720p capturing freezes at Optimus 7 [issue] - Windows Phone 7 General

So here's the problem, guys:
Whenever I try to take 720p, after clicking the camera button to finish the recording it slides the video, but the camera remains black and doesn't show anything (freezing).
You can use HOME button to go the main menu, but still after relaunching camera app it slides the photos but no image from camera at all.
It starts working again only after rebooting. Got NoDo, changed registry setts only in unlock state and dehydration.
UPD: it also freezes sometimes even at capturing 480, but not always. in about 40-50%.

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Camera focusing bug after Mango 7712

I just recently upgraded my Samsung Focus to the latest beta 7712 - everything seems to work fine except for the Camera - it doesn't seem to focus anymore when I hold down the shutter button halfway. Focus also doesn't work for the Bing Vision for example, it just shows a blurry image no matter what.
Anyone else have this problem or suggestions on how to fix it?
Thanks!
Working fine here on HTC HD7.
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Working fine on my LG Quantum.
working here just normally on a omnia7
Works on v1.3 Samsung Focus on 7712.
Although I do randomly have trouble focusing on things, but it seems to be limited to reflective or steep angled surfaces. Otherwise it focuses just fine.
What hardware revision and did you have issues on mango beta 1?
Have you tried pressing on the screen to take a photo (It'll focus then take) instead of pressing the button. Not a fix but you might have to do it until we get Official Mango.
Sounds ironic how the Focus won't focus anymore xD
Try resetting camera settings, or a factory reset with 7712.
Same experience on both builds of mango. I have to press the camera button 1/2 way and wait for it to focus before pressing completely.
Small price to pay...
Camera is functioning as designed and focuses without lag and stays locked, however, pressing further to trigger the shutter is diffacult and I end up with a blurry pic. Also, I wish the search button would lock out. Its not needed in camera mode. I always hit it by accident sending me to Bing.
Had the same problem on the first release of Mango. Seems to have gotten better on Mango release 2. Having some other issues, however.
I have the Focus v1.3 - before 7712 I had limited trouble focusing, but it worked well for the most part, similar to Scrtcwlvl. Now the camera will not focus at all, as in every shot is blurry =\ I had mango beta 2 installed before this, and oddly enough did not have this problem.
Its late now, but will try in the morning to do the screen tap focus and reset camera settings, and hard reset perhaps if that fails.
N!njaDuck said:
Same experience on both builds of mango. I have to press the camera button 1/2 way and wait for it to focus before pressing completely.
Small price to pay...
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That's how it's designed to work.
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alaszlo said:
Camera is functioning as designed
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Not at all, the flashlight is buggy now
Tried doing tap to focus, also resetting the camera settings, no dice =(
If I'm feeling in a curious mood I'll try the hard reset, otherwise I might just live without the camera till RTM rolls around.
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone
Actually, I've noticed some interesting behavior since upgrading from 7392 to 7712 -- on my LG Optimus 7.
+ Can save the camera settings now. Awesome!
+ Able to turn off the shutter sound
+ Putting the phone on "vibrate" also turns off the shutter sound, which is what it should've been all along
+ Can force it to take pictures more quickly (rather than a long focus time)
+ Able to rotate the screen in "camera roll" mode when viewing pictures I've already taken. Couldn't do this before -- only when viewing from the Pictures hub.
- Seems to take blurry pictures more often when using the physical camera button, but less blurry when using the screen to snap the photo. Strange.
- Can't seem to get "tap to focus" to function on my phone, even if I turn off the "tap screen to take photo" option
Just some reports worth noting. All in all, I *love* the 7712 Mango build
do you think m$ will improve video capture from 25 to 30 fps at 720p ?
I have the same issue on 7712 on an AT&T Samsung Focus. (which makes having a "focus" issue on the Focus very difficult for searching in the forums...)
Both of the Mango preview builds had the same problem for me.
Holding the shutter button down half-way sometimes takes a LONG time for the focus target box (the white lines) to appear and the actual focusing routine to begin. Once the auto-focusing has begun, I see the image go from blurry to clear as it auto-focuses, but then, maddeningly, it continues "auto-focusing" past the in-focus image and settles on a blurry image.
I know "a long time for the focus box to appear" is subjective, but it's noticeably delayed compared to NoDo. In very informal testing, it's taken up to 8 seconds for the auto-focus target box to even appear (sometimes it's quicker than that, but, worse, sometimes it's never come up). BUT, once the actual auto-focusing has begun, I will see the image go from out-of-focus to in-focus, then settle on out-of-focus as it thinks it's found me the optimal focus condition for the picture.
My sort of solution... instead of using the shutter button, I touch and hold on the screen which brings up the focus box, then as the focusing routine starts, as soon as the image is in focus, I release my finger from the screen. This ninja-like quickness usually catches the image while it's still in-focus. If I press and hold the screen indefinitely, it will behave just like detailed above, where it goes from out-of-focus, to in-focus, then out-of-focus, but I guess because of how the "screen is touched" mode works, it takes the picture once I've been touching the screen for 3 seconds, regardless of focus.
I think the trick to lifting off of the screen while the image is still in focus can be duplicated with the shutter button (when the image is in focus, jam the button down from the half-detent to the full-detent before it can go back out-of-focus), but I found that urgently pressing the shutter button fully-down is a good way to move the phone during the exposure, which usually ruins the picture.
I've found that the finger-on-screen method will reliably bring up the focus box/auto-focus routine, while the half-detent on the physical button does not always get the focus box to show up. I've tried pressing the button to the half-detent from lots of different angles and directions, but without finding any type of pressure correlating with success or failure. This issue never appeared on NoDo or pre-NoDo (only on the Mango previews), though I do recognize that the phone is mechanically older now than when I was I got it in November. BUT, combined with the auto-focus silliness, I'm not thinking it's a button issue.
ahaha your Focus can't focus!

