First specs: Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon) running rooted with GPE ROM.
The issue occurs on every ROM I have tried, including TouchWiz, and its driving me and my friends INSANE.
I've attempted to look into this issue and I can't seem to find a good answer on this. Whenever I take a picture in portrait mode, the image rotates in the message to landscape mode. Not only that, but if I take an image holding the phone with the lens to the right the image appears upside down.
The image displays correctly in the gallery. However, if its transmitted in any capacity, it will always display upside down unless edited to display the correct way.
To make matters worse, if I take an image with flash, the camera will flash, show the adjusted "flashed image" for a second, and then immediately show me a different looking image, almost as if it was a "pre-flash" image. Many times, the image will look completely different on screen but when downloaded or transferred, it will look completely different. Lighting and all. In other words, the image on screen looks different than the image that was taken, making it almost impossible for me to tell what the image looks like until its transferred. Sometimes the image on screen looks better than the actual image taken, which is why it infuriates me so much.
Does anyone know what is causing this to occur and how to fix it?
I am just noticing this myself. Super annoying!! Anyone have any insight on this?
trud9340 said:
I am just noticing this myself. Super annoying!! Anyone have any insight on this?
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Nope, I posted this awhile ago and no one has responded to it but you.
I've found some mentioning of it being reported on the Galaxy S3 dealing with the hardware and then some excuse about fragmentation. There were comments regarding "well why are you taking pictures in portrait anyways?"
I hope that someone else has some more information than I do at the moment.
Usually when you take pictures the camera detects the orientation and physically rotates the image accordingly, as well as saving the orientation data as EXIF metadata. Samsung have apparently decided to only include orientation metadata and to NOT have the camera physically rotate the image--probably to give the camera better performance. Some apps are smart and will read the EXIF data to rotate the images correctly...most don't.
Unfortunately, this seems to be a hardware thing. Unless Samsung release a camera firmware upgrade with this enabled, or there's a way to force enable it through software, we're stuck using landscape or manually rotating.
Darthfuzzy said:
First specs: Samsung Galaxy S4 (Verizon) running rooted with GPE ROM.
The issue occurs on every ROM I have tried, including TouchWiz, and its driving me and my friends INSANE.
I've attempted to look into this issue and I can't seem to find a good answer on this. Whenever I take a picture in portrait mode, the image rotates in the message to landscape mode. Not only that, but if I take an image holding the phone with the lens to the right the image appears upside down.
The image displays correctly in the gallery. However, if its transmitted in any capacity, it will always display upside down unless edited to display the correct way.
To make matters worse, if I take an image with flash, the camera will flash, show the adjusted "flashed image" for a second, and then immediately show me a different looking image, almost as if it was a "pre-flash" image. Many times, the image will look completely different on screen but when downloaded or transferred, it will look completely different. Lighting and all. In other words, the image on screen looks different than the image that was taken, making it almost impossible for me to tell what the image looks like until its transferred. Sometimes the image on screen looks better than the actual image taken, which is why it infuriates me so much.
Does anyone know what is causing this to occur and how to fix it?
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I'm on stock TW (ME7)...I haven't noticed the rotation issues, but I definetly have the before/after issue where the picture looks different. It is super annoying and my wife always complains that my photos look too dark. I asked my question a little while back in this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2421173). I would love to know how to fix this!!
I'm on stock TW (ME7)...I haven't noticed the rotation issues,
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Can you do me a favor? Take a picture in portrait mode, then download Solid Explorer, browse to your camera storage directory, and tell me if the thumbnail for the image you took in portrait mode is correctly rotated?
Sure. Once taken in portrait, the "preview" image shows as landscape in the detailed list of files, however, upon opening the image in SE Image Viewer, it displays the picture in portrait correctly. I also have QuickPic and ES File Explorer installed. QuickPic shows the image in portrait correctly as well, but ES Image Browser shows the image rotated to landscape (incorrect).
Thanks. Since you were stock I was wondering if there was a camera firmware update problem for people who didn't take the official ME7 OTA. Looks like not.
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I just tried to take a picture of something with Google Goggles. I cropped the image area to particular area of the subject I was taking a picture of, but the resulting image that Goggles stored and analyzed was actually about 1/2" lower than the area that was selected in the preview window. Has anyone else noticed this?
