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Hi XDA,
I've received my DHD yesterday and not impressed at all by now.
The camcorder records @ only 21 frames per second on 720p.
Is that quite the common for the DHD? I thought 30fps were usual!?!
Is there any fix for that low FPS? AND also some regular camera improvements?
fat32 and 32kb formated! both sd class2 and class6.
Best Regards
Wowa Trader
In the settings, try to set the Brightness to -2 to get few more fps
Although there is probably something wrong in your case,cause every video I've seen from the DHD is very fluid,you could try to set ISO to the maximum value(I think 800) when in photo mode(option does not appear in video mode).Else,you could lower the resolution(800x480 is juuuuust fine,believe me).
Bear in mind that there could be something wrong with your phone.I certainly hope that's not the case though!
With kind regards
Apostolis
hi
I just was testing desire the hd camcorder. I recorded a video for approx 3 mins.
Whilst playing the video, it has lags and stutters which i know is not normal. Previous hd2 ran smoothly and it never had this problem. HD2 was 5MP and desire HD has 8MP, but I dont think the camera quality is as good as the hd2.
Is there a way to fix this frame skipping/lagging issue?
Has anyone else had this problem, can any1 shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance.
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hi
I just was testing desire the hd camcorder. I recorded a video for approx 3 mins.
Whilst playing the video, it has lags and stutters which i know is not normal. Previous hd2 ran smoothly and it never had this problem. HD2 was 5MP and desire HD has 8MP, but I dont think the camera quality is as good as the hd2.
Is there a way to fix this frame skipping/lagging issue?
Has anyone else had this problem, can any1 shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance.
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The HD2 records video at 800x480,while the Desire HD at 1280x720.If you do the math it's 384000 vs 921600 pixels,which is 2.4 times as many pixels.Try recording at 800x480.Its quality is as good on the phone's screen.
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The HD2 records video at 800x480,while the Desire HD at 1280x720.If you do the math it's 384000 vs 921600 pixels,which is 2.4 times as many pixels.Try recording at 800x480.Its quality is as good on the phone's screen.
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Hi tolis626
Thanks for the reply. Yes I did the maths, hence was concerned about the rec quality. Now I will try 800x480 and see how the quality is now.
What about the video stuttering/lagging when played?
Many Thank again
Fame123 said:
Hi tolis626
Thanks for the reply. Yes I did the maths, hence was concerned about the rec quality. Now I will try 800x480 and see how the quality is now.
What about the video stuttering/lagging when played?
Many Thank again
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You're welcome.And btw sorry,but I didn't try to make myself look smarter!I just noticed that it just looks that way,like sarcasm or something!Again I'm sorry!
Anyway,I don't have my DHD yet(damn...),but I stumbled across these things with my Desire.Stuttering\lag has to do with the SD card you use.The provided class 2 card will most probably have trouble recording video at these bitrates.That's what happened with the Desire;Once I bought a Kingston 16Gb class 10 card(kinda expensive though...) all the stuttering was gone(or up to a large degree).Try that along with the maximum ISO(although if possible don't use the latter as it produces much noise) and I think that video is gonna be butter smooth!
How often do you experience that lagging? My did plays its recorded 720p videos quite well. Yes there is some shuttering occasionally, but its not that bad.
Why don't you try formating your sd card with 32kb clusters?
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I just did a small test.
When you film something that is dark, and requires the phone to change the ISO, the FPS will drop dramatically. Only in bright light it films @ 30 FPS.
I guess it could be bad coding, so I really hope they can fix it through an update.
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I just did a small test.
When you film something that is dark, and requires the phone to change the ISO, the FPS will drop dramatically. Only in bright light it films @ 30 FPS.
I guess it could be bad coding, so I really hope they can fix it through an update.
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i think it's normal that when you film something darker, the FPS drops, all things being equal..the phone does need to slow down the FPS to gather more light to the sensor. I think the phone will also up the ISO but there is a limit to how much the ISO can increase without the video looking too grainy.
