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Camera click noise?

Anyone have this happen? Is it normal I have a brand new 0004 evo rooted it with unrevoked heard the cam clicking during the process.
Some roms you tend to hear it more when you click on the camera app sounds like it's a focusing noise. Tried Cm 7 latest build and have the same thing happen. Camera works great nice photos even vids. Just wondering if it's normal and anyone else hear the same thing when you run the camera app thanks.
Not new to the forums just curious if anyone has the same thing going on. Hard to find any info on google about 0004 hardware evo's.

I hear that a lot on my phone too. Most on reboots, nothing too random. I don't really think anything of it. It sorta sounds like the aperture opening/closing.

adamantypants said:
I hear that a lot on my phone too. Most on reboots, nothing too random. I don't really think anything of it. It sorta sounds like the aperture opening/closing.
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Thanks man glad im not the only one I only seem to notice it more since I got the 0004 not on the older 0003 evo's. How's Cm 7 going for you I used the crap outta it noticed on there nightlys the cam app took a few seconds to pop up for me. Im using elite 3 at the moment swapped clocks and keyboards out and been loving it so far.

Its normal, its just the shutter opening and closing.

Evo 3d owners

Any buyers remorse? I for one so retreated upgrading my line and wished I waited a lousy month and a half more.

shook187 said:
Any buyers remorse? I for one so retreated upgrading my line and wished I waited a lousy month and a half more.
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definitely, i got the 3d on launch date.. was hoping for more but i just don't have the same feeling i did when i got the evo 4g.. so i will be getting the epic touch, but i'll also keep my 3d for the hell of it..lol

me did not like it
3d was not good
screen colors looked really bad
screen was tilted
bad viewing angles
bad camera
very meh phone
speed was not that great, the bionic was noticeably faster than it

Pitnefor said:
me did not like it
3d was not good
screen colors looked really bad
screen was tilted
bad viewing angles
bad camera
very meh phone
speed was not that great, the bionic was noticeably faster than it
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same way i feel, and i went in very open minded.. i gave it a huge chance hoping it would live up to the og evo but to no avail.

I'm just trying to figure a way I could land a epic touch. I have a OG epic and a 3D I'm sure one needs to be sold...decisions decisions

Some of you same guys will be saying the same thing about SG II when a newer better phone comes out lol. Some of you talking about the speed of the phone is slow. My Evo3d has never had a problem or any lag doing anything. Now if all you want to do is look at benchmarks and brag then I guess the SG II wins lol. But for day to day usage E3d runs fine. I'll take realistic looking colors vs over saturated colors where white look like yellow.
Not saying the SGII is a crappy phone, but I guarantee it will have its fair share of problems once the newness wears off lol

problems
I hate my 3d .... really sucks when you cant depend on the phone to stay on and just quit not responding so i can use it as an alarm ..... several times have had to reset phone because of not responding .... Evo 3d is a piece of junk ... they rushed it out and not even that fast quality control horrible at htc right now .

None here. Hated the 3d. It was a failure.. I wanted to love it but it had a few serious flaws I couldn't tolerate. Specifically the washed out screen and terrible reception
sent from my damn EPIC TOUCH 4G!!!!

I'm switching. Not happy with the 3D. Still skeptical of Samsung though.
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Yea I fins myself reading alot about this phone and I'm guessing I'm wanting it ..now like alot of other people I need to figure out a way to get rid of my e3d. To an ex 3d user ...is it worth the trouble of selling and paying the difference to get this phone? Is it really leaps and bounds better ? My phone functions fine so you guys saying the e3d sux ass and had problems need not answer
..I want honest opinions if it lived up to the hype ..also. wanted someone to compare the camera quality between the two

firmbiz94 said:
Yea I fins myself reading alot about this phone and I'm guessing I'm wanting it ..now like alot of other people I need to figure out a way to get rid of my e3d. To an ex 3d user ...is it worth the trouble of selling and paying the difference to get this phone? Is it really leaps and bounds better ? My phone functions fine so you guys saying the e3d sux ass and had problems need not answer
..I want honest opinions if it lived up to the hype ..also. wanted someone to compare the camera quality between the two
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I think you should just go to sprint and try it out. I went into my local sprint store and they had one. I was waiting to be wowed but I was not. Now that does'nt mean its a bad phone, its just not for me. I played with it for about 15 mins. There are some things I like about it but overall I'm sticking with the e3d. For one sammy should've used a qHD screen. After using the the e3d screen everything things else looks way too big on screen.
My GF has the og evo and she's using her upgrade to get the SGII so I'll have more time to compare.

It had the EVO branding so I was sold. My EVO 4G is still getting rommed to death by it's new owner and I got to use it today after a few months, it's still a beast of a phone...
...so I figured the EVO3D, while a peculiar way to follow up the 4G, would be a fantastic (of odd) continuation of it's legacy.
I couldn't have been more let down. Nothing is sacred at HTC. The screen aspect ratio of the Evo3D is downright offensive to me. My phone spends most of it's time in portrait mode...sure the resolution made up the difference so far as on-screen data is concerned I'm always constantly irritated by the aesthetic displeasure it caused me....but I swallowed that one, times they are a changin', right?
The next was the wonky power button behavior...doesn't always turn it on right, sometimes you need a battery pull, sometimes you wake up to a green light a locked up phone and a dead battery all at the same time.
And then the coup de grace, the signal strength is noticeably weaker than my EVO 4G....and I waited for an updated radio...and the past two radios just made it worse. Then HTC dropped the ball on releasing the (complete) kernel source, it's taken forever for CM7 and I'm sure it's because of HTC no cooperating...all the while Samsung is shipping unlocked phones and hiring Cyanogen himself.
After the NS4G I got for a week or two between all of the EVO 3D's I REALLY TRIED TO LOVE I realized that it was actually a very good phone. My faith in Samsung renewed.
I tried to love the EVO 3D...but I'm not a hopeless fanboy enough to eat that much trash and call it delicious. The phone sucks. There, I said it. I tried....
...and that's without mentioning that the UI experience on the 1ghz single core NS4G is MUCH smoother than a heavily modded 1800mhz dual-core EVO 3D....
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devgrp said:
I think you should just go to sprint and try it out. I went into my local sprint store and they had one. I was waiting to be wowed but I was not. Now that does'nt mean its a bad phone, its just not for me. I played with it for about 15 mins. There are some things I like about it but overall I'm sticking with the e3d. For one sammy should've used a qHD screen. After using the the e3d screen everything things else looks way too big on screen.
My GF has the og evo and she's using her upgrade to get the SGII so I'll have more time to compare.
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I would agree with you more on that if it wasn't for the slew of random games and other apps that don't resize perfectly to the qHD. Sure, it IS the app's fault, but, the OS could handle it--and it doesn't yet...ICS I'm sure addresses this...but GB doesn't and I'm sick of waiting.
Will I be getting the Nexus Prime? Without a doubt...but I probably won't have a laundry list of reasons why the SGS2 sucked... I don't need to justify it, if I want it I get it. Period. The end. I would have been the same with the E3D if it didn't take so many opportunities to kick me while I was down.

I dont know how so many people have problems with their e3d but other than a few hiccups my phone has been fine. And thats the number 1 reason I will not install any custom roms because they usually come with problems that we spend some much time trying to fix. I had the og evo and I use to install a lot of roms. With lots of roms there were problems. With the new sense theres no need for me to install any custom roms. Apart from a few tweaks and themes I'm good.
Everything works on my e3d and I get great battery life

The evo 3d is a great phone for most people...
I personally and switching to the epic 4g touch tomorrow, and giving the 3d to my fiancee.
I am pumped for it.

devgrp said:
I dont know how so many people have problems with their e3d but other than a few hiccups my phone has been fine. And thats the number 1 reason I will not install any custom roms because they usually come with problems that we spend some much time trying to fix. I had the og evo and I use to install a lot of roms. With lots of roms there were problems. With the new sense theres no need for me to install any custom roms. Apart from a few tweaks and themes I'm good.
Everything works on my e3d and I get great battery life
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Honestly I think a lot of us got genuine duds...it seems almost all of us bought on release day. There was no prior platform-sister-model to the E3D. The EVO 4G had the Nexus1 that was nearly identical. The SGS2 has the entire worlds worth of SGS2s. The Shooter and Sensation were the first of that new platform.
But I'm on my 3rd E3D, though all still probably release day models, over the course of 3 months. I give up. I tried. I really did love the whole idea of the phone to start with.
So far as buggy roms goes it's usually pretty easy to tell genuinely buggy roms from solid roms with a few rare bugs...and the stock roms are not immune to bugs. I got more FC's on my bone-stock E3D than I ever got on a daily or RC of CM on my EVO 4G.
But to each their own. Though I've gotta ask, what are you doing here?

