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Rogers no pics during video.....

I just noticed this now because I wanted to use the feature but my Rogers SGS3 can't take pics during video. The buttons not even there. I thought we were supposed to have that feature. Anybody else have that? Fix?
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I thought that while recording video all you had to do was touch the screen to take pics?

That just causes it to refocus on that area.
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Are you sure? I don't think you can manually focus during video recording. Taping the screen during recording looks like it is refocusing the camera but that is in fact the animation it makes when it is snapping a still during recording. No sound, no sliding to the side animation like when taking photos. Just that slight focusing effect to let you know you it worked.
Check your gallary.

Not working, tried that. Just refocusing the video. You can see a button on the bottom right that says AF to establish AF again. No pictures in the gallery.
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I am on rogers and can take pictures during video.
when making a video all you do is press the little camera icon beside the red record button
I noticed that it says nexus so iam guess your not on stock rogers?

I'm with rogers using a custom rom and that feature is there
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my wife has a stock sgs3 and hers doesn't have that........No icon what so ever
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is there an option somewhere to turn it on? Neither of our phones have the option.
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Here's a screen shot. Hope it works......
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That is odd. Sorry I was of no help. Not sure what the issue is and unfortunately I'm not on a stock rom so I cant dig thru the cam/settings to be of any help.
Can someone who is on a stock rom that is able to take stills while recording post a screen grab of their cam app to show what its supposed to look like?

msgnyc said:
That is odd. Sorry I was of no help. Not sure what the issue is and unfortunately I'm not on a stock rom so I cant dig thru the cam/settings to be of any help.
Can someone who is on a stock rom that is able to take stills while recording post a screen grab of their cam app to show what its supposed to look like?
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I've seen pictures of what it supposed to look like. Just was hoping maybe there was an option I missed. Very frustrating.....

If you have anti shake turned on then the option to take pictures while video recording is not there. Simply turn off anti shake
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blue265 said:
If you have anti shake turned on then the option to take pictures while video recording is not there. Simply turn off anti shake
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now that's the answer I was looking for! Thank you!
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Aosp camera "smart capture"

What is "smart capture" option in the camera settings?
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From my knowledge if you put your thumb over it and quickly take it off it'll trigger the camera shutter. I don't like it personally so I choose to keep it disabled.

estabien said:
From my knowledge if you put your thumb over it and quickly take it off it'll trigger the camera shutter. I don't like it personally so I choose to keep it disabled.
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Isn't that how you normally take a picture? I mean how many different ways to we need to snap a pic.
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LittleRedDot said:
Isn't that how you normally take a picture? I mean how many different ways to we need to snap a pic.
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My bad, I meant over the lens. So for example, while getting my camera ready I would accidentally snap a pic because my hand would go in front of the lens for a second.

Camera App on Slim Bean

Was looking through the settings in the camera app that comes with the slim bean rom. What do the following options do:
Smart Capture
True View
Power Shutter
Not really sure what those settings enable/disable.
Any help with the explanation of those would be great
Thanks.
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[email protected] said:
Was looking through the settings in the camera app that comes with the slim bean rom. What do the following options do:
Smart Capture
True View
Power Shutter
Not really sure what those settings enable/disable.
Any help with the explanation of those would be great
Thanks.
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Power shutter is really exactly what it says. Select it, reboot and your power button is now a button to take pictures.
Smart capture is also neat. Here's a video of it working.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhYju0rOVH8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I don't know about True view, my guess is it's for the front camera, it'll show you what the picture will look like, not a mirror and than flip it in processing. Just an educated guess though.
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KorGuy123 said:
Power shutter is really exactly what it says. Select it, reboot and your power button is now a button to take pictures.
Smart capture is also neat. Here's a video of it working.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhYju0rOVH8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I don't know about True view, my guess is it's for the front camera, it'll show you what the picture will look like, not a mirror and than flip it in processing. Just an educated guess though.
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Thanks for the help!
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[email protected] said:
Was looking through the settings in the camera app that comes with the slim bean rom. What do the following options do:
Smart Capture
True View
Power Shutter
Not really sure what those settings enable/disable.
Any help with the explanation of those would be great
Thanks.
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I know it is an old thread. But, in case still you haven't read about it:
TrueView faq from slimrom.net
True view is a camera feature to show the whole field of view of the camera.
By default the field of view is stretched and cut on the sides to fit fullscreen.
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Would like to ask my fellow xda member is they noticed when taking pictures it takes a few second to register the picture taken, meaning like mine everytime I take a picture it shows "processing" right after i click tue shutter and it will take a few seconds before I can take another picture. Camera settings is at default.
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With the camera you can turn off Smart Stabilization and the processing time goes away completely.

does smart stabilization actually work? I've always left it on

yes, the stabilizer is work.

