I can not stand the camera app. Its super slow and laggy. I press the button and it just hangs for 5+ seconds then I bring the camera down to look at it and it takes a pic of my feet. Complete BS. Its been the same for 2.2 and 2.3. I've wiped my phone twice and its still slow. My wifes Droid2 is the same way. Just a junk of an app. My HTC phones were fast and responsive.
Is there a replacement camera app for the Droid X?
i've never heard of anyone having your problems. the camera is very good on the droid x.
as for another app, you can try Vignette. thats a popular one.
I'm curious, is there anything you've changed in the slightest way that could effect the camera? I had this problem one time on a leaked build of gingerbread, but has never happened again.
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Camera 360 is pretty good. Lots of options and effects.
Try pushing on screen button, not hard button
razorloves said:
i've never heard of anyone having your problems. the camera is very good on the droid x.
as for another app, you can try Vignette. thats a popular one.
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I think the GB update killed the DX camera. It used to be so much better. The options aren't as good as they were back on froyo. Now it feels like if you want to take a picture at night, you should just forget about it. They come out awful.
Thanks guys, it looks like its the camera hard button thats causing all the problems with lag. If I use the screen everything is fast. Too bad, I liked having a dedicated button
I can't even take a picture during the day, when I open my camera I have to take one pic that is pure white and the second one usually comes out looking like what I was trying to capture. I haven't changed any options. Tried hard button and clicking on the screen w the same results.
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Is it possible to have the power button act as a camera button when a camera app is in use? Just curious, as I've noticed recently that it's difficult to take self portraits without being shaky.
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allthrottle said:
Is it possible to have the power button act as a camera button when a camera app is in use? Just curious, as I've noticed recently that it's difficult to take self portraits without being shaky.
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It's possible to remap but then you would lose the lock function built into it right now.
I hate the lock function anyways. I never use it intentionally
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What is the purpose of the lock function besides preventing any action while in the camera app? What advantage does camera lock have that would make it more useful than a physical camera button? Not a sarcastic question either. I first noticed this function a week ago when I was at the zoo taking pictures and would lock the phone every few pictures and put it in my pocket, eventually realizing it wasn't going to sleep.
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So can it be done?
Is there any developer who can say if this can be done?
Any idea if there is such a thing?
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What is the purpose of the lock function besides preventing any action while in the camera app? What advantage does camera lock have that would make it more useful than a physical camera button? Not a sarcastic question either. I first noticed this function a week ago when I was at the zoo taking pictures and would lock the phone every few pictures and put it in my pocket, eventually realizing it wasn't going to sleep.
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It's for the video camera, so you don't accidentally stop recording. Just sucks that it does the same for the camera when you don't need it.
I have not found the lock button to be useful for a camera.
But it sure would be nice to have a button to take a picture.
There might be a way
to develop it, either by app or a special ROM.
Maybe there is a developer who can tell his opinion regarding this...
This would be great if any dev could get this working and have this in there rom.
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Maybe open logcat in eclipse copy the action taken when a picture is taken and mickic/add it to the lock button? Honestly I do think its possible but wont be avalible. Too complicated just look at froyo r3 something like that, the home, amd back button took weeks for a fix
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Just in case anyone subscribed to this thread.
There's an app in the market called "SGS Tools". You can now use the power button as a shutter button, take pictures when battery is low, and pinch to zoom on the camera (it's a little sluggish). Thanks to Fr4gg0r for developing this.
Article here:
http://androidspin.com/2010/12/12/update-your-galaxy-s-camera-to-support-push-to-zoom/
Edit: Do Not Download. There has been reports of it messing up the camcorder and force closes.
Thanks
Many thanks!
Just found this article few days ago.
Dont use SGS Tools Camera hack
This thing is borking many people's camcorder. The camera function is fine but many folks have reported that it force closes or reboots the phone when trying to record video. Mine is doing the same thing. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to restore my camera app to its original state.
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This thing is borking many people's camcorder. The camera function is fine but many folks have reported that it force closes or reboots the phone when trying to record video. Mine is doing the same thing. Right now I'm trying to figure out how to restore my camera app to its original state.
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The hacked camera In sgs tools is foe 2.2 froyo only!
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Ever since I updated to gingerbread, my camera takes HORRIBLE pictures if I'm in a setting that has even the smallest amount of low light. My camera used to perform 100 times better than this. The flash used to illuminate small rooms fairly well. Now it is terrible. Even if I turn the brightness setting of the camera to the highest setting, it makes no change. I did experience this issue with the Shift roms as well, but I thought it would not have been a problem with the official release. Is anyone else having similar issues? Forgive me if this has been discussed. I searched the forums, but could not find anythig. I know brightness issues have been reported, but I believe they were all just in reference to the screen brightness.