HOX Video Playback Landscape

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Just notiiced on my stock HOX, that when I record a video in Full HD, it is fine in portrait position (held upright), but if turn the phone to landscape it still shows the playback in portrait mode.
obsydian said:
Guys
Just notiiced on my stock HOX, that when I record a video in Full HD, it is fine in portrait position (held upright), but if turn the phone to landscape it still shows the playback in portrait mode.
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Sometimes I have the opposite XD
I've noticed that the accelerometer won't always trip so I think I'm holding the phone landscape and recording thus, but it's actually in portrait XD
Make sure that the gallery icon always matches the screen orientation, if the problem persists try to recalibrate the G-sensor I think...
Settings > Display & gestures > G-Sensor calibration
Then follow the onscreen info.
Yeah tried that the same, seems strange, will check my other HOX, odd as the Sensor works fine for everything else.
I noticed that a Hard Reset fixed mine too when you hold down power for 10 seconds.
Got nowhere so contacted HTC and got the response below saying its normal ???
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Thank you for contacting HTC regarding your HTC One X.
My name is Carola and I am a Technical Support Agent for the HTC Written Team.
I understand when you record a video clip in portrait position then you turn the phone to landscape it still shows the playback in portrait mode.
This is a normal function in the phone, due to the original screen format in which was recorded, it reduces it's size to have the complete view in the other view mode you choose.
For additional information regarding the camera in your phone you can have at this link
http://www.htc.com/www/help/htc-one-x/
select Camera basics, Recording video.
I am confident that this will answers your query, in the unlikely event that this does not please call or instant chat to one of our Customer Service Agents who will be waiting to guide you through step by step. Our Contact Details can be found at www.htc.com/uk/contact
i've just noticed that you need it to change orientation BEFORE starting the recording, once its recording it doesn't change it.
it just depends what orientation you have it first, as to which way the video will appear when playing back.
lawrence750 said:
i've just noticed that you need it to change orientation BEFORE starting the recording, once its recording it doesn't change it.
it just depends what orientation you have it first, as to which way the video will appear when playing back.
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The-Last-Hylian said:
I've noticed that the accelerometer won't always trip so I think I'm holding the phone landscape and recording thus, but it's actually in portrait
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See my post?
yeah, just your post doesn't mention that it doesn't change it whilst recording, even if the g sensor is calibrated properly. (which i could swear they used too, maybe not though)
Think this issue is that I was rotating the device after during recording.
That explains why on some clips there is no issue (where i did not rotate).
Guess I just assumed the device accelerometer was clever enough to rotate.
Thanks guys.
i reckon the reason they don;t have it rotating whilst recording, is that if for instance you played it back on a tv, i would find it really annoying if i the whole video frame kept swapping orientations through a video.

