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Camera Responsiveness?

so It's my understanding the camera takes about a second to wake up..
How great is it at taking pictures of things in motion? I'm not asking for anything incredibly unrealistic but, I know that my captivate tends to have problems if something is moving or it's not a still shot which can be a little annoying..

So far I've had my T for a week and the camera is one of my biggest grievences.
It takes about a second for the screen to boot into the camera mode but then takes ages (sometimes 5-6 seconds) to focus properly before it takes the shot!!
It may just be that I need to tweak the settings but a feature that is boasted like this one you would think would work out of the box.
I'll post back after I've had another play.

Focussing takes longer if the light is low. The camera should focus pretty quick in the day time. Once my S3 comes back from surgery I'll compare if the speed of this camera bothers me. It hasn't yet, though.
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I have the S3.. The camera on it is much better than the xperia T on pretty much everything responsiveness \ motion capture \ night - low light conditions. Maybe its the xperia app that lacks something dont know..
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I find the camera focus to be a bit of a nuisance too but I find if I type on the screen where to focus the image it will sort itself out in maybe 2 seconds tops ready to snap the picture. It could be down to light conditions but my experiences with the cameras been okay.

From what I was expecting from Sony's advertising the camera is a let down. The app is nice to use and I love having the dedicated button. However focusing seems to be a bit hit or miss. Certainly compared to my old OneX. Hoping that it'll be improved with some software updates as the hardware should be quite decent?
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I've been using the Xperia GX for 2 months now since it launched in the summer but it should be similiar to the T/TX (well, exactly the same as the TX)
Waking up / Firing up the camera quickly
If the camera process is not running it will take 5-6 seconds to start up.
If it is running, then it is much faster. When it is running in the background it does not consume a lot of resources (in particular it doesn't really impact battery life since that is the single worst part of the GX/TX)
Be sure to check your camera settings as well for the "Quick Launch" settings.
This has been seen on several Xperia devices but here's briefly how it works.
When the phone is asleep, you hold down the camera button. It takes about a half second for recognize the long press then will fire up and take the shot in less than another half second. You can change your setting to choose whether it does nothing, fires up the camera, or fires up the camera plus takes the shot.
If you use a screen unlock pattern, you will still take the photo and subsequent photos but you cannot go to view/share/etc the photo until completing the unlock. This is to both give you security while not stopping you from quickly taking photos.
Pictures of things in motion
I was surprised that it takes pictures very quickly with little shutter lag. The day after I got the phone, I went to climb Mount Fuji and was surprised I could take clear photos of the foliage whizzing by outside the bus window.
That being said, that only really works in well lit conditions.
In well lit conditions, it can focus quickly 150-400ms but like others have said, this is not the case in low light (or when the device starts to overheat or when bogged down with apps running and demanding wakelock).
If you use the quick capture feature, it will guess the focus and take the shot.

Macflurry said:
So far I've had my T for a week and the camera is one of my biggest grievences.
It takes about a second for the screen to boot into the camera mode but then takes ages (sometimes 5-6 seconds) to focus properly before it takes the shot!!
It may just be that I need to tweak the settings but a feature that is boasted like this one you would think would work out of the box.
I'll post back after I've had another play.
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By default, its set to face recognition and thats what delays it. Change the settings on the camera app and you would see the full glory of it

really? in the shops i was hands on-ing with the xperia t , and whenever i tapped the big capture button it would instantly capture even if i clicked many times , like a burst shot.. so does my old phone ray but it laggs a bit

shahulvm said:
By default, its set to face recognition and thats what delays it. Change the settings on the camera app and you would see the full glory of it
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A number of issues with Nexus 6

Hello all,
Had my Nexus 6 since launch day in the UK, and I started out really liking it, but it's getting more and more in my bad books as I live with it. Wonder if anyone who has one could look over this and tell me if these issues are standard with this device, or whether I need to get onto the network (Vodafone - what a pain)
Reboots - I'm getting a number of reboots. I know this can be app caused, and I'm working through. The main problem is that it requires a pin or swipe to start it booting up, so overnight if it happens, you've got yourself a dead phone till you physically get it going again in the morning
slowdown - I've got a couple of games, one is sky force, that worked well on my note 3, but suffers some terrible slowdown on the Nexus. No idea why this would happen with a better processor
not connecting to 5g on the router - my router has a 2 and 5 g aerial. It works fine on the 2 g, and every other device works on the 5g, but the nexus just will not connect.
slowness of starting up the camera - starting the camera can be 30 seconds.
Upside down display camera pics on some apps - KIK for eg? I know others with Lollipop who don't have this issue on their Sammys.
very bad battery - In use, heavy use, it'll be 3 hours. Average use, bit of messaging, a game, internet, could be 4 hours.
lack of focus on camcorder - it won't stay on a fixed
Slowness of booting up - Can be literally 5 minutes to boot to the main screen. Reminds me a bit of Windows at its worse!
I've had smartphones for many years, and I'm used to their foibles, like battery life and apps that cause reboots, but this is probably the most difficult phone I've had to live with!
I love the screen, the hugeness of it is just what I want, and the sound is great.

I'm getting the crashes, primarily when using the camera, doesn't reboot just stops, 3 times in a few minutes on more than one occasion. Sometimes won't connect to home WiFi without a restart. Start up is very slow. Don't suffer from the other issues. I'm on O2 4G.

mozza1976 said:
Hello all,
Had my Nexus 6 since launch day in the UK, and I started out really liking it, but it's getting more and more in my bad books as I live with it. Wonder if anyone who has one could look over this and tell me if these issues are standard with this device, or whether I need to get onto the network (Vodafone - what a pain)
Reboots - I'm getting a number of reboots. I know this can be app caused, and I'm working through. The main problem is that it requires a pin or swipe to start it booting up, so overnight if it happens, you've got yourself a dead phone till you physically get it going again in the morning
slowdown - I've got a couple of games, one is sky force, that worked well on my note 3, but suffers some terrible slowdown on the Nexus. No idea why this would happen with a better processor
not connecting to 5g on the router - my router has a 2 and 5 g aerial. It works fine on the 2 g, and every other device works on the 5g, but the nexus just will not connect.
slowness of starting up the camera - starting the camera can be 30 seconds.
Upside down display camera pics on some apps - KIK for eg? I know others with Lollipop who don't have this issue on their Sammys.
very bad battery - In use, heavy use, it'll be 3 hours. Average use, bit of messaging, a game, internet, could be 4 hours.
lack of focus on camcorder - it won't stay on a fixed
Slowness of booting up - Can be literally 5 minutes to boot to the main screen. Reminds me a bit of Windows at its worse!
I've had smartphones for many years, and I'm used to their foibles, like battery life and apps that cause reboots, but this is probably the most difficult phone I've had to live with!
I love the screen, the hugeness of it is just what I want, and the sound is great.
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could be a faulty phone or rom ... I've had mine for a month now and no problems so far and great battery life

mozza1976 said:
Hello all,
Had my Nexus 6 since launch day in the UK, and I started out really liking it, but it's getting more and more in my bad books as I live with it. Wonder if anyone who has one could look over this and tell me if these issues are standard with this device, or whether I need to get onto the network (Vodafone - what a pain)
[*]Reboots - I'm getting a number of reboots. I know this can be app caused, and I'm working through. The main problem is that it requires a pin or swipe to start it booting up, so overnight if it happens, you've got yourself a dead phone till you physically get it going again in the morning
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This is actually looking a lot like it may be a software defect. For now, the best solution (i.e. temporary, until 5.1 comes out later this month) is to run the phone withOUT encryption. There are lots of threads around about the minor boot partition change needed to accomplish this.
[*]slowdown - I've got a couple of games, one is sky force, that worked well on my note 3, but suffers some terrible slowdown on the Nexus. No idea why this would happen with a better processor
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Two reasons;
1) is that despite the better processor, anything I/O heavy will take a lot of CPU power to just handle the crypto. Hopefully, this is something that will be solved (hwcrypto) with 5.1.
2) android 5.0 has some major changes in the runtime -- ART vs Dalvik. If the application developer broke rules in building the software you are running, then it is possible that it won't work optimally on ART. Hopefully, the application developer can adapt.
[*]not connecting to 5g on the router - my router has a 2 and 5 g aerial. It works fine on the 2 g, and every other device works on the 5g, but the nexus just will not connect.
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Works for me....?
Try a router with OpenWRT.
If I remember correctly, some of the OLDER 5G 802.11AC chips used in a lot of routers, like TPLINK Archer C7v1, which has a Qualcomm Atheros QCA9880-AR1A had hardware that was a bit rushed to market and failed to meet a number of the AC specifications. So if your router is such an AC, then the hardware that is working with it may be using 802.11N (older tech), whereas this phone is trying to negotiate an 802.11AC link with it, and failing. So there is a good chance that the problem is actually on the ROUTER's side, rather than the phone.
[*]slowness of starting up the camera - starting the camera can be 30 seconds.
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Something not right there. Mine takes 2 seconds from pressing the camera button.
[*]Upside down display camera pics on some apps - KIK for eg? I know others with Lollipop who don't have this issue on their Sammys.
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There are *two* ways to deal with orientation in jpg images; one is to write the image to the file "upright", the other is to write it to the image file as it comes from the buffer, and just give it an orientation flip flag. The software you are using *may not respect* the orientation flag.
[*]very bad battery - In use, heavy use, it'll be 3 hours. Average use, bit of messaging, a game, internet, could be 4 hours.
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I'm actually finding the battery to be quite phenomenal on this device. With low-moderate usage, it will actually go for TWO ENTIRE DAYS on a charge. Usually to get that kind of battery life, I have to apply very invasive controls against google services to prevent them from setting alarms and holding wakelocks.
However, if you have the screen on high brightness and actually turned on a lot, do remember, the screen is ENORMOUS. It takes power to light it up.
[*]lack of focus on camcorder - it won't stay on a fixed
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I had to check that to verify, and confirm it. That appears to be a bug in the camera application. Try a different camera program for now, and hope that 5.1 fixes it.
[*]Slowness of booting up - Can be literally 5 minutes to boot to the main screen. Reminds me a bit of Windows at its worse!
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Might be software crypto, mine isn't encrypted, and literally boots right up to the unlock screen in about 10 seconds.
I've had smartphones for many years, and I'm used to their foibles, like battery life and apps that cause reboots, but this is probably the most difficult phone I've had to live with!
I love the screen, the hugeness of it is just what I want, and the sound is great.
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Well, the SIZE is almost certainly what is causing you battery life issues. The rest of it is basically because you are running an early version of a MASSIVE system update and simultaneously riding on new hardware that brings in its own batch of *software* bugs. There are some bugs in it that need to be worked out, and hopefully, the majority get worked out with 5.1. There *are* google-private 5.1 builds for Nexus 6 already, so it is just a matter of waiting for them to complete QA and ship it out.