I am also having issues after the update... Two things I noticed, there is a delay in the time it takes for the phone to actually take a picture and the phone has been randomly been crashing (restarting) after taking a picture..
Not fond of the update..
I posted this a while back, I have the same Damn problem so annoying, but it still take grate pictures just having to avoid low lighting
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Oh and its not screen brightness, I noticed the flash is way off, when you take a picture in low light to no light, it seems that the camera and flash are timed right
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My issue last night with my camera is I was trying to use it as a backup for a wedding until I got batteries to swap out of my Canon. I tried using it in low light and got a FC 4 separate times. Not just a FC but a complete reboot. There is also the thing of my brightness setting going to max after using the camera. It didnt just happen on my camera, also happened on my wifes and she is on a different ROM from me. I use Miks and she is on OMJ, well almost the same ROM. Anyway it was annoying waiting for the camera to reset and Yeah I did miss some of the shots that shouldnt have been missed. That'll teach me to bring extra batteries for my Canon.
In the spirit of GB and camera issues, I recently had a message saying my drivers were missing. Yay. Had to reboot, and it cost me a picture of my aunts ceremony. *sigh*
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crazzysandman said:
it seems that the camera and flash are timed right
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flash and pic are outta sync on mine as well. just found out last night. all this time we waited and for what? where's my hero at lol.
New update slightly fixed it, its better than before just manually for the update
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I have the new update (4.24) my camera is still whack as well. The flash is not in sync with the shutter and the phone reboots randomly after shooting. im not rooted and with totally stock. I have hard reset the phone and all with no improvement.
I have reverted back to Froyo. I don't notice how often I used my phones camera in low light conditions. Hopefully there will be a fix soon enough.
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Give this camera as hot. Works real well for me. I took some bomb pics during a bigtime storm that rolled through today and they look great
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I am also having issues after the update... Two things I noticed, there is a delay in the time it takes for the phone to actually take a picture and the phone has been randomly been crashing (restarting) after taking a picture..
Not fond of the update..
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Same problem here too using mikes ROM
I just tried your camera app and it forced closed on my evo
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For low-light pics, try changing your ISO settings from Auto to ISO200 or even 400. It will make pics a bit grainier, so experiment a bit. I normally run 200 without issue.
EDIT: BTW, which ROM are you running? Stock OTA? Custom?
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I have reverted back to Froyo. I don't notice how often I used my phones camera in low light conditions. Hopefully there will be a fix soon enough.
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Where and how did you flash back to Froyo? I am unrooted Stock Sprint Evo 4G
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Where and how did you flash back to Froyo? I am unrooted Stock Sprint Evo 4G
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If you have an unrooted phone with Froyo, just search xda for Unrevoked3. It will explain everything and its simple. If you are unrooted with Gingerbread, you are out of luck at the moment. I was already rooted and installed a rooted gingerbread Rom.
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So I installed it yesterday (and thanks to all those who helped).
I think the new ROM is FANTASTIC. Everything works for me, its faster than before and I have no lags. Im using Launcher Pro because the new Blur doesn't support scrolling widgets.
Battery is definitely better (turned on at 6am and had 15% at 6pn which us amazing for me).
Camera has been improved. Pictures look sharper and the colors no longer look weird. I owned an sgs2 and to me the pictures are just as good (and definitely better than the Sensation I owned for a bit). Its also much faster (put it in sport mode and virtually immediate).
Fingerprint reader works. Properly. Period.
Sound on speaker is excellent. Its still the best device on the market.
Sound on earpiece might be a little quieter. I am not certain on this but its something I noticed on my first call.
Gps lock is very quick. It was before too.
Software. Wow what a MASSIVE improvement. Email software is finally useable readable and possibly as good as Sense. Widgets are also better, like weather. Photo software and gallery better. MUSIC is a different application totally. I think I preferred the old one or just need to get used to it. Dialer is improved. Video playback is still great and again an area where this device excels over others I have owned. Animations also very cool. Top bar and notifications simply better than before. Entire color scheme is improved.
Stock keyboard is better but I still make a lot of mistakes when typing. HTC still make the best Android keyboard IMHO and I wish I could port the Sensation keyboard.
Overall its just more elegant and mire pleasurable ti use. For the first time I feel like its a device to show off. I really believe its the best device out there. Had Moto started out with this ROM it would have been considered a device as good as the HD2 in its day.
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I agree that Gingerbread by far is better than Froyo. My Atrix looks and runs so much better.
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I agree that Gingerbread by far is better than Froyo. My Atrix looks and runs so much better.
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After one day on gingerbread, I'd have to say the keyboard's the biggest improvement for me. An @ key without having to press alt first? Yes! Long press keys for numbers? Yes!
