So, always loved my SG2 camera, but never tranfers any of the pics to my desktop into yesterday. So i do not understand how come, whenever i just go to my SD card, right click, copy and paste into my new folder, the pictures are so small when i open them. I am using high resolution, 8MP, so the size themself should be big. Anyone knows why this is happening?
this has happened to me too, but i have another question . Why is it that when i want to upload a picture online or here it loads it sideways? Anybody know how to fix this?
thanks...
Well, ok, at least i am not the only suffering some type of issues. Hope someone can help us.
What ROM are you guys using? Some roms say the camera is supported but sometimes it's not FULLY supported. So, you could set it to 8MP but infact the ROM only supports up to 5MP.
If you're using a custom ROM, try using a different camera app from the market, set it to the highest resolution, then import to your computer. It might work, or might not. If it doesn't work, you might need a new kernal to fix the camera.
Also, on your phone, check the properties/details on on of your pics, make sure it's the same as what you set it as.
Related
I don't know if I'm the only one experiencing this, but some of my images I guess become corrupted I think. I'm not sure how to explain it, just look at the screenshots. When i go to the picture, it's fine, but a split second later a bunch of gray lines cover up the whole picture. I don't know what could be wrong?
One picture shows it as the lines start and the other shows when it's fully covered.
Yea it sucks just delete them. Not sure why these phones do this.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA
Don't delete them. They're fine. Did you try viewing them in a different gallery, say Quickpic?
This happens with progressive jpeg's due to a gallery tweak for "HQ" images.
B39 of AOKP removed this tweak.
I'm not sure if CM9 has, I'd assume not.
In any case:
QuickPic is a great alternative that will allow viewing AND setting as wallpaper despite the native gallery errors.
Extremely helpful, thanks guys. It was starting to bug the hell out of me.
I feel really silly having to ask this question, but for the life of me I can't seem to find the option to change the resolution for images taken with the camera. I found the option to change the resolution for videos, but not for still images.
In camera settings there are crop options for Wide (16:9), Regular(4:3) and Square (1:1). I would expect to find options for resolution around here too, but I just don't see any options.
Grasping at straws, I thought perhaps it could be the sharpness slider under image adjustments, but that's not it.
What am I missing?
Thanks.
You cannot. Only with google camera app. Stock is automatically set at 4MP
Brava27 said:
You cannot. Only with google camera app. Stock is automatically set at 4MP
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Really? Thanks for the answer. At least I don't feel as foolish now, for not being able to find an option that doesn't exist.
But short of installing a different app, what are people doing if they just want to snap a quick picture to send via MMS? That's actually how I discovered the limitation, as the picture I took and tried to send via MMS wouldn't transmit as it was too large for my carrier (Verizon) at over 2 Meg. I love the phone, but that seems like a pretty silly limitation.
Andyw2100 said:
Really? Thanks for the answer. At least I don't feel as foolish now, for not being able to find an option that doesn't exist.
But short of installing a different app, what are people doing if they just want to snap a quick picture to send via MMS? That's actually how I discovered the limitation, as the picture I took and tried to send via MMS wouldn't transmit as it was too large for my carrier (Verizon) at over 2 Meg. I love the phone, but that seems like a pretty silly limitation.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I believe it's because no one would really want to send anything smaller. As for MMS limitations, use Textra or another app that automatically makes the pictures smaller.
Brava27 said:
I believe it's because no one would really want to send anything smaller. As for MMS limitations, use Textra or another app that automatically makes the pictures smaller.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I actually do use Textra. Apparently I had the setting for MMS size my carrier would allow set incorrectly. Thanks for the tip on that.
But I've got to disagree with your assessment that no one would want to send anything smaller than a 1.5 to 2.5 meg image. For the vast majority of simple snapshots that people are sending back and forth to view on phones and on Facebook, etc., there's no need for that kind of resolution. There are lots of reasons, including saving storage space and bandwidth, that people might want to capture images at a lower resolution. Not having the ability to do that just seems like a silly limitation of the software.
Thanks again for your help.
Andyw2100 said:
Really? Thanks for the answer. At least I don't feel as foolish now, for not being able to find an option that doesn't exist.
But short of installing a different app, what are people doing if they just want to snap a quick picture to send via MMS? That's actually how I discovered the limitation, as the picture I took and tried to send via MMS wouldn't transmit as it was too large for my carrier (Verizon) at over 2 Meg. I love the phone, but that seems like a pretty silly limitation.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Andyw2100 said:
I actually do use Textra. Apparently I had the setting for MMS size my carrier would allow set incorrectly. Thanks for the tip on that.
But I've got to disagree with your assessment that no one would want to send anything smaller than a 1.5 to 2.5 meg image. For the vast majority of simple snapshots that people are sending back and forth to view on phones and on Facebook, etc., there's no need for that kind of resolution. There are lots of reasons, including saving storage space and bandwidth, that people might want to capture images at a lower resolution. Not having the ability to do that just seems like a silly limitation of the software.
Thanks again for your help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I agree with all of that but 4MP uses 2mb? Basically nothing. The same could be said for a phone with 16MP which is waaay to much storage and data.
I have had my Xperia Z1 Compact for a few weeks now and for the most part I am very happy with it. The thing that lets the phone down for me is the camera.
1st issue is the photos themselves. The quality of the photos seems very poor and noisy which was extremly disappointing for me as one of the main reasons I chose this phone was for the 20 Mega pixel camera. I have heard that this problem is due to the ISO being ramped up when using auto and can be solved with 3rd party camera apps (an example given was "Perfectly Clear") that clean up the images nicely. I haven't tested this myself but if anyone can recommend any app or tips to getting cleaner images I would be most greatful.
2nd issue is how the camera saves pictures. I have the camera setting set to "burst with long press" which mean every time I take a couple of snaps it creates a new folder for that "burst" which more often than not is a single photo or two. This is annoying enough without the fact that with each new folder it starts repetitively naming the photos "DSC_000001" onward meaning I have 10 separate folders all with about 1-2 pictures in each and most of those pictures are named "DSC_000001" so when it comes to moving these pictures in to a folder on my P.C. I have to rename them manually to keep them in order. What I would like is to have all of my photos saved to one folder with a filename that resembles the date that I took them. For example if I took 3 photos today they would be named "02.05.14-00001" "02.05.14-00002" "02.05.14-00003" respectively. Not only would this make creating albums a lot easier it would help us keep track of when the photos were actually taken.
Please tell me there is a way of doing this! It is so simple. (Also side note on why the multi folder burst thing is terrible. I delete the photos from that burst - empty folder remains.)
3rd issue. This has happened to me a few times now and it is the most frustrating. When I press the 2 stage camera button in sleep mode to bring up the camera and an error comes up saying something along the lines of "Camera could not be found"... The only way I have found to fix this issue is to power down the phone and restart. When the main reason for this function is to get a quick shot off like when your best mate is crossing the finish line of a big race, this error is the last thing you want to see. Trust me I know. (Sorry Ryan I really did try to get a photo of it.)
Any who, if any of you lovely people have a fix or work around for these issues it would be most appreciated. Thank you.
Lawro.Woods said:
I have had my Xperia Z1 Compact for a few weeks now and for the most part I am very happy with it. The thing that lets the phone down for me is the camera.
1st issue is the photos themselves. The quality of the photos seems very poor and noisy which was extremly disappointing for me as one of the main reasons I chose this phone was for the 20 Mega pixel camera. I have heard that this problem is due to the ISO being ramped up when using auto and can be solved with 3rd party camera apps (an example given was "Perfectly Clear") that clean up the images nicely. I haven't tested this myself but if anyone can recommend any app or tips to getting cleaner images I would be most greatful.
2nd issue is how the camera saves pictures. I have the camera setting set to "burst with long press" which mean every time I take a couple of snaps it creates a new folder for that "burst" which more often than not is a single photo or two. This is annoying enough without the fact that with each new folder it starts repetitively naming the photos "DSC_000001" onward meaning I have 10 separate folders all with about 1-2 pictures in each and most of those pictures are named "DSC_000001" so when it comes to moving these pictures in to a folder on my P.C. I have to rename them manually to keep them in order. What I would like is to have all of my photos saved to one folder with a filename that resembles the date that I took them. For example if I took 3 photos today they would be named "02.05.14-00001" "02.05.14-00002" "02.05.14-00003" respectively. Not only would this make creating albums a lot easier it would help us keep track of when the photos were actually taken.
Please tell me there is a way of doing this! It is so simple. (Also side note on why the multi folder burst thing is terrible. I delete the photos from that burst - empty folder remains.)
3rd issue. This has happened to me a few times now and it is the most frustrating. When I press the 2 stage camera button in sleep mode to bring up the camera and an error comes up saying something along the lines of "Camera could not be found"... The only way I have found to fix this issue is to power down the phone and restart. When the main reason for this function is to get a quick shot off like when your best mate is crossing the finish line of a big race, this error is the last thing you want to see. Trust me I know. (Sorry Ryan I really did try to get a photo of it.)
Any who, if any of you lovely people have a fix or work around for these issues it would be most appreciated. Thank you.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hey mate, I'll tackle issue 1 as not sure about the others. Forgive me if I at any point sound patronising/condescending but obviously I don't know how well-versed you are in photography or not, so don't want to suggest something insulting if you actually know your stuff!!
Yeah, the auto modes (esp. superior auto) aren't great. Especially in low light. But as far as I am concerned, you don't get a phone with a camera this good (f2.0 aperture, 20meg/8meg downsampling) to use the auto modes. Unlike an iPhone, which is designed specifically to be a one-button job, these android phones (the best ones) have decent manual modes as every photographer knows that's how you get the very best results.
I always use manual as you have to for best results (ESPECIALLY in low light). You're correct, the auto mode does ramp up the iso too much. Actually quite a lot of phones do this too much....iphones indoors are a good example.
Tip 1: Stay with the stock camera. It will be purpose built for the sensor and will get you the best results
Tip 2: Always shoot manual
Tip 3: With every shot you take, you want the lowest ISO you can get away with. So practice a bit with different environments and you will soon get a sixth sense about roughly what you'll need. If you're in a restaurant or indoors for example, do a quick experimentation with changing the iso's and see what the scene looks like in real-time (make sure you're phone brightness is high). That's usually a good indicator of how the photo will come out.
Tip 4: Tap to focus on what you want focused, THEN hit capture. Don't just hit capture alone.
Tip 5: Phone camera flashes are TERRIBLE. It's the thermonuclear option when you HAVE to capture whatever is in front of you. Never use one unless you absolutely have to. If I have to use the flash....I don't take the picture. I also don't take any pictures higher than iso 800 as the noise is awful (for all phones). For indoor/lowlight you want 200/400 or worst case scenario 800 if you absolutely have to get that shot.
Tip 6: In manual, you will actually get superior photos if you shoot in the 8megapixel mode. Only ever choose 20megapixel if you are going to be doing some extreme cropping with the photo or are going to be blowing it up to huge sizes somewhere.
Hope that helps?
Thank you for the tips. They are useful and when I have time to mess with manual settings to take a photo I will certainly use them. But the things that originally attracted me to this phone were the quick launch 2 stage button and the burst mode. I wanted to use this phone as a quick point and click camera for capturing fleeting moments. Unfortunately the quick launch immediately opens in auto mode (with that ****ing annoying sound effect I might add) and by the time I've switched to manual and messed around with the settings (which could use a better layout) that fleeting moment might have passed me by.
Good news is I have come up with a backward way of getting the photos to save by date. Dropbox automatically backs up my pictures with a file name done via date and time. Although this isn't a true fix since I still have to delete the burst folders from my phone every now and then this will do for now.
Thanks again for the tips paddy. Hopefully I will work something out.
Lawro.Woods said:
Thank you for the tips. They are useful and when I have time to mess with manual settings to take a photo I will certainly use them. But the things that originally attracted me to this phone were the quick launch 2 stage button and the burst mode. I wanted to use this phone as a quick point and click camera for capturing fleeting moments. Unfortunately the quick launch immediately opens in auto mode (with that ****ing annoying sound effect I might add) and by the time I've switched to manual and messed around with the settings (which could use a better layout) that fleeting moment might have passed me by.
Good news is I have come up with a backward way of getting the photos to save by date. Dropbox automatically backs up my pictures with a file name done via date and time. Although this isn't a true fix since I still have to delete the burst folders from my phone every now and then this will do for now.
Thanks again for the tips paddy. Hopefully I will work something out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
No worries.
Yeah admittedly if you take a lot of sudden/spontaneous shots that you don't have time to adjust for, the results might be less than ideal. To be honest on my xperia and my gs4 before that, after a while you become so quick at changing the manual options it becomes second nature and you can do it fast enough to catch spontaneous moments with the ideal settings.
Phone cameras are much simpler than normal cameras as the aperture (which is EXCELLENT for low light on the xperia - f2.0) is fixed, so really when it comes to mobile photography it's all about ISO, ISO and more ISO. Therefore when I say 'use manual mode' you can get away with JUST altering the iso to your needs and leaving all the other manual settings on auto. Like white balance for example, which the computer is MUCH better at detecting correctly.
Unless you're shooting outdoors on a sunny day, you must learn to assume that 99 times out of 100, your xperia in auto will select an ISO that is far higher than what you can actually get away with using. So it's good practice not to trust it.
Hy guys,
I have a problem with my gallery actually, on my oppo find 7a.
when I Take the pictures, all is fine, I go to the gallery and I can see them, no problem.
BUT after some time, 5min Maybe.. Sometimes after 1 2 hours.. Or days in some cases, I get this Grey picture insted of the ones I took.
I tryed to copy them on the PC, invalid file.
I HATE THIS!
CAN ANYONE HELP ME?
KATANA_TEAM said:
Hy guys,
I have a problem with my gallery actually, on my oppo find 7a.
when I Take the pictures, all is fine, I go to the gallery and I can see them, no problem.
BUT after some time, 5min Maybe.. Sometimes after 1 2 hours.. Or days in some cases, I get this Grey picture insted of the ones I took.
I tryed to copy them on the PC, invalid file.
I HATE THIS!
CAN ANYONE HELP ME?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I haven't had issues other than pictures taking some time to load, meanwhile they appear blurry until loaded.
Did you try viewing with Quickpic ? I don't use the gallery from Oppo as it's slower.
Also, what's your OS version? If nothing works out then you may need to reformat completely and install latest stable version (1.2.6i as of this time).
I see the pictures from the stock CM11 gallery, but I've noticed something.
All these pictures I've taken were saved on my SD card, today I made some new photos and selected the Phone memory.
Untill now, there are fine and can see them, no problem.
Do you know, there are problems with some SD cards, that the Oppo doesn't support verry good?
Sent from my Find7 using XDA Free mobile app
Mi A1 has Google Photos as the default photo app in camera and to view photos. I wish to replace it with some other photo viewer and also remove its link from the camera app. Any way to do it ?
You can use Sony's Album app here https://forum.xda-developers.com/cr...pp-sony-album-6-1-0-14-ui-updated-22-t2378816 then deactivate Google's through settings.
Go for the universal version at the end of first post.
I recommend installing Music as well since it's the best IMHO (Sony fanboy here?). There's a link to the thread in that same post.
Have fun
i have been trying to do this for a while now.. the only way i could find was to disable the photos app and then u would get a prompt to choose the alternative app to open your pics.. does not help me much though since i also need photos to back up my pics in case of something going wrong with the phone.. probably custom roms will solve this issue once xiaomi releases kernel sources and development begins.
I'm using Lineage OS Gallery, it works perfectly
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...lineage-os-gallery-apk-photo-editing-t3664460
zazzy24 said:
i have been trying to do this for a while now.. the only way i could find was to disable the photos app and then u would get a prompt to choose the alternative app to open your pics.. does not help me much though since i also need photos to back up my pics in case of something going wrong with the phone.. probably custom roms will solve this issue once xiaomi releases kernel sources and development begins.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I am trying to solve the exact same problem.