Well as you may know the automatic brightness does not work properly under bright sunlight.
And the 3D camera does not take the pictures in the resolution set (check file size) if you access to the camera by the 3D application icon. (If you change from 2D to 3D it does work correctly.)
So I am open this thread to let you know about this, hopefully some developer give us any solution.
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same thing happen to me.. my auto brightness censor is not working. Also my 3d cam have problem. But i can still take shots in 3d.
bartdotnet said:
same thing happen to me.. my auto brightness censor is not working. Also my 3d cam have problem. But i can still take shots in 3d.
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For the brightness, I had the problem for a long time because I was dimming the screen to the minimal possible: but when i once held the brightness button I found out automatic brightness was on at the same time!
So automatic brightness on and yourself dimming the screen at the same time must go wrong.
Have you checked that already?
guys may i ask this question here..images after ics always seem out of focus,or at least 90% of the time (digged through settings,tried different camera apps,still nothing)
and some says the 3D pictures not at the same altitude in ics, making the user dizzy , but it was fine in GB, so they have to stuffed two systems both GB and ICS in it.
luckily my P920 works fine in 3D picture shooting.
I have taken 20 pictures in 3D over a period of a month since upgrading to ICS They all display OK but the resolution is 320 x 240. The phone has been re-booted several times, the battery changed in this period so it is not a settings malfunction. This is not a size listed in the settings menu and is really useless except for viewing on the phone screen. I don't know how this setting happened but just tried taking a 3D photo by using the 3D camera app icon as I had before and it took a full size picture 2048 x 1536 as set in the menu [default]. I seem to remember that a camera bug affects the camera when the battery is low, but my battery was at a good level for all the pictures taken and 3D and 2D videos worked fine. From now on I will check the file size after every photo taken to make sure no more are useless.
I just noticed this myself.
The Thrill 4G forum noticed it, too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=50990556
I'm trying to reproduce it manually, but not getting much luck.
Stock AT&T ICS Rooted and a ton of stuff deleted. I've completely wiped and reformatted different ROMs since then, though.
I think, somehow, that Dropbox is the culprit. I want to blame that, or some kind of auto-sync...
Edit:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/android-applications/11496-dropbox-sugarsync-referrals-here-2.html
I think I'm right. I've seen other reports of this.
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Hi,
My camera is very very slow. The quality seems good but when filming and moving the phone everything is very blurry. Is this normal / common issue?
If I take a picture of something it has to be absolutely still otherwise the picture is blurred.
When I direct it to a wall which is 1 color the camera if very fast, but when I move it to a colored area with lights etc, it flickers 1 time and then it goes very slow, as if some filter is applied in areas which are lighter.
I get this also and upgrading the radio has not solved the problem.
I've noticed that it seems to be fast in daylight?
Theres a camera trick in the forums - kaiser I think about switching off the phone (sleep mode by pressing the power button) whilst the camera is on and switching it back on again improving the speed but I have not been able to make it work.
The Polaris camera is very good in daylight conditions! If you try to take pictures in low light conditions the fps will drop so that it seems like it is very slow.
Try this little trick for videos or pictures in low light conditions with max fps:
1. Activate camera with camera button
2. Put your finger on the camera lens and hold it there
3. Turn of Screen / Put Polaris into sleep mode and wait 5 - 8 seconds
4. Activate Polaris screen again with power button
5. Now you can take pictures / videos with max fps!
But be aware of the fact, that with this little trick the iso lightening won't work anymore and the pictures will be darker and have lower quality!
After using the camera in better light conditions, everything will be as before the trick!
WOW! and that actually DID work
thanks for tip friend, I can live with the lower quality if I can get a decent video recording... The ones I've done before were rubbish. I would have been embarassed to show them to anyone... except maybe at a 60's convention..the blurryness was a little psychadelic!
The trick seems to work! Isn't there a way to modify the rom to always disable the light filter?
The other front camera is always working very fast, it's just the one on the back.
Thanks!
Maybe UDK might build it into his v9 release? (hint, hint!)
As far as i know there is no chance to tweak some software or a rom so that the problom won't occur again. When starting the camera it's hardware will always activate the iso lightning and therefore there will be those fps drops in low light conditions.
It has something to do with the lack of hardware drivers which could keep high fps rates also in low light conditions..... BUT i'm not sure because of the diamond!
If you compare it with the diamond, there ARE some video drivers but the performance of the camera is nearly the SAME as on Polaris.... in some situations even worse and less fps rates!
