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Slow camera

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

ZaPP187 said:
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.

sonus said:
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

Camera bug or normal? Banding / lines in certain photos

Hi,
Just got my Honor 8.
I noticed that when I use pro photo mode and change ISO and/or shutter speed to a lower setting in the camera app, there are vertical lines moving across the screen, that also show up in the photos I take.
Tried a factory reset.
Tried a couple different camera apps and issue persists.
Ran all the updates available.
If I increase the ISO/shutter speed, it is less noticable.
Anyone else have it?
Attached a sample image.

Did you try taking pictures in lowlight? As that is probably the reason why you are seeing those lines.

DarkGuyver said:
Did you try taking pictures in lowlight? As that is probably the reason why you are seeing those lines.
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it was a average-lit room (60W equiv LED bulb).. seems to be a AC frequency thing? it is extremely pronounced though as you can see in the picture. Reduces when I select certain shutter speed numbers.
Are other people able to recreate this?

avink said:
it was a average-lit room (60W equiv LED bulb).. seems to be a AC frequency thing? it is extremely pronounced though as you can see in the picture. Reduces when I select certain shutter speed numbers.
Are other people able to recreate this?
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I've seen this happen with devices that have low quality camera sensors on them.

Try taking pics under a different light but just as dim. Could be the light's flickering that is being recorded by the camera.

I have same problem with my Huawei mate 10 pro
I record my screen:
https://youtu.be/e40iensRCbo

Stock camera app iso problem

Every time i use stock camera app in low light the stock camera app in auto mode use too hight iso like 5005
What make the photo has a lot of noise
I tried pro shot apk and it has much better results
How to fix this problem?

rowihel2012 said:
Every time i use stock camera app in low light the stock camera app in auto mode use too hight iso like 5005
What make the photo has a lot of noise
I tried pro shot apk and it has much better results
How to fix this problem?
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turn down the exposure and use hdr auto

foxy4270 said:
turn down the exposure and use hdr auto
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Same result iso 5005

rowihel2012 said:
Same result iso 5005
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upload the pic here

foxy4270 said:
upload the pic here
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzSAGsyr7oaoWG84UWFCdmcwWUU/view?usp=drivesdk
This one is auto in low light
Iso is 4450
Is too high
Much noise
Every time i must use manual in low light

This one is manual
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzSAGsyr7oaoT3V2QUVua0RoTFE/view?usp=drivesdk
Iso 400
Why auto is ugly in iso?

low light
iso is 10000 or iso 50000
too high
Much noise

Setting ISO manually in Camera Pro completely over exposes photos

The camera is super slow, I thought this would get better with the camera pro.
So I tried to set the iso to 800 and 1600 but the exposure is completely off when doing this. It seems the software decides to use a much slower shutter speed than what is actually needed when iso is set manually so pictures are completely over exposed.
Anyone having this trouble? Or do you guys know if it is possible to fix it?
Right now the only way for me to take a picture with manual iso is to also set the shutter speed manually which makes the process super slow and negates most of the benefit of choosing a manual iso since now I have to waste more time trying to guess which shutter speed would be best.

Is horrible work ok nokia, ihave some issues

I don't see any changes when adjusting iso settings. Not sure if it's a gimmick. Might try at night with strong focal light source..
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Could someone please check the following (simple?) camera setting.

Would somebody be so kind to check if the following is possible:
Camera: Put the ISO on fixed and low (like 100) and then the shutter on auto AND be possible to take good pictures in half lit rooms, like indoors. (shutter can become like 5 seconds, on auto!)
Yes, very simple/basic you would think, but it appears to be very rare for camera phones. For normal camera’s this is 100% basic!
Please tell me the Mi Note 10 can do this.
And for more info, IF you are interested:
I tested it out: P30pro, Oneplus 7T and a bunch of more cheap/midrange/(I)phones. And as soon as you put it on a fixed (low) ISO (if even possible), the max shutter will be too short to make a good picture with low light. Or they put the shutter on manual as soon as you put Iso on a fixed value. Either way, it is not possible what I need for photogrammetry
I have no clue why they set the max shutter on something like half a second max, when ISO is manual/fixed but they do. Or fixed ISO means only manual shutter. Even with Gcam and/or other party apps. I've tried everything!
Yes, you can manually set the shutter longer, to get a decent exposure (so, technical it is possible to take the picture with the right exposure), but I need it to be on auto shutter/exposure, as I have to take 1000+ pictures in half a day for photogrammetry, so I do not have time to do manual shutter/exposure.
On a normal camera this is soooo basic. Please tell me the Mi Note 10 does not have this strange “limitation” for no obvious reason that other high level camera phones do have.

Yes, it has such limitation and it has a basic explanation - if the shutter speed is longer than half a second, you'll need a tripod for a decent image.

bo6o said:
Yes, it has such limitation and it has a basic explanation - if the shutter speed is longer than half a second, you'll need a tripod for a decent image.
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Thanks for the answer, though it was not what I hoped for.
And yes you need a tripod of course. But do the big companies think nobody ever heard of a tripod and why you use them for a camera(phone)? Beside that, it is only limited when shutter is on auto, not on manual. To me it make no sense.
Not to mention al 3th party apps, they all claim: use you camera phone as a DSLR…. NOT!

You can do whatever you want, even in the default camera app.
The max shutter rate is 32s, and the max ISO is 6400.
You can set whatever you want.
I also shoot nighttime, and I'm always at 100 ISO.

insetta said:
The max shutter rate is 32s, and the max ISO is 6400.
You can set whatever you want.
I also shoot nighttime, and I'm always at 100 ISO.
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Okay, but do you set the shutter on manual or on auto? What will become the max shutter on auto? (with fixed ISO at 100 and at nighttime).