So I'm kind of concerned with this unusual sound the camera makes whenever I open the camera app (or any other app that uses it; Snapchat, VSCOcam, etc). I can physically hear the camera making a somewhat stronger focusing / refocusing sound as soon as the app opens, as well as physically feeling the vibration from the sound it makes throughout the phone. What I see on the screen is the picture regularly refocusing on the image, although every photo I take has been beautifully flawless. At the same time I feel like it's the camera dying on me, hopefully not.
Restarting & clearing cache/data on the camera app unfortunately does not fix the problem. Hope I'm not the only one out there with this problem.
arthurgreeeen said:
So I'm kind of concerned with this unusual sound the camera makes whenever I open the camera app (or any other app that uses it; Snapchat, VSCOcam, etc). I can physically hear the camera making a somewhat stronger focusing / refocusing sound as soon as the app opens, as well as physically feeling the vibration from the sound it makes throughout the phone. What I see on the screen is the picture regularly refocusing on the image, although every photo I take has been beautifully flawless. At the same time I feel like it's the camera dying on me, hopefully not.
Restarting & clearing cache/data on the camera app unfortunately does not fix the problem. Hope I'm not the only one out there with this problem.
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You sure it's not the optical image stabilization? If you zoom in all the way and look at your camera , shake the phone and you can see it move...also close the camera app and hold your phone to your ear and shake it , you can hear it move.
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I got a warranty replacement and I'm finding the camera cannot focus at distance. Up to 1 foot it focuses great, but anything farther is a mess. Even with manual focus at infinity it doesn't work.
Sad quality control?
What about with video ?
Give the lens a clean. Take a good look at it and see whether some dust got trapped on the inside. Give it a tap and see if it moves.
With the camera app closed and not in memory try clearing the camera app cache and restarting. If that does nothing try clearing the camera data too.
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What about with video ?
Give the lens a clean. Take a good look at it and see whether some dust got trapped on the inside. Give it a tap and see if it moves.
With the camera app closed and not in memory try clearing the camera app cache and restarting. If that does nothing try clearing the camera data too.
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Same thing with video. I had read about clearing cache/data, so I tried that as well. Even tried factory reset. It seems this camera just cannot set focus at infinity. Used several other camera apps with the same result.
Same here .. Got a warranty replacement for my bricked G4 (boot loop failure) and the new phone has serious camera focus issues. Will not focus on infinity and even at short distances has grainy unfocused pics intermittently. My old G4 camera was amazing even at infinity on max 4.0 zoom super clear pics. This one not even close. Video is the same. Very disappointed. Maybe I need a new Camera module? Any advice would be helpful.
I feel like I need to see what sprint ir LG can find out but sure they will say it works fine but I know better. Arrg!
Hi there,
Did you get a solution for this problem? I have noticed the same situation, focus for close objects, macro, works amazing, but for far objects it's out of focus, I notices for stock and 3rd party apps. I've tried Google camera, Stock camera, LG G5 camera, LG V10 camera, Pro Shot, Camera FV-5, Open camera, this issue also happens for video. I start to suspect that issue it's hardware.
Any suggestions?
I've seen threads about performance issues when charging etc and I have them myself!
One thing that completely destroys me is the performance when trying to take a quick picture or use an app that uses the camera.
E.g. barcode scanners move the complete opposite direction
Snapchat is also practically unusable. When I open it, it completely s**ts itself every time and is unusual!
I guess my question is..... Do you think custom ROMs and recoveries will solve the issues?
Thanks
Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk
I definitely think we should see some optimizations in the next weeks. Snapchat would crap out on me and eventually cause the camera module to crash. It got to the point that the camera would turn black within Snapchat and even within the camera app itself. Only fix was to reboot the phone to get the camera working again. Yesterday I received a snapchat update, not sure if it was meant to address performance issues, but it now works more smoothly and doesn't crash as often. There is definitely room for improvement!
It's really doing my head in and glad I'm not on my own in seeing this!! I don't know anyone else with the 5x to compare so been searching online.
I timed it today, I rebooted the phone and left it 5 minutes without opening anything. I fired up the camera app and it took 124 seconds (just over 2min) until the app was ready to take a photo (the blue circle showing around the shutter button). Then tapping the button to take a photo took a further minute to take the actual photo. Then the phone was that sluggish it needed a reboot.
Not sure if it's the hardware, the os or the app but I've tried Open Camera too and that seems to be really really slow. And, as the OP says, Snapchat totally craps out as do other apps that use the camera.
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MaFt said:
It's really doing my head in and glad I'm not on my own in seeing this!! I don't know anyone else with the 5x to compare so been searching online.
I timed it today, I rebooted the phone and left it 5 minutes without opening anything. I fired up the camera app and it took 124 seconds (just over 2min) until the app was ready to take a photo (the blue circle showing around the shutter button). Then tapping the button to take a photo took a further minute to take the actual photo. Then the phone was that sluggish it needed a reboot.
Not sure if it's the hardware, the os or the app but I've tried Open Camera too and that seems to be really really slow. And, as the OP says, Snapchat totally craps out as do other apps that use the camera.
MaFt
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I just tried the same test. The camera app opened and was ready to shoot (blue circle showing) in about 2 seconds. Double pressing the power button to open the camera app had the blue circle around the shutter button showing right away
Every now and then it does work perfectly. But more times than not there is a massive lag. Usually after the phone has been on for half a day, but like this morning sometimes when it's just turned on.
I've experienced the same issues mentioned by you guys, especially in the OP.
Snapchat has practically been completely unusable until the most recent update, and that only marginally improved things. The root cause seems to be the camera itself, as I'm only seeing this type of lag in apps that access the camera. I can't help but imagine Google is working on a fix for this in the very near future, just one of those 'early adopter' issues I guess. It has caused me to do daily reboots just about, which is very aggravating because that defeats the purpose of a good camera if you miss the moment you're trying to capture. As I'm sure you guys have noticed, when the camera app actually works properly, the pictures are pretty impressive, which makes it all the more aggravating that it can't be used as fluently as designed.
Hoping for all of our sake that Google fixes this soon.
I'm in the same boat.
paul_jones said:
I've experienced the same issues mentioned by you guys, especially in the OP.
Snapchat has practically been completely unusable until the most recent update, and that only marginally improved things. The root cause seems to be the camera itself, as I'm only seeing this type of lag in apps that access the camera. I can't help but imagine Google is working on a fix for this in the very near future, just one of those 'early adopter' issues I guess. It has caused me to do daily reboots just about, which is very aggravating because that defeats the purpose of a good camera if you miss the moment you're trying to capture. As I'm sure you guys have noticed, when the camera app actually works properly, the pictures are pretty impressive, which makes it all the more aggravating that it can't be used as fluently as designed.
Hoping for all of our sake that Google fixes this soon.
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could u please test camera functionality with this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geekstools.cameraW
and if possible gather log info
Thanks
Sometimes (actually almost every time) when i start the camera, the image on the screen is 'flickering' and i can hear the camera making a noise. When i shake the device, the picture gets clear and the sound goes away. Especially when i want to make s movie i can hear that sound. Also, I'm not sure if the OIS works since i don't see the option to activate or deactivate it (I'm on 8.2.23.0 xiaomi.eu).
Any ideas?
No one?
My. Ois it totally silent
For me it looks like a hardware issue. Like the sensor was stuck.
I don't think OIS can be turned off. It's mechanical so it's always there.
no problem on my mi 6, might be a hardware problem
after flashing a new rom, the problem is gone. seems it was rom related after all.. thanks anyway...
I'm very curious if the camera is behaving really strange for anyone else? What I have observed:
- the Camera app takes a long time to open sometimes (for example during Google Maps navigation)
- the camera button doesn't react to presses sometimes, lags and freezes the app for like 5 seconds
- sometimes instead of snaping a picture it captures multiple pictures at once and gives me like 10 similar images (I forgot the name of that function but I have it disabled)
- camera in apps like Messengers opens up really slow sometimes but that could be the case of ****ty FB app
Is anyone having a problem with camera and it's performance? Please let me know, I did a factory reset and it does not help.
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I'm very curious if the camera is behaving really strange for anyone else? What I have observed:
- the Camera app takes a long time to open sometimes (for example during Google Maps navigation)
- the camera button doesn't react to presses sometimes, lags and freezes the app for like 5 seconds
- sometimes instead of snaping a picture it captures multiple pictures at once and gives me like 10 similar images (I forgot the name of that function but I have it disabled)
- camera in apps like Messengers opens up really slow sometimes but that could be the case of ****ty FB app
Is anyone having a problem with camera and it's performance? Please let me know, I did a factory reset and it does not help.
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Bro after clicking the pictures the image quality is trash. But in emui8 it was so better
thats odd the only issue i have is that the codecs are locked on bluetooth but im sure that happens on all pie betas
Every time I take a photo with the stock camera I get the system notification sound. It is NOT the shutter sound. If I have the shutter sound on it will play shutter and then quickly after it will play the default system notification sound. If I have shutter sound off, it will just play the system notification sound.
It's super F-ing annoying. I've checked the gallery app and google photos as I thought it might be something related to syncing but I have not been able to figure it out. Someone please help, it is so damn annoying.
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Every time I take a photo with the stock camera I get the system notification sound. It is NOT the shutter sound. If I have the shutter sound on it will play shutter and then quickly after it will play the default system notification sound. If I have shutter sound off, it will just play the system notification sound.
It's super F-ing annoying. I've checked the gallery app and google photos as I thought it might be something related to syncing but I have not been able to figure it out. Someone please help, it is so damn annoying.
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You could try to catch the notification with an app like this, and figure out what's causing it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.hcilab.projects.nlog
And could try disabling notifications for Google photos app from it's info page, and Gallery app too just to narrow it down
Or disable Google photos completely and take a few photos as a test
Unfortunately none of that worked. I tested both notifications off for Gallery and Google Photos and neither fixed the issue. I sat for 30 minutes testing every setting i could find in the camera, across different shooting modes etc, and got nowhere. In the end, I wiped cache and data of the camera app, and voila, the sound is gone! Thank god. I was about to throw this phone through the wall. Still no idea what was causing it, and I have a sneaking suspicion it will return.
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Unfortunately none of that worked. I tested both notifications off for Gallery and Google Photos and neither fixed the issue. I sat for 30 minutes testing every setting i could find in the camera, across different shooting modes etc, and got nowhere. In the end, I wiped cache and data of the camera app, and voila, the sound is gone! Thank god. I was about to throw this phone through the wall. Still no idea what was causing it, and I have a sneaking suspicion it will return.
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Sometimes clearing the system cache on the boot menu will stop erratically behaviors. It's a good idea to do occasionally and especially when having issues of unknown origins.
Apparently the cam data does get corrupted occasionally too. Or one losses tract of the many settings all over the place.
Lol, I've wiped the cam data once already on the 10+:laugh: