Hi everybody! I never use much video recording, so this may not be a huge problem.. anyway I would like to try solving it!
When shooting a video (using either cm7 camera and lgcamera) the video sometimes freezes for a second. That's obviously annoying, expecially if I want others to see that video.
So I searched about it and I found someone talking about a SD problem. The fact is I'm using a class 10 SD, so speed shouldn't be a problem!
Also, I'm using amarullz's a2sdx script (without any other kind of lag).
Could someone give me a hint?
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Are the cameras installed as system apps?
Amarullz mounts apps, data, dalvik-cache and other stuff to the partition, which even in a class 10 sd card has lower speed than internal.
If they are already system apps and lag still happens try messing around with the recording resolution or maybe you have many apps running as background processes.
Other than that, making a cwm backup and trying other roms to see if the lag comes from the rom itself?
Thank you for your answer.
I will try flashing other Roms and checking out if something changes, but I remember this to be happening even on vo-1's cm7, some time ago.
I would like to try moving LGcamera to system but I don't know if this may cause problems (i knew that some apps can't be forced as system apps, don't remember why though).
Anyway, since I suppose your video recording works fine, could you tell me what app/rom/a2sd script are you using? That may help!
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Im using cm7-rc3-aa, no extra scripts. Stock camera, class 6 sandisk sdcard. Default camera app. Link2sd to link apps to partition (ext3 format partition).
I don't experience lags while recording videos, i used to experience that lag with the class 2 sd card that was included in the stock phone (cheap bast**** at samsung). Since i changed to class 6 sdcard though, no lags. It's also true i haven't recorded any video longer than 5 mins.
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Im using cm7-rc3-aa, no extra scripts. Stock camera, class 6 sandisk sdcard. Default camera app. Link2sd to link apps to partition (ext3 format partition).
I don't experience lags while recording videos, i used to experience that lag with the class 2 sd card that was included in the stock phone (cheap bast**** at samsung). Since i changed to class 6 sdcard though, no lags. It's also true i haven't recorded any video longer than 5 mins.
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The problem seemed to be Ram. If I kill most apps (including launcher) there are no problems!
I didn't think camera apps were such ram - hungry about video recording! Hitter thanks for your help!
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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"...)
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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?
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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.
Hi, I am using Z3+ default camera and it is saving photos in the internal memory with naming starting "DSC_0001". When I move all the internal memory pics to SD Card, agains the series starting with "DSC_001". If I move again the pics to SD card, I am getting duplicate name conflict.
How to change the default naming of the stock camera?
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Hi, I am using Z3+ default camera and it is saving photos in the internal memory with naming starting "DSC_0001". When I move all the internal memory pics to SD Card, agains the series starting with "DSC_001". If I move again the pics to SD card, I am getting duplicate name conflict.
How to change the default naming of the stock camera?
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I have contacted SONY Customer Care through Online Chat. They said that it is not possible to change Photo Naming series for Stock Camera. I am using Google Camera for overcoming the issue. But, Stock camera having good features than Google Camera.