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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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anybody looked at the compression rate?
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How do you check that?
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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
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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.
Is anyone else having video format issues using Vine? Vine videos are of course square, but for some reason the app is taking video from the Note 3 and squishing the image. The quality also seems to be reduced than before when using my previous iPhone 4S. Strange indeed to me. I cant figure this one out.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=2166064&r=40719972#r40719972
You're not the only one on this, I'm having it too, as well as a friend, and other people in this forum.
Hi guys, I just got my 6t yesterday but one of the first things I noticed was how my front facing camera in Snapchat was extremely zoomed in. I then shortly found out that all my friends were singing black bars on the sides of my images.
After doing some research it seems that this problem is caused by the 18:9 screen aspect ratio and how Snapchat and a few other apps such as Instagram, "fill" the camera to the screen instead of "fit". I have found many different forums on the issue, however, I haven't really found any good solution. I know that that this issue persists on almost all 18:9 aspect ratio phones including but not limited to the Galaxy S8, S9, OnePlus 5t, and the Xiaomi Mi A1.
I have read that there are special compatibility settings in the OnePlus 5t and Galaxy 8 that forces an app to use a 16:9 aspect ratio. I would really like to see if this fixes my issue but it seems this option has been removed on the OnePlus 6 and 6t.
I really want this thread to be a discussion on any possible fix, I'm willing to root my phone and even help the development of a fix. I won't claim to be an expert on android root development but whatever I can do to help :good:.
Also if you are facing the same issue, please post your reply here!
Tl;dr 18:9 aspect ratio phones do some weird stuff on Snapchat and other apps. I am looking for a fix.
I have had the same problem with Snapchat, I'm getting sick sand tired of application developers not putting the same effort they do for IOS. Snapchat doesn't even take a actual photo... It literally takes a screenshot of the camera. Like what the...
Hey, since a few months now, I am experiencing color banding all over dark scenes.
My gf has a note 8 and the screen looks really different.
The same problem as in here:
https://forums.androidcentral.com/s...plus-black-crush-gradient-banding-issues.html
I don't have warranty anymore so I don't know what to do....
also here are some good representatives:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=VWtTNFQ0WkhYM05nWDktaVJORHJtU0lLdVh3S3Jn
anything to do? I got Pie so I guess I can't downgrade or something like that...
The display on my N950N is really good. Not sure if your girl got one from a bad batch.
Her screen is the one that's good, mine having problems (recently)
Same issue here. I have Samsung Note 8 Exynos version SM-N950F and since March 2019 security i have Black crush and colour banding issue on my Note 8. Exactly like yours not a even single difference.
Is your fixed now?
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YakirOz said:
Hey, since a few months now, I am experiencing color banding all over dark scenes.
My gf has a note 8 and the screen looks really different.
The same problem as in here:
https://forums.androidcentral.com/s...plus-black-crush-gradient-banding-issues.html
I don't have warranty anymore so I don't know what to do....
also here are some good representatives:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=VWtTNFQ0WkhYM05nWDktaVJORHJtU0lLdVh3S3Jn
anything to do? I got Pie so I guess I can't downgrade or something like that...
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Thanks for this post... I have included this post on SAMSUNG community forum if you don't mind helping me a little bit.
Hey , I am using Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (SM-N950F Exynos) 64 GB version Running on August 2020 Update.
Since a few days now, I am facing Colour banding all over dark scene. Gradient colour are not transforming smoothly into another one. I have noticed when I watch Videos & Photos darker portions of the video I am watching almost completely blend into the screen. Doesn't make for a very good viewing experience. Any video with dark scenes is practically unwatchable. Dark crush is much more apparent in a low brightness.
There is no any external damaged on screen. The display is good and otherthings are working properly. I am using screen resolution on WHD+ (2960×1440). I have tried different screen setting but nothing change.
Can anyboudy knows how to fix this problem...
I had something like this and had a circuit display replaced under warranty last year!
I have noticed since coming to a Pixel 5 from Pixel 4XL that portrait mode now makes some very aggressive decisions around foreground object edges and depth of field. Basically, too much of the object, most notably animals and other non human subjects, are blurred. This isn't an issue with focus (or tap to focus) as the issue can be fixed afterwards using the editing tools and selecting a new focus point
I have spent quite a bit of time chatting with support today to log the issue. I have done all the troubleshooting steps, but it seems to be a software and processing issue NOT a hardware one. I have posted it on online forums and several others have also noticed. Many think it might have to do with the secondary camera on the 5 being wide angle and not useful for depth information.
I will post some examples. The first picture is a good example of how bad it can be (dog standing on the grass). I'll post a few pairs in the next post and show the 5 vs 4xl
The clearer ones with more depth of field are 4xl. The ones with less in focus are 5.
There's a full album here...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XU7wgsRZRyQ7vgtr8
I'm really surprised no one else has noticed this!
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The clearer ones with more depth of field are 4xl. The ones with less in focus are 5.
There's a full album here...
https://photos.app.goo.gl/XU7wgsRZRyQ7vgtr8
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The pixel 5 has no sensor for that. The pixel 4 have one. The pixel 5 made this effect through software.
As far as I know