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Instagram photos look like crap on here

I get that instagram is all about filters but I'm talking about photo resolution on the uploads. The photos shared from my One are far more pixelated and jaggy (overall crappy .jpgs themselves instead of filter related) than photos from my iPhone 4s were. Is there any reason for this drop in quality of pictures? What's the point of having this awesome camera if all the photos I share to both instagram and facebook look so crappy when shared?
These are 612x612 pictures there shouldn't even need to be any compression done on them to warrant the loss in quality.
Facebook is similar, I can readily zoom on my friends' iOS uploads from my phone but my uploads are letterboxed on my screen and I can't zoom in on them. It's frustrating when one of the reasons I switched to this phone was for photo quality.
I know it's not the phone's fault because they look great on here, so what's the deal with these apps and does anybody know how to fix?

Mine look fine

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Mine look fine
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They look okay but there's a noticeable drop in quality from the same scene (even the same photo if I put the iOS photo on my android phone). Either Instagram, Facebook, or the Android upload system is scaling the pics down more than is done with iOS photos.
It's not deal breaking but when part of the reason you switch phones is the improved camera tech on the new one, it's a little grating that your 2 year old phone's photos look clearer than your new one's photos on social media sites.

retnuh730 said:
They look okay but there's a noticeable drop in quality from the same scene (even the same photo if I put the iOS photo on my android phone). Either Instagram, Facebook, or the Android upload system is scaling the pics down more than is done with iOS photos.
It's not deal breaking but when part of the reason you switch phones is the improved camera tech on the new one, it's a little grating that your 2 year old phone's photos look clearer than your new one's photos on social media sites.
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What's happening is that a 612 x 612 resolution photograph is being scaled up to a screen that is 1080 pixels across and more than an inch larger. The iPhone 4S only had 640 pixels across so its no comparison. The much higher resolution and the vastly larger screen is why the pictures look pixelated on the HTC One. Instagram should really consider increasing the image size to 1024 x 1024 seeing as how mobile displays have come a long way since the Retina displays of 2010.

blane237 said:
What's happening is that a 612 x 612 resolution photograph is being scaled up to a screen that is 1080 pixels across and more than an inch larger. The iPhone 4S only had 640 pixels across so its no comparison. The much higher resolution and the vastly larger screen is why the pictures look pixelated on the HTC One. Instagram should really consider increasing the image size to 1024 x 1024 seeing as how mobile displays have come a long way since the Retina displays of 2010.
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I agree with what you're saying but actually my issues come from the photos themselves when viewed on a regular computer browser window. I can look at my instagram history from the photos I post now to the ones I posted a few weeks ago with my iPhone and they're noticeably jaggier for some reason coming from the One. It's a shame but hopefully it's a minor bump in the road towards the future I agree should happen.

retnuh730 said:
I agree with what you're saying but actually my issues come from the photos themselves when viewed on a regular computer browser window. I can look at my instagram history from the photos I post now to the ones I posted a few weeks ago with my iPhone and they're noticeably jaggier for some reason coming from the One. It's a shame but hopefully it's a minor bump in the road towards the future I agree should happen.
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I did notice that on the last picture I posted. The letters seemed jagged. Of course, we probably can't expect a fix for a while because all the major app developers cater to the iPhone users first. Instagram was iPhone only for a long time.

I think the 16:9 sensor may have something to do with it, as opposed to the 4:3 on most other phones
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retnuh730 said:
I agree with what you're saying but actually my issues come from the photos themselves when viewed on a regular computer browser window. I can look at my instagram history from the photos I post now to the ones I posted a few weeks ago with my iPhone and they're noticeably jaggier for some reason coming from the One. It's a shame but hopefully it's a minor bump in the road towards the future I agree should happen.
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Ahh I gotcha. If anything it sounds like its a setting with the Instagram app for Android. If you can, maybe you can try it on another Android phone and see if the issues persist. If they do it's due to the app, if not then unfortunately it would be the phone acting wonky.

blane237 said:
Ahh I gotcha. If anything it sounds like its a setting with the Instagram app for Android. If you can, maybe you can try it on another Android phone and see if the issues persist. If they do it's due to the app, if not then unfortunately it would be the phone acting wonky.
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I think it may be phone specific. The pictures from my EVO LTE never looked like that. I will post the same picture from both phones sometime and compare to see if there is noticeable difference.

