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[Q] Why did my HD2 take better pics than my Evo?

I had an HD2 and switched to the Evo about 2 weeks ago, and I know the Evo has a higher res camera and all, however, I have noticed that my HD2 took much better pictures than my Evo.
My Evo's pics come out sort of blurry sometimes, like I'm shaking when I take the pictures, but I'm not. When I had the HD2, I would press to take a picture, and it would focus itself and then take the picture, however, the Evo, I press to take the picture and it doesn't even take a second to focus... It just takes the picture the second I press the button.
Am I doing something wrong?

Simple, because it has a better camera lol.
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try tapping screen to focus.
mine to takes crappy pics, but i heard a 'pop' when i put it down one time...and it seems if i'm angling my camera down at all..it focus's and is crystal clear than in teh last second it falls out of focus.

Have you tried the cm6 camera? IMO it's one of the better choices for the EVO.

Why don't you just use Camera Magic.....It does auto focus....higher quality photos and more lol

While the focus could be better, I have noticed that sometimes the full-size preview of the pic I took appears to be blurry; however, when I zoom in a bit, the image is actually in-focus. I'm not sure if it's just the HTC gallery app or what, but that's how it seems to me. HTC definitely needs to improve the camera/video app. It could be in the works and they're just holding onto it until another update. Kinda like how we finally got the 60 fps unlock that was supposedly a hdmi hardware issue. =D

I'm sorry but EVO takes better pics than HD2 by a long shot. I had the HD2. EVO does auto focus by default. You just have to be very still and let it focus before snapping a shot or yes it'll come out blurry.
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load CM6 nightlies AUTO FOCUS when the phone stops moving

ssconceptz said:
I'm sorry but EVO takes better pics than HD2 by a long shot. I had the HD2. EVO does auto focus by default. You just have to be very still and let it focus before snapping a shot or yes it'll come out blurry.
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I use my Evo camera exactly the same way I used my HD2 camera. I always wait for it to fully focus itself before I press the button, and on my HD2, it would like re-focus itself. The Evo does the initial focus, then I press the button and it just snaps instantly. And the result, a lot of times, is a slightly blurry, grainy picture. Again, I used both cameras exactly the same, never had a problem with my HD2.
On another note, it tried camera magic as someone suggested, and it seems to work a lot better than the stock camera app. I haven't had blurry pics with it! Thanks!

Nrre said:
try tapping screen to focus.
mine to takes crappy pics, but i heard a 'pop' when i put it down one time...and it seems if i'm angling my camera down at all..it focus's and is crystal clear than in teh last second it falls out of focus.
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I found that if I hold my camera high and angle down, lighting and focus are much better. It's weird but it works.

josh995 said:
I use my Evo camera exactly the same way I used my HD2 camera. I always wait for it to fully focus itself before I press the button, and on my HD2, it would like re-focus itself. The Evo does the initial focus, then I press the button and it just snaps instantly. And the result, a lot of times, is a slightly blurry, grainy picture. Again, I used both cameras exactly the same, never had a problem with my HD2.
On another note, it tried camera magic as someone suggested, and it seems to work a lot better than the stock camera app. I haven't had blurry pics with it! Thanks!
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I did a test and the camera app beats out camera magic if you can keep you hands steady enough. Camera Magic saves the image in a smaller pixel size and it looks better on the phone because you seen it focus before you snapped. File size was 851kb on best settings. I held my stock camera steady and snapped a shot and when I had both on my computer the camera app won with higher resolution and 2mb file size. Maybe you can just learn to steady ur hands or use camera magic and sacrifice pixel size.
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Front facing camera quality

How is the quality on everyone's front camera? The colors on mine are really washed out. When I first open up the camera application there is some color, but after a few seconds it becomes washed out. It's also quite dark, even with the exposure turned all the way up. The quality is pretty bad when compared to my brother's ipod touch front facing camera. I understand it shouldn't expect much from a 1.3 mp camera, but it should at least look as good as the ipod touch, right?

What rom are you running? Many devs have had small issues with front camera. I am running skyraider Zeus found in rom manager and mine works perfect.
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I'm running virtuous.
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Colors on my front camera are washed, but it's actually lighter than the back camera. I'm using Newt's Pyramid 1.4. I think he had some problems with the front camera on his original build. Besides being a little washed, it's actually not too bad for a 1.3mp. I'm guessing the focal range may be somewhat limited given it's generally used for video calls and not for taking landscape photos!

Sorry if this is a ridiculous question, but you don't have a screen protector over the camera do you?