daneurysm said:
Honestly I think a lot of us got genuine duds...it seems almost all of us bought on release day. There was no prior platform-sister-model to the E3D. The EVO 4G had the Nexus1 that was nearly identical. The SGS2 has the entire worlds worth of SGS2s. The Shooter and Sensation were the first of that new platform.
But I'm on my 3rd E3D, though all still probably release day models, over the course of 3 months. I give up. I tried. I really did love the whole idea of the phone to start with.
So far as buggy roms goes it's usually pretty easy to tell genuinely buggy roms from solid roms with a few rare bugs...and the stock roms are not immune to bugs. I got more FC's on my bone-stock E3D than I ever got on a daily or RC of CM on my EVO 4G.
But to each their own. Though I've gotta ask, what are you doing here?
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You may have gotten a dud bro. Stock roms are not immune but custome roms do mulitply the chance of more bugs. Only time I got a FC on my stock e3d is if I restore certain app from titanium backup. And I'm here because like most of your guys I love technology and gadgets, plus my GF is getting the SGII tomorrow so I'll be sticking around.

devgrp said:
Some of you same guys will be saying the same thing about SG II when a newer better phone comes out lol. Some of you talking about the speed of the phone is slow. My Evo3d has never had a problem or any lag doing anything. Now if all you want to do is look at benchmarks and brag then I guess the SG II wins lol. But for day to day usage E3d runs fine. I'll take realistic looking colors vs over saturated colors where white look like yellow.
Not saying the SGII is a crappy phone, but I guarantee it will have its fair share of problems once the newness wears off lol
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Using the phones everyday I think they will be similar performance lol. The biggest difference will be in the screen lol.

This phone stock blows a rooted and overclocked 3d out the water. I just switched from the 3d and its better times 10.
Better signal. Better screen...even at lower resolution ..exynos core is a BEAST..plays n64 games on emulator stock smoother than overclocked evo. Better cameras..better speakers...this thing screams dude. And most of all...its a GREAT PHONE before anything. Great call quality..stronger reception than the 3d. If your on the fence..jump man..it's worth it
sent from my damn EPIC TOUCH 4G!!!!

devgrp said:
You may have gotten a dud bro. Stock roms are not immune but custome roms do mulitply the chance of more bugs. Only time I got a FC on my stock e3d is if I restore certain app from titanium backup. And I'm here because like most of your guys I love technology and gadgets, plus my GF is getting the SGII tomorrow so I'll be sticking around.
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Cool. No mal intent, honestly curious why someone who is a happy E3D owner would be here...now I know.
But, yeah, I think I got 3 (yes, three) duds...all HW001's, I'm sure that has everything to do with it. The 002's likely have a much lower failure rate and much higher tolerances.
I got FC's on every E3D I had from the music app on countless occasions, the youtube app all over the place, the browser....all reliably. In fact, until I flashed Synergy I was plagued by FC's. Again, I'm sure my hardware was at fault here.
FC's I can live with...it's no kernel panic, it's no blue screen and it happens fast and is absolved relatively fast (except for youtube which became unusable eventually...web-version, problem solved).
If the screen width (in portrait) fit my preference, if the battery life was phenomenal, if the signal strength/lock was good....any one of those...I could and would be able to completely ignore all of the things wrong with the device--and I haven't even begun. But sadly it was not to be.
Glad to have you on board either way.
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Success100 said:
This phone stock blows a rooted and overclocked 3d out the water. I just switched from the 3d and its better times 10.
Better signal. Better screen...even at lower resolution ..exynos core is a BEAST..plays n64 games on emulator stock smoother than overclocked evo. Better cameras..better speakers...this thing screams dude. And most of all...its a GREAT PHONE before anything. Great call quality..stronger reception than the 3d. If your on the fence..jump man..it's worth it
sent from my damn EPIC TOUCH 4G!!!!
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I know you...You know me...and you are saying what we both wanted to know: So it's true? Great signal strength/holding? Tower locking? higher roam-threshold?
I can't wait,.