I'm having this problem on my gs4 never had this problem on my iPhone 5 any ideas for a work around.

ITS ME DAVID said:
I'm having this problem on my gs4 never had this problem on my iPhone 5 any ideas for a work around.
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I went to the settings->advanced features and unchecked the two options there and my pictures seem to look better. I'm glad you've noticed this as well because I feel like people who've only used android don't realize how much nicer pics from the iPhone looked.

Yeah, I just noticed this as well. The pics actually look worse than those from my old Galaxy SII, which had a terrible camera. What the hell, instagram?

I've noticed this as well...the pictures take a big hit in IQ when uploaded to Instagram. The copies saved to the phone look fine, but they do look pretty bad on Instagram. Even the preview thumbnails took a hit.
My friend has a SGS4 and his pictures come out SUPER jagged....mine do not suffer from that problem but do look watered down.
Pictures look much, much, MUCH better on the iPhone 5.

anybody looked at the compression rate?

DruoGaby said:
anybody looked at the compression rate?
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How do you check that?

retnuh730 said:
How do you check that?
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its in the app...u know like how they uncompress the mms pic size...ive seen this happen in a bunch of other apps also

pics look terrible

It seems that the apps is over compressing and applying sharpening to them. I have the HTC One international version.
The last couple of days I thought I was going crazy when seeing the crappy quality of the uploaded photos.
I will upload a couple of pics later to see if disabling High quality processing in the Advanced options fixes this.
It most probably something related with new phones, as some Galaxy S4 users are reporting the same problem with their phones.

Someone posted this on reddit... there's a clear difference here for anybody who was wondering or didn't notice it before.
http://i.imgur.com/3l1AnoQ.jpg

retnuh730 said:
Someone posted this on reddit... there's a clear difference here for anybody who was wondering or didn't notice it before.
http://i.imgur.com/3l1AnoQ.jpg
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I've also noticed this. You are not going crazy.

Nexus 5 faulty camera software, fix on the way? (According to The Verge)

I have to say that after battery life (I knew from the moment the specs leaked, that 2300 mah wouldn't be enough) that the camera quality has been my biggest dissapointment, the phone has a HARD time focusing, the picture quality it's mediocre/sometimes decent and it really doesn't make sense since google is making a big deal out of the camera.
Check out the tag line for the nexus 5 on the play store: "Nexus 5 helps you capture the everyday and the epic in fresh new ways. It's the slimmest and fastest Nexus phone ever made, powered by Android 4.4, KitKat."
If you go the official nexus 5 website you will find lots of info about how good the camera is : http://www.google.com/nexus/5/
or the commercial ... it's all about the camera
Anyway, according to Joshua Topolsky, The Verge's Chief Editor, there's hope and we will get an update trying to fix what's broken, do you guys think it will really make a difference? Or is this camera simply a poor camera? Here's the quote:
"Representatives from the Android team say that software is to blame for the weak performance, not hardware, and reps tell me that a fix is coming to deal with the issues in the upcoming weeks. I've even seen an early build of the new software, and while it's only a minor improvement — autofocus is a hair faster, but still inconsistent, and picture quality hasn't changed — it's nice to see Google already at work.
Of course, there's no set date for a fix at this point, and I don't know how much the camera can actually be improved through software, but if the Moto X is any kind of example, there might just be a solution to this very disheartening problem."
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/4/5062724/google-nexus-5-review