I think it works pretty good in the few tests I've made, but it does cause the lag you were talking about.

krelvinaz said:
With the camera you can turn off Smart Stabilization and the processing time goes away completely.
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Ill try that. Thanks
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jhobert said:
Ill try that. Thanks
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Check also that you do not have "HDR" enable. HDR will take a second to complete the process

[Q] poor screenshot quality

Guys have anyone of you noticed that quality of screen shots is quiet poor ...its like quiet blurry..can anyone help me out with it...I never felt it on my galaxy note 3 or note 2 or note 8.0..it ruins the whole experience of taking screen shots of important articles and making notes over it...

This seems to be a limitation of the SPen enabled Screen capture only. When using other apps like Screenshot UX, the screen captures (especially the text) look great and are nice and crisp. Samsung needs to fix this issue.
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Mr_Armageddon said:
This seems to be a limitation of the SPen enabled Screen capture only. When using other apps like Screenshot UX, the screen captures (especially the text) look great and are nice and crisp. Samsung needs to fix this issue.
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I just tested my tablet by holding the power button and home key to take a screen shot and it looks good, don't know what issue's your having but tablet is sharp.

Take a look of this screenshot...no matter which way u screen shot it...whether by s pen or by holding home and power button text is not very clear
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navjot singh said:
Take a look of this screenshot...no matter which way u screen shot it...whether by s pen or by holding home and power button text is not very clear
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I second this. Same for pen or home+power.
Cheers,
Bjoern

My screenshots from air command are blurry while the ones taken by Home + Power are crisp and half the size than the former.
iiSo say we all!! from my SM- P600

My screenshots via S-pen or Holding the Power+Home are crisp too.

I have the same "issue". Both via S-Pen and Home + Power...
Very strange.

Affy how could yours be different ?
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navjot singh said:
Affy how could yours be different ?
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To me it honestly looked no different from my S3. I will have a look properly and will post some pics if I get a chance tonight after work but honestly the times I have taken screenshots the quality seemed pretty good to me whether I was pre-ocupied of just being excited about the S-pen but I'm sure I would have noticed if it was terrible quality like the pic you posted.

Earlier was somehow compressed...take a look at this one...its not very blurry but you cannot call it a crisp one...quiet low quality when compared to note devices..
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navjot singh said:
Earlier was somehow compressed...take a look at this one...its not very blurry but you cannot call it a crisp one...quiet low quality when compared to note devices..
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Yeah the S-pen screenshot isn't very good however the Home+power button screenshot looks pretty spot on to me.
(Make sure you click the image to zoom in)
This is the S-pen Screenshot (Pen top left)
http://www.dropbox.com/s/vpfgealrmm0uz70/Screenshots_2013-11-30-19-37-23.png?m=
And also the Home+Power Button Screenshot
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nptiw6ya4znmov4/Screenshot_2013-11-30-19-35-40.png
The Home+Power button screenshot looks pretty crisp to me.

Exactly, when taking screenshots with the Spen It will compress it to be used in the image editor.
When using the regular screenshot either swipe or Home+Power its an uncompressed png.
Geordie Affy said:
Yeah the S-pen screenshot isn't very good however the Home+power button screenshot looks pretty spot on to me.
(Make sure you click the image to zoom in)
This is the S-pen Screenshot (Pen top left)
http://www.dropbox.com/s/vpfgealrmm0uz70/Screenshots_2013-11-30-19-37-23.png?m=
And also the Home+Power Button Screenshot
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nptiw6ya4znmov4/Screenshot_2013-11-30-19-35-40.png
The Home+Power button screenshot looks pretty crisp to me.
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Kikoshi said:
Exactly, when taking screenshots with the Spen It will compress it to be used in the image editor.
When using the regular screenshot either swipe or Home+Power its an uncompressed png.
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Actually yeah that does make sense to me, however @navjot says both ways produce bad quality screenshots

Ok I got it,,, thanks kikoshi..screen shot taken with swipe is very crisp
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For others those who face same problem go to settings and unmark edit after screenshot in s pen settings..it will solve the issue..yes image edtor was the culprit.
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navjot singh said:
For others those who face same problem go to settings and unmark edit after screenshot in s pen settings..it will solve the issue..yes image edtor was the culprit.
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Small correction, it's under device\display settings.