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Faulty native camera app

So a while back I asked who else had a problem where when they take a pic in portrait mode it comes out rotated (it looks fine in mediascape but when you look at it on a cpu or with a file manger its actually rotated) and I tried everything to fix it (repairing with update service and factory reset) but it didn't help. So I just downloaded this camera app because you can add effect to pics and when I looked at the pics I took with it their right side up. So I came to the conclusion that its the native camera app that has this problem and I just hope there's a way to fix it because its annoying :-\

So after trying out different camera apps I confirmed it is the native camera app, I hope this is fixed in the 2.1 update or a dev can do it when the boot is cracked =/ (I commented to also bump it and to see who else has this problem)
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What?
Most real cameras are the same way. The orientation data from a camera can usually not be read by Windows Explorer/Photo Viewer/Website uploaders.
The other camera apps you claim work are taking the pics at a different resolution, instead of using the orientation sensor. (e.g., 600x800 instead of 800x600). It's pedantic, but, it's not a "bug" or a "fault".

I just re-read my original post and it makes perfect sense, but I guess I'll explain again. When I take a picture in portrait mode the picture looks fine in mediascape but if I look at it with a file manger or upload it to a CPU, Facebook etc its actually rotated to the left. And I don't have this problem with any other camera app. So how is my pictures being rotated to the left not a bug O_O
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Use a regular camera. This happens all the time, as the camera always shoots in landscape orientation, and just adds some orientation data to the file.
Camera apps shoot in a different resolution than the native camera app. It's not a bug, just the X10 behaving like a regular camera would.

Well i for the record also irritate on this, even if it is a normal action. If i see something fun and want to share that on FB, and the pic gets rotated sideways, it spoils the fun :-\
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But it's a 1 second click on FB to rotate the pic...

I hope mobile was in landscape mode and.not portrait.
mark28 said:
I just re-read my original post and it makes perfect sense, but I guess I'll explain again. When I take a picture in portrait mode the picture looks fine in mediascape but if I look at it with a file manger or upload it to a CPU, Facebook etc its actually rotated to the left. And I don't have this problem with any other camera app. So how is my pictures being rotated to the left not a bug O_O
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iead1 said:
But it's a 1 second click on FB to rotate the pic...
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Not in the FB app or mobile FB.
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The X10 can view the full FB site just fine... still just a single click.

My X10 used to mess up the rotation of the pictures all the time. Even pictures taken in the X10 would show up rotated the wrong way in mediascape too. When I took a picture, and it did happen to be the right way up, once uploaded to facebook using the facebook app, it would be rotated the wrong way, regardless of whether it was taken landscape or portrait. This is definately a bug, as it never happens on my new phone, regardless of orientation of pic when it was taken... When I upload pics from my HTC, they are the correct way up, every single time..
It annoys me when people say there is no bug or it's the problem of the user... I have friends and my gf who unfortunately have to use the X10 still, and these things shouldnt happen! You shouldnt have to browse to the main site to rotate the photo, the facebook app or the phone should upload it properly..
The Desire uploads using "Facebook for HTC sense", maybe sony need a "Facebook for SE UI" or something to upload pictures properly.
Whether it's a bug with the X10, Android 1.6, or whatever, it shouldnt happen.
I too hope they fix this with the update, if and when it ever comes.

well, hopefully with everyone facing this same problem, SE will fix their damn app in the 2.1.x update.
it's stupid to upload from mediascape.. then go to the full site to re-orientate it.

