The camera on my galaxy note seems is very slow at taking pictures especially when I use flash. the problem is that after the flash goes off it takes couple of second for the shutter to take place and for the picture to save. I tried saving the pics on the phone or the sd card but it makes no difference. I also tried to disable the power setting and even reset the camera settings but no luck. I never had this issue on my old infuse. Any suggestions?
I also find the camera to be freakishly slow.
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I turned off blink detection and the Google+ auto upload, seemed to speed it up a bit.
jpeg42 said:
I turned off blink detection and the Google+ auto upload, seemed to speed it up a bit.
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I haven't tried to turn off google + yet but it seems to me like the problem has to do with the flash because it takes pictures faster without the flash. I was just panicking that I had a defective phone since my google searches haven't turned up any results about the camera being slow for other users.
I am very surprised that the camera has this issue at all since my old infuse did not have that problem. Also my phone lags sometimes after i unlock the screen which is a problem that other people seem to have.
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I turned off blink detection and the Google+ auto upload, seemed to speed it up a bit.
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Where do u turn off Google +?
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borijess said:
Where do u turn off Google +?
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In the settings of google+ there is an option for instant upload
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In the settings of google+ there is an option for instant upload
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I agree. I also turned off blink detection and the Google+ auto upload and it seemed to speed it up a bit. I am thinking the camera lag seems more evident on this phone because of the visual effect of the shutter. On other phones the frame just freezes then it saves without a shutter effect. I wish there was a way to turn that off
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I turned off blink detection and the Google+ auto upload, seemed to speed it up a bit.
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Thanks I thought it was my new 32gb sd card.
ICS camera+ is much fastee
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This is one big issue with the note.
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
I had the same issue with the camera taking forever. I did a factory reset and the issue resolved. takes less than a second now with flash.
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jimmer411 said:
ICS camera+ is much fastee
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I concur...this is the only camera app I use and it has proven its worth. Not to mention it has a burst mode that really speeds things up.
Another for Camera Ics +. Just can't seem to get away from it. I use it on both my razrs and now my note
Much better than the stock Samsung camera by far.
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I got ICS Camera+ also, but one thing was a back-breaker for me: video is taken as 3gp? WTeff is with that?
i think the issue is the shutter "effect" as someone mentioned. if you take a picture, as soon as the image freezes on screen, that's the shot that was taken. try it... i put a cup in front of me and click the button, and before the camera did the shutter closing effect, i moved the cup. the picture that was taken was at the right time. it just sucks if you are trying to get a couple of shots together... waiting for that silly animation...
also Camera ICS works on the stock ROM, but doesnt let you touch a point on the screen to focus... which is really nice about the stock camera app, if you ask me.
I use Fast Burst camera app. Takes a picture in a split second. No waiting.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...tLnNwcml0ZWZpc2guZmFzdGJ1cnN0Y2FtZXJhbGl0ZSJd
Try checking if anti-shake is on. It'll do that
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So, what is the lock button suppose to do in camera mode? It would make sense for it to prevent you from accidentally pressing one of the touch-sensitive buttons, but it also prevents you from touching the screen and taking a snapshot. I can see it being useful for camcorder mode but that feature isnt used as much as the camera.
Yea I know its useless for taking pictures. But I do actually use for a camcorder, I went to puyallup fair and went on a ride and was taking a video of my friend and to prevent from exidentaly stopping the recording I just lock the screen......there are a couple of things that are useless on the vibrant like it will not let you listens music/view videos, if your battery is below 15%... Just pisses Me off.
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there are a couple of things that are useless on the vibrant like it will not let you listens music/view videos, if your battery is below 15%... Just pisses Me off.
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Oh, that pisses me off to!! I could shoot the guy who signed off on that "feature". So many times I wanted to take a picture but it wouldnt let me because of low battery. ITS MY PHONE, let ME be the one who decides how to drain what battery I have left.
Yeah,cosine that. If i want to run down my battery that should be the users decision.