My biggest complaints about the evo 3d:
1. Camera Quality (in 2D and 3D), 2D pics were grainy and i could not get nice 3d effects unless i tried really hard in perfect light, etc. 3d Pictures were just a blur otherwise.
2. Meh screen
3. Dropped calls and poor reception, dropped calls in my house all the time, never did with my EVO 4g. Palm Pre reception is poor too, but still better than the E3d. EVO Shift is also very poor in my house, but better than the e3d
4. Battery life was significantly better than a stock evo (Of course, not nearly on par with EVO 4g + my savaged-zen kernel lol), I made it through a short day with minimal-moderate usage. But of course, it is likely because of the poor signal I had in my house. (I'd roam in my basement, with the OG evo i always had a signal)
That's about it, I returned it 22 days after launch day (when i got it)
It had good things too:
1. 3D was very cool, except when I took my own 3d pics/videos I couldnt get it to look right, but movies/games/etc were all very cool.
2. Sense 3.0 is usable, maybe even a little better. I still prefer AOSP, but I absolutely hated sense pre-3.0 and couldn't stand it.
3. Very quick phone, not GS2 quick, but miles ahead of the OG Evo and most phones
4. Felt better built than the OG evo. I liked the flush battery cover
Bottom line, I didn't feel it was worth an upgrade so I returned it. It's just personal preference. I skipped on the photon because of the dated tegra 2 and lack of developer support. I waited WAY longer than i wanted to on the ET4g but I'm finally getting it tomorrow and I'm excited about it.
Oh yea, I got mine on launch day right when they opened lol. I see all the people talking about random reboots and software glitches/hardware glitches. I never had any of that it was very stable, it just wasn't for me

Galaxy Nexus Camera Speed

One of my main reasons for having the GN (I prefer a keyboard phone) is the responsiveness of the camera. My GN's camera has zero shutter lag running the stock rom rooted with faux123's kernel. When I run custom roms the camera picture taking is slower.
To be clear, the camera is NOT SLOW ON A CUSTOM ROM. It is simply not immediate in the way that it is on stock. Thus far, I have run MCR, Liquid Smooth and CM9 Nightlies. None of them had the camera speed of stock. I may be doing something wrong though. Thought I'd ask before simply sticking with stock rooted.
I'd like to have quick access to settings and other features that a custom rom offers but I absolutely need the camera to be instantaneous as it is on stock.
Any advice?
TIA

It was something they broke on 4.0.3 and fixed in 4.0.4 so try a newer ROM running 4.0.4
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA

Thanks for a fast reply on that. Will give that a go.
Edit: Tried out Liquid and it is really so much slower than stock camera. It focuses for a full one to two seconds before the shutter activates and that kinda delay won't work for me. I'll try some other 4.0.4 roms and see if they do any better this go round. If not, back to stock 4.0.2 until they figure out this data drop bug then stock 4.0.4. I gotta have the instant shutter.

Well, tried several more roms and they all have the focus lag. So I'm back to stock. It's weird to me. Seems that they would at least be the same. Wouldn't necessarily expect a custom rom to be faster in that dept but slower? No matter. Stock android on a Nexus is satisfying enough. I need the instant camera. Thanks again.

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Well, tried several more roms and they all have the focus lag. So I'm back to stock. It's weird to me. Seems that they would at least be the same. Wouldn't necessarily expect a custom rom to be faster in that dept but slower? No matter. Stock android on a Nexus is satisfying enough. I need the instant camera. Thanks again.
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Well its the difference between AOSP and the OTA. They are very similar, but still different. That's a perfect example, but 4.0.4 was supposed to improve the shutter speed and make it focus faster.

AOKP ftw. I have the same qualms and AOKP has always been incredibly quick with the camera. I'm running MIUI rom right now and it does take that extra fraction of a second or whatever to focus but I deal I was running AOKP M4 and Franco's M2 (and later his nightlies - don't remember if any were better than the other) and it would capture so quickly that I had to double check my little previous preview window to see if it snapped.

