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On my Evo LTE, the front facing camera takes photos with a strong red tint. When I change from Auto white balance to something like incandescent, it is better, but has a slight blue tint. It does this whether we are indoors or outdoors. My wife and I were trying to use my new phone to take some pics of us sitting outside, and we ended up having to use her Evo 3d. The back camera is perfect, and does not have this issue. I may run to a Sprint store and compare mine to one they have on display. Just curious if anyone else has noticed this.
Anyone? I tried another camera app and had the same severe red tint.
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caspertodd said:
Anyone? I tried another camera app and had the same severe red tint.
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Can you drop down the saturation a notch or two? Doing that for the back camera solved all of my red-tint issues and photos look amazing now. HTC should adjust the default.
EDIT: Saturation -1 is what my camera is set to and photos look great, both front and back.
The problem though is the regular camera looks perfect. No red tint at all. Even when I drop the saturation down, the front camera still has a red tint. I have a feeling I have a bad phone.
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Mine is has an orange/red tint that comes and goes....are you fully stock?
I'm rooted, but haven't installed any custom Roms. It did this before root. I just hate to have my phone replaced a second time (first one had dead pixels).
EDIT: I had thought it did this before root, but evidently it did not.
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Having this issue too. Wasn't always like this.
Edit: Question. Did you edit your build.prop to get Google Wallet working?
I just noticed this red tint today only on the forward facing camera. And I just modified the build.prop today for the google wallet fix. Gonna play with putting that back to test.
Edit: yup. Putting the stock build.prop back in place, and forward facing camera is back to normal.
Does anyone know why build.prop effects this?
Its the saturation on the front camera. Turn it down 1 and it will help the red tint immensely.
Los Altos said:
Its the saturation on the front camera. Turn it down 1 and it will help the red tint immensely.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I already tried this in post #4.
salvasaur said:
Having this issue too. Wasn't always like this.
Edit: Question. Did you edit your build.prop to get Google Wallet working?
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This completely fixed my problem!!!! Yes, I had edited my build.prop to fix Google Wallet and completely forgot about it. I changed it back and BAM (after rebooting)! If I could thank you twice for this I would. Thanks man! Now I am off to go kick myself. I really hate when I cause my own problems LOL! Well, maybe this thread will at least help one other person with this issue. If so, then it wasn't all in vain.
Edit: Thinking back on this, I thought the problem happened before I rooted, but I guess I was wrong since it is working now.
caspertodd said:
This completely fixed my problem!!!! Yes, I had edited my build.prop to fix Google Wallet and completely forgot about it. I changed it back and BAM (after rebooting)! If I could thank you twice for this I would. Thanks man! Now I am off to go kick myself. I really hate when I cause my own problems LOL! Well, maybe this thread will at least help one other person with this issue. If so, then it wasn't all in vain.
Edit: Thinking back on this, I thought the problem happened before I rooted, but I guess I was wrong since it is working now.
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Is your Google Wallet still working ok?
xBudahx said:
Is your Google Wallet still working ok?
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No. I am back to getting the error that the device is not supported. I know that in one of the Wallet workaround threads they say how to change your build.prop back without affecting this, but not sure if that really works or not. I am just going to wait for the official fix on it I think.
In case you guys haven't SEEN THIS yet. You can restore your build.prop back to stock.
I am having this problem now. Running Viper, with enoch kernel. I never modified the build.prop file though. I am guessing it was pre modified or the kernel may be the issue. What settings did you change in build.prop?
Edit: disregard, the edits are the ro device names. Fairly easy and works
Hello everyone,
My first thread here. I wanted to get you guys feedback on a problem I'm having with autofocus on the camera of my Evo 4G LTE. It seems like more than half the time I'm trying to take a picture the autofocus is going crazy and won't focus at all and leaves me with a blurry unfocused screen and he only way to get it to focus is for me to close the camera app and reopen it. I haven't found a way to turn off continuous autofocus. I was wondering if any of you had this problem with the camera or was it just me? If so what workarounds have you tried?
I've tried clearing the camera app data but that really did nothing for me. Any suggests would be nice, thanks!
I do not have this issue. Ive had to fight with it on rare occasion but thats just when it was focusing on something far away when i was trying to get a close up shot. im sure theres a way.
Kinny89 said:
Hello everyone,
My first thread here. I wanted to get you guys feedback on a problem I'm having with autofocus on the camera of my Evo 4G LTE. It seems like more than half the time I'm trying to take a picture the autofocus is going crazy and won't focus at all and leaves me with a blurry unfocused screen and he only way to get it to focus is for me to close the camera app and reopen it. I haven't found a way to turn off continuous autofocus. I was wondering if any of you had this problem with the camera or was it just me? If so what workarounds have you tried?
I've tried clearing the camera app data but that really did nothing for me. Any suggests would be nice, thanks!
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That's funny.. all this time i thought i was the only one having this same problem. Closing and re-launching the app works for me as well. its a bit inconvenient, but it doesnt happen all the time.
