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Phone Orientation in Photo Album

Has anyone else noticed that when viewing pictures in the Album application in TF3D2, that the Gsensor appears to have no effect? Landscape pics appear in Landscape mode, no matter how you hold the phone, upright or sideways, and portrait pics appear in Portrait mode even if you've tilted your phone sideways.
Or is it just me? It's a bit of a pain if you're holding your phone in one hand and want to see all your pics the right way up!
(I'm not referring to slideshows, by the way)

This is strange, I've noticed it to. I'd like the photo album to auto rotate - any tweaks that anyone can suggest?

And even Gyrator doesn't rotate when viewing a picture. When i'm viewing the whole set of pictures, it works, but as soon as i select one, it doesn't. Strange...

Just wondering, how is the device to know what the bottom of the picture is? The picture could have been taken landscape or portrait, depending on how you held the device when you made it. IMO it's the best solution to just display the picture best fit on the screen...

deechte said:
Just wondering, how is the device to know what the bottom of the picture is? The picture could have been taken landscape or portrait, depending on how you held the device when you made it. IMO it's the best solution to just display the picture best fit on the screen...
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The device does know. In the tab for pictures, it displays all pictures in their right aspects. As it also does in the gallery. Just not when you click on the picture to bring it up.

mrmckeb said:
The device does know.
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You're right, it does! I never noticed that. Clever..

deechte said:
You're right, it does! I never noticed that. Clever..
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It must be stored in the file somewhere...

...anyway, getting back to the point. The Gsensor has absolutely no effect when viewing pictures. I cannot hold my phone upright and view a landscape image. This seems wrong to me - I'm 100% sure my old Touch Pro used the Gsensor to determine which way to display your pics - this seems like a big step backwards!
Mind you, it'll all be moot in September when Winmo 6.5 comes out - TF3D will be pretty much redundant :O)

any program that can help on photos rotation? thanks.

i get the same problem
i have used gyrator2 but it just can rotate the interface and 180 deg

ssseii said:
i get the same problem
i have used gyrator2 but it just can rotate the interface and 180 deg
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i tried gyrator as well and it doesn't work maybe i dont know how to set it

Dosen't the Photoalbum rotate itself?I think it rotates but lets the pictures in their original position/rotation.
The buttons rotate, right? The old photoalbum did a better job^^

I found it to be a very annoying feature on the diamond1.
Sometimes you just want to see a pictuer from another angel, and the autorotation made that impossible.

mrmckeb said:
It must be stored in the file somewhere...
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Yes. The Exif information of the pictures contains generally the Focal length, shutter speed, iso, date & time, sometimes GPS coordinates (can be added later with software, and some new camera include GPS), and of course orientation of the picture : landscape or portrait. It stores even if it was 180° rotated in portrait or landscape.
Regards,
Olivier.

[Q] [REQ] Remap Lock Button (Camera etc.)

Hello,
i just saw a thread that was about remapping the LockScreen/PowerOff button.
In the camera app, the Lock button disables all controls and the touchscreen.
While this may be useful while recording a video (perhaps while filming yourself and accidently touching the screen) its useless while taking a picture.
May it be possible to modify the behaviour of this button to something like
1.Press = Lock the Controls then another Click = Take Picture / Video
or
1.Press = Take Picture / Video and Double Press = Lock Controls
or something similiar intuitive?
I'd like the idea of taking a picture with this button (even thou it's position is not optimal in considering the position of the Camera Hardware itself , but way better than figuring your finger on the touchscreen for taking a picture and maybe accidently focusing something e.g)
Is there a possibilty to modify the standard behaviour?
Is there a way to get the sourcecode of this app, maybe i can dig there a bit, its obvious that samsung has overriden the behaviour in this app?
Thanks and sorry for my bad english.
Regards

Yes, the hardware key of camera will give more convenience even the position is not suitable for easy handling. But still better than soft button.

Sounds like a good idea but seeing as my phone's picture quality looks like I have taken a picture of lard underwater after sanding the lense I don't tend to use it all that often..

[Q] Camera Auto Focus

I was was wondering if there's a way to make the camera auto focus without the need of touching the screen to focus it.
Its possible?.

