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Camera - No 3MP setting...?

Ok. Here's the technical information:
ROM Version: 3.57.502.2 WWE
ROM Date: 07/17/08
Radio version: 1.71.09.01
Protocol Version: 25.75.40.02.eMoH
I am using the ATT Tilt (Which is what the phone started as) ROM from the HTC site. I switched to this ROM because everything works flawlessly (save the issue about which I'm posting). I did just finish flashing the different radio.
I flashed the ROM two days ago, and haven't used the camera until today. I noticed that the number of remaining pictures was higher than normal. As it turns out, 2MP is the maximum setting at which I can take pictures. Up until this recent flash I've always had 3MP.
I have installed a plethora of cabs (quite a bit more than is acceptable to list at the moment) and I suppose it's entirely possible that one of those cabs may have disrupted the camera.
I'm not a "n00b" to flashing, but I'm relatively inexperienced at diagnosing problems specific to this phone.
Does anyone have any ideas? I've searched the "Read this before you post" thread, I've been searching google and XDA for a little over an hour now. I wouldn't have posted if I would have found a solution.
Thanks in advance.
EDIT - To reiterate, I'm not entirely sure if it was the ROM flash, a radio issue, or some cab/ROM interference.

I did quite a bit more searching and discovered the problem.
It was not radio related. It was caused by a "fix" that was created by Nadavi. I installed this fix earlier in an attempt to get the 3MP setting back. When I installed the fix, the 3MP setting returned, but then my preview screen went black.
I found a post here: Helpful fix
After downloading the 5.0.4 version camera, everything works now. I have 3MP back, and my screen is not black. As a matter of fact, the entire camera seems faster.

Lenbo said:
I did quite a bit more searching and discovered the problem.
It was not radio related. It was caused by a "fix" that was created by Nadavi. I installed this fix earlier in an attempt to get the 3MP setting back. When I installed the fix, the 3MP setting returned, but then my preview screen went black.
I found a post here: Helpful fix
After downloading the 5.0.4 version camera, everything works now. I have 3MP back, and my screen is not black. As a matter of fact, the entire camera seems faster.
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Lenbo, Great job!!!

Thanks. I'm hoping that anyone else silly enough to stumble on this problem can figure it out as well.

CM7 Camera

Im sure you all know that CM7 has a buggy camera, but i didnt think it would be this ridiculous 0.0. Every time i take a picture, i have to switch to video camera, then back to camera to take the next picture... If i download another camera app, i get a "Forced Close". CM7 is by far one of the best roms ive had so if it means no camera, so be it... But if there is a fix, id really like to be able to use it
Please let me know
Thanks!

I read your post opened up the camera, took three consecutive pictures, switched to gallery and viewed them.
So it works for me. Have you tried reflash or have you installed the latest update?
CM7

yeah, just flashed the update for today and everything seems fine :S. Im not sure why that happened though, happy its fixed

[Q] droid 3 890/906 rooted, gps + camera = unstable cam/vid rec?

so, i was on 890 and my camera started to blip black screen and back to the cam. in video mode, it would stop the recording and go back as well. thinking that it was cuz i rooted, i unrooted, upgraded to 906, and tested again. same issue. thinking it was camera360, i removed it (why i thought it was that app, dunno), and still did it. after a long time, finally decided to disable gps recording and it stopped blacking out and video recording actually lived for 15 or so minutes. rooted and tether works too now... O_O... anyone experienced same issues? if not, thinking of RMAing it back to amazonwireless... 9 months so far..
Sent from my Droid 3

I have had the Droid 3 since it was originally released. I have used both builds you mentioned extensively and I have always had bad luck with the camera/video apps as well. I have mentioned elsewhere how Motorola's cameras for the Droid series have always been a little lacking in my opinion (I have had the Droid and Droid 3.). I generally have the GPS off and I don't like location tagging so most of my problems with the camera happened with GPS turned off. I ran the 890 build stock for a few weeks and the rooted, updated to 906 and quickly rooted. Under all 3 cases, and still to this day, sometimes when I take a photo it will act like its trying to save then the app will crash and take me back to the launcher. Sometimes it will save the picture, but most of the time it won't.
That being said it may just be a bigger overall problem that this fone just has. Its an awesome fone but the camera has always been a sore spot with me. I have heard the droid 4 camera is a little better but don't have any long term experience with it to report.

well, downgraded to 890 again, and left it unrooted, and camera worked perfectly.. really odd.. no black blips, and hard clanking inside the system. GPS/geolocation works as well.. camera360 app as wel. just recorded 1 hour of nonsense and couldn't do that when rooted ;/
after a while, I decided to up it to 906. still working good. could it be some sort of glitch within the rooting method that causes the camera to go unstable?
this is where, when in camera mode, or in video mode, it seems like when it's focusing, the camera display blips black, there's a hard thunk, and after a few milliseconds, it goes back to the camera/video again - if recording, the recording ends - the video survives usually.
can anyone test? it happens more when the camera is used a lot and/or video mode has been running a bit.

apparently, it's now failing in non-rooted state now. gonna RMA it i guess :] hopefully they'll let me choose a different phone since Droid 3 is not available anymore heh
UPDATE: apparently, verizon doesn't want me easily replacing my phone, they have me in "SAFE MODE" and so far, it hasn't crashed.. wtf...

[Q] Colour issue when recording video - re-flash camera firmware?

I am having a problem with my HTC one M7 (Rogers) . I am running Android Revolution HD 84.0 (and I have tried the last couple versions without any change in the problem). When recording video the colour information seems to be horribly skewed relative to the brightness data. The screen shows the video properly, the problem is only visible when playing back the video. Here is a video of the problem, and yes I see the irony in using a broken camera to record a video of another broken camera:
It looks like it is either reading a bunch of garbage data before the colour data, or starting partway through the colour data and reading off into another section of memory (I don't know if it is read top to bottom or bottom to top).
I tried changing ROMs and cycled through the last few versions of ARHD without any change in behaviour. I did a factory reset and there was no change. I am not sure what provoked the problem as I don't frequently review my videos so I don't actually know when it started but it was in the last 2-3 months.
My hope would be that the next step is to re-flash the camera firmware but I haven't any idea how to do that on this phone or where I would obtain camera firmware.
Has anybody run into this before? What should I try next?

After some searching I see 2 other people have had this problem with no solution:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-one/help/video-problems-firmware-upgrade-t2971013

blue163 said:
I am having a problem with my HTC one M7 (Rogers) . I am running Android Revolution HD 84.0 (and I have tried the last couple versions without any change in the problem). When recording video the colour information seems to be horribly skewed relative to the brightness data. The screen shows the video properly, the problem is only visible when playing back the video. Here is a video of the problem, and yes I see the irony in using a broken camera to record a video of another broken camera:
It looks like it is either reading a bunch of garbage data before the colour data, or starting partway through the colour data and reading off into another section of memory (I don't know if it is read top to bottom or bottom to top).
I tried changing ROMs and cycled through the last few versions of ARHD without any change in behaviour. I did a factory reset and there was no change. I am not sure what provoked the problem as I don't frequently review my videos so I don't actually know when it started but it was in the last 2-3 months.
My hope would be that the next step is to re-flash the camera firmware but I haven't any idea how to do that on this phone or where I would obtain camera firmware.
Has anybody run into this before? What should I try next?
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This is a known issue with the HTC Camera App. Not a Rom issue or an problem with your camera.
Recording at 1080x720 works fine. It was something to do with HTC implementing the eye experience on the M7 Camera app. You can replace the camera app with an older one but you will lose the eye experience. Or record at 1080x720

Danny201281 said:
This is a known issue with the HTC Camera App. Not a Rom issue or an problem with your camera.
Recording at 1080x720 works fine. It was something to do with HTC implementing the eye experience on the M7 Camera app. You can replace the camera app with an older one but you will lose the eye experience. Or record at 1080x720
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I wish known issues like this were better disclosed - I could have avoided wasting people's time.
You seem to be correct, I have changed to the google camera and it seems to be working properly.

Camera stottering - New rom / kernel a solution?

Hello,
because i bought a new phone i gave my "old" Nexus 6 to my wife. Since a updated to Marshmallow i had problems with the camera. It stuttered while making a video. But i dont often used the camera, so i ignored it. My wife is Snapchat addicted and she can't make good videos with the front camera of the N6....it's like a slide show....the record is not smooth. I searched at the internet and a lot of people have the same problem since Adnroid Marchmallow ....
I flashed her CM 14, because i thought it might be a problem with the stock rom , but the problem remained. So my question is. Because i know i had not the problem at Android Lollipop. Is there anybody who had the same problem and solved it with flashing another rom? Or is it worth to try another kernel? I looked at the "rom forum" and found the "sky dragon 5.0 with a "new" kernel and probably i will try this. So my question is....is it a problem with the rom? is it a problem with the kernel? is it a problem with the hardware? What you expert think its the best way to fix the problem (i tried tips in the internet like diasble geodata at the photos or disable the battery safer for the camera app).
I hope you are able to understand my english. Otherwise i will explain it in other words.
Thank you very much!

Flash a factory image (will wipe the phone 100% but take it back to bone stock). If the camera issue is present on stock rom, stock kernel, with no modifications, then it's a hardware issue.

i have had problems with stuttering camera app before but it was fixed by resetting the phone. not really sure why after installing a new ROM you still facing this issue.
have you tried other camera apps? download a free one from the store and see its the same deal.

My first Nexus 6 had no issues whatsoever. When I had to RMA that one for the massive battery bulge issue, my second Nexus 6 had the camera stuttering issue. It would happen whether I was taking still shots or video. Obviously it was more noticeable on video, but it still made taking stills difficult. I took a video at the time to post on here to see if other people where having the same problem, but actually never got around to posting it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k23njriKiDk
Anyway, I RMAed that phone for the camera issue but then the third N6 had the same issue. I decided to live with it though since (a) Motorola has a really frustrating return policy/procedure, and (b) since two different devices had it I didn't think there was any guarantee that an RMA would fix the problem.
Fortunately, I've noticed that lately (running Nougat now), the stutter has mostly gone away. I'd say that for still pictures it has gone away entirely. For videos, I think it is gone as long as you use the stock camera app. I've noticed that if you use other apps, like Instagram for example, my video still has issues. In that case though, it's more of a constant refocusing issue than a stutter issue.
So moral of the story is... for me at least, it seems to be ok on Nougat as long as you stick to the stock camera app.