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Camera and Home button

Hello! Nobody working to map the Home or Power On button to take pictures? Regards..

Yeah, was looking for this as well... Looked into tasker but that doesn't seem to be appropriate for it (was thinking something 'in camera app, if btn pressed, do this)

power button for taking pictures would be awesome!
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wouldn't that mean you cant turn off your phone or on because if theres a dedicated camera key theres no power button

i´d say the camera app should be modded to use the power key, so only when camera is open this is true.

well on JM2 the powe button does something when you use the camera ... it lock every function
that's weird because you can't do anything ... no taking pictures, no killing the app, only unlock it by pressing the power button again
I agree this i cool in the video player
but in the camera ?!?

alain57 said:
well on JM2 the powe button does something when you use the camera ... it lock every function
that's weird because you can't do anything ... no taking pictures, no killing the app, only unlock it by pressing the power button again
I agree this i cool in the video player
but in the camera ?!?
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Selftimer.

Not a self-timer afaik. Even a lock icon comes up. I have used it a few times. Basically when you wait to take a picture you can have the picture app open and then have it in the pocket ready to be taken out, so you don't have to worry about a) opening the app quickly when you want to take the pic, b) having the app open and taking pictures/returning to home when you don't want to. Not a "must-have" feature by any means and it probably uses a lot more battery than just opening the app when you want to.
Changing it to take pictures would be most welcomed. Tapping on the screen is quite a delicate thing when you don't want to move the phone at all.

I meant that it could get practical if you put the camera on selftimer and lock the screen so you don't mistakenly press any button.
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Why we don't make a donation for that? I will put 10€ for the cause

Piny12 said:
Selftimer.
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nope, lock like i said
Schmich said:
Not a self-timer afaik. Even a lock icon comes up. I have used it a few times. Basically when you wait to take a picture you can have the picture app open and then have it in the pocket ready to be taken out, so you don't have to worry about a) opening the app quickly when you want to take the pic, b) having the app open and taking pictures/returning to home when you don't want to. Not a "must-have" feature by any means and it probably uses a lot more battery than just opening the app when you want to.
Changing it to take pictures would be most welcomed. Tapping on the screen is quite a delicate thing when you don't want to move the phone at all.
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ok, but i found this still stupid
it empty the battery for nothing, and people who don't take much attention won't see the lock icon so they will think : **** it bugged ....

ondoteam said:
Hello! Nobody working to map the Home or Power On button to take pictures? Regards..
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I was looking at this, as I want some way to take pics quickly. Home and Power button don't seem easily do-able, but does anybody want the following?
Quick launching app that you can put on your homescreen, that launches a camera preview. Tapping on the screen takes a pic and saves it to /sdcard/$date.jpg
Not quite a dedicated camera button, but should be very fast for taking a quick picture. If a couple people want it, I'll throw it together quickly. (Might just throw it together for myself quickly anyway )

alain57 said:
well on JM2 the powe button does something when you use the camera ... it lock every function
that's weird because you can't do anything ... no taking pictures, no killing the app, only unlock it by pressing the power button again
I agree this i cool in the video player
but in the camera ?!?
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I find the lock function to be useful when taking long videos as I've accidental knocked the stop button on occasion by accident.
On a second note, if a physical shutter button was sought-after wouldn't the volume buttons be more effective as the power button is fairly near the top and you'll probably end up covering the lens versus using the volume buttons on the bottom (this is presuming you're taking pictures in landscape, right?)

[Trick] Quick open camera

I found this trick in one of the tips and tricks videos on youtube and have not seen it mentioned anywhere else so thought maybe many people didnt know about it, since tips and tricks are posted all the time here and there, and every time there are people who didnt know about it.
This one was one of my favorites of the many thare are..... anyways...
push the home button, or the power button when the screen is off WHILE holding the phone in portrait, then place a finger on the lock screen, NOW rotate the entire phone to landscape and walla, camera

Yep, saw that one on one of those annoying tips that pop up every ½ second when you first start up the phone. There is a bunch of stuff you can do if you go into the motion settings
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Or I could just swipe the camera at the bottom on the lock screen...lol. I couldn't get this to work. Maybe I don't have it activated.

P1 Wookie said:
Or I could just swipe the camera at the bottom on the lock screen...lol. I couldn't get this to work. Maybe I don't have it activated.
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You dont have to activate it in motion settings. You cant turn it off. You can remove the camera shortcut on the lock screen and put something usefull there

carhigh said:
You don[']t have to activate it in motion settings. You can[']t turn it off.
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You do and you can. There's an option for Quick Camera Start under Lock Screen Settings.
By the way, I find that the camera crashes if it's in video mode when I launch it via quick-start rotate gesture. But if it's in still-photo mode, or if I launch it by swiping the lock-screen camera icon instead of by the rotate gesture, then it starts normally.

Gary02468 said:
You do and you can. There's an option for Quick Camera Start under Lock Screen Settings.
By the way, I find that the camera crashes if it's in video mode when I launch it via quick-start rotate gesture. But if it's in still-photo mode, or if I launch it by swiping the lock-screen camera icon instead of by the rotate gesture, then it starts normally.
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Doesn't crash for me when I use the gesture when the camera is in video mode. I love the gesture and removed the camera quick launch icon.

Camera no longer focuses and shoots in one tap?

I now have to press the camera button to take a photo instead of anywhere on the screen, have I messed a setting up?
Thanks

jameslfc5 said:
I now have to press the camera button to take a photo instead of anywhere on the screen, have I messed a setting up?
Thanks
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Hide the camera settings by tapping the 3 dots.

dhkx said:
Hide the camera settings by tapping the 3 dots.
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That's it mate, cheers!

[Q] Camera Button Wake?

Howdy.
I was wondering if this phone has the ability for the photo button to wake the device and go to the camera app without the need for a lockscreen?
Galaxy S4 Zoom can't do that for example.
Thank you!

Domen Lo said:
Howdy.
I was wondering if this phone has the ability for the photo button to wake the device and go to the camera app without the need for a lockscreen?
Galaxy S4 Zoom can't do that for example.
Thank you!
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Z1 Compact's camera button has two stages: a partial click to focus and a full click to take the picture. On stock ROM you can wake up the device and start camera app with a full click. On some AOSP-based ROMs you can partially click the camera button to wake the screen and fully click it to start the camera app.

Lorenzoval said:
Z1 Compact's camera button has two stages: a partial click to focus and a full click to take the picture. On stock ROM you can wake up the device and start camera app with a full click. On some AOSP-based ROMs you can partially click the camera button to wake the screen and fully click it to start the camera app.
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Thank you.

Fingerprint sensor shortcut

Hi,
Is there any way/app to use fingerprint sensor as a shortcut launcher?
For example, double press fingerprint to launch camera....etc
Thanks,
Jack

ubcjack said:
Hi,
Is there any way/app to use fingerprint sensor as a shortcut launcher?
For example, double press fingerprint to launch camera....etc
Thanks,
Jack
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That would be interesting, but you do know double pressing the power button is the camera shortcut

buru898 said:
That would be interesting, but you do know double pressing the power button is the camera shortcut
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I do know that but power button is a lot harder to press than fingerprint sensor....
Don't you feel that?

cool idea but would probably cause a lot of unintended triggering

ubcjack said:
Hi,
Is there any way/app to use fingerprint sensor as a shortcut launcher?
For example, double press fingerprint to launch camera....etc
Thanks,
Jack
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This would be awesome. Huawei is doing something like this, I believe, a swipe down on the fingerprint reader will bring down notification. I like the idea of a double tap or swipe to launch camera. or any shortcut. You could even get advance with it and do tap patterns for multiple shortcuts.
I could see devs interested in this being a feature in their Roms. I do not believe false reads will be an issue for a scan of the finger should still be required. Randomly touching the sensor with your skin should not activate it.

Fingerprint has so much potential for many uses but so far I feel the big sensor is wasting a lot of space on our phone and only thing it does is unlock.
I have wear so if Google allows smart unlock to skip lock screen, I don't even use fingerprint sensor at all.

It'd be really cool if they let you use it as a mini-trackpad. Imagine scrolling up and down a page without touching the screen.

smac7 said:
It'd be really cool if they let you use it as a mini-trackpad. Imagine scrolling up and down a page without touching the screen.
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This is even more interesting.

The funny thing is those sensors allow that kind of feature, they call it navigation mode.
However it appears that this mode is not enabled.