Hi there,
I am fine with the camera, except the panorama mode. Ive seen Panorama modes on Samsung devices. its much better. specially the sphare 360 thingy for nexus 4.
Is there a way we could get that working in xperia z? I saw someone made it up for Motorola...
Thanks.
Sweep panorama works just fine, good detail as well.
It works better in good light, btw.
mtechfan said:
Sweep panorama works just fine, good detail as well.
It works better in good light, btw.
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5 out of ten I get, "please move slower" or "please move faster" and also you cant stoop when eveer you want you have to keep going to the end.
You should see the ones on Samsung and you will agree. I never had a problem with those. took awesome pictures.
mtechfan said:
Sweep panorama works just fine, good detail as well.
It works better in good light, btw.
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just watch this/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyn1xgPcevI
No repliet?
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Photo sphere (360 thing you mentioned from nexus 4) is nexus ONLY. If you want that, buy a nexus. Theres probably an app or would be one day that replicates it.
Coming from a galaxy s 2 I'd say the panorama mode on the XZ absolutely dominates the S2. Can't comment on the successors to the s2 though.
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DreadPirateDan said:
Photo sphere (360 thing you mentioned from nexus 4) is nexus ONLY. If you want that, buy a nexus. Theres probably an app or would be one day that replicates it.
Coming from a galaxy s 2 I'd say the panorama mode on the XZ absolutely dominates the S2. Can't comment on the successors to the s2 though.
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Whatvtypebof answer is that? If i like a software on a phone i should go buy a it? Lol
Its a software smartie, with making a few adjustments, you should be able to run it on not only z, but any phone with android and gravity sensors.
And i had s 2 lte which is a lot different than s2. Its a 1.5 dual core. Z kicks its ass in every aspect, but panaramic mode sucks.
Just the fact that u cant stop when u want is annoying enough, let alone the speed problem...
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DreadPirateDan said:
Photo sphere (360 thing you mentioned from nexus 4) is nexus ONLY. If you want that, buy a nexus. Theres probably an app or would be one day that replicates it.
Coming from a galaxy s 2 I'd say the panorama mode on the XZ absolutely dominates the S2. Can't comment on the successors to the s2 though.
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You can get photosphere on jb 4.2 camera.
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I see, so it seems that it has been ported around indeed. For a long time every cm dev and his dog have been forever repeating themselves that it is nexus only site to sources or proprietary. I guess something has changed since then, my bad.
I really can't understand what is happening with you and your device to be having such a bad experience with the camera though. My one is far simpler smoother and faster than any phone I've seen using it (Motorola milestone 2, desire HD, s2, EVO 3d and most recently iPhone 5)
My camera did go all crappy in the first week and I had to clear the app data to get it working properly again, maybe it's worth a shot?
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If this has been posted already, my apologies! i've been reading in the forums for months now and haven't seen it posted yet unless it came and went down the list faster then i could see it.
so the main issue seems to be, after taking a few pictures over time the camera app just freezes with the LED on like a flashlight and won't take another picture. until i found this google code submission
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...s Owner Summary Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=40996
i've always had to reboot my phone just to take pics again. it's been embarassing when in public with friends i've bragged to about this phone... its a good laugh thats for sure, but not what i expect out of this phone. has any of you experienced this? do you guys on custom roms have this issue? is this a google code issue only or are all roms experiencing this issue? i haven't rooted yet as i always wanted to take updates automatically and stay up to date, but with this camera issue i'm in the process of rooting right this minute but want to make sure its worth my hassle.
discuss.
I've had this issue as well. It only seems to affect the stock app though as other camera apps continue to function. A reboot is the only way is been able to fix this bug.
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It happened to me for the first time on New Year's Eve but happened three times. The app reset when I either closed it from the recent apps list or switched to video camera and then back to regular camera. Not sure what caused it and hasn't happened since.
