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I wonder, that is the autofocus possible in the video recorder? Just like in iphone 4. I start the video record and where i tap the screen the phone is focusing there...
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xedamen said:
I wonder, that is the autofocus possible in the video recorder? Just like in iphone 4. I start the video record and where i tap the screen the phone is focusing there...
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First of all, this is the development section of the Galaxy S forums. You are asking a question that should probably be asked in the General section.
Second of all, you should provide a title that is more clear, like "Autofocus in videoplayer". So everyone knows that this topic is about that.
Third of all, what do you really want? Autofocus or tap-to-focus. Autofocus is when your camera focuses on a point AUTOmatically.

[Q] Camera App

Wow, am I the only one who thinks the stock camera app is AWFUL on the Bionic? I love this phone and it is 100% better than my DroidX, but the camera app leaves a LOT to be desired. Takes 4 or 5 seconds to take a photo. When I tap the camera icon sometimes it just turns blue, then takes the photo 3-4 seconds later. It is VERY slow and the shutter lag is 2 or 3 times what it was on the DroidX. I have tried 5 different 3rd party camera apps, but all those images come out grainy/horrible quality. Does anyone have a solution?

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Wow, am I the only one who thinks the stock camera app is AWFUL on the Bionic? I love this phone and it is 100% better than my DroidX, but the camera app leaves a LOT to be desired. Takes 4 or 5 seconds to take a photo. When I tap the camera icon sometimes it just turns blue, then takes the photo 3-4 seconds later. It is VERY slow and the shutter lag is 2 or 3 times what it was on the DroidX. I have tried 5 different 3rd party camera apps, but all those images come out grainy/horrible quality. Does anyone have a solution?
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Have you tried HDR+ ? You can find both the free and paid versions in the market.
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crobs808 said:
Wow, am I the only one who thinks the stock camera app is AWFUL on the Bionic? I love this phone and it is 100% better than my DroidX, but the camera app leaves a LOT to be desired. Takes 4 or 5 seconds to take a photo. When I tap the camera icon sometimes it just turns blue, then takes the photo 3-4 seconds later. It is VERY slow and the shutter lag is 2 or 3 times what it was on the DroidX. I have tried 5 different 3rd party camera apps, but all those images come out grainy/horrible quality. Does anyone have a solution?
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If you searched first you'd see numerous posts, and threads on this
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There's a hack for this, but it removes the FFC functionality. Rear cam is supposed to be drastically improved, though. Haven't tried it, myself.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285320
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rwking said:
There's a hack for this, but it removes the FFC functionality. Rear cam is supposed to be drastically improved, though. Haven't tried it, myself.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1285320
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It's my post
It drastically improves shutter speeds while also improving the flash.
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Camera App stops taking photos

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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kyokeun1234 said:
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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jmejiaa said:
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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Camera App
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.

Snapchat....

So snapchat is ultra laggy with the camera. Anyone else experiencing this?

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Morghan said:
So snapchat is ultra laggy with the camera. Anyone else experiencing this?
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My camera is working just fine. Maybe you have bad hardware?

Morghan said:
So snapchat is ultra laggy with the camera. Anyone else experiencing this?
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My snapchat is fine.
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deadlocked007 said:
Lagging here also. Btw people OP is asking about lag in the app when you move around the camera not the normal camera guys....
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Exactly. It really starts to bog down when I'm in the dark.
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Anyone ever find a resolution for this? I absolutely love this phone but I'm a hardcore user of Snapchat since everyone I talk to uses it for communication and this is ridiculous. Almost makes me want to switch phonese. Does it still work this way on CM/stock tons maybe?

i believe its just the hardware itself the sensor is trying to get more light in and it makes it lag i think (im no expert on cameras) as soon as i got a nexus 5 i noticed how much smoother everything seemed in the view finder and right now i just compared them it just seems to be the way the htc one is

Snapchat uses the camera app that comes with the phone now
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Mine is occasional lag.

Same problem on mine, makes videos almost impossible with low light, my Alcatel pop s3 is extremely faster on snapshat. Is there a way to fix the problem ?

Zooming limitation in photos

Has anybody else noticed that you can zoom only up to a certain extent i pics, I guess only to 100% of thr pic size. Sometimes the photos are very hard to view so I need more zoom. I searched a lot and the only thing I found out is changing accessibility settings and tripple tapping to zoom. This isn't a real solution to the problem, as it's very ugly and not practical. Does anyone know any mod to enable more zooming?
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elvisypi said:
Has anybody else noticed that you can zoom only up to a certain extent i pics, I guess only to 100% of thr pic size. Sometimes the photos are very hard to view so I need more zoom. I searched a lot and the only thing I found out is changing accessibility settings and tripple tapping to zoom. This isn't a real solution to the problem, as it's very ugly and not practical. Does anyone know any mod to enable more zooming?
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Thats a good question! i was never impressed with the camera on the HTC One and let alone the zoom. I had to pull the photos off and use Adobe Photoshop to zoom to the level i needed for detail. Doubt this is what you want to do but, if worse comes to worse.
FYI - HTC work on a better camera on these phones

The way HTC handles zooming in the gallery is by it's resolution. In order to zoom in to a photo more is by using a 3rd party gallery
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luigi311 said:
The way HTC handles zooming in the gallery is by it's resolution. In order to zoom in to a photo more is by using a 3rd party gallery
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It's not only in gallerg, it's also in FB and other apps. Any way to change it?
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Doesn't anyone understand there is no zoom? The so called zoom is the same as cropping, which is limited by the resolution. Lower megapixels = lower level of cropping before pixelation
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gk1984 said:
Doesn't anyone understand there is no zoom? The so called zoom is the same as cropping, which is limited by the resolution. Lower megapixels = lower level of cropping before pixelation
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I'm pretty sure he's referring to zooming to photos he has saved on his phone or photos he is viewing on Facebook. I realize these phones don't have zoom and only digital zoom which is essentially the same as cropping. What he is trying to do is trying to bypass the limitations that HTC implementated to the zooming level on the photos he is viewing

gk1984 said:
Doesn't anyone understand there is no zoom? The so called zoom is the same as cropping, which is limited by the resolution. Lower megapixels = lower level of cropping before pixelation
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Did you ever read my question? I was pretty clear I am talking abour SAVED photos, not camera app. I have had many phones, but this is the first that limits the zooming so much, it's absurd. My old Sensation can zoom up to 300%. I think HTC had done this because of the ****ty resolution of the camera
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My bad. Was being distracted at work. Poor excuse but I'll own it
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elvisypi said:
Did you ever read my question? I was pretty clear I am talking abour SAVED photos, not camera app. I have had many phones, but this is the first that limits the zooming so much, it's absurd. My old Sensation can zoom up to 300%. I think HTC had done this because of the ****ty resolution of the camera
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This limitation was set even before this phone with its ultrapixel camera. I believe it was implemented starting on the HTC one X series including the evo lte but I could be wrong. You can try aosp the zoom limitation isn't there
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