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Samsung Galaxy S Sample Video and Photos

Hi guys, sorry if a thread like this has already been started, but I looked and search results on xda returned no thread found, so I figure might as well start one. I'm an new poster here, so please be patient. Here are some pictures I've taken with my galaxy s (from t-mobile usa). I've also uploaded a video to vimeo (I think I'm the first one, again, all searches on vimeo show no sgs videos, since I think most if not all are uploaded to youtube). Anyways, the pictures and video are on my site dublew dublew dublew dot foscode dot com/samsung-galaxy-review , and hopefully admins won't block the link from appearing (this is not a spam site). In case they do block it, I'm trying to also upload the pics to this forum. Hope you enjoy the pics and videos.

Page Not Found. Korean Community of Cincinati page right?

thanks for trying to check it out on my site, not sure why it redirected to the other one I maintain, I do have both sites on the same server, but I never had this problem before. I just tried accessing the site from a co-workers' pc and foscode came up... Please try again when you have a chance, and thanks for the input.

Is there a chance someone could post pictures taken in low light or dark environment. Since there is no flash they most likely are not usable, but I would like to see what the phone can do. Cause every once in a while there is that moment when you need to take a picture of your buddy passed out drunk at the table in bar or on the street..

Here are some pictures taken at waverly hills sanitarium, louisville, ky.
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Sorrt, didn't know they wouldn't be all in the same reply, here is another
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Another one..
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Last one ... Taken at the morgue.
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Thanks... Not too bad in the dark i would say but it really need to light to take good pictures...

HyBry said:
Thanks... Not too bad in the dark i would say but it really need to light to take good pictures...
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just like all digital cameras

Thanks, it was fun testing it out there in the dark, didn't get to see any ghosts though. Here is a picture a shot almost at the same time when someone took theirs with a flash, I had part of my finger in front of the camera.
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Wow....those pictures are really poor quality, I expected better from the camera?
Are they taken in low light?
Don't get me wrong I love the Galaxy, my wife has one.
The picture attached was taken with my Nexus.

Those pics were taken at an abandoned building, at night, with no lights, or flash. If you are not familiar, look up waverly hills sanatorium on google, it is a famous tuberculosis hospital that closed in the 1960's, now they offer tours. So, to answer your question, yes, there were no lights at all, just imagine an abandoned building, in the middle of the night, no lights and no flash, try using any digital camera under the same cinditions and you'll probably get the same results. Thanks for checking the pictures out though.
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But still, i m not quite amazed either, its not only these pictures Ive seen others too, but i m quite disappointed. I ordered a SGS but Im gonna miss my X10i

Too much noise in those pics. Im surprised the camera is THIS bad.

Just some shots I did while testing the camera for the first time.

Another couple of pics....
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..... And the second one.
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Outside shot.
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Karupan said:
Too much noise in those pics. Im surprised the camera is THIS bad.
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This is at iso 800 which will have alot of noise because the size of the sensor. Havin more pixels doesn't mean better low light pics.
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Google Hangout stretched video on Nexus 4

So for whatever reason my video is stretched vertically in portrait and horizontally on landscape whenever I'm using Google Hangouts with the front facing camera. I'm going to test with other video chat services like Skype but I'm wondering why that's happening.
I'm not sure whether it's hardware or software but I'd suspect the latter. I'm already rooted so I might just flash a new ROM like PA 2.9 to see if that fixes it. Or can I just flash the camera app again? Any ideas?

I think it's software, not like it when you use Gtalk, hopefully sort it in next update.
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Same thing here.. I look weird and all long
But yea i think it is software bug where it is trying to get the resolution of the camera app.

Oh good it's not just me.
I'm relieved

I can see this with both the front and rear-facing cameras. Initially I thought it was my imagination, so I took a couple of screen-grabs of the video with a coin in shot and drew a true circle (blue) and the now-elliptical coin outline (red) over the top.
The images confirm that video in Google Plus hangouts is definitely stretched. Don't see any issue in the regular camera, and GTalk video also looked OK to a superficial check.

Nothing to add except that it is happening for me as well...