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So what you're trying to say is whenever you try to repetitively take photo, camera freezes with led light on? Never happened to me. Then again, I barely use my camera
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I've had this happen as well, although I don't think I needed to reboot, just closed the app and it stopped. But I've had this happen several times, not recently though. I'm very disappointed with the camera on this thing, it seems to take lack luster photos and the app is very fritzy and the rotation animation awful, as well as this occasional glitch.
It's a bug and has been reported. You can star it here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40996
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So what you're trying to say is whenever you try to repetitively take photo, camera freezes with led light on? Never happened to me. Then again, I barely use my camera
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that's exactly what I'm saying. I take a lot of pics especially when we go out. it does it all the time... it just freezes with the led stuck in. I can hit home but when I reopen it and take a pic it gets stuck in again. I just read I can switch to video and back and it should work, but that's annoying. my girlfriends gnex just works and she always laughs at me when it happens.
question, does this happen on anyone's rooted nexus with custom rom?
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Happens to me all the time. The camera app on here is pretty disappointing. I don't get it.
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I just got it to produce that problem and I see what you mean by annoying. One easy solution that I heard people using is using a third party camera app. Try a free camera app and tell us how it goes. Tried to reproduce the problem with camera zoom fx and couldn't do it. Also I believe this is a problem with terrible auto focus of nexus 4. Because when this happens the focus ring looks like as if it's still trying to focus into a object. Hopefully this gets fixed with software update. Cheers
BTW, using a rooted stock nexus 4 with Franco kernel and camera mod that'll increase the quality of the image and video.
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Happened to me to..... Bragged to my iPhone friends and that happened trying to get a picture of an Audi r8 . sad
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It's a bug and has been reported. You can star it here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40996
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Me too and I've now "Starred" the bug.
Hopefully everyone here has too so it gets noticed by Google.
Same issue. Experienced it for the first time on New Year's Eve. Both my Nexus 4 and my wife's had the same thing happen. Only happened to mine once. Happened to hers about 3 or 4 times.
Used the camera the most on New Year's compared to any other time so that's possibly why I never experienced it until then.
Happened twice when asking strangers to take pics of us too, which was extremely annoying and embarrassing.
The LED flash stays on and you can't take any pics. Closing the app and swiping it from recents and reopening does nothing. The same thing will happen on the next try. Need to reboot the phone. It's the only fix.
My phone did this on new years eve too.
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Happened the same to me more then once. I don't use the camera that much but when I really need it doesn't work.
This is embarrassing when everyone around you is taking pics with their iPhone.
Had numerous android phones before and never had one 100% reliable.
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Had this issue also!
BTW while messing around just now, I got it to freeze , but noticed it was out if focus , so I moved it around and it eventually took!
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KtMack23 said:
I've had this happen as well, although I don't think I needed to reboot, just closed the app and it stopped. But I've had this happen several times, not recently though. I'm very disappointed with the camera on this thing, it seems to take lack luster photos and the app is very fritzy and the rotation animation awful, as well as this occasional glitch.
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Try the Camera Zoom FX app. When I say amazing control, I mean AMAZING control of the camera. ISO, tap to focus and shoot, programmable hardware buttons for shutter/gallery etc...
The ability to control ISO means you can get rid of noise for stills/landscapes in almost any light. It works great. Furthermore, the pictures appear to be better from this app. When I started the app, I played around with it and thought "hey this is great, I have control over each shot, but the quality of the picture in auto mode appears the same as stock." Then I found in somewhat hidden "All Settings" menu a SAVE menu which was defaulted to 85% for jpeg output. I put it on 100% output and the pics look very good if not better than stock. The hardware is decent in this thing so the pics should be good. Take a look at the app and try it out for a few minutes to test it.
Disclosure: I have NO financial or personal interest in the company or developer of this app. But I do have a personal interest in photography.
Having decided the s4 still suffers from a laggy touchwiz from playing with 2 store demo models last week, and being impressed by the ones smoothness in another store; I'm seriously considering buying a one having had a galaxy S1, 2+3.
I have a few questions if people don't mind answering:
1. I'm not sure if I like blink feed and read you can't disable it. Would using a different launcher or will only a modified rom sort this?
