What are some general camera hacks that we can all use on our phone to improve quality or speed? Like reg hacks, or software that does a better job of taking photos, or has a business card scanner or something.
so nobdy knows? Please?
shhh... theres other people actually using the forum search function for the phone they have!
and the answer is..?
--James
search is being limited to the last 4 days on me for some reason. That is why I ask. I am looking for all hacks and general hacks.
I can't imagine what you expect people to say, nobody can hand over a magic wand.
Picture resolution is hardware dependent. If your phone has a crappy sensor, software won't magically transform crappy pictures into high resolution ones.
Likewise, speed of taking a picture depends on shutter speed, which depends on the sensibility of the captor to the light. If your sensor has crap sensibility and you try to shoot a picture faster, it will be dark.
Finally, storing speed depends on hardware (e.g. storage card). I guess that if you were getting a very fast card, pictures could be stored faster (but I don't say noticeably faster) as long as the card is indeed your bottleneck.
So tips are:
1 - for better pics, you need a better camera.
2 - for faster saving times, you can try a faster card.
On the other hand, there are software that will let you take pictures with filters, templates and backgrounds, etc. But that doesn't make "better" pictures quality wise.
search your registry for "camera" with a registry editor.
i found somewhere that you can change the framerate or fps (frames per second) or something like that, for better VIDEO quality. though they recommended not putting it too high as it would then put too heavy a load on the system and make the videos choppy.
good luck.
ps while your searching the registry, it will be in a folder where there are directories like "3gp small" "3gp medium" "3gp large" "mp4 small"...etc... i think.
Nothing like cool camera that add more options and improves the quality a little? Thank you 256.
I see that picture quality is set at 0 and video quality is set at 2. Should i increase or decrease these numbers to improve quality.
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I see that picture quality is set at 0 and video quality is set at 2. Should i increase or decrease these numbers to improve quality.
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hmm now that i dont know. try 0 and 1 and 2 and maybe three and just see what happens!! you can always change it back
and i dont think there is anything like coolcamera...wish there was! i too have looked...
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I love my XDA Exec to bits - apart from the main camera.
Is there any way of increasing the shutter speed? When I take a picture I have to hold the handset still for what seems like an age or I end up with a blurry mess of an image.
Slighty away from the main question but still image related - is there a way of increasing the resolution Internet Explorer Mobile downloads images? I often have to download jpgs for work & the image quality I end up with is simply awful.
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For some reason, the camera uses much slower shutter speeds when set to full 1 Mpixel size. About half of all photos I shoot outside in bright sunlight end up completely overexposed, i.e. saving lots of ink if I print them as they are bright white all over. If I on the other hand set the camera to VGA size then shutter speeds are faster and the photos end up correctly exposed.
Old camera driver much better!
I reloaded my JASJAR with i-mate's old 1.12 ROM. It's camera is version 3.00, build 20856 and it handles low light much better. Attached here is a 1 MP photo shot just like the one in my previous post. It looks like they have tried to reduce noise by decreasing shutter speeds in recent ROMs.
Is there any tweaks or fixes which can help the lag of the camera? I find when trying to take a picture the display is some what delayed which makes it harder to capture random quick photos and videos. Also the delay in which a photo is snapped and actually taken is relatively slow. Can the performance be improved? I searched around but haven't seen much for the Touch Pro 2.
It would be great if someone had registry tweaks or cabs to increase performance!
Thanks
I know for sure you need the photos going to main memory - if you select storage card it will be slow. :-(
yea thats a good point! The main video delay is in artifical light as outdoors the display seems responive, guess the extra processing it needs to do whilst lining up a shot in darker scene slows it down
...does anyone know of any registry tweaks which could improve performance in darker light settings?
Hello everyone,
I recently bought an M8 and I'm loving it so far, except for the camera.
I'm not running the stock M8 rom but the S.Team-JW-7.5.0 rom (HTC 10 to M8 port), so am I missing Duo camera features or something?
Do you guys have any tips or tricks to get better camera results? Both for video and photo.
I know the camera on the back is 4MP but maybe there are ways to get better pictures and video.
Thanks in advance.
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Duo camera works fine on SROM. But Duo doesn't make the photos "better", it just enables the Duo effects like Ufocus, or Dimension Plus.
Hard to know what you mean by "better" unless you can be more specific. What exactly don't you like about the pics you've taken so far? Are they blurry, colors look off, too much glare, etc.?
Number of MP has little to do with image quality, especially if you are currently judging the images on the phone's screen (although cropping the pics, or looking at the pics on a monitor is a different story).
While more recent phones make it easier to take a good photo, very decent pics are quite possible on the M8. A lot can be done with technique. Despite what many folks would like to believe, a lot of photography is dependent on practice and technique, rather than hardware. A few tips:
1) Manually focus on a point (your subject) by tapping on the screen, and then press the capture button. Same goes with video. The video recording often has a tough time focusing on the subject automatically, so its often a good idea to force the focus first, then start recording.
2) Exposure (amount of light) will often change drastically, depending on the point of focus. So again, experiment by tapping on the screen, and you will see the image get lighter or darker.
3) This camera has a tough time with glare (washes out the whole frame), especially sunlight through a window, outdoors in the suns direction, etc. Changing your position, and what way the camera is facing can often (although not always) solve the problem, or at least improve it.
