I took some pictures this last weekend while on vacation and the pictures didn't seem to come out very clear at all. I was going through the photos again today and noticed there seems to be a bug in the photos app that is not processing the photos or showing them in full detail. I can zoom into one of my pictures and right away the phone would clear up the photo and I could zoom back out and the photo would then be real clear and a good looking shot. Scrolling through shots without zooming in and back out made all the pictures look poor quality. Here is an before and after. I tried clearing data on on the photos app and still the same. Anyone else having this issue?
I have CM13, loving it but every camera app I try has some quirks. I don't want something too complex.
The stock CM13 camera takes very blurry low quality pictures. Not sure what I can do to fix it.
Open Camera takes good pictures, but I don't really like the interface.
I installed the moto camera. I like it, but often when I swipe left to see my pictures the app freezes. When I can look at the pictures they look good.
What camera apps are out there, that work properly and have interface similar to the CM camera?
Or even better how do I fix the CM camera?
A better camera is good but you need to buy it (otherwise it's very annoying)
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Will Huawei fix the overexposed soft image quality of the selfie camera on this phone.
I am still on 8.1.0.103 and wondering if its been fixed in one of the newer updates as it is really disappointing
Not sure they think it's broken, it was obviously designed to do this on purpose. I know a lot of people that use beauty mode. It is rather annoying though as it can't be disabled for those that don't want to be enhanced to Ken doll like proportions lol
If you hit the photo mode rather than the default portrait mode for front camera it does help a bit. Definitely better than portrait mode. I do hope that a future update will add more control over the processing, but I won't bank on it.
I've tried many different camera apps, and the overexposure and softening occur as soon as the camera detects a face. Haven't been able to find a solution yet.
prowsterz said:
I've tried many different camera apps, and the overexposure and softening occur as soon as the camera detects a face. Haven't been able to find a solution yet.
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im 99% sure it can be disabled with root - its got to be a setting that detects faces.
we;d need someone to go through the source (if they ever release it)
once i root my p20 ill stalk around to try and find a property.
Sorry, i dont have phone yet. But, if you use some other camera application, will it be the same problem?
Its definitely a setting built into the kernel/source code because using another camera app will not override the setting. It only focuses on the subject (face) and blurs out the background which should not be the case
I have rooted P20 pro, and there is a ton of properties and definitions xml files for different modes and effects in odm/camera folder. For example there is something called "casiobeauty" among others But, to mess with those parameters someone has to have knowledge. So, i guess effects can be modified, if there ever will be someone of knowledge and will to do it
You all may want to install CameraMX from PlayStore.
It gives out high resolution and high qualoty images. Selfies taken by it are noticeably sharper than the p20 pro stock camera. Also, there is a slider to adjust exposure for the front cam (something that is missing from the stock). In addition, the app also supports HDR for the selfie cam as well.
You can give it a try...
mulkman said:
Hi
Will Huawei fix the overexposed soft image quality of the selfie camera on this phone.
I am still on 8.1.0.103 and wondering if its been fixed in one of the newer updates as it is really disappointing
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it was fixed in .120
Kusznier said:
it was fixed in .120
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What region? I am currently using the .120 for C636 but there is still the annoying overexposure and lack of details esp in groufies
You all might want to use the CameraMX app... I use it on all my selfies now. Ive compared it with the stock front cam and it's way way way better. See for yourself...
Archer Casio said:
You all might want to use the CameraMX app... I use it on all my selfies now. Ive compared it with the stock front cam and it's way way way better. See for yourself...
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very cheap quality sorry bro!
I hope overexpo fixed in next update!
Kusznier said:
it was fixed in .120
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It's better in 120 but definitely not fixed.
kabirjedi said:
very cheap quality sorry bro!
I hope overexpo fixed in next update!
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Uploaded the wrong photos the last time sorry..
For the photos below, the washed out one is taken with the front camera native app. The better one is with cameraMX app.
Note: No editing done, same lighting condition, almost the same hand position, same angle.
It is very evident that the native camera app is washed out/overexposed.
Well, the CameraMX photo isnt perfect but for me, it is 80% better than the stock camera.
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Uploaded the wrong photos the last time sorry..
For the photos below, the washed out one is taken with the front camera native app. The better one is with cameraMX app.
Note: No editing done, same lighting condition, almost the same hand position, same angle.
It is very evident that the native camera app is washed out/overexposed.
Well, the CameraMX photo isnt perfect but for me, it is 80% better than the stock camera.
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Hi - Is everyone certain this is a SW issue? I don't know a ton about cameras but is it possible there are defective front facing cameras on a bunch of these devices?
