Hi everyone,
I am having an issue with my S3 receiving short videos via SMS/MMS. When I try to open the video via my messaging app (tried with both Go SMS Pro and stock), it just displays a still photo, but the audio plays. Also, the photo is very small and on the top of the screen. I'm aware of the stock messaging app giving people fits with a photo acting as a short, couple second video, but not in my case. It is the other way around, but the sound of the video plays, with a still shot photo.
I am on Clean Rom 5.5.1 with the latest version of LeanKernel.
Installed CleanRom 5.6 and the problem is gone. However, I doubt it was a problem with 5.5.1. Probably something I tinkered with and broke. All is well now.
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For some God forsaken reason, the camera in my N5 is a pile of crap. Let me list the issues:
(Note I'm using the stock Google Camera app and have tried CM Focal with identical results).
Switching from Rear to Front camera takes a stupid amount of time, usually winds up crashing the Camera app altogether.
Switching from Camera to Video results in a grey bar, 1/10th the width of the screen, spanning the entire length of the right side of the screen. The app usually crashes after this.
Videos usually can't record, the screen freezes, forcing me to hit the back or home button.
When videos do record, they're corrupt and cant be played on any windows machine or in any program.
Sound quality is laughable. (wasn't when I first bought the phone with 4.4.2 on it)
Snapchat usually can't even launch the camera and asks to restart the app. Usually results in me having to reboot the phone.
When the camera does work in Snapchat, pictures come out fine, but switching cameras usually reproduces the issue mentioned above. Videos, however record only 50% of the time. The times they dont, the screen freezes, resulting me having to restart the app.
When videos do actually record in Snapchat they have about a 50/50 of being unable to be played back, resulting in the error message: "Can't play this video".
On rare occasions, using the camera in Snapchat results in the screen flickering rapidly for a few seconds and then the phone reboots... The last time this occured it wiped all the data to Facebook, Snapchat, and EvolveSMS.
These symptoms exist in both Vanilla KitKat 4.4.4 and CM11 (Snapshot M8). Yes, I have reinstalled Snapchat. I've also tried toggling on/off HDR+ to no avail.
My Camera is basically useless and it's extremely annoying. It has even caused crashes that have wiped data from my phone. Hardware related? Software related? I'm really at a loss here... Any help is appreciated.
Well first try a complete fresh install to see if it's just software related
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Ben36 said:
Well first try a complete fresh install to see if it's just software related
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Factory reset, wiped case and dalvik, freshly installed CM11 last night before bed. Same symptoms exist as they did before.
Received a refurbished 32 GB Droid Maxx from Asurion after receiving two defective Razr Maxx HDs.
Phone came from Asurion with 4.4.4 already installed.
Have tried:
1. Factory wipe.
2. Cache partition wipe.
3. Reflashed with stock 4.4.4.
4. All possible iterations of disabling/uninstalling/reinstalling/clearing data/testing in safe mode of apps listed below.
Persisting Issues (apply to updated and stock motorola camera app, google camera app, youtube, Gallery app, Photos app, Mxplayer, and test for video capture and playback using com server app in factory mode):
1. Phone frequently freezes during video capture to the point of requiring forced reboot.
2. For videos that are successfully recorded, when viewing preview in Gallery or Photos app, groups of blacks pixels alpear as artifacts. Example: please append "vxuUz1J" to imgur.com - note the artifacts to the left of wastebasket, above the door, and along the left side of the door.
3. When attempting to play videos in any of above listed apps, I often get the message "This video could not be played," either right away or after some of the video plays (changes from attempt to attempt for same video).
4. When a video does sucessfully play in any of the apps listed above (including youtube videos and in factory mode- com server video test), prominent artifacts in the form of: groups of black pixels similar to in #3;large, lingering "ghost" frames; and "glitch-like" events occur in every video. Occurrence is different in type and degree for each playback instance of the same video.
5. Additionally for youtube, when playing a video embedded in a webpage (have only tried this in chrome), video is a scrambled mess of grayscale bars (note all playback and viewing of previews in #1-4 retained color). Note that no problems have been observed with audio.
**Note that the "still camera" works perfectly fine and gallery apps show no artifacts in displaying still images.
A tech at a vzw corporate store said it was a "pixel density issue," but he had no idea how to fix it or whether it was a hardware or software issue. I take what he said with a grain of salt.
Asurion has no more new Maxx's in stock, and they refuse to send me another refurbushed phone since they have already sent me 3. Since I am hard-pressed to give up the 32 for the new 16 they are now offering me, I would appreciate any ideas or assistance in determining the cause of this issue and possibly a fix if it is software-related. Thank you!
Hey there, I have a new Verizon Lg G5 with a frustrating issue while receiving images via MMS.
After setting up my phone and installing all my normal apps, I noticed that when I received an mms picture, the image quality was so low I could barely read the text in the photo. I did some fiddling with the texting app, trying out Textra, Google Messenger and Chomp, but the issue persisted. I then tried running my phone in safe mode and sending myself some images which came through great. Leave safe mode and text myself same images, back to super low quality.
So this morning I reset my phone and started fresh. Using textra, the images were coming through great for awhile. After installing a batch of apps, I tested by sending myself a message and the low quality issue was back. I then deleted the GroupMe app and the images were full resolution again. A few minutes later after no changes, the images went back to low quality. I tried installing GroupMe again, then tested an image and it was fine for awhile, then back to low quality. So I tried uninstalling Snapchat, but leaving GroupMe installed. Again, the image resolution increased, but about 5 minutes later, back to low quality.
Not really sure how to troubleshoot this as I cannot narrow it down to a single app, and it doesn't seem like a Verizon issue since it does, at times, send full resolution images.
Any ideas? I find it very frustrating to be on a new phone and have my image quality lower than my G3.
Thanks in advance.
Hello,
Welcome to XDA.
Try posting your issue in the forum linked below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-lg-g5/help
The experts there may be able to help.
Register an XDA account to post and reply in the forums. Good luck.
Hi guys, as the title says I'm having problems with Facebook messenger video calling.
When holding the phone vertically the video is extremely stretched, in the settings messenger is set to be optimised for full screen,
which it obviously isn't. I don't have an option to disable the full screen for the app though. Has anyone else come across this issue or have
any idea how to fix it? I've tried re installing the app but it's made no difference
I had a video chat last night in the app with no issues
Hi so recently discovered that mms is terrible through one plus messaging app so downloaded Google messages app which I used to use on pixel and any other Android.
My issue is when accessing the camera to take a picture through the messages app everything looks stretched vertically. Once picture is take and sent it appears shorter and normal. I have disable on screen button not sure if that has something to do with it.
I had the same exact problem, so I went to Textra and everything is working fine.