Hi.
I have a Galaxy S II and i noticed that the camera quality of my phone is very poor. Both pictures and videos are very grainy and have a poor definition. The grain are the main problem.
Indoors the quality is very bad, especially at night. I know that in low light none camera is fine, but comparing with other GSII cameras, mine is horrible.
I already tried to set ISO settings, downloaded another camera apps and none worked.
I have Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread.
So i have a few questions:
1) What could make this grain appear?
2)Would a full wipe solve this problem?
3) Or updating to ICS is the way to fix it? Any suggestions?
Thank you for your attention.
Same here. In very well lighted areas or daylight it looks like system camera but low lights or night its worse than disposable 0.3mp camera
NNRF said:
Hi.
I have a Galaxy S II and i noticed that the camera quality of my phone is very poor. Both pictures and videos are very grainy and have a poor definition. The grain are the main problem.
Indoors the quality is very bad, especially at night. I know that in low light none camera is fine, but comparing with other GSII cameras, mine is horrible.
I already tried to set ISO settings, downloaded another camera apps and none worked.
I have Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread.
So i have a few questions:
1) What could make this grain appear?
2)Would a full wipe solve this problem?
3) Or updating to ICS is the way to fix it? Any suggestions?
Thank you for your attention.
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Update your phone
Your phone's camera takes bad quality picture in low light indoor settings and at night? Sounds like a faulty device.
postfatal said:
Your phone's camera takes bad quality picture in low light indoor settings and at night? Sounds like a faulty device.
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Which phone are u talking abt??
This is SGSII thread...
pasanjay said:
Update your phone
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I will try to update my phone. Hope this works, Because if it doesn't, i will take it to technical support to see if they can change the camera hardware (i will have to pay for it cause the warranty time has already expired) =/
Grainy Pics after Service Center repair
NNRF said:
I will try to update my phone. Hope this works, Because if it doesn't, i will take it to technical support to see if they can change the camera hardware (i will have to pay for it cause the warranty time has already expired) =/
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Beware.... I had excellent photo quality on my gs2 before submitting it to authorised Samsung service center for m/b replacement. Now after tthat, the camera is taking grainy sh***y pics n videos. I suspect they have replaced my good camera with some substandard camera hardware.
So think twice before submitting it to service center. You may end up with another problem on ur s2... :crying:
madeinhsa said:
Beware.... I had excellent photo quality on my gs2 before submitting it to authorised Samsung service center for m/b replacement. Now after tthat, the camera is taking grainy sh***y pics n videos. I suspect they have replaced my good camera with some substandard camera hardware.
So think twice before submitting it to service center. You may end up with another problem on ur s2... :crying:
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Possible If You Live in India...
And OP If Your Phone is in Warranty take it to Samsung Care if not do the following steps...
Open Back Panel
Remove Battery
Open Screws
Now DeAssemble the Back Body
Insert Battery Without Back Body
Turn in Your Device
Open Camera & Check if Quality is Better
If yes then You will need to Change the Back Body (it has unattachable camera cover)
Or
Just Look if There are Scratches on Your Camera..
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The quality of the Camera is really bad, it doesnt show good details in photo and video mode.
Full HD videos i too bad quality , HD videos is much better but still not good .
I've even formated and still have the problem .
Is there any app to make the camera better ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1104051
A7md Babylon said:
The quality of the Camera is really bad, it doesnt show good details in photo and video mode.
WRONG
Full HD videos i too bad quality , HD videos is much better but still not good .
I've even formated and still have the problem .
WRONG
Take phone back buy a Nokia .
jje
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Haven't tried hd video yet but photos are okay provided you have enough light in the environment. Indoor photos aren't that good but outdoors with plenty of sunlight looks good detail wise for a smart phone.
Best camera phone I have owned. Iphone is a close second. Could be the firmware.
Seriously there are posts with excellent pictures and videos . Try a factory reset .
jje
JJEgan said:
A7md Babylon said:
The quality of the Camera is really bad, it doesnt show good details in photo and video mode.
WRONG
Full HD videos i too bad quality , HD videos is much better but still not good .
