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[Q] Can I take 1920x1080 pictures?

Hello ,
Is it possible to set resolution to 1920x1080 for the camera pictures? I want to see them on my LG display. I am using stock , unrooted. Thanks in advance.

no you cannot
1920x1080 are a 16:9 video resolution, not a picture resolution
Pictures are allways shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio
For pictures you can select 8mpixels (3264x2448) or 5mpixels (2560x1920) or 3mpixels (2048x1536) or 2mpixels (1600x1200) or less

Thank you , but I have a photo camera that can shot pics in 16:9 , so i thought that the aspect can be overwritten on this phone too. Some other opinions though?

Maybe if you're willing to install CM7, it may be possible to tweak some files a bit to get the desired effect

George , can you please be more specific?

jepcar said:
George , can you please be more specific?
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He means that if you install another rom on your phone you _might_ be able to set the camera resolution somewhere in it.
I would try to google for another camera app in your place. (Have you tried downloading any from the market, maybe some of them can crop images to the right size directly?)

I haven't found one yet. I have tried all camera apps from the market and none of them worked....Maybe someone can help me a little more , please ?

There are no camera apps for Android that can take pictures in that resolution.
Your photo camera that does it, cant really either - all it does is crop the picture afterwards in software, but the picture itself is taken natively in 4:3 aspect
There are no camera apps for Android that offer that option, so we cant really help you with that part.
If you want pictures in that resolution (or rather in 16:9 aspect) you will have to crop them yourself using a picture editor after they are taken. There are a number of photo editors for Android that will crop pictures on your phone, for instance "Photo Enhance" which will let you crop pictures in different fixed aspect ratios, including 16:9 widescreen. You need the paid version to save pictures in high resolution.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wheadon.photoenhancepro&feature=more_from_developer
Else try and look at some of the other editors - heres a list of some
http://www.web3mantra.com/2011/07/06/25-android-apps-for-photo-editing/
PS: You can offcource also crop and resize your pictures using a picture editor on your computer and then transfer them back to the phone again after cropping and resizing

I have a camera that takes picture in 1920x1080. It is a Samsung DV150F. They are 8 MB look good on my new TV monitor.
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jepcar said:
Hello ,
Is it possible to set resolution to 1920x1080 for the camera pictures? I want to see them on my LG display. I am using stock , unrooted. Thanks in advance.
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I have a camera that takes picture in 1920x1080. It is a Samsung DV150F. They are 8 MB look good on my new TV monitor. Full Screen

[Q] Corrupt photos if larger than 5 MB, using any camera app

Hi,
I'm unrooted, stock V10h.
After noticing that the stock camera photos are very compressed (8MP photos never go above 3MBs) with no option to change that, I installed Camera Zoom FX. All seemed good, but then on a sunny day after taking *lots* of photos, noticed I couldn't view some of them on the phone, although thumbnails were there. Came home, transferred to PC, opened and noticed that the ones the phone couldn't display were corrupted. All of them, had a gray bar at the bottom, some more, some less. Obviously the compressed jpg stream was broken after some point.
Thought it was Camera Zoom FX's problem, because this never happened with the native camera app. Uninstalled.
Still wanting better quality, installed Camera ICS. Great too. But same problem too (on some photos again).
Went on to install Camera MX. Same.
Finally narrowed it down to this:
if resulting photo is > 5MB (more precise: if > 5130 KB) then it's corrupted
(and that's why the native camera doesn't have this problem: there's no way to choose better JPG quality for it to make 5MB photos).
I thought: memory speed problem. But then again, the photos were saved in the phone internal memory. Internal memory is not supposed to have speed problems. Anyway, I tried saving to Class 6 and Class 10 SD card, and the results were the same.
Anyone know about this?
Also, please report if your >5MB pictures are fine (in case you shoot at that quality), and what app you use to take them.
Note: the problem seems to be there with jpg photos in general, irrespective of device. Here's a link of someone experiencing the same photo corruption on a normal camera (Casio EX-F1). The problem with my photos is exactly as in the photo he posts a bit later in the thread.