I don't have any issues with the camera. The iverge is so pro apple it isn't even funny anymore
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I've found no quality issue, in fact the opposite, though focus is slow
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Used HDR+ and took great photos for me. Also, have seen The Verge post a bunch of BS, not sure why people even read that crap.
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ishamm said:
I've found no quality issue, in fact the opposite, though focus is slow
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This is the deal. The camera is quite good but the issue is the focus is too slow. They need to fix that part.
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The verge are right in this case. The focus is awfully slow. Google pioneered the instant capture feature on the galaxy nexus, dont know why they abandoned it on the nexus 4 and 5.

blazeoc said:
I don't have any issues with the camera. The iverge is so pro apple it isn't even funny anymore
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That's just not true, and you are very biased, it seems. Like others have said, there is significant lag in the camera focus and my Nexus 5 can take much much better photos than my Nexus S, but not any faster. And that is not okay.

I get the impression that all the effort on the software side so far has gone into HDR+
My experience playing around with it is that HDR+ not only improves detail in bright/dark areas, but it also results in sharper images overall. (This is contrary to what I have found with other HDR implementations which have resulted in blurrier images). Of course sometimes you don't want to use HDR (Maybe you want to photograph a figure silhouetted against the sunset for example).
Whilst I didn't buy the N5 as a replacement for an SLR, hopefully the non-HDR mode can be improved. After all, the best camera is the one you have with you.
(I also agree regarding the camera focus. At the very least, an option to pre-focus would make a huge difference!)

Shutter is slow... but it takes decent shots
It's no secret that Google needs to work on their camera software.

Argenist said:
It's no secret that Google needs to work on their camera software.
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Working in a software company, I can imagine how this goes...
"Who wants to work on auto-awesome." - "Yay!"
"Who wants to work on photo-sphere." - "Yay!"
"Who wants to optimize the shutter lag." - "..."
Also, your lunch looks much nicer than my work canteen pizza

flonker said:
Used HDR+ and took great photos for me. Also, have seen The Verge post a bunch of BS, not sure why people even read that crap.
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The same here, very surprised by picture quality in low light using HDR+ (for landscape mainly)... I mean im sure there are better cameras but for a phone im impressed
But i've a weird problem don't know if software or hardware but the camera app stay black screen when opened from the lock screen. it happened many times, i had to put my pin code kill the app and launch again to get the camera app working again.
Anyone got the same issue?

mobilehavoc said:
This is the deal. The camera is quite good but the issue is the focus is too slow. They need to fix that part.
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As a result, it's turned my shots into unfocused poo
At least the shutterlag and slow focus should be fixable, though. I hope.
I'm not expecting Note 3-level of camera, but it'd be nice if we could have say... 70% of the Note 3's camera performance.

Here's one I took and then used Snapseed. The hw is quite capable. https://plus.google.com/101858146614640675194/posts/1jwmHP58BUk
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I'm finding the camera very usable with good results.
However, try using video mode and pinch to zoom. Does this cause Camera to freeze for seconds for others, either recovering eventually or crashing out?
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Apolyxon said:
That's just not true, and you are very biased, it seems. Like others have said, there is significant lag in the camera focus and my Nexus 5 can take much much better photos than my Nexus S, but not any faster. And that is not okay.
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haha, I am about as unbiased as they come. I have all apple everything including an iPhone 5, macbook pro, apple tv's, Droid Maxx and now Nexus 5. I have no brand loyalty at all. Let me make myself clear to you, I HAVE NO ISSUES WITH THE CAMERA OR THE QUALITY OF THE IMAGES THAT COME FROM IT.
I hope that is clears things up for you. And by the way, everything I said is my own opinion. I never said you didn't have issues, I said I wasn't having issues. As for the iVerge, that is pretty common knowledge.

