Idk why, but when I take a screenshot of my screen, whatever it may be, and I text it to someone, the screenshot is super blurry and distorted, but when I email it it's fine? My cousin's iPhone does not do this, and it's bugging me. Is it a compression issue?
galaxytabevo said:
Idk why, but when I take a screenshot of my screen, whatever it may be, and I text it to someone, the screenshot is super blurry and distorted, but when I email it it's fine? My cousin's iPhone does not do this, and it's bugging me. Is it a compression issue?
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Yes. Stock MMS application compresses picture mail.
barnacles10 said:
Yes. Stock MMS application compresses picture mail.
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Well, it sucks. I feel embarrassed sending these screenshots to people!
Does resolution factor into this?
galaxytabevo said:
Well, it sucks. I feel embarrassed sending these screenshots to people!
Does resolution factor into this?
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Its purely application controlled. The mms apk compresses images before they are sent. If you check out a custom rom such as calkulins i believe he raises the compression limit allowing you to send larger file sizes. Alternately if you're not rooted and dont want to you might want to look into a 3rd party mms application such as gosms or handcent. I can't guarantee these to be different as i don't use them, but lots of people seem to have success.
I agree though. Stock mms is quite shades mcgee in this respect.
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barnacles10 said:
Its purely application controlled. The mms apk compresses images before they are sent. If you check out a custom rom such as calkulins i believe he raises the compression limit allowing you to send larger file sizes. Alternately if you're not rooted and dont want to you might want to look into a 3rd party mms application such as gosms or handcent. I can't guarantee these to be different as i don't use them, but lots of people seem to have success.
I agree though. Stock mms is quite shades mcgee in this respect.
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Thanks for your informative reply, I will try a 3rd party app
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Anyone know how to change the compression ratio when sending MMS? It is just set way to high. Thanks for any help.
ejdavis72 said:
Anyone know how to change the compression ratio when sending MMS? It is just set way to high. Thanks for any help.
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You can change the resolution by going into settings(open the drawer on the left, press the gears, choose resolution), and selecting a lower resolution.
But, you could also download Handcent and it will resize pics for your before sending, that way you still have the higher resolution picture on your phone but send out the lower res one.
Coop9 said:
You can change the resolution by going into settings(open the drawer on the left, press the gears, choose resolution), and selecting a lower resolution.
But, you could also download Handcent and it will resize pics for your before sending, that way you still have the higher resolution picture on your phone but send out the lower res one.
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Thanks for the info. I guess what I meant to say is... When you go to send an MMS message and the picture is too large, the phone compresses the picture automatically, but in my opinion it is compressing far too much and I was looking for a way to control the compression. Thanks for any info.
i was looking this up the other day..the compression goes down to 52kb on some phones..kinda ridiculous. I know blackberry and i think the i*hone allow for bigger messages to be sent. If you find a workaround or a hack..please post it!
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i was looking this up the other day..the compression goes down to 52kb on some phones..kinda ridiculous. I know blackberry and i think the i*hone allow for bigger messages to be sent. If you find a workaround or a hack..please post it!
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I have been looking for days and can't find anything at all other than a worthless app I found in the app store. It was super slow and I requested my money back. I think someone is gonna have to make something for it so you can choose your compression right before the picture attaches to the MMS.
One thing i always do is if im going to take a picture for MMS i use the 3MP option. 95% of the time the picture is small enough where it doesn't have to compress it at all. It's not 8MP but whoever you are sending it to wont be able to tell.
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One thing i always do is if im going to take a picture for MMS i use the 3MP option. 95% of the time the picture is small enough where it doesn't have to compress it at all. It's not 8MP but whoever you are sending it to wont be able to tell.
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Yeah I was doing that the other day too and I discovered if you go 3mp in 4.3 mode, it is under the limit every time. Oh well maybe someday soon hopefully. But just think of it this way... 5 years ago the best phone on the market was the Motorola RAZR! Ha ha try and go back to that!!
So when I take pictures with my phones camera upright, the gallery shows the picture correctly... but now when I send that same picture via MMS (from either build in messenger or Handcent) it rotates the photo 90 degrees.
Now if I send a photo taken by my DSLR, that was copied to the SD, or a screen shot by drocap2, this does not happen.
Anyone else have this problem?
Anyone know how to fix this?
Does anyone else have this problem??
yes I've noticed this too. Don't know what the fix is except to take photos sideways (for texting)...anyone?
