I'm on Andorid 4.1.2 root.
Normally, my phone's camera gets deactivated whenever the battery is (very) low, however, I'd like to decide by myself what to do with the energy left (i.e. take fotos ideally incl. foto light)
How can I achieve this?
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First, some basic phone info:
- Sony Xperia V
- Cyanogenmod 10.2 (stable)
- Using both stock Camera App and Focal
- Fairly new, only a few months old.
- Obviously has been rooted and has the bootloader unlocked
Here's a video demonstrating my camera's problem:
youtube(dot)com/watch?v=_ChV39DT_QQ
(replace the "(dot)" with ".") (New account so I can't post outside links yet, sorry)
If you've watched the short video, I guess you can see where my problem is. Everytime I try to take a photo or a video, those blurry lines appear. If I'm taking a photo, the lines appear grayish-black and are still faintly visible if I save the picture. If I'm taking a video, they appear as red/green/blue lines and are very noticeable under low lighting. Even on much better lighting, the camera appears to quickly alternate between being slightly greenish and slightly pink. I also noticed that the camera has a harder time focusing on objects than before. The front camera works fine, however.
This was a fairly recent problem. It just appeared suddenly one day without warning; I'm pretty sure I didn't drop my phone and water damage seems to be unlikely (it's an Xperia V afterall.) There is also no visible physical damage on the camera.
Here's a list of things I've done to try and fix it:
- Turn off phone, remove battery, reboot
- Use a different camera app. The problem appears regardless of what app I use (stock, Focal, CameraZoom, Vignette etc.)
- Clear the camera app's cache and data.
- Upgrade from CM 10.1.3 to 10.2 (the problem appeared while I was still on 10.1.3 and persisted in 10.2)
What I HAVEN'T done yet:
- Do a factory reset or a complete memory wipe
- Flash a different ROM
- Disassemble the phone
So does anyone have any idea how to fix this, or at least know what's causing it? One of the deciding factors on why I bought this phone in the first place is its camera so I'd hate to have it rendered pretty useless.
Since the OTA update to EVA-L09C432B166 (or at least is my recollection of when this issue started), I've faced a number of issues with the camera,
Firstly, Camera would not function at all just giving the "Failed to start Camera error, Check if there are.....",
After a factory reset, cleared out cache etc, I managed to get the camera to open, this would now take pictures, freeze and close, but only using the normal setting, any attempt to change to any other camera function would cause it to freeze totally.
I am now at a point, where I can use HDR, Light Painting (sometime), Shallow DoF option, but any attempt to either use a filter, or to access and use the Monochrome setting, caused the entire thing to die again, after about 30 seconds or so of closing the camera when this happens, it seems to reset itself and when I reopen the camera, it opens with the normal camera setting only..
Has anyone faced anything like this? I'm loathe to think it's a HW issue due to the way the issue manifests and it's lack of consistency (other than monochrome / filters) I was hoping / wondering that the factory reset would downgrade the phone back to pre 166 but still is not the case, I cannot remember whhich FW i was on prior to the 166 OTA upgrade so I am unsure which I should look to downgrade to.
Any input / advice / assistance would be great, buying a camera on the basis of a camera function I can barely use is not the best....#
Thanks
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Since the OTA update to EVA-L09C432B166 (or at least is my recollection of when this issue started), I've faced a number of issues with the camera,
Firstly, Camera would not function at all just giving the "Failed to start Camera error, Check if there are.....",
After a factory reset, cleared out cache etc, I managed to get the camera to open, this would now take pictures, freeze and close, but only using the normal setting, any attempt to change to any other camera function would cause it to freeze totally.
I am now at a point, where I can use HDR, Light Painting (sometime), Shallow DoF option, but any attempt to either use a filter, or to access and use the Monochrome setting, caused the entire thing to die again, after about 30 seconds or so of closing the camera when this happens, it seems to reset itself and when I reopen the camera, it opens with the normal camera setting only..
Has anyone faced anything like this? I'm loathe to think it's a HW issue due to the way the issue manifests and it's lack of consistency (other than monochrome / filters) I was hoping / wondering that the factory reset would downgrade the phone back to pre 166 but still is not the case, I cannot remember whhich FW i was on prior to the 166 OTA upgrade so I am unsure which I should look to downgrade to.
Any input / advice / assistance would be great, buying a camera on the basis of a camera function I can barely use is not the best....#
Thanks
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Go to apps/camera....clear cashe, clear data, force stop....and then restart your phone
Have you changed your DPI?