how to disable camera auto focus..

camera quality and performance is far worse than my 2mp dummy phone from 2006, the camera tries to auto focus again every time you try taking a picture, and it snaps the shot when it's blurry... getting really frustrating, could probably get better quality images if I just take a screenshot of the camera app... I just want to prevent that camera from focusing on it's own, and only focus when I tell it to, or manually focus somehow.. there should be some way to do that right?
Also, I thought I would add that I frequently encounter an error opening up the camera and then it says "can't connect to the camera" and the only way to fix it is to restart the device. usually the error occurs when browsing the gallery and then trying to go back into the camera, wher eit fails to start the camera and then no camera app, including the default one can access the camera.
Touch to focus on your object on the display. Ring will turn green.
Can also press and hold the picture/shutter icon to force it to refocus re everything and just release it to take the shot
albundy2010 said:
Touch to focus on your object on the display. Ring will turn green.
Can also press and hold the picture/shutter icon to force it to refocus re everything and just release it to take the shot
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when you tap the screen to focus, it will focus, but then start auto focusing immediately after, thereby defeating the purpose entirely. and when you push the take picture button it will try focusing WHILE it takes a picture and you'll get an out of focus shot every time that takes a long time between shots. horrendous... I would swap it with the 3mp iphone 3gs camera or even my old 2mp nokia camera any day. With the forced auto-focus and bugs, the nexus camera is totally unusable. If you could just disable the camera auto focus somehow in the system settings so that it only re-focuses when the application tells it to (such as with clicks) it would be much better (ie. not broken).
When I try other camera apps, the camera also forces refocus when attempting to take a picture, despite pre-focusing by tapping.. I think it must be something with the camera or the system that is telling the camera to refocus when you take a picture because it happens in every application I've tried. I want to just tap somewhere on the screen to focus once and then it will NEVER try focusing again until I tap again.
UPDATE: Also, the one app that can expressly disable autofocus on camera shutter "camera fv-5"... does something weird on nexus 7, the first time you try to take a picture, even though it is set to disable auto focus and it is already focused, it will focus the first time you take a picture. then after that, even if you change the focus just like before manually or whatever, for as long as the app remains open it won't force refocus as you take a picture. There must be something in the android system that is overriding camera settings and causing the autofocus to go crazy in all the applications rendering the camera and video apps unwatchable.
Oh yeah, and the camera FV-5 trial limits the picture resolution to 0.3mp, and confirms my thoughts when I compared it to my old 2mp nokia, there is no additional detail in my 5mp images than the .3mp images taken by fv-5 without autofocus, and even those aren't sharp even when resized to .3mp. Wonderfully depressing and irritating that you can't even get .3mp of clarity out of a so called 5mp camera. >____<. The focus never focuses properly, it always scans through the correct focus and lands on blurry.

Landscape video playback -> autorotating to portait after some time

So I have this weird issue with my OP5T, whenever I play a video in full screen (landscape orientation), using YouTube Vanced, VLC, or any video video applications, after some time, I'd say around 2 to 5 min, my phone orientation automatically switches back to portrait without even touching or holding the phone in my hand.
I was wondering if anyone ever had this issue and eventually found a fix for this behavior ?
Yea i got the same thing ....but mine dose it in most apps....not just watching videos.... Gyro sensor is way off...just can't find how to fix .....

Question p6pro weird screen flickering in Google photos app

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Has anyone noticed this weird screen flickering on the Pixel 6 pro in the Google photos app? I can only reproduce it when - I shoot a video in landscape mode and while viewing it in landscape mode pull up from the bottom to bring up the video details. I notice it when the Smooth display is turned on and also when I force high refresh rate (120 Hz) from developer settings. I can't reproduce it with smooth display turned off (when the refresh rate is 60Hz). The phone is updated with the latest December update.
In addition I dont see this when I view the landscape video in portrait and also not when I shoot a portrait video and view it in landscape.
I replicated your scenario but I don't have/see the problem.
Suggestion: clear data/cache from Photos app, restart app.
No problem on my end.

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