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The stock gallery app on the Nexus One is HORRIBLE. Flashy, shiny, touchy, yes. But all of my photos are incredibly compressed and zooming in results in a massive JPG compression artifact fest.
I wrote a bunch of notes on a whiteboard and my friend with a Droid and I both took photos of it to keep a record with our phones, but to my horror, the notes were COMPLETELY unreadable on my phone: all of the detail was gone, even though the camera preview after I took the shot looked fine zoomed in.
The Droid does not have this problem in its gallery app.
I found another Gallery app meant for the Droid on the market and it does not have this issue. The photos I took were fine, it was the gallery app loading a piss poor quality version of the photo.
Does Google know their gallery app sucks? Do they just not care? It makes it seem like the Nexus One takes godawful pictures when really the pictures are just fine!
Yep.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6021
This also extends to setting wallpapers from the gallery app, which explains why every wallpaper from my camera looks like ass.
If you set wallpapers using "wallpaper set and save" from the market, your wallpapers are WAY, WAY higher quality.
So I guess my question is, how do we make sure Google knows about this bug?
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Yep.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6021
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Thanks for the link. I encourage everyone to vote for and comment on this issue so Google takes notice.
Make sure you "star" the issue to prioritize it for google. Dont add a comment unless you have something new to contribute, everyone who is subscribed will be an email)
To do this click on the white star below "New issue" on the top left. (its hard to notice)
bradsh1 said:
This also extends to setting wallpapers from the gallery app, which explains why every wallpaper from my camera looks like ass.
If you set wallpapers using "wallpaper set and save" from the market, your wallpapers are WAY, WAY higher quality.
So I guess my question is, how do we make sure Google knows about this bug?
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what do you mean by wallpaper set and save?
how to do that?
obadvw said:
what do you mean by wallpaper set and save?
how to do that?
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It is an app that's on the market.
Only 34 stars :/
Hmmm...I purchased this app a little while ago and switched back to my default camera...today I decided to go back to Vignette and do some photo tests against the default camera.
Both apps are on the same settings, or as close as I could make them. Clearly to my surprise the Vignette app actually takes sharper pics than the X10 camera.
Attached is a photo sample to show the difference...im my eyes its actually a pretty big difference.
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Hmmm...I purchased this app a little while ago and switched back to my default camera...today I decided to go back to Vignette and do some photo tests against the default camera.
Both apps are on the same settings, or as close as I could make them. Clearly to my surprise the Vignette app actually takes sharper pics than the X10 camera.
Attached is a photo sample to show the difference...im my eyes its actually a pretty big difference.
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i went in the same way i was using vignette but i guess it was some stupid version .. with no available options ... and returned to stock camera ... but now i`m using one of the latest versions and OMG the difference is so big ... i just deleted stock camera app from my screen never gonna use it again ! )
I'm usually a really cynical poster and I don't mean to be a ****, but that's been one of the most popular topics on the forum. It's definitely true though, I don't use the original camera app much.
The only thing I don't like about Vignette is that you can't adjust the contrast on the fly like in the native camera app. I don't like the interface as much either. The X10's interface is pretty good, it just lacks the ability to keep the light enabled by default, to view pictures fullscreen and without Mediascape and a few other very minor tweaks. For once SEMC actually did something correct with the minimalistic and straight forward camera interface.
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i went in the same way i was using vignette but i guess it was some stupid version .. with no available options ... and returned to stock camera ... but now i`m using one of the latest versions and OMG the difference is so big ... i just deleted stock camera app from my screen never gonna use it again ! )
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I think you may have used the free version...which doesn't support the full resolution of your phone. But I took a few different pictures comparing, I only posted that one comparision, but yeah vignette came out better everytime alot more crisp anyways.
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I'm usually a really cynical poster and I don't mean to be a ****, but that's been one of the most popular topics on the forum. It's definitely true though, I don't use the original camera app much.
The only thing I don't like about Vignette is that you can't adjust the contrast on the fly like in the native camera app. I don't like the interface as much either. The X10's interface is pretty good, it just lacks the ability to keep the light enabled by default, to view pictures fullscreen and without Mediascape and a few other very minor tweaks. For once SEMC actually did something correct with the minimalistic and straight forward camera interface.
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Maybe 2.1 will improve the default camera app, but from what Ive read its only giving us 720p and nothing else. I actually like the interface on vignette, I also like the interface on the default camera. But when it really comes down to it, its all about what app will take the clearer more crisp picture right? and that goes to Vignette hands down. There may be a bunch of posts about this already, but really Ill admit, im way to lazy to search today...sorry
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Maybe 2.1 will improve the default camera app, but from what Ive read its only giving us 720p and nothing else. I actually like the interface on vignette, I also like the interface on the default camera. But when it really comes down to it, its all about what app will take the clearer more crisp picture right? and that goes to Vignette hands down. There may be a bunch of posts about this already, but really Ill admit, im way to lazy to search today...sorry
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I'm positive that even SEMC will update the interface to include some of the important features. It's sad that we have to pay for a third party app to do the most minimalistic tasks, and that's to just take a proper picture. Nothing advanced even!...
bongd said:
I'm positive that even SEMC will update the interface to include some of the important features. It's sad that we have to pay for a third party app to do the most minimalistic tasks, and that's to just take a proper picture. Nothing advanced even!...
