Hello,
This issue seems to have appeared recently on my device, without any particular explanation. It can be potentially be related to Photo Analyzer being disabled from the apps, but that is supposed to increase speed, not introduce lag.
The issue is that my image preview has very low fps in both Superior Auto and Manual modes. What's hilarious is that when I switch to Video mode - the lag disappears and the preview is quite smooth. Not perfect, but acceptable, and just like my photo previews used to perform in the past.
Furthermore, this lag appears only when I move the camera. If I stop moving, the next following seconds there is no lag. The lag appears once the camera detects movement. Then the little stick man walking icon appears in the lower right section of the screen, which seems to be related to the appearance of the lag.
I've tried resolving this via options, by stopping the extra settings like HDR, reducing the resolution to 8MP and clearing the camera app cache. Nothing has really helped so far and the issue is quite strange.
Any ideas on why this might occur and how to solve it? Having a Sony phone is probably the best thing for people who like to investigate problems on a daily basis. :silly:
EDIT: Just wanted to let you know, using other 3rd party apps results in no lag whatsoever. Open Camera seems to be working perfectly fine (except not detecting 20MP reso for photos for some reason).
Overall, there seems to be a problem with the specific Sony camera that I have not been able to resolve yet.
Hey, just wanted to add that clearing data from the Camera app settings resolved this issue. After doing it and re-launching the app, it no longer lags when watching the preview. This seems to be the only solution that helped me. I can speculate that disabling the Photo Analyzer did something, and clearing data resolved it. Disabling Photo Analyzer should definitely speed up the time between taking photos. Photo analyzer eats up some resources by trying to detect faces and locations, then relate them to your contacts so that photos can be sorted by the people in them. If you do not need this, disable it and clear your camera data and cache. Time between taking photos now is not instant, but is definitely significantly faster. Also, the camera app itself opens up very fast, almost instantly, INCLUDING when I activate it from the button when the phone is sleeping.
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Hey, new member here.
I recently aquired a HTC Aria, this is my first Android phone and It's great, only issue I found is with the camera, when I try to take pictures, the screen appears with a lot of noise color (pink areas), as per the pictures, is this related to the set up or is it a camera malfunction? The pictures taken have the same effect.
The pictures were taken a month ago- righ now the screen looks completely pink!
I'm using HTC Aria/ Android version 2.3.7/ Cyanogenmod-7.1.0.
I noticed this malfunction after downloading the Camera 360 app, tried to use it and suddenly this issue appeared.
Any support is appreciated.
Regards and thanks.
First I'd just try clearing application data for the "Camera" app to see if that makes any difference. If not, I'm not sure what else to try except doing a 100% clean install to see if the problem is with your current installation or actually a hardware issue. (Make a backup first so you can revert.)
Hello everyone. I just got this phone the other day after returning the galaxy s5. I am loving it but I have one issue and maybe I'm just doing something wrong.
Everytime I take a picture in the camera app after tapping the check button, the camera closes and I return to the home screen. Does anyone else have this problem or is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?
Not normal. If the phone is stock (unrooted, etc.) I would try a factory reset (backup any personal data first) and see if the problem persists.
Only time I see a check in camera app is when sending picture via mms and it asks where I want to send [email protected],camera etc... if this is case of attaching picture directly from camera to an mms then this is a normal function, if taking a picture and it just closes then this is not normal reaction
Well it seems that the problem has resolved itself. I was just about to post a screen shot of the check mark so you guys could see it and then it just starting working as normal. Thanks for the responses and I'll post here if it comes up again.
Ok the problem returned... I showed the issue to a buddy who has the same phone and it also turned out that I was missing several options on the camera. I did a factory reset and the problem persisted.
I think I found the issue... I was using Google Now Launcher. Apparently that launcher doesn't play well with the camera. I uninstalled the launcher and voila, all the features (video, zoe, dual camera,etc) are back and the camera no longer closes after taking a pic.
Anyone else want to test this theory and see if happens?
confirmed issue and workaround
Hi there,
I can confirm that the Now launcher uses the native Google camera instead of the Zoe camera. I have also found that from the lock screen with the now launcher installed, unlocking by pulling the camera icon opens the full HTC zoe-enabled camera again. I find this super annoying as I'd like to have Google launcher and have the camera work properly. Anyone know a fix for this other than my workaround?
Ditto for T-Mobile HTC One (M7)
There's a lot I really like about the Google Launcher, but this just drives me nuts. I didn't really understand the workaround suggested here ( though I have no doubt it works). But the suggestion sounded on target. So, I went into my app list and shared it from there. It didn't do the funky stuff any more. I wonder if there's a setting to change that behavior: like someone thought, Hey, take a picture and go back to our regular programming? It's a shame because I really feel that the Google camera takes better picture.
In any case, just to let folks know that this is a real problem. The OP was on target.
To anyone else having this problem that does not use Google Now Launcher, another app that causes this is Omni Swipe. The default camera button in the tools section isn't the right camera (not sure what it's trying to access but still). If you add the correct camera app to the app section, it'll be fine.
Yes, this solved my problem as well. I went back to the default launcher and now the camera is working fine
Hi there,
I am a long time happy user of sony xperia mini st15i, it is perfect for me, i dont want to even think of moving to newer and bigger phone.
