I notice if I take a picture from my already snapped pics taken at full resolution max quality the stock messaging app will compress the pic all the way down to 5kb and a ridiculously small resolution. However if I set the camera to 1mp or so it doesn't reside because it falls under the 1MB size limit.
I love the fact that it has the ability to compress the image , but its just a taaaaad too aggressive with the compression lol.
How can I toy with this? I don't even know what apk does the resizing, or if its in a script file somewhere.
I'm not happy with Handcent or Chomp. I have nothing against the stock app. It works fine as far as im concerned, other than this tiny bug.
If this is not an option is there a photo editing app that does compression? I have Pic Say Pro but I don't think it does custom compression.
Id like to be able to resize the pics to say 1024x768 (or whatever the widescreen equivalent is.) At about 80% quality.
I've been trying to find an answer for this as well since I moved to flipz's rom. I don't want the pic resized at all but if it's going to at least keep it reasonable.
Anyone?
Wow. Just tried this out it really does compress it down to ridiculously small sizes. It would be nice if we could just edit the restriction and not have our pictures compressed at all.
Has anyone figured this out? I notice now that I am at 2.1 it compresses images way to much and my images I send end up super small with a ridicules small resolution.
I think handcent sms is less aggressive with pictures.
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I use Handcent and while the pictures are resized it is not bad at all. I've looked at the pictures on my girlfriends phone that I send her - and everything looks good - not quite the quality of the original, but good.
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YES!, YES!, I know I'm noob....my first post yeah...OK to the question, when I take pictures using my HD2, and send them to my computer, the pictures don't like as neat and high def as the samples on the phone. I was just wondering if there is way to make it at least a bit more crisp and decent looking than the poor quality and blurness that i get now. The resolution is set to the highest..contrast normal, etc..ANY TIPS...Thank you...
get your hands on BsB Tweaks. Simple .cab install. It has a few options for 'hidden' settings for the camera and camcorder.
I'll do thanks...will that me it sharper??
Honestly I've not done a lot of comparisons, but it does add a SUPERFINE option to the camera, so that has to be worth something!
Finehood, what's the highest resolution setting you see in your camera menu? There should be a 5MP (2592x1552) setting available on there...it's on the second page of resolution options so make sure you didn't miss that.
If you don't see it there, then the BsB option jimbonics mentioned will add that in addition to the "superfine" mode. It also adds a couple of other modes you might like, so it's worth checking out. If you can't or won't use BsB, then they're available as just a regular cab too.
thanks...guys..
thank you guys....and yes I do have it in 5mp, but still the quality looks awful, but I'll be getting the bsb tweak...that sounds like it might fix my problems..any other suggestion is welcome!!!!THANK YOU
finehood said:
thank you guys....and yes I do have it in 5mp, but still the quality looks awful, but I'll be getting the bsb tweak...that sounds like it might fix my problems..any other suggestion is welcome!!!!THANK YOU
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Check out these other tips too:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7229727&postcount=2
(the last one on that list is what we've already suggested above)
thanks again...
good tips...I'll keep you guys post it if it gets better!!
Are you having a lot of noise problems ? Unfortunately that's not going to go away. If you're expecting some quality pictures like what a real camera would take you'll be quite disappointed . I've tried tweaking it myself left and right and every which way possible. I've seen some sample pictures from the EVO and even with it's 8MP cam it does not look a whole lot better.
good to know..
actually, u know what..i kind of knew that it would never be close to a regular picture cam, but with the high megapixels at least i was expecting something decent...but thank you...I did the bsb tweaks and got a bit better...the hidden tricks are all right...thanks everyone..
the fact is HD2 cam is poorer than HD's. I have both devices, HD in default (auto) settings takes very well pix, and HD2 (even after tweaks) takes puctures "ugly". The overall temperature of the shot is in grey tones domination, while HD take very realistic, closer to simple digicams. If anybody has an answers, please comment. Would be great if we will be able to take pix even just HD does.
When you take a picture and look at it from your computer is the size of the picture the same as the HD2's screen?
I'll usually just right click on the picture and send it to paint, click on image, then stretch/skew function. I'll reduce it to at least 50% / 50% and work my way down from there. That usually increases the image quality for me. I don't need a picture the size of three of my computer screens. Hope it helps.