ZaPP187 said:
As far as i know there is no chance to tweak
If you compare it with the diamond, there ARE some video drivers but the performance of the camera is nearly the SAME as on Polaris.... in some situations even worse and less fps rates!
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htc phone has the slow camera problem all the time ,and will last too its dieth
so change your htc for samung or nokia their cameras are better than htc
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It has something to do with the lack of hardware drivers which could keep high fps rates also in low light conditions.....
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It has absolutely nothing to do with drivers. The phone's night mode isn't simply adjusting the ISO. The phone is allowing more light into the sensor, thus keeping the shutter open longer. Doing so blurs the picture if you move around. Any phone with a night mode does the same thing. In fact any digitial camera with a nightmode will also do this.
ZaPP187 said:
The Polaris camera is very good in daylight conditions! If you try to take pictures in low light conditions the fps will drop so that it seems like it is very slow.
Try this little trick for videos or pictures in low light conditions with max fps:
1. Activate camera with camera button
2. Put your finger on the camera lens and hold it there
3. Turn of Screen / Put Polaris into sleep mode and wait 5 - 8 seconds
4. Activate Polaris screen again with power button
5. Now you can take pictures / videos with max fps!
But be aware of the fact, that with this little trick the iso lightening won't work anymore and the pictures will be darker and have lower quality!
After using the camera in better light conditions, everything will be as before the trick!
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OMG, it works! thx a lot!
Can I ask how to modify this trick via a .reg file?
As said above, this cannot be done. You'll have to do it manually each time.
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It has absolutely nothing to do with drivers. The phone's night mode isn't simply adjusting the ISO. The phone is allowing more light into the sensor, thus keeping the shutter open longer. Doing so blurs the picture if you move around. Any phone with a night mode does the same thing. In fact any digitial camera with a nightmode will also do this.
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Ok, but how about setting a value for nightmode, so it wont be used in mediocre lit areas thus increasing performance?(maybe to finally allow to make some nice, steady pictures) I think HTC overdid it a little.
And how can you explain this trick, fooling phone that it's complete darkness, so it decides to turn nightmode off? Kinda weird.
Also what LightSensorHz(50) registry value does?
\HKLM\Software\Drivers\Camera\Property
I have an i760 smartphone with a cracked screen that I want to turn into a sort time-lapse camera. The idea is to get it all set up using EveryWAN, start snapping shots and just let it run until I stop it or it runs out of battery. The result should be a continuous record of whatever event I leave it running at. It would be a cool way to record parties and events like that without having to run around with a camera in your hand all night.
I searched for a program/hack to do this and came up with a few things that will be similar (tinycam on this board) but I would like to try the continuous shot thing anyway as it has its own cool factor.
What do you guys think? Is this something that can be altered within the system files or is it set in stone with the OS? Looking forward to your thoughts!
No one has any ideas? I would think this would be a fairly simple mod though I'm not sure how this stuff works.
Bump Bump Bump It up!!!
So I've done some playing around and here's what I've come up with...
If TinyCam or VIO for windows mobile had better/ongoing support and were modified to use higher camera resolutions and effects, etc. I would use one of those in an instant. The problem is they're both limited to picture resolutions of under 200x200 and have no support for low light shots.
I played with the registry keys on the i760 but can't get any changes to take effect or remain changed.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Samsung>Camera
I set,
PictureShotMode = 2 (multishot/continuous)
MultiCount = x (Works for 3,6,9 but nothing above the defaults)
This makes the camera start up in multishot mode but inputing values higher than 9 resets the shot count to the default 6 in the camera settings menu. So something is obviously handling this in a different way. Can camera.exe check these settings as it is launched and revert anything back to default that is out of its set range?
Anyone have any ideas on where I can go from here?
A fellow on the i9000 forum posted this and it seems like it probably affects all galaxy s phone http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838949
To check if the sensor is always on do this
Type *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer
Click Battery history
Pick Sensor usage
Click on gallery and you'll see for how long the sensor has been on, seems like the sensor never shuts off after you exit the gallery.
To fix this glitch delete Gallery3d.apk from /system/app using root explorer or a terminal, restart the phone and download Gallery3d from the market.
There's also a new gallery3d app from the desire, it doesn't seem to have this glitch either plus it has a cool pinch peek feature http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=847656
Thanks alot. The new gallery also gets rid of the low res bug. Zooming in keeps the detail. Nice.
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I looked but my gallery sensor seems to turn off so may not be an issue with everyone, but thanks for post
ERRR
only i'm suffering from this problem ?
when i installed that zip file (from recovery) gallery 3D (deleted the 1 from RE like u'v said)
now when i load a picture it's loading first in LOW res than only after 2 sec it gives u the full nice RES
why is that !?? u can't enjoy seeing your pictures like that
how do i go back to the first ORIGINAL gallery APK ?
