I have recently bought an Alpine , and am really dissapointed. I had a Himalaya and a Blue Angel before and the quality of the photos was better despit the lower resolution!
Is it hardware or software's fault?
If it's software, is it possible to install a different camera application and just add it to start-up instead of the original one?
thx
i agree with you....
some tips
The default settings for the camera on XDA2 is much better than on 2i. You get much nicer looking pics if you change the settings via 'adjust' under tools when the camera is on capture mode to:
Contrast 3
Brightness 3
Aturation 6
Hue 5
sharpness 5
(If anyone knows where the defaults are stored, please shout up, as you lose the new settings if you have to do a soft reset)
You will find that sometimes you need to manually set the light colour (daylight, incandescent etc) rather than leave it set on auto. Changing this setting should not affect the brightness of the captured image - just the colour, but it often does. Also the quality seems to be really poor unless you choose XL for the capture size.
Under reasonable lighting conditions the above settings will produce BETTER pics than the earlier lower res camera, but this is not true in low light conditions - the new one produces very grainy (noisy) images. You can process them to remove most of this but generally it needs a better quality image processing program than you can run on the XDA.
The other big problem I have found is that the new camera finds great difficulty in working out what the exposure should be - sometimes a very ordinary scene is hopelessly overexposed. However, you can fool the camera by briefly pointing it at the sky before framing and snapping your shot.
This carry-on really should not be necessary, and someone ought to produce a software fix.
Thanks a lot, I'll give it a go
Another very annoying problem the XDAIIi camera suffers from is the location of which the images and movies are stored,
You will notice that even though you can change the location (Main memory or SD memory) you CANNOT choose the directory.
So you end up with the camera choosing the location, it does this by using the year,month,day-0001 and so on .....
You end up with loads of numbered folers when you would like all images to be put into "My Pictures" for example.
Another very annoying problem the XDAIIi camera suffers from is the location of which the images and movies are stored,
You will notice that even though you can change the location (Main memory or SD memory) you CANNOT choose the directory.
So you end up with the camera choosing the location, it does this by using the year,month,day-0001 and so on .....
You end up with loads of numbered folers when you would like all images to be put into "My Pictures" for example.
Yes this is really frustrating. I just tried changing the prefix string for this automated file naming. I tried putting /my documents/ in front of the default string but it wouldn't accept it. There must be somewhere in some config file that tells the camera to create a new directory off the root directory. Presumably that could be altered to make it created off the My pics sub directory.
i'd love if someone tell us about this cammera problem, is there some software which will change the default one or something?
those options helped alot tho.
Contrast 3
Brightness 3
Aturation 6
Hue 5
sharpness 5
cheers, thanks mike!
There's a registry hack that keeps the default camera settings to your own adjustments even after a soft reset.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/HTC/Camera/AppDefSettings/General
Set Contrast = 3, Brightness = 3, Saturation = 6, Hue = 5,Sharpness = 5
Hope this helps
Heeey! It works! Thanks a lot. Well done!
I upgraded my radio yesterday, and those settings were saved even after hard reset!!!That's cool!
same i feel
I feel BA is better than Alpine in speed, steady, camera, Power and many thing. I am sorry for to sell my PDA2K and buy PDA2. Anybody feel sorrow?
...
my brother have BA, I think that pda2k better than my 2020i...pda2k working faster ...but,i'm buy two weeks later this device,and very glad.
Explodingfist said:
There's a registry hack that keeps the default camera settings to your own adjustments even after a soft reset.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/HTC/Camera/AppDefSettings/General
Set Contrast = 3, Brightness = 3, Saturation = 6, Hue = 5,Sharpness = 5
Hope this helps
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Hello, I'm new here and in the matter, so I have to beg your patience.
How do I change the Registry entrance? I have PHM Registry Editor.
Thanks in advance.
Aan.
Just find the right key according to the instructions and then change it accordingly.
rottie said:
Just find the right key according to the instructions and then change it accordingly.
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Thanks for the prompt reply. However, and using the PHM, I'm asked to enter a "New Key", or "New: String Value; Binary VAlue; DWORD Value; Multi-String Value; Expandable String Value". Which one?
All the camera issues with the 2i were caused by an "update" that the phone companies placed in the extended ROMs. Once this is removed, the problem goes away.
If you want the new extended rom with this "update" removed have a look for a link titled "camera quality sorted?" or something like that.
rottie said:
Just find the right key according to the instructions and then change it accordingly.
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Thanks for the prompt reply. However, and using the PHM, I'm asked to enter a "New Key", or "New: String Value; Binary VAlue; DWORD Value; Multi-String Value; Expandable String Value". Which one?
I've made a mistake with the Post.
Thanks Pug I'l have a view later.
BRegards
Aan
I've made a mistake with the Post.
Thanks Pug I'l have a view later.
BRegards
Aan
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Camera settings (to remove snow effect):
In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/HTC/Camera/AppDefSettings/General
Set Contrast - 5, Brightness - 6, Saturation - 3, Hue - 5,Sharpness - 3
These settings will not reset themselves after closing the camera app or doing a soft reset! They become defaults.
Hope you find it useful!
kta,
That was great. It was minimized.
But i have not checked the output of the shot.
will it affect the output shot?
I tried this on my XDa2i but it doesnt work, the lowest value it allows me to enter is 0
To bad that won't work on the XDA II the camera needs a lot of help too. Does anyone know of a fix for the XDA II?
Emil, the output shot will be better as well!
Daredevil, the values are +ve, ie. 5, 3, etc. Maybe I should have used a ":" instead of a "-".
Great work!!!
thanks for the tip
I do not have these settings in the registry. Is this because I have not updated the ROM ?
Hi, where do I find this regedit?
Grunt said:
I do not have these settings in the registry. Is this because I have not updated the ROM ?
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You don't need to go into the registry...
fire up the camera application and click the settings button
click on the tools menu and choose adjust...
the settings are in the drop down box...
In this way you won't have to meddle with the registry...
amazing!
Hey kta, I tried it out, just wanna let you know the results are amazing!
I had given up on this camera (and just about the phone as a whole) especially when my friend checked with someone working with doopod said that this is a hardware (lens) problem so we can't really do anything about it. But you did it!
Just wanted to let you know I really appreciate the fix!
Fantastic! I applied it and it is much better
Thank you VERY much
amazing!
Hey kta, I tried it out, just wanna let you know the results are amazing!
I had given up on this camera (and just about the phone as a whole) especially when my friend checked with someone working with doopod said that this is a hardware (lens) problem so we can't really do anything about it. But you did it!
Just wanted to let you know I really appreciate the fix!
Thanks, pics look better now
yeah! the pic looks a lot better than before
Thanks bro 4 the share ..
ill-tempered said:
Grunt said:
I do not have these settings in the registry. Is this because I have not updated the ROM ?
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You don't need to go into the registry...
fire up the camera application and click the settings button
click on the tools menu and choose adjust...
the settings are in the drop down box...
In this way you won't have to meddle with the registry...
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If you don't change them in the registry, the settings will reset themselves once you close (not minimise) the camera application or when you change the ambience from auto to night, etc.
The only permanent fix is to change them in the registry. Here's a link to a free registry editor: http://www.pocketpcfreewares.com/en/index.php?soft=31
PS: To all those that showed their appreciation: You're welcome
Maybe I missed something but I still do not find these attributes in the registry.........see my earlier post and screen shot.
kta, I agree that to get the change to stick its a registry change but in my registry I don't have these parameters. Is this because I have the older ExtROM ?
Grunt,
I'm not sure why you don't have these in your registry. I don't think it's the ROM version. I would try changing the settings in the camera settings and see if they get created. If that doesn't work I would try entering them manually as DWORD values base decimal (Brightness, Contrast, Hue, Saturation, Sharpness).
Why aren't you upgrading to 1.11 anyway?
for mini?
hi does this registry tweak work for mini also? if yes, Brightness - 5
is it refering to brightness = 5? sorry saw someone on the above mention post trying to go lower than 0...thanks
Just to clarify:
Camera settings (to remove snow effect):
In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/HTC/Camera/AppDefSettings/General
Set Contrast to 5, Brightness to 6, Saturation to 3, Hue to 5,Sharpness to 3
Hey guys,
I was wondering if you might give me some suggestion and comments about the application i just developed, well its my first ever developed app for smart device so i hope u don't mind. For HTC magicians only i guess unless other models have the same registry structure for the camera settings.
Features
-Save profiles
This application allows you to save settings and name it as profiles, thanks to kta and deuxani for providing some configs which i made as preset in the meantime.
-More camera settings
-and some more...
Just try it out
Known issues:
-Profile has no immediate effect
If any of u guys know how to make immediate effect after modifying registry please let me know, afaik i had to do a soft boot or just click on "reset" on the camera settings.
-Error if click 'Apply' on empty profile
Well, haven't put any exceptions handlers just yet, need to know more bugs first
Need comments about ease of use and user interface also bugs if u happen to find any. I try to make it as simple as i can. Thanks all.
::adit
Great!
Just installed it! Works fine!
Excellent, maybe a little addon after you select a profile directy start the camera ( this is the reason you start it )
Keep up the good work!
First Thanks on this Idea!!
Will test further and report back.
What do i wrong ? It doenst do anything for me except show me the frame rate ... :?
Thats what i meant by "immediate effect" which i haven't figure out yet, you must go to the camera settings and adjust and click on "reset" because I was able to change the registry for both settings (ie. Contrast and Contrast_User) but i think the camera needs something so it can "refreash" and get the values from the registry which also does on the ambience. I hope someone can figure this out..
::adit
great job adit
if you are looking for more advice about developing this plug-in.. I suggest to post this topic in the Development and Hacking forum.
keep up the good work :wink:
Nice job, and its working.
I've tried this app and i have a problem:
in the registry i have 2 values for each parameter (for example brightness and brightness user)
The software change the non user value but if i softreset my Magician user's values becomes default. I must open configuration and reset values and they becomes like the non user values.
Is there another solution?
I've also tryed to delete user keys but after a SR they are again.
Sorry for my english
I've tried this app and i have a problem:
in the registry i have 2 values for each parameter (for example brightness and brightness user)
The software change the non user value but if i softreset my Magician user's values becomes default. I must open configuration and reset values and they becomes like the non user values.
Is there another solution?
I've also tryed to delete user keys but after a SR they are again.
Sorry for my english
The application changes both default and user (default ie brightness, and user ie brightness_user). I did this to make sure that even after a soft reset since the effect does not change immediately, the values are not changed. If you find it inconvenient, i'll rebuild the application so it changes only the xxx_user (ie xxx=brightness)? For the time being, if you want to reset the settings to the original state change all values in the non user to '5'.
Hi all. Can anyone dir me to anywhere I can download apps for adjusting the screen contrast of xda2 (WM2005)? Thanx in anticipation.
bloggy
http://www.google.dk/search?hl=da&q=CONTRAST+Adjustment+wm2005&btnG=Google-søgning&meta=
?
Hi Rudegar. I had already googled it and seem not to get anything. Thanx for the concern anyway.
bloggy
Built in Contrast adjustment
I know there is a built in Contrast adjustment program in WM5. After doing some some registry tweak testing...basically me changing registry settings without any direction, I must have stumbled on something that activated a Contrast program icon.
When I ran it, there was a slider for screen contrast. I continued some more registry tweaks, but restored an old registry and lost the new Program Icon.
I don't know what registry setting it was that activated this, so if anyone knows how to activate it, please let us know!
Re: Built in Contrast adjustment
our screen driver (or maybe hardware) does not support contrast changing, so this is useless. Only backlight brightness can be changed.
I've discovered a registry key that seems to have _some_ control over not contrast, but gamma. You might be able to use it to get some results. Its located in HKLM/System/GDI/Gamma and it is a DWord called "Gamma Value"
Re: Built in Contrast adjustment
mamaich said:
our screen driver (or maybe hardware) does not support contrast changing
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There is no hardware contrast support on himalaya, blueangel and universal, only the
brightness control via PWM duty period.
I'm not sure if it works on other devices, but on a Wizard, you can go to HKLM\ControlPanel\Contrast and delete the redirect key (if there is one) and create a new dword value named Group with value 0 and it will put a Contrast icon in Settings that has an adjustable slider....
works...
registry tweak brings contrast setting to control panel but that does nothing (since contrasting is not supported)
Hello everybody:
I'm trying to find out why does everything happens to me...
Yesterday in the snow I used the camera and everything worked fine. (Well, really I used the camera in my hands, not in the snow... )
Today I try to use it and after taking a photo, the HD shows the photo some seconds, and then starts thinking (colours circle going around), and it keep thinking +/- 1 minute. Then goes back to the camera, but when I try to find the photograph that I have just taken, but there isn't in nowhere.
I performed a search with Resco Explorer, files starting with IMAG0, but I didn't find anything...
I changed the folder to store the images with de Advanced Config. Thinking on it, I have restored the folder DCIM\100MEDIA in the Advanced Config, but it keeps doing the same.
Anyone knows why does it happen and how could I fix it??
No ideas??
Please, sombody who can put me in the right direction!!!
Don't want another hard reset!!
Have you made any changes or installed any programs that affect the camera?
What mode/settings are you using when taking pictures? Is the problem in all modes?
Have you edited the registry to activate extra camera modes like burst, sport etc.?
EDIT: Have you tried a soft reset?
Chris Cross said:
Have you made any changes or installed any programs that affect the camera?
What mode/settings are you using when taking pictures? Is the problem in all modes?
Have you edited the registry to activate extra camera modes like burst, sport etc.?
EDIT: Have you tried a soft reset?
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All the changes I've made, have used HD Tweak, or Advanced Config.
The day before I changed de locations folders with Advanced Config, but I think I've restored them to try if that was the problem, but there aren't any changes.
With HD Tweak, the setting concerning the camera:
11.1: On
11.2: On
11.3: On
11.4: On
11.5: On
11.6: 3 Mpx
11.7: 3 Mpx
And with Advanced Config, the suspicious settings:
In Camera group: (Sorry if the translation isn't faithful enough)
Backup Location: My Images
Codify images in portrait mode: Yes
Delay in shot button: Off
Shoot time: Off
Delay time for shot button: 1500
And in locations (those I changed before the failure appeared):
Default location for image files: \Storage Card\My documents
(I changed other locations, but I think that they aren't related with the camera...)
In the camera settings, the Storage option activated is "Storage Card".
I think that other options can't be related with this.
There are any registry settings I may review??
The extra modes were activated with the configuration tools, not in the registry directly.
Yes, I've made (several) soft resets.
Sorry for my english if anything doesn't make sense.
Hi all,
I'm not sure what its called, but you know the context menus that come up basically whenever you hold your pointer over something for a while? It annoys me with the size they are in wm6.5. I love the speed of wm6.5 (tried both xplode's r7 (about to install 7.1...) and swampy's rls) but it really annoys me that they've made everything so big. Seems to take twice as long to do simple things now because now you have to scroll down menus to find what you're looking for. Is there anyway to bring this back to the good old "classic" sizes? I can't seem to find an option anywhere... and I realise loading a skinning app is just going to slow the OS down making the whole upgrade to 6.5 kinda pointless.
Also, does anyone know a way to speed up the actual time taken to register a tap and hold command? So that we don't have to spend as long to bring up the context menus?
Thanks in advance~
-kdp
that's a lot of questions. let me start with saying that i can not guarantee you, that the reg tweaks work. i found them for different devices and checked both my devices and didn't have the reg keys in there. so i don't knoiw if it helps you. Maybe, if i find out more, i'll post it later:
1. The size of the context and softkey menus:
a. the easiest way to influence the size and look of those menus would be, installing another theme. not just the color will change, but also the entire looks, so if you have a .tsk theme, copy it to the device and activate it, you will see it changed.
b. regitry tweak:
HKLM\System\GWE\Menu\Popfnt\
there should be two dword values that you can change to whatever you like.
ht=height is default set to 1000
wt=width is default set to 700
2. a skinning app is gonna slow down the os
- true, with wm6.5 there is really no need for anything else to make the graphics any nicer
3. tap and hold time:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay
right-click, select properties, and enter a value from zero to 999 milliseconds
if that value, does not exist, create it (string value)
if those values didn't work, you should try out advanced config, which can be downloaded here: http://www.pocketpc.ch/news/42529-freeware-advanced-config-3-0-a.html
there you have more than 200 tweaks for the os and don't need to search the registry for any values.
first off, a big thank you for the speediness of your reply.
i tried out the other tsk files i have... but unfortunately i don't have any older ones from wm5/6, only the newer 6.5 ones. they didn't seem to make much difference in size of anything... only the actual colour/font schemes. if you have any older tsk files that you wouldn't mind uploading, that'd be much appreciated as something to try.
the softkeys aren't so much an issue - i've got wisbar to disable them (yes yes, i know wisbar is a skinning app... but i prefer a nice cascading start menu to something i need to fumble through to find stuff any day) - its more the context menus that are annoying me.
the registry edit is interesting. changing the height and width actually also changes the zoom on the font size... i'm not sure how this is being calculated, but the font is clearly getting smaller the smaller you set the dimensions. it seems like its taking a predefined box with the text designed to take up a predefined percentage of it and then letting you put in the dimensions of the box... basically so that no matter what numbers you plug in, you'll always have the rather annoying amount of space being wasted between items in the context menus. though all that said and done, 750 for height and 350 for width are far more workable than the previous settings. more than legible too imo~
the tap and hold time tweak worked wonderfully
thanks again~
Tap and Hold time delay Setting
I found your post ref to Tap and Hold delays. I tried this Tap and Hold setting you said worked on your phone (see below) I tried it as shown below on a HTC wm 6.5 HTC pure(diamond2), and did not see a change, were you able to shorten the delay? Is that done with a String? or Dword?
3. tap and hold time:
HKCU\ControlPanel\Desktop\MenuShowDelay
right-click, select properties, and enter a value from zero to 999 milliseconds
if that value, does not exist, create it (string value).
I have spent hours searching the registry for a solution
it was a dword iirc... tbh, this hasn't been so much of an issue for me with the newer releases so i haven't bothered so much.
koi_desi_pagal said:
first off, a big thank you for the speediness of your reply.
i tried out the other tsk files i have... but unfortunately i don't have any older ones from wm5/6, only the newer 6.5 ones. they didn't seem to make much difference in size of anything... only the actual colour/font schemes. if you have any older tsk files that you wouldn't mind uploading, that'd be much appreciated as something to try.
the softkeys aren't so much an issue - i've got wisbar to disable them (yes yes, i know wisbar is a skinning app... but i prefer a nice cascading start menu to something i need to fumble through to find stuff any day) - its more the context menus that are annoying me.
the registry edit is interesting. changing the height and width actually also changes the zoom on the font size... i'm not sure how this is being calculated, but the font is clearly getting smaller the smaller you set the dimensions. it seems like its taking a predefined box with the text designed to take up a predefined percentage of it and then letting you put in the dimensions of the box... basically so that no matter what numbers you plug in, you'll always have the rather annoying amount of space being wasted between items in the context menus. though all that said and done, 750 for height and 350 for width are far more workable than the previous settings. more than legible too imo~
the tap and hold time tweak worked wonderfully
thanks again~
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If you still need themes for wm6.1, try http://www.wm6themes.com/
I use one from that site on my BA, but since i don't have wm6.5 installed right now, i can't tell you whether it'll help in your situation or not.