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Pictures upload orientation issue

I tried to upload on Facebook a picture taken with my Nexus S but it seems that, when uploaded it has the wrong orientation (always horizontal, even if the pictutre has been taken vertically). Is anyone else experiencing the same issue? Anyway to fix it?

Pelpa said:
I tried to upload on Facebook a picture taken with my Nexus S but it seems that, when uploaded it has the wrong orientation (always horizontal, even if the pictutre has been taken vertically). Is anyone else experiencing the same issue? Anyway to fix it?
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There have been a couple threads on this including one i made, as of now there is no way to fix it. before you say the NS is a peice of crap, all SGS phones do it.
If you hold the phone in portrait mode and hit the menu button the menu comes up in landscape mode. the SGS phones only like it sideways

I'm glad im not the only one. Apparently this isnt just with FB but with any form of picture transfer when taken in portrait?
I hope theres a fix for this, I love this phone but that's annoying!

YuryAC said:
I'm glad im not the only one. Apparently this isnt just with FB but with any form of picture transfer when taken in portrait?
I hope theres a fix for this, I love this phone but that's annoying!
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Ya, it does the same thing if you send an MMS

sucks that it has this problem, that annoyed me like crazy when i had a vibrant, my mt4g doesnt do this, just make sure to take all pics like a normal camera and you will be okay

It's a easy fix turn off and on your phone that's how I fix that issue
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Get fixed with the update
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Oh hell I thought it was a simple Nexus S issue but you guys say it happens on all Galaxy S phones
Well I hope that Google can at least correct it on the Nexus S with an update since it seems after 6 months Samsung hasn't. This is the one thing that is bugging the **** out of me with this phone.

chikilin1389 said:
Get fixed with the update
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Not really. Got the update tonight but nothing changed. I love my Nexus S but this is really pissing me off... Can't believe that Samsung has not fixed it yet.
@Eliteranger12 torn on and off ??? I did it several times but nothing changed

Pelpa said:
Not really. Got the update tonight but nothing changed. I love my Nexus S but this is really pissing me off... Can't believe that Samsung has not fixed it yet.
@Eliteranger12 torn on and off ??? I did it several times but nothing changed
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quite possibly intended this way

slowz3r said:
quite possibly intended this way
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it is something I will take into consideration for the next uploading

Pelpa said:
it is something I will take into consideration for the next uploading
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ya, its something you get used to, kinda gotta figure it is the normal way you take a picture with a camera

[Solved] Weird Lines During Boot Up

I recently noticed something weird on my Galaxy S. I should point out I am running Darky's Rom (9.5).
Everytime I start (or restart) the phone some weird lines come up for a second or so on the top of the screen while the Galaxy S logo is displayed. I have uploaded a quick video to youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sGbpU6s_38)
I have since reflashed the phone and the lines still persist.
This problem occured after my phone randomly crashed and I had to perform a factory wipe.
Other than the lines during start up, I have had no issues since they came up 2 days ago. No further crashes, the lines don't display anywhere else, nothing.
My question:
Should I be worried and could this possibly be a hardware fault? I am sure its not the screen as the lines only pop up quickly during boot up. I fear if it could be cpu, graphics or ram related.
Any opinion or advice welcome!
Is anyone else experiencing this or has experienced it?

I have the same problem with darkys rom 9.5 :S
I dont think it is bad for your phone...
I have this almost a month and no other problems at all
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this issue is kernel related, and i bet almost everyone with a custom ROM would of experienced it.
as mentioned above, it is no problem, it wont cause damage. its just one of them annoying niggles what make you think ' **** my phone.... its dying' but its not.
when a newer update for the kernel comes out the issue will most likely go away.

Thanks for the replies! Eases my fears. I guess I just got a fright because it happened (or at least I only noticed it) after the phone randomly crashed

you just assumed that was the culprit.
mine happened 3 weeks after flashing a ROM i just assumed thats what caused it because that was the last thing i did.
turned out to be nothing and now i can sleep again

it is a little 'glitch' with some kernels. don't worry, doesn't harm the phone
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god damned, you all not serious... its caused of the old darky kernel....
heres the fix for it with a new version of the kernel :
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/i...ore-1-4-now-with-i897-captivate-support.2055/

saphirrot said:
god damned, you all not serious... its caused of the old darky kernel....
heres the fix for it with a new version of the kernel :
http://www.darkyrom.com/community/i...ore-1-4-now-with-i897-captivate-support.2055/
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I have installed the new kernel and it worked
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[Q] Front Camera Upside Down?