This annoys the crap outta me. I haven't figured out a way to fix this other than taking pictures in landscape.
nathan951 said:
So when I take pictures with my phones camera upright, the gallery shows the picture correctly... but now when I send that same picture via MMS (from either build in messenger or Handcent) it rotates the photo 90 degrees.
Now if I send a photo taken by my DSLR, that was copied to the SD, or a screen shot by drocap2, this does not happen.
Anyone else have this problem?
Anyone know how to fix this?
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This is caused by the camera app, and how it tags the orientation. You can install a different app such as Pro Zoom 5X or something, and that should fix it. It sucks I know, but installing a different camera app should fix it (just try a free one first).
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This is caused by the camera app, and how it tags the orientation. You can install a different app such as Pro Zoom 5X or something, and that should fix it. It sucks I know, but installing a different camera app should fix it (just try a free one first).
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I thought maybe it was something when it compressed the image, but guess not.
The odd thing is, that in the gallery it is fine, just MMS is effected.
Is this something that can be addressed by developers?
nathan951 said:
I thought maybe it was something when it compressed the image, but guess not.
The odd thing is, that in the gallery it is fine, just MMS is effected.
Is this something that can be addressed by developers?
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Unfortunately not. The only fix is a different camera app.
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Sorry , not trying to beat a dead horse.. but are you saying that the stock camera APK can not be fixed/tweaked?
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Unfortunately not. The only fix is a different camera app.
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Sorry , not trying to beat a dead horse.. but are you saying that the stock camera APK can not be fixed/tweaked?
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I'm sorry, I thought you meant the Rom/Kernel developers fixing the problem in the Rom/Kernel itself. Yeah, the actual camera app probably could be fixed, but the problem is getting someone to do it. Not sure if anyone here wants to take the time to look at it when there are other camera apps that do not have this issue.
You could also try this camera. Its the MIUI camera. Just place it in system/app, might have to reboot.
http://db.tt/CIeT1DT
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I pushed theis to the system/app, Loaded it, but it still sends MMS image wrong
(Its only when sending MMS, with stock camera, or this camera)
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You could also try this camera. Its the MIUI camera. Just place it in system/app, might have to reboot.
http://db.tt/CIeT1DT
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I pushed theis to the system/app, Loaded it, but it still sends MMS image wrong
(Its only when sending MMS, with stock camera, or this camera)
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So you used this camera, took a picture in portrait mode, sent it va mms, and its still messed up. Darn.
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zanderman112 said:
So you used this camera, took a picture in portrait mode, sent it va mms, and its still messed up. Darn.
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Yeah, Didnt help...
Try GoSMS.
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The workaround I use to fix this is to crop the picture. Even just slightly in any gallery program. Then it orients correctly when attached. ^_^
Problem is the froyo epic ota. A Ginger leak corrects this issue. No way around it as far as I know. Start taking pics in landscape :-\
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So when I take pictures with my phones camera upright, the gallery shows the picture correctly... but now when I send that same picture via MMS (from either build in messenger or Handcent) it rotates the photo 90 degrees.
Now if I send a photo taken by my DSLR, that was copied to the SD, or a screen shot by drocap2, this does not happen.
Anyone else have this problem?
Anyone know how to fix this?
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This was addressed many months ago. The simple answer is, yes, it could be fixed. But the fix is more complicated than the matter is worth. Recent digital cameras employ an accelerometer to determine how the camera is being held and thus dictate how computers and devices should orient the resultant picture. It does this via some sort of digital tag in the pictures coding that an application then reads. For some reason, the tag the Epic camera creates is then not properly read by the same phones messaging app. Frustrating? Sure. But is an mms that will be looked at for a matter of seconds before being discarded worth hours of effort to correct? The majority of developers have apparently decided it's not worth the effort, and this would greatly exceed my own knowledge.
Simple fix? Another messaging or camera app as suggested.
I came upon this save issue, but I have the Epic Touch 4G.
I take the pic, and with Handcent, the image is rotated 90° counter clockwise.
But with the Native message app, the picture is fine, and not rotated.
Would appear to be an app issue, but with the EVO 4G, the pic was not rotated using Handcent.
I'm a little confused on this one.
No time on received text messages ?
Half the apps you download dont work it says unfortunately this app has closed. There is bugs to be ironed out on ics.
