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Camera has really bad colour bands - Everyone or just me?

Hi,
I've had my Universal (XDA Exec) nearly 2 months now, but in the last few weeks I've noticed the picture quality from the camera seems to be REALLY bad. Whilst I appreciate these devices are nowhere near as good as dedicated digital cameras, I don't remember it being as bad as it is now.
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Is this normal?! Yes, I also realise that indoors pictures are worse than outdoors, but the room I took the picture in is VERY well lit.
I only really noticed the difference after I did the ROM upgrade from the older O2 ROM (1.15 I think?) to their newest 1.30 ROM on their website, but I since downgraded it again and I've had the same problems.
Just really wanted to verify if it's just me or everyone and whether it's just always been this bad and I've not noticed or if I do actually have a fault with mine.
Thanks!

The camera is dump. playing about with the settings for day, night, auto.... might help a little, but its a waste of space imho.
JAmes

Does yours suffer this horrible colour banding as well then?

with due respect YES the camera IS bad on the universal BUT definately NOT as bad as yours. I would say there is somehting definately not right there.

Thanks. I'll speak to O2 about getting it repaired/replaced. [] Pain really everything else is working perfectly, but now the camera has gone from "ok" to completely unuseable.

xanth said:
Thanks. I'll speak to O2 about getting it repaired/replaced. [] Pain really everything else is working perfectly, but now the camera has gone from "ok" to completely unuseable.
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How about makiong sure the resolution is say 1m pixels and the setting is superfine!!
If its still the same then your camera is broken.
My previous device only had a VGA camera and no flash - so coming to a device with 1.3m and flash is quite a bonus. It would not replace my normal camera - but I am pleased with the quality of the camera attached to the universal.
Matt

the camera is usable for day to day use though not ideal. The picture you posted is horrible and the cam isn't that bad. Try a hard reset or something like that

I've tried quite a few hard resets (including clearing the storage) and it's always the same. The preview on the screen itself looks like that too. I would post a 1 MP Fine picture as someone suggested, but it looks the same.
Was really just trying to work out whether it was just me or everyone and I think it looks like it's just me. Thank you all!

here. This might give you an idea how it should be

HTC Wizard Camera Patch?
My camera isn't as good as ADY's, but much better than Xanth's
Does anybody know about the HTC Wizard Camera Patch?
It's in the universal download section at buzzdev.net (so I presume it works for Uni)
http://buzzdev.net/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,100/func,select/id,37/orderby,2/page,2/
it says: HTC CAMERA PATCH, by t-mobile. Improves camera quality of your phone - exposure, colors and removes blue speckles.
I installed it, but nothing seems to happen, maybe my existing SW is more up to date....
Thanks.

Purple spot is chromatic abbrevation (look here for issue & fix)

EDIT TITLE: Not only chromatic abbrevation!
Hi. I did some 'shooting' today with my HD2 and saw the purple tint in ex green colors vs blue sky. You can also see the purple tint on grey surfaces too, aso..
_Some_ of the purple colors is simply not going to be fixed, because its something called chromatic abbreviation and thats an optic issue. But im also thinking its an software issue that HTC have not seen yet. Manual whitebalancing is often or always better than the auto-setting in HD2. And one other thing.. If your picture is underexposed, you have even more pink tinting.
As mentioned. If you try set the whitebalance yourself, you may get by the pink issue in almost every picture. 2 out of 10 pics is now 'normal' and i have minor/none editing in photoshop. Maybe every picture is good when picture are prop whitebalanced and not underexposed.
Excuse my english, im norwegian..

I also think some of the tweaks here are responsible for the pink tint. Earlier photos from before tweaking have no pink tint. Someone running a ''clean'' rom here to confirm? Ive only applied some tweaks from '[REF] *Leo Hints, Tips and Registry Tweaks* - Updated 14th May 2010.' and 'Boost performance tips (All ROMS) -NEW updates 11/2/10'.
Maybe turning camera tweaks back to default is going to fix this..?.. I have no time for hard-reset, so if anyone schedule a hard-reset and having the tint problem.. Please take before/after photos.

for what it's worth, I had the pink stain practically on every past rom that I used.
The current rom I use, based on 2.13 (and I just reinstall everything system related through sashimi, so it's actually the same config with different rom) doesn't show this problem, being the camera settings the same... and I'm not at all displeased

im getting awful purple/pink coulouring on my photo's too, stock virgin mobile rom ( piggyback off t-mobile) with few mods installed
it was broad daylight and its made the pic look awful is there a fix or not?
edit: pics look perfect on the phone but once uploaded to facebook they gain the tint :/

so theres no fixes for this?

here are some examples to try and get some feedback from someone.......anyone?
first 3 are the widescreen option and the last 4 are non-widescreen
widescreen mode 5mp
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New Nexus S owner - quality issues

Hi everyone,
I'm a former N1 owner and just bought a new NS i9020a from Negri Electronics and I'm finding a few funky things that I'd like to run by you guys. I'm suspecting that the phone might be defective, especially 1 and 2 below. Anyone else have these issues, or perhaps they are really non-issues?
1) My screen has pretty bad horizontal banding. It's most obvious in the notification pulldown, but is also noticeable with certain wallpapers, dead pixel test apps, etc. Please see screenshots below. Has anyone else had this, and do they fade away over time?
2) The galaxy live wallpaper has a layer of static "stars" or something above the actual spiraling galaxy. This layer kinda looks like stars, but some are splotchy/smeary. The galaxy itself also has a pink border/box around it too. I've factory reset twice and the same thing happens. Maybe my wallpaper is defective? See screenshots.
3) The screen in general has pretty yellow whites, especially in low brightness settings. I am not wowed as I thought I would have been with the SAMOLED screen.
4) When in the camera app, the picture doesnt actually take up the entire window. There are a few columns/rows of black pixels surrounding the picture. It's not centered either. See screenshot.
5) my volume rocker has a middle click, so there's up, middle, and down.
Banding:
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Galaxy wallpaper:
Camera app:

i'm on an ns4g, and i have the exact same problems. its not big enough to bug me though. btw, the samoled is more known for their deep blacks than their whites.

I would get that exchanged asap but since you bought it from Negri you will hard time.

i have a i9023 and got exactly same black line in camera app, it just doesn't take up the entire windowi believe it's a "feature"
i think "middle" button in volume rocker is normal, cause every android device i owned it was present, sometimes when you press it, your system gets lagged for a while, like 5 secs, i believe it's something related to debug setting, also you can use it to disable power button in cw recovery (don't know why)
the rest of your problem i can't actually help, since my screen is not the same!
edit: when you change from photo to video in camera app, don't these lines/rows change at all?!

Camera looks normal, just like mine.
Banding looks bad though. Possibly defective display. If you have warranty, you should exchange.

Camera hardware hacking/Lens mod to get night vision pics with galaxy s

After few webcams,and cammera modificatiosns makeing them to be very practical in the night tought i can have a Galaxy S same.Without too many knowledge in this area i disasamble the Galaxy S camera and i unmount the first lens (which tought is the IR Filter) and surprise ...Galaxy S camera still couldnt see the IR light lol...
I already brocken the camera then nothing to lose eneymore and i disasambled all parts of it...and still coulnd see the IR light.
Mabye someone with more knowledge in this area can help us to get night pics with our Galaxy S
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more pics abaut this here
somebody did on youtube but they hacked iphone

I was thinking of trying one of the add on lens kit they got for the (gag) iphone.
Sent from my MB855 using xda premium

good idea to do that

Sometimes the filter is placed directly on the sensor. When looking at it move it to an angle and see if it has a reddish purple hue to it.
You'll most likely also need to replace it with piece of glass of the same thickness or it's going to throw the focal point off.

Great idea. I wonder if they're now integrating IR filter directly on the cmos sensor to reduce cost. If so, then of course it wont be possible to remove. You might try pointing a TV remote at your camera while pressing the remote to make sure it isn't seeing IR with the filters you've already removed.

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Great idea. I wonder if they're now integrating IR filter directly on the cmos sensor to reduce cost. If so, then of course it wont be possible to remove. You might try pointing a TV remote at your camera while pressing the remote to make sure it isn't seeing IR with the filters you've already removed.
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I doubt that the IR filter is being integrated directly into the CMOS sensor, more likely the glass there has been doped so that it reduces the IR that does get through. The TV remote trick is the easiest way to see how much IR is getting through.
I think the problem you are having is testing. You are likely testing in a room where you can shut off the lights, you still need some ambient light. Maybe try using some IR LEDs to augment. You also need to increase the time the shutter is open for. This is because since you are collecting so little light that you likely only see black but really the image is just very dark. Maybe pass some of your test images through photoshop or MATlab and do equalization so that you utilize all the brightness levels possible instead of a small subset.

Just like the others said, the High Pass filter (IR Blocking filter) is most likely right on top of the sensor. Might be difficult to do on a phone, and I had troubles removing it on my DSLR, which is now a paper weight. lol

Pink glow in photos?

Hello everyone !
But is it just me or the camera of my S5 tends to have a soft glow pink ?
I'll post three photos :
The first photo are made to the ceiling with all default settings:
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Second photo, made to a object, all default settings:
Third photo, made to the same object, but with HDR:
The wall and the cieiling are white of course.
I'm not saying they are bad picture to be taken with a cell phone mind you, then I know that the indoors with artificial light are not exactly suited to take good photos with the digital in general, then the most important thing : I DO NOT KNOW NOTHING OF PHOTOGRAPHY .
In your opinion are fine as a photo? I do not care to know if they are good pictures or not , I'm interested to know if by any chance the camera has a problem , or is fine and I do not know photographing ...
P. S. Pictures taken to 'open day are fine with no problems.

FreeWolF80 said:
Hello everyone !
But is it just me or the camera of my S5 tends to have a soft glow pink ?
I'll post three photos :
The first photo are made to the ceiling with all default settings:
Second photo, made to a object, all default settings:
Third photo, made to the same object, but with HDR:
The wall and the cieiling are white of course.
I'm not saying they are bad picture to be taken with a cell phone mind you, then I know that the indoors with artificial light are not exactly suited to take good photos with the digital in general, then the most important thing : I DO NOT KNOW NOTHING OF PHOTOGRAPHY .
In your opinion are fine as a photo? I do not care to know if they are good pictures or not , I'm interested to know if by any chance the camera has a problem , or is fine and I do not know photographing ...
P. S. Pictures taken to 'open day are fine with no problems.
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You sure your finger is not too close to the lens? Could it be bouncing the light off of your finger?

Yes I'm sure, just checked