Not sure if this is a common problem. I couldn't find anything on the interwebs indicating that others are having this issue frequently.
It seems like my Camera application will almost never allow me to see the pictures that I've taken. When I tap on the picture preview it just goes to a blank screen. If I hit slideshow, it momentarily tries to take me to the slideshow and then bounces me right back.
Sometimes after force closing it with the system monitor app a few times will eventually let me see previews.
It's pretty infuriating that it does this and I have no idea what would cause it. I'm thinking about buying Vignette, but in my opinion the stock camera should work.
Any ideas?
You know what I just noticed - it appears to be the gallery app and not the camera app. Anyone else have this problem with Gallery?
It is most likely a media scan issue with the gallery (sometimes my pictures take a long time to show up on their own as well).
You can either reboot the phone or use an app to rescan media. There are a bunch out there (search market for rescan or scan media). Or if you are running CM6, you can choose the function in the built-in Dev Tools app. Tasker also has this function built in if you wanted to set up something like forcing a rescan every time you exit the Camera app.
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I take a picture, and then select the photo at the bottom of the camera screen.. it opens the gallery, then is VERY slow.. often I can't pinch & zoom, or select a sharing icon.. then suddenly the multi screen sometimes turns on. I though maybe it's because the tv icon at the top of the photo is showing 9+ meaning that's it's found 9 devices to share my photo too.. I thought maybe that is slowing it down. I tried turning off allshare cast, but can't seem to keep it off. I don't even know if that is even what it is. Frustrating. Not sure if that even made sense?
Anyone else having a gallery bog down like this?
thanks.
kramdens said:
I take a picture, and then select the photo at the bottom of the camera screen.. it opens the gallery, then is VERY slow.. often I can't pinch & zoom, or select a sharing icon.. then suddenly the multi screen sometimes turns on. I though maybe it's because the tv icon at the top of the photo is showing 9+ meaning that's it's found 9 devices to share my photo too.. I thought maybe that is slowing it down. I tried turning off allshare cast, but can't seem to keep it off. I don't even know if that is even what it is. Frustrating. Not sure if that even made sense?
Anyone else having a gallery bog down like this?
thanks.
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What is the Android version that you're using? 4.1.1? I'm using 4.1.2 and I have the same issue, but it feels more like a bug than an actual issue. I hope Samsung fixes this in the next 4.1.2 release.
I noticed the gallery lags terribly if I have photos that sync to it (Dropbox or FB sync to gallery) so I turned those off and it was lagless.
Other than that, I have no idea what could be the issue.
xFrozen said:
I noticed the gallery lags terribly if I have photos that sync to it (Dropbox or FB sync to gallery) so I turned those off and it was lagless.
Other than that, I have no idea what could be the issue.
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I know this is an old thread, but I was suddenly having the same issue. Turning off Dropbox sync seems to have solved it. Thanks for the tip.
I've seen threads about performance issues when charging etc and I have them myself!
One thing that completely destroys me is the performance when trying to take a quick picture or use an app that uses the camera.
E.g. barcode scanners move the complete opposite direction
Snapchat is also practically unusable. When I open it, it completely s**ts itself every time and is unusual!
I guess my question is..... Do you think custom ROMs and recoveries will solve the issues?
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I definitely think we should see some optimizations in the next weeks. Snapchat would crap out on me and eventually cause the camera module to crash. It got to the point that the camera would turn black within Snapchat and even within the camera app itself. Only fix was to reboot the phone to get the camera working again. Yesterday I received a snapchat update, not sure if it was meant to address performance issues, but it now works more smoothly and doesn't crash as often. There is definitely room for improvement!
It's really doing my head in and glad I'm not on my own in seeing this!! I don't know anyone else with the 5x to compare so been searching online.
I timed it today, I rebooted the phone and left it 5 minutes without opening anything. I fired up the camera app and it took 124 seconds (just over 2min) until the app was ready to take a photo (the blue circle showing around the shutter button). Then tapping the button to take a photo took a further minute to take the actual photo. Then the phone was that sluggish it needed a reboot.
Not sure if it's the hardware, the os or the app but I've tried Open Camera too and that seems to be really really slow. And, as the OP says, Snapchat totally craps out as do other apps that use the camera.
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It's really doing my head in and glad I'm not on my own in seeing this!! I don't know anyone else with the 5x to compare so been searching online.
I timed it today, I rebooted the phone and left it 5 minutes without opening anything. I fired up the camera app and it took 124 seconds (just over 2min) until the app was ready to take a photo (the blue circle showing around the shutter button). Then tapping the button to take a photo took a further minute to take the actual photo. Then the phone was that sluggish it needed a reboot.
Not sure if it's the hardware, the os or the app but I've tried Open Camera too and that seems to be really really slow. And, as the OP says, Snapchat totally craps out as do other apps that use the camera.
MaFt
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I just tried the same test. The camera app opened and was ready to shoot (blue circle showing) in about 2 seconds. Double pressing the power button to open the camera app had the blue circle around the shutter button showing right away
Every now and then it does work perfectly. But more times than not there is a massive lag. Usually after the phone has been on for half a day, but like this morning sometimes when it's just turned on.
I've experienced the same issues mentioned by you guys, especially in the OP.
Snapchat has practically been completely unusable until the most recent update, and that only marginally improved things. The root cause seems to be the camera itself, as I'm only seeing this type of lag in apps that access the camera. I can't help but imagine Google is working on a fix for this in the very near future, just one of those 'early adopter' issues I guess. It has caused me to do daily reboots just about, which is very aggravating because that defeats the purpose of a good camera if you miss the moment you're trying to capture. As I'm sure you guys have noticed, when the camera app actually works properly, the pictures are pretty impressive, which makes it all the more aggravating that it can't be used as fluently as designed.
Hoping for all of our sake that Google fixes this soon.
I'm in the same boat.
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I've experienced the same issues mentioned by you guys, especially in the OP.
Snapchat has practically been completely unusable until the most recent update, and that only marginally improved things. The root cause seems to be the camera itself, as I'm only seeing this type of lag in apps that access the camera. I can't help but imagine Google is working on a fix for this in the very near future, just one of those 'early adopter' issues I guess. It has caused me to do daily reboots just about, which is very aggravating because that defeats the purpose of a good camera if you miss the moment you're trying to capture. As I'm sure you guys have noticed, when the camera app actually works properly, the pictures are pretty impressive, which makes it all the more aggravating that it can't be used as fluently as designed.
Hoping for all of our sake that Google fixes this soon.
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could u please test camera functionality with this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geekstools.cameraW
and if possible gather log info
Thanks
I'm very curious if the camera is behaving really strange for anyone else? What I have observed:
- the Camera app takes a long time to open sometimes (for example during Google Maps navigation)
- the camera button doesn't react to presses sometimes, lags and freezes the app for like 5 seconds
- sometimes instead of snaping a picture it captures multiple pictures at once and gives me like 10 similar images (I forgot the name of that function but I have it disabled)
- camera in apps like Messengers opens up really slow sometimes but that could be the case of ****ty FB app
Is anyone having a problem with camera and it's performance? Please let me know, I did a factory reset and it does not help.
stranded.eu said:
I'm very curious if the camera is behaving really strange for anyone else? What I have observed:
- the Camera app takes a long time to open sometimes (for example during Google Maps navigation)
- the camera button doesn't react to presses sometimes, lags and freezes the app for like 5 seconds
- sometimes instead of snaping a picture it captures multiple pictures at once and gives me like 10 similar images (I forgot the name of that function but I have it disabled)
- camera in apps like Messengers opens up really slow sometimes but that could be the case of ****ty FB app
Is anyone having a problem with camera and it's performance? Please let me know, I did a factory reset and it does not help.
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Bro after clicking the pictures the image quality is trash. But in emui8 it was so better
thats odd the only issue i have is that the codecs are locked on bluetooth but im sure that happens on all pie betas
This was a setting within other Samsung phone camera apps, but it appears to have been removed from all S20 phones?
Now, for example, if I setup the camera to take a video at 0.5 and take my vid. Next time I come back it's sets to photo & I have to do it again. It's a real pita if I'm doing something active like skiing.
I'm I missing it or was it removed?
Anybody else annoyed by this? I use my camera constantly & I constantly have to open & set the method I want to use.
On my phone it remembers the last setting of the camera...but only the basics...if I take slow motion and I go home and open phone again it's still on the option for slow motion...Did pick up that if I close all, it reverts back to normal camera mode...One way around is to keep the camera in memory all the time
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On my phone it remembers the last setting of the camera...but only the basics...if I take slow motion and I go home and open phone again it's still on the option for slow motion...Did pick up that if I close all, it reverts back to normal camera mode...One way around is to keep the camera in memory all the time
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On mine I can use the camera to take a video, come back one minute later it's back on photo. Sometimes I'm even in photo and come back and it's on video it's so bizarre and not logical
Every time I take a photo with the stock camera I get the system notification sound. It is NOT the shutter sound. If I have the shutter sound on it will play shutter and then quickly after it will play the default system notification sound. If I have shutter sound off, it will just play the system notification sound.
It's super F-ing annoying. I've checked the gallery app and google photos as I thought it might be something related to syncing but I have not been able to figure it out. Someone please help, it is so damn annoying.
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Every time I take a photo with the stock camera I get the system notification sound. It is NOT the shutter sound. If I have the shutter sound on it will play shutter and then quickly after it will play the default system notification sound. If I have shutter sound off, it will just play the system notification sound.
It's super F-ing annoying. I've checked the gallery app and google photos as I thought it might be something related to syncing but I have not been able to figure it out. Someone please help, it is so damn annoying.
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You could try to catch the notification with an app like this, and figure out what's causing it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.hcilab.projects.nlog
And could try disabling notifications for Google photos app from it's info page, and Gallery app too just to narrow it down
Or disable Google photos completely and take a few photos as a test
Unfortunately none of that worked. I tested both notifications off for Gallery and Google Photos and neither fixed the issue. I sat for 30 minutes testing every setting i could find in the camera, across different shooting modes etc, and got nowhere. In the end, I wiped cache and data of the camera app, and voila, the sound is gone! Thank god. I was about to throw this phone through the wall. Still no idea what was causing it, and I have a sneaking suspicion it will return.
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Unfortunately none of that worked. I tested both notifications off for Gallery and Google Photos and neither fixed the issue. I sat for 30 minutes testing every setting i could find in the camera, across different shooting modes etc, and got nowhere. In the end, I wiped cache and data of the camera app, and voila, the sound is gone! Thank god. I was about to throw this phone through the wall. Still no idea what was causing it, and I have a sneaking suspicion it will return.
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Sometimes clearing the system cache on the boot menu will stop erratically behaviors. It's a good idea to do occasionally and especially when having issues of unknown origins.
Apparently the cam data does get corrupted occasionally too. Or one losses tract of the many settings all over the place.
Lol, I've wiped the cam data once already on the 10+:laugh: