly...
Buy the one that you like, all your options are great phones.
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It's said on the web that the high temperature of the battery would make the screen have yellow spot.is it true?
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HTC one x all the way man. Best phone I've ever had, makes iPhone look terrible. It has the most wonderful screen for movies etc and there is loads of awesome devs making the best custom ROMs out there. You won't regret getting one!
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cleancorekiller said:
HTC one x all the way man. Best phone I've ever had, makes iPhone look terrible. It has the most wonderful screen for movies etc and there is loads of awesome devs making the best custom ROMs out there. You won't regret getting one!
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how about the signal strength? its said to be weak. is that real?
How does the battery perform? Better with the description of your use, thanx
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sxrsxrsx said:
how about the signal strength? its said to be weak. is that real?
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It really depends on your network provider. I am living here in a deserted place in U.A.E and i haven't face this kind of problems yet.
If you pick One X, i am sure you'll not regret it, besides from its simple and good looking design, the phone itself is a beast, especially if you unlock your phone and install a custom rom, battery life will surely increase as well.
One x is worst HTC phone
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RichmondoUK said:
One x is worst HTC phone
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Would you please tell me why?
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