Develop Bugs

Camera Rather Blurry

Hello,
I've been doing some digging around and it seems this may be related to the JPEG compression, but how can this be removed? All the "mods" i've came across are discontinued. Please explain.
Anyways, if my camera moves the slightest while taking a picture, it becomes blurry. Videos seem fine, but pictures almost always appear blurry.
Thanks for your help. :highfive:

ccalby said:
Anyways, if my camera moves the slightest while taking a picture, it becomes blurry. Videos seem fine, but pictures almost always appear blurry.
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If the images are blurry only when phone is shaken then it has nothing to do with JPEG compression. AFAIK One X doesn't have optical image stabilization, it has a digital IS mode for video, but not sure if there is anything for still photos. There is nothing much you can do other than hold the phone still and try to shoot under well lit conditions (to reduce shutter time).
Are you using an AOSP custom ROM (i.e CM10, AOKP etc.) ?

Also, with the stock camera app, hold down the shoot button and it'll take a few photos in quick succession and allow you to choose the best one

Camera Bad Picture Quality in gallery

I hope someone has the same issue or that this is a "normal" behavior of the HOX, but I don't think I ever noticed that until 2 days ago; anyway here's the problem.
When I take a picture with my camera, the picture looks great during review time (the option you set in settings 3 or 5 seconds). But when I open the same picture in gallery it seems that the quality is lost. I can notice that since as soon as I review the picture, I click on the lower left corner to open the picture again and I can see the difference between the "review picture" and the "saved picture". This is especially apparent in the front camera: when I take a picture of myself, my eyes look very sharp/cartoonish.
I have been running ARHD for a while since 14.2 and I am on 18.1 now. I installed lyapota mod pack which included camera jb mod extrim. I thought it was because of the mod so I did a clean installation of the rom with full wipe and the same problem was there.
Please advise.
Thanks to whoever will help!

May be a different viewer is used(triggered) to view the saved photos.
And thus thus could be a viewer app problem, not the photo quality itself.
Did you try to open these photos on your PC to see how are they looking there?

tiho5 said:
May be a different viewer is used(triggered) to view the saved photos.
And thus thus could be a viewer app problem, not the photo quality itself.
Did you try to open these photos on your PC to see how are they looking there?
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Yes I did, unfortunately it's the same problem.

Could it be that the preview is smaller than the actual image, and that the quality therefore looks better, because the preview is smaller..?
Try to post a picture you have taken, to show what you mean.
Kind Regards
TwinAdk

Here is a picture showing both scenarios. I took a screenshot during the review (on the left) and then i opened the actual image. I put them side by side. Notice the color fading and the noise/loss of sharpness in the right picture. This is with normal day light, the effect gets worse when in low light.

Does anyone else seem to have low quality screen shots?

Every time I get a screen shot and share it I'll go to click on it and the screen shot is always very grainy. Is that just how it's supposed to be or is there something wrong with this

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Every time I get a screen shot and share it I'll go to click on it and the screen shot is always very grainy. Is that just how it's supposed to be or is there something wrong with this
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Actually I've been having the same issue. I'll take a screenshot and if you look at the image in the gallery it looks perfectly fine but as soon as I post\share it to G+ it looks grainy on G+. I also noticed that after uploading the image to G+ there would be 2 "versions" of the same image in Google's Photo App, the clear version that I uploaded and the grainy version which G+ is displaying.
I have no idea why it's doing this or how to correct it

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Actually I've been having the same issue. I'll take a screenshot and if you look at the image in the gallery it looks perfectly fine but as soon as I post\share it to G+ it looks grainy on G+. I also noticed that after uploading the image to G+ there would be 2 "versions" of the same image in Google's Photo App, the clear version that I uploaded and the grainy version which G+ is displaying.
I have no idea why it's doing this or how to correct it
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Yeah it's rather strange. In the gallery they look fine, but sometimes there's a slight delay where they look a little grainy then the image clears up but when I share those same images, usually right after a screen shot, the screen shot will be grainy when I click on it in the convo. I guess I could just ask the recipient if it looks blurry on their end as well.

