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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.

[PIC]Over 300 hours of continues 3g using ? :D

Hello everyone,
Had this weird situation after doin' a hard reset , though i'd share it
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It's not edited and the numbers it's showing cannot be true either, cuz i just turned on my phone
if u faced sumthing like this post it down

I had a Qtec S100 3 years ago... and on Lifetimer it was showing a little bit more than 16000 hours

kawazaki said:
Hello everyone,
Had this weird situation after doin' a hard reset , though i'd share it
It's not edited and the numbers it's showing cannot be true either, cuz i just turned on my phone
if u faced sumthing like this post it down
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Try using Android and see how many hours you get

bummer2000 said:
I had a Qtec S100 3 years ago... and on Lifetimer it was showing a little bit more than 16000 hours
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Lifetimer ? over 3 years ? it's possible to get that # .
Don001 said:
Try using Android and see how many hours you get
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can't do a hard reset on android , till NAND is released

Patience is the key, although the key is rusting

kawazaki said:
Hello everyone,
Had this weird situation after doin' a hard reset , though i'd share it
It's not edited and the numbers it's showing cannot be true either, cuz i just turned on my phone
if u faced sumthing like this post it down
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Had you changed the time and date on the device? Mine shown similar last week after a battery pull and having to reset the date and time back to local

Don001 said:
Try using Android and see how many hours you get
kawazaki said:
can't do a hard reset on android , till NAND is released
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I think kawazaki is suggesting that your data usage will go higher if you use Android since Android is constantly connected to data (which is what I really hate about the OS; maybe I just don't like the constant social-networking thing).

Question about Camera app

Hi, I was having a play with one earlier - and it appeared that when you take a picture there is no way within the app to see the picture you just took? You have to exit out and go into gallery?
Is there a way around this? Ta

There is an list of latest taken photos on right side... You can even expand it & then it shows all files in image-folder...
Take a look:
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Thanks, I thought it strange there was no way to do this. Buy the model I was playing with (three uk branded) definatly didn't have it - must be different rom versions?
Thanks anyway

Remember that you can flash a normal non-messed up rom from the dev section,
like my orange uk version, is now a on the global rom minus the orange bloatware

Scottland said:
Thanks, I thought it strange there was no way to do this. Buy the model I was playing with (three uk branded) definatly didn't have it - must be different rom versions?
Thanks anyway
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If you swipe the thumbnails to the right, they will disappear... if you swipe from the very right edge of the screen toward the centre.. they will come back!... same with the menus on the other side (but in reverse!)

Is it possible to remove compression from our phone? Try to take a picture and the size only around 700kb when i use 8mp setting.

you can use vignette off the market - but in the tests I've done it doesn't really improve the image quality very much at all.. and actually in some shots I preferred the stock camera's results.

yeah, i like the result of the stock camera apps. But when i transfer the file to my PC and zoom it, the quality still not too good because of the compression. that is why i'm trying to remove the compression.

Wait for my MOD once we get root
I will add photo preview too

Is there any way to have multi shots option???
To press camera button and take 3-5 pictures in a row...
I miss that capability....

vegetaleb said:
Wait for my MOD once we get root
I will add photo preview too
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will wait for that! thx!

Yeah but pray that we get root before the SGS2 get it, I will not keep a phone without root undefinitly

[Q] in call/incoming call/outgoing call screenshots please.!!

can anyone post the in call/incoming call/outgoing call screenshots here? i want to see if the pics blur or not and how it looks..!

cant post a screen shot but mine blur once the go full screen

Mine is ok
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If you go to contacts, selected one and than change picture, you select a good resolution picture from your sd card and confirm, this way the pics won't be blurry. That was the solution on the x10, which had the same problem. Don't know if its the same with arc, as mine will be delivered today, but the problem of blurry contacts sounds very familiar.
Sent from my X10i using Tapatalk

PollPixx said:
If you go to contacts, selected one and than change picture, you select a good resolution picture from your sd card and confirm, this way the pics won't be blurry. That was the solution on the x10, which had the same problem. Don't know if its the same with arc, as mine will be delivered today, but the problem of blurry contacts sounds very familiar.
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I can confirm this.
Original sync -> bad picture
manual set the picture -> good image
This is a real pain in the ass... but since there is no solution since the x10 (at least none that i've heard of...), I think we'll have to deal with this.
Only way out might be a way to change the dialer and contacts app. Is someone already looking into this??

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Mine is ok
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exactly what i was looking for.. thanks buddy!!
can you also post incoming call screen?

the issue isn't caused by SE or Android... it's simply because the images held on facebook are small thumbnails.. so when they're stretched to our screen it's quite pixellated.
I might try putting a higher res image on google for one of my contacts and see if that syncs well.
Sent from The Arc!

im_iceman said:
the issue isn't caused by SE or Android... it's simply because the images held on facebook are small thumbnails.. so when they're stretched to our screen it's quite pixellated.
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I dont use facebook! I have HQ pics on my phone or computer and use them.

kaisan1 said:
exactly what i was looking for.. thanks buddy!!
can you also post incoming call screen?
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That will be why mine are blurry then as they are synced from Facebook
Sent from my LT15i using Tapatalk

well as i said, i use HQ pics to, but i have to set them manually every time i reflash the phone!

Here is a thread on what we had to do on the X10:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943846
Hope that helps. Cheers!

So, I just got an update notification on my Boost Aquos Crystal

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Is this a stage fright patch? Or a lollipop update? I rather stay on kitkat since lollipop was a mess. I use it as a wifi device and its never been connected to Boost.
Here's the end result
The update hangs quite a bit around 77%-90% (phase 1) then it goes into phase 2 and finishes the update.

strange I can't find info about this patch ..
are you seen something new after update?

loonbg said:
strange I can't find info about this patch ..
are you seen something new after update?
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me neither. if you can tell by the timestamps on my screenshots i was looking all over the place. it is snappier but that could be a placebo. also, i don't know about call quality or mobile data since i basically use it as an iPod.

wade_county said:
me neither. if you can tell by the timestamps on my screenshots i was looking all over the place. it is snappier but that could be a placebo. also, i don't know about call quality or mobile data since i basically use it as an iPod.
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I search in sharp and sprint webpages but there still show s4081 as last update.. for now I will not update my phone bcs I don't want to waste my chances to unlock bootloader or root if some one find a way...

Maybe???
I just got it too my phone won't install it cause me battery is to low but, I'm pretty sure its a patch to fix the multimedia message problems . too small of a file to be lollipop .or maybe it's a straight to SD patch idk probably one of the two..lol.

Just updated. Touch feels more responsive but it usually does after an update. Here's to hoping it doesn't crap out again.

Compared to the last build it has a new kernel. So far the only thing I've noticed, is that instagram doesn't auto play video with sound, (finally!) like it should. Before it would blast the speakers whether you tapped on the video to turn off/on sound.

It fixed my MMS problems.