For all those who are complaining still saying they made a wrong choice over XZ buying a Butterfly or a HTC one .. try this and let us see if you still complain
and for others who are happy with the XZ this will make you even more happy..
First on the settings display white balance set your white balance settings as 9 /220 that is the hue / saturation settings
next set your display brightness to about 95% or even 100..
install this app from the play store
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kovit.p.filteryourscreen&feature=search_result
this app will not require any root
once you open this app set the filter to Alpha as 65 and rest all 0 and apply to your screen and see the difference , you may feel a bit less bright than before but now after applying the filter see your phone from all angles and see if you still see washed out colors , I have tried it and works absolutely fine love my XZ even more
Hit thanks If it helped you...
If there's any way to make higher saturation.
thienbrand said:
If there's any way to make higher saturation.
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to be honest if you are looking at your home screen for example the best way to get more saturation is to open your wallpaper in album app take a screen shot and then apply it as wall paper , other wise album n movies anyways increase the saturation.. so thats a workaround
also there is settings on the flter app where you can tinker with RGB so you have on screen realtime display with filter so you can set it as per your needs ,.
The best way to increase the saturation using the fiter is use the below formula to set it ... as per your liking
changing the saturation you would increase all of the values by the same amount for example 150,250,150.
so if you set R to 150 set G to 250 and B to 150 so R and B same value and 75% more to the G
this way the saturation will increase without increasing the brightness..
Hope this helps...
to be honest, i don't seem to see any serious difference besides that the screen is dimmer. sorry
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to be honest, i don't seem to see any serious difference besides that the screen is dimmer. sorry
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+1. I think the same effect could be achieved just by lowering the backlight brightness to minimum.
did u try fidelling the rgb ? i did that
Xperia Z has the best screen I've seen... I've tried the HTC1 and S-Note II.
I like my white, white not weirdish yellow like the note or bluishlike the HTC.
Becides white, this screen produces all the colours very well, taking a screenshot viewing it on my tv they look identical sending it to my arc the colours were more brighter and blurry. My s2 is broken. So don't know there.
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I don't understand what anyone means with the colours being washed out.
I don't even have angle problems
It only dimmed down the screen. Not really working.
more hope anyone can make the bravia engine 2 working everywhere. This will make the screen one step ahead.
that aint going to happen..although i'd like to see bravia engine on unlocked bootloader
Bravia Engine sucks, it destroyes so much details in pictures...
Sorry but it doesn't work, and it couldn't possibly work. The filter doesn't affect how anything is rendered, it only applies a filter on the top of the image that can make it darker and lower the saturation - it can't make it higher though as this would require modifying the rendering driver.
That app is exactly doing what the stock white balance filter is doing, no....?
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Montague said:
That app is exactly doing what the stock white balance filter is doing, no....?
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not really , the app does not have the access to the actual screen drivers to it tries to filter or tweak the existing display area by applying the filtetr,
I realised it basically dims the screen by putting a layer of transperancy and then tweaks that not great for outdoors but indoors you will get a good visiblity with the tweak,
The permanent bravia engine is something I am sure devs need to find out.. not very hard nor easy ,,, just need to find the right code that when we open album app the BE2 gets triggered if that trigger can be added to the init.d script I think we will have permanent BE2 on all areas..
Bravia engine only works during gallery and video, doesnt work with regular use...or so i believe
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Bravia engine only works during gallery and video, doesnt work with regular use...or so i believe
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yes , so when u open gallery or video the BE2 script or app may start so if we find that out and include it in the startup script that should give overall BE2 NO?
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yes , so when u open gallery or video the BE2 script or app may start so if we find that out and include it in the startup script that should give overall BE2 NO?
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I'm confused, u want to stop BE2 or enable it all the time? U can stop BE2 all together by trying to unlock vootloader
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G1_enthusiast said:
I'm confused, u want to stop BE2 or enable it all the time? U can stop BE2 all together by trying to unlock vootloader
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I want to enable it all the time , so therefore better home screen and other apps ... for example when you open lets a wallpaper app like HD wallpapers , the pics appear allready with the BE2 applied..
anirudhks said:
I want to enable it all the time , so therefore better home screen and other apps ... for example when you open lets a wallpaper app like HD wallpapers , the pics appear allready with the BE2 applied..
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From what I seen the BE2 produce more whites then regular so not sure if that will work to your advantage
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I know we can change quality of the videos, but does exist any mod to improve colors, contrast etc in photos ?
I don't mean programs like photoshop. I mean change quality during doing a photos isn't after.
I my last phone (sgs) I had option to change white balance, contrast and saturation (colors)
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There are many free camera apps that can do what you're asking and more.
I also seem to remember the stock LG camera app had quite a lot if settings.
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I checked many app in market and none has option like change contrast and saturation... so can u help me?
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The best camera app is Camera 360 pro. Best! Try it if you want to.. Theres a free version too...
Yes but we cant change there saturation and contrast
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you should try vignette
this app is just amazing compared to camera360,believe me
But still i can not set the saturation and contrast before taking a picture.
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What's the difference in doing this before then after a shot? I don't see the benefit. You will always have more choice and options with a photo editing app.
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somemadcaaant said:
What's the difference in doing this before then after a shot? I don't see the benefit. You will always have more choice and options with a photo editing app.
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i agree...
and question is wrong...
quality is different from settings...
contrast and saturation are settings... not quality...
somemadcaaant said:
What's the difference in doing this before then after a shot? I don't see the benefit. You will always have more choice and options with a photo editing app.
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What is the different?
Huge. When I change settings before taking a picture I have high quality photography but if I wanna change contrast etc after, the photography has worse resolution max 1024 x768.
Do u understand?
So why cant we change saturation etc in options? .... Lg is ....
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i suggest something like this
it is mod by me ;D
i made whole new element width 2 wholes ;D painted if with black marker and attachet to case
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/585/nowyfolderg.jpg/
perhaps this thread should go to Optimus 2x Themes and Apps not here in Android Development. after all, you are asking for/about apps.
anyhow, if it answers your question, cm7 camera app has Picture Quality in preference. (SuperFine, Fine, Normal)
in cm7 there is jpeg compression setting called "ImageEncoding quality" in /system/etc/media_profiles.xml. their values are 100, 90, 80 which corresponds to SuperFine, Fine, Normal.
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What is the different?
Huge. When I change settings before taking a picture I have high quality photography but if I wanna change contrast etc after, the photography has worse resolution max 1024 x768.
Do u understand?
So why cant we change saturation etc in options? .... Lg is ....
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you are wrong... cause you talk of cell editing.... edit it with pc...
every gallery program has a button for "autocontrast "autocolor" it takes 1 second "click and go"....
many of them also work on batch mode, being automatic for an entire folder...
you can use camera 360 hdr light, it just takes photo at higher saturation and contrast
So I know that our display is fading when it stands vs HTC, LG, Samsung screen but if we make Bravia Engine always ON the situation changes, the screen could be equal or maybe a little bit better than others with more power consumption.
So its this possible..to have bravia engine in games, homescreen, anywhere in sistem? As I read on the internet I didnt found an exact answer for this question.
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So I know that our display is fading when it stands vs HTC, LG, Samsung screen but if we make Bravia Engine always ON the situation changes, the screen could be equal or maybe a little bit better than others with more power consumption.
So its this possible..to have bravia engine in games, homescreen, anywhere in sistem? As I read on the internet I didnt found an exact answer for this question.
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Theoretically it would be possible but the battery drain would be enormous ATM, unless Sony delivers some tweaks!
That's probably the reason why they haven't done.that in the first place!
Sony.would be better off with an oled display, tweaking it and sticking the BE2 ENGINE or x-reality into that, saving battery consumption. Then they would be unbeatable for a while!
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So I know that our display is fading when it stands vs HTC, LG, Samsung screen but if we make Bravia Engine always ON the situation changes, the screen could be equal or maybe a little bit better than others with more power consumption.
So its this possible..to have bravia engine in games, homescreen, anywhere in sistem? As I read on the internet I didnt found an exact answer for this question.
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I guess not.
And my screen is better than the sgs4's. I can't see a big difference between mine and htc one's either.
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Not really. I can say that HTC One has easily the best screen on the market.
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I think it would be better if the devs try ing to get be2 or x reality to work on unlocked bootloader.
For crying outloud.....my galaxy nexus has be2 but a sony phone a little modified couldnt get be2 to work when its unlockud? Its sonys concept wtf....hahahahahahh
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Once sources go out for GPE Z Ultra, I'm quite sure devs will port X-Reality and other handy features.
X-reality & Bravia engine it just marketing Bull****
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X-reality & Bravia engine it just marketing Bull****
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Hmm. NO.
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it would be nice to have it all time so...just to have it there in case that we want to compare our screen to another phones screen.
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Once sources go out for GPE Z Ultra, I'm quite sure devs will port X-Reality and other handy features.
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How to make the X reality work if you have unlocked bootloader?
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I think it would be better if the devs try ing to get be2 or x reality to work on unlocked bootloader.
For crying outloud.....my galaxy nexus has be2 but a sony phone a little modified couldnt get be2 to work when its unlockud? Its sonys concept wtf....hahahahahahh
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corect and this is a wierd thing .
Tommy-Geenexus said:
I guess not.
And my screen is better than the sgs4's. I can't see a big difference between mine and htc one's either.
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In the past I was like my sony xperia z screen is the best and I could not BELIEVE all sites that sayd that SXZ has a weak screen(like on a low end phone) and when I compared with a Samsung Screen(s4/note 3)..i Was like nooooooooooo way my screen its ****ty...
And I said I dont understand so SONY ..sells 13 MP camera and screen to others but for them they cant do a good screen or a really good camera.
nemer12 said:
it would be nice to have it all time so...just to have it there in case that we want to compare our screen to another phones screen.
How to make the X reality work if you have unlocked bootloader?
corect and this is a wierd thing .
In the past I was like my sony xperia z screen is the best and I could not BELIEVE all sites that sayd that SXZ has a weak screen(like on a low end phone) and when I compared with a Samsung Screen(s4/note 3)..i Was like nooooooooooo way my screen its ****ty...
And I said I dont understand so SONY ..sells 13 MP camera and screen to others but for them they cant do a good screen or a really good camera.
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When i compared my screen to a sgs4's one i was like omg is my display bright.
And the s4 had only bit better colours but nuffin more.
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OK its quite late , but I can suggest you some alternative try it and lemme know..
google is your best friend , search for Screendim.apk and install it
enable it and set the bottom bar ( contrast ) for about 60% and the brightness on top for about 60-70% and now tell me how dark or colorful your screen looks
this defnitely works.. not perfect but close to BE alwasy ON types..
Tommy-Geenexus said:
When i compared my screen to a sgs4's one i was like omg is my display bright.
And the s4 had only bit better colours but nuffin more.
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Fanboy alert. You didn't see very grey black, fogged colours, bad view angles etc? So you have some problems with your eyes (or just fanboy). Even 2 years old phones have batter screens than Z.
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slowik515 said:
Fanboy alert. You didn't see very grey black, fogged colours, bad view angles etc? So you have some problems with your eyes (or just fanboy). Even 2 years old phones have batter screens than Z.
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Nope. Neither my Xperia S nor my Xperia Neo nor my Nexus 4 nor everything i've owned had a better screen.
Maybe there are some people on the world who like natural colours, becoz after looking at a amoled display my head hurts.
The display of the lg g2 is the only one which impressed me though, this is miles better, but nothing else.
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If you display some screen calibration patterns while using bravia engine, you see how bad it is for fidelity. It just oversaturates, tints, and destroys detail in brighter and darker areas of images/videos.
If a phone has a screen of 300/1 contrast ratio, there is no way some software can improve this, it only can put some make up but at the cost of some other things, just like LCD's are doing since the beginning with dynamic contrast and all that bullsh*t, where you see skin become shiny bright and where there used to be a dark grey shadow over a black background, then it becomes all black and no shadow.
BE is the first thing i disable in all my Sony products, and its equivalent in any non Sony product.
I think that our screen without bravia its complety UGLY! :-&
I never had any issues with the colours on my device. Infact I prefer them this way as opposed to colour popping and extra vibrant. Infact I turn down that setting on my LCD monitor. A friend of mine did a side by side comparison against his Samsung device and the 1st thing he notices was the colour was more toned down then said he actually preferred the Sony display. Point is some ppl like the toned down visuals and others like them vibrant but funny how as someone says they have no issue with the Sony display they are labeled a blind fanboy.
As for viewing angles, Also never had an issue with them due to the fact that I always take up my phone when I want to look at it (always, its a habit of mine) and never just glance at it while it is on a desk or anything like that.
Xperia Z Screen is OK, i have been using it everyday since launch date, viewing angles may be low, but that is something i forgot completely in everyday use. Screen brightness is more than enough, contrast is ok, and visual fidelity is great (as long as you have BE2 deactivated).
For people saying there were better screens two years ago, please point me to a device released two years ago with a 5" FullHD screen with better specifications.
We all know the XZ screen, today, is not one of the best FullHD screen on a smartphone, but it was the first released.
RoberM said:
Xperia Z Screen is OK, i have been using it everyday since launch date, viewing angles may be low, but that is something i forgot completely in everyday use. Screen brightness is more than enough, contrast is ok, and visual fidelity is great (as long as you have BE2 deactivated).
For people saying there were better screens two years ago, please point me to a device released two years ago with a 5" FullHD screen with better specifications.
We all know the XZ screen, today, is not one of the best FullHD screen on a smartphone, but it was the first released.
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Finally someone with a little knowledge.
Don't forget, before a smartphone is released, how long it takes to develop.
The screen isn't poor at all. I feel really sorry for people saying this and hope.that their doc can.help them.sort their eyes out real soon.
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Finally someone with a little knowledge.
Don't forget, before a smartphone is released, how long it takes to develop.
The screen isn't poor at all. I feel really sorry for people saying this and hope.that their doc can.help them.sort their eyes out real soon.
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I don't think they need a doctor or anything, it is a matter of taste, there are people who like viewing screen with oversaturated colors and overdriven contrast just because it is more eye catchy, for god's sake they even ported the bravia engine to the galaxy nexus, and there are people who even enjoy it, if the nexus screen weren't oversaturated enough... let's oversaturate it even more and add a lot of detail loss due to contrast overdrive by BE.
Oh, also forgot to mention, "nits", why the hell would we need a screen with a gazillion of nits if at the end of the day we are all using the brightness bar to decrease it to save battery (or using the Auto mode), at the end we all are viewing the screen with about the same luminosity, it doesn't matter if our screen has 10 or 8.000.000 nits.
On my Note 3 there is a Screen Mode setting which allows you to choose between Dynamic, Standard, Photo and Movie. No such thing seems to exist on my 8.4 Pro. Would like whites whiter and blacks blacker - much same as raising contrast and dropping gamma.
Any solution here? An app maybe to adjust color?
Thanks.
I don't have the 8.4, but on my 10.1, it's in Settings-Device-Display-Screen Mode. Any chance it's there on yours?
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jaegorith said:
I don't have the 8.4, but on my 10.1, it's in Settings-Device-Display-Screen Mode. Any chance it's there on yours?
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That's what is so weird. I have owned multiple Samsung phones and tablets and the Screen Mode option is always there. But on my 8.4 there is nothing. So so so odd. Can anyone else with an 8.4 confirm?
mitchellvii said:
That's what is so weird. I have owned multiple Samsung phones and tablets and the Screen Mode option is always there. But on my 8.4 there is nothing. So so so odd. Can anyone else with an 8.4 confirm?
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A Google search confirms the absence of Screen Mode on the 8.4.
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A Google search confirms the absence of Screen Mode on the 8.4.
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Again freaking weird. Why only on this device? Is there an app which will give us some control over gamma? I'd like to make text a little blacker. I know that the Nexus has a great app for that.
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Again freaking weird. Why only on this device? Is there an app which will give us some control over gamma? I'd like to make text a little blacker. I know that the Nexus has a great app for that.
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Any sort of gamma or color control would require heavy kernel changes. Unfortunately there's not a lot of kernel development going on with this device. It's a pity this is such an underrated tablet.
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JaylanPHNX said:
Any sort of gamma or color control would require heavy kernel changes. Unfortunately there's not a lot of kernel development going on with this device. It's a pity this is such an underrated tablet.
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Yes it is a pity. I have always wondered why Android seems to keep gamma settings under lock and key as if we are not to be trusted with them. In windows 8.1 you can adjust gamma all you like, one reason my laptop looks so great. If I could just turn down the gamma a few notches on this my blacks could be every bit as dark as AMOLED.
Damn you Google and your strange ways.
That answers my question. I have it on all of my samsung phones. Why the hell is it not available on this so called "PRO" version ...
Is this because it doesn't have a AMOLED screen? Or the other tablets pro do have this option?
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Is this because it doesn't have a AMOLED screen? Or the other tablets pro do have this option?
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It seems to be a regional thing rather than a amoled/lcd thing. The original reviews of the pro 8.4 made comment to being able to alter the colours (American reviews).
I personally used this mod (for the S4) to install the X-reality engine,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358133
for me this worked very well, removing the excess saturation on the Reds and overall balancing the colours. I tried the Bravia 2 engine (port) and found only a very slight change. The Bravia 2 plus the X-reality engines dulled the image too much, so in the end settled for the X-reality engine only. I hope this helps...
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It seems to be a regional thing rather than a amoled/lcd thing. The original reviews of the pro 8.4 made comment to being able to alter the colours (American reviews).
