Dont know if its just me, but when im using the front camera and i switch it to record, it looks really dark. Like when taking a front pic it looks good, but when i switch it to record it gets really dark, this is with the exposure value at 0, I have to change it to +2 and it looks decent, can someone check there front camera and let me know if its just me, was running jugs4.1 but went back to 3.7 but still looks bad, gonna try and restore my first backup when i was stock to see if that works
EDIT: Didn't think it would help, but restored my first backup from the first day I got the phone, camera still doing the same thing, can someone just check to see if yours does this, thanks
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Why not record videos with both roms and play them back on your computer?
That way you can tell if they are the same quality or if it is just the brightness on the screen that you have to adjust
All 3 record really dark, don't know if its always been like this or if it happened recently
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Hey fellow 4G Touch Users ... So I tried an ICS build last night( Thanks to Phantom and the awesome Blazer ROM ), one thing I noticed is that the ICS camera is vastly better at focusing than the Gingerbread version of the stock camera.
I attribute this mostly to the fact that you have touch to focus on the main screen of the ICS camera, once I touched to focus on ICS it would lock the focus and take the picture as is.
In Gingerbread I don't see the ability to touch to focus like this, please someone correct me if I'm wrong or missing something. When I take a photo in Gingerbreads Stock Camera, it seems to re-focus then take the picture, which, most times, will leave the photo out of focus..... Personally I -hate- this.
With such a great camera hardware wise, does anyone know if there is a way to enable this feature, or get an app that does this? I've used Camera FX, but the options I see for focus that even comes close is fixed, which doesn't seem to be good at all.
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Hey fellow 4G Touch Users ... So I tried an ICS build last night( Thanks to Phantom and the awesome Blazer ROM ), one thing I noticed is that the ICS camera is vastly better at focusing than the Gingerbread version of the stock camera.
I attribute this mostly to the fact that you have touch to focus on the main screen of the ICS camera, once I touched to focus on ICS it would lock the focus and take the picture as is.
In Gingerbread I don't see the ability to touch to focus like this, please someone correct me if I'm wrong or missing something. When I take a photo in Gingerbreads Stock Camera, it seems to re-focus then take the picture, which, most times, will leave the photo out of focus..... Personally I -hate- this.
With such a great camera hardware wise, does anyone know if there is a way to enable this feature, or get an app that does this? I've used Camera FX, but the options I see for focus that even comes close is fixed, which doesn't seem to be good at all.
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I don't know whats wrong with your camera, but my gb camera has always had the tap to focus. I'm on Calk's ICS beta rom right now and I personally think it takes better pics than the ICS camera.. at least with the build I'm on now
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I don't know whats wrong with your camera, but my gb camera has always had the tap to focus. I'm on Calk's ICS beta rom right now and I personally think it takes better pics than the ICS camera.. at least with the build I'm on now
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Not sure ... Is there a setting for it? Tapping my screen takes a photo, I looked for a "Tap to focus" setting, but didn't see one.
RubenRybnik said:
Not sure ... Is there a setting for it? Tapping my screen takes a photo, I looked for a "Tap to focus" setting, but didn't see one.
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It should be set automatically to tap to focus. I have mine set to auto focus and it still can tap to focus.. If anything try to uninstall and reinstall the app. Or you might have reflash the Rom. The Rom might have tweaked the camera
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Blazer isn't an ics from...its just themed to look like ics
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bo5ibbs said:
Blazer isn't an ics from...its just themed to look like ics
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^this. lol
no worries tho, the theming on that rom is pretty convincing
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It should be set automatically to tap to focus. I have mine set to auto focus and it still can tap to focus.. If anything try to uninstall and reinstall the app. Or you might have reflash the Rom. The Rom might have tweaked the camera
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Yep, that seemed to work Should have thought of that first, just didn't know if the functionality existed or not ... Thanks a bunch!
I've tried to change the settings including the mode and exposure but same issue. Like I said when I am about to take a picture and looking at the screen, lighting is great, I take the picture but then when it hits the gallery it is so much darker.
Any ideas? I changed over from the nexus s which always took awsome pics and this is supposed to be better so any help would be appreciated.
I have not gone to a custom rom yet fyi.
appreciate the help
I notice that too. I think it's because the phone automatically turns brightness all the way up in the camera app, then it goes back to the brightness you set to when you exit the camera app. So that makes the picture turns out to look a lot darker.
try wiping the app data
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try wiping the app data
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bit of a novice so if you might explain the steps involved would be appreciated thank you in advance...
seems like the first suggestion helped the gallery show up brighter. what I did was go in and uncheck the automatic display and just set at a higher brightness.
any other suggestions always welcome
go to setting>apps>all>scroll and tap camera app>wipe data
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go to setting>apps>all>scroll and tap camera app>wipe data
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thank you I will try that. low light shots seem to pose some challenges...and the flash washes out..gonna have to play around a bit with this to see if I can improve. Doesn't make sense that my nexus s seemed to take better shots but sure if I tweak some things I can get this on track
Hi all,
I have a problem I hope the great minds here can help me with.
I'm using Slimbean 6.2. I have taken two pictures recently with ordinary camera.
Trouble is, the pics appear grey in the Gallery.
Interestingly, the thumbnails show the image clearly as expected.
I think it may be because the camera wasn't focused, the first pic was of my daughter on a fairground ride and the second was of a train (don't ask).
Is there anything I can do to make them appear correctly?
Examples attached.
You can see the thumbnails clearly, when I tap into the second photo down on the left, I get a grey pic.
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Have you tried to transfer them to your pc or laptop ?
