I have two problems with the bundled camera app.
1. The camera app does not seem to have support for geo-tagging using aGPS?
2. The camera app turns off the geo-tagging if the GPS is disabled. Even if i trun the GPS back on it has to be enabled manually (how smart is that, lol)
What to do? Is there an alternative camera app that works better, but wont remove important features?
Edit: Forgot to mention firmware.
Firmware is: KF3.
Cheers
radx said:
I have two problems with the bundled camera app.
1. The camera app does not seem to have support for geo-tagging using aGPS?
2. The camera app turns off the geo-tagging if the GPS is disabled. Even if i trun the GPS back on it has to be enabled manually (how smart is that, lol)
What to do? Is there an alternative camera app that works better, but wont remove important features?
Edit: Forgot to mention firmware.
Firmware is: KF3.
Cheers
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1) Do you know what aGPS actually is? Camera already supports it.
2) Don't disable GPS why would you do that? It does not takes battery when it's not used
Razer(x) said:
1) Do you know what aGPS actually is? Camera already supports it.
2) Don't disable GPS why would you do that? It does not takes battery when it's not used
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aGPS is assisted gps is it not? Doesn't it help you locate yourself even when you dont have satelite contact? Like in a mall with thick concrete roofs atop of yourhead
I just find it annoying that disabling the GPS turns the geo tagging of until you manually go back and enable it. I dont see how GPS will do me much help inside a mall.. where it will only waste my battery while i take pictures. This is when aGPS would make more sense.
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video call camera testing- possible?
is it possible to check the video cam? just turn it on to see if it's working (without entering the video call mode)?
Yes, the camera app allows you to switch to front facing camera
camera app?
I don't think that is possible, changing profiles using the camera app always use the back camera, not the video call one.
latinoxxx said:
I don't think that is possible, changing profiles using the camera app always use the back camera, not the video call one.
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The coolcamera application can be set to use front cam. For example as a web cam Not a free application but can download it for trial purposes but it limits use to 25 seconds or something until you start it again.
For info/download of latest beta
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2006/10/new_beta_versio.html
or straight to Ateksoft download
http://www.ateksoft.com/download.html
Mike
thanks . . .
sparkyxda said:
Yes, the camera app allows you to switch to front facing camera
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My mistake, must have been the universal that allowed this
you could always call your video mailbox. still have to make a call though, but not to another person
nah i just wanted to see if my video cam works properly. done it with coolcamera, thanks
Does anyone know a app that allows for transmission of Tytn front camera pix over GPRS/3G, like a webcam? Over IP, not videocall. Cool Camera has extracted its webcam part as addon (on Dec. 5), so maybe it can do it now? Anyone tested?
Is there a way to check this is working without making a video call?
I have no 3G reception here and need to check it works before my 7 day return is up.
Thanks.
I heard there is a program called CoolCamera by Ateksoft which will let you do this. I have not tried it out yet, though.
Just call a land line you will see the front camera image for a moment and then the call will fail.
K
QuachMD said:
I heard there is a program called CoolCamera by Ateksoft which will let you do this. I have not tried it out yet, though.
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CoolCamera has that feature alright, but for some weird reason the video displayed is tilted sideways and there is no way to fix this inside CoolCamera settings...
What I did noticed tho, is that the video quality is of inferior quality and lower framerates.
Peace!
Rayan
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Mike
Hey guys, I've searched around but didn't find anything useful.
I'm trying to figure out a way to always have the camera in GPS Photo mode. For obvious reasons that I want to geotag all the picture that I take in the camera...kinda like the iPhone and many Android phones. In those phones, there's an easy way to just enable or disable geotagging.
Any ideas??
rvashi said:
Hey guys, I've searched around but didn't find anything useful.
I'm trying to figure out a way to always have the camera in GPS Photo mode. For obvious reasons that I want to geotag all the picture that I take in the camera...kinda like the iPhone and many Android phones. In those phones, there's an easy way to just enable or disable geotagging.