blazeoc said:
haha, I am about as unbiased as they come. I have all apple everything including an iPhone 5, macbook pro, apple tv's, Droid Maxx and now Nexus 5. I have no brand loyalty at all. Let me make myself clear to you, I HAVE NO ISSUES WITH THE CAMERA OR THE QUALITY OF THE IMAGES THAT COME FROM IT.
I hope that is clears things up for you. And by the way, everything I said is my own opinion. I never said you didn't have issues, I said I wasn't having issues. As for the iVerge, that is pretty common knowledge.
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Since you have those items, why don't you compare the camera shutter lag to those other phones?
You can always say that for you it's not a problem - and that might very well be as you say, but you'll never be able to deny that there might be people that want to capture "that moment" and with that lag it's just infeasible.
If your camera does not have any worse lag than say the iPhone 5s, please make a video so we can see for ourselves.

Apolyxon said:
Since you have those items, why don't you compare the camera shutter lag to those other phones?
You can always say that for you it's not a problem - and that might very well be as you say, but you'll never be able to deny that there might be people that want to capture "that moment" and with that lag it's just infeasible.
If your camera does not have any worse lag than say the iPhone 5s, please make a video so we can see for ourselves.
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I have no problem capturing the moment, but I am also a photographer as well so I have learned to anticipate.
Again, I don't need to make video's or prove to you, I have said FOR ME, I have ZERO issues with the camera. It is fine by me.

Definitely needs to be fixed.

Apolyxon said:
Since you have those items, why don't you compare the camera shutter lag to those other phones?
You can always say that for you it's not a problem - and that might very well be as you say, but you'll never be able to deny that there might be people that want to capture "that moment" and with that lag it's just infeasible.
If your camera does not have any worse lag than say the iPhone 5s, please make a video so we can see for ourselves.
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The shutter lag is insane for a phone with these specs. I used Camera FX and it's much better, but all the images come out very dark.

blazeoc said:
I have no problem capturing the moment, but I am also a photographer as well so I have learned to anticipate.
Again, I don't need to make video's or prove to you, I have said FOR ME, I have ZERO issues with the camera. It is fine by me.
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Look this thread is about issues with the Nexus 5's camera. What good are you doing when you tell people "It's not that bad guys! You just have to anticipate the 1-2 seconds lag, I learned it too!"
It's just ignorant to tell people there is no issue with the camera at all, because you yourself can work around the lag issue. You do see that this might annoy people, especially normal users?

Share your pictures taken with OP 7 PRO

We should start to see pics coming from tomorrow,

Continuously Updated Photo Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/c1dw1JPvgauw7Sdx8

t2jbird said:
Some pics from NYC taken with the OP7 Pro: https://photos.app.goo.gl/c1dw1JPvgauw7Sdx8
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Thx, lookin like the shutter speed is tad slow, hopefully thats bcs of the low light, causing the motion blur like 6t does

misiokicio said:
Thx, lookin like the shutter speed is tad slow, hopefully thats bcs of the low light, causing the motion blur like 6t does
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Everything was shot on auto. I could've switched to pro but it was raining off and on and I didn't feel like it

t2jbird said:
Everything was shot on auto. I could've switched to pro but it was raining off and on and I didn't feel like it
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Ohh got ya, well am always using auto myself, what phone u had before then? If op .. would u say that shutter speed is faster?

misiokicio said:
Ohh got ya, well am always using auto myself, what phone u had before then? If op .. would u say that shutter speed is faster?
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Shutter speed seems about average. I had the S10e. I don't notice a huge difference either way, but I'm still playing around with it.. I do wish indoor pics held up better, but that is common with any phone other than the pixel

I kinda wish OnePlus put the money into only one lens instead of three. Have a great single lens, larger sensor and keep it simple and work on the photo processing.

worldsoutro said:
I kinda wish OnePlus put the money into only one lens instead of three. Have a great single lens, larger sensor and keep it simple and work on the photo processing.
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I feel like they have the camera hardware; it's just the processing that needs work. Just look at what the Gcam ports are capable of on OnePlus devices.

t2jbird said:
I feel like they have the camera hardware; it's just the processing that needs work. Just look at what the Gcam ports are capable of on OnePlus devices.
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how much of a difference do you notice with the OP7p compared to the 10e?
i have a 3xl and going to get the OP7Pro - i just hope im not disappointed in the camera. but DXOmark looks pretty promising

virtyx said:
how much of a difference do you notice with the OP7p compared to the 10e?
i have a 3xl and going to get the OP7Pro - i just hope im not disappointed in the camera. but DXOmark looks pretty promising
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If you like the 3xl then when they port the google camera to the OP7Pro you will be really happy I think. It looks like with the HW the OP7Pro has paired with Google camera processing will be killer.

