EDIT: This guy just made my day!! I just made a 47kbit video with this mod to stock camera.
NOW we can close this thread if mods so desire =) Thank you everyone!
So the bitrate on HTC One X's camera is hilariously low.
Videos that it spits out terrible when compared to SGSII which I gave to my wife. Video is just strobbing and wobbling due to it.
I understand that some people have very low quality standards and are satisfied with it, and there were some threads about it here.. but everything kinda died out.
I think hardware is capable of "normal" bitrate, since some market camera apps allow for it.. But can we make a hack to our camera to allow for high bitrates?
I mean, I love the phone.. but what's the point of 1080p video capability if it spits out 10k bitrate? None.
DarkDvr said:
I understand that some people have very low quality standards and are satisfied with it, and there were some threads about it here.. but everything kinda died out.
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Maybe that should tell you something. Do you think starting a new thread when others are open is going to change anything? It's been acknowledged and is for now a fact of life. What are you expecting to happen? More ranting? A petition perhaps? For those that are desperately miserable with all or parts of the One X, why don't you sell it and get an SGS3? Repetitive ranting here isn't going to change anything no matter how many threads are opened.
Duplicate threads, especially those that are stated as duplicate threads, get closed.
I agree, 720p goes ok, but 1080p stutters a lil bit.. the bitrate should be higher..
tried it with some other apps, like lgCamcorder.. you can select the bitrate and you'll get smoother video (20mbps is enough)
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maybe HTC will eventually bring out an update, wich increases the bitrate of the camera app (hope so)
Maybe that should tell you something. Do you think starting a new thread when others are open is going to change anything? It's been acknowledged and is for now a fact of life. What are you expecting to happen? More ranting? A petition perhaps? For those that are desperately miserable with all or parts of the One X, why don't you sell it and get an SGS3? Repetitive ranting here isn't going to change anything no matter how many threads are opened.
Duplicate threads, especially those that are stated as duplicate threads, get closed.
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Look at you all puffing and pissed off, lol. Angry little creature.
I opened this thread because it's a legitimate question about why aren't those threads getting an attention they deserve. Perhaps people are satisfied with choppy wobbly video that One X produces, perhaps a solution has been found that I'm not aware of. Hence, the thread.
And a related question - What are you expecting to happen by yelling at me for opening this thread? More ranting? For you, desperately miserable and super angry about this thread, why don't you see a shrink - perhaps they can fix you up.
Now unless you got something relevant to contribute to the problem at hand, go rant somewhere else.
Super-Veloce said:
I agree, 720p goes ok, but 1080p stutters a lil bit.. the bitrate should be higher..
tried it with some other apps, like lgCamcorder.. you can select the bitrate and you'll get smoother video (20mbps is enough)
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maybe HTC will eventually bring out an update, wich increases the bitrate of the camera app (hope so)
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I remember seeing someone who developed a higher bitrate camera for Sensation trying to make one for HOX.. but not sure what happened there - did he lose interest?
It just surprises me that this isn't discussed much more.
Search for the sense HQcamera mod - when i was running sense i got 29fps at 11-12,000kbps and uncompressed/4-5mb pics BIG difference compared to stock camera. CM9 - im getting 18-19,000kbps with 22fps indoors, will test outdoors later.
It's been talked about A LOT, especially by me in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24993164&postcount=39
ArmedandDangerous said:
It's been talked about A LOT, especially by me in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24993164&postcount=39
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cool m8, When you look at the results from the mod/apps you think what the hell is HTC thinking.
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It's been talked about A LOT, especially by me in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24993164&postcount=39
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Thank you! I remember looking at that thread, but haven't seen the these results.
mafia187 said:
Search for the sense HQcamera mod - when i was running sense i got 29fps at 11-12,000kbps and uncompressed/4-5mb pics BIG difference compared to stock camera. CM9 - im getting 18-19,000kbps with 22fps indoors, will test outdoors later.
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Yes, I remember that one. Unfortunately, development of it for HOX was stopped, and existing beta mod freeezes up and FCs a lot. I just tried latest 1.3beta for Sense4 - that is indeed the case.
I contacted that developer with a PM, asking him what does he need to fully port that mod for HOX, with 25+mbits for 1080p. If he needs a financial incentive to compensate for his time and effort, I'll get a bounty going here.
So far, only Camera ICS works decently well, without crashing.
LGCamera is on and off kind of thing. About half the time it doesn't record anything - just black video feed.
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Thank you! I remember looking at that thread, but haven't seen the these results.
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I've actually been asked by a XDA member to do some more tests with the current ROM version. Will be doing 720p and 1080p some time soon Been raining these days, not enough sun ):
one thing to open a new thread to "talk about the problem" over and over, another with the purpose of actually solving / improving the issue.
imho i'm tired of discussing the "problem", it has been discussed already to death, that's why the search function is for.
as far as the "solution" goes, there's couple of threads/developments around which (WOW) are linked in the respective "problem" threads....
@OP: there's other alternatives to LgCamera that work well...care to search for them?
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one thing to open a new thread to "talk about the problem" over and over, another with the purpose of actually solving / improving the issue.
imho i'm tired of discussing the "problem", it has been discussed already to death, that's why the search function is for.
as far as the "solution" goes, there's couple of threads/developments around which (WOW) are linked in the respective "problem" threads....
@OP: there's other alternatives to LgCamera that work well...care to search for them?
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And your ranting adds what to the thread?
LGCamera doesn't work very well with HOX. Many times it can't get the feed from camera and won't work until reboot.
Camera ICS is a bad alternative as it's ugly, has adds and has resolution problems.
HDCamera mod doesn't work with HOX.
I did read those threads, that's why I opened this one.
Now, can we stop acting like a new thread costs millions of dollars and move on with the discussion? If you don't want to participate - don't participate. If all you want to do is complain - please avoid this thread kkthnx.
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And your ranting adds what to the thread?
LGCamera doesn't work very well with HOX. Many times it can't get the feed from camera and won't work until reboot.
Camera ICS is a bad alternative as it's ugly, has adds and has resolution problems.
HDCamera mod doesn't work with HOX.
I did read those threads, that's why I opened this one.
Now, can we stop acting like a new thread costs millions of dollars and move on with the discussion? If you don't want to participate - don't participate. If all you want to do is complain - please avoid this thread kkthnx.
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close your eyes when taking a photo so you don't have to see the CameraICS interface...add 1.99$ to the mix and get rid of the ads. there are no resolution problems.
nothing new that hasn't been said before.....
zerozoneice said:
close your eyes when taking a photo so you don't have to see the CameraICS interface...add 1.99$ to the mix and get rid of the ads. there are no resolution problems.
nothing new that hasn't been said before.....
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'close your eyes when taking a photo'??
... Wow. Just.. Wow.
Could I ask you to please stop trolling this thread? Just... ignore it. Thanks.
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there are no resolution problems.
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I've never mentioned it before, but all those apps at least used to have dodgy aspect ratios when recording video, couldnt find any option to work around it.
Just looked now actually, most recent version of camera ics has fixed that...
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lawrence750 said:
I've never mentioned it before, but all those apps at least used to have dodgy aspect ratios when recording video, couldnt find any option to work around it.
Just looked now actually, most recent version of camera ics has fixed that...
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It still does =(
Just bought a paid version of Camera ICS - tested it out - stretched videos. Had to get a refund immediately.
So Camera ICS isn't a viable option, so is LGCamera that can't even connect to the camera about 80% of the time (tested on several ROMs).
Back at square one =(
45kbit+ video mod for stock camera!!! Seems to be working fine so far. Now I'm happy =)
Seems to be recording at 24fps only. Not smooth enough for me /:
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Seems to be recording at 24fps only. Not smooth enough for me /:
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there was a mod for 29FPS out there, wasn't it?
but bitrate still @ 10-12mbps
pick your poison, will take a genius to combine FPS and bitrate in one mod
Alright folks,
As a Customer Service Associate for a Sprint Preferred Retailer I'm supposed to know it all right? So I feel like a dummy for coming and asking for help from you guys the community, not a true tech issue but related. I've already ordered my LGOG (I got one of only 100 that were made available through our insider channel and now I'm just waiting on it to ship and arrive) but I'm kinda wondering a few things and maybe looking for opinions from the community, so I'll throw out what I wanna know and if you guys could help me out that'd be awesome.
First off, I have a few apps that I know I'm going to HAVE to have to make sure I can not only sell the phone itself but also the Sprint Service as a whole. I haven't ever gotten anything like a benchmark test app before so I need to know what the best benchmark app out there is (to have on hand for people who are REALLY deep techie types who wanna know about benchmark speeds and what not) that's not only easy to understand but not too tough on battery life?
Second, this is a very deep and I'm sure very divisive question but if you guys could give me some of the best pros and cons on the best launchers out there for the Optimus G. Not saying I'm going to go away from the stock one but if I wanted to show off the phone in a different way, what ones would give me the best of just about everything from being able to be customized to not slowing down the phone or draining the battery?
Third, on the flip side from question 1, are there any apps I should be looking into to replace the stock apps (i.e. camera, default SMS app, etc) and are there any that you guys think can really showcase the abilities of the phone as a whole that you would recommend downloading?
In advance I wanna say thanks to any and all of you who choose to answer, I'm new to the Optimus G community, coming over from a Samsung Epic 4g with RandomROM but I look forward to any info or opinions you all can give me.
Thanks again.
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Alright folks,
As a Customer Service Associate for a Sprint Preferred Retailer I'm supposed to know it all right? So I feel like a dummy for coming and asking for help from you guys the community, not a true tech issue but related. I've already ordered my LGOG (I got one of only 100 that were made available through our insider channel and now I'm just waiting on it to ship and arrive) but I'm kinda wondering a few things and maybe looking for opinions from the community, so I'll throw out what I wanna know and if you guys could help me out that'd be awesome.
First off, I have a few apps that I know I'm going to HAVE to have to make sure I can not only sell the phone itself but also the Sprint Service as a whole. I haven't ever gotten anything like a benchmark test app before so I need to know what the best benchmark app out there is (to have on hand for people who are REALLY deep techie types who wanna know about benchmark speeds and what not) that's not only easy to understand but not too tough on battery life?
