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.
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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.
I'm using CM7 and everything works great other than when I take pictures (with stock or third party apps) my pictures are rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise from what they were shot at if I text them or upload them to windows. In gallery the pictures show up just fine and If I choose crop and re-save the picture it will correct the orientation issue. This is annoying and I was wondering if anyone has a solution to this.
I've searched the forums but I can only find one other mention of this with zero replies, so forgive me if this is a repeat.
theniel said:
I'm using CM7 and everything works great other than when I take pictures (with stock or third party apps) my pictures are rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise from what they were shot at if I text them or upload them to windows. In gallery the pictures show up just fine and If I choose crop and re-save the picture it will correct the orientation issue. This is annoying and I was wondering if anyone has a solution to this.
I've searched the forums but I can only find one other mention of this with zero replies, so forgive me if this is a repeat.
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Just a suggestion:
Maybe the EXIF data is broken.
There are (Windows) applications, such as Cam2PC, which read the EXIF data and can rotate the pictures according to the EXIF information while transferring them from the camera/smartphone to PC.
You may try it to see, if the EXIF data is still containing the right orientation information or not.
Good luck !
I would like to see the whole photo for a few seconds after I take it. How do I get this functionality?
On my old phone the Camera app would show a still of the photo after I took it. This helped with 2 things: It confirmed I took the photo, and I could tell if I needed to reshoot. Instead it shows in a tiny box in the corner. I came back from a trip and many photos are blurry. I have scoured the settings and it is not very obvious if this functionality is available. Is there a setting that can enable it?
Stock camera doesn't do preview, use a different app like CameraZoom from the play store if you can't live without it- it gives same quality picture but with more options to choose from.
I take several pictures then delete the ones that are blurry or people have their eyes closed etc. The stock camera has a best picture setting that does a similar thing.
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?
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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.
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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.
I am experiencing this issue with my Z2 running .69 firmware.
I updated upon receiving my handset so i can't say if it's firmware related or hardware related.
To describe my issue, whenever i move photos to photo editing apps, there is a visible degradation of my pictures. I'm labeling the issue as degradation for now, but note that there is no lost of image size or resolution. Instead, the issue is the appearance of green splotches over the image, similiar to the appearance of noise on digital cameras.
This happens regardless of the editing app, it seems whenever the picture is moved to another app, the problem occurs.( E.g. in gallery; share a picture via Instagram or VSCO )
Attached are two images, neither images have received any filter. only difference is that one has gone through 3-4 apps. For clarification, the apps are not the one degrading the picture as it works fine on my GNex.
Kindly open both files and is is pretty evident there is a green tint on the second picture.
Can anyone test if their handset is experiencing this same issue?
Is there some sort of Sony "enhancement" going on behind the scenes causing this?
Is it limited to the Z2 or is this an issue of Kitkat?
If possible, could someone help me test if this is a problem with my specific handset?
kindly move a shot to VSCO or your favourite editing app, don't make any edits but just save the file and compare between the original and the "edited" file. you can try moving the image through 3-4 apps and note the green tint becoming stronger each time.
This is happening on all my pictures, regardless if i took it off the phone or through a dedicated camera and then transferred it over. The colour shift is greatly bothering me as it just ruins the picture.
Thanks.
I just tried with a couple of photos. On one of them the green tint was apparent (on white background) but the other is identical with the original.
Hi, Thanks for doing the test.
It seems there is some form of over aggressive noise reduction when photos are moved. It tries to reduce the noise by smudging it, however it results in the whole image having the green tint.
In your first image, the green tint is actually present, go back and forth between the two pictures and you'll notice the skin tone of your thumb changes slightly.
The effect of this noise reduction becomes over bearing when moving the photos through multiple apps, and it is seriously bothering me...
Furthermore, this is totally redundant, why is there a need to modify pictures that are being moved around? I understand if it's present on the camera's software but to implement it when editing pictures??
I have contacted Sony regarding this but they simply asked me to do a Factory reset which won't solve the issue. I have asked them to push this to the software team, hoping it is removed in the next update.
If there is a more direct way to contact the Sony android software team, kindly let me know, thanks.
If However you are not experiencing this, do let us know as well so i can decide if i should send it down for repair or not.
Could more people test this issue?
It seems more than just colour issues.
There are tons of compression artifacts in my pictures, making smooth surfaces appear blotchy.