Vibrant vibrating nicely now,Kthx!
this happened to me the other day, while driving i was at a stop light and was going to take a pic of a ferrari next to me, but the damn camera got locked somehow, and i couldnt figure out how to unlock it, i ended up having to pull the battery....lol needless to say i missed the pic of the ferrari
Yep... I totally agree with that.
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Looks like HTC improved some things with the camera but my major complaint is still there. Even with every possible enhancement and option (including image review) turned off, there is still a 0.5 to 1.0 second lag when taking a picture in bright lighting even after everything is already focused with a half press of the shutter. I think it is improved a little, but still a far cry from what it should be. C'mon HTC: if a weak iPhone can take a picture instantly, surely you can do better than this!
Mike
I don't seem to have this shutter lag. The phone snaps the picture pretty instantly after I press the button.
Yeah, I'd say do a full wipe & reflash. 0 shutter lag here. I can't even get the image to speed blur while in motion.
This is with the latest 2.3.4 update.
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Yeah, I'd say do a full wipe & reflash. 0 shutter lag here. I can't even get the image to speed blur while in motion.
This is with the latest 2.3.4 update.
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Are you using the dedicated camera/shutter button? Autofocus is the only thing "auto" that I have enabled. Are you rooted with revolutionary?
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Are you using the dedicated camera/shutter button? Autofocus is the only thing "auto" that I have enabled. Are you rooted with revolutionary?
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For my fastest shots, I use the onscreen button, the camera button has a delay. Auto focus is off.
Yes, rooted with Revolutionary & using Haus' Stock Deodexed 2.08.651.2.
Just updated my wife's phone via the OTA. Hers has never been rooted and will likely never be rooted so I just took the OTA. Her's is exactly like mine. There's at least a half second delay on every shot. I've tried the dedicated camera button and the on screen button. Regardless of the settings or the button pressed, the camera doesn't take the picture until about a half second after you press the button.
Edit: I've never seen one of these phones not have horrendous shutter lag so if you think you have close to no lag, could you please post a short video showing this? I simply can't believe it until I see it.
Mike
I don't have another camera sorry. Sold it back when I had my EVO 4G.
I'm surprised you have this problem.
Try turning up the Exposure & ISO to 800 as well. This also speeds up the shutter on cameras. Will it be instant, I'm not sure but it'll definitely be faster.
Let me know if that works.
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On a side note regarding the camera, what happened to the shutter sound on/off option? Now it's on by default and hitting menu in the camera app doesn't show it, am I crazy or is it gone?
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I don't have another camera sorry. Sold it back when I had my EVO 4G.
I'm surprised you have this problem.
Try turning up the Exposure & ISO to 800 as well. This also speeds up the shutter on cameras. Will it be instant, I'm not sure but it'll definitely be faster.
Let me know if that works.
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Nothing changes it. Already tried ISO 800, shooting in direct sunlight, and every other trick I could think of. Minimum shutter lag is about a half second. Only thing I can figure is that some people call a half second "instant". It's far from it. Went to the Rays game tonight. Indoor lighting was bright as daylight: no flash needed. All pics were good at least and not blurry due to the fast shutter. But between my rooted Evo 3D and my wife's totally stock one, we missed almost every shot even when taking casual shots. And when you hand someone the camera to take a group shot, they press the shutter halfway to focus and then press the button the rest of the way and it NEVER works. Everyone always starts putting the camera down and the actual picture is taken after their hands are dropping because they've already pressed the button and nothing happened until a half second later. Again, this is with all auto stuff turned off, flash off, auto focus off, etc. Unless you are taking a picture of a rock or something else that isn't ever going to move, this camera is totally useless.
Mike
Have you tried wiping the SD card? Or used something other than the stock one?
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On a side note regarding the camera, what happened to the shutter sound on/off option? Now it's on by default and hitting menu in the camera app doesn't show it, am I crazy or is it gone?
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You're right, mine is forever silent. Since I had it off.