Facebook photos upload settings

Hi all
I have facebook app on 2.1 when I use 3g/H and upload photo with the facebook app the resolution is very small. when I use Wifi the pictures are uploaded in High res. Is there a way to fix this?
Cheers
Yasen

Gorbachov said:
Hi all
I have facebook app on 2.1 when I use 3g/H and upload photo with the facebook app the resolution is very small. when I use Wifi the pictures are uploaded in High res. Is there a way to fix this?
Cheers
Yasen
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I'm not sure if you can change your settings, but when you use the app and select the option to upload a photo, you get two options "Choose from Gallery" and "Capture Photo". The phone can be set to take 8mp pics, but the app itself shrinks it down so it transfers better over the mobile network. If you want to upload bigger pictures, take one with the stock camera app first, and then select "Choose from Gallery" when uploading the picture. You'll get a pic that's about 4 times the size of what it is when taken with the facebook app.

SPIDERTECH said:
I'm not sure if you can change your settings, but when you use the app and select the option to upload a photo, you get two options "Choose from Gallery" and "Capture Photo". The phone can be set to take 8mp pics, but the app itself shrinks it down so it transfers better over the mobile network. If you want to upload bigger pictures, take one with the stock camera app first, and then select "Choose from Gallery" when uploading the picture. You'll get a pic that's about 4 times the size of what it is when taken with the facebook app.
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This seems to be the only way...

Facebook app for android?

Can we save photos on facebook by using fb app like FBapp for ios?
And there are any solutions to set wallpaper without cropping?

There are numerous apps in market which allow you to do almost whatever, eg-friendcaster
By default the system gives you option to crop the image before setting add wallpaper to for it according to our screen, if you want to use the whole of the picture as wallpaper just expand the size of the cropping edge of rectangle to the full of the image as it allows you to.
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Thanks man. The name of saving photos on fb's app, please

Fb hac announced that we'll have exactly the same app as ios on android soon ... we waited that since a long time and maybe the same functionnality
message to earth: " here is the spaceship kyrillos 8.1 with the kernel engine G3mod 2.0 non oc, everything work like a charm, the 3rd galaxy is now near to us"
All dev your work is always amazing THANKS !!!!!

ghost_xXx_angel said:
Thanks man. The name of saving photos on fb's app, please
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As I said, try "friendcaster pro" it gives you almost all functionality from uploading photos, to saving them, when you view them just hit the option button and choose the save option. You can Getty it from the Android market,else just google it.
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ghost_xXx_angel said:
Thanks man. The name of saving photos on fb's app, please
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open a pic.. Tap on middle.. Tap on share in the top.. Choose any photo editor from Ur list (assuming u hav one in Ur phone).. In photo editor just save the pic without editing..
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Gallery

Anyone have any idea how to keep Album and Ebook Covers from showing up in the gallery. Want it to be just my photos etc from cam and downloads but they all show up there in all different folders?

Find where those pictures are stored. Go in that folder and make a new folder call .nomedia

Thanks
baseballfanz said:
Find where those pictures are stored. Go in that folder and make a new folder call .nomedia
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Worked really well also for Music folder with all album covers etc, Ebooks etc

norm883 said:
Anyone have any idea how to keep Album and Ebook Covers from showing up in the gallery. Want it to be just my photos etc from cam and downloads but they all show up there in all different folders?
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Just touch and hold the "offending" file and an option menu will pop up where you can select "Exclude" - done.

ziffos said:
Just touch and hold the "offending" file and an option menu will pop up where you can select "Exclude" - done.
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in what program?
i tried in Gallery but not getting that option..
I went in to file explorer too and no option there..
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I use a great little free app called quickpic which allows you to chose which folders are listed and it loads up large galleries nice and quick.
Jason.
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personally i find the default Gallery app pretty rubbish, it only refreshes content on a reboot for example.
i try and avoid using it as much as possible.

