Hey guys, I was wondering what kind of difference you get using roms that include sony's bravia engine. I've seen videos on youtube of what it looks like on Sony's handsets, but, I have no idea how it changes the look of images on the Evo.
I know it's supposed to increase the color accuracy/contrast/etc in videos and images, but is it only on still images/videos? Like it only works when you're in the gallery app? Or is it constant throughout all parts of the UI? As in, even your homescreen will look better?
Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on this? I'd love to test it out myself, but due to a number of annoying issues I can't actually unlock my bootloader or S-OFF until maaaybe tomorrow if "everything" I need to do runs smoothly.
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Hello, I am really starting to find it annoying how slow the camera is to open, I am not sure whether it is a problem with just me or whether it is a problem with the Sony software.
However, when I open the camera, it sticks on a black screen for a good 4 seconds before actually showing the camera, then when moving the camera around it is really laggy and blurry - with other phones such as any HTC the camera seems really smooth when moving it around.
Does anyone else experience this problem? And does anyone know a fix for it?
I was wondering whether downloading Vignette or something might help?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: Just tried the Vignette demo and it seems it does not lag, however it does not have a video option and seems a bit over complicated for my simple needs, anyone know any other good camera programs on that market?
I found the camera to be slow as well. I did a lot of tweaking on my phone (root, uninstall timescape, bloatware, enabled JIT) and now the camera and the phone in general is faster.
yes!!! camera is very laggy .... plus my camera button shuts down the camera.apk ....now i can only get a picture using "on screen" clicking option....
[Q]Now why have a camera LED and it does nothing for the camera?...so silly I find
I have done everything rbenz suggested apart from remove TimeScape as I am worried this will conflict when using other apps.
Does anyone know of a decent 3rd party camera application please?
Surely someone has found a decent app, please let me know if you have
me too....when you move the camera while video recording it lags so much and this lag is also seen during playback of the same video,also opening takes years
I just got my new galaxy note (i717) on friday (immediately flashing it with OnlyOne beta 2 (ics)) and I would like to use it for a bit of podcasting using the front camera to record myself while I read text from some teleprompter software.
I can record video from the front camera just fine, and it actually comes out a bit higher quality than I expected even, but for the life of me, when i hit the record button and then switch away from the camera app to the prompter app, it gives me an audio notification that the camera has stopped recording.
is there prompter software that has an integrated video recorder? (that'd be pretty sweet imho) or better, some way to record video while another app (that's not particularly resource intensive) is in use? - I don't mind trimming and cutting the video together (there are actually some pretty decent editing tools for android i've found) but I can't figure out a way to record and prompt at the same time...
does anybody have any ideas?
I'm rather surprised that nobody seems to have any ideas on this... could someone at least please relay to me why this isn't possible (if it's not possible)?
I would think that this would be a reasonably popular thing to do (recording video whilst looking at a prompter or even a web page or something to do podcasting stuff...
Is this something I'm going to have to write? (I have no idea how to dev android apps).
well i'm glad to see that google does a good job at finding appropriate threads - here it is, a couple of months later, and I'm revisiting the same problem that I had before - I still can't record and prompt at the same time on my i717 (now running cm9 / cm10, not that it should matter)... I still don't get it.
i don't know what to say , u searched a program on google?i believe that is here at least 1 program for your note
Video app with built in teleprompter
There is a great teleprompter/video recording app. It's called VRT2. Unfortunately you would have to downgrade to an iPad to get it. When I saw it, I was tempted o make the switch, but I don't want to give up the advanced features of my Samsung Note 10.
I'm hoping that a great Android app developer will create something like the VRT2 soon.
When it's ready, I'm ready to buy it.
I still can't seem to find anything that does this and it would be *great* for quick video podcasting... I just want to be able to record myself on the front camera while either reading my notes or looking at a teleprompter with the outline i've created for the segment.
Video recorder teleprompter
Have you found any other software to video you with front facing camera with teleprompter on screen?
I know Ipad have one on itunes costing somewhere 24 dollars or £18 which is a professional one, not tried it but I now it does record you and at the same time has all the words you want to talk about in front of you.
Keep up to date, I don't know which tablet to buy because of this problem.
Darron
This is the darnedest thing. Please EVERYONE CHECK Yours without assumptions.
