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Hi,
I am just not able to get satifactory pictures from the phone. I have played with the settings and everything and read about the White balance and all but still no dice.
The part that bothers me the most is that I have it set on Max resolution and the picture size is still 500 kB. What gives?
I dont think ROM makes a difference as I have the same results on Sprint stock as now on Juicy R10.
Anyone care to share their settings in the camera settings if they feel they get good results from their camera.
Thanks
One thing you should make sure of is when you select "3M" for the large picture setting, click "done" and dont go back to look at the other settings on the resolution menu. Doing that may revert is to whatever was last selected on that first page. My white balance is set to auto and widescreen is on. I personally dont think the camera is that good on here but if you are in the right light and setting, your pictures should be fine. What is actually happening with your pictures?
reigndropz said:
One thing you should make sure of is when you select "3M" for the large picture setting, click "done" and dont go back to look at the other settings on the resolution menu. Doing that may revert is to whatever was last selected on that first page. My white balance is set to auto and widescreen is on. I personally dont think the camera is that good on here but if you are in the right light and setting, your pictures should be fine. What is actually happening with your pictures?
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Hi,
Thanks for the advise. The pictures are just too yellow in my case. I have played with the white balance but they dont seem to pop. What is the file size of the pictures you are taking? Mine is 500kB set at 3M resolution. Doesnt make sense.
I think my TP1 took far better pictures than my TP2... odd..
hindibuff said:
Hi,
Thanks for the advise. The pictures are just too yellow in my case. I have played with the white balance but they dont seem to pop. What is the file size of the pictures you are taking? Mine is 500kB set at 3M resolution. Doesnt make sense.
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did you try the lightbulb icon white balance setting (indoors)? that usually fixes the yellow for me...the Auto is useless, you need to set white balance for each situation. My outdoor shots are usually too blue so I use the Tungsten setting sometimes.
I have noticed that pretty much every rom I have tried (juicy, energy, S3) all have had very poor camera quality, even when on the highest settings. If I revert to the stock rom, the quality is good again.
jowaldo said:
I have noticed that pretty much every rom I have tried (juicy, energy, S3) all have had very poor camera quality, even when on the highest settings. If I revert to the stock rom, the quality is good again.
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now that is interesting. why would that be? I am curious to learn what the differences might be.
I do agree that the tp1 did take much better pics than the tp2 has managed so far, but then again, it took a while for me to tweak tp1 before I was satisfied with the picture quality.
Anyone care to share the size of the file it produces for each picture?
jowaldo said:
I have noticed that pretty much every rom I have tried (juicy, energy, S3) all have had very poor camera quality, even when on the highest settings. If I revert to the stock rom, the quality is good again.
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I was pretty disappointed with the camera feature (thought it was an HTC thing) but after flash MR X's latest 3/5/10 and going back to 2/18/10 ROM, the app he puts in makes my camera pretty snappy.
At whatever default setting is there I get 300-700k size files.
Hope that helps someone.
JPG uses compression, so picture size is determined by the amount of detail in the image. The more detail, the larger the size. A picture of a totally blank surface will be the smallest.
The auto whitebalance is horrible on this camera. I get better results manually choosing whatever white balance mode makes white actually look white.
I've also been disappointed with the camera on this phone. Older Blackberry Curves and Pearls take better photos (even though they are at lower resolution). I will say the autofocus is nice and allows the camera to work with close things like taking pictures of written information and barcodes.
I had this fix on my Touch Pro. I applied it to my Touch Pro 2- worked great.
montecristo1 said:
I had this fix on my Touch Pro. I applied it to my Touch Pro 2- worked great.
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What all does it do?
what does that do? I tried the old panaramic cab file it crashed out the phone and i had do a full rest of the phone as it kept giving me errors in services.exe
I got rid of the program since it did not work with windows 6.5
I am not a photgrapher by any means, but I have been very pleased with the clairty of my TP2 pics. I set it to 3mp - widescreen - quality to superfine - storage to card -thats it. I agree it blues a little sometimes, but this is helped (not completely) with white balance changes. I think this cam is much better than my TP cam, but again I am no pro. Also keep in mind this is a cameraPHONE - you will get way better results out of a devoted device but for point and shoor this thing is more than adequate for me.