When in doubt my friend photoshop is your friend
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photoshop will do the fixing for us....jiji...but like i said before i was just wondering if there was a way to make it better...like a tweak or a .cab, etc. bsb is not bad, but it doen't make the image any better in quality...but good tweak really good tweaks..
finehood said:
photoshop will do the fixing for us....jiji...but like i said before i was just wondering if there was a way to make it better...like a tweak or a .cab, etc. bsb is not bad, but it doen't make the image any better in quality...but good tweak really good tweaks..
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What we have here folks is a hardware problem not a software problem. Well actually a little bit of both . All the software tweaks out there does help a bit compared to the stock camera but that's as far as your going to get. Software can only do so much and there isn't a magical software solution when you are coupled with a lousy quality camera lens. The fact is HTC has probably cheapened out the quality of the camera lens compared to earlier phones but regardless the HD2 is a phone first not a camera. Short of replacing the whole lens there's very little software can do when the hardware isn't up to par.
I've had my HD2 since June 30th and believe me this thing takes MUCH BETTER pics than my Blackberry Bold 9700 did at 3.2MP and that phone took some really nice pictures.
I think it depends on the environment your in at the time. I took a few close up pics of my Wife and kids and those images came out beautiful. I also took some scenery shots in landscape and those images came out awsome as well. I took some pics inside the Tennessee Aquarium and had mixed results. As long as the lighting was good the images came out great. In darker settings the images were not as sharp.
I do use BsB Tweeks and I also have my resolution set to 5MP. I'm not sure why your camera is producing such awful images but I'm very pleased with mine.
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I do use BsB Tweeks and I also have my resolution set to 5MP. I'm not sure why your camera is producing such awful images but I'm very pleased with mine.
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Is it awful? He never posted any samples of his pictures. Are you really pleased because I'm not. How good the pictures actually look to an individual are highly subjective. I would hardly consider the pictures I've taken pleasing but I'm just going to have to settle.
I think the problem here is that finehood is really picky and had high expectations. I'm assuming what he had in mind were quality pictures closer to that of a real camera.
Sounds like user error to me. Try wiping your lens before taking pics. . My HD2 takes great pics.
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Take a picture at max resolution. Then copy that picture over to your pc. View that picture at 100%. You'll see it looks like ass.
hey guys...
i was reading some of the posts, and it makes sense, believe me I never got the wild idea of a phone cam being equal or better quality than a normal cam... but even with the 5 mp and the tweaks and considering light issues or environment surrounding your pics is not even close to a decent quality that's all I'm saying, the pictures look BEAUTIFUL on your phone, really neat and crisp, once you transfer your pics to a computer and see it in full scale you'll know what I'm talking about...blurriness, blur edges, sometimes pixelete images mainly in the face, I'm happy with the phone....and all it does, but I WAS JUST WONDERING if there was a way to make it a bit better...BSB Tweaks did some adjustments...thanks for the feedback guys, I'll be posting some pics shortly..so you guys get the idea....
So, im starting to find this very annoying but is there any possible way to view my pictures in higher quality? I sync a bunch of pics i took with my dslr and when i view them on this phone they look like crap. I view the same pictures on my X10 and there high quality. What gives here??
My wife and I both got new phones, her the XS Max, me the 6T. My phone takes good pics, hers amazing pics. When I send her photos and video they look ok, when she send to me it looks terrible. I'm hoping this is a compression setting on her phone I can change but my question is how do we send best res media back and forth? I'm using GCam, she the stock IOS camera. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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My wife and I both got new phones, her the XS Max, me the 6T. My phone takes good pics, hers amazing pics. When I send her photos and video they look ok, when she send to me it looks terrible. I'm hoping this is a compression setting on her phone I can change but my question is how do we send best res media back and forth? I'm using GCam, she the stock IOS camera. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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My wife has the iPhone X and she loves the pics I take with the GCam and stock. I send videos with Google photos. Upload them to the cloud and send a link to view video.
Reason : Standard MMS protocol applies compression for images and videos. Imessage to imessage doesn't do this or probably does some kinda lossless compression.
So using Google photo is always going to be easier that maybe searching for an app we can both use? I can make this work, thanks for the advice.
Have y'all tried WhatsApp to see how much they compress compared to standard SMS?