The sensor that HTC used for the camera could be a lower end type so that's why it has to compensate by dropping frames. If they used a better sensor with higher ISO capability, it could up the ISO a lot more and yet maintain the brightness of the video and also the FPS.
I have switched my SGS for DHD , such a bad move! On sgs video recording at 720p is 20X better than 480p on DHD in terms of fps, ghosting, colors, image stabilization and fluidity... Just one of my many bad choices lately...
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How often do you experience that lagging? My did plays its recorded 720p videos quite well. Yes there is some shuttering occasionally, but its not that bad.
Why don't you try formating your sd card with 32kb clusters?
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Hi XmUrF
Thanks for reply. That lagging happens approx after 30 secs when playing. 1. Does the class of the microsd matter? 2. Also does the space left on the microsd matter? 3. Can you tweak camera settings to make better?
On the htc hd2 the was no occassional stuttering. that was fluent, even tweaked it to be 8mp and pics were perfect no probz.
4. What does 32kb clusters formatting method mean and do?
Wow 20fps????!
So far i've never got more than 12fps, mostly less.
I also get the stutter approx every 2 mins.
Lastly has anyone made a 720p recording longer than 15 minutes? If i do, when i stop the recording the screen goes grey and the cam wont work until i restart the phone. Any recording saved will then not play. Sigh.
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it records 29fps in daylight drops down with indoor lowlight and down to 10fps in darkness, stutter issue is random sometimes it happens sometimes it never happens most likely related to multitasking or auto white balance
most of my outdoor recored vids are 29fps even at sunset it managed 29fps
as always if u want beautiful quality for both videos and shots, drop sharpness to -2 to kill the digital treatment
I prefer 720p because it fills up my laptop screen very nicely, but I have noticed the framrate skip. which one do think is better?
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Well... U are posting this in x10 forum on xda....?? :-o. Weird
Anyways on topic... I use both 720 & 1024p resolutions.. Never had a prob that too on win7
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lol, I believe he is asking about 720p vs vga recording on the x10. I myself use the 720p I find it works best at capturing my 3 month old and his goofy antics. I find vga to be choppier..plus yes obviously 720 would look better than vga on a laptop screen..
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720p turns out too bad for me with lots of drop-frames, even with a class-4 card...so prefer the WVGA as of now...still hunting around for a high-speed card though!
720p goes nicely for me...no frame drops, class 6 card
Try clearing memory, full, with a taskmanager. Some things wont work anymore but 720p recording works great. Looks like a to much aps running on the background causes this problem.. After that, restart your phone and sort out your unnecessary (crap) widgets and aps running on the background.
Also lighting is very important.
OT: I only record 720p.
I prefer 720p, too.
I have a 16GB class4 card in it (read somewhere the phone can't use more than class 4, means that the phone isn't faster with a class6 card). I get 23 fps and you?
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lol, I believe he is asking about 720p vs vga recording on the x10. I myself use the 720p I find it works best at capturing my 3 month old and his goofy antics. I find vga to be choppier..plus yes obviously 720 would look better than vga on a laptop screen..
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Oh... My bad :$
On mine i find 720p smoother than the vga recording
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Mine too. Hd is better. But I use original bundled from the x10. Only 8gb.hd is smoother
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lowest i've seen is 20 while my hand is almost still but while running it can drop to 16, still it doesn't look as jerky, appears smoothe, and the max i've seen while my hand was still was 26 fps
I prefer fwvga, the capacity is reasonable and the frame rate is better. The HD quality is too much for me, frame rate is not desirable, 11minute video taking more than 420mb out of my class4 8gb bundle sd card. Without any special purpose, personally i think HD either make it frame rate at least 30fps or none, or why should we need a "half way done" quality and performance?
In addition, i found out the responsive performance of so call "continuous auto focus" quite slow and undesirable. Even i continue point at the same place for 5 second and the video still blur, i need to try somewhere else to get its focus to shot the video. In summary, auto focus is not responsive.
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I prefer 720p, too.
