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HTC Touch Pro 2 Camera bright spots.

Hi all
I faced a very strange problem. Let go of the dead pixels, I am talking about the camera previewing the image very clear and OK. After the shot has taken place the photo is decorated with bright spots (red, blue..etc) sometimes 2, sometimes 5 it depends -I dont know on what. They are not present in the real view ofcourse. This is not dead pixels as they move and grow as I zoom in to the photo..Any similar encounters???? Or Advice. By the way, this is my second exchange from amazon. I asked them to send me a third unit.

bonbooni said:
Hi all
I faced a very strange problem. Let go of the dead pixels, I am talking about the camera previewing the image very clear and OK. After the shot has taken place the photo is decorated with bright spots (red, blue..etc) sometimes 2, sometimes 5 it depends -I dont know on what. They are not present in the real view ofcourse. This is not dead pixels as they move and grow as I zoom in to the photo..Any similar encounters???? Or Advice. By the way, this is my second exchange from amazon. I asked them to send me a third unit.
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Thank you for your reply. Please find attached the photo with the problem previoiusly mentioned. You can see the bright 2 spots in the middle and to the right of the picture if you enlarge it they will appear clearly. Those 2 dots are not present in the real scene nor pre the shot in the view finder. After the camera takes the shot they appear in all pictures.

Here's a snap I took with the camera right on top of a black surface. You can see there's a couple of spots near the bottom but certainly not as bad as yours. It probably happens since the camera is not made for taking black photos and as it struggles to focus, it is "tricked" into thinking there's some light there where there's not. But anyway, if it bothers you to the point where it effects your normal photos, then you should return it.

Galaxy Nexus Camera Viewer

I got this phone last week and love it.
Anyway, I noticed that when I go to camera viewer in the dark or view a black image I get a gradient white to transparent line from the top of the screen all the way across. Is it normal or Am I the only one who has this problem?
See the attachment, so you can see the problem what I am talking about. See the mark on those pics.
Should I return it??
Thanks!

Yes, I get exactly the same thing. Only noticeable when the image at that end of the screen is completely dark.
It doesn't show in the actual photo.
I wouldn't return it as it doesn't affect the result and it seems to be only one pixel wide.

GeekBoi said:
I got this phone last week and love it.
Anyway, I noticed that when I go to camera viewer in the dark or view a black image I get a gradient white to transparent line from the top of the screen all the way across. Is it normal or Am I the only one who has this problem?
See the attachment, so you can see the problem what I am talking about. See the mark on those pics.
Should I return it??
Thanks!
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Darn near $800 phone... If I order it and don't have absolute perfection, it's getting returned.

bennettm89 said:
Darn near $800 phone... If I order it and don't have absolute perfection, it's getting returned.
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May as well save yourself the trouble of buying one then.

Davidsmonkeyroost said:
Yes, I get exactly the same thing. Only noticeable when the image at that end of the screen is completely dark.
It doesn't show in the actual photo.
I wouldn't return it as it doesn't affect the result and it seems to be only one pixel wide.
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I am glad to know that I am not only one here. However, I like to know how many people here have this 'not-really-problem'.
Anyone, does your nexus have a similar issue to mine? If so, please post here (just say "yeah, I have that, no big deal" or whatever)

Mine has it as well, and it appears to me to be the same color gray as the background for the camera UI, and this is just the edge of the "view finder," I am guessing that the coder for the camera miscalculated where the screen edge would be...

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Is my screen deteriorating?

Hello everyone,
I've had my GNex since last February and just today I noticed something odd with my screen. Anytime I bring up a grey sub-menu it seems that there is weird fragmentation or pixellation of the grey shading longitudinally through the menu on the right side. Please see attached screen shots for a better idea of what is going on. I realize that the issue is faint on these screen shots, but it is really very pronounced on the actual screen itself. I'm concerned that my screen is dying and was wondering if anyone else has experienced this. I still have warranty for a couple more months. Thanks!