Ok noone seems to know anything about it.
Could someone at least please report if you can get photos equal to or above 5Mb in size, whatever camera app you are using and whether the photos are ok?
(to get that quality, you must select 8 megapixels and then the highest quality in some other setting. For example camera zoom fx and camera mx have a percentage slider (set it to 100), while camera ICS names the quality (select ultra). Also a steady shot and lots of light is needed for the pictures to go up to 5Mb even in these settings.)

EPa said:
Ok noone seems to know anything about it.
Could someone at least please report if you can get photos equal to or above 5Mb in size, whatever camera app you are using and whether the photos are ok?
(to get that quality, you must select 8 megapixels and then the highest quality in some other setting. For example camera zoom fx and camera mx have a percentage slider (set it to 100), while camera ICS names the quality (select ultra). Also a steady shot and lots of light is needed for the pictures to go up to 5Mb even in these settings.)
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Just tested with Camera ICS.... Same issue as you. Photo was 5,266,434.00 bytes.
Using V10h Euro Open.

i had the same issue on deodexed ICS i had a week after purchase, and after i installed this mod:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1855818
i tought the mod broke my camera, but i guess it was this bug/limit.

Thank you both for reporting. At least now we know it's an (LG implementation?) android bug.
Really annoying to me, as I would like to use the camera's full potential. Hope this gets fixed in the upcoming JB for 4X.
(although in order for something to be fixed, LG would have to know. And this problem surely hasn't received attention since it seems I am the first one to bring it up).

It would be interesting to see what would happen if someone with v20a tested this.

Yes indeed.
On another note, I also checked GeoCam and sometimes it gives an error (not enough memory or something). The photos that it saves with no problem are maximum < 5 Mb, so I assume it is the same problem. But this app demonstrates that there is a way for the programmer to know that during saving the photo something did not go as expected.
Where exactly the bug lies, is another matter.

EPa said:
Yes indeed.
On another note, I also checked GeoCam and sometimes it gives an error (not enough memory or something). The photos that it saves with no problem are maximum < 5 Mb, so I assume it is the same problem. But this app demonstrates that there is a way for the programmer to know that during saving the photo something did not go as expected.
Where exactly the bug lies, is another matter.
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i might try the mod in official 4.1 when it's out and someone releases a deodexed version, just to check if it works on JB.
this is quite a strange problem we have on our hands, i did some search on google, and haven't found many similar problems.

Flying_Bear said:
i might try the mod in official 4.1 when it's out and someone releases a deodexed version, just to check if it works on JB.
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I too am anxiously waiting for the official 4.1 and was hoping that it would not have this problem.. just wishful thinking..

i already know it a long time ago, and i asked about this at the camera MOD thread by ksekhar http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1855818. but no one seems to bother
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Ale-xs said:
Hello ksekhar. I found a problem in the LG firmware, it appears in your mod too.
In third-party programs (ICS camera+) and in your camera mod of the compression quality jpeg minimum, maximum file size.
In some conditions, such as the leaves in the sun, the size of the file begins to exceed 5 megabytes. Then the problems start.
This file is written to the error (broken jpeg file). I've been thinking why this is so and finally got it.
In your version, you just increase the compression quality to any situation the file size is not more than 4-5 MB.
Also, if you is not difficult, please do me a version (as we did earlier) which fixes only compression jpeg,
but the quality of compression should be a cross between the standard version and your version.
Or tell me how I myself can change the quality of compression.
For example (like photoshop - compression level from 0 to 12)
Original LG camera - compression 9
Your mod - compression 12
The required - compression 10.
Link to example of broken jpeg file: http://narod.ru/disk/61445464001.4b4c982386ce7c47b2214e33a90a25aa/bug_IMG_20120923_124127.jpg.html
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i have this problem too
when photo taken exceeds 5MB.. it is broken...and it happened too often. any solutions?
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Ok, that's bad...
For now, I check whether the thumbnail of the just taken photo appears correctly (inside the photo application). If not, it's a sign the photo has exceeded 5 mb. Then I go to settings, reduce the quality, reshoot.
Or, one can use Camera MX and set the quality slider to 90-95. Then the photos are better than stock camera, and they don't exceed 5 mb.
Since noone cares for this problem I can only hope the new firmware automagically hasn't got this problem. If it does.. we'll see then...