I think on all 4.04 the camera is slower because it allows the camera to focus and take a better pic while before it wouldn't focus if you didn't click manually and would take pic right away. Sometimes this would result in worse quality and I believe that's why they changed it in 4.04.
Could be wrong though..
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Typically I find the first pic is slower while it focuses but sequential shots are instant.
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AOKP is just as slow. I'm looking at a fresh install of AOKP right now. It's the touch to focus feature all the custom roms have. Makes the camera so slow focusing (and again, when I say so slow, I mean slower than stock which is instant). Stock is the only option I guess. Unless, that is, one of the roms has the option to disable touch to focus. Is there one?
As for what player911 is saying, this is true. The first pic is slower focusing and sequential pics are faster. IF you basically don't move the camera. If you recompose the shot, move around, the camera will do the focusing dance all over again. I have a 20 month old. I need the first shot. AND I'll be moving around, lol. The custom roms just don't cut it in this regard. I've never had a phone where the stock software was decent enough to the point that I'd even consider not going custom but the GN running Android without Touchwiz/Sense/Blur is just awesome and I can definitely live with it. Plus I have my instant camera!!
Back to stock I go.
Thanks folks.

This sounds ridiculous to me. Yes, it does take 1-2 seconds for the first shot to focus, but then all sequential shots are instant. That is the point. So you want to have really blurry photos all the time and have it never focus, even though you're getting an instant first shot? That doesn't make sense to me.

Actually, the camera focusing is something I would like. Sure, the instantaneous thing is nice, but I'd rather a clear picture. Maybe a custom rom could offer the option to switch between the different ways the camera operates (like one option focusing before the first shot the other like it is before .4)?

OP, once on stock 4.0.4, you will see the camera actually focuses.... What you are describing is the behaviour on stock 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 roms

Point camera at subject, allow it to focus on its own, take picture. Just as fast as the 4.0.2 camera if not faster
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4.0.4 the camera is much better. First shot takes half a second or less to focus, and most of the shots after that are instant if you take them quickly enough.
The quality of the pics is much better now as well.
On 4.0.2 all the pics came out blurry or double vision. Now they are sharp and clear.

The first shot is only blurry if you can't hold the camera steady. I can.
As for 4.0.4 camera taking less than a second to focus, it just isn't true in my experience. I used half a dozen 4.0.4 rims last night to be sure. Why would I want to be rooted and on stock rom if this wasn't truly the case???? Who would want that?
Think about it....
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This sounds ridiculous to me. Yes, it does take 1-2 seconds for the first shot to focus, but then all sequential shots are instant. That is the point. So you want to have really blurry photos all the time and have it never focus, even though you're getting an instant first shot? That doesn't make sense to me.
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Thank you for this.

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The first shot is only blurry if you can't hold the camera steady. I can.
As for 4.0.4 camera taking less than a second to focus, it just isn't true in my experience. I used half a dozen 4.0.4 rims last night to be sure. Why would I want to be rooted and on stock rom if this wasn't truly the case???? Who would want that?
Think about it....
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So because it is not true for you, it must be false for everyone else?
Nice logic....
You need optimal light conditions for quick focusing. I focus in a second or less, and each shot after that is instant.

adrynalyne said:
So because it is not true for you, it must be false for everyone else?
Nice logic....
You need optimal light conditions for quick focusing. I focus in a second or less, and each shot after that is instant.
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I asked for help finding the fastest camera because I want to catch photos of my son. People gave suggestions, I tried them and they weren't faster FOR ME. I said and clicked thanks for the suggestions. What's the problem here? You've got too much time on your hands. Leave me alone if you can't be helpful.

Focusing is almost instant on 4.0.4. Way better than previous versions of ICS for me.
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I asked for help finding the fastest camera because I want to catch photos of my son. People gave suggestions, I tried them and they weren't faster FOR ME. I said and clicked thanks for the suggestions. What's the problem here? You've got too much time on your hands. Leave me alone if you can't be helpful.
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I gave suggestions. Sorry if they don't meet your approval.