I've even formated and still have the problem .
WRONG
Take phone back buy a Nokia .
jje
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I already have the best camera phone N8 ..
I tried Hard reset but the same problem ..
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Fuzzy yellow bars
I tried taking a picture of a document I had and I saw that there were fuzzy yellow bars on the picture.
Can anyone see if I happens to them too? I tried taking a picture of a white piece of paper under fluorescent light.
A7md Babylon said:
JJEgan said:
I already have the best camera phone N8 ..
I tried Hard reset but the same problem ..
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There must be something wrong with your phone mate.
Can't agree on any of those points with you.
The only niggle I found was in the audio capture which suffers from severe clipping under very loud conditions (Rock Concert recording Fail!). My friend's iPhone4 did a much better job with the audio.
However, the GSII offers better video detail without artifacts and less severe noise reduction (Both under low light & bright conditions). The photographs offer no cause for complaints either!
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hello guys, i need to know for sure if my camera is defect or not since i need to exchange it by monday.
the pics are attached.
i have taken the pics with and without night mode. the ones taken with night mode are much brighter and have much more severe flare.
is that normal?
Its all good.
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Totally normal.
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Nightmode increases the iso hence the lighter pictures. You should notice either more noise in the picture or loss in sharpness as the built in noise reduction kicks in. The flare you see is lenses flare from the bright light sources in the picture and us a result of the increase in iso. Its all basic photography stuff, and no your cameras not buffered.
Better quality cameras and lenses can reduce it to some extent but mobile and compact cameras are very limited which us why people pay thousands for dslr's cameras and even more for quality lenses.
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Thank you for ur response. What about the red dot? more seen on low light or artificial conditions?
Hello, i have a red dot problem and i dont know how to fix it.
THe SGS2 camera is terrible.
666fff said:
THe SGS2 camera is terrible.
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how can u say, daytime pics are great, video too. but night and low light is not as good though. u know any other better camera on the market?
Camera lens might be broken
My camera suddenly had problems with focusing and the pictures were terrible/not as good as they used to. Inspecting the camera lens closely did not reveal anything odd.
When I disassembled the back of my phone (removed the battery cover, removed the screws and gently took apart the back of the phone housing) I still could not see anything wrong with my camera lens/cover. The lens/cover is part of the back of the phone housing.
However, then I held the lens/cover up against a really bright light and looked through the lens/cover, I discovered that there are several layers in this lens/cover and that one of them had cracks (looked like a snowflake). It was impossible to see this without disassembling the phone housing and holding the cover up against a bright light looking though it.
Trying to take a picture without the cover everything was perfect. Ordered a new phone housing from ebay the same day...
Your pictures seems to have the same characteristics as mine; not focused and a bit blurry. Try to remove the back of your phone housing and see if that helps. If it does; order a new phone housing.
Riccardo83 said:
Thank you for ur response. What about the red dot? more seen on low light or artificial conditions?
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Wow, that's quite obvious too.
Haven't seen this red dot in any of my pics so think it must be a hardware fault...
666fff said:
THe SGS2 camera is terrible.
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That comment is laughable mate, you obviously haven't seen the thread in this forum with loads of user submitted photos taken with the S2, terrible they aint, stunning more like!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1139591
Krizp0 said:
Wow, that's quite obvious too.
Haven't seen this red dot in any of my pics so think it must be a hardware fault...
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well can u try to take pictures of a computer screen in low light conditions and outside on the street and upload them? So i can compare?
I dont get it, some people say its normal some not.
I need proof!
Smartie36 said:
That comment is laughable mate, you obviously haven't seen the thread in this forum with loads of user submitted photos taken with the S2, terrible they aint, stunning more like!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1139591
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A camera that only works properly in daylight is a terrible camera, regardless of how good the daytime photos are. Tbh I'm just a bit mad about the night video focus crap.
btw, with the old rom my lens was moving out hitting the glass making a clicking noise, xxkg1 (XEF)
now updated official poland version
( http://www.android-hilfe.de/origina...aki3-i9100xxki3-i9100xxki3-kies-offiziel.html )
and there is no clicking? is that normal?
