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[Q] Camera Questions

Is there any way (hack) to make the camera shoot in 16x9 format?
Also, any way to have the camera upload automatically online (smugmug, in my specific case)?

MacGuy2006 said:
Is there any way (hack) to make the camera shoot in 16x9 format?
Also, any way to have the camera upload automatically online (smugmug, in my specific case)?
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I don't know about forcing 16x9 with the camera...there's probably third party camera apps that will let you.
For the automatic upload, there's an app called Tasker that sounds like it will let you do stuff like that. Modaco tweeted this just today:
Tasker IS the most amazing app ever. Whenever I think 'I wish I could do THIS' on my phone it has a way. Brilliant.
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Thanks.
I looked at Tasker, but in the brief evaluation period I could not see a way to auto upload to smugmug, so i uninstalled it.
But I found an app named PicPush, which does exactly that: it pushes pics and movies you take with the phone to various sites, including smugmug.
Does anyone know of a good camera app which would do high res 16x9 photos, and also has a decent set of options? I didn't find anything I liked on Market.

MacGuy2006 said:
Thanks.
I looked at Tasker, but in the brief evaluation period I could not see a way to auto upload to smugmug, so i uninstalled it.
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Brief evaluation period? You mean the 15 minutes from the Market?
There's a week long eval period if you download and install from the dev's website. Moot point for you since you found another application, but others reading may be interested.

Cannot capture pictures/videos

For some reason starting a few days ago my camera just does NOT work. It won't save any pictures, front or back camera. Videos do not work at all either. It says it took a picture, but viewing it from a computer or via Gallery shows a corrupted 1mbish file. I even restored back to the stock rom and while it did fix the BACK CAMERA PICTURE taking, the front camera and the Video taking causes the app to just close on me. I have a catlog of what happens when a video is attempted to be recorded. I have NO idea what the heck is wrong. I restored my whole phone to the original ROM and back, and I even formatted the SD card various times. I tried another SD card and I had the same results. Is my phone broken? Why does it work with custom apps and Skyping (etc) even work.
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Have you tired a diffident camera application out of curiosity? Perhaps it will help. If it's not the SD card maybe it's the camera application. If a new application doesn't work then the camera mechanism itself is likely broken somehow. But do try another camera application. You can flash one from here or get one from play store. It is a experiment to see if the camera mechanism itself is broken. Hopefully the new camera app will work. I wish you the best. Hope this helps you out.
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realsis said:
Have you tired a diffident camera application out of curiosity? Perhaps it will help. If it's not the SD card maybe it's the camera application. If a new application doesn't work then the camera mechanism itself is likely broken somehow. But do try another camera application. You can flash one from here or get one from play store. It is a experiment to see if the camera mechanism itself is broken. Hopefully the new camera app will work. I wish you the best. Hope this helps you out.
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium
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Yeah, depending on the app it will take pictures. The stock has always worked for me.. why is it broken now?

Is there an Infrared camera app?

Just curious if there is an app that uses the infrared camera (for the iris scanner)?

The iris scanner has a fixed focal range, you can't focus with it as the focus is fixed, so it would be pointless even if there was an app!

jhun80 said:
Just curious if there is an app that uses the infrared camera (for the iris scanner)?
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You can use service menu (dial *#0*#) and there is an iris camera test, gonna close after a few seconds, but you can check it out.

Yeah i checked it out and it disappears fast. It would be fun to take a selfie on total darkness, if there is a way to take pictures lol.

I'm just looking for this too. I tried it and can see things farther than 1m clearly. so it would have some fun uses if there's an app could do that.

Anyone else knows if there's a way to access the camera regardless if its pointless or not?

luizdom said:
Anyone else knows if there's a way to access the camera regardless if its pointless or not?
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Did you find an app?

