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Okay, so there have been a few things that are really kind of irritating me with the videos on the Captivate... of course it could all be operator error and there may be fixes for it all, so that's where you guys come in
1. It seems I can't send a video I have shot over gmail unless it's at one of the absolute lowest resolutions and lasts no more than like 10 seconds. Is there anyway around that? This is even over wifi. Shot a video last night, and couldn't get it to send until I had it on the second to lowest resolution and kept it super short (10ish seconds)... This seems pretty ridiculous considering my old phone could at least send a minute or so of pretty good resolution video without any problems and didn't give an error.
Anytime I try to send a larger or longer video so far on my Captivate, it says file too large and ends up sending a blank email to the recipient.
2. If the battery is below around about 20% I think, the phone won't even allow you to play videos... Likewise, you can't even open the camera app if the battery is on the lower end. I dunno, I feel that's kind of crazy. I mean if I wanna utilize my last few minutes of my phone's life watching a video or taking a pic for whatever reason, shouldn't I be able to make that executive decision? lol.
Soooo is there anything I'm missing here that would fix these problems for me?
Brynn85 said:
Okay, so there have been a few things that are really kind of irritating me with the videos on the Captivate... of course it could all be operator error and there may be fixes for it all, so that's where you guys come in
1. It seems I can't send a video I have shot over gmail unless it's at one of the absolute lowest resolutions and lasts no more than like 10 seconds. Is there anyway around that? This is even over wifi. Shot a video last night, and couldn't get it to send until I had it on the second to lowest resolution and kept it super short (10ish seconds)... This seems pretty ridiculous considering my old phone could at least send a minute or so of pretty good resolution video without any problems and didn't give an error.
Anytime I try to send a larger or longer video so far on my Captivate, it says file too large and ends up sending a blank email to the recipient.
2. If the battery is below around about 20% I think, the phone won't even allow you to play videos... Likewise, you can't even open the camera app if the battery is on the lower end. I dunno, I feel that's kind of crazy. I mean if I wanna utilize my last few minutes of my phone's life watching a video or taking a pic for whatever reason, shouldn't I be able to make that executive decision? lol.
Soooo is there anything I'm missing here that would fix these problems for me?
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1. Are you trying to send a video you previously recorded or trying to send new video you just captured?
Have you tried - opening the mms or email app first and adding an attachment. When asked what attachment you select Camera. Then record video and let the app compress it before sending. This has worked well for me.
2. Heard this complaint about videos and music players alike. I couldn't provide any info on that matter as I haven't been agitated by that particular scenareo yet...
Hope this helps.
Shovelhead84 said:
1. Are you trying to send a video you previously recorded or trying to send new video you just captured?
Have you tried - opening the mms or email app first and adding an attachment. When asked what attachment you select Camera. Then record video and let the app compress it before sending. This has worked well for me.
2. Heard this complaint about videos and music players alike. I couldn't provide any info on that matter as I haven't been agitated by that particular scenareo yet...
Hope this helps.
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Umm well mostly video that has just been captured or previously recorded. When I go to the gmail app first and go to attach, it only lets me choose image files rather than video. Sigh. :-/
Thanks for your reply though, I really appreciate it
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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Ale-xs said:
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"...)
Insomniac535 said:
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?
lm007 said:
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.
I was looking through some of the props, and stuff, is there a spot to change video recording length more than 25 mins in HD?
Longer videos please
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I was looking through some of the props, and stuff, is there a spot to change video recording length more than 25 mins in HD?
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This is something I could really use too....if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful !
talked with customer support, they are unsure why it records 25 mins. guess its time to dig into code and see what else there is. I did notice that with a different launcher installed, and set as default, the next day when i turn it on, it goes to stock launcher. must be something hard set after a cold boot to pick a defined set of defaults..
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talked with customer support, they are unsure why it records 25 mins. guess its time to dig into code and see what else there is. I did notice that with a different launcher installed, and set as default, the next day when i turn it on, it goes to stock launcher. must be something hard set after a cold boot to pick a defined set of defaults..
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Thanks Jason - keep us posted !
Rog
been away for a while, still playing with the camera part of the camera, will see what I can do about the dang longer video recording in spare time. cant give a time frame, as its unknown.... any big break through, i will post.
JasonM79 said:
been away for a while, still playing with the camera part of the camera, will see what I can do about the dang longer video recording in spare time. cant give a time frame, as its unknown.... any big break through, i will post.
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Thnask Jason
not a lot has been done in my off time besides work, did play around with more numbers in the sys folder, and a few in the camera apk itself, still always seems to go back to default after a sit overnight.
has anyone tried system/etc and then media_profiles.xml then changing the values and encoder profile quality.. duration then change it from 30 to whatever..
Its just the buffer size!
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I was looking through some of the props, and stuff, is there a spot to change video recording length more than 25 mins in HD?
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Ok,
just been on holiday with this camera and used it in battle so to speak.