10x
ps in the original gallery it was loading HIGH RES instantly and extremly FAST
using I9000 2.2 VOODOO LAGFIX
interesting...I noticed my gallery was keeping the sensor on as well. new version from the market has fixed the problem.
does anyone know how much battery drain this is actually causing? I have noticed that the app "Bedside" is also using the sensor all the time- even when it has seemingly been killed- which seems very strange.
also- does this "sensor usage" stat apply only to the light sensor? or does the phone orientation sensor count toward it as well?
One thing i don't see mentioned here (it is in the original i9000 thread) is that this battery drain bug came with the official Froyo release on the i9000 and didn't seem to exist in 2.1.
How are you all getting the new version from the market? When I search for "Gallery", nothing resembling the official app comes up anywhere in the first hundred or so results...The rom I'm running has the AT&T version of the market, maybe thats the issue?
OP - Thank you for the instructions. I tested mine and it seems that Homerun Battle 3D was using the sensors even though it had not been launched in a couple days. It was maxed as the most Sensor usage since unplugged this morning.
I uninstalled it and will update if this helps my battery.
Thank you again
I just deleted my gallery app using Titanium backup and searched for "gallery 3d" in the market. I'm running cognition which I believe has a fixed build.prop so that might be why I can see it in the market.
looking back in the history, the app "bedside" has used significantly more sensor than even the Android system. I am a bit concerned that the app may be draining my battery. since the app is paid, I would like to raise the issue with the developer but I don't really know how much battery drain it is causing or if it is light sensor, orientation sensor, or something else. I'd appreciate any help.
thanks for this info.
I dont have this particular issue but I do see "camera" as using the sensor for the past 3 hours. I opened the camera this morning but I have closed it since. Does this mean the sensor has been using the battery all this time?...just curious...
Just wanted to update.
After finding out that Homerun Battle 3D had the sensors running when the game itself had not even been launched, I uninstalled it..
Today so far after being unplugged for 7hr 47m I am at 93% battery. Which isnt bad IMO
Not sure if anyone notice but if you are taking videos in a dark room or at night there is what appears to be a dead pixel (green dot) just above the center of the phone. However this might be a software issue because I do not see this dead pixel while taking pictures in a dark room in camera mode. But in video mode especially when the settings is at full HD 1080p you can see it clearly. If you set video settings to 960 by 540 then it is less noticeable but still there. Since it doesn't show up on camera mode I believe it could be a software issue. Could someone else try testing to see if they are having this problem also or is it just me. Just go into a dark room or place your hands over the lens and switch to video mode and set it to full 1080p. When you record in the dark you should see the dead pixel during playback. If I'm the only one then I probably need to get a new phone.
It would be incredibly helpful if you could post one more thread in relation to this matter.
Thanks,
The Sarcasmista
I am having this issue using the camera app on my Sense 3.0 ROM for the Evo.
I've noticed this on all Gingerbread based ROMs.
The camera app does this thing where it increases the brightness upon clicking on the app, and reduces it after exiting.
This is problematic for me, because I am a college student who uses my phone to take pictures of presentations in class. It is distracting for other students, especially in a dimly lit PowerPoint setting, to see a bright phone lifted up so that I can take a picture.
There are already enough idiots out there with their Macs on full brightness, I don't want to be part of that problem.
Same thing happens to my Desire : screen goes full bright when in Camera.
I have tried digging in the camera settings to see if there is a way to turn it off, but I cannot seem to do so.
Do you know of any way to turn that off.
I'm sure this is helpful when you are outdoors and suddenly need to grab a picture, but it isn't in my case.
anishannayya said:
I have tried digging in the camera settings to see if there is a way to turn it off, but I cannot seem to do so.
Do you know of any way to turn that off.
I'm sure this is helpful when you are outdoors and suddenly need to grab a picture, but it isn't in my case.
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It's not an issue it's built in to Gingerbread, just like the TV off animation...Google probably figured you'll need max brightness to use the cam, to help with viewing the screen. There's nothing you can do, if you change the brightness in settings, it doesn't change the cam setting.
But you can turn off animations if you want to.
anishannayya said:
But you can turn off animations if you want to.
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Yeah, but the camera thing can't be toggled, perhaps you can ask a dev to take a look into the source code, there should be information on how to change the brightness there.
LOL, I don't have enough posts to post in a dev thread.