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I was watching a video on youtube of the droid x camera and features....I wish SE would give us something like that. Pretty slick interface and options....really no need for 3rd party apps. However I do have PicSay Pro...so that gives me everything my heart desires lol.
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I returned to the stock app because vignette is so damn slow and I could not find a way to just take a picture and have it save without having to push 50 buttons.
I won't deny the quality is far superior, but like I said its just stop slow.
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i just deleted stock camera app from my screen never gonna use it again ! )
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That's the stupidest thing you could've done. You've probably broken every application on your phone that uses the camera to add a picture to a message/fb/twitter, ect.
Also, you've lost the ability to easily take video.
Does anyone think before they delete apps?
Well I've noticed that night(or atleast low light) shots are pretty much the same with either app... they both suck
I use Vignette for everything else though...wish it had a better UI
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That's the stupidest thing you could've done. You've probably broken every application on your phone that uses the camera to add a picture to a message/fb/twitter, ect.
Also, you've lost the ability to easily take video.
Does anyone think before they delete apps?
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Hopefully he just meant he removed the icon from his home screen.
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pngface said:
Well I've noticed that night(or atleast low light) shots are pretty much the same with either app... they both suck
I use Vignette for everything else though...wish it had a better UI
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I've noticed low light shots are a week point to... that's when I break out my actual digital camera tho.... which also happens to be sony lol
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iead1 said:
That's the stupidest thing you could've done. You've probably broken every application on your phone that uses the camera to add a picture to a message/fb/twitter, ect.
Also, you've lost the ability to easily take video.
Does anyone think before they delete apps?
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i just removed the shortcut m8 from the screen and in vignette there is a shortcut when u use it to take video and when you press the button u go to video mode to your stock camera app
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Hopefully he just meant he removed the icon from his home screen.
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exactly what i did
I tried using Vignette, but I found that it seemed to crop some of the picture automatically? Like, I know there's something like that in the settings, but besides that, what I see on the screen before I take the picture isn't the same as what's captured. Also, I found it really difficult with macro shots, especially with the autoflash. While focussing, the light comes on, but then the light goes off after focus, so then the camera refocuses, and when the picture is taken, the flash comes on but the camera focussed for without light, so you get over exposure or out of focus. Am I using the app wrong? I'm really finding it difficult to focus and get clear pictures, with vignette or stock app
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I tried using Vignette, but I found that it seemed to crop some of the picture automatically? Like, I know there's something like that in the settings, but besides that, what I see on the screen before I take the picture isn't the same as what's captured. Also, I found it really difficult with macro shots, especially with the autoflash. While focussing, the light comes on, but then the light goes off after focus, so then the camera refocuses, and when the picture is taken, the flash comes on but the camera focussed for without light, so you get over exposure or out of focus. Am I using the app wrong? I'm really finding it difficult to focus and get clear pictures, with vignette or stock app
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It almost sounds like your doing something wrong. Do you have the paid version?
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Stock App - 8mp, Macro
Vignette - 8mp, superfine
bazzatron said:
Stock App - 8mp, Macro
Vignette - 8mp, superfine
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There pretty close, but it almost looks like the X10 default camera has the edge in that pic. Perhaps the X10 default camera is better in lower light photos? I haven't tested that yet.
iead1 said:
That's the stupidest thing you could've done. You've probably broken every application on your phone that uses the camera to add a picture to a message/fb/twitter, ect.
Also, you've lost the ability to easily take video.
Does anyone think before they delete apps?
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Hey big brain, before call somebody stupid think a little bit. Probably he just delete it from main screen. I did the same too
rafaperez3d said:
Hey big brain, before call somebody stupid think a little bit. Probably he just delete it from main screen. I did the same too
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y exactly ) i was thinking is easy to understand that i only deleted the app from my screen not uninstalling it
and about those 2 pictures with the sunglasses m8... there maybe is not difference in close up pictures coz macro is working fine but try to take pictures from distance and youll see the difference anyway i`m using steady shot for best preformance 8mpx superfine and 16:9 widescreen something u dont have at stock app 8pmx only 4:3 ... sooo there u go aaaa and another thing with vignette u can take picture with a real FLASH ... not with LED light
Is there a camera app that has some/all of the features like the stock Galaxy S phones have (panorama, action shot, smile detection, add me, etc.)?
My XP
Just thought I'd share my experience.
I checked my LCD info in the system menu and based on that and the washout noticed when tilting my phone, I confirmed I had a bad display. I stopped by the Tmo store just to see what my options were and after talking to a rep who had a good display (oddly, made in Taiwan) and comparing the 2 he agreed to return the phone.
I can confirm that unless you're on really good terms with the employee or get a "cool" employee, they will not let you rumage through all their phones until they find a good one. I had one chance and he managed to find one that said made in China on the box and we opened it up turned it on and confirmed that it was a good screen.