What I found regarding the 25 mins time limit is that it is just refering to the amount of video it can deal with in one chunk before it has to process it and store it to the card.
If you tap on the stop button rather than just the pause button, the camera then tells to it is processing and storing to the card then, after a brief wait you can once again tapp the video button and you are good to go for another 25 mins.
The only limit I can see is the size of the storage card.
I hope this makes sense and answers your question.
Thank you so much for your kind reply ,
is there anyway any app can do none stop part auto to record like auto split kind of thing do you think ?
Thnx
Doctor Death said:
Ok,
just been on holiday with this camera and used it in battle so to speak.
What I found regarding the 25 mins time limit is that it is just refering to the amount of video it can deal with in one chunk before it has to process it and store it to the card.
If you tap on the stop button rather than just the pause button, the camera then tells to it is processing and storing to the card then, after a brief wait you can once again tapp the video button and you are good to go for another 25 mins.
The only limit I can see is the size of the storage card.
I hope this makes sense and answers your question.
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Auto record
cypriotxx said:
Thank you so much for your kind reply ,
is there anyway any app can do none stop part auto to record like auto split kind of thing do you think ?
Thnx
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Got to admit I hadn't thought about that.
Looks like I might have to do some research with that idea in mind.
There must be an app of some kind that could automate the process, hopefully someone out there will have some ideas too.
rogut said:
This is something I could really use too....if anyone has any suggestions, I'd be grateful !
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Sorry that I can't offer a solution (yet) but I am in the process of writing a video recording app, and I have recorded continuously for over an hour, so it isn't a hardware limitation.
noparadise said:
Sorry that I can't offer a solution (yet) but I am in the process of writing a video recording app, and I have recorded continuously for over an hour, so it isn't a hardware limitation.
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Oh man! I would love to see this app and would gladly pay you for it! Do you need any beta testers because I would be totally game for that. I have noticed that the JB+ camera does not put a time limit on recording but I have no way to use the zoom and focus while doing so.
I just got the camera today in sort of a compromise. My wife needed a video recorder but I wanted a good camera for other things but mostly photographing student art work. I was looking at the QX10 and immediately saw the 2 GB recording limit and decided against it. I open up the camcorder today and see a 25 minute limit! AHHHHH!!!!! Anyway, I have unlimited recording but shoddy control using the JB+ camera.
I bought the Galaxy Camera for 328 and am really enjoying it so far, by the way! Great little piece of machinery.
simplyTravis said:
Oh man! I would love to see this app and would gladly pay you for it! Do you need any beta testers because I would be totally game for that. I have noticed that the JB+ camera does not put a time limit on recording but I have no way to use the zoom and focus while doing so.
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Not really even at a beta stage yet - I am working on it, got the zoom goiing but haven't got the autofocus hooked up properly yet. The JB+ app may be the best hope as of now, but I'll keep you posted.
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Not really even at a beta stage yet - I am working on it, got the zoom goiing but haven't got the autofocus hooked up properly yet. The JB+ app may be the best hope as of now, but I'll keep you posted.
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Glad to see you are still working on it. I wish I can help but programming is not my forte. I found another app that sort of works (not focus) as far as using the controls but recording doesn't finish right so it is broken. The app is Zoom Camera by Moulasoft.
If you need any graphics for the program let me know. That is one area that I can help with.
Has anyone noticed that when you save the 30second video highlight the quality is somewhat reduced?
Is there anyway to stop this?
To reproduce:
1. Play 30second video in events and note quality.
2. Save the video highlight and then view it..notice the reduced quality?
Nobody else noticed this?!
I noticed, it's because the preview was realtime, using assets like photos and video from the phone with some themes applied on top. So it's displayed at the best quality. But when it's being saved (rendered) as video file there's some compression applied. To me it's not that big of a deal, but i wish HTC gave us option for multiple compression quality
It basically looks like rerendering twice. Once when the vid is captured, another when Zoe is created.
Yeah it's such a shame as when exporting to dropbox etc to show people they just don't look good enough (imo)
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Yeah it's such a shame as when exporting to dropbox etc to show people they just don't look good enough (imo)
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I totally agree on the phone it looks great but then you upload them on facebook or youtube and they are kinda meh, even thou they look good, they dont look as good as on the phone
I noticed same thing. Was disappointed when I uploaded and viewed on my PC.
Sent from my HTC One using Tapatalk 2
it must have a preference or setting xml file somewhere you may can edit and improve, i guess
this is so disappointing, on the display it looks perfect, but once you want to save or share it, the quality goes drastically down
and also, the "select content" function is not working as it should
just received the reply from htc support.
what you should do is:
force stop camera app, clear data
boot into recovery
wipe cache partition
it did help me
kohonen said:
just received the reply from htc support.
what you should do is:
force stop camera app, clear data
boot into recovery
wipe cache partition
it did help me
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I guess I don't see how this would help. Technically a 30 second clip of Video Highlight should be at least a hundred megs, not 12... I wish there was a way to turn off the compression when you save it.