Questions about the GS2.. Amaze user here

Well I have an HTC Amaze for about 2 months now.
I recently upgraded to ICS and it completely ruined my wifi calling experience because everytime I am on a call, there is a delay in the voice, that gets worse as time goes on. Not to mention everyone says I sound alot lower on wifi calling compared to normal use. I rely on wifi calling in my place cuz I get no signal here
I called T-Mobile and there are no Amaze to send me, so they sent me a GS2 instead. I am getting it on Monday. In reality, I can just keep the Amaze if I hate the GS2, send back the GS2 and deal with the wifi issue, but whats wrong with trying out the GS2 for 7 days right? =]
Anyways, What are the major differences between the 2 of these phones. Mainly my big issue is wifi calling and am curious how good, or not good, it is on the gs2.
I use my camera alot and I hear the Amaze takes the cake on this comparison, but I figured you guys would know better since you have a gs2. How is the photo quality?
Feel free to add more differences if you like. Sorry if its been asked before.
Thanks alot!
BTW I always run stock, so no downgrade to gingerbreads please =] lol

I feel that the SGS2 camera is excellent. You can take a picture and then zoom in and the picture will still be clear.
Here is an article showing the difference between the 2 phones.
http://www.androidauthority.com/htc-amaze-4g-vs-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-t-mobile-27110/
Enjoy!
Hope I helped you out! If I did don't forget to hit the THANKS.

Oh your welcome. Believe me I have read all those articles. Just trying to get first hand accounts from owners on here

Keep the GS2. Much better phone IMO. Can't find anything wrong with it. Even stock this phone is very smooth and stable. Just a rock solid, good looking phone.
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The ICS roms we have for the SGS2 also have the wifi calling delay. Works perfect on GB.
Hopefully the official ICS update doesnt have the problem
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This is a great phone, had a for about 4 months. I was recently offered a straight trade for Amaze so I was considering that as well, but decided I needed compensation for my SGS2 as well, so it didn't go down. Try to extend your time to like 9 days when the ICS update drops so you can see if ICS will effect wifi-calling?

I've had the htc mogul, evo and evo3d. I left sprint for tmobile and got the s2, I havent had any complaints and dont miss htc at all. I will say this though the s2 camera is ok not great, no zoom and not fast. I find it strange that several years ago my original palm pre would snap pics as fast as you could press it, and here we are several years later with sorry cameras still, except for the amaze. I would raise hell about having an htc and try to drag a htc one out of them, i mean htc is what you bought.

Might be a dumb question but is there not an auto shot mode on the s2 camera.
Im messing around with it and I dont wanna have to choose what kind of mode to put it in every night.. as in night mode etc etc.
Is there an option for it to just do it itself.

Oh and sorry, is there a way to make the photos widescreen when you take pix? When I view them on my comp, there all square.

Its about equal.
After a few months,with both,phones,I finally (yesterday) have decided gs2 is the better device.
Its much more responsive,battery lasts longer(stock/rooted).The camera is best on amaze,but not by much.
gs3 drops soon for $199.
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ITALIANNYC said:
Might be a dumb question but is there not an auto shot mode on the s2 camera.
Im messing around with it and I dont wanna have to choose what kind of mode to put it in every night.. as in night mode etc etc.
Is there an option for it to just do it itself.
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There is Auto Iso, and Auto Focus... and you can leave the effects and scene selections on None.
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Oh and sorry, is there a way to make the photos widescreen when you take pix? When I view them on my comp, there all square.
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Choose 6.5 meg resolution which should be widescreen, at least it is on DarksideBeta07. On stock, I think it is similar but I don't run stock to check.
Lastly, I have a Sensation and GS2; HTC Camera's are quicker for shots; but picture quality are both very good.