Yup.
Stock messaging distorts the image.
Only work around I've found is to use gosms

Got a good quality of screenshot on mine.

Depends on where you are sending them and how. Most messaging apps have limits on the size of the images that can be sent and reduce their size changing the way they look. Most of the time it isn't that noticeable, but the images that are on your phone should be the correct size and quality.
The shift you see when viewing in the gallery is a quick images that is updated with are more detailed on as it loads. Otherwise you would seen blank screen when you first look as it would have to wait until the full image is loaded.

Maybe its the resolution and quality, its a little different when viewing in a pc or other devices also.

I noticed that if you allow Google+ to auto backup the picture then share it, it's full resolution

Mine are always crystal clear on Facebook, Kik, Instagram, etc.
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Yes mine was just fine in Facebook and other sites.

lg g4 pixelated camera anyone else notice this?

when I take a photo then view it and zoom in, the photo becomes pixelated and does the same when i viewed it in photoshop never did this on my s4 any suggestions please.....

What settings did u mess with ? Or auto everything?
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Any photo is made up of pixels, so when you zoom, you will see those pixels of course, it's expected.
So I'm confused what you mean. Are you saying that when you zoomed into the S4 pictures, you never saw any pixels? That's impossible!
Perhaps it's just different software or tools you happen to be using, maybe you somehow are able to zoom further into the G4 pictures so that you can finally see the pixels, but when you used the S4 you just never got close enough to start seeing the pixels? But trust me, every single digital picture has pixels, you can't avoid it.

Are you using the correct resolution?

You can't really change the G4's photo resolution, at least not using the included Camera app. So it's unlikely the OP is shooting at, say, 2MP rather than 16MP.
But as KingFatty said, every photo will become pixelated if you zoom in far enough, that's just the nature of the beast.
The only "exception" I can think of is if you are using the digital zoom on the G4. It handles this a bit strangely, IMO.
On my last phone, as I recall, it would save digitally-zoomed picture as a lower-resolution file, reflecting what the sensor actually captured.
But with the G4, the picture will still be saved at the normal resolution (5312x2988, if shooting in 16:9). But in reality, if zoomed fully to 8X, it only captured 1/8 of the normal area on the image sensor. It only captured what was at the middle of the image sensor, then it stretched that out, "pretending" it captured 5312x2988. When in reality, what it captured is much lower resolution.
So a digitally-zoomed picture will look much worse than normal, when you zoom in using Photoshop, etc. It'a *already* been digitally zoomed in once, when it was saved. If using the digital zoom, you may as well just take a normal picture, then crop it down later to just what you want, it's the same end result.

This is why I never use digital zoom on anything. Cropping the final picture will always give you a better result than digital zoom since the digital zoom also effectively cancels any image stabilization in use.

How far area you zooming in? If you look at a photo from a DSLR at 100%+ you easily see the pixels and you can see how soft the photo is.

Camera losing taken shots

Stock MDB08I - no root
Noticed if I take a ton of shots in one go and switch between video and camera that I will on occasion lose an image. Pain in the rear as this seems to have happened where even the last shot preview shows a taken shot but clicking it shows NO shot saved. Even Google photos app doesn't show the image. Did a dump of DCIM folder and shots are missing. Had this happen now 5 times in the last week. Taken 200 images so far and 5 images just took and showed in preview - SO it's not operator error of shot actually not taken - shot shows in last shot preview but doesn't save. Wondering if the lag on HDR processing is causing a stall on processing and inadvartent loss of image?
Others seeing this at all.

I've noticed lost shots too. Really hating the lag with the camera app and I'm thinking that's the cause.
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If you're shooting many shots in HDR+, then yes, you'll likely max out the phone's ability to post-process all of those images. Others have noticed this after taking 3-4 HDR+ photos in succession.

Same issue here. As far as I’m concerned, I think this is a big problem and this should be a PSA/sticky thread until the issue is fixed.