Jisonga said:
I use a great little free app called quickpic which allows you to chose which folders are listed and it loads up large galleries nice and quick.
Jason.
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Yes, thats a nice little one.. I just loaded it and it has the exclude in it..
also allows you to backup to the root directry that the offending files are hanging out under..
i.e Books\nonfiction\files.. thus no need to do it individually..
it also works in well with the Picture framer I am using as a widget on one of my home screens..
where I have setup client files for previews.. now I think I just about got the perfect setup for it as a portable
casestudy showcase..so to recap on that..
ESfile explorer - to setup directory links as folders on a home screen
Picture framer to allow 4 large pictures on any one home screen - thus a quick tap takes you in to that themed directry
Quickpic - to run as the main viewer and slideshow engine..

dgcruzing said:
in what program?
i tried in Gallery but not getting that option..
I went in to file explorer too and no option there..
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Very sorry but forgot to tell you that I was using Quickpic rather than Gallery.
Quickpic is excellent.

Multitasking needs some serious improvements :'(

I love android but for all the bragging Google makes about "real " multitasking I find it really lacking, let's say you get an email and you have an attachment you download and open the picture but then someone calls you and you finish the call you press the multitasking button and want to open the picture again but the gallery is not "open" ist not in the recent apps /multitasking list and if you try to open the gallery by yourself with the launcher or a shortcut the picture you were watching a couple of minutes is not there because "gmail open the picture with the gallery but the gallery is not being used " , then you try to go to gmail then to see your picture there but surprise ! The picture is closed and your back on your mail , you have to reopen/ redownload your picture
What do you guys think ? Am I being to picky ?
Also the thumbs from the task switcher , sometimes the pictures showing there could be from a state your app was 30 minutes ago , they don't update in real time :banghead:
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Don't know about you, but I never had those problems ever
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Works for me.
Are you sure you havn't played with the number of allowed background apps setting in developer options?
Nexus4 has 2GB of RAM, plenty to support the apps you mention.... Android will only start closing background when when memory is low, and form oldest first.

I don't know how exactly android works, but this is my guess on why things happen as you've mentioned.
Each screen in android is called an Activity. When gmail opens picture, it is not opening the entire gallery app.
It's just opening an activity within gallery app to display a picture.Which is why the gallery app is not in multi-tasking list.

atulalvenkar said:
I don't know how exactly android works, but this is my guess on why things happen as you've mentioned.
Each screen in android is called an Activity. When gmail opens picture, it is not opening the entire gallery app.
It's just opening an activity within gallery app to display a picture.Which is why the gallery app is not in multi-tasking list.
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+1 to that, but if you press the gmail icon in the recent apps, the picture would appear in front of you again
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wtfshouldidonow said:
+1 to that, but if you press the gmail icon in the recent apps, the picture would appear in front of you again
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But it shouldn't be that way , its very annoying ,try to open a document in dropbox and start reading it then go to the music player using the task switcher , then try to switch back to your document (using drop box ) tell me what happens ? Your document is nowhere to be found you're again on the main screen of the dropbox app
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Coming from a one S the multitasking on this is a million times better yea it could still use some work but it does most scenarios awesomely
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Chad_Petree said:
I love android but for all the bragging Google makes about "real " multitasking I find it really lacking, let's say you get an email and you have an attachment you download and open the picture but then someone calls you and you finish the call you press the multitasking button and want to open the picture again but the gallery is not "open" ist not in the recent apps /multitasking list and if you try to open the gallery by yourself with the launcher or a shortcut the picture you were watching a couple of minutes is not there because "gmail open the picture with the gallery but the gallery is not being used " , then you try to go to gmail then to see your picture there but surprise ! The picture is closed and your back on your mail , you have to reopen/ redownload your picture
What do you guys think ? Am I being to picky ?
Also the thumbs from the task switcher , sometimes the pictures showing there could be from a state your app was 30 minutes ago , they don't update in real time :banghead:
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If you were to press back you'd go back to the image and such and as a matter a fact i prefer it this way. I don't want every image I view from email to be in my gallery as I didn't save it. The view attachments is a preview of said image. If a call comes in then and it looses focus it I wouldn't expect to go back to the Gallery and find it there since that's not where it was in the first place (even though the Gallery App was the one that opened it. That's like watching videos online then later in the day going back to gallery to expect to find that same video).