Same thing here.

Going to keep an eye out if it's fixed in 4.2.2
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I am on 4.2.2 and it's not fixed yet.

I can't believe this hasn't been fixed! Use hangouts a lot, it's a software fix as gtalk app is fine....... No one in the Google house must not be using hangouts on a Nexus 4!
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Question I want to ask, are people getting unclear audio on hangouts or that the other side gets echo's? Compare to the iPad version which seems to be fine I get a lot of problems on the Nexus 10 and 4.
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Yep, unclear and echoes.....
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sparks2005 said:
Yep, unclear and echoes.....
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Did anyone find a fix for this? or know of the problem?

It is a defect for the Nexus 4 only. Just got to be patient for Google to fix it in their App. Wait until after Google I/O

Photo Sphere restore?!

Hey folks,
I shot a great sphere pic last monday in madison square garden, though i accidentally swiped away the pic and its deleted now.( damn gallery landscape mode)
Now to the good part. I still got the "panorama session" folder that includes the orientation.meta file and a session.txt file as well as the necessary pictures.
Does anyone know how to force the camera to "manually render" again and recreate the sphere picture??
Thank you endless and more for any help!!
Have a good day!!
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Perhaps you could print out all the pictures in full resolution and place them in a sphere around you, and recreate the scene?
All joking aside, this would be nice to know.
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if you use g+, did it happen to upload automatically to your account?

Unfortunately im a EU citizen on vacation so this was during picture taken and wifi connection ((
At home it would have uploaded the pic, indeed.
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Hey guys, can anyone please let me know where is the red eye removal tool in the picture edit mode. I know its silly but was not able to find it....
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no ideas ???

gstar1897 said:
no ideas ???
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Try an app called undelete from the play store. I had deleted a folder of pics that was like 6 months of my daughters life and the undelete app saved my butt....not saying its a fore sure fix but its def worth the look
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete
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strapped365 said:
Try an app called undelete from the play store. I had deleted a folder of pics that was like 6 months of my daughters life and the undelete app saved my butt....not saying its a fore sure fix but its def worth the look
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fahrbot.apps.undelete
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Thank you, tried the app, however my nexus 4 "has not FAT" as it says. in other words it doesnt work.
disk digger found couple of pictures, but that one wasnt available
anyway, thanks for your support!

What happened with the stock gallery?

I just noticed today that all my pictures from the instant upload got split into like 50 folders, there are are pictures taken on the same day in referent folders, different dates everywhere, it's a mess, when did this happen? Any fix?
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luchoster said:
I just noticed today that all my pictures from the instant upload got split into like 50 folders, there are are pictures taken on the same day in referent folders, different dates everywhere, it's a mess, when did this happen? Any fix?
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That is Google's fault. I think they've done something on their side. I have the same thing on my devices. Worse, my intant upload photos don't appear in gallery anymore and I have empty instant upload folder that comes back even when I delete it from picasaweb, :<

Same here.
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Google Play Music crashing

Having seemingly got rid of my alarm clock freezes and other weird stuff I still get problems with Play music on my note 3
It hangs with app not responding. I use all access and the crash occurs when browsing around albums etc, whilst playing a track.
The log report shows caused by:
"ANR keyDispatchingTimedOut"
I've looked at comments on the Play store and searched around, I can't find any recent threads on this issue.
Not sure if this is my note having issues again or is it common?
** my note has been factory reset recently with minimal apps installed **
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skibadee said:
Having seemingly got rid of my alarm clock freezes and other weird stuff I still get problems with Play music on my note 3
It hangs with app not responding. I use all access and the crash occurs when browsing around albums etc, whilst playing a track.
The log report shows caused by:
"ANR keyDispatchingTimedOut"
I've looked at comments on the Play store and searched around, I can't find any recent threads on this issue.
Not sure if this is my note having issues again or is it common?
** my note has been factory reset recently with minimal apps installed **
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Also get this:
java.lang.outofmemoryerror
Could it be my note having issues with ram?
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skibadee said:
Also get this:
java.lang.outofmemoryerror
Could it be my note having issues with ram?
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Hi , same here it crashes when I use it for a couple of minutes
I've emailed the support , they told me to factory reset the phone , that's what I did , and still the same.
Crash log gives me the same than you :

marshall39 said:
Hi , same here it crashes when I use it for a couple of minutes
I've emailed the support , they told me to factory reset the phone , that's what I did , and still the same.
Crash log gives me the same than you :
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Well I'm glad it's not just me, although sorry you have problems too. I'm amazed there are so few with this problem, that or they don't use xda. I was beginning to doubt whether people could be bothered to comment on my bug finds lol
Just wondering about your settings. Could be a crash caused by our specifics.
I use high quality streaming on 3g, internal memory for cache. Cache during playback selected. stream and cache via wifi only are unchecked.
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Well , I use almost the same setting than you do , except "download via wifi" is checked.
I think it could be something with cover arts , do you download the albums that you have uploaded on Google servers?
I 've a couple of albums I've uploaded , and I like to see nice covers , maybe if you tag your MP3 with a cover "too big" , it could make a problem with that "java.langOutOfMemory error?
Really it is only an assumption , I don't know too much about programming and stuff like that...

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Well , I use almost the same setting than you do , except "download via wifi" is checked.
I think it could be something with cover arts , do you download the albums that you have uploaded on Google servers?
I 've a couple of albums I've uploaded , and I like to see nice covers , maybe if you tag your MP3 with a cover "too big" , it could make a problem with that "java.langOutOfMemory error?
Really it is only an assumption , I don't know too much about programming and stuff like that...
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I do have a few albums that I uploaded a while back. Some don't show a picture as it can't find any cover art. I'm going to delete all my uploaded stuff and see if that makes a difference. I have most of it on Dropbox or my sd anyway. I'll let you know.
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skibadee said:
I do have a few albums that I uploaded a while back. Some don't show a picture as it can't find any cover art. I'm going to delete all my uploaded stuff and see if that makes a difference. I have most of it on Dropbox or my sd anyway. I'll let you know.
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Actually , I've deleted all my music cached on my phone , and just by browsing my collection online it crashes...
Also , I've found a micro SD card , so I've tried to insert it in the phone , and chose to cache the music on it.Guess what , crash
Must be a memory leak or something like that , since when I restar my phone , it works for a couple of minutes before it crashes.
I've sent like hundreds of crach logs to Google , emailed the support , and I see I'm not the only one to have the issue.
If Google doens't push an update of this application , I guess spotify will get my 10 euros/months.

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Actually , I've deleted all my music cached on my phone , and just by browsing my collection online it crashes...
Also , I've found a micro SD card , so I've tried to insert it in the phone , and chose to cache the music on it.Guess what , crash
Must be a memory leak or something like that , since when I restar my phone , it works for a couple of minutes before it crashes.
I've sent like hundreds of crach logs to Google , emailed the support , and I see I'm not the only one to have the issue.
If Google doens't push an update of this application , I guess spotify will get my 10 euros/months.
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Yeh I've sent loads of logs and tried to email support. I haven't even had a reply back.
It's not good having to pay for such a crap service. I notice they have made it harder to contact them now, took ages to navigate all the useless forms/topics to get to send an email. In the end I emailed them on an address I used over a year ago. Still not heard back. Going to try calling them on the nexus sales line and see if they can give me a contact.
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skibadee said:
Yeh I've sent loads of logs and tried to email support. I haven't even had a reply back.
It's not good having to pay for such a crap service. I notice they have made it harder to contact them now, took ages to navigate all the useless forms/topics to get to send an email. In the end I emailed them on an address I used over a year ago. Still not heard back. Going to try calling them on the nexus sales line and see if they can give me a contact.
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I tried something , that could be totally wrong but it doesn't cost anything to try :
Go to Setting - Application manager - Running - Google Play Music.
Then you should see 2 services , and one named something like "Art download " or something like that.
I turned that service off , rebooted the phone and played 10 minutes only with the application without crach
It could be only a coincidence but who knows?
EDIT Don't even try , I just had another crash.....OK Google play good bye for good.