Trevaryn said:
If you like the 3xl then when they port the google camera to the OP7Pro you will be really happy I think. It looks like with the HW the OP7Pro has paired with Google camera processing will be killer.
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But how's it look now?

t2jbird said:
Everything was shot on auto. I could've switched to pro but it was raining off and on and I didn't feel like it
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Mind providing few more pics? Something during daylight, and possibly like moving people

Been struggling with with whether to get this or the p30 pro. Might have to go with the p30 pro

I'll post comparison pics to gcam a little later. I think it's just as good as the S10e, though. In good lighting it can compete with any of them, although it has a tendency to blow out the highlights some. Low light is where the others take a bit of an advantage.

cas8180 said:
Been struggling with with whether to get this or the p30 pro. Might have to go with the p30 pro
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Well, all depends if u want a good software or a bad software if u already thinking abt huwaei.. u either had one and dont mind the software or never played with one before...

t2jbird said:
I'll post comparison pics to gcam a little later. I think it's just as good as the S10e, though. In good lighting it can compete with any of them, although it has a tendency to blow out the highlights some. Low light is where the others take a bit of an advantage.
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No worries thanks dude,

misiokicio said:
Well, all depends if u want a good software or a bad software if u already thinking abt huwaei.. u either had one and dont mind the software or never played with one before...
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I am mainly interested in battery life and camera performance. And camera performance so far looks hit and miss. I have owned almost every OP device. And I don't know I am just not feeling all that excited about this one. To get the battery life is want I will have to dial back all the settings that make this phone stand out. To get great camera performance I am going to have to pray the gcam mod comes out and it's as good as it was on the 6T

cas8180 said:
I am mainly interested in battery life and camera performance. And camera performance so far looks hit and miss. I have owned almost every OP device. And I don't know I am just not feeling all that excited about this one. To get the battery life is want I will have to dial back all the settings that make this phone stand out. To get great camera performance I am going to have to pray the gcam mod comes out and it's as good as it was on the 6T
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Keep in mind. P30 sucks in daylight, good only for low light and night time, pixie still unbeaten, and i tried myself mate 20 pro, and managed to last a week, something where oxygen really shines, if u can to try Huawei before u buy... Just sayin bud, let us know what u end up getting at the end

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Keep in mind. P30 sucks in daylight, good only for low light and night time, pixie still unbeaten, and i tried myself mate 20 pro, and managed to last a week, something where oxygen really shines, if u can to try Huawei before u buy... Just sayin bud, let us know what u end up getting at the end
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There are not many alternatives atm. The S10+ has Knox and a fuse which disables many important features once you unlock it, also you can't undo it.
Huawei has stopped giving codes to unlock the bootloader.
Pixel 3 XL has good camera software, but a small battery, a very ugly notch (personal preference though), old Snapdragon 845 etc.
Am I missing something? A good camera phone which you can unlock easily and which has a decent community?