Whipon said:
I was was wondering if there's a way to make the camera auto focus without the need of touching the screen to focus it.
Its possible?.
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Under the settings (gear on bottom left), first page, the focus type should be set to Auto Focus.
From my experience it automatically focuses on whatever is in the box on the screen... however if you want the focus to be on something outside of that area, then you tap on the screen to change the focal distance.
You can test this for yourself by taking a picture of an object that is close to you, keeping it in the box and not tapping the screen, then switching to an object farther away, keeping it within the box... both pics should be properly focused. Finally, take a pic with a closer object outside the box, then tap to select the object and change the focus... the closer image will be in focus even though it is not directly in the center of the picture.

Well, thanks a lot.
I already had the focus type configured as Auto Focus.
Tried taking some pictures and the focus seems to be well, but I think pics taken by touching the screen to focus the camera have much better quality.
Correct me if I'm wrong.

I would tend to agree with that... I usually tap the screen myself as long as I have time... but in a pinch when I just need a quick shot, then it's just point and shoot.

[Q] Spen editing photos

Can someone tell me of a good program to edit photos using the spen? I have a photo in my gallery, I deleted spen and it brings up the pen. BUT, I cannot zoom in on the photo because when spen is active any screen touches are read as pen writing. I tried zooming in and then spen, but when you active spen the photo zooms back out. I'm sure there's a way to do this but it's alluding me.

Workaround for zooming and editing using s-pen
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Can someone tell me of a good program to edit photos using the spen? I have a photo in my gallery, I deleted spen and it brings up the pen. BUT, I cannot zoom in on the photo because when spen is active any screen touches are read as pen writing. I tried zooming in and then spen, but when you active spen the photo zooms back out. I'm sure there's a way to do this but it's alluding me.
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hey man, if you found a solution to your problem let me know...meanwhile all i can suggest is a workaround.
1. download quickpic from google play (need this as the default gallery app shows up the menu whenever the spen is brought near to the screen)
2 open any photo in quick pic.
3.take a screenshot of the photo in full screen mode using ur s-pen.
4.when the screenshot is automatically opened, you can edit it using the s-pen
5. to zoom in use pinch to zoom. you can still use the s-pen on the zoomed in image to annotate, draw, etc.
6. when u zoom out, whatever you have written with the s-pen will also zoom out..
7. save the screenshot.
i don't know how the resolution will change if you use a screenshot of a photo rather than the actual photo, but it seems to work well enough for me.
have fun and if you do find a solution to actually zoom in and edit photos without taking screenshots, please do reply back here.
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unless I'm misunderstanding ...
1. open s-memo, create new memo
2. click the photo icon (to left of microphone icon on the toolbar)
3. click "picture" then "gallery"
4. select picture to edit
5. adjust aspect if desired using arrows then tap outside image to fix
6. use pinch & zoom to zoom into a section of the picture (if you do this smoothly there should be no mark left by your fingers, but if there is, just click "undo" to remove it before proceeding)
7. edit zoomed image with s-pen as desired
8. save or export once finished
note - above only works if you have the "s-pen only" option in the settings menu unchecked - otherwise your pinch & zoom gestures will be ignored.

jserio said:
Can someone tell me of a good program to edit photos using the spen? I have a photo in my gallery, I deleted spen and it brings up the pen. BUT, I cannot zoom in on the photo because when spen is active any screen touches are read as pen writing. I tried zooming in and then spen, but when you active spen the photo zooms back out. I'm sure there's a way to do this but it's alluding me.
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Video is for the I717, but may apply to both http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8Gkt7G1Xs&nomobile=1

[Q] Using Gear for remote touch?

Hi,
I recently started to take a lot of photospheres on a tripod. Sometimes the pictures turns out blurring because of turning, sometimes it's just random. To take a picture again, we have to press "back arrow" in top right corner (landscape). But when phone is attached on tripod, even a simple touch can easily blurry the pictures. Therefore here is my question. Is there a way to emulate a touch press? Maybe using tasker?
Example - when I press the script on Gear, I want my phone to touch the pixels coordinated for example at 1800x400 (from 1920x1080). Is that possible? I hope I made it clear enough