Chad_Petree said:
But it shouldn't be that way , its very annoying ,try to open a document in dropbox and start reading it the go the music player using the task switcher , then try to switch back to your document (using drop box ) tell me what happens ? Your document is nowhere to be found you're again on the main screen of the dropbox app
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If this is happening then it is very likely a problem with the application. Android has a great structure in place for multitasking, but developers also have to do their part to make sure their app works as expected.

wtfshouldidonow said:
+1 to that, but if you press the gmail icon in the recent apps, the picture would appear in front of you again
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If you exit gmail application with the gallery activity still open, of course the picture would appear again when you return. That is live multitasking.

Yeah so true.. its way better on iOS where you get a jiggly icon
*pffttttt* ahh hahahahahaha
Sorry I couldn't keep it together..
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I just wished youtube app plays in the background.
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There is an app called PVStar+ (or similar) which allows you to play Youtube in the background. I use it to listen to concerts...

Anytime you get interrupted with a phone call, complete your call, press back, and your gallery image would appear.
The real answer, I just opened gmail, went to an email with image attached, opened in gallery, then press home. Hit multitask key, and the gallery image appears with the gmail icon and name. So the multitask works correctly like it should. Not sure why this thread states otherwise.

Chad_Petree said:
I love android but for all the bragging Google makes about "real " multitasking I find it really lacking, let's say you get an email and you have an attachment you download and open the picture but then someone calls you and you finish the call you press the multitasking button and want to open the picture again but the gallery is not "open" ist not in the recent apps /multitasking list and if you try to open the gallery by yourself with the launcher or a shortcut the picture you were watching a couple of minutes is not there because "gmail open the picture with the gallery but the gallery is not being used " , then you try to go to gmail then to see your picture there but surprise ! The picture is closed and your back on your mail , you have to reopen/ redownload your picture
What do you guys think ? Am I being to picky ?
Also the thumbs from the task switcher , sometimes the pictures showing there could be from a state your app was 30 minutes ago , they don't update in real time :banghead:
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#firstworldproblems
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Android relies heavily on the back button to navigate through the os. Learn to use it and your life will be a lot better.
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shotta35 said:
If you were to press back you'd go back to the image and such and as a matter a fact i prefer it this way. I don't want every image I view from email to be in my gallery as I didn't save it. The view attachments is a preview of said image. If a call comes in then and it looses focus it I wouldn't expect to go back to the Gallery and find it there since that's not where it was in the first place (even though the Gallery App was the one that opened it. That's like watching videos online then later in the day going back to gallery to expect to find that same video).
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No, no you're getting me wrong , what i mean is that it would be better if when you open the gallery the image should be there until you close the gallery when you close it then the picture should be gone which brings me to my other complain, the multitasking button should really kill the apps , not just delete them from the list, well not really kill them since android has to keep the apps "open in the background" just reset them to their "stock state" just so that the background syncing/notifications still work
DustByte said:
I just wished youtube app plays in the background.
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This is absurd really, if im watching a video and then i get a message in whatsapp and i reply it , puff my video is gone, i dont use youtube mobile only for that reason
RogerPodacter said:
Anytime you get interrupted with a phone call, complete your call, press back, and your gallery image would appear.
The real answer, I just opened gmail, went to an email with image attached, opened in gallery, then press home. Hit multitask key, and the gallery image appears with the gmail icon and name. So the multitask works correctly like it should. Not sure why this thread states otherwise.
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Well maybe gmail was a bad example, but you have to admit that the way multitasking works in android is very patchy and not only on third developer apps

AW: Multitasking needs some serious improvements :'(
Apps do not multitask at all on Android, only services do. When an app goes to the background, the OS asks it to pause and save its state. When it comes back to foreground, the OS asks the app to resume and load its state. This creates the illusion of multitasking, because the app continues where you left, but only works if the app developer follows the guidelines.