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Have you tried to transfer them to your pc or laptop ?
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I'll try that, but in Dropbox on my laptop they are appearing as grey as well..
I've just flashed build 6 and then 6.9 weekly and camera is working in both. I took a number of shots on both builds and purposefully made sure some were out of focus, no problems at all. Best option is probably just to flash the rom again, try the weekly it seems really stable and the camera is definitely working(as it appears to be in build 6).or You could try to push the camera apk first
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It's odd, it's only happened on a couple of pics, others have come out fine.
Looking at the details, width height and orientation are the same as for other pics (which did work).
Exposure time is 1/2000 and ISO = 100
Size is 43.33kb vs others which are approx 1.5mb
I'll probably never know...
it happened to 2 or 3 month ago but I can't for the life of me remember which rom it was or how i resolved it, hopefully it will be ok now
No fixes available for that ATM!
Change to 6 MP and the camera won't take gray photos... That's the only temp. fix AFAIK!
Delete please
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Change to 6 MP and the camera won't take gray photos... That's the only temp. fix AFAIK!
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Thanks vin4yak, I'll try that and hope it doesn't happen again
Happened to me a while ago on viperx rom completely out of the blue. I thought it might be camera settings (even though I changed nothing at the time) but i reset them and it continued intermittently. Only for one evening, and it's never happened again. I hadn't changed anything else either, it just started with the grey pic rubbish, and then for no apparent reason it stopped! And never did it again.. I know what I've said doesn't exactly help a lot , just wanted to say that the 6mp fix might not be necessary.. Must be something else that caused it
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I am having issues with nexus 5x, with flash on & HDR off a the flash is pathetic in a Dark room the flash goes off but all the photos are dark? Or when there is a little light with flash forced on the room is no brighter??? Help.
In a bright room if I force the flash on the photo goes dark? This makes no logic?
A your else having problems?
Think I have found the problem, when the battery goes below 20% the flash looses most of its power.
Same problem here, when battery goes below 15% and i take a picture of near subject, the photo is almost all black. Does it happen to someone other?
I think however is a simply intrinsic energy saver...
Here's another thread with the same issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3382452
What have you guys done about your flash issues? Warranty?
I'm in the process of warrantying now along with garryboy. Just waiting for Google to send me the refurb unit before I send them mine.
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Here is a solution
Hi guys i have a solution for this
The problem is android optimize the camera app for battery life
go to configuration->battery->battery optimization
then select option "all aplications", search for camera app and select no optimize
try again and compare
Still not working guys.
Shooting a photo with flash and the photo goes all dark.
Fix pls?????
xranitel said:
Still not working guys.
Shooting a photo with flash and the photo goes all dark.
Fix pls?????
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It may sound stupid, but use the WhatsApp app..
I tried every other app than the stock camera and it doesn't take the photo after/before the flash turned on..
Tell me if it did work to you ?
*** EDIT : another solution that worked the best for me :
Use the camera nx with the zsl ! It works great with the flash unlike the stock camera app..
it work like a magic for me ! thanks
I am trying to figure out what, or if, I am doing something wrong. The 2 xl should have a great camera, yet my recent pictures all come out grainy (for lack of a better word). It is worse when viewed on my PC. A couple of examples are attached. I have tried with and without flash and adjusting my room lighting the best I can but nothing seems to clear it up.
Currently I have flash set to Auto and HDR+ Enabled.
What else can I try to clear this up?
(Attachments pending upload from my phone.)
Have you tried to reset the camera app and revert it to its original settings? Under App info, storage, hit clear data.
Hmm I think the photos look nice ?
The first picture looks like you could lower the exposure. That might help a bit.
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I am trying to figure out what, or if, I am doing something wrong. The 2 xl should have a great camera, yet my recent pictures all come out grainy (for lack of a better word). It is worse when viewed on my PC. A couple of examples are attached. I have tried with and without flash and adjusting my room lighting the best I can but nothing seems to clear it up.
Currently I have flash set to Auto and HDR+ Enabled.
What else can I try to clear this up?
(Attachments pending upload from my phone.)
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They look fine to me. Try the same on an S8+ and you'll get worse. That is pretty low light.
Also, don't bother with the flash, absolutely no need with the Pixel 2, picture with and without comes out the same.
calash said:
I am trying to figure out what, or if, I am doing something wrong. The 2 xl should have a great camera, yet my recent pictures all come out grainy (for lack of a better word). It is worse when viewed on my PC. A couple of examples are attached. I have tried with and without flash and adjusting my room lighting the best I can but nothing seems to clear it up.
Currently I have flash set to Auto and HDR+ Enabled.
What else can I try to clear this up?
(Attachments pending upload from my phone.)
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Hard to say for sure because I'm not sure exactly how much light was in the room, but those do look a little on the fuzzy/grainy side from my experience. This camera if nothing else is incredibly sharp, yet that is not the case at all in these pics. Have all of your pictures looked this way or only recent pics? I would definitely try resetting the camera app settings to default. If that doesn't work I'd consider a factory reset and if that fails, then RMA.
Hmmm,
Seems like the HDR+ mechanism trying to bring shadow details bit too much, resulting in chroma noise,
You can try to reset your camera app,
Btw, have you updated to 8.1 ?
Thanks to everybody for the feedback. Some more information based on the comments:
Running 8.1 on a Verizon Pixel 2 XL
Did reset the camera app after it was suggested. Not seeing much difference on the same bookcase.
It is not every picture. I have a few closer item pictures that look perfect. To test I snapped one off our back deck during the daytime. The brighter scene is a lot better overall, but you can see the grainy texture in the darker areas.