If it is indeed a hardware problem, it will not be visible in screenshots. Only way for you to show it would be to take a picture with another camera.
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Interesting. Because I can definitely see it in the screen shots since I know what I am looking for. I'll try to post more shots with a circle around the region I am talking about.

If you can see it in screenshots it's a software problem. If you can see it on your phone's screen but not in the screenshots then it's a hardware problem. take a picture of the screen so we know what to look for too.
I mean, I do see oddities, but they look a kinda like compression artifacts
Edit: Hmm, I do see a strange horizontal line in the second picture..

This is an issue with 4.2. I believe it is documented as well, but since I'm mobile I can't get the link. Its just a software glitch and nothing to be overly concerned about

Oh I see. Okay thanks everyone.

Dust on rear camera

Hey Fairphoners,
I guess you've heard about the problem of having dust inside the phone and on the camera (see main fairphone post or https://fairphone.zendesk.com/hc/communities/public/questions/200997773-dust-inside-phone).
How are you dealing with this? I myself had to open my phone recently to clean it and now, a few weeks later, my camera can't focus again..
If many people are affected by this problem one could (and should) get in touch with the fairphone staff.
Greetings!

Bump!
I won't believe that no one else experienced this problem yet, so let me ask this: how many of you still use their cam since the beginning without having cleaned it.
Don't be so shy

I do, though it might be my low standards.

arghwhymustiregister said:
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I won't believe that no one else experienced this problem yet, so let me ask this: how many of you still use their cam since the beginning without having cleaned it.
Don't be so shy
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I did it yesterday after I finally got me the fitting tools.
It's way better again and the pictures are better. You see it best, when looking at details (I compared a dusty one with the cleaned one, when taking a picture from the same object)
But since then my microphoe is really almost silent. I have to speak really loud so the other side will hear me...
I did not do anything to the microphone...
Anyone an idea?

@Vinnl: So, did I get it right that your camera still focuses correctly (especially when you are close to the object)? Or did you mean that you are not really using the camera..?
@haiag: Hmm.. I did not experience nor hear about such a difference in the microphone sensitivity - maybe some of the connectors/connecting parts on the motherboard have been touched?

arghwhymustiregister said:
@Vinnl: So, did I get it right that your camera still focuses correctly (especially when you are close to the object)? Or did you mean that you are not really using the camera..?
@haiag: Hmm.. I did not experience nor hear about such a difference in the microphone sensitivity - maybe some of the connectors/connecting parts on the motherboard have been touched?
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I don't know what "correctly" is, but most of the times is focuses, sometimes it doesn't, but I guess that is normal? I use it now and then, but not that extensively.

I got my FP1 in January and took a number of pictures since then (~700 or so). Never had problems, no dust, no focus issues, no red tinting. I even can't remember where I put my Casio Cam as the FP1 makes faster and better snapshots. But I think that won't help you anyway now, does it?

Argh, you guys have been lucky with the phone..
But thanks for the answers, 'cause any answer is better than no answer
PS: To test your focus just take a picture of a text and see if it's sharp/readable afterwards.
Mine can't focus a text on a piece of paper anymore.. Either it shows the red rectangle and it doesn't take the pic or the green one but then the pic is not readable/completely blurred (and I mean like *completely*)

arghwhymustiregister said:
Argh, you guys have been lucky with the phone..
But thanks for the answers, 'cause any answer is better than no answer
PS: To test your focus just take a picture of a text and see if it's sharp/readable afterwards.
Mine can't focus a text on a piece of paper anymore.. Either it shows the red rectangle and it doesn't take the pic or the green one but then the pic is not readable/completely blurred (and I mean like *completely*)
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This is what I get: https://i.imgur.com/0rAk4nS.png
(If I move the camera closer to the paper it cannot focus either, but I suppose that is to be expected at some point.)

^that looks good, compared to my pics

WTF is Top Shot?

I have motion set to on and the latest version of Google Photos. Yet I just get the standard view all option. No suggested shots. Anyone know what's up? I even tried the version of Google Photos going around that enables Top Shot on the Pixel 2, but it still doesn't work.
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When looking at the picture swipe bottom to top (up) you'll see a stream of photos at the bottom of the info. Tap on them and If the pic sucks the app will try to recommend the right ones for you.
Took me a minute to get it myself but now it is easy and helps a lot when I'm taking pictures of my 18 month old. Lol
Hope that helps!

Ghost_1 said:
When looking at the picture swipe bottom to top (up) you'll see a stream of photos at the bottom of the info. Tap on them and If the pic sucks the app will try to recommend the right ones for you.
Took me a minute to get it myself but now it is easy and helps a lot when I'm taking pictures of my 18 month old. Lol
Hope that helps!
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I know all this. But after swiping up, I don't get any recommended shots. Ever. Just the usual timeline where you click "view all". It shows you a bunch of shots, with the original photo marked with a dot, but it doesn't jump to a recommended photo.
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Had that problem too, this sounds counterintuitive but try to take a blurry picture, as in shake your hands while taking a picture. I noticed that too shot only works when it "detects" the photo was bad in the first place. What constitutes bad, from my experimentation, has been blurry photos, when someone is moving to put their hand up so you don't get a shot of them (lol), and sometimes when the phone thinks the photo is "bad".
Took me a while before it really started working so I forced it by taking really bad blurry photos while motion was on.
Hopefully this helps you to get it working. I found it a bit fustrating at first cause I couldn't get it to work either but a little experimentation, research, and patience worked out. Lol

Ghost_1 said:
Had that problem too, this sounds counterintuitive but try to take a blurry picture, as in shake your hands while taking a picture. I noticed that too shot only works when it "detects" the photo was bad in the first place. What constitutes bad, from my experimentation, has been blurry photos, when someone is moving to put their hand up so you don't get a shot of them (lol), and sometimes when the phone thinks the photo is "bad".
Took me a while before it really started working so I forced it by taking really bad blurry photos while motion was on.
Hopefully this helps you to get it working. I found it a bit fustrating at first cause I couldn't get it to work either but a little experimentation, research, and patience worked out. Lol
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Thanks, but what about blinking? I thought that was one of the main uses. That's how I've been testing. Blinking or just looking away from the camera real quick to get a blurry shot. Nothing works.
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Hmmmm, haven't had luck on the blinking. The best way to test it to see if it is "working" is to take a bad shot. My first test was to take a picture and while I was doing so I moved the phone to cause a blurry picture.
I just went through my own gallery using Google photos app and there are a ton of pictures that could have used too shot but didn't. Try taking several purposely bad photos and see if you can work it from there.
I don't think it's you or the phone but rather the phone doesn't think there is anything wrong with the pictures you are taking. ?
I will say that it's getting better over time, as in it seems to be able to recognize that a picture that I took needs to be corrected with the more photos I take.

since google hasnt officially released it, I wouldn't expect it to be working correctly, if at all yet.

Ghost_1 said:
Hmmmm, haven't had luck on the blinking. The best way to test it to see if it is "working" is to take a bad shot. My first test was to take a picture and while I was doing so I moved the phone to cause a blurry picture.
I just went through my own gallery using Google photos app and there are a ton of pictures that could have used too shot but didn't. Try taking several purposely bad photos and see if you can work it from there.
I don't think it's you or the phone but rather the phone doesn't think there is anything wrong with the pictures you are taking. [emoji14]
I will say that it's getting better over time, as in it seems to be able to recognize that a picture that I took needs to be corrected with the more photos I take.
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Yeah, like I said, I've taken plenty of purposefully blurry photos. But all I get is "view all" instead of "recommendations". I have no idea how to get this working. At all.
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Sucky, not sure what else to say other than the tier I list of, check for updates, reboot, and try again.
I find it real strange that it's not working for you. ?

uicnren said:
since google hasnt officially released it, I wouldn't expect it to be working correctly, if at all yet.
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Huh ?!