PS - over time the little clear plastic window of my back panel hazed up - I popped it out so the camera lens inside is exposed and the clarity of my pics POPPED! - unfortunately now my lens is exposed and I am guessing dust can now get under my cover, but it works well for now.
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What all does it do?
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it fixes this:
http://www.fuzemobility.com/got-yellow-photos-fix-it/
Doesn't work on 6.5? Dang....
Turn off widescreen photos if you want to get maximum resolution. You'll get 2048x1536 (3.14 megapixels) instead of the widescreen res of 2048x1216 (2.49 megapixels).
So hello, my first thread here and I wasn't expecting it to be a negative one
I have had my Sensation since it was released in the US for T-Mobile. I have been pretty happy with it, takes great pictures, videos, quick processor etc...well after this so called "update", everytime I use the camera or camcorder option, the phone's screen wants to timeout...you know, it dims after whatever time you have preset and then it locks the screen. Well it never did that before when I was taking pictures or videos so if this is a way to "save" battery life, then someone is not thinking before they act. There is nothing more frustrating than taking a video and in the middle of it the screen darkens and 2 seconds later it locks and turns the video off. Sure you can touch the screen with your other hand but: 1) Creates a shakier video trying to touch the screen while you are filming and 2) You don't always have an empty hand...
I really hope there is a fix for this..
Similar issue with camera & camcorder
I am also having a similar issue with the camera & camcorder apps. After performing OTA update, they gave me a black screen. I rebooted to see if that would help, but now the apps just open for a second with a black screen and white icon and then shut down immediately. I'm going to try factory reset and see if it helps. I've read in other forums that it's a bug with the shutter and the phones were returned. Will post my results here.
Camera issues...part deux
LiLbear said:
So hello, my first thread here and I wasn't expecting it to be a negative one
I have had my Sensation since it was released in the US for T-Mobile. I have been pretty happy with it, takes great pictures, videos, quick processor etc...well after this so called "update", everytime I use the camera or camcorder option, the phone's screen wants to timeout...you know, it dims after whatever time you have preset and then it locks the screen. Well it never did that before when I was taking pictures or videos so if this is a way to "save" battery life, then someone is not thinking before they act. There is nothing more frustrating than taking a video and in the middle of it the screen darkens and 2 seconds later it locks and turns the video off. Sure you can touch the screen with your other hand but: 1) Creates a shakier video trying to touch the screen while you are filming and 2) You don't always have an empty hand...
I really hope there is a fix for this..
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Well, no dice. After doing factory restore and deleting a bunch of apps I still get the same trouble with the camera/camcorder. I've got insurance on it and an old HTC HD2 (rooted and running Froyo) that I'm becoming very fond of, so I'll be returning this phone but I would like to know what the issue is.
I am sorry you are facing the issue but i just checked and my camera is working fine for me as of now at the OTA update
Right, I've got a black One S with android 4.0.3 and sense 4, all like new (as it is). I don't fancy rooting it and don't really want to change from the HTC Rom, but the backlight in the camera annoys me. On the touch pro2 with the HTC stuff, I'm certain there was an option in settings to keep the screen backlight down when in the camera. On the Trophy that followed, I couldn't control it, because, let's face it, you can't control much in WP7. however, switching to the one S and android, I expected being able to keep the backlight down.
Why is this frustrating me? I don't like.being blinded by the viewfinder, and I don't want to kill the battery any more than I have to. So, is there a way to keep the phone's backlight down while in the HTC camera app?
Okay, now I know everyone has ignored this thread but I think I've discovered a way. So here's the setup:
HTC One S
System brightness set to lowest
A 4 digit screen-lock password
So I have the passcode set on the 15 minute max timeout, so, the phone locked itself, and I dragged the camera icon on the lockscreen into the ring. Naturally, despite being locked, it still allows use of the camera. Now, it may just be my eyes, but I'm certain I noticed a distance difference in brightness. That is, the screen seemed a lot dimmer when the camera app was being accessed from behind the lock rather than unlocked.
I think the brightness is ok lol
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AMOLED displays as the one in One S doesnt have backlights. But there is a mod that lowers the values when using auto brightness since the defaults are a bit high, not especially made for in-camera though. Check for it in Tweak Machine thread in apps and themes forums.
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I think the brightness is ok lol
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I guess most people aren't that fussed about the brightness, but the battery did seem to last a lot longer when recording 1080p video with the lower brightness.
frdd said:
AMOLED displays as the one in One S doesnt have backlights. But there is a mod that lowers the values when using auto brightness since the defaults are a bit high, not especially made for in-camera though. Check for it in Tweak Machine thread in apps and themes forums.
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Does that require root access? From what I can see it does, and I guess that too would be helpful for the majority, but my phone isn't rooted. Mainly because I like the HTC Sense camera interface so much
Yeah you must flash it from custom recovery so at least unlocked boot loader required. Why not try a sense based ROM? They all keep the awesome HTC camera and its snappiness
Unfortunately with the One S update I finally received last night bringing it up from Android 4.0.3 to 4.0.4 and Sense 4.1, HTC have now removed the incredibly helpful 'bug' of the brightness staying down in the camera if it is launched from the lockscreen with a password set. Thanks a lot HTC, you excell yourselves with stupidity once again.
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Bump. Recording lectures is impossible due to HTC's stupidity. The 100% screen brightness not only kills the battery before lecture ends, but it's extremely distracting for people behind me (especially if room is dark during powerpoint presentations).
This has to be turned down. Ideally, once set up, the phone should be able to record video with the screen OFF. Or at least with brightness on min. Surely there's a mod or a hack for this?
curiousGeorge said:
Bump. Recording lectures is impossible due to HTC's stupidity. The 100% screen brightness not only kills the battery before lecture ends, but it's extremely distracting for people behind me (especially if room is dark during powerpoint presentations).
This has to be turned down. Ideally, once set up, the phone should be able to record video with the screen OFF. Or at least with brightness on min. Surely there's a mod or a hack for this?
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hi,
Firstly, I'm glad that I'm not alone in this. As you said, it is extremely frustrating as not only is the bright screen distracting for others and makes you look foolish, the battery hardly lasts any time at all. I contacted HTC to see if they could add a brightness slider, their customer support rep said the technical team would get in touch with me - they haven't.
However, on the positive side, I have found two apps which don't allow you to record with lower brightness, they up the ante to your other suggestion, having the screen off. I'd always assumed that cameras on phones couldn't work with the screen off because I thought the phone went into proper sleep. Turns out that the camera can stay active. There are many poor apps on Play, but I found two which offer free (very limited functionality, but allows you to check that the app works with your phone) versions and rather expensive pro versions. I tried both the free versions and liked the second one I tried so much that I bought it.
The first one I found was (I don't know why they assume people are using their cameras solely for nefarious purposes - some of us do have legitimate reasons and battery life concerns) 'Hidden Camera Spy Camera', Play link (Lite version link is in their description). This one worked ok, but took a while to configure and doesn't have the nicest interface. So I continued hunting and came across an even better app:
Secret Video Recorder Pro (Lite version listed at the side in the More by this Developer panel): This app is even more elegant. I tried the lite version and found that it worked well, so I then decided to buy the full version (apparently it's currently 50% off, but still pretty expensive - well worth it though). After going through the settings, I set it to use the rear camera and force HD recording. I then tapped the icon on the homescreen, it notified me and then just ran in the notification area. I then turned the screen off, whirled the phone around my room, turned the phone back on and tapped on the notification to stop it. I then checked the video and to my amazement, it had worked! (on an unrooted, still carrier locked, black One S running the latest official updated OS (Android 4.0.4 and Sense 4.1))
When I dragged the app into the fixed Sense homescreen dock, originally it displayed nothing, even after rebooting the phone. However, after Sense crashed and showed me a message saying Sense had crashed, it even worked from the lockscreen. If you have the 'Show icon' enabled in the SVR Preferences, you can then tell from the lockscreen that it is actually recording as you can see the icon in the notification bar.
I'm sorry for rambling on and on, but I think SVR just got into my top 5 apps of all time list as it is unbelievably flawless (apart from the price )
biggles1000 said:
hi,
Firstly, I'm glad that I'm not alone in this. As you said, it is extremely frustrating as not only is the bright screen distracting for others and makes you look foolish, the battery hardly lasts any time at all. I contacted HTC to see if they could add a brightness slider, their customer support rep said the technical team would get in touch with me - they haven't.
However, on the positive side, I have found two apps which don't allow you to record with lower brightness, they up the ante to your other suggestion, having the screen off. I'd always assumed that cameras on phones couldn't work with the screen off because I thought the phone went into proper sleep. Turns out that the camera can stay active. There are many poor apps on Play, but I found two which offer free (very limited functionality, but allows you to check that the app works with your phone) versions and rather expensive pro versions. I tried both the free versions and liked the second one I tried so much that I bought it.
The first one I found was (I don't know why they assume people are using their cameras solely for nefarious purposes - some of us do have legitimate reasons and battery life concerns) 'Hidden Camera Spy Camera', Play link (Lite version link is in their description). This one worked ok, but took a while to configure and doesn't have the nicest interface. So I continued hunting and came across an even better app:
Secret Video Recorder Pro (Lite version listed at the side in the More by this Developer panel): This app is even more elegant. I tried the lite version and found that it worked well, so I then decided to buy the full version (apparently it's currently 50% off, but still pretty expensive - well worth it though). After going through the settings, I set it to use the rear camera and force HD recording. I then tapped the icon on the homescreen, it notified me and then just ran in the notification area. I then turned the screen off, whirled the phone around my room, turned the phone back on and tapped on the notification to stop it. I then checked the video and to my amazement, it had worked! (on an unrooted, still carrier locked, black One S running the latest official updated OS (Android 4.0.4 and Sense 4.1))
When I dragged the app into the fixed Sense homescreen dock, originally it displayed nothing, even after rebooting the phone. However, after Sense crashed and showed me a message saying Sense had crashed, it even worked from the lockscreen. If you have the 'Show icon' enabled in the SVR Preferences, you can then tell from the lockscreen that it is actually recording as you can see the icon in the notification bar.
I'm sorry for rambling on and on, but I think SVR just got into my top 5 apps of all time list as it is unbelievably flawless (apart from the price )
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Doesn't using SVR defeat your original purpose? It's not using the Sense camera, it's using it's own implementation? At that rate, any aftermarket camera should work and allow you to use default screen brightness.
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Doesn't using SVR defeat your original purpose? It's not using the Sense camera, it's using it's own implementation? At that rate, any aftermarket camera should work and allow you to use default screen brightness.
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Unfortunately, yes, it does. SVR is sort of a compromise for me at the moment as I can save battery life but I do miss out on all the Sense camera features. It would be great if HTC do actually listen to my request and implement it, given how simple a request it is, but they appear to be constantly so far ahead with all their development process that I doubt they'd include it in the the Android 4.1 release scheduled for this month
SVR is on one end of the scale of what I'd like to do with the camera (save the battery) and the Sense camera is on the other end (use the camera). Where I'd like HTC to place us is in the middle of those two, with the ability to use the Sense camera but in a power-efficient manner (such as being able to record a video but take stills at the same time, with the battery outlasting the meager storage space).
Only to me, even with master AI off, the camera changes mode by itself (without announce it)?
When I try to focus an object too much close, i see that objective changes... I'm almost sure that use "super macro" mode without showing the pop up.
Someone else is facing this issue??
maurizio de maio said:
Only to me, even with master AI off, the camera changes mode by itself (without announce it)?
When I try to focus an object too much close, i see that objective changes... I'm almost sure that use "super macro" mode without showing the pop up.
Someone else is facing this issue??
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It's not an issue, that's the expected behavior, when taking pictures the phone AI recognizes some scenes and adjust camera parameters to some presets, for example, focus on the sky and a preset "Blue Sky" will be enabled, focus a small river or running water and you will get "Silky water" mode.
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It's not an issue, that's the expected behavior, when taking pictures the phone AI recognizes some scenes and adjust camera parameters to some presets, for example, focus on the sky and a preset "Blue Sky" will be enabled, focus a small river or running water and you will get "Silky water" mode.