Bad news... Just updated to official V20a, and the same issue persists. a 5.02mb JPEG resulted in an image which was half ok, half greyed out and corrupt.

Only hope now a mod, or a custom ROM..
Ok, is there a way mother LG can be notified about this? (and don't tell me phone support in my country, they can only handle basic stuff. They won't understand what I'm talking about and respond like "use the official camera application"...)

Insomniac535 said:
Bad news... Just updated to official V20a, and the same issue persists. a 5.02mb JPEG resulted in an image which was half ok, half greyed out and corrupt.
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thanks for the info.
yeah, my country doesn't even have proper support for LG devices. we could try mailing them?

I just noticed this problem yesterday. Is there any fix for this?

lm007 said:
I just noticed this problem yesterday. Is there any fix for this?
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Not that I know of.

i have no idea why, but yesterday i took some pictures with my 4x (with the stock lg camera app!).
the most pictures had around 1,5-2,5mb , one hat 4,7mb and one 5,05..
the ->5mb pic is corrupt..

never saw this error on stock, im using stock camera app on my CM
Anyway, i reported this bug to CM on the 4X forum, lets see if they can help. would good if more people confirmed this bug on CM forum..

I have a little experience about this bug.
Last time I flashed google's camera 4.2 with photosphere, camera.tegra.so and libnvmm_camera.so (modded to disable denoise filter) and stock camera. The result was that wherever camera I used (stock, cm, google's) the pic were corrupted (taking photos in dark). Just few of them were OK.
Here are modded .so files - works with CM10.1 (made by me, if you want i can made thread for them):
http://db.tt/2Lfxuehq - camera.tegra.so pasted to /system/lib/hw
http://db.tt/LXdwvJUZ - libnvmm_camera.so pasted to /system/lib
Sth more I will say when I come from holidays.

[Q] changing video resolution?

i have a feeling this is gonna be one of those "duh" questions, but here goes:
how can i change the resolution of videos that i shoot? either before or after, and on the phone?
recently, i've been shooting a lot of 3-4 minute videos (analysis of martial arts/athletic movements -- the phone does a great job of this by the way), and they are all in 1080p. which is great, and they look good on my tv, tablet, display, etc. but the files are also clocking in at 500MB-600MB! which kind of sucks for upload to Dropbox, and are too big/long for sending on WhatsApp, etc.
am i missing something? or will i have to do post-video editing on my PC before sending/uploading?
thx.

You can only adjust resolution settings in Manual Mode.

B361 bug - low resolution 720p don't work

After upgrade nougat L19c185b361 . the function of reduce power consume - low resolution 720p don't work after i do sticked on the button .
Anyone know this bug ? Or did i wrong manipulate ?
Thanks

probably obvious but I will ask anyway, have you tried rebooting since turning that setting on?

Lennyuk said:
probably obvious but I will ask anyway, have you tried rebooting since turning that setting on?
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I already rebooted after setting it on. But no effect.

Got question for you.... how do you know this is not working? I remember trying this out back on EMUI 4.1.1 and and on other phones and I generally dont see a difference between 1080p and 720p however, I did see a difference between qHD and 720p.
Also, lowering screen resolution helps with FPS in games but its been proven that it barely makes a difference in battery saving.