2. Does adding a few widgets to your home screen cause any lag in scrolling?
3. Anyone had an s3 and can tell me what battery life is like in comparison?
4. I like smart stay, I gather there's an app that does similar. How well does it work on the one?
5. Is rooting as easy and safe, ie hiding for warranty returns?
6. Any previous s3 users really noticing the contrast difference ie not so good blacks? I've had amoled for 3 years now
Sorry it's long but thanks if you can answer.
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1) A different launcher or rom would remove BlinkFeed.
2) No lag. I have 6 screens and 15+ widgets and I don't see any lag.
3) I've never had an S3, but looking at the data, the HTC One battery is better than S3 but not as good as S4.
3. Check the anandtech comparison between the one and s4, they have the one ahead. The browsing time is excellent on the one.
4. Is smart stay the feature that stops the screen timing out if you're looking at it? If so, it's built into sense.
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Jme369 said:
3. Check the anandtech comparison between the one and s4, they have the one ahead. The browsing time is excellent on the one.
4. Is smart stay the feature that stops the screen timing out if you're looking at it? If so, it's built into sense.
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Yes smart stay is just that, built in you say? Excellent
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Thanks guys
How about 5&6 then? Any ex s3 users here?
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Having decided the s4 still suffers from a laggy touchwiz from playing with 2 store demo models last week, and being impressed by the ones smoothness in another store; I'm seriously considering buying a one having had a galaxy S1, 2+3.
I have a few questions if people don't mind answering:
1. I'm not sure if I like blink feed and read you can't disable it. Would using a different launcher or will only a modified rom sort this?
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At the moment, there is no way to disable BF on Sense. I don't know of any ROM that has this yet either.
A new launcher will remove it though (and enable more than 5 screens)
2. Does adding a few widgets to your home screen cause any lag in scrolling?
3. Anyone had an s3 and can tell me what battery life is like in comparison?
4. I like smart stay, I gather there's an app that does similar. How well does it work on the one?
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Can't comment.
5. Is rooting as easy and safe, ie hiding for warranty returns?
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Easy and safe yet. But hiding for warranty?
Once you unlock the bootloader, it will say TAMPERED in HBoot. There is no way around this as of yet. If this voids warrenty, I guess it depends on your carrier, or how HTCs view on it.
6. Any previous s3 users really noticing the contrast difference ie not so good blacks? I've had amoled for 3 years now
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I had a SNS before, it had a AMOLED screen, but obviously not as good as the S3. Personally I haven't noticed anything bad that makes me not like the screen. It could be that it doesn't bother me/I don't use it for applications that require top grade screens/the jump from SNS to ONE is big enough to shadow the display technology.
This is really subjective, you'll have to try them out your self.
xGary said:
1) A different launcher or rom would remove BlinkFeed.
2) No lag. I have 6 screens and 15+ widgets and I don't see any lag.
3) I've never had an S3, but looking at the data, the HTC One battery is better than S3 but not as good as S4.
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SmartStay is not available on sense. The phone will turn off whether you look at it or not.
I think, this is the only feature I'm missing.
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Sibbi said:
SmartStay is not available on sense. The phone will turn off whether you look at it or not.
I think, this is the only feature I'm missing.
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Ahh, so there isn't a sense equivalent? I actually meant a 3rd party app on play store, looking at comments though they all seem to crash the camera doh!
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Hey I have tested the port app from the Google edition HTC One (GS4) and it works like a charm on my Xperia Z with Android 4.2.2.
All functions including Photosphere work when accessed from the Gallery app. The Camera shortcut does crash sometimes. All you have to do is just download the APK and install it on your phone. It will not replace your stock camera app so you can just install it and use it as an alternative.
You can download it from this website: http://android.hdblog.it/2013/06/27...e-galleria-di-ones4-google-edition-per-tutti/
Or here is a Google Drive link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1liTNaofBHRQTNHZzQ2V1YyaTQ/edit
Sorry if it is s stupid question but does this app give you any better pics? Specially when there is low light or night time...I get pathetic images on stock app during night time...red dots all over..