Thanks for this, really appreciate the time, I'll have a good look through later!

Found a fix for the 5ghz router issues on the Google forum.
Apparebtly the nexus favours the American 5g channels... So I've set it to 36 and 40 and its working well! Yey.
Tomorrow I'll try a cache wipe to see what else I can correct before the update.

Slow to wake

Has anyone else noticed that the phone is slow to wake, lock the screen set it down for 10 seconds and press either the power button or the finger print scanner and it takes 2-2.5seconds for it to wake. I am not sure if this is how it was before but I recently noticed it.

my device wakes up directly.. under 1 sec. (what have you done?)

I took out my 128Gb Lexar Class 10 MicroSD and it is now very fast to wake, I tried the SD card on my S7 and it has no effect on the S7's wake time what so ever. I am not sure whats in the microSD causing it to slowly wake up or if it is a firmware limitation on the P9 Plus
I have a P9 here with a 64Gb MicroSD card and it is also slow to wake as Ive compared waking the the P9 with a microSD and the P9 Plus with out.

My P9 Plus with 64GB microSD card, instant wake within 1 second. No issue so far.

Hmmm I wonder what is causing it then. I formatted both MicroSD and tried it on the P9 Plus and get the same issue :/
What is the firmware versions of the handsets you guys have ?

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I have updated to B170 and it is still slow to wake even if the SDcard has no contents :/

Andrewtst said:
My P9 Plus with 64GB microSD card, instant wake within 1 second. No issue so far.
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Are you using the L29 or the L09 variant ?

EarlZ said:
Are you using the L29 or the L09 variant ?
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L29.

Andrewtst said:
L29.
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L29C636B170 firmware?
If you lock the phone and leave it alone for 10-20 seconds and press the power button you dont get a wake up delay ? Its happen to both the P9 and P9 Plus I have here and with the 64Gb MicroSD from Sandsik and 128GB from Lexar.

EarlZ said:
L29C636B170 firmware?
If you lock the phone and leave it alone for 10-20 seconds and press the power button you dont get a wake up delay ? Its happen to both the P9 and P9 Plus I have here and with the 64Gb MicroSD from Sandsik and 128GB from Lexar.
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I just upgrade to this L29C636B170. No issue, never had wake up delay issue, wake up always within 1 to max. 2 seconds.
Here seems only you have this issue. Possible certain apps you install affecting it.

Andrewtst said:
I just upgrade to this L29C636B170. No issue, never had wake up delay issue, wake up always within 1 to max. 2 seconds.
Here seems only you have this issue. Possible certain apps you install affecting it.
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If it takes your device 2 seconds max to wake then that is th issue. The device wakes in less than 1 second with out and SDcard installed ( I am estimating 0.4-0.5 seconds )
With the SDcard installed and I lock the phone and leave it alone for at least 10seconds then the initial wake time is 2seconds. If I lock then unlock again in less than 10seconds the wake time is less than 1s.
Can you do a video on how fast your device wakes? Ill probaly upload one showing the delay.
I dont think it has anything to do with the apps as I dont have apps installed on the SDcard and even if the sd is empty it still adds a delay. I tested it on another 16Gb card and has the same issue.