Nope, no screen protector. This is really the only part of the phone I'm not happy with. (well this and not having 4g) I'm not sure if the quality was the same on the stock rom though.
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isn't the front camera only 1.8mp? What exactly are you expecting out of that? (and I am honestly asking, not being an ass)

Fusion.Coil said:
isn't the front camera only 1.8mp? What exactly are you expecting out of that? (and I am honestly asking, not being an ass)
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I expect it to not be completely crappy. Like I said in my OP, my brother's ipod touch ffc is A LOT better, and I don't really understand why. I'm just trying to figure out if there's something wrong with mine or if everyone else's quality is roughly the same.

[q] front camera

if i try taking a picture using my front camera, its really blurred... is it normal?, because i had some phones before that only have VGA Frontal Camera but the images seems to be fine...
i know that we have a great Main camera, but there will be times that you need to use this front camera especially if no one will took picture of you *with you're friends/gf* LOL.. because its hard to use main camera since there's no camera button...

mikey0105 said:
if i try taking a picture using my front camera, its really blurred... is it normal?, because i had some phones before that only have VGA Frontal Camera but the images seems to be fine...
i know that we have a great Main camera, but there will be times that you need to use this front camera especially if no one will took picture of you *with you're friends/gf* LOL.. because its hard to use main camera since there's no camera button...
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Yeah mine is blurry too. Looks like a mosaic lol. I find that there is also a red tint
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mikey0105 said:
if i try taking a picture using my front camera, its really blurred... is it normal?, because i had some phones before that only have VGA Frontal Camera but the images seems to be fine...
i know that we have a great Main camera, but there will be times that you need to use this front camera especially if no one will took picture of you *with you're friends/gf* LOL.. because its hard to use main camera since there's no camera button...
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You probably need to get in there with a cotton bud.
You can always use the main camera with a 3 or 10 second timer.
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kylec said:
Yeah mine is blurry too. Looks like a mosaic lol. I find that there is also a red tint
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yeah... mine too...
Basil3 said:
You probably need to get in there with a cotton bud.
You can always use the main camera with a 3 or 10 second timer.
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i already did clean the lens... crystal clear but still its worst than most of VGA frontal cam?
thanks for the advice about the timer, but i'm still hoping for much better frontal cam...

The front camera is garbage. Mine makes me look bright pink! The main camera quality is also pretty average, I find it no better than my old Desire HD.

ozaghloul said:
The front camera is garbage. Mine makes me look bright pink! The main camera quality is also pretty average, I find it no better than my old Desire HD.
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will there be an app or ROM that can fix this?
sometimes there are bits of violet color, which make me look like barney.. LOL

For the red tinge, try dropping the saturation to -1. I don't have any focus problems tho.

cleaning the lens worked for me
mikey0105 said:
yeah... mine too...
i already did clean the lens... crystal clear but still its worst than most of VGA frontal cam?
thanks for the advice about the timer, but i'm still hoping for much better frontal cam...
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my front cam looked really horrible for a while... blurry, tint was way off, grainy, lots of artifacts. cleaning the recessed lens definitely did the trick for me.

Make sure you're well lit. Here's a sample from my camera for the quality you should expect.

Sg3 camera vs evo 4g Lte

Hey guys,
It seems the evo camera is better at taking pictures then the gs3 to me. It snaps it faster ant focuses better and the burst shot doesn't have to go into a different picture mode. But I noticed the evo showe full screen pictures I'm gallery where as the gs3 has black borders around the pics either on the side or top n bottom. Is there anyway to mame it display full screen photos ?

The evo lte im pretty sure has more options and can take photos faster
Not sure about quality difference
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[Q] Freaky front camera distortion?

Is anyone else experiencing front facing camera distortion?
I'm too embarrassed to take selfies or even use snapchat because of the craziness it does to my head and face.
Try it and tell me if yours does it, put your forehead in the top of the frame, or your chin at the bottom. It totally warps your face. The camera makes my head small when it's in the middle yet makes my nose huge when it's up close. Stock camera app or third party app, it's still there. The distortions are actually ridiculous.
This is too unacceptable for a phone which was supposed to have an awesome front-facing camera. I'm probably going to take it back and wait for 64-bit phones if there is no solution for this. I'll take a low field of view versus such heavy distortion any day.