Also, with the new version (Poland) that has no cliicking, when i change the scene to text (i guess its macro in english) i do get a small clicking sound again - the lens moving against the glass.
Hey,
Suddenly after i have the SGSII for about a year and a half i've noticed a bad the picture quality is.
The settings are all on max (8MP etc.) And it's still quite ugly.
Here's the first 2 pictures i took with my SGSII:
As you can see it's pretty sharp, smooth and in high quality, for Far and Close objects.
These are 2 photos i took now:
Can hardly focus correctly, and even when it is, the quality is just Bad.
Does it look to you like Hardware or Software problem?
What can i do to take HD Photos in a good quality?
Thanks!
ArgamanZa said:
Hey,
Suddenly after i have the SGSII for about a year and a half i've noticed a bad the picture quality is.
The settings are all on max (8MP etc.) And it's still quite ugly.
Here's the first 2 pictures i took with my SGSII:
As you can see it's pretty sharp, smooth and in high quality, for Far and Close objects.
These are 2 photos i took now:
Can hardly focus correctly, and even when it is, the quality is just Bad.
Does it look to you like Hardware or Software problem?
What can i do to take HD Photos in a good quality?
Thanks!
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Ok, hard to say as I can see no pictures in your post.
Maybe it is a software issue.
Check if you have installed the latest camera firmware from Samsung. I think there is a camera update app in Samsung Apps for SGS2.
It could also be a hardware issue, e.g. a scratched camera cover. Have a look at the lens cover on the back of your phone.
Mine is scratched in the upper left corner as I never used any kind of protection.
As consequence, the quality of the pictures may become worse.
It_ler said:
I never used any kind of protection.
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Same here.Ended up costing me £60k lol.
Yeah for some reason when i posted it the pics were there and now it's broken...
Anyway thanks for the tips i'll check it now
I wonder if a software update will fix some of the issues with the camera like focus etc.. Does anyone know? Also, does the new Mate 7 have the same internal hardware for the camera since they are both 13mp? Guy on huawei chat said yes but I think he just read that both were same resolution.
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I wonder if a software update will fix some of the issues with the camera like focus etc.. Does anyone know? Also, does the new Mate 7 have the same internal hardware for the camera since they are both 13mp? Guy on huawei chat said yes but I think he just read that both were same resolution.
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I really do hope it does. The front facing camera is alright, can't really complain, but the rear is quite annoying.
What sort of issues are you having? I've had excellent results with the camera. I'm 100% stock, no mods, kernels or anything.
I don't use the huawei camera app or google. I use the Camera FV-5 app, because it has a ton of customizations.
I took this one this past Easter. Other than being cropped, straight from the camera on the Mate2.
p51d007 said:
What sort of issues are you having? I've had excellent results with the camera. I'm 100% stock, no mods, kernels or anything.
I don't use the huawei camera app or google. I use the Camera FV-5 app, because it has a ton of customizations.
I took this one this past Easter. Other than being cropped, straight from the camera on the Mate2.
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That's a great pic. I noticed what most seem to notice when I googled. The camera has a focus issue and won't seem to lock on. Daily I'm taking pics and you think you got a good shot then the picture is blurry. My gf took some good shots with hers but the object has to be non moving with perfect light and just stand there and wait for the focus to grab versus all the other phones I've had before. I downloaded many different apps and took the same shot with all of them but non seem to do better and some weren't even capable of using 13mp. I'll check out the FV-5, thank you.
That picture is actually quite bad. Poor saturation and quite underexposed.... but meh, it's a phone camera. Pretty flower though!
I think the HAM2 rear camera could definitely be improved in software. It's my opinion that the front facing camera actually works better than the rear camera half the time. Take video for example... try shooting video in a somewhat darkened room with both cameras - you'll find out that the rear camera suffers a horrible loss of framerate while the video from the front facing camera is smooth as silk.
The front camera also has odd tap-to-focus issues especially when flash is enabled.
With that being said it's a cellphone camera and I've definitely seen much worse. And I love the question in the original post.... no one knows the answer but Huawei and their software development team. How would any of us know what Huawei is including in their Android 5.x based update? I'll still be quite surprised if we even get one, and that's WITH the Huawei blog announcements and the so far worthless 'beta' registration site.....
TheGeekRedneck said:
That picture is actually quite bad. Poor saturation and quite underexposed.... but meh, it's a phone camera. Pretty flower though!
I think the HAM2 rear camera could definitely be improved in software. It's my opinion that the front facing camera actually works better than the rear camera half the time. Take video for example... try shooting video in a somewhat darkened room with both cameras - you'll find out that the rear camera suffers a horrible loss of framerate while the video from the front facing camera is smooth as silk.
The front camera also has odd tap-to-focus issues especially when flash is enabled.
With that being said it's a cellphone camera and I've definitely seen much worse. And I love the question in the original post.... no one knows the answer but Huawei and their software development team. How would any of us know what Huawei is including in their Android 5.x based update? I'll still be quite surprised if we even get one, and that's WITH the Huawei blog announcements and the so far worthless 'beta' registration site.....
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I was thinking more if anyone has noticed improvements in camera in previous upgrades of other devices so someone could comment "hey when the Honor 6 got it's new OS the camera problems were largely improved" or something like that. For sure nobody can know what the Huawei peeps are doing unless there is a Huawei peep on our lil ole forum. I'm sure you're right, if we even get an update they'll act like there was never an issue with the camera and do nothing. My friend ordered the Mate 7 but I read a review that sounded like it's the same camera as ours still and that's an expensive phone.
TheGeekRedneck said:
That picture is actually quite bad. Poor saturation and quite underexposed.... but meh, it's a phone camera. Pretty flower though!
I think the HAM2 rear camera could definitely be improved in software. It's my opinion that the front facing camera actually works better than the rear camera half the time. Take video for example... try shooting video in a somewhat darkened room with both cameras - you'll find out that the rear camera suffers a horrible loss of framerate while the video from the front facing camera is smooth as silk.
The front camera also has odd tap-to-focus issues especially when flash is enabled.
With that being said it's a cellphone camera and I've definitely seen much worse. And I love the question in the original post.... no one knows the answer but Huawei and their software development team. How would any of us know what Huawei is including in their Android 5.x based update? I'll still be quite surprised if we even get one, and that's WITH the Huawei blog announcements and the so far worthless 'beta' registration site.....
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It sure doesn't match my dSLR, but like you said...it's a pinhole cell phone sensor...not much wiggle room.
Okay, I love this phone. I love the camera. Just work with the settings to get what you want. Now, THE ONLY THING, is the warp zones in the front facing camera. Always try to get the faces in the center of the screen or else itll appear warped.
Try it out and see for yourself. I guess that's the downside to having a long phone. The lens in the camera has to recompensate and redistribute the photons evenly.
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A few months back I upgraded my phone from op2 to LG g5 H860.
So, I've been playing around with my phone and I noticed that my camera pictures are grainy. Seems like pictures taken on a 5mp (or lesser) camera.
I took pictures with my camera (all default settings and auto mode) without any zoom and after capturing I tried to zoom in into the picture, like 20% zoom to notice that they are very noisy. I'm not so good at photography, so I never bothered to check this kind of stuff with my other phones before.
I have taken pictures with both rear and front cameras and they both look very noisy. Like water color painted pictures. I'm not sure if I'm putting the right words here but I think you get what I am talking about. I am adding a sample attachment.
Can someone tell me if this is normal or am I missing something here or if there's some problem with my phone itself?
I am already frustrated that I can't unlock my bootloader and I hope this wouldn't add more to it.
Do you tried clear the lenses?
olmott said:
Do you tried clear the lenses?
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Yes I did. But that doesn't seem to be like a problem with dirty lenses?
Man, I had the same exact problem.. buy new lens.
Try manual mode and turn down the iso speed. Sometimes higher iso speeds produce heavy grain. See if that helps any.
Sparksys said:
Man, I had the same exact problem.. buy new lens.
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I guess it's the only solution. Thanks.
I had this problem as well. I turned off HDR under settings and that fixed it.