marshall39 said:
I tried something , that could be totally wrong but it doesn't cost anything to try :
Go to Setting - Application manager - Running - Google Play Music.
Then you should see 2 services , and one named something like "Art download " or something like that.
I turned that service off , rebooted the phone and played 10 minutes only with the application without crach
It could be only a coincidence but who knows?
EDIT Don't even try , I just had another crash.....OK Google play good bye for good.
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I'm sure you probably haven't but have you had problems with:
A: The stock alarm clock failing and crashing. Ok since my last factory reset.
B: Google maps crashing randomly
C: Blurry pictures with low-med light and black lines in video recording with wifi enabled.
D: Is your note a new build or one of the first released?
Just wondering if the first batch of note 3s have faults with memory etc.
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skibadee said:
I'm sure you probably haven't but have you had problems with:
A: The stock alarm clock failing and crashing. Ok since my last factory reset.
B: Google maps crashing randomly
C: Blurry pictures with low-med light and black lines in video recording with wifi enabled.
D: Is your note a new build or one of the first released?
Just wondering if the first batch of note 3s have faults with memory etc.
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I have none of the problems you describe , everything's ok except that Google Play app.
I've purshased my Note 3 the 10th of October last year , from a big french online store , I'm not sur if the phone is part of the first release or not , how can I check that?

Not sure if serial numbers mean anything as the nexus devices do, but what firmware did it come with ?
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skibadee said:
Not sure if serial numbers mean anything as the nexus devices do, but what firmware did it come with ?
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I'm sorry , I can't remember , there was a firmware update as soon as I unboxed it , and now I'm on stock XXUDMK2.
I'm just amazed this phone has 3 GO of Ram , and I only have 10% left.
I'm pretty sure this is because all that Samsung bloatware that eats all the Ram.
Are you on stock firmware? Maybe Cyanogenmod could do something for us ?

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I'm sorry , I can't remember , there was a firmware update as soon as I unboxed it , and now I'm on stock XXUDMK2.
I'm just amazed this phone has 3 GO of Ram , and I only have 10% left.
I'm pretty sure this is because all that Samsung bloatware that eats all the Ram.
Are you on stock firmware? Maybe Cyanogenmod could do something for us ?
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Problem is Cyanogen = no warranty if I do have hardware issues :/
That and unless I'm wrong the stylus would be useless without touchwiz
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That is true.
Maybe this new kitkat firmware will solve the issue ?
I'm at work at the moment (well for lunch break) but if you have time and want to flash the new one, could you tell me if Play Music works ?
Thanks !
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Mine crashes while Im doing extensive searching meaning. I find a song I like, and I go to "similar artists" at the bottom, and go to a new artist. I repeat this many times until the actual app freezes the phone, and force quits eventually.
Lame because I like to play random trivia with my gf so she expands her music horizons

Yeah this is what happens to me too, I Think this problem does'nt come our Gnote3, but from this application. If you search on Google we can see this problem is there since à good while, and the updates didn't fix it.
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kgeier82 said:
Mine crashes while Im doing extensive searching meaning. I find a song I like, and I go to "similar artists" at the bottom, and go to a new artist. I repeat this many times until the actual app freezes the phone, and force quits eventually.
Lame because I like to play random trivia with my gf so she expands her music horizons
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Yes you are right that's exactly the process that normally makes mine crash. Looking at similar artists, albums by same artist etc.
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skibadee said:
Yes you are right that's exactly the process that normally makes mine crash. Looking at similar artists, albums by same artist etc.
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I've just flash the new kitkat firmware , unti now everything OK.
But usually it takes some time after a reboot before it crashes , so let's wait a bit....
EDIT OK one crach already , but this time it does not ask me to send a log , just "Google play music has stopped working".
Humm I think I'll stick with Spotify then , after all it is at least as good as Google Play.

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Yes you are right that's exactly the process that normally makes mine crash. Looking at similar artists, albums by same artist etc.
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Just crashed again after deleting all my uploaded tracks. Related artist browsing crashed it in no time.
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