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I used to have a Galaxy S3 and used the video player pop up function a few times. Everytime I used it on the S3, it did not effect the performance of the phone or UI at all. Everything was smooth as if no video was playing on screen.
On the Note 2, it seems like the whole UI seems to lag when a pop up video is enabled. Can you guys try it out and tell me if it slows down your UI also?
Hope my phone isn't defective.
Another thing I notice is when the video is playing, all the icons on the homescreen/menus ect looks more high contrast and grainy. It goes back to smooth and normal once I close the pop up video.
Edit: Just checked on my bro in law's Note 2 also, SAME EXACT THING. Anybody else here notice this issue on your note 2?
Nobody?
no, it's even faster with the popup.. joke aside no, mine is actually the same, lagfree, with or without the video
Whenever I record using Slow Motion I get a very thin line down the centre of the video. I can see it whilst recording and playing back. I do not see the line when recording in any other mode which suggests to me it's a software fault (hopefully fixed with an update) not a hardware fault.
Was just wondering if any one else is experiencing something similar, and if anyone knows what's causing this.
UPDATE: I've just tried this in better lighting conditions and the line disappears! It only seems to occur in low-light conditions.
YanN509 said:
Whenever I record using Slow Motion I get a very thin line down the centre of the video. I can see it whilst recording and playing back. I do not see the line when recording in any other mode which suggests to me it's a software fault (hopefully fixed with an update) not a hardware fault.
Was just wondering if any one else is experiencing something similar, and if anyone knows what's causing this.
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No problems on my end.
Hi.
I recently noticed that the screen is performing some sort of auto-dimming when displaying content, just like Samsung TVs do on Dinamic Mode. This is not to be confused with auto-brightness, it's something completely different that happens at every brightness level and in every screen mode (Standard, Dinamic, Cinema, Adapt Display).
I first noticed this watching a TV show with subtitles. Whenever the subtitle kicked in, the screen will shift the luminosity of the image displayed, dulling it, resulting in washed out blacks and contrast. After the subtitles disappeared, the image was restored to its previous state. I thought it was app-related, but it happens everywhere. It even happens when displaying still pictures in gallery apps or using comic reading apps.
Cycle between this two images and check it out. Maybe subtle, but it's annoying as hell. I'm on 5.1.1 and I don't know what may be causing this, but I can't recall it happened in KitKat.
Any help will be appreciated.
Not sure if I notice this back on KitKat, but I believe this could possibly be a standard feature among IPS screen?
My VAIO Pro 11 laptop and my Xperia Z1 also experiences it, albeit only if the changes are total ie if the displayed colors cover the majority of the image for instance when changing from a black image to a white image, in which the screen will brighten a bit when more whites are displayed, and vice versa. So it's a more subtle change than what you are experiencing there. However I have not yet notice this on my Note 2014, maybe I wasn't attentive enough. Not really a major bother though.
Hi.
I have an standard IPS desktop monitor and it surely doesn't show this behavior. I have even calibrated it with a colorimeter and it works flawlessly within its specifications. Anyway, I don't recall the Note 2014 having an IPS screen but a simple LCD, but maybe I'm wrong.
I will later try and record a video, I hope I can capture the tablet performing the tweaks. I find it so annoying that I hope downgrading to KitKat will solve it, if there is not other way to fix it.
Here, I managed to capture on camera exactly what I see. Check it out:
https://youtu.be/ntcXADOM6ok
I don't know what is causing this.
Very happy with the HTC 10, certainly with audio quality when recording live music.
Anyhow: I have a problem with recording video in dim light situations: the video (whole screen) flickers now and then.
In good light situations (outside daylight) the issue seems not to be there.
The flickering is already visible in the live preview during recording (but even worse: also in the final recording)
Note that when you switch to "photo mode", the flickering is not visible in the live preview.
I think the cause can be that de Auto exposure is switching too fast, or is interfering with something.
For a very short example clip see: (here you see the flickering is also visible in the final recording)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2brDkD4Zjn8
This may look like an "artificial situation", but here also a real life situation (with nice live music )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujDZtrS0NXc
(flickering: second 1-3, second 15-18, second 38-41)
Firmware HTC 10:
1.95 / 1.95.401.3
Camera Version:
8.10.763406
Question is:
- Are any users experiencing this issue?
- Do you think this is a hardware issue? Or software?
- BTW: photo's look perfect, so I hope it is an issue that can be fixed.
- In daylight the flicker issue also seems not to be there
Tried so far:
- Deleted camera data / camera cache
- Cleaned the camera lens / autofocus lens
- Tried other camera apps (same issue), so if it's not a hardware issue, the issue is not in the camera app, but probably in the firmware.
Any ideas?
Update:
Maybe it can be related to 50 / 60 Hz interference ?
Also see: http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/camera-flickering-video-recording-t3476842
Note: on my Mi5 I don't have this issue
BTW:
See this clip: Using 30fps video can create flickering artefacts in artificial light in PAL regions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxBB8HmJB6A
Currently the HTC 10 indeed records in 30 fps (actually 29.97), so maybe that is the cause?
If this is the case, then this issue probably only affects users in Europe ?
-> Update: see comment below: flickering is can also be reproduced without electronic lights
- Update: can also reproduce the flickering without electronic lights, so the 50/60 Hz looks like a different issue.
- The flickering seems to happpen in low light situation, with backlight (from a window by example), where +/- 50% of the frame is in low-light and the other 50% has backlight
I get serious flickering both with photo and video if there is ANY light interference in low light situations.
Example being aiming camera sideways on our couch (so 90 degrees away from TV on far wall), low light as evening, the TV is enough to send my phone in to overload, its more or less impossible to get a photo or video due exposure and who knows what changing what seems like hundreds of times a second, drives me nuts I have given up trying to take shots in such situations.
Can put in pro mode, then the colours jump all over the place from that interfering light.
edit: just to add to this, the TV of course is changing colours / light constantly so I believe that is what makes my phone have a meltdown. If say the TV light is static the camera will stay static I believe with little to no issue.
stretchnz said:
I get serious flickering both with photo and video if there is ANY light interference in low light situations.
Example being aiming camera sideways on our couch (so 90 degrees away from TV on far wall), low light as evening, the TV is enough to send my phone in to overload, its more or less impossible to get a photo or video due exposure and who knows what changing what seems like hundreds of times a second, drives me nuts I have given up trying to take shots in such situations.
Can put in pro mode, then the colours jump all over the place from that interfering light.
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Did you try if the problem is also there in other camera apps?
Try by example open camera.
In my situation the flickering is not gone, however, i did see that the "banding issue" is less in open camera, unfortunately it doesn't help against the flickering I experience.
BTW: what firmware are you on?
I have not tried another app, no
Can try that tonight though (8.21am in the morning now)
jan1000 said:
Did you try if the problem is also there in other camera apps?
Try by example open camera.
In my situation the flickering is not gone, however, i did see that the "banding issue" is less in open camera, unfortunately it doesn't help against the flickering I experience.
BTW: what firmware are you on?
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I also have made a topic with this issue. I've tried with Camera FV-5 which has the interference option to set 50/60 Hz and it makes no difference. With the TV i haven't any trouble making video/photo. No bands passing by.
The conditions are: environment with low illumination (the lower light the higher visible effect) and any source of electric light.
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I also have made a topic with this issue. I've tried with Camera FV-5 which has the interference option to set 50/60 Hz and it makes no difference. With the TV i haven't any trouble making video/photo. No bands passing by.
The conditions are: environment with low illumination (the lower light the higher visible effect) and any source of electric light.
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What is your firmware version ?
Still not clear to me if this is an software issue, or that we maybe have a device with a hardware issue.
This beacuse I don't see a lot of reports about this issue. If this would affect all users, I would expect more reports.
I have the same issues, combined with some dropped frames AND a weird panning effect (have a look at the HTC 10 Camera Thread).
You can check my videos here , here and here.
But, if you put the slider for the exposure all the way down, or lock AF/AE to a bright source, the flickering disappears, no matter if you pan from a bright to a dark area or not.
jan1000 said:
What is your firmware version ?
Still not clear to me if this is an software issue, or that we maybe have a device with a hardware issue.
This beacuse I don't see a lot of reports about this issue. If this would affect all users, I would expect more reports.
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Neither to me if it's hardware or software. I have the 1.92.709.1 firmware of the 10h unlocked version.
Due to the variable conditions, i tend to think that is fixable via software update, but well, i don't know...
Hi, I've the Taiwanese version of HTC 10 and I can confirm this issue. It should be noted that D4v3 is right. If you lock AF/AE the flickering effect dissappear. Please long press over a light source until AF/AE block message appears. You'll see the problem is gone.
I guess the problem is firmware related because if it's a hardware issue why can we fix this blocking the AF/AE? I think it's related with how the firmware manages changes of lights.
[D4v3|R4v3] said:
I have the same issues, combined with some dropped frames AND a weird panning effect (have a look at the HTC 10 Camera Thread).
You can check my videos here , here and here.
But, if you put the slider for the exposure all the way down, or lock AF/AE to a bright source, the flickering disappears, no matter if you pan from a bright to a dark area or not.
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Jadraker said:
Hi, I've the Taiwanese version of HTC 10 and I can confirm this issue. It should be noted that D4v3 is right. If you lock AF/AE the flickering effect dissappear. Please long press over a light source until AF/AE block message appears. You'll see the problem is gone.
I guess the problem is firmware related because if it's a hardware issue why can we fix this blocking the AF/AE? I think it's related with how the firmware manages changes of lights.
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I agree this looks like it could be fixed with software, but the fact that so few users report this issue, makes me think it is not affecting all users.
If it would affect all users I would expect a LOT of reports, since in fact recording in dim results in very poor quality.
@ Jadraker is saw your threat about a new update: 1.96.709.5 -> Does this update fix the issue?
It could be too that not all users uses the camera to record video in such low light circumstances. For example, I noted this issue when I read your post. It's probably that without reading the post I would never realized that flickering.
About the update I'll test the phone at night and I'll publish the result accordingly.
jan1000 said:
I agree this looks like it could be fixed with software, but the fact that so few users report this issue, makes me think it is not affecting all users.
If it would affect all users I would expect a LOT of reports, since in fact recording in dim results in very poor quality.
@ Jadraker is saw your threat about a new update: 1.96.709.5 -> Does this update fix the issue?
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Unfortunately the flickering issue wasn't fixed with the update I received.
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It could be too that not all users uses the camera to record video in such low light circumstances. For example, I noted this issue when I read your post. It's probably that without reading the post I would never realized that flickering.
About the update I'll test the phone at night and I'll publish the result accordingly.
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The question is if HTC is even aware of that. Don't know how to point this out to them, since it's really annoying and not just happening in low lit areas but also during daylight
It seems HTC 10 is not the only device with flickering issues while recording video. Please see: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/help/samsung-s7-camera-flickering-t3337032
I don't know if it is the same problem but at least it's very similar, isn't it?
Jadraker said:
It seems HTC 10 is not the only device with flickering issues while recording video. Please see: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/help/samsung-s7-camera-flickering-t3337032
I don't know if it is the same problem but at least it's very similar, isn't it?
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Jadraker said:
It seems HTC 10 is not the only device with flickering issues while recording video. Please see: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7/help/samsung-s7-camera-flickering-t3337032
I don't know if it is the same problem but at least it's very similar, isn't it?
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I could not find a lot examples on youtibe of the S7, but based on the text I would indeed think it is similar.
I also own a Xiaomi Mi5, and compared it with the HTC 10 in the exaxt same situation, the mi5 doesn't flicker at all, whilte the HTC 10 flickers.
It looks like the Mi5 is change the exposure more gradually.
I think there are 2 issues with the HTC10 camera:
1. Flickering caused by (eletronic) light in dim situation (scenario: +/-50% of surface dim +/- 50% of surface bright)
2. Issues when panning the camera
I find it still difficult to define an exact reproduction path.
But part of the problem also seems to be white / shiny surfaces, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PZQYZvJ8lI
Hi,
So I offer this phone to my wife this xmas and everything was going smooth until we found this issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFdyDwuS_w
The bottom screen does this flickering when typing with Swiftkey keyboard on some apps. This one is Doggcatcher but it happens on other apps too.
If I swap to GBoard it does not happen. We're on Android Pie 9.0.
Has anyone found this issue?
Seems like a graphic bug in that specific keyboard.
Please, i need help.
Evaluate for yourself whether it is related to this topic.
Occasionally, graphical glitches appear on my Mi A2 lite, (4/64, Android Pie, December update, locked bootloader, no root, intact system).
In most cases, they flickering all over the screen, and in some other cases they are frozen, as is shown in attachment.
They are completely random and they appear through many applications that i use.
I can not determine the cause.
Does anyone else have a similar problem?
me... on chrome and all app that use webview... during call status bar is flickering... when switch to the camera in whatsapp with swipe to set status... and other
Something similar here, if Facebook Messenger chat head is overlaying YouTube it flickers a lot (only the actual video but the description and recommend are always working without flicker also no problems in fullscreen), less often it happens with Chrome and sometimes YouTube does it without Facebook Messenger even being open (Android Pie Dec. 5) [also it didn't happen for the first few weeks with 8.1 then Pie got released and worked well for some days then this started to happen]
I have that problem , the notification bar flickers a lot and when on video calls, it shows a black flickering rectangle at the bottom of the screen
Hi, I've got the same problem here. For me, the flickering appears when the keyboard is open, and get faster while typing, please does someone know how to fix that?
gonsa said:
Hi,
So I offer this phone to my wife this xmas and everything was going smooth until we found this issue:
The bottom screen does this flickering when typing with Swiftkey keyboard on some apps. This one is Doggcatcher but it happens on other apps too.
If I swap to GBoard it does not happen. We're on Android Pie 9.0.
Has anyone found this issue?
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It is true that it is the keyboard, my keyboard developer is fixing the bug making it do that as we speak but in my case the whole screen flashes black instead of the little box you have
The problem with the flickering screen in some apps like Youtube, Chrome or Instagram can be fixed as follows:
Go to Developer Options and activate "disable hw overlays"
However, the setting must be set again after every Phone restart.
PC295 said:
The problem with the flickering screen in some apps like Youtube, Chrome or Instagram can be fixed as follows:
Go to Developer Options and activate "disable hw overlays"
However, the setting must be set again after every Phone restart.
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Isn't that bad long term?
"Without a hardware overlay every application that is displaying things on the screen will share video memory and will have to constantly check for collision and clipping to render a proper image, this can cost a lot of processing power. With a hardware overlay each application gets its own portion of video memory, getting rid of the need to check for collision and clipping."
RyanHardy said:
Isn't that bad long term?
"Without a hardware overlay every application that is displaying things on the screen will share video memory and will have to constantly check for collision and clipping to render a proper image, this can cost a lot of processing power. With a hardware overlay each application gets its own portion of video memory, getting rid of the need to check for collision and clipping."
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So far, I have not encountered any problems because of this.
gonsa said:
Hi,
So I offer this phone to my wife this xmas and everything was going smooth until we found this issue:
The bottom screen does this flickering when typing with Swiftkey keyboard on some apps. This one is Doggcatcher but it happens on other apps too.
If I swap to GBoard it does not happen. We're on Android Pie 9.0.
Has anyone found this issue?
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Got this issue too.. atimes when viewing camera images the flickering starts
PC295 said:
So far, I have not encountered any problems because of this.
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Mine was having same flickering, checked HW overlays. It was disabled by default, I enabled it and now working perfectly. Thanks alot