Why is there an advertisment showing on the screen behind a text msg when you receive one i cant seem to get rid of it.
No flash yet. Phone very difficult to hear even at highest volume and i downloaded volume ± and ringer not long enough.
"Half the apps you download dont work it says unfortunately this app has closed."
Have you enabled force GPU rendering by any chance?
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No time on received text messages ?
Half the apps you download dont work it says unfortunately this app has closed. There is bugs to be ironed out on ics.
Why is there an advertisment showing on the screen behind a text msg when you receive one i cant seem to get rid of it.
No flash yet. Phone very difficult to hear even at highest volume and i downloaded volume ± and ringer not long enough.
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What? All of my received text messages have a timestamp just like the sent ones. There are no advertisements behind text messages unless you're using a 3rd party texting app.
I got no problem with the volume, actually phone calls quality is very good.
+ what advertisment are u talking about ??
Same here. Phone call quality has been excellent. No adverts in text messages.
Not really the galaxy nexus' fault if app devs are taking sometime to opimise for ICS and 720p displays.
If you wanna be the first to get hands on latest hardware/software/combination of the two, then expect some teething problems.
For me, the most annoying thing by far is T-mobile not letting me receive good quality MMS. Everything is small and blurry. Looking forward to learning about a fix here.
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For me, the most annoying thing by far is T-mobile not letting me receive good quality MMS. Everything is small and blurry. Looking forward to learning about a fix here.
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why would you assume that tmo is to blame?
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rdsreference said:
No time on received text messages ?
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Mine has a timestamp. Are you using the stock messaging app or a 3rd party one from the Market?
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Half the apps you download dont work it says unfortunately this app has closed. There is bugs to be ironed out on ics.
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This is NOT an issue with ICS, it can be (as stated above) that you have "Force GPU Rendering" checked in Settings -> Developer Options, or (more likely) the developers who have made those apps have yet to update their code for ICS (most likely resolution and memory management I would guess).
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Why is there an advertisment showing on the screen behind a text msg when you receive one i cant seem to get rid of it.
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See above, what texting/messaging app are you using?
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No flash yet.
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It is coming, according to Adobe themselves. Although, other than imbedded videos in articles/posts, I find Flash to be as much of an annoyance (ads) as a boon.
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Phone very difficult to hear even at highest volume and i downloaded volume ± and ringer not long enough.
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I agree that this is not a phone for the hard of hearing or those who work/live in noisy environments...
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foxehkins said:
why would you assume that tmo is to blame?
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It has happened before (N1 I think), and is something about how their network does not recognize the unlocked device and uses the lower bandwidth protocols for MMS reserved for feature phones because it does not recognize the device as a smartphone. Or something like that...
At any rate, it is documented (here at XDA even) and has happened before...
T-mo will eventually do whatever on their end, and they will be able to send/receive larger photo files.
* Temporary fix, use the vignette camera application *
I love the SGS2 but it sucks extremely that you are pretty much forced to take pictures in landscape mode as any pictures taken in portrait mode are send upside down in landscape... This appears to be a Samsung issue with most devices.
Does this bug anyone else but me? Me having a major OCD for this.. makes me miss my old EVO 4G
Any fix to this other than having to try and edit the pictures or taking pictures in landscape.
Here is a link to further describe the issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/...ure-always-returns-1-for-exifinterface-tag-or
EDIT: For anyone who wants to attempt and fix this.. Found this old thread form 2010. They used a custom patch/fix to save the correct orientation.
http://forum.samdroid.net/f55/samsungcamera-orientation-saving-fix-2435/
Never had this problem...
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Febby said:
I love the SGS2 but it sucks extremely that you are pretty much forced to take pictures in landscape mode as any pictures taken in portrait mode are send upside down in landscape... This appears to be a Samsung issue with most devices.
Does this bug anyone else but me? Me having a major OCD for this.. makes me miss my old EVO 4G
Any fix to this other than having to try and edit the pictures or taking pictures in landscape.
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Same here,first notice it with my wife's og epic now this one.. So annoying..
Bobby O'S Epic Touch....
dutchman71 said:
Never had this problem...
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So what are you doing different? It happens to me too.
Oh wah, Go to your gallery, long press said picture, more > Rotate left, or right.
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So what are you doing different? It happens to me too.
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Nothing really just regular setup. I remember some sensor aided setting under location but I'm not sure that affects this issue.