I have not experienced anything like that ever - for me it's actually been the best front facing camera I've had.
Beauty face was on by default by quite a bit which can make pictures look really weird sometimes, so maybe check that? I'm not sure what else could cause that.
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ateld said:
Is anyone else experiencing front facing camera distortion?
I'm too embarrassed to take selfies or even use snapchat because of the craziness it does to my head and face.
Try it and tell me if yours does it, put your forehead in the top of the frame, or your chin at the bottom. It totally warps your face. The camera makes my head small when it's in the middle yet makes my nose huge when it's up close. Stock camera app or third party app, it's still there. The distortions are actually ridiculous.
This is too unacceptable for a phone which was supposed to have an awesome front-facing camera. I'm probably going to take it back and wait for 64-bit phones if there is no solution for this. I'll take a low field of view versus such heavy distortion any day.
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Yup I am having the exact same issue on my Note 4. I am NOTEably disappointed

ateld said:
Is anyone else experiencing front facing camera distortion?
I'm too embarrassed to take selfies or even use snapchat because of the craziness it does to my head and face.
Try it and tell me if yours does it, put your forehead in the top of the frame, or your chin at the bottom. It totally warps your face. The camera makes my head small when it's in the middle yet makes my nose huge when it's up close. Stock camera app or third party app, it's still there. The distortions are actually ridiculous.
This is too unacceptable for a phone which was supposed to have an awesome front-facing camera. I'm probably going to take it back and wait for 64-bit phones if there is no solution for this. I'll take a low field of view versus such heavy distortion any day.
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This was a known issue in GS5, but it turned out that it wasn't an actual problem! it's a wide angle lens on the front camera that the edges distort the image a little bit. So if you use different resolution, the faces won't look distorted!! hope this helps~

Maybe ya ain't such a BEAUTY FACE after all... ?

ehkim037 said:
This was a known issue in GS5, but it turned out that it wasn't an actual problem! it's a wide angle lens on the front camera that the edges distort the image a little bit. So if you use different resolution, the faces won't look distorted!! hope this helps~
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I can't use a different resolution in apps such as Snapchat (the only time I actually take selfies). Hopefully a custom rom/app will fix this later. For certain angles the distortion is just terrible, though.
JohnnyEpic said:
Maybe ya ain't such a BEAUTY FACE after all... ?
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I have a beautiful face, the Note 4 is worse than an unflattering camera, it literally distorts the hell out of it.
I ran your picture thru my note 4
http://i.imgur.com/xlY8m3z
The face is squished on one side, and stretched on the other.

ateld said:
i can't use a different resolution in apps such as snapchat (the only time i actually take selfies). Hopefully a custom rom/app will fix this later. For certain angles the distortion is just terrible, though.
I have a beautiful face, the note 4 is worse than an unflattering camera, it literally distorts the hell out of it.
I ran your picture thru my note 4
http://i.imgur.com/xly8m3z.png
the face is squished on one side, and stretched on the other.
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ateld said:
Is anyone else experiencing front facing camera distortion?
I'm too embarrassed to take selfies or even use snapchat because of the craziness it does to my head and face.
Try it and tell me if yours does it, put your forehead in the top of the frame, or your chin at the bottom. It totally warps your face. The camera makes my head small when it's in the middle yet makes my nose huge when it's up close. Stock camera app or third party app, it's still there. The distortions are actually ridiculous.
This is too unacceptable for a phone which was supposed to have an awesome front-facing camera. I'm probably going to take it back and wait for 64-bit phones if there is no solution for this. I'll take a low field of view versus such heavy distortion any day.
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I have the same problem, had a lg g3 and I am disappointed

Yeah I have this problem too. It's distorted and also very laggy. It's a very wide camera angle too. I'm hoping there's going to be a module to fix it.
The one solution that I have is to turn a filter on the front facing camera and see if that fixes it. I know you can't use those filters on Snapchat but try it and see if it's any better.

That's odd there's multiple people reporting this. When I read the OP I assumed you had a faulty front camera. My front camera is MUCH better than any other phone I've had! I didn't think even had a wide angle lense but simply offered the option for "Wide-Selfie", which is similar to Panorama on the rear camera.

Wide angle lenses all suffer from this issue. The note has a wide angle lens, the only way to avoid this is to stay away from the edges of the screen.

Note 4 camera distortion
My note 4 is experiencing the same problems, I absolutely love this phone but I am so disappointed with the front camera distortion, especially in snap chat. If anyone can help. please let me know.

Note 4 camera distortion SOLVED!
I know this thread is quite old but I wanted to share the solution I found which is simply to change the picture size or more specifically the aspect ratio. I believe the default photo size on Note 4 is 3.7 M with 16:9 aspect ratio, if you change to 4:3 aspect ratio the distortion goes away. No more cone head

megalophonix said:
I know this thread is quite old but I wanted to share the solution I found which is simply to change the picture size or more specifically the aspect ratio. I believe the default photo size on Note 4 is 3.7 M with 16:9 aspect ratio, if you change to 4:3 aspect ratio the distortion goes away. No more cone head
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THANK YOU SO MUCH! Your solution worked for me on my LG V20!!! I've been wondering about this issue for the last couple of years actually, especially when I had the S3 and S5. I didn't realize it was actual problem with Android phones until I Googled a couple days ago and found this thread! Thanks again for saving my sanity! LOL! ???