Second, this is a very deep and I'm sure very divisive question but if you guys could give me some of the best pros and cons on the best launchers out there for the Optimus G. Not saying I'm going to go away from the stock one but if I wanted to show off the phone in a different way, what ones would give me the best of just about everything from being able to be customized to not slowing down the phone or draining the battery?
Third, on the flip side from question 1, are there any apps I should be looking into to replace the stock apps (i.e. camera, default SMS app, etc) and are there any that you guys think can really showcase the abilities of the phone as a whole that you would recommend downloading?
In advance I wanna say thanks to any and all of you who choose to answer, I'm new to the Optimus G community, coming over from a Samsung Epic 4g with RandomROM but I look forward to any info or opinions you all can give me.
Thanks again.
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Most people prefer to use Quadrant/Antutu to benchmark their devices. These benchmarks have been known to be somewhat inaccurate and not reflect real world usage, but it's enough to satisfy the techie nerds at your store.
I think the best launcher is Nova Launcher, but it completely varies from person to person. Go Launcher EX is also a good one. I haven't played around with the stock launcher on the LG Optimus, yet. So I'm can't comment on that.
Thing is, about question 3, cameras function on both hardware and software. You can have the hardware for a perfect camera, but software can limit you. I've heard HDR camera and camera ZOOM fx are really good and puts your camera on the edge. I would try both of those out (I think Camera FX zoom is a paid app.)
~Ascer
Hi all,
Not trying to spark a debate here but i've just got my old Desire HD back and i'm about to pass it on to someone, so it's either, guess by the comments i'm reading, flash every rom on here or ask you fine people.
I know comparisons are frowned upon, but based upon my needs i thought that it'd be ok.
So the question is, what rom would suit someone for stability and pace, something that isn't going to give up the ghost mid call or stutter like a drunk while browsing?
Many thanks and thanks to the dev's for keeping this great phone alive, I sort of missed it when I held it again.
Thanks in advance to anyone who answers
PS: I'm about to flash Moonraker as it seems to be a final release.? ?
PPS: Just remembered how cool 4Ext recovery was, damn i miss these apps.
These threads have a way of morphing into best ROM fanboy fights, so it's time to close up shop on this one. For stability, I'd RUU back to stock and be done with it.
I just got a free upgrade from my insurance company from the m7 to the m8. I'm pretty pumped because I've watched a TON of reviews and comparisons for this phone and, besides battery life, I quite enjoyed my m7 for the time I had it.
I am just curious what are your opinions on your M8's. What do you like? What don't you like? What problems have you noticed and then found a fix for? Which rom do you prefer using? (I was using Venom)
And anything else you think a new M8 user should know.
Thanks
So you make duplicate threads that are actually kinda useless. It's all about what you think of the phone .....
Mr Hofs said:
So you make duplicate threads that are actually kinda useless. It's all about what you think of the phone .....
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First off, I didn't know all of my questions were already in a thread. So there's that.
Secondly, I know it's what I think of a phone, but before I buy a car, I'd be stupid not to ask someone who has owned one for a few months and has toyed around with it.
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First off, I didn't know all of my questions were already in a thread.
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I believe he thought you made 2 threads asking the same question (duplicate posts, or cross posting), but it looked like your thread was actually moved here from the "General" section, as I'm pretty sure I saw it there earlier. Although similar content (opinions on the phone) can likely be found in several other threads.
The M8 is a wonderful phone. I can't personally speak of comparisons with the M7, since I basically "skipped" a generation and came from the One X (EVITA). But I've seen folks mention that the M7 had issues with blue or purple tint to photos, which is not an issue on the M8.
I love the front facing speakers, and overall build quality. Nice display, and responsiveness is very smooth and snappy. Not really anything I don't like about the phone.
Some folks complain about the camera (MP), but I think many of them are obssessed with meaningless spec numbers as opposed to looking at the actual quality of the pics that are taken. If you look at the picture threads, they basically speak for themselves in terms of what can be done on this camera. The dual camera is a kinda cool, if a little gimmicky.
Hey guys, I am thinking to buy this phone and I need your opinion because there are many mixed reviews about this phone online. And I'm confused! Some people have reported many bugs like
1.Low volume where you can't listen to your ringtone and you miss your calls.
2. The camera quality is not that good for a 13mp as this number is on paper only, and in pictures taken by the camera.
3. Heating issue -- I think this is pretty normal for a phone with powerful processor with an average build quality
4. People have also reported as bad customer service, "Random reboots"-- Is that true?
And yeah, the color of the back panel comes off, if you touch your phone with wet hands.
Should I buy this phone? What are things I should take care of after buying this phone? like the apps etc. I'm NOT the person, who is new to custom roms and rooting..
Where does this phone lack in? things like camera etc?
PS: Sorry for posting in this section because I couldn't see much replies in the Q&A and troubleshoot section. Please do reply and mods, if you think, this is in wrong section. Then please move this to right place.