Z-Blade said:
Got question for you.... how do you know this is not working?
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I suppose OP know the option is not working because he still can capture screenshot in 1080p.
In Marshmallow, ROG Power Saving option will make the system run at 720p at all time.
So, when you capture a screenshot or do screen recording, pictures and videos will be in 720p.
I've noticed, from OP's screenshot, the description is now changed to "Lower the screen resolution as required". I guess, in Nougat, resolution will only be lowered when the system determines it should be.
OP should try playing heavy 3D GPU-intensive games and see whether screen resolution changed to 720p.

I need someone who have devices running on nougat b360/361 to confirm this function ( 720p resolution) working like Marshmallow 6.0 or no.
Thanks

I am on B360 and for me this function doesn't work like it was on 6.0 (for example you can see the difference in size of Viber's stickers- in 6.0 when 720p is active, stickers are bigger. Also the apps icons are more grainy. That's not the case in 7.0 ).

It's working. When you launch an heavy app, the low resolution is active. I can see a difference in Clash Royale

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It's working. When you launch an heavy app, the low resolution is active. I can see a difference in Clash Royale
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Hmmm maybe it only applies for games? Kinda make sense since this is where the majority of power saving will come from if you take the wording "As required".

To be honest if it work only in 3D games its actually useless a bit.
I was changing resolution and DPI all the time with my older devices(only reason why i root my phones today) and even when you use browser or watch videos, changing res to 720 give HUGE battery boost. Actually when playing game beside performance boost, battery life is not that different compared to default 1080.
Im still in 6.0(Poland and Spain still dont have update to 7.0) and after changing res to 720 I can easily get 2 days of heavy video watch + browser and its still left with 15-25%. With default 1080 I could get maybe day and half before battery hit 15%
So if it change res only when launching "heavy app/game" beside performance boost it will not give much for battery. When I was sick few weeks ago I spend whole week playing with that setting so I have some comparison of how it work on P9.
Also to check your resolution you just need to look at "phone info" in settings or just install one of many small apps that check/change res of screen.

It's work on B361. See how the font resolution is changed. You must be blind not to see this right after press the button.

Same here. Worked with MM. Do not work with B378.
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Akinaro said:
1. To be honest if it work only in 3D games its actually useless a bit.
2. Also to check your resolution you just need to look at "phone info" in settings or just install one of many small apps that check/change res of screen.
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1: True.
2: Only rooted

Just tested with B378. Checked by screenshot(res of picture it take) and by app that check resolution(root is needed only for changing res, for checking it work without it), and also by looking at res info in settings->phone informations
I though maybe its work only if power saving mode is turned on? NOPE
Maybe it work only if Power Saving is on, and battery is bellow 50%? still NOPE
Maybe it work only with really, really heavy 3D games? NOPE
Maybe it need some additional setting like forcing GPU rendering in programming settings? NOPE
Maybe it need reset? NOPE tried everytime.
It doesnt even touch DPI, because via programming options->set minimal width I set it to 420DPI so Im allergic to any changes and I see if its different.
So overall, yeah, it doesnt work and need to be reported to Huawei. I will later do that but it would be better if more people do the same.

low res not working for me - B378
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I get last post wrong. But anyway I send report to Huawei and I would recommend that to everyone else, so maybe they notice and fix it quicker.

Camera & Live Photo

The LG V40 ThinQ has a Live Photo mode similar to later iPhones. That photo is about 9 frames of video with sound and 1 picture. There are a few things I can't figure out though.
A. Is the photo 9 frames at full resolution, with audio tacked on.
or is it 1 frame + a small connected movie
B. Can I edit this off-phone, can I peel out all the frames and pick the best one, or edit/use the video portion elsewhere.
There are a few things I have done so far, that are not satisfying my needs.
save to video, or screen cap in the phone, both provide terrible results.
using the "in-phone" saved video outside the phone, also terrible.
Any help would be appreciated

Did you manage to solve the live photo problem? I am looking for a solution for finding and making copies of photos that were made in live photo (visible in the gallery when browsing but not saved an mp4). I sent this question to LG technical support but so far I have no answer.