That's a pretty common issue with any non-SLR camera. The image on the screen is not always going to line up perfectly with what the lens captures.
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That's a pretty common issue with any non-SLR camera. The image on the screen is not always going to line up perfectly with what the lens captures.
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Actually, if I just want to take a picture with the regular camera, it captures exactly what I'm looking at. But if I take a picture with Google Goggles, it's offset and is useless because if you're taking a picture of something fairly small, for example a paragraph of text that you want translated, it will take a picture and analyze the wrong paragraph.
This appears to be a known problem with Google Goggles 1.1, not specific to Galaxy S series phones.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=60d16cd86d28805e&hl=en
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That's a pretty common issue with any non-SLR camera. The image on the screen is not always going to line up perfectly with what the lens captures.
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That would only be true if the "viewfinder" was optical rather than digital.
Hi guys -
I just upgraded from the Cappy to the Galaxy S2 on AT&T. The phone looks and feels great, but I noticed the colors on the screen are not realistic in some apps. The wallpaper on the homescreen & lock screen looks amazing, but the pictures I take with the camera, and the colors in some of the game apps (i.e. Hanging with Friends) look very different. The colors are over-saturated and dark. I've never had this issue on the Cappy, and was wondering if anyone else had similar problems? I searched online and found the international version has a display mode option setting, which is non-existent on the i777. I tried using the Screen Adjuster app, but it didn't help an awful lot.
Took a screen capture with the phone, but the colors look normal there. Would need to borrow another phone or camera to take a picture...and then will post pics as a side by side comparison on what the screen captures.
Anyone else have this problem and/or know how to fix it?
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Hi guys -
I just upgraded from the Cappy to the Galaxy S2 on AT&T. The phone looks and feels great, but I noticed the colors on the screen are not realistic in some apps. The wallpaper on the homescreen & lock screen looks amazing, but the pictures I take with the camera, and the colors in some of the game apps (i.e. Hanging with Friends) look very different. The colors are over-saturated and dark. I've never had this issue on the Cappy, and was wondering if anyone else had similar problems? I searched online and found the international version has a display mode option setting, which is non-existent on the i777. I tried using the Screen Adjuster app, but it didn't help an awful lot.
Took a screen capture with the phone, but the colors look normal there. Would need to borrow another phone or camera to take a picture...and then will post pics as a side by side comparison on what the screen captures.
Anyone else have this problem and/or know how to fix it?
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I assume you are running a stock ROM - if so, I believe Samsung defaults the screen mode to "dynamic" and got rid of the option to select other modes (normal and movie) in their ROMs. Most (possibly all) of the custom ROMs on this forum add that selection option back. menu>display>screen mode.
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I assume you are running a stock ROM - if so, I believe Samsung defaults the screen mode to "dynamic" and got rid of the option to select other modes (normal and movie) in their ROMs. Most (possibly all) of the custom ROMs on this forum add that selection option back. menu>display>screen mode.
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Thanks for the quick response! Yea, I'm still on stock ROM...was thinking of rooting and flashing to a custom one soon. Will report back results of the display after. Thanks again!
So for example: I take a picture of a car then I press the picture icon in the lower right corner of the camera app, then the gallery app will show the car I've just taken up side down, or rotated clock-wise. What I have to do then is to rotate it left then right (or the other way) to get the picture in the correct orientation.
Has anyone had the same problem as I do? This and the homescreen keeps rebooting (due to lack of memory?) have been quite bugging me since I got the phone.
I'll be glad to hear if someone found a fix for these problems.
Try calibrating the gyro
Settings > Display > Gyroscope calibration
Do you think it could be the reason. Cause everything works fine for me, like video player, camera app, browsers...
Hmm, are you sure the camera was orientated correctly when you were taking the picture then? Because I remember this happening a few times on my old phone e.g. Phone orientated landscape when recording, then I record in portrait (yes I know this is a crime against society), then when you play it back it plays portrait in landscape mode and vice versa.
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I'm having the same problem. Have you solved it?
I think the problem is that the S3 is using the value "rotation" in the exif, and the gallery act like this.
I tried to use the PC to donwload the photos and then I rotated it, and the problem was solved (The exif had changed too, because at the begining the size was wrong and had the "rotate value" to 90 and now i doesn't)
Thne problem is that the i9000 I think uses a diferent way of rename this exif option
It could be easier for samsung to change the resolution using the giroscopes values, and evaluate what is the with or what is the high
Hi,
i have a different rotation issue.