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moonstar_paddy said:
Sorry if it is s stupid question but does this app give you any better pics? Specially when there is low light or night time...I get pathetic images on stock app during night time...red dots all over..
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Select "Night Portrait" in scene mode for awesome low light shots.
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keyz86 said:
Select "Night Portrait" in scene mode for awesome low light shots.
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It works like charm..thanks
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maybe the worst camera app ever seen
but at least it gets the Photosphere function
I like it very nice..thanks
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Some screenshots
Please
Is it possible to put this camera in the lockscreen (Where now the XZ camera is)?
I tried to search to replace it, but nowhere to find (for me )
Here is a quick test result:
http://i.imgur.com/JYouAHq.jpg
1st time install that. i loss stock Z camera. lol..
only S4 camera left.
i got back stockcamera from tjis mod with v5 with one shoot volume down.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41091930
Btw great work and thank you for share nice app :thumbup:
screen shoot from some place but will more good if use gallery from S4 apk.
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1st time install that. i loss stock Z camera. lol..
only S4 camera left.
i got back stockcamera from tjis mod with v5 with one shoot volume down.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41091930
Btw great work and thank you for share nice app :thumbup:
screen shoot from some place but will more good if use gallery from S4 apk.
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take from screen use gallery
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rioferraz said:
HDR mode is working?
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maybe not, coz not saw there . but sphere and some other setting work. Still can use Stock Camera for HDR
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Top man. Works nicely. Confusing as hell to use though.
I played a little with photosphere app. Great app. But the picture quality is not very good when zooming.
I compare 2 photoshere from the same point (one with my Xperia Z, one with S4 not google edition).
The one from S4 is much more sharp than the one from Xperia Z. What a pity...
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Reckon I will give this one a shot in a little bit. Was trying to get the Honami Camera app to work last night after de-odexing new Stock ROM, but this might keep me content until Honami is updated for new Firmware. Nice One !:laugh:
So what do u think about sgs 4 , lg l2 or now nexus 5 against our one ? Which one do u prefer the most and why, do u want to change ur htc one or keep it.
cipjanin said:
So what do u think about sgs 4 , lg l2 or now nexus 5 against our one ? Which one do u prefer the most and why, do u want to change ur htc one or keep it.
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I really like it, great phone. However the only reason I am considering selling it is the fact that I simply CANNOT get my WiFi hotspot to work, so it may be time to move on.
Personally I don't like the SGS4 due to Touchwiz, otherwise that's a solid little phone too. Can't really comment on the other two.
idk what to do i have offer to trade my htc one for iphone 5 neverlock it is worth it
Galaxy S4 is Samsung so it's automatically meh. The G2 would be cool if it didn't have the rear buttons and the Nexus 5 will be a great device. I still however think that the HTC One is the best phone on the market currently. So well balanced and aside from the camera issue in low light, It's perfect.
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I'm on ARHD, newest version and newest firmware and my wifi tether works fine. I use it for xbox live lol. Have you tried the built in wifi hotspot utility or are you using some 3rd party app?
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- sense gives the most true added value to android
- touchwiz is ugly, and i can live with the yellows whites of the Samsung devices
- after try a GE rom, in the ONE, yes is a little more smooth, but the battery is a little worse, but the only thing that is really important is that the pure android experience is boring, far to be bad, but boring... so I dont see me with a nexus phone, but I really want to have the new N7
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I'm on ARHD, newest version and newest firmware and my wifi tether works fine. I use it for xbox live lol. Have you tried the built in wifi hotspot utility or are you using some 3rd party app?
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Does it use a lot of data?
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croppz said:
Galaxy S4 is Samsung so it's automatically meh. The G2 would be cool if it didn't have the rear buttons and the Nexus 5 will be a great device. I still however think that the HTC One is the best phone on the market currently. So well balanced and aside from the camera issue in low light, It's perfect.