EarlZ said:
If it takes your device 2 seconds max to wake then that is th issue. The device wakes in less than 1 second with out and SDcard installed ( I am estimating 0.4-0.5 seconds )
With the SDcard installed and I lock the phone and leave it alone for at least 10seconds then the initial wake time is 2seconds. If I lock then unlock again in less than 10seconds the wake time is less than 1s.
Can you do a video on how fast your device wakes? Ill probaly upload one showing the delay.
I dont think it has anything to do with the apps as I dont have apps installed on the SDcard and even if the sd is empty it still adds a delay. I tested it on another 16Gb card and has the same issue.
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I count by my own not using any thing to measure. I said maximum 2 seconds but never reach, always 1 second or to more accurate 1.3 seconds? lol is that 0.3 seconds or even 1 seconds bothering?
You said yours is 10 to 20 seconds, did you know how slow is that? if your unit is 10 to 20 seconds then it is way something big wrong.
My device is 1 to 2 seconds, which is nothing wrong to me at all.
I won't do any video about it, all my used before device fingerprint is 1 to 2 seconds and it is pretty normal to me, include S7 Edge, Redmi Note 3, Mi Max and current device P9 Plus. All with MicroSD card with capacity for at least 32GB to 64GB. With or without it never affect my fingerprint unlocked in any mentioned device.

Andrewtst said:
I count by my own not using any thing to measure. I said maximum 2 seconds but never reach, always 1 second or to more accurate 1.3 seconds? lol is that 0.3 seconds or even 1 seconds bothering?
You said yours is 10 to 20 seconds, did you know how slow is that? if your unit is 10 to 20 seconds then it is way something big wrong.
My device is 1 to 2 seconds, which is nothing wrong to me at all.
I won't do any video about it, all my used before device fingerprint is 1 to 2 seconds and it is pretty normal to me, include S7 Edge, Redmi Note 3, Mi Max and current device P9 Plus. All with MicroSD card with capacity for at least 32GB to 64GB. With or without it never affect my fingerprint unlocked in any mentioned device.
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There seems to be a massive miscommunication here.
I didnt say 10 to 20 seconds but if I did, please quote me in that so I can have it corrected.
What I mentioned was if you lock the device and leave it alone for atleast 10 seconds and try to wake the device it takes 2 - 2.5 seconds longer if an SDcard is installed, if there is no SDcard installed it takes 0.5 to wake.
I also want to clarify it, this has nothing to do with finger print read speed, just how fast the device can wake.
I mentioned to leave it alone for 10 seconds after locking thr phone as the issue does not appear if you just lock and wake the phobe immediately.
2 seconds is not a big deal but it becomes a big deal when folks misunderstand what I wanted to find out and claim they dont experience the issue but infact they do but just didnt understand what I wanted to find out. This is not nitpickin just wanted to know if I am the only one affected but it clearly shows this is the norm for the P9 and P9 Plus which you also confirmed is happening to you.
I aslo have and s7 and a note 3 none of them have an added delay to the wake speed when a microSD is used.

EarlZ said:
There seems to be a massive miscommunication here.
I didnt say 10 to 20 seconds but if I did, please quote me in that so I can have it corrected.
What I mentioned was if you lock the device and leave it alone for atleast 10 seconds and try to wake the device it takes 2 - 2.5 seconds longer if an SDcard is installed, if there is no SDcard installed it takes 0.5 to wake.
I also want to clarify it, this has nothing to do with finger print read speed, just how fast the device can wake.
I mentioned to leave it alone for 10 seconds after locking thr phone as the issue does not appear if you just lock and wake the phobe immediately.
2 seconds is not a big deal but it becomes a big deal when folks misunderstand what I wanted to find out and claim they dont experience the issue but infact they do but just didnt understand what I wanted to find out. This is not nitpickin just wanted to know if I am the only one affected but it clearly shows this is the norm for the P9 and P9 Plus which you also confirmed is happening to you.
I aslo have and s7 and a note 3 none of them have an added delay to the wake speed when a microSD is used.
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Sorry miss read that 10 to 20 seconds.
My P9 Plus is the fastest to unlocked than S7 Edge or Redmi Note 3 and Mi Max.
It is 1 second to 1.3 seconds not 2 seconds as it never reach that. I dunno you are actually nitpicking on that (you really are just you didn't realise). I just simply point out at 1 to 2 seconds earlier as nobody will point out 1.3 seconds. Now I change to 1.3 seconds purposely for you.
It is around 1 to 1.3 seconds and it is the fastest unlocked and wake up device I ever use. S7 Edge is actually the slowest unlocked among device i ever use recently but it still as good as it serve for unlocked and wake.
My comment ended here and no longer will reply. Peace.