I am aware this is an old thread, but I'm interested in an app like that too

There is actually an app
If u check latest Steve Mould youtube video he shows how this app called Open Camera can open the IR camera. It may or may not work (he was using a Google pixel 4)

Some questions for anyone with the phone. (Extra one for those who are rooted)

Hoping someone can answer some questions for me. Thinking about buying one of these, but need to make sure of a few things.
1. Does the phone have some kind of voice wake-up? With the new Chinese voice assistant, I would assume there's some kind of voice wake-up system for that -- anyone who tried the global rom, can google assistant wake up the phone with "OK Google?" Seems like a long shot, but would love to know.
2. On the Mi Mix 2, the brightness sensor was placed right where someone using the phone left-handed's hand would be. Has this changed? I heard from someone they centered the brightness sensor for this one, but can anyone confirm?
3. I hope someone rooted can try this, but is it possible to put the phone in diag mode, connect with QPST, and make a qcn backup of the baseband? With Android O I'm no longer able to do this on Mi Mix 2. If anyone willing to try this, ask for more details if you don't know how to do it.

I'm not running an official MIUI ROM (xiaomi.eu ROM), but since the base is pretty similar my answers should still count...
1) OK Google does work, but apparently not for unlocking / wakeing the device. I guess this could be fixed with some fiddling around
2) The brightness sensor isn't dead center on the 2S either. It is around 1cm left to the middle.
3) Worked perfectly fine for me

i can not sync my google contacts. any help?

fopoku2k2 said:
i can not sync my google contacts. any help?
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Install contacts from play store and give it all permissions

fopoku2k2 said:
i can not sync my google contacts. any help?
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malimukk said:
Install contacts from play store and give it all permissions
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Don't forget to give all permissions to contacts sync app too

Flatric said:
Don't forget to give all permissions to contacts sync app too
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worked like a charm. What would I do without XDA

fopoku2k2 said:
worked like a charm. What would I do without XDA
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XDA is great!!!!
It worked also for me!!!!
Thanks!!

does the stock camera app let you shoot raw images?
if no, is it possible when using alternative camera apps like open camera, fv-5,...?

vercetti said:
does the stock camera app let you shoot raw images?
if no, is it possible when using alternative camera apps like open camera, fv-5,...?
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Check the screenshot

thx for the screenshot. does that mean it's available in the stock app too or only in 3rd party camera apps?

vercetti said:
thx for the screenshot. does that mean it's available in the stock app too or only in 3rd party camera apps?
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Well, then check another screenshot
It does save RAW perfectly fine

thx for replying. your screenshot tells me that you took a picture in raw format and that this raw file was saved in the open camera folder. I suppose you used open camera to take the picture.
does the stock camera also offer the option to shoot raw files?
thx,
vercetti.

vercetti said:
thx for replying. your screenshot tells me that you took a picture in raw format and that this raw file was saved in the open camera folder. I suppose you used open camera to take the picture.
does the stock camera also offer the option to shoot raw files?
thx,
vercetti.
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With the latest China dev rom: nope, no raw format supported by stock camera app.
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What will be lost if bootloader is unlocked

Kele5404 said:
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drm keys which is image and video enhancement, also the camera becomes ****ty haha ?

nolihowell said:
drm keys which is image and video enhancement, also the camera becomes ****ty haha
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You lose image enhancement, but I haven't noticed any changes in the camera. Frankly the camera is pretty bad anyway, so it's kind of whatever in my book.

orrorin said:
You lose image enhancement, but I haven't noticed any changes in the camera. Frankly the camera is pretty bad anyway, so it's kind of whatever in my book.
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well thats true the camera acts strangely sometimes unlike my xz2 before.

Hi, could you provide more details on what get lost when unlocking ?
Do Camera Pro still work for example ?
Camera auto detection of type of content and filter associated to them are still working ?

Magissia said:
Hi, could you provide more details on what get lost when unlocking ?
Do Camera Pro still work for example ?
Camera auto detection of type of content and filter associated to them are still working ?
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I'll like to know too.