4) Tap on the camera settings, and see if manually forcing any of the parameters results in pics more to your liking. Although to be honest, I use the auto settings 99% of the time. But you can often get better results in certain situations (such as low light or night photos) by manually tweaking the settings. In particular, adjusting the exposure (EV) or saturation ("gear" icon>Image adjustments) may yield results more to your preference, if you find those default settings are not to your liking.
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Bit of a small issue if you can call it that, just a tad annoying. DNG photos don't display poorly, but certainly not at their max quality. Other apps like lightroom do display the image in full quality/sharpness. However i cannot think of a good reason why G photos would not do that?
G photos recognises this as a RAW image, it just seems a tad dissapointing it isn't showing it in the full glory in my opinion, its locally stored as well obviously. Any ideas on this one? It seems though that capability isn't there.
Attached is a small section of the same photo opened up in the 2 different apps, quite a large difference in them.
I would like to hear some opinions on this. I noticed some time ago that my videos had very inconsistent colors - there would be visible change of the balance when paning around or filming different objects to an extent that seems odd. After trying out and comparing I did realise that the main camera tends to very aggresively change the auto white balance, even if the scene is basically the same and the phone just slightly changes angle. It seems as it tries to desperately match white balance to every frame and its content (forgive my amateur vocabulary here), which to me seems strange and looking at other phones they just hold a much more consistent balance.
I attach 2 videos to show the issue - keep in mind that the issue isnt as visible always, as I tried very specific scenes/angles to show it.
When I use manual white balance it works great, so it kinda feels like a software issue (?)
Does anybody have a similar experience?
Would you mind trying to film a video in a similar scenario, but after disabling the option "scene optimizer" in the camera settings? I don't know if it does anything, but might be worth trying.
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Would you mind trying to film a video in a similar scenario, but after disabling the option "scene optimizer" in the camera settings? I don't know if it does anything, but might be worth trying.
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Thanks for the tipp, I'll try to compare it, although I dont think that scene optimizer affects videos
Unfortunately turning scene optimizer off doesnt change it (video attached).
It still feels like a software issue, but since nobody has yet confirmed a similar experience I'm starting to think it might be a problem with my unit. (Btw my A52s seems to have the Samsung image sensor not the Sony one)
Edit: or, I am exaggerating and this behaviour is actually not unusual - havent had a Samsung phone for a few years before my A52s
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Unfortunately turning scene optimizer off doesnt change it (video attached).
It still feels like a software issue, but since nobody has yet confirmed a similar experience I'm starting to think it might be a problem with my unit. (Btw my A52s seems to have the Samsung image sensor not the Sony one)
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I do not shoot a lot of video, but in the few videos I did shoot I never saw what is visible in your videos (Sony sensor). It is indeed very jarring. Do you only have it with footage of grass or just always?
In the Samsung camera app, you can go the "Professional Video" mode in the "More" section (so where macro etc. is), and then set whitebalance manually to e.g. 5500K and see whether it is more stable then. But like I said I do not shoot a lot of video, so I certainly do not have experience with that professional video mode.
Edit: I now see that you already mention manual whitebalance yourself. So are there disadvantages to just using professional video mode all the time then?
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It definitely gets more visible in outside scenes, more so if there is a lot of green in the frame - indoors and with artificial light it definitely is hard to spot. As I mentioned above it feels like it tries to match the balance to the content or objects of/in the frame, instead of keeping a consistent balance. I had a video where I stuck my hand in and out of the frame and it would drastically change the whole color to match the hand it seemed (thinking about it, the background was grass also, so ...).
Pro mode is a solution, it's just that I'm not a fan of setting the balance everytime I take a video or photo - and the balance ofc affects photos in the same way, as 2 photos of basically the same scene might have drastically different WB.
Nevertheless thanks a lot for your input - I also very much enjoyed your detailed instructions for Gcam usage
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Pro mode is a solution, it's just that I'm not a fan of setting the balance everytime I take a video or photo - and the balance ofc affects photos in the same way, as 2 photos of basically the same scene might have drastically different WB.
Nevertheless thanks a lot for your input - I also very much enjoyed your detailed instructions for Gcam usage
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You would not have to set it every time (probably). In the Samsung camera app I have dragged the Pro Photo (not video) mode to the 'main bar' (from the more menu you can hold and drag items in and out of the main bar for quick access), with a changed fixed ISO (for shooting of fast action scenes), and you set it once and the camera app will remember that setting forever. And I think for all outside scenes around 5600K WB will work fine (it's not like the A52s is a high quality video machine anyway).
I didn't want to bring up gcam because I had no idea whether that would make a difference, but now that you brought it up, does that have the same whitebalance issues for you (in video)?
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(...). And I think for all outside scenes around 5600K WB will work fine (it's not like the A52s is a high quality video machine anyway).
I didn't want to bring up gcam because I had no idea whether that would make a difference, but now that you brought it up, does that have the same whitebalance issues for you (in video)?
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I meant I would have to set it again for every scene, but you are right, something like 5600 would probably be okay for most outdoor stuff. And with rearranging the icons it wouldnt be such a hassle. I'll try that out for daily use, thanks!
I am using BSG gcam also, because I find the nightmode drastically better but unfortunately the balance issue is the same, so I guess the balance gets set on system level. I also tried gcam awb but it always seems to be a bit off no matter the config - but I prefer the stock app for daylight anyway (apart from the wb)