I'm having a super grainy camera in WhatsApp. Might be other 3rd party programs as well but haven't tries yet. Pic attached.
And yes, I'm sitting on the toilet whilst typing this.
Don't use WhatsApp but if it's anything like telegram I wouldn't use the built in camera app if you want a good shot.
Take a photo and then send it with WhatsApp. Don't take it from within.
What @ItzMar said is correct. WhatsApp isn't concerned about picture quality. Their camera mode has not changed since....ever. No one cares because that's not why they use WhatsApp.
I am also facing the same issue in my op7. Please let me know if your issue resolves/
All apps in Android that have a camera built in are just screen shotting the viewfinder and not actually taking pictures. Take pictures with the OEM Camera/Gcam and then share the pics/videos on the apps you're using.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel as if Android users kind of overreact on permissons. For example, the Instagram app asks for permission to use the Camera/Microphone without the users consent. That basically means that the Instagram app isn't gonna ask if it is okay to take a picture of what your taking a picture of. In other words, it will open up the camera when you hit that blue button without asking if it is okay. Then it usually doesn't touch the camera anymore. And on almost all phones, you will hear a click sound when the camera is used, whearher you see it or not. AVG Theft Protection does this when it snaps a picture. Most popular apps don't use permission sneakily. Again, I am open to corrections. Thanks guys for reading.
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Hi.
When i send a picture with Facebook messenger, quality is very low...
If i take picture with camera apk it's ok.
I tried to reinstall facebook messenger but same problem.
2 pictures below to check quality difference.
How can i solve this?
(Sry for bad english)
Andrew974 said:
Hi.
When i send a picture with Facebook messenger, quality is very low...
If i take picture with camera apk it's ok.
I tried to reinstall facebook messenger but same problem.
2 pictures below to check quality difference.
How can i solve this?
(Sry for bad english)
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That is a FB messenger thing, in various phones I had seen that, so just go and take the picture whit the camera app
YES! happens with me too, I think it's a mess-anger app bug. I think it reconises our frount camera (0.2mp) and uses it on the main camera as well creating a crappy image. This did not happen a year back or so when i first got my phone and firmware flashbacks are not doing anything so it must be a messenger problem. Unless fb compression is just that "good" :/
Solution:
-Use main camera and then send it
-steal some apks from apkmania or something and keep rolling back until you can use it fine.
Thanks; It's better with an old APK
Andrew974 said:
Hi.
When i send a picture with Facebook messenger, quality is very low...
If i take picture with camera apk it's ok.
I tried to reinstall facebook messenger but same problem.
2 pictures below to check quality difference.
How can i solve this?
(Sry for bad english)
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Hi,
noticed this was an old post. but i had the same problem.
i fixed it by going into installed apps on my android, find messenger; and set all app access to none. so the app doesn't have access to the camera, microphone +++.
then start app again. and try to send a photo.
The app will ask you for camera permission - accept. Now the app have the correct camera access and will send pictures in higher quality
This works for me on a Chinese device (ulefone). Thanks!
The above fix didn't work for me, but I found that if instead of sharing directly from gallery/storage, if you try to share via camera, and then from within the camera open up the gallery, it shares the picture at higher quality.
Messanger app lower the image quality because of storage used on facebook servers. Because messanger saves all media on servers. Try using whatsapp, it uses the phone memory so quality is high. Hope I cleared some questions.
TheElfLord said:
Messanger app lower the image quality because of storage used on facebook servers. Because messanger saves all media on servers. Try using whatsapp, it uses the phone memory so quality is high. Hope I cleared some questions.
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That's actually not the case - there may be some image quality limit (and whatsapp has a limit as well) - but the bug that this thread refers to causes images to be uploaded at MUCH lower resolution than that limit. Sending images from the web app or through the camera will send higher quality images.
I just switched from iPhone to Pixel and started having the same problem. I thought at first it was because the new Pixel photos are 3 times the size of the old iPhone photos and thus required more compression than previously, but it seems to affect photos sent from my phone much more than those sent from the computer. The photo is crystal clear on my phone, but when I sent it via Messenger it became a blurry mess. Then I downloaded the same photo from my phone to my computer, verified the high quality remained intact on my computer, and sent it again via Messenger through my computer. The second image is not as compressed and blurry, at least not nearly to the extent and visual detriment that the first image is. The original photo size downloaded to my computer was 4.7 MB. The version uploaded from my computer did turn out to be compressed in Messenger as well, to 174 KB, but the image quality seemed reasonably similar to the original when viewed at facebook size on both my phone and computer screens (I would obviously not want to download it from here and enlarge it to the full original size). The version uploaded directly from my phone, however, was compressed all the way down to 30 KB, and it is extremely blurry when compared to the version of the same photo uploaded from my computer. I did a second test, of a photo similarly sized originally at 4.6 MB. This time, the version uploaded from my computer was only compressed to 552 KB, and the version uploaded from my phone to 190 KB. The image clarity difference was noticeable, but not nearly as significant as it was for the first image. It seems that an image of around 200 KB should be sufficient for facebook viewing quality.