This happened to me. Took it to sprint and they gave me a NIB.
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Yea happens to me also. Even in video lots of times it will get blurry and never recover ..
tionesdi wallinger,
xclusivx said:
That's funny.. all this time i thought i was the only one having this same problem. Closing and re-launching the app works for me as well. its a bit inconvenient, but it doesnt happen all the time.
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Yeah it fixes by closing and reopening but there have been times when I've missed a picture because I had to close the app and reopen it.
kanyewest said:
This happened to me. Took it to sprint and they gave me a NIB.
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NIB means new in box or something else?
I had the same problem with my pre order phone. Returned it to best buy and got a new one with a flickering screen. Lol when I went to best buy I told the guy I was having problems with it he said with what the non focusing camera the flickering screen or the red pictures. That's pretty bad when they already know what the problems are a couple weeks after pre orders went out. I posted a YouTube video with the focus screwing up but I can't post a link to it yet.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9lWmbJOLdQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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I had this problem.
Go in development section and look for HQ camera or something. It's a defective camera apk mine was fixed and worked perfectly afterwards. enjoy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9lWmbJOLdQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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If will focus lock if you're holding the camera button in the focus detent. I tested this myself, stuck it close to my keyboard and let it focus, then moved to focus on my TV, and then back to my keyboard and held the button in focus for a second or two while moving back to my TV and it didn't focus when I released the button till I went and pointed it at my keyboard again, then it started focusing again, and it focused on my TV after that.
BTW, what hardware revision is your phone? Mine is 003.
My wife's release date phone had this issue. If you focus on something close it wont refocus at any other focus length. I ended up returning it for a NIB one and never saw the issue again.
No it didn't matter what you did once it locked in it wouldn't auto focus at all unless you backed out and then back in. I don't know what rev it was since it was taken back to best buy about a week after I got it. I even tried other camera apps and it did the same thing. Even the autofocus clicking sound was a substantial popping sound. It was louder than the phone I have now.
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Also i Just tested the holding down the detent to hold the focus. It didn't work for me as soon as I moved it refocused.
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nacman34 said:
Also i Just tested the holding down the detent to hold the focus. It didn't work for me as soon as I moved it refocused.
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I just tap on the screen to refocus if I have a problem (area I want in focus).
Seems like the focus works half the time, the other half it just sits there blurry and won't focus no matter if I try click on the screen somewhere or take a picture. The only way I've been getting it to focus is by reopening the camera app and sometimes even that doesn't work. I think I'm going to exchange it tomorrow.
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Seems like the focus works half the time, the other half it just sits there blurry and won't focus no matter if I try click on the screen somewhere or take a picture. The only way I've been getting it to focus is by reopening the camera app and sometimes even that doesn't work. I think I'm going to exchange it tomorrow.
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do you have TEP? or should this be covered by the 1 year warranty?
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do you have TEP? or should this be covered by the 1 year warranty?
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I bought the phone on July 1st from Best Buy and it's still under the 30day warranty.
Would you guys characterize the issue like this to some extent?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1710876
I went and traded in my old one today. Thankfully it went smoothly and I got one without the update! So far the autofocus on this one works perfectly. Will keep you all updated.
good luck ^
I'm considering taking mine into a Sprint store to have them look at it. I dont have TEP, I'm outside of my 30 day window, rooted, and S-Off.
I wonder if they're going to give me a hard time.
Hello guys.
I need your help.
I bought my SGS2 in 01.08.2012 but today I was taking some shots with it, and after I take a photo to a polish i poited the camera to the ceiling and the camera just went crazy.
There are a bunch of pink, green, blue all over the place, it's very strage.
I upgraded the firmware to ICS a few days ago, so I tought it could be a bug problem so I downgraded to Gingerbread, that didn't solve the problem so I went to this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098834 and tried the camera upgrade... but still nothing.
I'm very sad with this, can anyone help me? Or at least let me know if its a hardware or software problem?
Let me just say the white balance is selected as AUTO.
Here are two pictures of it.
Hello.
I have an unique problem and I really tried to find for someone with the same problem. My camera has a very strange behavior and it is just the rear camera. Its complicated to explain but please see the attached screenshot that I took. There are some pink/red stripes when the camera is on and when I take the pictures gets a little bettler.
Any ideas of what is going on?
regards
S3
4.2.2 - i am running now Omega latest version but doen not matter, all roms that i tried has the same issue.
Thanks for any help
Renato
mussacredi said:
Hello.
I have an unique problem and I really tried to find for someone with the same problem. My camera has a very strange behavior and it is just the rear camera. Its complicated to explain but please see the attached screenshot that I took. There are some pink/red stripes when the camera is on and when I take the pictures gets a little bettler.
Any ideas of what is going on?
regards
S3
4.2.2 - i am running now Omega latest version but doen not matter, all roms that i tried has the same issue.