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But i turned off AI theoretically... what you're saying shouldn't happen with AI off
maurizio de maio said:
But i turned off AI theoretically... what you're saying shouldn't happen with AI off
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Seems that certain things like Super-Macro are still automatic with or without AI enabled, but it will not change image settings or detect scenes without AI, so for example of the blue sky, it will not say that without AI, or if you take a photo of a dog it will not know it is a dog
But if you go too close to an object for normal lens to focus on, it will switch to Macro lens
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Seems that certain things like Super-Macro are still automatic with or without AI enabled, but it will not change image settings or detect scenes without AI, so for example of the blue sky, it will not say that without AI, or if you take a photo of a dog it will not know it is a dog
But if you go too close to an object for normal lens to focus on, it will switch to Macro lens
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I hate this thing
maurizio de maio said:
I hate this thing
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I have to agree with you, this phone is complete garbage, I have the same issue, I turn off master AI and it's still switching to super macro just without showing the pop up, and no my picture is an up close shot but still within the main sensors focus range and it still switching to the crappy detailed cropped wide angle lens, it's so bad using this phone the experience has been terrible, was my first Huawei phone and I will never get another one again... I can't even take a simple photo, only method that works is trying to click your shot before it switches lens
See below example at the same distance from subject in low light, the image I want to be able to capture all the time is the bright normal one (just about managed to snap before it switches me, which isn't always easily possible), the one it's trying to force me into shooting is that dark garbage, that's how stupid this phone is that it tries to force me to take that instead of the other, it's been this way since I've had this phone, it's just plain and simply bad...
I know this is an old post, but nowhere else ever talked about it, so I think poster here is completely right, it does this in daylight also obviously, which makes it harder to notice, but will cause the photo to have worse background separation and a lot worse detail
v0 HaVoK 0v said:
I have to agree with you, this phone is complete garbage, I have the same issue, I turn off master AI and it's still switching to super macro just without showing the pop up, and no my picture is an up close shot but still within the main sensors focus range and it still switching to the crappy detailed cropped wide angle lens, it's so bad using this phone the experience has been terrible, was my first Huawei phone and I will never get another one again... I can't even take a simple photo, only method that works is trying to click your shot before it switches lens
See below example at the same distance from subject in low light, the image I want to be able to capture all the time is the bright normal one (just about managed to snap before it switches me, which isn't always easily possible), the one it's trying to force me into shooting is that dark garbage, that's how stupid this phone is that it tries to force me to take that instead of the other, it's been this way since I've had this phone, it's just plain and simply bad...
I know this is an old post, but nowhere else ever talked about it, so I think poster here is completely right, it does this in daylight also obviously, which makes it harder to notice, but will cause the photo to have worse background separation and a lot worse detail
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Just what I was looking for. I have the Huawei P30, and I really like to take photos of my self-made food. What I have noticed is that even when I turn off the Master AI, the camera STILL automatically enhances the color vibrance of the images. This also happens when I take photos outdoor, especially the sky and trees.
I really hate it because it looks fake! Girls may want their picture to be vibrant and all, but I am more of a realistic kind of guy. I realize that shots from iPhone are much much better. Even though they seem kinda dull compared to the same images taken from the Huawei P30 (or any other Android), pictures from iPhone are the closest things to what you see in real life.
It's pretty annoying that the Huawei P30 is the first phone I bought for myself, by my own money. Maybe the next time I need a phone, I will switch to Apple for better/realistic photography.
But then again, iOS is boring and suffocating AF.
Argg... choosing the right smartphone is tough AH.
I currently have the Rog phone 5s Pro, 512/18 and I love it to no end, but I just had a crazy stupid thought, what if Asus or a developer created an app to have even more control of the 64x256 pixel rear screen. Now I know it is pretty low resolution, but what if you could set it to play certain animations when opening a certain app or in a specific performance mode, or even at a specific time. I also wish there was an option to keep the rear panel on when the phone's main screen off. I also had some really weird thoughts that are probably to crazy to come true, but when you open the camera, there would be a setting to have it kinda mirror to the back of the phone so you can use the 8k lens and still have a rough idea where you are in frame, and just to name a few more is to show what song/track is playing and use the rear touch triggers to go between tracks, and use an air trigger as pause/play, and also to cast your screen to the rear (now hear me out) when you do, then you could show off to everybody how good you are at games and stuff, and another really far reach is to cast a YouTube/web video to the rear screen (like a Chromecast kinda, but built in) And yes, I know it would be EXTREMELY LOW RESOLUTION, but it would just be so nice to have these features, just for show, and that's what I think this phone should be capable of at the price point of 1500+ US dollars. Just think it would be cool.
Pls respond if u think this would be a cool idea and or if you know if this is even possible on an unrooted phone like this one, and also contrary to common belief, Verizon works just fine in every aspect I have tested except Verizon Video Calling, but comment if you want to know how I did that to, or if you know how to program an app to do some of this. I also thought it could be a mod to the armory crate and the game genie, but ik it's probably impossible without rooting it, but just a thought.