Andrewtst said:
Sorry miss read that 10 to 20 seconds.
My P9 Plus is the fastest to unlocked than S7 Edge or Redmi Note 3 and Mi Max.
It is 1 second to 1.3 seconds not 2 seconds as it never reach that. I dunno you are actually nitpicking on that (you really are just you didn't realise). I just simply point out at 1 to 2 seconds earlier as nobody will point out 1.3 seconds. Now I change to 1.3 seconds purposely for you.
It is around 1 to 1.3 seconds and it is the fastest unlocked and wake up device I ever use. S7 Edge is actually the slowest unlocked among device i ever use recently but it still as good as it serve for unlocked and wake.
My comment ended here and no longer will reply. Peace.
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You are still missing the point, I wanted to know if it is normal for the P9/P9 Plus to have a longer wake delay if an SDcard was installed. If that is normal then I accept that but if that is caused by my SDcard and only affecting my unit they I need to have this checked and possibly replaced.
Thank you.

I've a SanDisk Extreme 64 GB microSDXC Class 10 Memory Card in my P9 Plus - wake up on fingerprint scanner is INSTANT (snaps fingers).
Apologies for not reading all of the thread; have you tried a different sd card?

allenf said:
I've a SanDisk Extreme 64 GB microSDXC Class 10 Memory Card in my P9 Plus - wake up on fingerprint scanner is INSTANT (snaps fingers).
Apologies for not reading all of the thread; have you tried a different sd card?
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Yes, I have the same memory card too. Has a delay. I have tried a total of 3 cards. The only time it instantly wakes if I lock the phone and wake it again in under 10seconds other wise the delay sets in.

EarlZ said:
Yes, I have the same memory card too. Has a delay. I have tried a total of 3 cards. The only time it instantly wakes if I lock the phone and wake it again in under 10seconds other wise the delay sets in.
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Have you tried the dreaded factory reset?

Wake up snappy with or without SD installed for me! *under sec!

Note 7 bugs

I don't know how much longer I can put up with Samsung. I've been with them since the note 1 and it's so bad now. Everything from poor software to faulty hardware. GPS seems like its never worked correctly, no matter what they do. Updates cripple their phones. Their camera has certainly gone backwards in quality since the note 4 camera. The phone is lagging and slow always. Even in safe mode. The battery life is 3 hours at best, which is unacceptable. They force updates now, like Microsoft. They bundle things that you can't remove like facebook and instagram, but make you separately download their media players? That's backwards. The reception is horrible compared to other phones. Wi-Fi drops all the time, even next to my router. It has to warn me every single time I plug in headphones that it could damage my hearing. It has to notify me every single time I open the camera that location is either on or off. Charging is slow. Games shudder and lag no matter what I do. I can remove huge, useless apps like facebook. I can't root because of the locked bootloaders. I can't ever quickly see my new facebook messages because it has to now group multiple notifications and there is no way to turn off the "open chat heads" nonsense. The only thing mine doesn't do is over heat it seems like. That green battery ic9on update with the ultimate new UI completely compromised my Note. T-Mobile won't take it back without paying $50 either.
Samsung seems to have turned their backs on what their actual fans want in favor of being an iClone. Why does every single app and menu have a search bar now? Annoying. The drop down menu and notifications have severely dropped in quality since ICS. Does anyone else feel this way at all? It took me a long time to swallow my pride and get the note 2 way back when. Now I regret that I did. I can't find a way around these issues and no one will help.
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How can I take photos in regular intervals without turning on the screen?

Hi all,
As the battery of my S8 is almost dead I thought instead of throwing it out I'd give it a second life as some kind of webcam. I want it to take a photo every 2 mins and upload it to a server. That works perfectly, except that the phone won't take a photo when the screen is off - even when it's not locked. I tried something like Turn on screen - take photo -turn off screen but that worked neither. In fact, as I put it on a tripod on my sleeping room window facing outside, I don't want to be disturbed at night by the phone screen.
So my question is, how can I make the phone take a shot every 2 mins with the screen being off?
The phone is running Android 9 and not rooted, but if that's what is required I am fine with doing so. If there is another solution than Tasker, I am also happy to hear about it. (Note: I tried the IP camera app which is really cool, but the phone gets super hot, thus I consider it a fire hazard)