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Have you tried wiping the SD card? Or used something other than the stock one?
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No wipey wipey, but... my wife and I both use a SanDisk 32MB and my friend and his wife use the stock SD card. No difference. Half second delay on every shot, occasionally longer. I wouldn't think the SD card or it's speed would come into play for actually taking the shot: only afterward in storing it.
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I've read about it in several places, but the camera is just slow, I don't know why it happens. the camera responds slower than a 6 year old feature phone from Nokia
It was slow on stock rom and no it's slow on CM7. I've tried an app like camera FX zoom, but still it seems to take 2 seconds from the time you press the button to the time it actually take the photo. when shooting a moving object, even a slow moving one, this is very frustrating.
any suggestions?
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I've read about it in several places, but the camera is just slow, I don't know why it happens. the camera responds slower than a 6 year old feature phone from Nokia
It was slow on stock rom and no it's slow on CM7. I've tried an app like camera FX zoom, but still it seems to take 2 seconds from the time you press the button to the time it actually take the photo. when shooting a moving object, even a slow moving one, this is very frustrating.
any suggestions?
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Have you tried cleaning the lens? A little dust messes with the focus which prolongs picture time. Also you can grab the miui camera apk and push that to your /system/app folder. I've found it to be a nice upgrade over stock.
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I've read about it in several places, but the camera is just slow, I don't know why it happens. the camera responds slower than a 6 year old feature phone from Nokia
It was slow on stock rom and no it's slow on CM7. I've tried an app like camera FX zoom, but still it seems to take 2 seconds from the time you press the button to the time it actually take the photo. when shooting a moving object, even a slow moving one, this is very frustrating.
any suggestions?
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I routinely use my camera and do not see those issues. I do keep the lens clean and that is probably a help. Do wish I had a flash sometimes, but there are always work-a-rounds for that.
I have other higher end android phones and just got a cute mini pro. It performs much better than i expected. I have no problem in using it despite its small size! It is really a gem among the other giant android phones! glad i got it!
well,buddy,
I think using XMP would let you become a happy user indeed.
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yeah i agree.
only 1 think its missing. hdmi output
but other than that im really happy with my mini pro
Love my xmp.... surfing on it is great but my battery drains easily anytime i switch tha data on!
Yes this is a nice phone except one thing.
after press the power button and display off then data network is disconnect.
and press the power button display on then restart connect the data network.
when i'm not using the phone i can't use skype,viper,this kind of apps .
because data network is disconnect.
You have to go to wifi settings and in there press the menu button, go to advance options. In there, there has to be an option to chose the way wifi behaves once the screen is turn off.
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You have to go to wifi settings and in there press the menu button, go to advance options. In there, there has to be an option to chose the way wifi behaves once the screen is turn off.
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Thank you for an advice.
I tryed to change the settings but it did't work.
Problem is data network not wifi.
Please help.
yeap.... data connection not wifi!
when the camera will be much better, it will be the perfect device.
note: Surfing with this device is a blast! best keyboard ever, dominates any blueberry right away.
nomailx said:
when the camera will be much better, it will be the perfect device.
note: Surfing with this device is a blast! best keyboard ever, dominates any blueberry right away.
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do yu mean tha camera aint nice??? but my pictures re just too awesome!
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do yu mean tha camera aint nice??? but my pictures re just too awesome!
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I think the camera is not bad, but for a 5mp camera it could be better
the camera quality is "acceptable" for a 5mp camera
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the camera quality is "acceptable" for a 5mp camera
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truth... i was even praising my brother's Nokia E72 cos tha camera is awesome..!
but dis is greater!
for me the camera is fine! really loves this phone. It runs fast and easy to navigate! i will consider if there will be an upgrade model.
