I'm having problems with my wide angle lens as it results in green line noise in the pictures. Anyone seen this before or is this a hardware defect? It only occurs on the .5 mode of the camera, which I think is the wide angle lens.
The elimage error can be seen in live view, too. In live view it is flickering.
Try doing a FACTORY reset of your phone once, JUST IF this might some weird software glitch. But this is not a noise, this looks like a faulty sensor. But to make sure, try a reset first.
You could take one with raw enabled, you can rule out software compression then but that looks like the sensor is playing up to me.
I remember reading about this it's the app of you un install the update it should be ok till an update happens to fix it
Thank you for your answers. Does anyone know of an app that can address the wide angle camera other than the Google Camera app? So I could also rule out that it is due to this app.
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Hey everyone,
Just recently, I've been having a problem with blurry pictures because the photo taker assumes that the photo is taken and saved before it is taken.
Previously on roms, once you press the blue button on the camera app, you see the autofocus do its work, and then it stops (which means the photo has been taken).
However, on the ROM I am currently on, it does the autofocus and the still, but takes like 3 seconds after that before the photo is actually taken O.O I'm not sure why, but this is causing a lot of blurry pictures because autofocus doesnt account for the 3 seconds between the focus and the actually photo taken.
Any ideas?
I do not have your phone/brand/rom so I have no experience in your device whatsoever.
However, I think that you are spot on about the autofocus potentially being a cause.
Are you able to disable it or use another camera application that has tap to focus or similar?
Sorry for the late reply.
Using another camera app causes some glitches (parts of the picture cuts off, streaks of white on the sides, etc.). Tap to focus will not help the problem because there is still a gap between when the pic is taken and when it is focused.
Thanks.
I purchased a new 16GB Nexus 5 phone a couple of weeks ago. I'm quite impressed with the phone overall but there's one particular problem I've noticed which concerns me. If I take photos of something light-colored (such as a light switch on my wall) in a room that uses compact fluorescent lighting, there is a faint but visible circular, ring-like artifact in the center of the photos. If I take similar photos in a room that uses incandescent lighting, however, there are no visible artifacts in the photos. I emailed Google about this to troubleshoot the problem and they took me through some routine steps (a power cycle and clearing the camera app's data and cache) but even after a factory data reset did not solve the problem, they ultimately suggested that I exchange the phone for another one at the retailer where I bought it from. Seeing as this problem does not happen in all lighting conditions, I'm not so sure that it's a hardware issue but I'd like to hear from other users as to whether or not they have experienced this. The software on my phone is Android 4.4. I'd like to try out 4.4.1 to see if it addresses this problem but that software update has not been made available to my phone through OTA as of yet. I've experimented with different camera settings and the problem seems to be most noticeable when HDR+ mode is on but it's still there (albeit to a slightly lesser degree) in the regular auto mode. Is it just my unit that's affected by this or is it a more common problem? I tried attaching a photo to this message to show you what I'm talking about but it doesn't seem to upload because of the forum's JPG file size limit.
I side-loaded the Android 4.4.1 update for my phone and took some new photos to see if this problem still exists. I'm disappointed to see that it's still happening and definitely noticeable with HDR+ mode enabled. There's also a link below to a photo I just took which demonstrates the problem. Do you see the circular / ring-like artifacts on and around the light switch? It's easier to notice if you zoom in.
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I'm sure I'm not the only person who has taken indoor photos in a room that uses compact fluorescent lighting. Can anyone here quickly take a similar photo and see if the same thing happens or not? I've even gone so far as to buy LED bulbs for my room to replace my CFL bulbs but I'd still like to know whether or not my Nexus 5 phone has a defect.
The same problem with photos taken under CFL bulbs still exists in Android 4.4.2, unfortunately. There are no such problems under LED or incandescent lighting, however. I'll just have to hope the CFL lighting problems with the camera get addressed in a future update because I'm reluctant to exchange my phone over this if the exact same thing happens on another unit. Has anyone else here encountered this?