Hobartwash said:
Hi - Is everyone certain this is a SW issue? I don't know a ton about cameras but is it possible there are defective front facing cameras on a bunch of these devices?
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Hi, I'm pretty much sure it's a software issue as the original photo can look so much better when you edit it. And, you can also use other camera apps
There is a workaround on the overexposed p20 front camera images using the Google Photos Editor App
(I've read it from another XDA thread).
The results are stunning! It's almost as if the photos were taken using an actual Google Pixel front camera! (In my opinion)
I suppose the image enhancement algorithm for the Google Photos app is similar to the image post-processing of Google Pixel phones.
Note: Google Photos is commonly preinstalled along with Gmail, Hangouts, GMaps.
Step 1 - Snap a selfie using the native app
Step 2 - Preview the photo and click the (...) at the bottom right
Step 3 - Click Advanced Edit ---> Select Google Photos
Step 4 - Select the second icon next to the filters menu.
You will find 3 sliders (Light, Color, and Pop)
Step 5 - Slide Pop all the way up, as well as Color.
You may tweak the settings more for Color and Light too!
(There are more options when you expand it)
Step 6 - Click Save.
Find sample photos below:
Just got a P20 Pro and this is seriously my biggest hate with this phone! The rest is great (except my google pay not working) but the front camera makes me look like a ghost on any image!
I'm on update 128 and the front camera still overexposed.
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I'm on update 128 and the front camera still overexposed.
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Yes, I second that.
I've just bought k20 pro and I noticed the snapchat camera is always zoomed in compared to stock or google camera, is there a way to fix that or am I missing something, because I use snapchat camera way more than stock one and the picture quality in that suffers due to zoom issue
Snapchat does not works well in an android because of lots of other android phones with different screen sizes, chipsets, cameras, etc and the its is not actually zoomed it is stretched due to full screen aspect ratio and quality is **** than stock camera all you can do is use filters or buy an iphone
amar1548 said:
I've just bought k20 pro and I noticed the snapchat camera is always zoomed in compared to stock or google camera, is there a way to fix that or am I missing something, because I use snapchat camera way more than stock one and the picture quality in that suffers due to zoom issue
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It's all because external apps in android don't use hardware camera implementation, instead they are using preview from recording view. There is no way for you to fix it, but app developers can just change implementation. Hovewer they won't probably do it, as there are too much different devices running android.
It's not zoomed in. Keep in mind that you're comparing 4:3 to something like 16:9 to 18:9. It cuts off the sides, which makes it look like it's zoomed in, but it's not.
Nothing can be done. Snapchat, Instagram etc uses the screen capture of the view finder,so the quality of the pics will be trash. To get optimized and good results go for iPhone.(any variant)
So we all know that image quality of pictures taken from snapchat and/or instagram is generally very bad when compared to stock cam right? Especially for androids. But I was seriously very surprised to see that my note 9 was performing very very good in terms of sc and ig pictures.
Normally in androids, snapchat takes screenshot of the viewfinder, but my sc used to process the image, like the image viewfinder was showing was of bad quality but once i clicked on capture button it processed the image and you couldn't tell the difference if it was taken from stock cam or not. Seriously I was loving it and I was alot surprised.
Just additional info : This significantly better image processing only worked when I wasn't applying any filters,or recording video, or boomerang or anything other than normal pictures.
So now since like last two weeks, I have been noticing that the image processing is gone, in both apps, the images captured are the screenshots of viewfinder.
Now the twist is that its still processing some captures; not all. After experimenting alot I figured out what it is processing now and what is just a screenshot, so if I focus on something then take picture, it only captures the screenshot, and if I open up snapchat and just point to an object and take picture without tapping for focus or anything, it processes the image. Seriously if there's anything I can do bring it back like the way it used to be, that'd be great cos I loved that feature. It was amazingg.
Example :
https://imgur.com/a/Co4iXqp
There're are two images in the link, you can see them for reference.
I can't see big differences.
VD171 said:
I can't see big differences.
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There's a huge quality difference. Idk how to show it.
sameedhusayn said:
There's a huge quality difference. Idk how to show it.
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Sheesh that guy must be blind. I managed to fix the snapchat processing issue by installing an older version of the app (11.9.0.51), anything past 11.10 seems to break it.
sameedhusayn said:
There's a huge quality difference. Idk how to show it.
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I really prefer to take the photo using the stock camera app,
and then post the photo to another app.
The stock camera app has too much settings than other apps.
It's just a suggestion.