I have a 16GB class4 card in it (read somewhere the phone can't use more than class 4, means that the phone isn't faster with a class6 card). I get 23 fps and you?
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I get 7.5 fps in a dark room, 15 fps in the late evening (outside, say) or with the lights on at night, and 30 fps in a bright environment, all at 720p. I'm quite happy with this.
I am getting 15 fps average for indoor on HD (around 18 for FWVGA) and around 24 for outdoor HD (25 on FWVGA) - no matter what, I never reach that magical number of 30fps, even n bright daylight.
Also, did anyone notice higher graininess in low-light HD videos compared to low light FWVGA?
have anyone when use the video record the screen will hang there for 1s n going on smooth later n hang again? i had try to reformat use the sony update, but the problem didnt slove, any solution:-S
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No solution for you just letting you know I have had the same problem it stutters for a second then continued :-/
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Same here. It stops for a second or two. Then it continue recording.
But not all the time.
i have the same problem here
I was recording a clip about 3-4 mins into recording it hanged and continued then hanged again this time fatally as I had to force close the camera app. however i did not lose the footage ....
Same here but with no freeze. I have ever record for 12 minutes.
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Is this unsolved promblem??
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Could it be sdcard related maybe??
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I had this issue to but it solved it by itself. what i think is ram related not SD i have a class6 SD card. now i kill often all apps and have no lag anymore. i think this is why HC put more ram in the phones and why nexus s doesn't record 720p.
ps: when it lagged the sound was off on the playback.
when i record, it has a momentary glitch after about 5 seconds, for about half a second then carries on recording, happens every time.
Yes I can also confirm that after recording a 720p film I get 2-3 short stutters on playback. Going to try again with auto focus and sound turned off.
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I have similar problem too. 38s video recording seems fine, but I couldn't do playback. Then when I try to force-playback the video, it went silent after 10 seconds mark.
I have the same video recording glitch problem too..
Only got a slight pause when there was a lot of motion in the clip. If the subjects were stationary without much background movement, there's no stuttering while recording.
hi.. I am part of a uk test lab that SE have set up.. I have raised this issue with them and I'm awaiting a response.. might be a week or two though as it goes via their products director. commodoor - your point about memory makes sense..the app probably needs tweaking to reserve more memory when it starts, or when HD video recording is activated.
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Guys, try to switch off image stabilizer in video mode
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Guys, try to switch off image stabilizer in video mode
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Woww it seems to work.. with image stablizer off in video mode, no glitch or any problem with video recording Thanks General Grant
Nope... even after turning off image stabilizer, still doesn't work.. What works is if I restart the phone. After using it for about half hour with some applications running, the problem comes on again. It's pretty consistent.
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Guys, try to switch off image stabilizer in video mode
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Tried to do 50s video with IS off. The problem gone
Tried it with 5min+ recording. No problem either.
I guess the problem is really the IS feature.
Yep still getting stutters in recording with IS off. Have tried changing focus settings but nothing seems to work. Have also updated to the latest. 184 build.
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As you all know by now, today HTC and Sprint announced the release date for the HTC EVO 4G LTE.
I am excited as anyone about this phone. However, there is one area that I am VERY disapointed about: video recording quality.
In my opinion, HTC has so far been un-able to make a cell phone that can record good quality HD video. It's even more puzzling since apparently both HTC and Sprint were really promoting the camera on the phone at the press event today.
I have no issue with the quality of the still photos - my original EVO takes pretty good stills.
I saw a sample of video shot with the European version of One X, and it suffers from the same issue as my EVO - jerky video!
Shot in 1080p outdoors, at the highest quality setting, the video looks as if it were shot at around 20fps rather than 30fps. Pans and objects moving across the screen were jerky.
My EVO has always had this issue, which has prevented me from shooting much video with it. The camera is great, but I want to be able to carry a camcorder with me always. My mom's two year old Epic Galaxy S has been able to shoot smooth HD video from day one, and I've always envied it.
There is no video I can shoot with my EVO that I would want to burn to DVD or shoot important events with, like birthdays, holidays, etc.
