Hi, I cannot seem to keep my camera open for prolonged periods even though screen timeout is set to 10 minutes.
Scenario I fish and quite often on my own and sometimes would like to take a trophy shot using a tripod set up and voice activation of the camera to self take hands free.
The set up would be as described phone on tripod , camera app open and bankstick used to line up and judge height, distance while fish is retained in the water safely.
Once happy retrieve fish check I'm within the height boundaries then remove the bankstick pose and voice take pictures.
Problem even though screen timeout set to 10 minutes while testing at home the camera app always closes after a couple of minutes. I'm guessing this is a battery saving measure as most would open the camera app and start taking pictures.
Any way to overidge this camera app closure?
Make sure all power management is disabled.
Developer Options>Stand by apps>Camera
All buckets should read active including cam
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How do you turn the screen off for time lapse?
Not quite understanding you here.
Do you mean where you can find the option on how quick the screen turns off or for a specific app that use the time lapse technology?
Ves said:
Not quite understanding you here.
Do you mean where you can find the option on how quick the screen turns off or for a specific app that use the time lapse technology?
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Yes I think thats what i mean... ICVS comes with an updated camera that lets you do time lapse photography.... but when the camera is in operation the screen stays on and does not turn off thereby wasting battery....is there any way to have the screen turn off to save battery!
I would like to know the answer to this too. I want to be able to turn my screen off while a time exposure is recording.
To me it seems like a flaw that when turning the screen off, the time lapse video shuts off. I'd like to be able to create long time lapse videos, but with the screen on constantly, you'd need a power source for videos of any length
Bacon Camera can take timelapse images while the screen is off
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camera quality and performance is far worse than my 2mp dummy phone from 2006, the camera tries to auto focus again every time you try taking a picture, and it snaps the shot when it's blurry... getting really frustrating, could probably get better quality images if I just take a screenshot of the camera app... I just want to prevent that camera from focusing on it's own, and only focus when I tell it to, or manually focus somehow.. there should be some way to do that right?
Also, I thought I would add that I frequently encounter an error opening up the camera and then it says "can't connect to the camera" and the only way to fix it is to restart the device. usually the error occurs when browsing the gallery and then trying to go back into the camera, wher eit fails to start the camera and then no camera app, including the default one can access the camera.
Touch to focus on your object on the display. Ring will turn green.
Can also press and hold the picture/shutter icon to force it to refocus re everything and just release it to take the shot
albundy2010 said:
Touch to focus on your object on the display. Ring will turn green.
Can also press and hold the picture/shutter icon to force it to refocus re everything and just release it to take the shot
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when you tap the screen to focus, it will focus, but then start auto focusing immediately after, thereby defeating the purpose entirely. and when you push the take picture button it will try focusing WHILE it takes a picture and you'll get an out of focus shot every time that takes a long time between shots. horrendous... I would swap it with the 3mp iphone 3gs camera or even my old 2mp nokia camera any day. With the forced auto-focus and bugs, the nexus camera is totally unusable. If you could just disable the camera auto focus somehow in the system settings so that it only re-focuses when the application tells it to (such as with clicks) it would be much better (ie. not broken).
When I try other camera apps, the camera also forces refocus when attempting to take a picture, despite pre-focusing by tapping.. I think it must be something with the camera or the system that is telling the camera to refocus when you take a picture because it happens in every application I've tried. I want to just tap somewhere on the screen to focus once and then it will NEVER try focusing again until I tap again.
UPDATE: Also, the one app that can expressly disable autofocus on camera shutter "camera fv-5"... does something weird on nexus 7, the first time you try to take a picture, even though it is set to disable auto focus and it is already focused, it will focus the first time you take a picture. then after that, even if you change the focus just like before manually or whatever, for as long as the app remains open it won't force refocus as you take a picture. There must be something in the android system that is overriding camera settings and causing the autofocus to go crazy in all the applications rendering the camera and video apps unwatchable.
Oh yeah, and the camera FV-5 trial limits the picture resolution to 0.3mp, and confirms my thoughts when I compared it to my old 2mp nokia, there is no additional detail in my 5mp images than the .3mp images taken by fv-5 without autofocus, and even those aren't sharp even when resized to .3mp. Wonderfully depressing and irritating that you can't even get .3mp of clarity out of a so called 5mp camera. >____<. The focus never focuses properly, it always scans through the correct focus and lands on blurry.
After using my new Note 3 to take some photos while hiking over the weekend, I found out most were out of focus. Looking at how the camera works, it seems that when you take a photo the phone takes it immediately without focusing first. It will try to focus as you move it around but if it did not focus yet, it will not do so when you take the photo. On my Relay 4G as well as Galaxy Nexus (and pretty much any other phone I used) the auto focus will kick in right after you press the shutter button and will at least try to focus the picture. Is there any way to force the Note 3 to work the same way? I went through all the camera settings and did not see anything.
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After using my new Note 3 to take some photos while hiking over the weekend, I found out most were out of focus. Looking at how the camera works, it seems that when you take a photo the phone takes it immediately without focusing first. It will try to focus as you move it around but if it did not focus yet, it will not do so when you take the photo. On my Relay 4G as well as Galaxy Nexus (and pretty much any other phone I used) the auto focus will kick in right after you press the shutter button and will at least try to focus the picture. Is there any way to force the Note 3 to work the same way? I went through all the camera settings and did not see anything.
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I've been using the tap to take the shot feature. It's is the camera settings. It's a great feature and works well. I like taking a handful of different shots but it works well for up close shots and distance shots. Once turned on you literally tap the screen where you want the camera to focus and it will focus on the area and take the shot. But yes like you I've noticed that sometimes pressing the shutter button sometimes does not achieve focus. Hope this he's as kind of a work around for you.
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Mine have all auto focused though I do prefer to tap to focus. The times when I didn't tap, it went through its focus cycle and was fine. Perhaps its focusing on something else in the image frame? Maybe there is a smudge on the lens and its focusing on that and makes the rest of the image blurry.
I always take photos of my kids playing, but i noticed a big problem with the G4 camera that any moving object looks blurred in the photos even if the movment is slow (eg. Turning heads etc.).
I did not have this problem with my previous Galaxy S5.
Anybody noticed this problem?
Someone mentioned that the camera seems to want to use slow shutter speeds and low ISO values, when left in Auto mode.
As Auto does not provide any adjustments at all, you'd either have to use Manual mode, or try another camera app that allows a little more control. Something to force the camera to use a higher ISO setting, and a faster shutter speed, which would help reduce blurring of moving objects.
Of course, this assumes you are in a well-lit area. If you're indoors, in a moderately-lit area, then you are going to have more trouble regardless.
Manually turn on the flash, that might help. You can toggle the flash mode even if the camera is in auto.
I have kids too and sometimes my pics of them come out blurry too...this is outdoors with a ton of light. These out of focus shots are not a shutter speed thing but more of an auto focus problem.
The camera always wants to re-grab focus whenever you take a picture when the subject is moving. My kids will be in the frame, in focus (green squares on screen to confirm) I push the camera button, then the damn software tries and refocus because my kids are running around, the auto focus pics the wrong focal point and then the shutter snaps...out of focus pic.
I too came from the S5 which had better software. On that phone, if I turned off burst shot, pushing and holding down the camera button would cause the camera to focus on the subject and lock it in, then when I released my finger, it would take an almost instantaneous picture and keep focus... end result always sharp pics of my kids even when running (as long as there was lots of light).
If G4 could have that feature, all would be perfect!
Ah, in that case, maybe try touching the screen to cause the camera to focus on the spot you touched. But, instead of touching the spot where your moving kids are, try touching a non-moving spot on the ground near them, but at the same focal distance. That way, your kids will also be in focus. If that still doesn't work, then maybe switch to manual mode to hold the focus manually.
There! Something just happened! Did you take a picture of it? Rate this thread to express how fast the Honor 8 can go from "zero to picture". A higher rating indicates that launching the camera app and taking a photo is extremely fast such that you never miss an important moment, like when your cat attacks the couch again.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
The speed is very ...very fast. There is a setting to use the tap feature to take picture, half the time that I am fondling with the device when I have the camera up, the phone is taking pictures. Fair to see....it is on point with no delay. Than again, such is matter with perspective. I may be happy with a second delay while the next person may not be.
One time, I found that my friend can take a gif by using his camera, any one has an idea?
" I saw a flying horse today!"
No one will disbelieve your observation because you quickly pulled out your Honor 8 and double pressed the volume down button and snapped a picture in 0.9-1.2 seconds.
If your screen off just use the method mentioned above: duoble press the volume down.
Also you can set the fingerprint button to launch camera app which could be useful when you are using other apps.
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If your screen off just use the method mentioned above: duoble press the volume down.
Also you can set the fingerprint button to launch camera app which could be useful when you are using other apps.
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doesn't work anymore for me, any ideas? the phone just vibrates every I double press ...
Was working last time.. I tried and was pretty happy with the speed it snaps it.
it's called ultra snapshot BTW
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doesn't work anymore for me, any ideas? the phone just vibrates every I double press ...
Was working last time.. I tried and was pretty happy with the speed it snaps it.
it's called ultra snapshot BTW
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I guess you have it set so if you open up the camera and swipe left to settings than the ultra snapshot is turned on either with taking picture or just starting the camera.
Did you try restart the phone or anything else?
I just had the same problem. It was turned on in the camera app but instead of snapping a picture it just turned on the screen. I long pressed volume down and then tried pressing it twice and it worked again. I have no idea what happened.
Camera launch speed is very fast. It beats my compact camera both in launch and focus speed. I have set the smart key to launch the camera app which is a huge time saver. Want to take a picture? Just press the fingerprintscanner and away you go, super fast!
very fast and i can take pictures quickly
Fast enough
I think its not the fastest but for me it is fast enough... so I am satisfide with it for now..
Takes about a second to open. This includes unlocking phone with fingerprint from standby. It is very fast.
I agree - any faster and I wouldn't be able to take advantage of it because I'd still be in the process of turning the phone to landscape position and framing my shot.
I can take many stolen shots with this.
fast enough to capture all the moments
camera launch and shutter speed is fast.
Fast and minimal blur.