Best Combination for Camera Settings - MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 Software Upgrading

Hello again
Can you please recommend the settings you use for adjusting the quality of the camera? When you click "Adjust" it allows you to set the Contrast, Gamma, Saturation, etc. Can you recommend the best combination which gives you the highest quality of pictures? Or do you settle for the "Default" setting?
Sorry in advance if this has been discussed before. I just transferred to Hong Kong and the company issued me the XDA2. I then asked for a personal phone and the Mini came along. I'm still new to all this
Thank you.
Kara

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Background light setting problem

Hi,
under setting - system-displaylight-Battery
(not quite sure whether this is 100% correct because I am using the german version Einstellung-System-Beleuchtung-Akkubetrieb).
It is possible to set for the background light of the display the delay timer until the light dims down to safe battery.
The standard is 10s, I would like to use 30s.
So far so good, I am able to do the setting to 30s, but after a soft reset or after switching off/on the Kaiser there is again the default setting of 10s.
Do I miss any other preset of this battery safing function?
Any possiilities in Kaiser tweak or Registery setting?
So far I have not installed any other "System tool" for controlling Profiles or anything like that (I have the bluetooth patch, the new camera and album, tomtom, mobipocket, but those applications should not interfear with this system setting)
Best regards,
Claus
PS: I am using the Kaiser since a couple of days - great device - but this is my very 1st WM device, I was using the last years UIQ2 and UIQ3 devices from SE, therefore please forgive any newbie questions
no big news
dingolino said:
Hi,
under setting - system-displaylight-Battery
(not quite sure whether this is 100% correct because I am using the german version Einstellung-System-Beleuchtung-Akkubetrieb).
It is possible to set for the background light of the display the delay timer until the light dims down to safe battery.
The standard is 10s, I would like to use 30s.
So far so good, I am able to do the setting to 30s, but after a soft reset or after switching off/on the Kaiser there is again the default setting of 10s.
Do I miss any other preset of this battery safing function?
Any possiilities in Kaiser tweak or Registery setting?
So far I have not installed any other "System tool" for controlling Profiles or anything like that (I have the bluetooth patch, the new camera and album, tomtom, mobipocket, but those applications should not interfear with this system setting)
Best regards,
Claus
PS: I am using the Kaiser since a couple of days - great device - but this is my very 1st WM device, I was using the last years UIQ2 and UIQ3 devices from SE, therefore please forgive any newbie questions
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Congrats! you have hit the same problem as many of us... I don't quite get this to work properly and didn't find any hint yet, so i went different way - disabled backlight and enabled screen turning off in settings -> system -> power (where you can see the battery bar with percentage)
Hope this helps at least a bit.
At least I am not alone in the dark
Many thanks for the reply.
Claus
PS: Why only "many of us" and not all of us?
dingolino said:
At least I am not alone in the dark
Many thanks for the reply.
Claus
PS: Why only "many of us" and not all of us?
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The others didn't realize they have the same issue yet
I solved it now with Phone Weaver a Profil manager.
http://www.sbsh.net/
I am able to set this parameter and now the easy thing is that after a restart of the phone I just enable my prefered Profil and with the Profil I have also my setting for the background light.
Claus

Camera not as good as Mogul?

Hi, I am coming from a Mogul and the camera wasn't great, though it did work in a pinch. Now I have a Sprint Diamond which I love, though the camera is so slow that I cannot take a picture or video without blur. I am not trying to complain as the phone suits my needs very well. The question is, can registry edits be made to improve the camera? Maybe speed up the process a bit?
By the way, thanks for this great site! I have learned so much already!
crizyal said:
Hi, I am coming from a Mogul and the camera wasn't great, though it did work in a pinch. Now I have a Sprint Diamond which I love, though the camera is so slow that I cannot take a picture or video without blur. I am not trying to complain as the phone suits my needs very well. The question is, can registry edits be made to improve the camera? Maybe speed up the process a bit?
By the way, thanks for this great site! I have learned so much already!
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Good question my friend. Well search for the tool called Advance Config. by default ( and i dont know why) the phone is programmed to have a slight delay when you press the action button and when it actually take the pictures.
So install that app and search for the photo options, there you can set the details, activate another options.
Have fun,

Camera Performance On Different ROM's!?

I am interested in does Camera performance and quality may vary from rom to rom? Because I saw different camera settings in some roms? Like there is 5Mpix icon on stock rom but on others there is not and cooked roms I have tested have little blury pictures! Can someone give me more details on that,and If it has something to do with ROM tell me what is the best rom for cam!
REGARDS
camera performance depends only on Radio, not on ROM
Eraser85 said:
camera performance depends only on Radio, not on ROM
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Newer the radio,better the camera? When will arrive new radio?
Eraser85 said:
camera performance depends only on Radio, not on ROM
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lol... how is camera performance related to radio?!
Eraser85 said:
camera performance depends only on Radio, not on ROM
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Thats simply not true. Different ROMs contain different versions of the camera application as well as different graphic drivers, so it is heavily depending on the ROM.
I can't imagine that the radio has any impact on the camera, but can't say that for sure.
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Newer the radio,better the camera? When will arrive new radio?
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See above. Furthermore it doesn't mean that a newer radio is a better radio. You have to choose the best one for you in your region and your provider. There may be big differences, so not the latest one is the best one!
akash_nu said:
lol... how is camera performance related to radio?!
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It isn't .
johnpatcher said:
Thats simply not true. Different ROMs contain different versions of the camera application as well as different graphic drivers, so it is heavily depending on the ROM.
I can't imagine that the radio has any impact on the camera, but can't say that for sure.
See above. Furthermore it doesn't mean that a newer radio is a better radio. You have to choose the best one for you in your region and your provider. There may be big differences, so not the latest one is the best one!
It isn't .
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I have latest but as for now it works great...But tell me please,I have Just flashed my HD with |BLAC|6.5|ROM|WWE| ★ EnergyROM HD 'Phoenix' (21731) ★ || Build date 2009/6/8 ||... What kind of camera and graphic drivers are there...doesnt say anything specific in CHANGELOG!!!??? And how does this rom compares with others in meaning of camera?Also...does mannila have some impact on camera details and picture,as also when will manilla V3.0 be available and from where can I download it?
REGARDS
Just for the sake of completeness: I don't know what drivers are included / applications are included, and which of those have any impact on the camera. I just wanted to describe why the ROM actually matters, and the radio doesn't in terms of the performance of the camera.
It depends on the Driver, some newer ROMs have used the D3 Drivers, refer to the sticky thread on "how to improve the graphic...", now actually still under testing "they have just make a cab programme" since 1 Jun (still very new)..
Some of the new roms has incoprated that whereas some have not.
stefan063 said:
I have latest but as for now it works great...But tell me please,I have Just flashed my HD with |BLAC|6.5|ROM|WWE| ★ EnergyROM HD 'Phoenix' (21731) ★ || Build date 2009/6/8 ||... What kind of camera and graphic drivers are there...doesnt say anything specific in CHANGELOG!!!??? And how does this rom compares with others in meaning of camera?Also...does mannila have some impact on camera details and picture,as also when will manilla V3.0 be available and from where can I download it?
REGARDS
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There seems to be at least 2 camera types in the ROMS. From what I can gather the standard stock camera has a zoom function, the second is taken from the Topaz and takes better pics (not sure why, but they do seem a bit sharper), but it has no zoom. There is a development going to add zoom to the Topaz camera.
I found this info in the Dutty 3.7 Rom thread. Search for Camera. There is also video of the "Zoom development"
Can't find the references (too much info scattered throughout the forum), anyway if I'm not mistaken Radio does not only relates to the GSM/UMTS but also on camera, bluetooth, IRDA (when present) etc..
The camera application only communicates with Radio through drivers (which are responsible for making sure that high-level commands are correctly understood and efficiently executed by the underling hardware). That's why we still have a ****ty camera when's dark outside.. it's not something you can easily fix with software.. you need a fix also on the Radio part which affects the REAL camera performance..
You can also find confirmation in this if you simply think at the "ISO" settings in the newer camera softwares from topaz/rhodium.. it simply doesn't work because our radio hasn't this functionality (iso settings)
I thought that the reason that the camera is slower in the dark is due to the fact that it requires the device to do more post-processing before the frame is drawn on the screen, thus why lowering the brightness in settings improves fps, as less PP is needed.
My old nokia 6600 was much better at taking pictures in night mode.. and clearly wasn't any better than TouchHD, both in terms of raw performance (CPU) and hardware acceleration (GPU).
Keep in mind that if it was only a problem connected to processing power, ONLY the image on screen should be moving slowly but, as soon as you take the picture, it should come out nice. The truth is however different: pictures taken in low light conditions are always blurred, as if the shutter was being held open too long.
Another confirmation of this fact is that if you put your HD on the table and keep it from moving too much while taking a picture in low light, the resulting image is not blurry and, most importantly, there's no evident noise!
Even a digital reflex produces noise with high ISO settings (needed in low light..) but, in this case, the result image is not blurred!
To recap: our camera can't have access to ISO settings, so ISOs are always the same. When you decrease the brightness you are simply asking the camera to capture less light, allowing the shutter to close a little bit faster and giving less blurred pictures.. That's something softwares can't modify in any way and the only hope is a new radio which enables this.. (given that our camera physically supports dynamic ISO settings..)
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That's something softwares can't modify in any way
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You know that the radio is also some kind of software?
It may be that the radio is some sort of interface between the camera application and the hardware, but that doesn't mean that the ROM hasn't any impact as you'll find the drivers and the camera application there ...
johnpatcher said:
You know that the radio is also some kind of software?
It may be that the radio is some sort of interface between the camera application and the hardware, but that doesn't mean that the ROM hasn't any impact as you'll find the drivers and the camera application there ...
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Ugh, not really... Radio core does not interface with camera IC/hardware.
stepw said:
Ugh, not really... Radio core does not interface with camera IC/hardware.
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That was a theory of Eraser85, not mine!

Best X1 Camera Settings

I've been playing around with the camera settings as I've realized that the X1 camera usually takes very dark photos indoors. I usually use Sport settings, auto-focus as this is the best picture setting for me. But the picture usually comes out dark.
I've tried Twilight setting, auto-focus, and found out that it's pretty good, clear and bright! However the default for Twilight setting is infinite-focus, which I must admit is very blurry.
Is there any registry or .cabs that can fix this default? It would be the best X1 camera setting: Twilight, auto-focus.
Unless someone has a better alternative?
Edit:
I've played around the registry\HKLM\Software\SonyEricsson\Camera but to no avail. Uncertain which one keeps returning the setting to infinite-focus during Twilight after re-opening X1 camera....
something new?
Would like to know the best settings for the x1
i have the R3a update but the framerate in bad light situations sucks
try to use Samsung Omnia Camera to get setting camera good
has someone done that before? is there a thread?
why does no one answer here? so many guys here have the x1...which settings you use for optimal pictures or videos? who tried the omnia camera cab or another one?
probably because not so many people use their x1 anymore. plus it's an old phone, meaning: literally every question has been already answered multiple times.
you can try that omnia-cam, but i doubt it works - different hardware. but try...
apart from that all you can do is play with x1-app, it's better than the htc-app that comes with sense-roms. for lagfree videos it's important that you have a good, fast rom (dynamics, x826). it could also make a difference if you save to main-storage or sdcard (sd being slower than internal memory).
hm the xperia is the phone i daily use so i dont wanne be the testperson^^
is there a thread about this samsung omnia camera-xperia x1?
My suggest:Buy a digital cameral! aha
hoh not funny kim jong il
there must be a solution,maybe in the registry (drivers\Builtin\Camera Sensortype

[Q] REQ: GPS sampling frequency increase

You may be thinking: "oh, not again that GPS crap", but no, I'm not complaining about the GPS as it is working flawlessly for me.
As I have noticed the sampling frequency of the GPS data points is 1Hz i.e. one sample every second which is not the ideal if we want to track accurately our activities specially in the corners and in not so linear routes.
Here you have an example (iPhone), 3G vs 4, the iPhone4 has a higher sampling rate and clearly better results.
So, I want to request the developers to try to change the sampling frequency from 1Hz to 2Hz. I've read somewhere that the integrated chip is 2Hz capable but disabled at driver level.
I am not sure if 2Hz are really needed, at least if you are not in a car. I am using Oruxmaps for recording tracks, there i see a huge difference when setting minimal time between gps points to 0s (Always on) and minimal distance between gps points to a lower value.
I want to see the difference after sampling changes to 2Hz
Yeah, come on, give it a try!!!
This sounds interesting. Wish i could assist in making it happen. Unfortunately Im not that clever.
Sent From My GT-Iphone-killer almost.
Well I thought I would look into this, I've never edited a driver or any thing linux in my life, but i thought "how hard can it be"?
Well I still dont know lol.
I downloaded the jm9 files from this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831725
And looking at the files the only one I can play with is the jupiter.xml file.
Now looking it seems pretty straight forward, i dont know what half of the things being enabled and disabled mean, but we can play i suppose.
One thing does concern me tho, looking at the xml file it seems to use a couple of differant servers for some kind of supl data. I know we can edit the supl entries in the gps.conf file, but maybe the jupiter file overrides that? Im not clever enough to find out unfortunately.
Anyway to cut a long story short the servers it uses are:
http://www.spirent-lcs.com/
bcmls2.glpals.com
bcmlbsqa1.glpals.com
Neither of which seem to work when using a normal web browser.
There is also some references in the xml file to frequency plan, but im not sure i really understand what these mean.
Maybe someone with better knowledge than me could take a look and see what they think.
Or maybe im barking up completely the wrong tree, in which forgive me.
I've uploaded another copy of the jm9 drivers file in case anyone wants to take a look also.
Also noticed that a chap on modaco forums has tried changing some elements, in case it is of any help...
http://android.modaco.com/content/s...xml-etc-gps-conf-and-gps-fixing/#entry1336782

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