Having both phones. Was an extensive amaze user. Amaze's camera is amazing especially their night scene pictures compared to the gs2. Sorry but our camera sucks at night lol. meaning, pictures taking without flash. However daytime pictures, amaze has a slight lead especially macro pictures.
Battery is definitely better you probably notice already. Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity is a bit stronger and connects quicker. That was the first thing i notice about the two. Had them side by side.
Honestly i use to like the amaze's resolution because games had more details (compared side by side) but i hate it's viewing angle.
In the end, i would go with the gs2, it's snappier, better connectivity, longer battery life, and that's most of the day to day stuff you would notice. although the amaze's is by far the best. It's better than the iPhone 4s's too if you're wondering. haven't played with the new one s/x so no input there.. Probably because i see no need to change phones. I usually change every couple months. Been rocking this phone for 7 months love it
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Teo032 said:
Having both phones. Was an extensive amaze user. Amaze's camera is amazing especially their night scene pictures compared to the gs2. Sorry but our camera sucks at night lol. meaning, pictures taking without flash. However daytime pictures, amaze has a slight lead especially macro pictures.
Battery is definitely better you probably notice already. Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity is a bit stronger and connects quicker. That was the first thing i notice about the two. Had them side by side.
Honestly i use to like the amaze's resolution because games had more details (compared side by side) but i hate it's viewing angle.
In the end, i would go with the gs2, it's snappier, better connectivity, longer battery life, and that's most of the day to day stuff you would notice. although the amaze's is by far the best. It's better than the iPhone 4s's too if you're wondering. haven't played with the new one s/x so no input there.. Probably because i see no need to change phones. I usually change every couple months. Been rocking this phone for 7 months love it
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I think the amaze has a louder speaker,but sgs2 is just a bit snappier.
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Teo032 said:
Having both phones. Was an extensive amaze user. Amaze's camera is amazing especially their night scene pictures compared to the gs2. Sorry but our camera sucks at night lol. meaning, pictures taking without flash. However daytime pictures, amaze has a slight lead especially macro pictures.
Battery is definitely better you probably notice already. Wifi and Bluetooth connectivity is a bit stronger and connects quicker. That was the first thing i notice about the two. Had them side by side.
Honestly i use to like the amaze's resolution because games had more details (compared side by side) but i hate it's viewing angle.
In the end, i would go with the gs2, it's snappier, better connectivity, longer battery life, and that's most of the day to day stuff you would notice. although the amaze's is by far the best. It's better than the iPhone 4s's too if you're wondering. haven't played with the new one s/x so no input there.. Probably because i see no need to change phones. I usually change every couple months. Been rocking this phone for 7 months love it
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I noticed that the " little " things on this phone are just better then the Amaze. Like the little bugs and things you normally wouldnt notice. I also feel its better to hold this phone and type with. I also see myself not worrying so much about damaging the phone. Its funny cuz you would think that with the amaze and its better build quality that you wouldnt be worried, but I always am very careful with it, esp when putting it down. Its weird. Probably cuz its heavier.
For me, the screen thing doesnt really bother me that much. What really blew me away was how loud the music player is with my good headphones in. I always hated that about the amaze. I always wanted it louder and it never would go louder. This one is better then an ipod.
I am a big camera user so thats probably why I might send this one back. If this phone had the same quality cam as the amaze, I would DEFF keep it.
I also like the vibration on this phone more. I also have realized that I like thin and light phones alot more then hefty ones.
Now my huge nitpicks with the gs2 is the compression of photos on MMS, and of course the camera. Those 2 really do annoy the hell out of me.
My ONLY concern would be this.. I love this phone because the wifi calling is PERFECT. Its barely usable with the Amaze after the ICS update. Im just worried that the same thing is going to happen with the GS2 when you guys get the update. I would hate for me to keep this phone, just for a few days later for the update to put me in the same situation with the GS2 as with my amaze. If that was the case, id keep the amaze.
I already got an update from tmobile on this phone but have refused to download it, although I am sure its going to do it automatically sooner or later.
Anyway I am really enjoying the experience with the phone and have until Sat to make up my mind.
I was going to try and root my amaze and see if something can fix my wifi calling but the process is a lil more difficult then I thought.

Why the GS2 is better
In my opinion the GS2 is far more advanced than the amaze. It has a larger screen, faster cpu and better overall design. If you are worried about wifi calling and want to root, there are some roms on here that have ics which have good wifi calling, although some dont.

[Q] Is this phone still buggy and problematic?

