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Camera question

Hello,
Is there a tweak or possibilty or tool to let the camera app record video without the camera app visible onscreen. The app must be visible onscreen or it stops recording :/
Let's say you want to do other things on your phone and record video in the meantime. Now every time I leave the camera application (without closing it) and let's say phone someone then the camera stops recording .
Thx in advance.

Anyone has an idea?

iteresting thing.. i dont found any else app.

Sorry i cant help..
I do have another question I've been meaning to ask tho...
Has any one else noticed this..
When you have camera app open ready to take a picture, if you press the black between buttons on the right hand side it makes a Grey dotted box flash around the picture, noticed it helps with the picture taking time, almost like a "hold button half way to prime a digital camera"
Am I tripping or am I right??
Just not heard of any one else ever mentioning this...

Can't help either
snowblind2142 said:
I do have another question I've been meaning to ask tho...
Has any one else noticed this..
When you have camera app open ready to take a picture, if you press the black between buttons on the right hand side it makes a Grey dotted box flash around the picture, noticed it helps with the picture taking time, almost like a "hold button half way to prime a digital camera"
Am I tripping or am I right??
Just not heard of any one else ever mentioning this...
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I think you mean the frame showing what is actually being captured on your picture (instead of the whole 'wide' view you have before taking the picture).

flr said:
I think you mean the frame showing what is actually being captured on your picture (instead of the whole 'wide' view you have before taking the picture).
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Sorry you've confused me..
When I open the camera app, it opens full screen with 3 icons,
Flash, shutter(take picture) and settings..
I presume every one else is the same (exept possibly cooked roms)..
When you press settings tab and all the settings are around the screen pop up..
Press the gap between the shutter button and the settings button(a dotted box will show clearly around the middle flashing for a couple of seconds)
Now take a picture, measure the time it takes from you pressing and the picture capture..
Now do the same as you normally would.. Press the shutter..
Just seems way faster with the flashy box going than without.
Can you tell me why?

friendly bump.
I am wondering what it does as well.

I'm sorry, it took me some time to figure it out.
I think this is described in the manual on page 240.
Particulary at the footnote:
'Note If you tap outside the effective focus area, a white box appears to indicate the area where you can use Touch Focus.'
Is this what you mean?

Video Question

When recording video on the slide I have two vertical black rectangle boxes either side of the video when uploaded to Youtube. It's roughly 1/3 video in the middle with 1/3 either side as a black rectangle.
I've tried all the different screen resolutions with no luck.
Am I missing something blindingly obvious?

Do you have an example?

I have never seen mine do that.

jsyi84 said:
Do you have an example?
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My bad : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sclRpcXMRw0
That wasn't shot with my phone but that's the same result.
I've been through every setting I can find and can't seem to figure it out.
If someone has their video recorder working correctly and could post their settings i'd be most grateful.

Your holding the phone wrong. It is designed to be held horizontally not vertical. If you hold it that way you cant get the aspect ratio correct when it is processed for YouTube causing those black spaces your talking about.
Here is one I did holding it correctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1FnA7sKYVo

Techlvr said:
Your holding the phone wrong. It is designed to be held horizontally not vertical. If you hold it that way you cant get the aspect ratio correct when it is processed for YouTube causing those black spaces your talking about.
Here is one I did holding it correctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1FnA7sKYVo
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Thanks for the reply, but when I do as you suggest I get the black boxes top and bottom instead of left and right.

Are you uploading the video directly to YouTube? Are you using a program or something to process it before you upload? If your using something to edit the video first just make sure to set the Aspect ratio correctly. I use Cyber Link Power Director and it automatically selects the correct aspect ratio. It uses 16:9. As far as uploading directly I am not sure I have ever done that actually but you would think YouTube would get it right when the video is processed. I will have to try and see for myself.

I had this issue with the regular camera, not just the camcorder, but not as extreme..
Here's a pic I took for a Wikia I'm on..
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/_...hbox/images/6/6e/62VWBeetlemetallicorange.jpg
As you can see, there's a black bar on the right side. It only happened once so who knows..?
p.s., I've taken hundreds of photos with the camera so it's not a "holding it wrong" issue

[Q] Pixels Issue

Is anyone having display issues with the bottom 3 pixel rows?
It's not entirely annoying.
The whole display is shifted up 3 pixels. (not the physical display)
The 3 rows of pixels on the bottom stretch out the image.
You can see what I mean if you use the ChargerBar application.
By sending the bar to the bottom 1px in height, the bar is stretched out by 3px.
Then send the bar up to the top and it disappears.
You would have to increase the height of the bar by 3px.
I want to show a video. But I don't have a camera...

Here's a video of the issue.
http://youtu.be/ROfYY0wUHzg

porksoda02 said:
Here's a video of the issue.
http://youtu.be/ROfYY0wUHzg
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I see it too... running cm7. Something needs to be done to the display, just change the number a little. If linuxbozo was here he could easily but i have no idea how sorry. Just try to ignore it, thats what i do. It is hardly noticible.

I see it on mine running emancipation....
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I997 using XDA

Its normal, noticed it as well.
I think its two pixels, not 3

What's strange is that when I reboot the device it's normal, the way it should look on the bottom. Once I turn off the screen for the first time and then turn it back on, this issue happens, and it stays until the device is rebooted again.