I have this amazing device since last month and as I travel a lot I'm facing a strange issue with the selfie camera. When you take a photo with the front camera you can't select the zone to focus and so in places with a lot of light my photos resulted to be too overexposed with the background that was really difficult to see. Is there any solution with the stock camera app?
rubenchu1997 said:
I have this amazing device since last month and as I travel a lot I'm facing a strange issue with the selfie camera. When you take a photo with the front camera you can't select the zone to focus and so in places with a lot of light my photos resulted to be too overexposed with the background that was really difficult to see. Is there any solution with the stock camera app?
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the fron cam has fixed focus so you can't change it manually. Try moving your hand and re positioning the camera. That generally helps me in fixing the exposure to light.
Hi everyone,
I'm facing an issue with burst shooting.
When I burst-shoot photos in mid to low light conditions using the HTC stock camera app, I can see that most of the photos (except the first 3-5 photos) are filled with colorful noise all over them...
I'm using an EMEA HTC U11 128GB model with 1.27.401.5 software and camera app v9.20.9740975.
Am I the only one that facing this issue?
Please refer to the attachments to see the problem yourself.
Left image is the third burst-shot and looks OK.
Right image is the fifth burst-shot and looks very grainy (all the burst shots from the 5th and on look like that)
There is nothing wrong with it. Burst mode does not have the noise reduction algorithms which are available in hdr auto mode. Therefore these shots are perfectly normal in bad light conditions. Mine does the same.
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There is nothing wrong with it. Burst mode does not have the noise reduction algorithms which are available in hdr auto mode. Therefore these shots are perfectly normal in bad light conditions. Mine does the same.
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When I capture burst shots on the ported google camera app, all photos are looking just fine without all that densed noise so I think you are wrong. You can try it yourself.
Something is very wrong with this feature on stock camera app on my side, I'm sure that it doesn't need to look like that at all.
I see a clear difference between the 3 to 5 first shots and all the rest, it's like they were taken by a different sensor!
I thought you were asking if your phone has a problem or not, so I answered according to what I understood.
It's how the stock camera app is. It needs some updates to fix these issues, there is nothing we can do about it except waiting.
I do believe that google camera is superior to stock app with good settings in almost every condition therefore I use google camera.
phylosoph said:
I thought you were asking if your phone has a problem or not, so I answered according to what I understood.
It's how the stock camera app is. It needs some updates to fix these issues, there is nothing we can do about it except waiting.
I do believe that google camera is superior to stock app with good settings in almost every condition therefore I use google camera.
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Thanks for the clarification.
Meanwhile I will continue to use burst captures only on Google Camera app.
Hope that HTC knows about this issue and trying to fix this as we speak. :fingers-crossed:
Has anyone else also noticed photos come out with weird, massively boosted brightness and everything when taken with 2x zoom or higher on stock camera? Strange thing is even at 1.9x zoom everything is fine but 2x and beyond the photo is basically ruined because of this. Very annoying.
HDR and other enhancements are turned off, yet this occurs.
Doesn't happen on GCam. Any idea/solutions? Thanks
Tried here. No issue. And 2x zoom photo from stock cam was better than GCam 8.3 for me.
Didi you activate HDR and IA options in stock cam?
Yes they're all deactivated. No problem upto 1.9x zoom, but as soon as 2x zoom is engaged, there's a sudden although small change on viewfinder white balance. And final photos look extremely bright and noisy compared to 1.9x and below, as if some weird filter is put on. I've downgraded the camera but still happens.
Btw, bootloader is unlocked, not sure if that's got anything to do with it.
Its interesting if you don't have this problem. What's ur software channel and build number? Thanks
Without this bug, you'll generally get better zoomed images on stock camera because it'll use 64mp crop instead of only 16mp recognized by GCam. But this bug ruins it.
Unzoomed though, GCam's HDR+ is still the best.
Just discovered this thread.
Yes, I have the same problem. But it looks like the effect is not the same everytime. Maybe depending on light (indoors vs. outdoors)?
I noticed it happens when i zoom in in worse scenes. It could be that the automatic camera mode is overcompensating by cranking the iso way too high. Have you tried using the pro camera mode?
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I noticed it happens when i zoom in in worse scenes. It could be that the automatic camera mode is overcompensating by cranking the iso way too high. Have you tried using the pro camera mode?
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Yes, but I don't think pro mode uses 64mp crop like auto mode, just a crop of 16mp, which doesn't have much detail that's required during zoom. Also it's annoying trying to switch to pro mode everytime.