Some bigwig from HTC was quoted comparing the One X's camera with that of the iPhone 4S. But I know the 4S shoots smooth HD video as well.
I'll probably at least go into Sprint and check it out myself, but I don't expect to have different results then that fromthe reviewer.
Have any of you (who can review video quality with a critical eye) noticed what I'm talking about?
I don't understand why HTC can't get video recording right!
Didn't notice the recording problem on my EVO, but could be the ROM I'm using. Also on the new One X, the videos I've seen look amazing. Don't know which one you saw, but I thought it looked great. Perhaps issues uploading or the video stabilization was turned on in the video you saw? It's not going to be like a 60 fps camcorder, but if that's what you are expecting out of a tiny phone camera, your expectations may be too high.
What other phone has better video? Looks the same as iphone 4S video and no one complains about that. A small sensor has limitations and it isn't going to get better when you post it to youtube and they compress it. No phone is going to make quality DVDs for your events. What's wrong with getting a camcorder with a sensor twice the size or a triple sensor if you have the funds? Seems they are getting video recording done just as well as any other phone to me. These are phones.
Well, maybe I'm a bit more critical than most. I work in video and perhaps my eye is more sensitive to the various aspects of video.
I'm not talking about sharpness, contrast, color saturation, etc.
As I mentioned, both the iPhone 4/4S and Samsung's Galaxy line of phones do not have this issue.
Try this: film 20 seconds of either relatively close fast moving objects like car traffic, or else pan in a circle at a somewhat faster than pleasing speed.
If you look closely, you will see very slight jumping in the video. It's not going to jump out at you (excuse the pun).
It's not a compression issue, that would result in a more blurry or pixelated image.
I realize we're talking cell phones. But both Apple and Samsung do not have this issue. I REALLY want to love the EVO LTE, I'm eligible for an upgrade in June!
Video recording on my evo was horrible as well ...like unusable horrible ..super choppy and laggy all the time. My brothers was exactly the same. My phone was rooted flashed multiple roms, video was always choppy... brothers phone never rooted...video was always choppy
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No I gotcha, I'm critical as well. That's why I wouldn't use ANY phone for capturing video for an important event. A camcorder is the only thing that will do.
However the samples I've seen look every bit as good as the iphone 4s or samsung videos. Of course the One X does seem more geared towards photos and have to say it definitely beats the others there. Also if you pause the One X videos you can still clearly see everything and even grab a frame as a picture. The Samsung videos get blurry so I wouldn't try it with the Nexus. Can't say I notice any change in fluidity from iphone 4S videos to One X videos, but again I don't know which video you are talking about. If there is any difference it is slight. All phones have this issue as they are just not going to match the smoothness of a quality camcorder and definitely not professional camcorders. Even then I notice the difference with motion interpolation on high refresh 120 hz and 240 hz TV's so I know what you are saying.
Perhaps best to withhold judgment about video on phone that isn't out yet. Once it's on youtube it just isn't going to look as good.
EDIT: I did find a One X video that looked horrible, it was a close up and the exposure was constantly changing, but did notice jumpiness when panning. Can't tell if it was due to being uploaded on youtube, but if it did happen on the phone it looks like it is having trouble with quickly writing to memory. It doesn't do it constantly so that may be the issue. When you have trouble with your EVO 4G are you directly shooting video to the SD Card? That may be your problem. The lag causes a frame to be skipped here or there. A larger buffer would correct this issue (well until it fills) or higher memory bandwidth. This also happens when uploading videos or converting the file format. Perhaps a result of poor conversion from RAW to 3gp. Still I wouldn't worry about it as there is a way to go until June and the hardware version may change. If there is an issue I'm sure they are aware of it.
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When you have trouble with your EVO 4G are you directly shooting video to the SD Card? That may be your problem. The lag causes a frame to be skipped here or there. A larger buffer would correct this issue (well until it fills) or higher memory bandwidth. This also happens when uploading videos or converting the file format.
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Well, yes. the EVO has so little internal storage, and video file sizes are large compared to other file types.
But then, my mom's Samsung also wrote directly to the SD card, and it's still very smooth.
I will try to find that example I was speaking about and post a link. It was shot outdoors in daylight, near a flower stand if I remember correctly.
And for sure I will definitely check it out myself before writing the phone off.
As far as the phone not having the same quality as a "real" camcorder, sure. but you know the old saying, "The best camera is the one you have with you". My phone is ALWAYS with me. And I do think the quality is getting to the point where I can shoot casual everyday stuff that I may want to archive for the future, even edit.
Here is a link to the sample I was referring to.
This is from the HTC One X, which I believe has the same camera as todays announced EVO LTE. Pay particular attention to the panning at about the 1:10 mark.
And this phone has no SD card, so it was recorded to the internal memory.
Also, while you may wish to blame YouTube, this is how video recorded on my two year old EVO looks.
http://youtu.be/xOv4tjB7HMQ
Better than the one I found, but SD Card or not that is still the issue. I know that the version of the One X used for this does not have an SD Card. The Sprint one will. Either way, uploading it to youtube can cause this problem as well. And if you record to your SD Card on your 2 year old EVO and use a slow card you will see this as well. That may be your issue though it isn't for the One X. If it's internal then another phone might be your best option.
These are frames that get skipped either due to trouble encoding, small buffer, or memory speed problems. The iphones never seem to have this issue like Androids do (probably due to all the stuff running in the background and iOS's control over apps). Can tell when it happens in the video and it starts skipping. It's the same as when you are video conferencing and frames get dropped due to bandwidth. This isn't normal and guessing they would be on that. As far as the rest, still looks as jagged as any other phone with motion. If you use post processing it can help.
Here's on I saw that looked about as decent as other phone videos
One X 1080p sample
with cars going by like you mentioned. Have to say it looks clear when you pause on passing cars. Fast pans aren't going to impress on any phone (or many camcorders in my experience) and I don't know what else to say about it. Hopefully they fix what is bothering you and if not I guess you gotta go with another phone.
OK, you got me motivated to check out several youtube videos. I will give you the YouTube effect. Even though I have seen Galaxy and iPhone 4S clips Played back on the phones without the jumping, the YouTube samples did exhibit the issue.
While I wait for the EVO LTE to arrive at Sprint, I will change the video recording folder on my EVO and see if that makes any difference. I will also test the new EVO and cross my fingers. Everything else looks great and I'm hoping the video recording will pass my stringent tests!!!
So I checked, and I can not find any setting on my EVO to have the camera record video files directly to internal storage. In fact, there is no setting at all as far as location of recorded video and photos. Apparently the EVO is designed to record directly to the SD card and there is no other option.
However, in thinking about this studdering or "jumping" issue, it doesn't make sense that it would be related to the SD card anyway.
The phone would buffer recorded video before it writes it to the card. If the buffer ran out, perhaps video would jump or skip, but it would be at random times. The issue I'm talking about happens consistently during the video, like I said, it looks like video shot at about 20 fps.
Besides, I've used the same SD card in my mom's Samsung Galaxy, and video is very smooth.
So it's not the SD cards fault.
OP I'm with you. Camcorder on my Evo or better yet HTC phone if pure crap. Low light shooting is the worst I've seen on a phone. My Xoom, wife's ipad and daughter's Epic all take great low light and non jerky videos. People need to compare on hand with different devices before saying the Evo is okay, because it's not. That's my only peeve with htc phone and my next phone I'm going to make sure the video department is almost as good as the iphone 4s if not better, because iphone 4s take stunning video especailly low light.
I have been scouring the web looking for a fix for my Evo 4G video quality.
If anyone finds a fix please post it here.
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Hi all, just nabbed a 7.7 today moving away from the p1000. I started playing around with the camera and I immediately noticed some oddities especially when switching to video mode set at 720p quality.
Below are screenshots taken with my SGS 2, where I placed the tablet stationary at a certain distance from my printer and tested different resolution settings on the camera, while maintaining the tablet in same position at all times.