Saw a thread on this a few days ago but nobody responded..... On many of the rom's including the D3 camera or even if i flash the Stock Atrix camera , my front camera images are upside down. I never noticed this until i was using Qik for Video Chat and a few people said i was upside down. Any ideas How to correct this?

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Saw a thread on this a few days ago but nobody responded..... On many of the rom's including the D3 camera or even if i flash the Stock Atrix camera , my front camera images are upside down. I never noticed this until i was using Qik for Video Chat and a few people said i was upside down. Any ideas How to correct this?
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Switch from portrait to landscape view by turning the phone by 90 degrees. That's the only solution that I am aware of right now.
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aaronf6983 said:
Saw a thread on this a few days ago but nobody responded..... On many of the rom's including the D3 camera or even if i flash the Stock Atrix camera , my front camera images are upside down. I never noticed this until i was using Qik for Video Chat and a few people said i was upside down. Any ideas How to correct this?
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Yeah posted this in the Q and A...same thing on fring, or just standard recorded vid. it has to be something in the base of the GB roms, FR never had this problem. i guess its cool to know it isnt just me that found this as a bug.
ceo.mtcl said:
Switch from portrait to landscape view by turning the phone by 90 degrees. That's the only solution that I am aware of right now.
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doesnt seem like a REAL solution to me but i guess it can work.

jzaslice said:
Yeah posted this in the Q and A...same thing on fring, or just standard recorded vid. it has to be something in the base of the GB roms, FR never had this problem. i guess its cool to know it isnt just me that found this as a bug.
doesnt seem like a REAL solution to me but i guess it can work.
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this used to be a problem for me when I ran the hktw GB build, but after going to the att one it went away. try running the other non-atrix version of qik and see if it's still bad.

Reboot while in camera

When taking pictures in low light situations with flash (it seems low battery enhances the probability) sometimes the pictures get artifacts (white lines close to the top/bottom of the picture).
And sometimes the phone gets stuck and reboots. The camera tends to make clicking noises right before it reboots that are louder than when usually focusing.
Look at the screenshot and at the end you can see the reboot. You can see a sudden battery level drop after the reboot.
I don't know if this is hardware or software related but a user suggested this to be a problem with the stock camera app.
I had this problem on two devices already and it seems to be on all devices, maybe just rarer for some people? Not sure.
If you have this problem vote for the following issue and hope google fixes it:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=49702&#makechanges

I had something similar happen to me once last week. I was viewing my photos in the stratosphere mode and would hit the back button. I had to repeatedly do this to scroll to the next images after viewing them. When hitting the back button it would take me back to take a picture, but one time, it took me to a blank screen with the camera buttons still working. I ended up needing to restart my phone. Not sure what happened there.

I have only seen this once. It didn't occur again, so I haven't chased it down

Ditto only happened once in the first week of using and has never happened again
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AW: Reboot while in camera
Kinda sucks when it happens randomly, today it happened twice to me and that in 4.2.2!
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I also have it, but less frequent, about one or two times per month. It happened on 4.2.1 and no one could solve it in my thread about this .

Facing the same issue more frequently
ruzkay said:
While taking pictures my phone suddenly got stuck and rebooted. This is the second time now. My camera makes strange click noises sonetimes wheb focusing but that seems to be normal.
The device was a little hot but not as hot as when in gaming and in gaming it never reboots.
Look at the screen shot and at the end you can see the reboot. What I'm worried about is the sudden battery level drop after the reboot.
Are these reboots hardware or software related? Should I get a replacement?
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I seem to have the same issue. So far, it has only occurred when I am trying to take a photo with the flash on. One more observation: seems to happen more often if the battery is low. However, both of us might be having defective devices, as it doesn't seem to be a common issue looking the forums here.
No solution found so far. Tried a factory reset. Tried using another camera app. Nothing helped. Might try flashing a custom ROM.

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sumit29 said:
I seem to have the same issue. So far, it has only occurred when I am trying to take a photo with the flash on. One more observation: seems to happen more often if the battery is low. However, both of us might be having defective devices, as it doesn't seem to be a common issue looking the forums here.
No solution found so far. Tried a factory reset. Tried using another camera app. Nothing helped. Might try flashing a custom ROM.
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All oft the things you described apply to my situation too. Also I noticed that pictures tend to have artifacts (white stripes close to the top/bottom). They always have the same distance from top/bottom but their length differs.
Also after the forced reboot there sometimes appears an extra picture in the gallery that is fully grey.
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I don't seem to have the artifact problem that you described. Also there is a creaking sound sometimes just before it restarts.
Have you tried flashing a custom ROM? Did it help? Otherwise RMA is possibly the way to go.
I ordered the phone from US using a mail forwarding service, so an rma will cost me another $100 or so. If you or anyone else can confirm that it is definitely a hardware issue which can be resolved by getting a replacement, i might go for it.
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sumit29 said:
I don't seem to have the artifact problem that you described. Also there is a creaking sound sometimes just before it restarts.
Have you tried flashing a custom ROM? Did it help? Otherwise RMA is possibly the way to go.
I ordered the phone from US using a mail forwarding service, so an rma will cost me another $100 or so. If you or anyone else can confirm that it is definitely a hardware issue which can be resolved by getting a replacement, i might go for it.
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I was on AOKP PUB Krait 05/02 by Stevespear and Harsh Kernel and I did have a reboot there once too. Also this is already my third Nexus 4 since I had to replace it 2 times due to issues (bottom side creaking 1st device / yellow blotches 2nd device) and this one really looks good only this camera reboot issue is left.
But my first phone did have the issue too, I didn't have the 2nd phone long enough so didn't see it happen there. I have no idea if it is a hardware or software issue but my bet is that all Nexus 4's have that issue.
It just seems that it appears rather rarely and most people don't notice it. Or it could be that the voltage is too low and that would explain why it happens on some phones more than on others since not all chips are equal. I was wondering if somehow setting the flash to be weaker so it draws less power would solve this. But I am just a user and don't really have an idea.
PS: I won't get my phone replaced since I can live with this issue (it happens rather rarely) and I went through 2 replacements to get this device which is close to perfect but I wouldn't mind if someone came up with a solution.

That makes me feel really lucky to have gotten a nearly perfect device. Anyway, guess we just have to live with it then. Lowering the flash intensity sounds like a good idea. Will check if some rom/kernel/app can do it for me.
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Just added issue 49702 on code.google.com. whoever is facing this problem, add your comments.
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Having the same problem here on 4.2.1 and 4.2.2. I think it might be the buggy stock camera/gallery app because I can't replicate the problem on the Camera Zoom FX app.
Edit: I remember having this problem on 4.2.1 and then clearing the gallery app data and not ever seeing the issue happen again. I will try the same on 4.2.2 and see if it fixes it too.

I added a link to the issue on OP guess that is all I can do.

sierratango88 said:
Having the same problem here on 4.2.1 and 4.2.2. I think it might be the buggy stock camera/gallery app because I can't replicate the problem on the Camera Zoom FX app.
Edit: I remember having this problem on 4.2.1 and then clearing the gallery app data and not ever seeing the issue happen again. I will try the same on 4.2.2 and see if it fixes it too.
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I have had this issue with the Camera FX Zoom app also. So, at least in my case, I guess it's a hardware/camera driver issue. Anyway, I also cleared the gallery app data a few days back and haven't faced this issue since then, but haven't taken enough pics with flash to confirm that the issue is truly gone.

sumit29 said:
I have had this issue with the Camera FX Zoom app also. So, at least in my case, I guess it's a hardware/camera driver issue. Anyway, I also cleared the gallery app data a few days back and haven't faced this issue since then, but haven't taken enough pics with flash to confirm that the issue is truly gone.
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Has the issue disappeared after clearing the app data for you? I certainly have not faced any reboots since doing it.

[Q] Nexus 4 Camera Bug after 4.4.2

I own a Nexus 4 and its unrooted. After updating to 4.4.2 I am encountering a weird bug.
When I take a few pics from the default camera app, the phone gives off some *ZIGG ZIGG* sound and I can feel a bit of vibration too and reboots.
So what is the issue here? Anyone else facing a similar problem?

pakora said:
I own a Nexus 4 and its unrooted. After updating to 4.4.2 I am encountering a weird bug.
When I take a few pics from the default camera app, the phone gives off some *ZIGG ZIGG* sound and I can feel a bit of vibration too and reboots.
So what is the issue here? Anyone else facing a similar problem?
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yes, i have this issue. what is that?

Yes also happens to me...i use n5 port..i guess it's google bug..i will try with another camera app
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freddi11 said:
yes, i have this issue. what is that?
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miqz said:
Yes also happens to me...i use n5 port..i guess it's google bug..i will try with another camera app
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The camera focus/lens or whatever... does this, if you don't touch the focus thing which moves across the screen it works fine. However manually setting the focus seems to be causing the trouble.
So its a FW bug and I guess we are stuck with till the next update from google.