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There are not many alternatives atm. The S10+ has Knox and a fuse which disables many important features once you unlock it, also you can't undo it.
Huawei has stopped giving codes to unlock the bootloader.
Pixel 3 XL has good camera software, but a small battery, a very ugly notch (personal preference though), old Snapdragon 845 etc.
Am I missing something? A good camera phone which you can unlock easily and which has a decent community?
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Nope u dont missing much, if it wasn't for that 3xl notch, battery and ram.. i would be all over it, can't comment on op7 pro, have no idea how the cam is, wont find out till next week, abt the community... Things aint the same as they were back in the days with likes of htc desire etc... Basically there were no kids here , now every kid owns the phone

Choppy scrolling on webpages

Hey guys, just bought the Mi 9 after the Galaxy S7, and sometimes scrolling is really laggy on some more complex websites. It wouldn't annoy me that much but my S7 was much smoother when browsing. Same on different browsers and on the Mi 9SE too. Any fix or Chrome flags for that? Other apps, such as Facebook are smooth as butter.
I guess ads cause this, but I can't make them all filtered with Adguard, it also makes WiFi slower. Thanks!

I also do come from an s7 and whilst the scrolling is still choppy on the mi 9 in chrome, it was definitely choppier on the s7 for me, my s7 being relatively clean. If you're not into chrome that much, you could just use the mi browser as it's way smoother but probably with less features.
As hard to believe as it may be, I kinda like it being a bit choppy because when the scrolling is perfectly smooth on this phone like when using facebook I notice a lot of blur and that annoys me a lot

I've just installed Bromite browser, seems much smoother now. Have you tried turning on DC dimming? Maybe that would help with the blurring effect.

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I've just installed Bromite browser, seems much smoother now. Have you tried turning on DC dimming? Maybe that would help with the blurring effect.
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DC dimming definitely doesn't make it better and might even make it worse, though I'm not completely sure as I have used it for about 15 mins. The only ways to decrease motion blur would be to decrease pixel response time and/or increase refresh rate.

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DC dimming definitely doesn't make it better and might even make it worse, though I'm not completely sure as I have used it for about 15 mins. The only ways to decrease motion blur would be to decrease pixel response time and/or increase refresh rate.
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For how long you have been using the MI 9? I switched a month ago, and there may be some blurring there and there, but it's not that annoying for me. I was more annoyed by the browser lagging. However Bromite browser makes it more usable.
I was really disappointed by the night shots first, but Gcam makes much better snaps than the S7 did.

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For how long you have been using the MI 9? I switched a month ago, and there may be some blurring there and there, but it's not that annoying for me. I was more annoyed by the browser lagging. However Bromite browser makes it more usable.
I was really disappointed by the night shots first, but Gcam makes much better snaps than the S7 did.
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Been using it since the 26th of july. The blur is a bit more pronounced than what I see on a true flagship like a note 10, problem is that even on those 1000$ phones the blur is pronounced because smartphone manufacturers never made it a priority to improve it, at least not the ones that still make 60hz phones.
I'm disappointed by pretty much everything the camera does, haven't tried gcam yet but that still wouldn't change the fact that using stock app this phone takes meh pictures all around.
I've kinda led your thread into the off-topic abyss and am sorry for that

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Been using it since the 26th of july. The blur is a bit more pronounced than what I see on a true flagship like a note 10, problem is that even on those 1000$ phones the blur is pronounced because smartphone manufacturers never made it a priority to improve it, at least not the ones that still make 60hz phones.
I'm disappointed by pretty much everything the camera does, haven't tried gcam yet but that still wouldn't change the fact that using stock app this phone takes meh pictures all around.
I've kinda led your thread into the off-topic abyss and am sorry for that
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No problem, it's a solved issue.
Really you are? It's not that bad. I mean it's not that easy to use as S7's camera was, as I could take perfect pictures while walking etc (I guess because of the OIS), but it makes nice pictures. MIUI is which a bit unfamiliar for me, but at least I can theme it.
I guess you should check the GCam thread, it really improves many things with the camera.

Got my X5 Pro Yesterday impressed with 1 annoying bug refresh rate in Google apps...Some of.