It's not the best camera but if you know it's limitations you could work around them. Don't take photos in automatic, it's always better that you choose a scene and the type of focus. Don't use image stabilization if you are in night mode, even though one would think that this is the best scenario to use it, because what it does is doble the ISO so you have two times faster shutter speed but since in night/night portrait it uses a very low shutter speed, the amount it increases is not sufficient to be able to take a handheld photo and because of the high iso the photos have a lot of noise. I use Vignette in night mode to take photos with poor light, if i'm able to put my phone in a stable surface, because this mode uses a slower shutter speed and lower iso than night portrait mode of the stock camera. It uses 1/4 shutter speed and 125 of iso. In normal conditions there's not much you could do. Maybe if there is too much light change the mode to sports so it increases the shutter speed.
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do yu mean tha camera aint nice??? but my pictures re just too awesome!
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Well it depends on expecations.
I knew that the mini's camera suck even before buying it. Watched lots of video samples and photos taken with the xperia mini pro, and thought "well, it's total crap but it's still better than the x10 mini so what the hell!"
And just got one. I did a few tests myself, and the results are exactly the same as the samples I saw on internet.
But still, when you look at the overwhole features, the xperia mini is a much better phone than it's competitors, specially at this price range.
I've seen something posted on this issue before, but I am hoping to bring more attention to it since this is a significant bug. When using the camera with the auto-flash setting, the camera will not flash in low light when using the hardware button. Specifically when you half press first and then full press. If you press the hardware button all the way down really fast, the flash will fire. Also, pressing the on screen button causes the flash to fire as well.
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I've seen something posted on this issue before, but I am hoping to bring more attention to it since this is a significant bug. When using the camera with the auto-flash setting, the camera will not flash in low light when using the hardware button. Specifically when you half press first and then full press. If you press the hardware button all the way down really fast, the flash will fire. Also, pressing the on screen button causes the flash to fire as well.
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Not sure what the point of re-posting the issue is?
I noticed since you mentioned it. I didn't get a flash when i half press the camera button. But my question is who cares? Just press the damn camera button all the way! How is this even considered a "significant bug"?
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Not a bug it locks focus and exposure when holding the half press. If u want it to use flash don't hold the half press for to long
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Not sure what the point of re-posting the issue is?
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This was posted as a question a while back, but didn't get much exposure, so I posted it in general.
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Not a bug it locks focus and exposure when holding the half press. If u want it to use flash don't hold the half press for to long
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I understand what you mean, but that's not how a regular camera works with a dual stage button.
Also, this reasoning doesn't really make sense because if you have the flash mode set to always on, it still flashes from a half-press to full-press.
We dont have a regular camera, we have a phone.
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I was bummed when I realized this as well. I don't know why they couldn't just make the led light up on half press. That would help focus as well. They screwed up on the camera key in my opinion.
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We dont have a regular camera, we have a phone.
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Uh.... HTC is promoting this phone on it's camera. If you don't care about this issue then why even post.
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I expect and ota OEM fix. No auto flaish on cm button is definately weak sauwce...
~Freshly acquired LTEvo; ViperRom'ed in under 2hrs...
I noticed this too last night, had to turn flash to on. Didn't try on screen shutter button... Makes sense for it to not change the flash after locking exposure on the half press, so the real issue is the half press should trigger the flash as previously posted...
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We dont have a regular camera, we have a phone.
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If you think you just have a phone, please go buy yourself an lg rumor and leave the smart phones to the rest of us.
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Makes sense for it to not chafe the flash after locking exposure on the half press, so the real issue is the half press should trigger the flash as previously posted...
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Yeah, this is a tough one for me. I understand locking the exposure, but a regular camera determines if the the flash is needed on half press and adjusts the exposure accordingly. Also, what a regular camera displays on screen before shooting doesn't reflect the actual exposure settings when the camera takes the shot. I suppose the Evo may not be smart enough to determine the exposure before a short burst of the flash fires. Also, there's the zero shutter lag feature that they don't want to slow down.
I'm curious if making half-press turn on the flash could possibly improve flash photos since it could take a little more time to adjust exposure. Flash photos on this phone don't seem to be adjusting to the correct exposure and focus a lot of the time anyway.