My camera breaks for anything other than Colour and monochrome if I have the DPI any lower than 420.
Hi, I bought a P9 that is yet to arrive but the other day I was using my friends P9 and wanted to try the camera in pro mode (which is the mode that I use the most on my phones) and I noticed that after some speeds, when playing with shutter speed, the viewfinder image just stops updating the amount of light that should enter ie. I'm indoors with artificial light and if I set the speed to the fastest posible the viewfinder does not go black (and it stops showing the differences in lightning way before the fastest shutterspeed). Same goes the other way, if I set the speed to a ver very low one the viewfinder does not end up looking white, so it makes this feature useless cause the only way I have to see if I'm using the correct speed is to take the shot and then open the picture to see if it was the correct speed. I noticed this happening also in the Huawei Mate 8. I'm used to the LG G4 wich every step of the shutter speed shows a difference in lightning in the image your watching. Is there a way to fix this? does this happend with every Huawei phone? I haven't got the phone yet but I'm already thinking of selling it and getting an S7
I am also coming from an LG G4 and found the lack of feedback in terms of how much light I get by changing different setting, as I major drawback. To answer your question: yes, all Huawei phones seem to lack this feature. The only option is to take a shoot at that setting and adjust back and forth, per the exposure you see on the picture taken.
Co5min said:
I am also coming from an LG G4 and found the lack of feedback in terms of how much light I get by changing different setting, as I major drawback. To answer your question: yes, all Huawei phones seem to lack this feature. The only option is to take a shoot at that setting and adjust back and forth, per the exposure you see on the picture taken.
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thanks a lot, I'm really going to miss G4's camera app along with it camera quality so I think I'm gonna sell the p9 as soon as I get it and get an S7, the pro mode in a camera is way too important to me to withstand this Huawei bug like behavior =/
If you lock the shutter speed, then by changing to different ISO values you get a good feedback on the live screen related how much light gets in. But unfortunately does not work the other way around which is equally important, to lock the ISO and play with shutter speed. So it`s a half of drawback but still annoying.
I've just been sent a replacement Z3C by Sony following water ingress (surprise surprise).
The one they've sent me looks pristine and I'm pleased with it except for this one thing.
When I scroll, swipe, slide or otherwise see animations, they're ever so slightly jittery. It's subtle, but they're not buttery smooth like my other one.
It's best demonstrated using the volume slider:
This my problem Z3C: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-NY0iUv-qI0YmpPbjFmWUZPaDQ
This is a normal Z3C: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-NY0iUv-qI0dmp5S0RmMDA5QUE
General use screen recording: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-NY0iUv-qI0SF9MRERQM0NWU1U/view
I have another Z3C (that I smashed the screen on, but a bluetooth keyboard/mouse works). I can directly compare the two and the new one is definitely worse.
The jittering shows through on screen recordings, so I guess it's not the screen hardware itself.
I also notice the slightly poor FPS on the purple boot animation
I don't have Image Enhancement enabled
I don't have Stamina mode enabled
I've compared Geekbench CPU and GPU benchmarks with my other Z3C and they're pretty much identical
It's a bit annoying when I know it can be better. I also expect it'll fall on deaf ears if I return it to Sony.
Anything I can try?
Hi,
We might need some more information. Is your phone on stock ROM / rooted / modified? Do you have plenty apps installed?
If it's all stock and there're no resource hungry apps installed, you can try the following:
// before doing anything: Backup. Backup. Backup. I'm not responsible for any lost data.
1) Enable developer options, activate developer options, go to 'hardware accelerated rendering' (I don't know if it's correct translated from German to English), enable 'force GPU-Rendering'. See if it helps.
2) If that doesn't work, factory reset your phone.
2.1) Try a debloat script to get rid of some preinstalled apps (increases performance and battery life as well)
3) If that doesn't work, flash a 'clean' stock ROM with flashtool
Hi
My Fiesta Mk8's main display is showing the time by default, but when i enter Android Auto i cant see the clock unless i have no notifications, which never happens. I thought this was simply how it was designed, but then i noticed that my friends older Focus, running the same version of Android Auto as I (on the phone), had a clock along with a signal and battery meter displayed. He uses an Huawei P30, and i use a Huawei P30 Lite, but it doesn't matter which phone i use, it just doesn't show up in my car. Therefore i guess it has something to do with the vehicle? Is there a way to enable this?
Might be a simple explanation, that i just don't know of
Take a look at the attached screenshot to see what i mean