So two questions - why does it compress the exact same image more when uploaded from my phone than when uploaded from my computer? And how can I prevent it from compressing it down below 100 KB? The quality of the second 190 KB compression would not have thrown up an alarm bell the way the first 30 KB compression did....
Oh - and I have not yet activated my Pixel. My phone service is still using the iPhone while I get set up and comfortable using the new phone. So the phone is using the exact same wi-fi that the computer is using, and cellular network should not play any role in this issue...
So I have been thinking, in a few years, when everyone gets new phones, with new features. How are we going to edit the pictures taken with Wide Aperture mode (fake bokeh)? The only app able to change the depth of field of the picture is the stock gallery app by Huawei/honor that came with the phone.
Google photos DOES save the information to be edited later (but there is no way to edit them on Google photos app as far as I can tell).
So if a year later you restore photos to this phone and try to edit them, you can, but only with the stock gallery app.
Anyone here know of any 3rd party software on Windows desktop, and or on the web or android that can do this? So we don't have to be reliant on the Gallery app from Huawei in case we change phones later on.
Thanks.
You can't really change the aperture on phones as the aperture is fixed to f2 or bit more. What Google and Huawei and all the other do, is to approximate the behaviour by blurring the background in a postprocessing step. The better they detect foreground and background, the better this illusion works. But it's never a real bokeh.
faeArai said:
You can't really change the aperture on phones as the aperture is fixed to f2 or bit more. What Google and Huawei and all the other do, is to approximate the behaviour by blurring the background in a postprocessing step. The better they detect foreground and background, the better this illusion works. But it's never a real bokeh.
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I am well aware how this camera works, i am a part time photographer, This was not my question! my question was if there is an external source or app that allows us to edit these kinds of photos as the gallery app does, to refocus after we take the pics using the wide aperture mode.
I think that what Huawei does with their gallery app is a bit proprietary.
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I think that what Huawei does with their gallery app is a bit proprietary.
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So basically after a few years if we want to edit these pictures it would either be impossible with another brand of phone, or might perhaps be possible if we keep buying huawei phones, with this feature, which is not a sure thing.
Yes I think so. But I didn't investigate on this topic. At least one can still open the Jpeg as the depth information is somewhat in it.
Unfortunately no third party apps that can do this.
Maybe if someone can port the gallery app, that will work!
Whenever iam using a third party app which uses camera to capture an image like whatsapp or Instagram or even facebook messenger ..
The picture taken by that app is totally blurred or over smoothened , loosing all the detail ..
Although before the picture is taken , on display viewscreen the detail is there but once i take the picture and it processes it , the picture looses all the detail ..
And this is not the case with honors camera app , it captures everything perfectly .. is this a bug or some kind of bad processing by honor people ?
How do i report this to honor guys ?
It's an issue with Huawei's other NPU camera phone, the Mate 10 Pro. The only solution mentioned in the Mate 10 Pro forum for the Facebook app is to choose HD photos and video and then restart the phone. https://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-10/help/playing-facebook-instagram-app-videos-t3717122 You might want to teach out to that forum since the phones use the same processor and NPU.
The issue i have is little different although heart of the matter is same..
I see allot of post processing and smoothness in whatsapp ..
But the image isnt pixelated
so i know you can take a pic with the assistant... but it's kind of clunky. if you're in the camera app and frame a shot and then say "okay google, take a selfie" it backs out of the camera, ooens assistant, then reopens the camera before taking the shot.
im hoping there's something like on the Samsung's where you can just say something like "capture" while already in the app in order to snap a shot.
possible?
If you turn on Photobooth mode it will take the photo when you (and any other people in the frame) are smiling. Not sure if a verbal command is available within the stock camera.
This is my biggest disappointment with my otherwise awesome Pixel 3A XL. No voice activated shutter. My Galaxy S6 had it and it was extremely valuable. Current Huwawei has it, too.
Seems to me this would be an easy mod for Google. PLEASE! Google, if you're listening, this is SO handy in SO many situations. Just do it.
I'm a professional photographer.
You can tell Assistant to take a selfie. It will show a countdown on the screen and then take a photo.
"OK Google, take a selfie"