S7 Strange Screen Flickering

So I bought my used S7 recently, the device seems to be totally clean not even a scratch on the frame, looks like brand new and even the software status is OFFICIAL not even the Knox is tripped.
I found a thread on XDA about using an updated version of TouchWiz Home of the S8 for the S7 by installing the APK.
it worked like a charm until I started to change my wallpapers and notice something strange.
im using an application to change the wallpapers auto every 5 minutes, the problem is whenever the wallpaper i use has some bright colors like bright purple or bright red and i press the app button to access the app drawer those colors (ONLY) flicker , they flicker just before the screen get blurred and take u to the app drawer, and also when u go back to the main screen from the app drawer also right after the blur disappear.
i got scared so i uninstalled that Touchwiz Update and came back to stock, to notice that the problem is still there, but its not as noticeable as the s8 TW
i wanted to know if the screen is dying or this is something normal, and also wanted to know if its a software related problem or hardware one, and finally if someone is having the same issue ( i can share a wallpaper if anyone is willing to try wit it )
NB: the screen flicker ONLY ON THE BRIGHT COLOR before the blur effect happens and After it.
Thank you all in advance & i apologize for my English
I made this video If you focus on the second time especially ( when going to the home screen from the app drawer ) you can see clearly the red rose flicker. Sometimes the flickering is harder depending on how bright is the color.
https://i.imgur.com/cuO7BBU.png

This can only be a software problem, because its also visible in the Video. Your screen is not damaged, and it will not be damaged. This issue is not a problem, maybe only a bit annoying.

profi_fahrer said:
This can only be a software problem, because its also visible in the Video. Your screen is not damaged, and it will not be damaged. This issue is not a problem, maybe only a bit annoying.
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It is so annoying for me cuz i had an old S5 plus that ended up with the screen flickering so whenever i see it flickering i got a heart attack.
Is there anyway to fix it i tried factory reset but nothing changed..
Thank you anyway for replying

I think thats a Problem with the Launcher. I've tried it on my Phone, and it is also flickering. You can try to speed up the Animation-Speed in the Developer-Settings. Maybe then you wont see the flickering.
You can see it here, that it is also on my phone: https://photos.app.goo.gl/nYKM5ss9EKe3L0M43

profi_fahrer said:
I think thats a Problem with the Launcher. I've tried it on my Phone, and it is also flickering. You can try to speed up the Animation-Speed in the Developer-Settings. Maybe then you wont see the flickering.
You can see it here, that it is also on my phone: https://photos.app.goo.gl/nYKM5ss9EKe3L0M43
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Thank you very much !!!! You have no idea how much its relieving to know that this problem is not only present in my device.
For now ill just stay away from bright wallpapers until hopefully Samsung will make fix for this issue.
Thank you again !
EDIT : after i came to the pc and i saw the GIF u made i noticed that we dont have the same flickering , maybe the quality of the GIF wasnt high enough but for me it didnt seem to be te same, so i will ask you one last time when you tried that wallpaper did it show the SAME result as my video for u ?
thank you in advance

Google photos, strange tint

Hi, just updated my google phones and now noticed when looking at photos it applies a strange yellow dull tint when the picture is loaded. swipe to the next picture and you will notice after a split second the picture dulls, most noticeable on white background pictures. if you drag up to get the picture information it reverts to how the picture should look, nice and vibrant. Is anyone else experiencing this? rather annoying.
Thanks

Same here no solution yet

Noticed it too....super annoying

Just got delivery of my OP7 Pro this morning and I'm experiencing the same. Any suggested solutions?

Same here, looks like a Photos app issue

I'm having the same problem on my OnePlus 7 pro. I noticed it after the latest update of Google photos

Update to my response: I noted that if you have night mode on, and you open a photo, Photos will change the color mode to normal again and your screen will look white. I have to turn off and then on the night mode to get the tint again. Looks like Photos is playing with the display color briefly.

Yeah, I'm having the same issue with my OnePlus 7...

This explains it: https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/...r-support-breaks-night-mode-on-oneplus-7-pro/

Glad I'm on the only one! Very annoying

My Oppo Reno 10x is giving me similar issues. When swiping from one photo to the next in Google Photos the colour cast changes after a split second and if you press the screen and do the slightest swipe in either direction without actually swiping to the next/previous photo, the colour cast changes as well. Doesn't do it in the native Oppo gallery so I assume it's a Photos issue.

Ones you download the picture to your phone is fine, so again it is Google photos problem.

Facing the same issue. ?

So I'm not the only one that noticed.
Facing the same "issue"

Have noticed it some as well...

Now here is a HUGE BUG with this. Open a google photo and leave it open with the weird tint. Lock ur phone. Now try to unlock using fingerprint. Guess what u cant... Seems the tint affect the fingerprint ready. U have to use ur pin.

You are right, can't unlock the phone when showing a photo with google photo. What a weird bug
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oppo reno 10x
Yes, seeing the same issue on the Oppo Reno 10x - i believe since Oppo is manufacturing the One Plus phones, they have the same issue...So if Google Photos is not the problem, i'm most probably sure, it will take a very long time until Oppo/OnePlus acknowledge and fix this problem...

Same... Been dealing with it for awhile now. Hopefully a fix comes soon.

deksawyer said:
My Oppo Reno 10x is giving me similar issues. When swiping from one photo to the next in Google Photos the colour cast changes after a split second and if you press the screen and do the slightest swipe in either direction without actually swiping to the next/previous photo, the colour cast changes as well. Doesn't do it in the native Oppo gallery so I assume it's a Photos issue.
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Same over here on Oppo Reno 10x
Very annoying
But in the meantime I solved it by installing an older Google photos version from apkmirror. (Don't forget to disable auto updating in the Play Store!)
I don't think I will miss out on something although the app bothers me with saying so ?.
Version is 4.10.0.2346283390 and it works just perfect without any strange color adjustments a second after opening a picture. Finally I can watch my pictures like they should be.