I do however want to do some tweaks on it since my phone is no longer under guarantee soo i can root it without fear of losing guarantee. I would like to make my phone snappier. Mainly what i do on my phone is calls, sms, taking pictures and videos. Those last two things concern me most. I would like camera to open faster. A lot faster. Sometimes there is a special moment i would like to take photo of and waiting few seconds for camera to open is usualy to long. Browsing photos is also slower then it was .. and opening some simple apps like light, etc. is slower then it used to be. Apart from what i said i want to keep 2 apps that are very important to me. First is call recorder: i set up a program to record all my calls automaticly and a program that saves all my sms-es once per hour. Apart from speed and battery improvement it would also be great to improve the camera. I take a lot of images and videos and any improvement ( such as better image quality, faster program opening, etc. ) would be great. I wonder if anyone tested the camera on this phone and compared different settings. There are lots of settings but i really dont know which are better then others.
ps: would this tweaks help me:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1881401
Anyway point me in the right direction, maybe where to start with the rooting process, what to install, etc.
Thank you in advance
s6 edge user
viewing photo from Samsung stock camera is extremely slow,often took more then 2 sec to actually load the image (only allowed to use galaxy gallery app)
When I download Google camera, viewing image by swiping left display the image instantly and smoothly (using google+ photo app)
I want to keep using the Samsung stock camera because it's so much better then google camera, but viewing photo through camera app is insane painful
any solution?
I got the same problem. They literally take some time to load each picture. Would have though that they would open faster with the new internal flash memory as the read and write speeds were supposed to be quite fast. They said they were the fastest on the market today but obviously this is not the case when load times of each picture is 1-2 seconds.
You've said by your own.
The stock camera is much better than google camera and it has a very good quality and that means it's need more time in processing because it's better.
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n78 shadow said:
You've said by your own.
The stock camera is much better than google camera and it has a very good quality and that means it's need more time in processing because it's better.
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I don't think that is the true reason for slow load
because once u load the first image, the following 100 image will scroll smoothly
if you saying the first image need more time to load because the picture was just recently taken,
then it should instantly load if I patiently wait for few seconds after photo taken allowing time for image to save, which is not the case, the gallery still require seconds to load the first image despite waiting
this proves that it is the gallery/camera app problem instead of image quality or anything
MrHardplastic said:
I don't think that is the true reason for slow load
because once u load the first image, the following 100 image will scroll smoothly
if you saying the first image need more time to load because the picture was just recently taken,
then it should instantly load if I patiently wait for few seconds after photo taken allowing time for image to save, which is not the case, the gallery still require seconds to load the first image despite waiting
this proves that it is the gallery/camera app problem instead of image quality or anything
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Thank you for replying and anyway it's not. Serious problem to wait for 2 sec
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anyone know how to reduce delay when opening samsung gallery app through camera?
or even better, change the default gallery app load through camera to quickpic ?
I tried almost all famous third party camera app, all of them are pretty bad in terms of speed and function
I don't have this problem. Mine loads quickly even if I completely quit the camera app take a picture then look at it. Believe me I know how bad it was with their previous flagship I had the Note 3 but I commend them for this.
Bump... Anyone found a solution to this? Aggravating when you want to see a picture you've taken, and it takes 10 seconds to load.... The old solution of removing 'other sources' from the Gallery app isn't possible anymore, as Samsung have removed any concept of settings from the Gallery app. Annoying!!
This phone seems very slow to me. I'm pretty disappointed.
- camera opens very slow (takes up to 4seconds!!)
- Switching between apps is very slow
- When im receving phone calls thru LINE the phone is sometimes too slow to handle it and just shows it as missed calls. (didn't have this problem with the z3 compact).
I cleanded up everything, did many LINE cleanups and re-installations. Used different performance enhancement tools. I googled alot but nothing i found really helped to improve the performance.
The MM update didn't change this slow behaviours. I only have a few apps installed and i always close the apps/tasks i don't need. For me it looks that there is
I encyrpted the phone, but i don't think that this sould affect the performace so much.
btw: LINE is crucial for me: )
MaiRuay said:
This phone seems very slow to me. I'm pretty disappointed.
- camera opens very slow (takes up to 4seconds!!)
- Switching between apps is very slow
- When im receving phone calls thru LINE the phone is sometimes too slow to handle it and just shows it as missed calls. (didn't have this problem with the z3 compact).
I cleanded up everything, did many LINE cleanups and re-installations. Used different performance enhancement tools. I googled alot but nothing i found really helped to improve the performance.
The MM update didn't change this slow behaviours. I only have a few apps installed and i always close the apps/tasks i don't need. For me it looks that there is
I encyrpted the phone, but i don't think that this sould affect the performace so much.
btw: LINE is crucial for me: )
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To speed up the camera there was a tick box to check off somewhere. I think it was something in album if I remember. I just completely got rid of album and the video maker thing that constantly is searching your pics.
To speed up app switching turn off animations and any voice commands or Google search apps that pause for a command.
Also don't close out apps, I've removed the app switcher button for a menu button, there's no need to kill apps in the background on Android. It has to load completely over every time you try to access it.
Disable photo analyzer?
? pretty sure that's the one you're looking for.
civicsr2cool said:
pretty sure that's the one you're looking for.
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It seems to speed up the opening process of the camera app a little bit. But what does it do? Are there any functionality limitations now?
kerngehirn said:
It seems to speed up the opening process of the camera app a little bit. But what does it do? Are there any functionality limitations now?
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No limitations at all. Unless you use the "Faces" feature in the Album app.
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So, i did now the following:
- unencrypt the phone (needs factory reset wtf)
- deactivated the Photo analyzer
- In developer options: Enabled GPU rendering**
- In developer options: Enabled HW Overlay**
The speed is now better but still very slow for these HW specs. Somehow acceptable, but the battery drain is higher..