If i take pictures or videos in portrait format, the gallery on the phone will display everything correct, but every player in windows 7 doesn´t.
Why´s that?
thx, nearly
I have the same problem too
I think the problem is the way that the S3 makes the photos. It writes in the exif the size as if it where in horizontal way and writes 90 degrees as a coment. Maybe it is not a standard option, and maybe it the Galaxy S1 writes a more standarised coment (But now the S3 do not understand because the are using a diferent one)
So is there a fix for this?
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I just found out, that the photos do alright if you use the normal 8mp setting. I had mine set to 16:9 and then rotation doesn't work on the PC.
For video, it just doesn't work. I just wonder what that greed out flipped-setting is supposed for.?
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I just had the same thing happened to my s3,what i did was:
Turned off the phone
take the card out
backup the pictures to computer
add more pictures to backup folder in computer i got from different card (pictures taken with the same phone)
Add the new pictures to the 1st card
Now gallery shows pictures with wrong orientation, old ones and newly taken
I used a mac, there was an attempt made by iPhoto app to scan once the card is mounted but I don't think it modified anything
One thing i haven't looked into is if there's hidden indexing file being created in the card that throws off gallery.
If you have the fix please share.
I've been using the Ressurection Remix ROM on my S2 ever since v1.0 and I've only noticed this problem when the ROM moved from ICS v4.0.3 to v4.0.4. I would've reported this problem earlier but I figured, since the ROM gets regular updates, the problem would've been fixed by now.
Whenever I take photographs with my S2, I always have it set to 6.5MP Widescreen. Previously, when the phone was un-modded and when using Ressurection Remix versions that used ICS v4.0.3, the image in the on-screen viewfinder matched the resulting image I got when I took the picture. However, since ICS v4.0.4, the image in the viewfinder is distorted and, in contrast, the resulting image when taking the photograph is cropped. It makes it difficult to take photos since the image I get doesn't match what I see on the screen when taking the photo. I can also report that this is only happening for photographs. The viewfinder picture when recording video appears to be fine.
I have included two screenshots to illustrate the problem, and I have used one of my Union Flag cushions as an example. The first screenshot shows the cushion in it's entirety. Note the gap at the top and bottom of the viewfinder image. At the top, you can see part of my TV, and on the bottom you can see a row of keys on my laptop (which I used to prop up the cushion for this example). The second screenshot shows the resulting image I took when I kept my phone in the same position used for the first screenshot. Notice there is no gap on the top and bottom of the image now. When I compare both these screenshots to the actual cushion, the resulting image appears to have the correct aspect ratio but the image on the viewfinder seems to be vertically distorted, or "squished".
Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a way to resolve it?
Does it on mine too in 6.5Mp mode
I just checked it out on mine here I am on 2.4 it doesnt seem to cut anything off on mine on 8Mp but it does do that on the 6.5Mp mode. must be a glitch.
I agree, the problem doesn't occur with 8MP photos and only happens in widescreen mode. I'm kinda glad to see someone else is experiencing the problem, as it suggests its something that could be resolved by the developer.
I would comment on the main Resurrection Remix development thread but I haven't posted enough yet.
[UPDATE] I've installed Resurrection Remix v2.5.2 and I can confirm the problem has been fixed in this version
of all the things wrong with this phone, this one is the most frustrating. i have to use my tablet for taking selfies.
the pictures come out mirrored by default. i can't find a solution for this. any suggestions?
The photos are only mirrored in the preview.
kevinmcmurtrie said:
The photos are only mirrored in the preview.
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not on my phone. it was like that for a while. now, the actual pics are mirrored.
i'm wondering if custom roms have this problem fixed. because it's clearly the coding and not any hardware faults.
I can confirm that the actual pics are not mirrored, only the preview is. I just held up some printed text and took a selfie, the words are reversed in the preview, but are not reversed in the actual picture.
I have seen a mirroring configuration for saved files but I can't remember if it was this phone with Android 11 or my other phone. Clearing the photo app's private storage is worth a try. Maybe it's stuck with mirroring on and there's no UX to change it. If my phone ever gets really weird I usually start clearing storage for the hidden chipset/system apps too.