Not sure if this is an issue with phone or software but I think it's the phone as I tried multiple camera apps and even OSes. (graphene, Android 12, now on Calyx)
Basically, the camera is slow! I press the shutter button, either physical or touch, and it takes a good 2-3 seconds to take the picture. By then whatever I was taking a picture of is long gone. I only realized this after a walk in the woods, almost all my pictures were of the ground then I realized it's because it was not taking the picture until several seconds after I took it.
My previous phone (DTEK50) was way faster than that. Is there a way to make this one fast as well?
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This has happened a few times where I have the camera app and I am taking pictures and then all the sudden non of the touch screen buttons/controls for the camera work and the touch sensitive buttons at the bottom for back, home ect wont work. I literally cannot do anything with the phone except use the hardware button for power. However, I cant turn the screen off. All I can do is hold down the power button and turn off the phone...
Anyone else had this issue?
if you hit the power button while in the camera app, it locks everything. just click it again and everything will unlock
Interesting..... thanks! Didnt know that. I really appreciate it!
Took me a while to figure this out, too. If you look closely, there's a little lock icon on the screen. The power button toggles the lock.
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What do you suppose this is for?
ScottyNuttz said:
What do you suppose this is for?
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My guess is that you can keep the camera ready and in a pocket or in your hand to get that upcoming shot.
This feature nailed me, too, the first time I used the phone.
Then a week later it proved VERY handy when recording a video where I had to keep a deathgrip on the phone. Amusement park rides!
I'm new here so I can't post links yet. Just combine the following by removing spaces:
youtube . com / watch?v=8QFZqJ_32Qc
note: even with a deathgrip I gave myself a massive bloodpressure boost by holding my new phone like this.
Hi guys, hope someone can tell what is exactly with my phone/display.
Long story short – phone fell directly on display, absolutely perfect landing without any rebound, display went nut. Dropped it on back, fixed the problem.
4 days later, display went crazy again and remains broken.
Symptoms: black, grey, coloured lines.
What I can say from usage – they react more on dark colours. If I’m in white background, everything is absolutely fine, sometimes some line appear. As soon as it comes to grey or black, they go wild. They like move for second or two, and then settle, as you can see in the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqhtWIOAAGU
LONG STORY LONG
Seven days ago, it dropped from 1 meter height, and it landed on it’s display, so directly it didn’t bounce not a tiny bit, it just got like glued to the surface. The same moment I knew it’s not good, and I was right.
Display couldn’t get out of sleep mode, when I presed power button I only got a bit of visibility, I could see start button, but if turned it on/off (sleep/wake up) couple of times, display would have normal brightnes… BUT, there were some dark dynamic lines over the screen, as soon as pic moved, they would appear, on static pic, only few would remain. Numerous resets didn’t bring any results, keeping it off without battery, no results either…
Frustrated (It has been like month or two since I’ve got this device), I decided to give a try to traditional Serbian method – hit the electronic device to get it working. I included some brains, so I dropped phone, on the other side (on the back), from some 30 cm height. It worked like a charm! Everything worked absolutely fine!
I could only think of situation that some display contacts must have pulled out a bit, so hitting it back, made them get back into their slots.
And everything was like before… at least for 4 days
Then, without any trigger event, lines came back, and they’re here to stay!
Hard reset, nope. Reset, nope. Dropping it on the back, nope.
What I can say from usage – they react more on dark colors. If I’m in white background, everything is absolutely fine, sometimes some line appear. As soon as it comes to gray or black, they go wild. They like move for second or two, and then settle, as you can see in the video.
There is no one here to make good diagnostics, HTC is like white raven in my country, so can anyone suggest what to do, get new flex cable, get new display?
I am considering opttion to open it up myself, and check are all connectors firmly in place.
Your suggestions?
If anyone experiences anything similar - just reset the flex (flat) cable, everything will be like new
After having my G2x for a few weeks now, I've rooted it and applied the leaked gingerbread update while waiting for the official release.
However, I have noticed occasionally when pressing the power button to turn on/off the screen, I hear a camera shutter noise. The first time this happened I was confused as I hadn't had the camera app open at all. I went to check my recent pictures, and viola! The phone took a picture, even though I had just shut off the screen with no camera app on in sight.
Tonight, when I was randomly browsing through the apps on my phone, I went to the gallery app and noticed the few random "quick" shots I took with this method that I cant seem to reproduce, and among them, I also noticed a number of screen captures(all taken while texting). I did not notice the screen captures taken, nor do I have a clue how they were taken.
TL;DR- Does the G2x have a hardware key combination to take a quick camera picture even if the screen is off? And, How are the screencaptures taken? (I have no apps/mods installed anything relevant to those two, except the GB leak)
If you press the power button and the home button at the same time it takes a screen picture.