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hi, what camera issue in low light? i agree though it is an amazing phone i am yet to find something i dislike. especially on viperone 3.1.0 RC2
Idk what to do since my camera is messes up and HTC taking forever to tell me to ship it. I was thinking Xperia z but idk what should I do guys?
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jande425 said:
hi, what camera issue in low light? i agree though it is an amazing phone i am yet to find something i dislike. especially on viperone 3.1.0 RC2
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I have the same problem, in lowlight the pictures r all over with purple, red, pink etc its seems to be hardware problem, the sensors i guess. Thats the main reason why i am thinking for a switch
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Does it use a lot of data?
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Just install arhd its the best and everything works + excellent battery life
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Morganmachine91 said:
I'm on ARHD, newest version and newest firmware and my wifi tether works fine. I use it for xbox live lol. Have you tried the built in wifi hotspot utility or are you using some 3rd party app?
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Thanks for the reply. Yeah it was temperamental and inconsistent even when I was on ARHD. Perhaps it is a hardware issue, which is no good for me at all. Using the stock HTC Hotspot.
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I have the same problem, in lowlight the pictures r all over with purple, red, pink etc its seems to be hardware problem, the sensors i guess. Thats the main reason why i am thinking for a switch
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in low light the pictures **** all over the competition i have compared haha. haha between sgs3 sgs4 htconex and iphone5 the htc one takes the best low light photos i think.
are you using the "night mode" with extended exposure?
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in low light the pictures **** all over the competition i have compared haha. haha between sgs3 sgs4 htconex and iphone5 the htc one takes the best low light photos i think.
are you using the "night mode" with extended exposure?
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by compared i mean i took photos with those phones with the same settings and of the same thing from the same angle and the htc one was by far the best low light camera without flash
jande425 said:
in low light the pictures **** all over the competition i have compared haha. haha between sgs3 sgs4 htconex and iphone5 the htc one takes the best low light photos i think.
are you using the "night mode" with extended exposure?
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by compared i mean i took photos with those phones with the same settings and of the same thing from the same angle and the htc one was by far the best low light camera without flash
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Whatever if iam using i get pinky colours around the corners
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So I'm coming from the Razr M, which was never a top end device even when it was released a couple years ago, but I like it's cam. I've noticed that, and maybe it's just me, but I really don't like how the Moto X pictures come out comparatively. I'm not sure if it's the app itself or the camera. I'd assume it's a better camera than I have on a 2 year old device. Is there an alternative camera app that maximizes the camera hardware? I've tried Focal but not a huge fan. Most of the other camera apps seem to focus on filters and editing. Which is great but I am just looking for a camera app that is better than stock. Either that or a tutorial on the stock app settings. If I was rooted I'd just try my Razr M cam. But not going to root this one for a good while. Any help would be appreciated m
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Fv5 works well, but nothing launches as fast as the stock camera and you have to manually adjust settings to see an improvement. The biggest issue is the stock camera cranks up the ISO for some reason. The 4.4.2 update makes it less severe however and I've gotten adequate or better quality since the update.
Definitely 4.4.2 improved the camera. But I'm using better camera anyway....I really like it.
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Fv5 works well, but nothing launches as fast as the stock camera and you have to manually adjust settings to see an improvement. The biggest issue is the stock camera cranks up the ISO for some reason. The 4.4.2 update makes it less severe however and I've gotten adequate or better quality since the update.
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Haven't given that one a shot. Will try fv5 next thanks!
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Remember that a lot of camera apps limit your mp to like 2....so a little hard to judge quality. Kinda dumb that they do that. Do a full version time limit trial would make more sense.
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I will give a +1 to fv5. I have tried probably 20 camera apps on this phone, and fv5 is the winner for me. It gives solidly dependable results.
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Shabidoo said:
I will give a +1 to fv5. I have tried probably 20 camera apps on this phone, and fv5 is the winner for me. It gives solidly dependable results.
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For those giving a thumbs up to fv5, I assume you are referring to the paid version, correct? If so, what mp is the output of the paid version?
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The full 10.5 MP.
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