I used my flash for the first time today I believe since I've had the phone on day one. Seems that there is some lag when using flash? Pictures take about 4 seconds to snap? This normal? Without flash they're much quicker. Thank you
aypeeootrek said:
I used my flash for the first time today I believe since I've had the phone on day one. Seems that there is some lag when using flash? Pictures take about 4 seconds to snap? This normal? Without flash they're much quicker. Thank you
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I took a picture with flash on. From the time I tap the shutter icon to flash turning on with focusing and taking the picture, it takes around 3-4 seconds to snap a picture. This is normal as the flash has to be turned on and for the camera to focus. Without flash, it should always be quicker since there isn't a need for the flash, so the camera just focuses and snaps the picture.
Watanuki-Kun said:
I took a picture with flash on. From the time I tap the shutter icon to flash turning on with focusing and taking the picture, it takes around 3-4 seconds to snap a picture. This is normal as the flash has to be turned on and for the camera to focus. Without flash, it should always be quicker since there isn't a need for the flash, so the camera just focuses and snaps the picture.
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Thanks for replying. It just seemed slow to me
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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.
Noiro said:
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?
Mike
mikeyxda said:
Are you using the dedicated camera/shutter button? Autofocus is the only thing "auto" that I have enabled. Are you rooted with revolutionary?
Mike
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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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Noiro said:
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?
chazybaz13 said:
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.
Mike
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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CaptainMaki said:
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.
Hi,
i have little question, did not find anything that was helpful. So, taking pictures in dark conditions. Few days ago my friend bought Sony xperia go. and, when you press camera button in dark, it turns the LED flash on, make autofocus and take picture. In that way picture came out sharp and good.
On the other side, our evo does not turn flash on, but instead it "autofocus dark image" (practically blank screen) and of course image is usually all blurry.... Is there any solution for that?
cickvoa said:
Hi,
i have little question, did not find anything that was helpful. So, taking pictures in dark conditions. Few days ago my friend bought Sony xperia go. and, when you press camera button in dark, it turns the LED flash on, make autofocus and take picture. In that way picture came out sharp and good.
On the other side, our evo does not turn flash on, but instead it "autofocus dark image" (practically blank screen) and of course image is usually all blurry.... Is there any solution for that?
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Use the flashlight or torch app to force the flash on.
now thats just to funny. you could just say to glue real camera on phone and have excellent pics hahaha
DarkRazorZ said:
Use the flashlight or torch app to force the flash on.
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This is your best bet. I do this too when I get that stupid message stating that it can't use flash because of low battery. GTFOH.
I just tried this out. It really works well. Thanks to all the posters.
I do that too especially when taking a video at night. Just go into quick settings and turn on the flashlight!
It works best at 3 AM when everything is hilarious and you try to make a movie better than paranormal activity. Which surprisingly isn't that hard to do.
Hi, I just got the SM-G360T thru T-Mobile. Android Lollipop 5.1.1. A big issue I found is when using the camera app with flash, it takes a good 5 or 6 seconds to take a picture. The flash comes on immediately, but the picture is not taken until those 5-6 seconds are up. That's a long time to ask someone to look at a bright light and uses battery. Takes pic almost immediately without flash. I tried different modes, same thing. My other phones take a flash pic within maybe a second, so just a slight delay, and the flash only goes on for a split second when the picture is actually being taken. Defect, or par for this model or a setting I'm missing? Thanks much, have 3 days to swap if defective.
Coming from S7E and bit disappointed with camera. Doing a lots of pictures of my kid and burst mode when you hold white button/volume is only chance to get at least few pics in focus. Only problem is that with new S9+ burst mode kicks in about 500ms later than it started on S7E.
So you see kid doing something interesting, point camera and hold shutter button. And wait. It takes about 1s or even more to start taking pictures and while you wait, your camera is doing nothing. On S7E burst started almost immediately, was bout 250-500ms max. Kinda disappointed with this upgrade...
Tried to find some settings for this, but there is only option to enable feature, nothing else.
UPDATE: Friend of mine checked S8 and A8, both starts burst shot almost immediately, so it is probably something new with S9+?
This is just a guess, but it could have to do with the shutter opening/closing for the amount of light in the photo prior to shooting?
Seems quite unlikely to me, because you can take regular image almost immediately...
It's likely the camera software needs optimising and tweaking. Are you on the latest firmware? I'm not, so wouldn't know if that changes anything but likely a fix will be on its way
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Are you on the latest firmware?
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Of course, was first I tried, though still have only G965FXXU1ARB3 available and seen newer G965FXXU1ARC5 floating around, but not yet for my carrier. Hppefully it will fix this...
So updated to G965FXXU1ARC5 and delay before burst is still there :-/
Another update and still start of burst sequence is way too slow. Any tips how to make it start faster?
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Another update and still start of burst sequence is way too slow. Any tips how to make it start faster?
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I think the reason may be that the device waits to see if it was a single shot or a long press, since a single click on volume button is supposed to just click a photo, and a long press is to take a burst
Just checked mine, and while there is a slight lag, it's nowhere near a full second.
meyerweb said:
Just checked mine, and while there is a slight lag, it's nowhere near a full second.
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Checking your signature, are you testing it on S7E or S9+? Because I had S7E before and it started much faster, for sure under half second. I have problem with S9+ and checked S8+ and its fine similar like S7E, only new S9+ is affected...
S9+. Guess I need to update my sig!