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Exactly...that must be what you're doing. Keep your fingers away from the Home button when accessing the power button to avoid taking screenshots.
Hi all
Noticed a little bug on my nexus 5 when taking picture, just curious to see if anyone else has had this..When i take a picture and it goes into the top right hand corner, if i then press it to view the picture, and decide i want to delete it, sometimes not always, id say about 1 in 15 goes it freezes and the screen goes jet black. I cant touch on the screen and the only way i can get it to work again is to simply press the on/off button and it comes back on again fine.
Its no biggie just wanted to see if anyone else has had this?
I take about 5-10 pics daily on my nexus and I must say I haven't faced this bug even once!
Try clearing data/cache of camera app and see whether the problem occurs??
If it doesn't, just ignore it as it happens once a while
Hey everyone, I'm a fairly new OPO user myself here as well; I received mine back in early-mid October, and have had it since then.
But oddly enough, for the past two weeks or so, the following issues have surfaced and has become more frequent, and prominent than ever. For all the fellow OPO-users out there, I was wondering if anyone else has come across the same issue(s) that I've been going through... Unfortunately I really haven't had the time to look up any solution methods and whatnot with two young'uns whom are extremely demanding of my presence... All. The. Time.
So I thought that if I compiled my little list here, hopefully some kind soul will reach out to me with answers (or at least, the direction to where I could find those answers) and make my day just -that- much lighter.
Now just to mention the main points : NO, I have NOT rooted my phone, and YES, I DID install the OTA update, and currently my CM version is the 11.0-XNPH38R.
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a) sometimes, my OPO screen will absolutely REFUSE to turn back on, after I've put the phone to sleep. nothing i do can get the screen to turn back on again - unless it decides it finally wants to. (it's got a mind of its own, this thing... and it's just as stubborn as I am. UGH.) i try double-tapping the screen several times (i've turned that feature on) and i try pressing the power/wake button, or holding it down, ... but zilch. this will usually last up to 10~15 minutes. (after 5~10 minutes of trying to bring it back to life, I just give up and let it be.) when the screen DOES end up turning back on, it's either flashing the "power off/reboot/accessibility" menu several times (probably from me trying to mess with the physical power/wake button) then finally respond to my 'backspace' on-screen keys, or the home icon, returning me back to the proper lockscreen it's supposed to show. ANOTHER way it ends up FINALLY responding, is that the phone will vibrate in short sequences of two, maybe three times and then it will initiate the rebooting process. then everything starts working fine again. i don't recall having ever done anything to trigger something like this to happen, either...
b) the keyboard (the stock Android keyboard) randomly will NOT work; by that I mean, when I am in a messaging app, or any other app that requires a person to TYPE WORDS ON, the keyboard DOES show up, (along with the suggestive bar just above it) and when I try to type, all the usual things will occur; the letter I happen to press will pop-up in response to my tap, and in the suggestive word bar above, it will start showing me the possible word combinations possible based on the sequence of the letters I type, but nowhere do I actually SEE on the SCREEN/message bar/etc. any letters or characters popping up. this issue too, will happen out of nowhere and will last about 15~20 minutes as well. usually what fixes the problem (as annoying as it is) is if I shut down/turn on, then reboot the phone a couple of times to get the keyboard to actually start working again. but there MUST be an easier method to fix this (and all my other issues) !
c) the stock camera app; this issue actually started occurring within days - just under a week of actually getting the shipment of the phone to my place. I was testing out the camera functions, the usual, then suddenly, I would get booted out of the app, and a message saying "The Camera cannot be used at this time" will pop-up as a result. (although, what was even STRANGER, was for a while, (for about 2-3 days) I was receiving a totally different message that didn't even make any SENSE: it said something along the lines of "the camera could not be connected to the device at this time" or "the camera has been disconnected from the device"... i don't even know HOW a camera can "disconnect" itself from the phone, but apparently it CAN.) with this issue, there was absolutely NOTHING I could do to start making it work again. it was non-functional for three, four days straight (no word of a lie) then just for the hell of it, I decided to open the camera app again, and boom, it was working. that didn't last long, though... then suddenly after opening the camera, there would be a prolonged black screen on the phone that wouldn't go away, and I couldn't select any options whatsoever... then when the camera finally started "working", i tried taking a picture - i thought that it would work, since nothing was indicative of it NOT working... but alas, such was not the case. when i went into gallery, to browse through the photos I had taken, they were not there at all, and the photos i had thought were taken weren't actually taken at all.
Asides from that, and some occasional (frequent) crashes while using the phone, I'm not feeling too frustrated by it. (I guess I just have an effin'-load of patience.) Still, I would greatly appreciate any thoughts or suggestions about this dilemma of mine, or providing me the key to all of the answers to these stupid bugs.
Thanks for all those who took the time to read my lengthy post. :fingers-crossed:
-- MK.