First a test with the picture mode, the distances between 480p and the highest quality isn't very noticeable but it's there,
480p
Highest quality with widescreen
This, I have no problems whatsoever, taking pictures still feels the same as the p1000 and that's good because I'm used to that.
Next is where I am really confused. When switching to video mode, I noticed the entire printer seems to be zoomed in closer and the graininess has increased drastically (I suspect the increased in graininess comes from zooming too close to it). I have checked everywhere in the menu to look for zoom settings but alas, after googling around the tablet's default camera app doesn't support zoom at all. Which brings me to an even bigger problem, as it just feels out of place when everything is zoomed in whenever I wanted to take a video recording. After turning down the quality to 480p, it felt so much better with the distancing between the object and the camera. Pics below will show the comparison between both settings,
480p video
720p video
Is everyone else having this same oddity with their camera as well? I hope its not a 'normal' thing cause I'd be hating it immensely (just using 480p mode in the meantime) :|
any kind sgt owners willing to test this out for me and give a feedback?
at least I could pinpoint if its a hardware or software problem, if its different between other tablets.
I am having the same problem. I was wanting to use my 7.7 as a uStream live streaming device for some of our company events, and because of this problem, I am using my phone instead, which sucks because phone calls can interupt!
Anyone else notice vid camera zoomed all of the way in, with no other way to zoom out. Is there a fix?
I have never used 720p video recording before, but after reading this thread I just tried it. Same problem as reported. On 480p everything works fine, but on 720p vid is zoomed in alot. Also quality is way worse than on 480p.
I guess without this thread I would have never noticed that, but this is indeed a huge bug that should not happen on final software for an expensive device like this.
It is advertised with hd video recording after all...
thanks guys for the feedback!
I was almost tempted to try another firmware but with different SGT 7.7's out there affected by this bug, it needs to be reported.
I am pretty sure it is a software problem which is causing the camera to zoom in on HD mode (digital zooming is possible with third party software as I have tried it)
Also, because it is always digitally zoomed in, the quality/graininess will be a lot worse, this is what every tab 7.7 owner will be looking at.
Could anyone guide me to report this directly to Samsung? I'm hoping its fixed before official ICS!
bump, anyone else having the same issues with their camera just give a feedback here.
+1
Also the text is cut off in settings when in landscape.. geez
I have the same issue. Tried using a video recorder app off the market and it would digital zoom 720p and 480p so that wasn't any help.
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I have the same issue. Tried using a video recorder app off the market and it would digital zoom 720p and 480p so that wasn't any help.
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yeap great feedback
please guys, I am sure this is a worldwide problem for every sgt 7.7 out there,
the default factory setting on the camera is broken
need some experts on this issue and if there's a possible fix
Anyone running XXLC3 rom from mars? Since im still on XXLA4, but i have deodexed XXLC3 rom, so later these evening i'll test the latest camera to see how far this bug goes..
anyone with the new official ICS rom be able to test the camera out to see if they resolved this problem in a stealth fix?
my tab's with mum so I can't try it
I will forever be in your debt
Just installed open Austria ICS and the bug is still there
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Just installed open Austria ICS and the bug is still there
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wow that sucks ! I dont have the sgt 7.7 with me but this is too serious to be overlooked
i guess based on the amount of responses in this thread most of the tab owners never really cared about 720p video recording
this is my FINAL samsung android product... I feel that they have dropped the ball this time, their pinnacle being SGS 2 and I will always remember the younger days when samsung was focused on something good,
now they are just releasing products like different branded cereal without even tasting them first.
someone explained this one to me before since I hate the 'zoom' effect of the screen as well, but as per his explanation, this could be due to the camera pixel, we have a 3.2 on board camera, using it in 3.2mpxl snapper makes use of the whole image sensor pixel array. using the 720P video on the other hand will use only a portion of that array and the software automatically fill the screen. I don't have an explanation regarding the full screen, un-zoomed 480P though,
I dont find this as a problem but if we can just have this adjusted (zoom in and out) it would be much better
Sammy juat stopped caring about their tabs. Gs3 is making sales targets. Thats good enough for them. Too bad! 7 inch market is super competative. If they dont act fast they will lose just like blackbery and their underdeveloped playbok
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anyone with the new official ICS rom be able to test the camera out to see if they resolved this problem in a stealth fix?