Hi,
Loving the device so far, Very slick and the build quality is awesome, Camera is excellent! Better than I imagined for a Chinese phone, It feels almost like the perfect smartphone, I'm glad I chose this now and not the OP 10 Pro.
1 annoying issue I have though is scrolling refresh rate in Google photos and the menu scrolling in Google maps is jittery.
This is not present on my 8 Pro and I have no idea why, It makes using Google photos quite a horrible experience to be honest, I can't find a way to force higher refresh rate for specific apps alao, Doesn't look like it's possible.
Does anyone know how to report bugs to Oppo?
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Weird lol just gone back into photos and now it's smooth I have no idea why, What it is still doing though is mis touches with the screen and scrolling, It's nowhere near as fast as my OP 8 Pro and does not seem to be as responsive either in the sense that trying to scroll fast with your finger results in mis touches of the screen not picking your finger up, I hope they are aware of this and it gets fixed soon.
Update again lol, Scrub that it's not smooth in Google photos at all I posted this from my 8 Pro not even realising lol.

I have none of those issues on mine, have refresh on auto.

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I have none of those issues on mine, have refresh on auto.
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Auto refresh? There is no Auto refresh it's either standard or high? So the YouTube app is running at 120hz on yours is it?

Ady1976 said:
Auto refresh? There is no Auto refresh it's either standard or high? So the YouTube app is running at 120hz on yours is it?
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Sorry I meant high, no I'd say it was definitely 60 when you scroll, but as YouTube has no 120hz content it's understandable.

toejo78 said:
Sorry I meant high, no I'd say it was definitely 60 when you scroll, but as YouTube has no 120hz content it's understandable.
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Yeah it's definitely not smooth in YouTube for some reason.

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Try this. Worked for me.

Baxy87 said:
Try this. Worked for me.
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Thanks mate I'll give that a go sounds promising for now, I can't understand what is so difficult for the the software devs of these modern flagships to have YouTube and Google apps running at 120hz, After all it's what we paid for with these high end displays, Thanks again.

I know. It's a pain. My previous device was an s21 ultra and had no issues with 120hz. I guess oppo do it for power saving maybe. I'm pretty sure one plus do something similar. Try the app worked for me. You'll have to go in to the app every time you restart the device. So it's not a permanent fix but gets the job done.

Baxy87 said:
I know. It's a pain. My previous device was an s21 ultra and had no issues with 120hz. I guess oppo do it for power saving maybe. I'm pretty sure one plus do something similar. Try the app worked for me. You'll have to go in to the app every time you restart the device. So it's not a permanent fix but gets the job done.
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That works thanks mate appreciate it, Butter smooth now, If enough people complained about the refresh rate in YouTube and single speaker audio in games they may do something about it but as it stands not doesn't seem many people bare too bothered which I find rather bizarre.

Ady1976 said:
That works thanks mate appreciate it, Butter smooth now, If enough people complained about the refresh rate in YouTube and single speaker audio in games they may do something about it but as it stands not doesn't seem many people bare too bothered which I find rather bizarre.
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Tbh I just don't think many people buy oppo smartphones. I've looked on Reddit and can not see anything about only 1 speaker working in games. I'll defo report the issue.

Baxy87 said:
Tbh I just don't think many people buy oppo smartphones. I've looked on Reddit and can not see anything about only 1 speaker working in games. I'll defo report the issue.
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Baxy87 said:
Tbh I just don't think many people buy oppo smartphones. I've looked on Reddit and can not see anything about only 1 speaker working in games. I'll defo report the issue.
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Yeah they must not do because surely people can't be happy with 1 speaker audio and low refresh in major apps, Doesn't make sense, It completely ruins the immersive experience in COD mobile can't hear footsteps or where people bare coming from.

Hi mate just to let you. New update fixes the audio issues. Set VPN to France and download the latest version.

Baxy87 said:
Hi mate just to let you. New update fixes the audio issues. Set VPN to France and download the latest version.
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Thanks mate yeah I just saw that in another post just updating now...
Did you get your pre order pack mate also?
I haven't heard anything and claimed the same day I got the phone on release day?
At least they were true to their word that this update would fix stereo audio in gaming