Whenever Bravia 2 or X-Reality is on (I now have Build 510), Netflix stops working. I can log in and see my video selections. But as soon as I try to play a video it just sits at the red loading screen.
Yet, as soon as I turn Bravia 2 or X-Reality off it starts working again.
It has been doing this ever since the first firmware release. Nothing fixes it. And I really mean nothing!
Has anyone else had this issue? It seems like a DRM issue. Thing is that X-Reality is really making videos look like garbage. I want nothing to do with it. It adds grain and horrible sharpening artifacts. I really want to be able to disable it and be able to watch Netflix without issue.
Also, with the newest update Google movies is still giving me error 43!
What in the world Sony!
angelofmusic said:
This is the darnedest thing. Please EVERYONE CHECK Yours without assumptions.
Whenever Bravia 2 or X-Reality is on (I now have Build 510), Netflix stops working. I can log in and see my video selections. But as soon as I try to play a video it just sits at the red loading screen.
Yet, as soon as I turn Bravia 2 or X-Reality off it starts working again.
It has been doing this ever since the first firmware release. Nothing fixes it. And I really mean nothing!
Has anyone else had this issue? It seems like a DRM issue. Thing is that X-Reality is really making videos look like garbage. I want nothing to do with it. It adds grain and horrible sharpening artifacts. I really want to be able to disable it and be able to watch Netflix without issue.
Also, with the newest update Google movies is still giving me error 43!
What in the world Sony!
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Don't like X-Reality, just un-tick at Display there. It will be taken off. Sony give option to on or off.
As for Netflix, no idea, Netflix only for USA.
angelofmusic said:
This is the darnedest thing. Please EVERYONE CHECK Yours without assumptions.
Whenever Bravia 2 or X-Reality is on (I now have Build 510), Netflix stops working. I can log in and see my video selections. But as soon as I try to play a video it just sits at the red loading screen.
Yet, as soon as I turn Bravia 2 or X-Reality off it starts working again.
It has been doing this ever since the first firmware release. Nothing fixes it. And I really mean nothing!
Has anyone else had this issue? It seems like a DRM issue. Thing is that X-Reality is really making videos look like garbage. I want nothing to do with it. It adds grain and horrible sharpening artifacts. I really want to be able to disable it and be able to watch Netflix without issue.
Also, with the newest update Google movies is still giving me error 43!
What in the world Sony!
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Definitely sounds like a DRM issue if both services are being affected, Have you tried clearing data & cache of Google Play Movies?
I don't get my Z Ultra until the September 9th (apparently that's the UK release date!) & I'll be using Netflix as soon as I do. Can't help any more until I actually get mine sorry!
angelofmusic said:
This is the darnedest thing. Please EVERYONE CHECK Yours without assumptions.
Whenever Bravia 2 or X-Reality is on (I now have Build 510), Netflix stops working. I can log in and see my video selections. But as soon as I try to play a video it just sits at the red loading screen.
Yet, as soon as I turn Bravia 2 or X-Reality off it starts working again.
It has been doing this ever since the first firmware release. Nothing fixes it. And I really mean nothing!
Has anyone else had this issue? It seems like a DRM issue. Thing is that X-Reality is really making videos look like garbage. I want nothing to do with it. It adds grain and horrible sharpening artifacts. I really want to be able to disable it and be able to watch Netflix without issue.
Also, with the newest update Google movies is still giving me error 43!
What in the world Sony!
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So I have my C6833 now & Netflix is giving me issues without X-Reality turned on. Google Play Movies is working for me (has it been updated since your post maybe?)
I must say, I'm not a fan of the Z-Reality sharpening algorithms. WAY too much for my liking. I'd like to see it implemented as a slider or only turn on when playing videos under a certain resolution &/or bitrate.
We can hope...
Wow thank you for this. I was confused as hell why my Z Ultra is not playing videos when my cheap ass Galaxy Ace 2 had no problem with it even on chappy 3g.
just picked up my Z1, installed netflix, quality was awful, artifacts and over sharpening especially between areas of extreme light and dark. Borderline unwatchable. Same happens when watching movies, but you can turn x-reality mobile off on them and the quality is then perfect. Turning x-reality off though stops netflix from working as others have said, just sits at loading screen. Not sure if this is a Netflix issue or a Sony one, but either was I hope they resolve it soon. Such a shame for a phone that was designed with video quality in mind.
Just an update I thought might be useful: The newest update, .257, allows you to use Netflix without having the overwhelming sharpening of the x-reality engine on.
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angelofmusic said:
This is the darnedest thing. Please EVERYONE CHECK Yours without assumptions.
Whenever Bravia 2 or X-Reality is on (I now have Build 510), Netflix stops working. I can log in and see my video selections. But as soon as I try to play a video it just sits at the red loading screen.
Yet, as soon as I turn Bravia 2 or X-Reality off it starts working again.
It has been doing this ever since the first firmware release. Nothing fixes it. And I really mean nothing!
Has anyone else had this issue? It seems like a DRM issue. Thing is that X-Reality is really making videos look like garbage. I want nothing to do with it. It adds grain and horrible sharpening artifacts. I really want to be able to disable it and be able to watch Netflix without issue.
Also, with the newest update Google movies is still giving me error 43!
What in the world Sony!
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Hi Angel of music. I think I watched your two reviews of this device before I got it! You discussed intriguing information that other reviews seen to leave out.. good job & Thanks... keep it up, I don't mind the length. Can't say that for everyone who tries reviewing!:good:
I haven't tried Netflix yet, I'm still trying to apply the (See Threw Lock Screen)!
Anyone else care about how bad some videos look when recorded on snapchat. I mean I tried snapchat on a Xperia U (Cant even tell what's going on) on a nexus s ( better but not acceptable), on a nexus 5 (Motion makes the video look very low quality) and a HTC one s (Looks almost normal but still some odd pixels) Tried on multiple Wi-Fi networks and settings on video quality set to standard. Anyone know of a fix? or why this happens? (I'm guessing compression problems)
Man, no one replied to this? I hate that snapchats video on Android is so terribly compressed. Sometimes you can't even make out what you're looking at. I really they can get the video quality on the same level as the iPhone. Anyone know why it's not up to par?
This is quite old but seeing as the problem still exists... bump
Hello, im currently deciding whether im going to unlock my Z2 or not, so far i read something about
camera quality upon losing DRM keys, bravia engine not working, x-reality and sony based apps, all sort of things.
How much does it affects camera quality, if it's even affected? I'm not using super auto mode anyway, all my pics are taken in manual mode.
Is there a difference between regular display without bravia engine? What does x-reality engine is for?
So what should i do, any suggestions?
Thank you all in advance, i'm not sort of an advanced user, but i do know to follow tutorials, yet everything about this phone is so confusing.
oddly i didnt notice much difference in camera quality
as for X-Reality, that stopped along with Xperia apps like playstation online, X-Reality just makes pics look good in the album app, its tempoary
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Envious_Data said:
oddly i didnt notice much difference in camera quality
as for X-Reality, that stopped along with Xperia apps like playstation online, X-Reality just makes pics look good in the album app, its tempoary
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well, I bought a sony Z2 and the bootloader was unlocked. is there a way to lock the bootloader and get all the camera functions back ?
danieldp1990 said:
well, I bought a sony Z2 and the bootloader was unlocked. is there a way to lock the bootloader and get all the camera functions back ?
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no there is no way getting back DRM keys, thats why im asking if its any use of them....still it would
be possible if they are backed up. But you would have to google for a tutorial...
@Envious_Data, do you miss those image enhancements? And regarding camera app functions, i'm not using them much,
like i said im photo shooting without super auto mode and i've already setup the camera in a way i like... so i guess thats much about camera
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well, I bought a sony Z2 and the bootloader was unlocked. is there a way to lock the bootloader and get all the camera functions back ?
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no, once your DRM keys are wiped, they are gone permanently
each device has unique ones
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no there is no way getting back DRM keys, thats why im asking if its any use of them....still it would
be possible if they are backed up. But you would have to google for a tutorial...
@Envious_Data, do you miss those image enhancements? And regarding camera app functions, i'm not using them much,
like i said im photo shooting without super auto mode and i've already setup the camera in a way i like... so i guess thats much about camera
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i dont because Camera Quality still out does Z1 and Z3 somehow
i use manual and part of my college course is photography,
(they sometimes think i use a DSLR but only in daylight shots)
camera app works perfect, little difference in camera
the X-Reality i dont care and the playstation apps i dont care, i cant afford nor have a PS3/PS4