Any ideas??
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Hmmm...once I put the camera in GPS mode, it stays there until I manually change it, even through closing the camera and reopening it, and through soft-resets too.
See that's exactly what I want but it keeps switching to normal mode. btw I'm using EnergyROM 23569 Cookie - May, 28th release, if that helps any.
rvashi said:
See that's exactly what I want but it keeps switching to normal mode. btw I'm using EnergyROM 23569 Cookie - May, 28th release, if that helps any.
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rvashi, what method are you using to put the camera in gps mode...are you doing it through the footprints tab? If so, there's actually a tweak to unlock that directly in the camera's settings, that's how I turn on geotagging.
sirphunkee said:
rvashi, what method are you using to put the camera in gps mode...are you doing it through the footprints tab? If so, there's actually a tweak to unlock that directly in the camera's settings, that's how I turn on geotagging.
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I start Camera and then select the GPS Photo mode from the settings button at the bottom. I think that's the same way you are doing it. But mine is not sticking to GPS Photo mode for some very odd reason.
rvashi said:
Hey guys, I've searched around but didn't find anything useful.
I'm trying to figure out a way to always have the camera in GPS Photo mode. For obvious reasons that I want to geotag all the picture that I take in the camera...kinda like the iPhone and many Android phones. In those phones, there's an easy way to just enable or disable geotagging.
Any ideas??
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Hello friend, did you find the way to automatically activate the initial photoGPS the camera?
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rvashi said:
Hey guys, I've searched around but didn't find anything useful.
I'm trying to figure out a way to always have the camera in GPS Photo mode. For obvious reasons that I want to geotag all the picture that I take in the camera...kinda like the iPhone and many Android phones. In those phones, there's an easy way to just enable or disable geotagging.
Any ideas??
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Hello friend, did you find the way to automatically activate the initial photoGPS the camera?
Hello friend, did you find the way to automatically activate the initial photoGPS the camera?
There is a working compass app for the focus? I tested a few ones from marketplace an none of them seems to work properly. (Fixed to an angle)
Thanks!
From what I understand the compass feature of the phone is not able to be easily used by developers so they use the gps, which isn't as good.
I tried some of the compass apps too and none worked at all.
Alan
rubberman8 said:
From what I understand the compass feature of the phone is not able to be easily used by developers so they use the gps, which isn't as good.
I tried some of the compass apps too and none worked at all.
Alan
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Yeah, thanks. Maybe "digital compass" is just a virtual compass based on the gps
I'm tying to figure out how to use the front camera for taking pictures. I can do the video stuff no problem, just not take pictures. Seems silly the native camera app would not offer this.
From what I read, there should be an option in qik to do this, but from the one I downloaded from the market, I'm not seeing this option. I'm running Frankenstein and have checked through all the various mod paqs and there is no qik app in there that may have this feature enabled. What am I missing?
magoo5289 said:
I'm tying to figure out how to use the front camera for taking pictures. I can do the video stuff no problem, just not take pictures. Seems silly the native camera app would not offer this.
From what I read, there should be an option in qik to do this, but from the one I downloaded from the market, I'm not seeing this option. I'm running Frankenstein and have checked through all the various mod paqs and there is no qik app in there that may have this feature enabled. What am I missing?
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Inside the camera app... Click the Top left icon on the screen and select Self-Shot.
Is that what you are looking for?
Perfect thanks so much! Guess the internet docs on this not working through the camera app are wrong.
Just the other day I found that in the camera flash option menu, in the camera app, there was an option for the flashlight.
I installed the OTA yesterday, and now that option is gone.
Anyone know how to get that option back? it's probably one of the most useful features of the camera app.
I cannot help here, but related Question is, and this may be of use to you too.
A Better Camera apk does allow the torch to be on before and of course during the shot.
This app works much better in low light but not as good as our regular cam in other respects.
Any one know of app that does this?