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I am so angry I'm considering ditching Samsung. ICS finally arrived in the UK via Kies a couple of days ago. I didn't have this issue with Honeycomb but now with ICS my P6800 video camera, when in HD mode displays a zoomed image. The only reason I;m not ditching it right now is because of the SuperAMOLED screen - the same reason I paid silly money for it when I could have gotten a Nexus.
I have done some recherching and found out this is not a bug! Many devices have this. I'll try to explain what happens:
If you record videos in HD, your device has to downscale the video to show it to you on display while at the same time saving it in HD resolution and keeping the promised frame rate. This needs too much processing power, framerate would just drop. So they use a little trick: If you don't downscale the preview but only show a small part of what the sensor gets you save alot of processing power. But on the other hand it gives you the noticed "zoomed-in" look, also the image quality is less because it does not use the whole sensor (like it would on a still).
The saved video should look normal (not zoomed-in).
Hope my english is not too bad so you can understand what I mean
Camera ics + doesnt zoom in when recording ^^
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boelze said:
I have done some recherching and found out this is not a bug! Many devices have this. I'll try to explain what happens:
If you record videos in HD, your device has to downscale the video to show it to you on display while at the same time saving it in HD resolution and keeping the promised frame rate. This needs too much processing power, framerate would just drop. So they use a little trick: If you don't downscale the preview but only show a small part of what the sensor gets you save alot of processing power. But on the other hand it gives you the noticed "zoomed-in" look, also the image quality is less because it does not use the whole sensor (like it would on a still).
The saved video should look normal (not zoomed-in).
Hope my english is not too bad so you can understand what I mean
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Tried recording but when playing back its the same image quality as recording it does not change
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Standard poor copy-paste response from Samsung, which appear not to acknowledge that the device isn't a telephone:
Thank you for contacting Samsung and I have pleasure in providing the following assistance.
I’m sorry you are having issues with your device after upgrading the firmware. I can understand your frustration about this.
Old systems settings can be left on the phone after an update occurs, which is why we usually recommend a full factory reset after updating. If this isn’t done your device may begin to give false readings from system resources, or experience technical problems, which may explain the issue you are having.
We would advise on doing the following, which is designed to reset the settings on your device. Please back up your device using Samsung KIES before you do this.
1) Remove the battery for at least 40 minutes, put the battery back in and allow it to fully discharge. Afterwards, perform a full battery charge with the device turned off. Do not interrupt the charging process.
2) After the battery is fully charged, we would like you to perform a full factory reset, which can be done via Settings > Backup > Reset.
This process will reset your device, remove old system files that are no longer needed and enable your device to operate normally again.
Please let us know if your device continues to experience problems after the reset so we can investigate further.
If you require any further assistance, please contact Samsung again and we will be more than happy to help.
Kind regards
SEUK ERMS
Online Support Team
SAMSUNG Customer Support Centre
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boelze said:
I have done some recherching and found out this is not a bug! Many devices have this. I'll try to explain what happens:
If you record videos in HD, your device has to downscale the video to show it to you on display while at the same time saving it in HD resolution and keeping the promised frame rate. This needs too much processing power, framerate would just drop. So they use a little trick: If you don't downscale the preview but only show a small part of what the sensor gets you save alot of processing power. But on the other hand it gives you the noticed "zoomed-in" look, also the image quality is less because it does not use the whole sensor (like it would on a still).
The saved video should look normal (not zoomed-in).
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I must respectfully disagree. If that were the case then the behaviour should have been the same prior to the ICS update. Also, when copying the video off the device and playing it back on a FullHD capable device the quality is still poor.