I was thinking about re-buying it, even though it disappointed me back then when I had it. It was recently updated to ICS and I found it to be laggy, especially in the homescreen and with a livewallpaper, then it had also a bunch of bugs, the most annoying one was the camera button not working all the time when trying to snap a quick photo without turning on the display and everything, and the autofocus being slow and crappy in video recording. There were more bugs but I don't remember them too well.
Also, back then they all had the crappy screen with yellow tints, I got mine replaced but even the replaced screen was rather crappy, with inferior color reproduction, and yellowish whites, in comparison to the old screen which looked AMAZING, except for the dark yellow patches.
Tell me if it has gotten better in these few months, it should have gotten a bunch of updates too.
Also, can you tell me if games run well? My favourite android games that didn't run too well back then were Wind Up Knight, Let's Golf 3, Asphalt 6, and probably a couple more but I don't remember. I'd also like to know benchmark scores in NenaMark2, Antutu and Quadrant, I'm willing to install custom kernel and customized stock based roms.

MarkMRL said:
I was thinking about re-buying it, even though it disappointed me back then when I had it. It was recently updated to ICS and I found it to be laggy, especially in the homescreen and with a livewallpaper, then it had also a bunch of bugs, the most annoying one was the camera button not working all the time when trying to snap a quick photo without turning on the display and everything, and the autofocus being slow and crappy in video recording. There were more bugs but I don't remember them too well.
Also, back then they all had the crappy screen with yellow tints, I got mine replaced but even the replaced screen was rather crappy, with inferior color reproduction, and yellowish whites, in comparison to the old screen which looked AMAZING, except for the dark yellow patches.
Tell me if it has gotten better in these few months, it should have gotten a bunch of updates too.
Also, can you tell me if games run well? My favourite android games that didn't run too well back then were Wind Up Knight, Let's Golf 3, Asphalt 6, and probably a couple more but I don't remember.
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Its a damn good phone, but if you didnt like it then you probably wont know. Most of those bugs are gone and my screen looks good. I run games just fine, but I am not a major gamer.
Probably should have put which phone you are talking about and put this is the QA section. I assume it is the Xperia S.

Yeah, it's the XS, I'm sorry.
My main problem with it was the disappointing performance. It literally ran less smoothly than my old Xperia Ray, and I tried EVERYTHING except for custom kernels, because there weren't many back then. I'm willing to try them now, if they do make a big difference.
I don't remember on what firmware was I though.
Which bugs still persist?

MarkMRL said:
Yeah, it's the XS, I'm sorry.
My main problem with it was the disappointing performance. It literally ran less smoothly than my old Xperia Ray, and I tried EVERYTHING except for custom kernels, because there weren't many back then. I'm willing to try them now, if they do make a big difference.
I don't remember on what firmware was I though.
Which bugs still persist?
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Custom roms make a big difference. There really aren't any bugs that bother me that are still around. Its definitely one of the best Sony phones for dev support. On KA20.1 its really fast. I can't say enough positive things about this phone and I have owned one since it first came out. I has its flaws but there are no perfect phones.

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Custom roms make a big difference. There really aren't any bugs that bother me that are still around. Its definitely one of the best Sony phones for dev support. On KA20.1 its really fast. I can't say enough positive things about this phone and I have owned one since it first came out. I has its flaws but there are no perfect phones.
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Can you tell me which flaws still remain? The only hardware flaws I found with this phone were the unresponsive dots but I learned to get them to work everytime by swiping them instead of pressing them. I don't really mind non removable battery or no SD (I'll never fill 32Gb). The screen should be good now, I don't know if you had to get yours replaced, but at first they used to replace it with a ****ty screen which had tinted whites and poor contrast.

MarkMRL said:
Can you tell me which flaws still remain? The only hardware flaws I found with this phone were the unresponsive dots but I learned to get them to work everytime by swiping them instead of pressing them. I don't really mind non removable battery or no SD (I'll never fill 32Gb). The screen should be good now, I don't know if you had to get yours replaced, but at first they used to replace it with a ****ty screen which had tinted whites and poor contrast.
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The software flaws that annouyed me were how slow and stuttery it was (is it still like that on stock?), camera button that worked half the time when going from sleep to snap (that feature was also advertised but it didn't work), terrible autofocus, and there were some bugs with the facebook thingy and some widgets, IIRC.
Also, if you could link me to a changelog of the new firmwares that came out recently I'd appreciate it.
Ah, sorry for the double post.

It's a good phone, but don't ask for miracles.

Buy one. Unlock it and flash a JB rom
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