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Oh wah, Go to your gallery, long press said picture, more > Rotate left, or right.
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You can't do that when it only rotates the pictures when you try to send them via MMS.
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Oh wah, Go to your gallery, long press said picture, more > Rotate left, or right.
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I wish it was that simple but that makes me look more foolish attempting to rotate it then sending it. Only to end up finding out the picture is once again being send wrong lol...
rob97ss said:
Same here,first notice it with my wife's og epic now this one.. So annoying..
Bobby O'S Epic Touch....
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Yeah I noticed this on my samsung captivate and thought oh well It is maybe a software issue. I flashed CM7 and CM9 to my epic touch just now to test out if it was the way software is coded but no... Same results. Must be the way hardware is setup.
have the same issue. my girlfriend and i both have the epic touch, and the mms pics are never sent in a straight orientation. therefore, we just use dropbox.
Is this actually unique to our phone? I'd be surprised if so. See, most phones and cameras handle rotation not by actually taking the photo in portrait, but via EXIF metadata that notes the orientation in which the photo's supposed to be displayed. I'm guessing the MMS software is merely ignoring this EXIF data. The photos display fine in everything else that supports it, but the MMS app doesn't. If that's the case, I would assume this is more common than on merely our phone.
That said, I rarely if ever use MMS anyway. If I can email the photo at a much higher quality, I normally prefer to do so.
If anyone is a dev that happens to read this... In an older samsung model they fixed this annoying bug with a custom package. I'll attach them to the OP in case anyone wants to try and compared the fixes to try making us one.
http://forum.samdroid.net/f55/samsungcamera-orientation-saving-fix-2435/
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Never had this problem...
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Neither have I that I know of. I just tried it to make sure I was not just over looking the issue.
Either orientation saves the way I took the pic, and sends that way as well using GOSMS.
I think when I send a portrait picture with the stock messaging app its fine but when you use handcent it turns it sideways.
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I think when I send a portrait picture with the stock messaging app its fine but when you use handcent it turns it sideways.
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That's odd, trying emailing yourself the picture. I encounter this issue while using a skype sharing conference with ex co workers. I also have it when trying to send pictures via MMS. I even encounter it when sharing pictures on simple chatting applications. I'm convinced it's a samsung issue that they choose to over look lol =(
Using Vignette camera application... I'm able to successfully share pictures I take in portrait position with it! I thought I'd let others know. =)
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I think when I send a portrait picture with the stock messaging app its fine but when you use handcent it turns it sideways.
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Thats exactly what happens to me. It seems Samsung has a weird way of determining orientation and their messaging app is built to send them correctly. However sending thru third party apps, uploading to fb, or even xda app you get them sideways. This is very annoying and stupid and is a Samsung problem on all their phones.
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Why wouldn't you take a pic in landscape? It has only been since the iPhone era that people have really started taking photos and videos vertically, and personally, I can't stand it.
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I usually always take pictures in landscape now just because I don't want my friends to have to keep turning their phone to view it. If I take a picture of someones face then I might take a portrait picture. I emailed Handcent about the issue a few times but they never replied back.
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You can't do that when it only rotates the pictures when you try to send them via MMS.
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Rotate it once the wrong way, then rotate it back, and it will save as the correct orientation when you go to send the MMS.
Annoying, but not the end of the world.
I prefer Chomp SMS to the stock messaging app in every way - however I noticed that my edge lighting doesn't work with Chomp. Anyone know of a way to get it to work, or am I stuck with the stock messaging app for now?
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I prefer Chomp SMS to the stock messaging app in every way - however I noticed that my edge lighting doesn't work with Chomp. Anyone know of a way to get it to work, or am I stuck with the stock messaging app for now?
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if you want to incorporate the edge light part of it, you gotta use the stock app
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if you want to incorporate the edge light part of it, you gotta use the stock app
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Damn. That's disappointing. I wish it didn't resize MMS the way it does. Through Chomp they come in at a fairly large size - through the stock app they're reduced to a max of 1024 - in my case 768x1024
i think hangouts might work with it too, if thats better for u
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i think hangouts might work with it too, if thats better for u
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No luck with Hangouts either. I'm sure it'll come in the future!
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No luck with Hangouts either. I'm sure it'll come in the future!
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not only that, I bet after a few days you dont even pay attention to the side light...if you dont keep your phone face down, or, in a really dark area/room, you wont even notice it