What does clearing the data from the camera app and clearing cache do? The reason I ask is that ive flashed new ROMS, which would obviously have cleared data, and I clear my cache all the time when i fiddle with my ROMS. and the Zoe Video Highlight quality has always been diminished.
If someone could help, that'd be awesome.
hmm... no comments since august '13.
no workarounds found yet? It's an awesome feature, but the highlights are not worth sharing at that quality...
Is anyone facing problems with Stories videos? Whenever I try to upload a video, from my gallery, the video lags SO MUCH...
And if I try to record a video directly in Instagram app, the video lags EVEN MORE.
The experience with this social network, in a whole, is a little bit crappy, with the Mi A2...
It's so sad, because I really love this phone, specially the camera.
Well, is anyone facing the same problem? Is there any fix?
Thanks in advance! <3
Same problem, only with GBintsa stories work fine
Same problem, but only video story.
I also have this issue and always had it with every Android smartphone I ever owned. I investigated a bit on the internet and read somewhere that Instagram handles the Android camera API in a ****ty way. I'm no expert but seemingly the difference is that iPhone always uses the same API or just some different version because there are not many models on Android however there are probably more than 1000 different camera APIs because there is a much bigger variety of models. In short: Instagram on Android is not very well optimized.
I had the same issue with my MI A2 i fixed it buy installing a previous version of the instagram app I had the go like 10 vesrion before to get it right though and i lost the gif feature in messages but let's hope the update wont have the same problem.
Instagram beta works fine for me
Edit: NO IT'S NOT!!
Also recording from stock camera app in 1080p 60fps and then posting as story is fine
I also had this kind of issue, which is also present in older device like Redmi Note 4 in MIUI. I don't know what make its bugged tho
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Is anyone facing problems with Stories videos? Whenever I try to upload a video, from my gallery, the video lags SO MUCH...
And if I try to record a video directly in Instagram app, the video lags EVEN MORE.
The experience with this social network, in a whole, is a little bit crappy, with the Mi A2...
It's so sad, because I really love this phone, specially the camera.
Well, is anyone facing the same problem? Is there any fix?
Thanks in advance! <3
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You have to think that you don't have an iphone, and you don't record smooth video on instagram app. Record on camera app and share it on your story.
Also photos you sent on instagram are in very tiny resolution (dm)
nhmanas said:
Also photos you sent on instagram are in very tiny resolution (dm)
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Yes I know...
I think this is a decoder related thing.. because screenshots look bad, but photos taken from camera looks good. Any video other than 1080p 60 fps from stock camera looks stuttering; but it also has very bad sound quality... That's really fuktup xiaomi..
sound program
nhmanas said:
I think this is a decoder related thing.. because screenshots look bad, but photos taken from camera looks good. Any video other than 1080p 60 fps from stock camera looks stuttering; but it also has very bad sound quality... That's really fuktup xiaomi..
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The problem with the sound program will solve Cinema FV-5.
Go to the sound settings and put a tick on the Disable Audio Automatic gain Control (AGC). The sound starts being processed by the application's algorithms.
YgorBCS said:
Is anyone facing problems with Stories videos? Whenever I try to upload a video, from my gallery, the video lags SO MUCH...
Km
And if I try to record a video directly in Instagram app, the video lags EVEN MORE.
The experience with this social network, in a whole, is a little bit crappy, with the Mi A2...
It's so sad, because I really love this phone, specially the camera.
Well, is anyone facing the same problem? Is there any fix?
Thanks in advance! <3
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Instagram stories are smooth on my mi a2 running android P with the latest instagram update. Last time i was on android 8.1, the latest version of instagram has the choppy stories problem. Try updating to android P.
It's been months and still my stories are 15 fps.... what a joke...
This crap needs to get fixed. No matter which account I the video is choppy/laggy. If i shoot video inside the app the review looks good. once it uploads it's laggy. If I save the video to my phone... it's choppy. If i have a video already on my phone and I upload it to stories to the normal feed... it's choppy AF.
I'm on 8.1 oreo with RAW enabled. This suuuucks
Can someone confirm that the videos are better or smoother in Android P?
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This crap needs to get fixed. No matter which account I the video is choppy/laggy. If i shoot video inside the app the review looks good. once it uploads it's laggy. If I save the video to my phone... it's choppy. If i have a video already on my phone and I upload it to stories to the normal feed... it's choppy AF.
I'm on 8.1 oreo with RAW enabled. This suuuucks
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YESS this also happened to me, im using redmi note 5 rn and the current rom is in miui 10 global stable
The solution is to install the older version of instagram. I'm from Brazil and I found this solution, if you want to solve it and see everything fast again use this version here: 51.0.0.20.85
Search google to download ...
Do not upgrade to the newer version, if it does not come back all over again.
Guys! I found the solution!! Try to use the
H.265/HEVC codec.
luismatosdias said:
Guys! I found the solution!! Try to use the
H.265/HEVC codec.
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How can i do this?