I personally used this mod (for the S4) to install the X-reality engine,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358133
for me this worked very well, removing the excess saturation on the Reds and overall balancing the colours. I tried the Bravia 2 engine (port) and found only a very slight change. The Bravia 2 plus the X-reality engines dulled the image too much, so in the end settled for the X-reality engine only. I hope this helps...
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I flashed the x reality zip....so how do I access the settings to change the quality??
Is there any possible way to tweak the display of the sp so it has better colors? I mean it's good, but I think with some tweaks it can get better? What do you think?
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Is there any possible way to tweak the display of the sp so it has better colors? I mean it's good, but I think with some tweaks it can get better? What do you think?
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Display tweaks can be adjusted without flashing any zip or anything foolish. Just go to Settings then Display then choose White Balance and adjust the screen Saturation and Hue accordingly to achieve your desired screen color optimization.
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Yea, but i don't know a good way to adjust it. Is there a thread for adjusting it, because i can't do it
No there is no such thing.
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Have you guys found any other camera app better than Sony's stock one? I bought z1 few days back, but was shocked to see that when you are in full resolution mode, you can't even select some scenes. That's pathetic. Why sony has given a 21mp cam, when it only wants us to shoot in 8mp? I agree that this device is old, but shiny could change this setting in lollipop update.
Nevertheless, I tried few apps like camera zoom fx, google camera, camera fv-5 but noneof them were better than stock (with default settings). Please share your experience and tips regarding photography with Sony xperia z1.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/crossdevice-dev/sony-themes-apps/mod-xperia-camera-unlocked-t3071161
This is what your looking for .
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This is what your looking for .
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No, its not.. I am not talking about using modified apps or something.. In fact I am still unrooted as no one has come up with a direct root method. ( I don't want to downgrade and then do all that stuff just to root).
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No, its not.. I am not talking about using modified apps or something.. In fact I am still unrooted as no one has come up with a direct root method. ( I don't want to downgrade and then do all that stuff just to root).
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Then You cant .Your asking for Modification in your system ,which needs root, So you will need a root in the First place ! You cant find an apps that can offer what you asked if your phone is not rooted !
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Then You cant .Your asking for Modification in your system ,which needs root, So you will need a root in the First place ! You cant find an apps that can offer what you asked if your phone is not rooted !
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Well I was asking for other camera apps which could give a beat to the default one.
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Well I was asking for other camera apps which could give a beat to the default one.
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No one ....
A better Camera
here is a comparation betwen stock and a better camera: https://youtu.be/dWAeqviJLP0
https://youtu.be/AAEkoiJ0_e0
Videos seems to be biased. As I have used this app on my previous phone (note2) and it was not so great. But still I will give it a shot on z1 and will revert back.
Ps: 1st video was 100% biased as he has turned Iso very low in manual mode. I always use manual mode and click better pictures than superior auto mode in most of the cases.
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leoavi94 said:
Videos seems to be biased. As I have used this app on my previous phone (note2) and it was not so great. But still I will give it a shot on z1 and will revert back.
Ps: 1st video was 100% biased as he has turned Iso very low in manual mode. I always use manual mode and click better pictures than superior auto mode in most of the cases.
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A Better Camera app seems to apply edge detection absed noise removal, structure filter and change some parameters like gamma, contrast and brightness aswell as saturation. Several BTC photos in that video really look way off. You could pratically mimic this in Snapseed with filters and changes to stock cameras photos. However I do like in some photos how the structure and edge removal noise filter is applied. These filters are used by Samsung galaxy mobiles except on the S5 and S6 gives blurry detail but then those cameras there dont match up to the Z1+ series detail capturing. In the end a post processed photo from Z1+ series mobile will look better and give more opportunity to hit the right balance.
camera mx is one of the best camera app...... it has everything -..... give a try...
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camera mx is one of the best camera app...... it has everything -..... give a try...
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it dosent even have ISO and focus control
I use the app Camera FV-5. Full manual settings and the long and long+ functions are working great for me with lowlight shots. One thing I still don't like is the flash on the z1
FV-5 with "Long" mode or "Fast" mode or ProCapture which pretty much allows SA with 21MP (Night scene, Portrait scene and so on). 21MP or max capture resolution in ProCapture and selecting 16:9 aspect ratio makes it supersample the image and also increase clarity, detail and calculate higher ISO than-is-shown for exif. Final image is 15MP but it has more detail and better lit than 4:3 21MP.