I agree. It's a fantastic upgrade and the new skin is slick....my only complaint is that homescreen scrolling isn't as fast as I expected. The forest LWP is a little slow, and pinch to zoom on stock camera gallery isn't as good as my previous phone or 3rd party market apps
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its is an amazing difference
before making the plunge I wud like to know from u guys about the screen gradient issues
is it solved??
like skin tones appeared really odd and washed out
I thot it was a software issue as the screen grabs also showed them on my PC
that was a big gripe for me but for the otherwise near perfect phone
and ya camera quality was also really poor
Are you talking about kenns?
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dunno whom u are asking but am still on froyo
wud love to hear that screen issues are solved
leaving aside the pentile issue as SGS also has pentile but looked better
Battery life is the biggest improvement forvmr
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I freakin love the new ROM. Thanks KP!
They have made a smart move by selecting a color scheme that greatly reduces the effect of the inherent technical limitations of a Pentile LCD! Its better than Froyo but I guess only because of the color scheme they have decided to go with!
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They have made a smart move by selecting a color scheme that greatly reduces the effect of the inherent technical limitations of a Pentile LCD! Its better than Froyo but I guess only because of the color scheme they have decided to go with!
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Even if the color scheme didnt change its 10 times better. Im tired of the complaints about the phone, go get a different one and/or dont complain about this one. We dont care to hear it.
Loving the new rom so far. I do think the cardock app got worse (looks better, but fewer custom buttons). I love how you can uninstall apps using a long press from the app drawer.
I'm also looking forward to trying the ignore call, respond with text option.
Last thing, wish the default music app worked with Google Music Beta... installed the Google one instead.
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Overall, this seems to be working pretty fantastically for me except for a few things.
- Contact List can get REALLY slow sometimes. (15 seconds to load up a contact's information!)
- Unlocking (the screen, not the phone) can get slow, as well as Facebook and a few other apps. Haven't fully tested yet.
Is this happening to anyone else?
So far, i'm loving the new blur, everything is working fine for me.but i hope this is not the final blur version, because i was watching a demo of blur for droid3 on youtube it looks a little bit better then this. The swipe between screens was different and the quick contact widget was different and more useful.
are you sure about the battery life part.. i got a bad battery life thats the reason why i flashed it back to froyo 2.2.2 ( 1.83 sbf ) .. if you are also using kenneth's beta release >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1159385
and if u also talking abotu kenneth's beta one. fingerprint reader doesn't work for me
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are you sure about the battery life part.. i got a bad battery life thats the reason why i flashed it back to froyo 2.2.2 ( 1.83 sbf ) .. if you are also using kenneth's beta release >> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1159385
and if u also talking abotu kenneth's beta one. fingerprint reader doesn't work for me
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I'm pretty sure is not talking about the ken release.
ohh so its all about the color scheme that's chosen now!!
neways I will wait till the official release
bit scared by the hard brick numbers
ayaskant12 said:
ohh so its all about the color scheme that's chosen now!!
neways I will wait till the official release
bit scared by the hard brick numbers
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You only hard brick if you try to do the OTA. If you use kennethpenn's method using CWM with an unlocked bootloader you'll have no problem.
i have a droid X from verizon. When I first bought the phone I loved it, then it did the automatic OS upgrade and now it's a huge pile of sheet. It constatnly freezes, shuts off whenever it feels like it, SOOO slow, many other issues. It's my first droid phone, i've flashed windows phones before. But what would you reccommend I do so I don't throw this phone thru the wall. Thanks.
I'd definitely install a different rom... what you like is your preference... if you aren't too concerned with blur camera and HDMI out then you could try CM7... if you still want the blur camera and HDMI out then you could try liberty 3, which I am running, and I love it... snappy, crisp rom with only the best parts of blur.. just my opinion
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Honestly not even sure what blur camera is. I know i like my camera but sometimes you go to click camera and it doesn't start, then have to restart phone. And you take pics, and they either don't show up, or somehow get corrupted. My main thing is I do like the way it's set up but really want it to get faster and stop all the freezing and what not. From what i've read I was thinking about liberty 3 or the muin whatever that one is called.
Couldn't see any threads with this question..
When the GNex came out they showed off how fast the camera was.. That you could take lots of pictures with no delay.
Since I got the phone I have noticed that the N4 is really slow vs the gnex and any other high end smart phone.
It focuses after every shot which slows it down.
I have also noticed when you rotate the phone in the camera app it rotates everything which makes the screen.. I guess lag. It should only rotate the buttons.
Does any of this annoy you? And is there any fix?
I just realized this too. But it doesn't affect me since I never need to take that many pictures that fast.
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It annoys me when I want to take a quick shot and it starts rotating and focusing. I wonder if any of the developers can fix it.