Thanks for any help
Renato
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Well, with all I know about cameras by being a freelancer photographer and with my little knowledge about android what I can say to try to help you is:
Did you wipe your phone between flashes? I'll guess you did since you tried multiple roms. If you didn't, You'd better try to...
If stock ROMs also show the problem I'm afraid to tell you that the only circumstances I saw this kind of problem in my life was in faulty camera sensors.
Were your sensor hit by any kind of laser or a very strong light while trying to snap a picture? Similar problems happened lately with photogs attending a concert. See link:
http://www.diyphotography.net/20000k-red-epic-sensor-burnt-lasers
If this didn't help and the problem started out of nowhere then maybe you got a faulty unit, are you still on warranty? If so, it's time to revert to stock and go to a service center!
Kindly hope I'm very wrong though... Good luck!
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lucalunardi said:
Well, with all I know about cameras by being a freelancer photographer and with my little knowledge about android what I can say to try to help you is:
Did you wipe your phone between flashes? I'll guess you did since you tried multiple roms. If you didn't, You'd better try to...
If stock ROMs also show the problem I'm afraid to tell you that the only circumstances I saw this kind of problem in my life was in faulty camera sensors.
Were your sensor hit by any kind of laser or a very strong light while trying to snap a picture? Similar problems happened lately with photogs attending a concert. See link:
http://www.diyphotography.net/20000k-red-epic-sensor-burnt-lasers
If this didn't help and the problem started out of nowhere then maybe you got a faulty unit, are you still on warranty? If so, it's time to revert to stock and go to a service center!
Kindly hope I'm very wrong though... Good luck!
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Thanks, The funny thing is sometimes works fine and sometimes works like the pic attached. No idea at all. The phone has never felt or had anything like you said such as strong light or laser.
thanks
Search the forum... Maybe a camera fw upgrade may help. Worth a try. Good luck.
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mussacredi said:
Thanks, The funny thing is sometimes works fine and sometimes works like the pic attached. No idea at all. The phone has never felt or had anything like you said such as strong light or laser.
thanks
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My feeling is that this could well be a hardware problem, not a software problem - ie nothing to do with your ROM, as you said you've flashed a few. If it is a hardware fault then see if you can get it fixed under warranty - but as has already been said, you'd need to return to your stock rom first otherwise they wont honour the warranty.
Having said that... were all the ROMS you tried AOSP / AOKP based? While I haven't had the problem you have and it does seem very unique, I have had more issues and bugs with the camera when using ROMS built from these sources on my i9300 than anything else. At the end of the day, Samsung know best how to drive their camera hardware, and so it doesn't surprise me that the vanilla Google roms can be a bit buggy when it comes to device-specific hardware such as the camera.
You could try flashing a stock-based custom rom - one built from Samsung firmware. Omega ROM that you are currently using also do a stock-based rom built on the 4.2.2 Samsung leak, I have used it and can confirm that it was pretty darn stable and the camera worked really well. It has a few mods in it, nothing spectacular, but it is stable.
Hope this helps.
This looks like a hardware problem. But can't be 100% sure.
I had a camera and someone dropped it, after dropping it, the camera started taking photos like that with stripes of different colours.
Did you drop it or water got on it?
very weird
I tried to fix permission, wipe dalvik and wipe bats and the camera starts to work again. Have no idea how long it will take. so far it is working as has never had a problem.
thanks for all answers...
and sorry to post this on the wrong section.
Bad news not working...dont know what the hell is that...sometimes works sometimes does not
mussacredi said:
Bad news not working...dont know what the hell is that...sometimes works sometimes does not
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Return phone to stock for warranty and find a service centre .
jje
Hello,
it's about 2 months since I've had this problem with my camera. To be honest my phone falls alot but rly didn't ahve any problems with it so far. Until this problem occured. I had omega 44 when this suddenly appeard on my back camera. These vertical lines just appeared and when it's darer it's easier to notice them. My front camera works normally and I don't have any problems with it. I've thought about ordering new camera from the ebay but I just want to be sure that it's rly hardware problem. Now I'm on this new omega 8.1 version and this problem still persists.
Does anyone knows what is the most probable problem here? It would help me a lot in making my decision here.
Thanks
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Does anyone knows what is the most probable problem here? It would help me a lot in making my decision here.
Thanks
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obviously the problem is with your camera hardware. get it replaced from service center.
Ok thanks. I think they'll charge me to much for that simple replacement. I want to change it by myself but I saw there are a lot of cameras on the ebay and I'm not sure which one to order. Don't know if there are different editions of cameras for s3, or some kind of regional key so if someone knows what should I look for I'd be grateful. Thank you
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try using camera apps like camera jb+ if the proble stills maybe it s the hardware
I've tried using many other softwares and the problem is still there. I'll be ordering new camera, it's jut that i'm not sure if there is some kind of regional lock or version of camera. Just don't want to give money for a wrong camera