In and out in 30 minutes. He did have to find my original receipt in the system and that took a few minutes but other than that, I was good to go.
Hope this WOT helps.
What does this have to do with the question asked.
Try camera 360 that's a good one.
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jjjackson56 said:
What does this have to do with the question asked.
Try camera 360 that's a good one.
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+1. I use Camera 360 also. Great app. Allows you to choose no compression which in turn produces much better pics (and larger file sizes).
CBConsultation said:
+1. I use Camera 360 also. Great app. Allows you to choose no compression which in turn produces much better pics (and larger file sizes).
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I have Camera 360, but I don't see any of the options for taking certain types of pics like the Galaxy S phones have (as listed in my op - panorama, action shot, smile detection, add me, etc.). Am I missing something???
netter123 said:
I have Camera 360, but I don't see any of the options for taking certain types of pics like the Galaxy S phones have (as listed in my op - panorama, action shot, smile detection, add me, etc.). Am I missing something???
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Hi all
Got my note today LOVE IT
One question I back my contacts up on gmail the contact pics when ringing someone are low quality . I have changed the contact pics with ones stored on my memory card but they are low quality . Can anyone tell me how to.get them to be high quality ?
Thanks in advance
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Sue Google for being extremely stupid and hope they correct their error.
Seriously, it's your only hope.
in the video for the annoucement of ICS this was addressed and fixed.
JFizDaWiz said:
in the video for the annoucement of ICS this was addressed and fixed.
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Really? I didn't see that on the announcement, and it's definitely still unfixed at this point in ICS. Where did you see this?
E_man5112 said:
Really? I didn't see that on the announcement, and it's definitely still unfixed at this point in ICS. Where did you see this?
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No Idea where you checked...
But in the first CM9 build of ICS (preAlpha) the pics are sharp and big...
Maybe you should have a look...
I used Google Exchange Synchronization on iPhone before. Since I had a Google Nexus and now a Galaxy Note, I can say at least one thing:
It's neither device nor OS dependent. I googled a lot when I was on iPhone with low quality contact pictures and I finally found the solution on one of Googles Message Boards.
The problem lies within the Exchange settings of google sync. Google set the maxumum size of contact pictures to a low resolution, any high-quality contact picture attached to your contact, will be immediately synchronized to google, transformed to a lower resolution and then synced back to your device in low-quality.
One of the moderators of google stated this on the bulletin board.
In 2010 they changed the resolution to a higher number, but still quite low-quality.
Source:
1. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=5d91a9267607c288&hl=en
2. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=794dab6733bb8812&hl=en
3. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=688a9bfba45e0696&hl=en
As long as you sync the contacts with google, they will be synced back in a lower resolution. Of course some Launchers or alternative ROMs allow to use a local contacts picture instead of the synced one, but that's not the soltuion for cloud-services like this.
In Android 4 (ICS) all of this is resolved!
Same info: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html
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Android now supports high resolution photos for contacts. Now, when you push a photo into a contact record, the system processes it into both a 96x96 thumbnail (as it has previously) and a 256x256 "display photo" that's stored in a new file-based photo store (the exact dimensions that the system chooses may vary in the future). You can add a large photo to a contact by putting a large photo in the usual PHOTO column of a data row, which the system will then process into the appropriate thumbnail and display photo records.
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Bulut.O said:
No Idea where you checked...
But in the first CM9 build of ICS (preAlpha) the pics are sharp and big...
Maybe you should have a look...
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mdalacu said:
In Android 4 (ICS) all of this is resolved!
Same info: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html
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He's asking about Gmail pictures. This is 100% separate from ICS. Try this. Delete the contact account on your phone, and reinstate it with gmail. It will sync really low res pictures to your phone. On my stock AOSP rom. I did the exact experiment described above. It synced low quality versions of the high res pictures I put on my phone.
ICS did something completely different. It allows you to locally put a high res photo on a contact. It does not allow you to put a high res photo on googles gmail servers. The only way to cloud sync a high res photo is through google+. Some people have had luck using some 3rd party facebook apps for the same thing. However, gmail contacts don't get high res photos. More than a few people I've seen have complained that gmail contacts have the high res photo overwritten on sync. I have just accepted the low res at this point.
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He's asking about Gmail pictures. This is 100% separate from ICS. Try this. Delete the contact account on your phone, and reinstate it with gmail. It will sync really low res pictures to your phone. On my stock AOSP rom. I did the exact experiment described above. It synced low quality versions of the high res pictures I put on my phone.
ICS did something completely different. It allows you to locally put a high res photo on a contact. It does not allow you to put a high res photo on googles gmail servers. The only way to cloud sync a high res photo is through google+. Some people have had luck using some 3rd party facebook apps for the same thing. However, gmail contacts don't get high res photos. More than a few people I've seen have complained that gmail contacts have the high res photo overwritten on sync. I have just accepted the low res at this point.
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I think that ICS is referencing a different picture location on gmail servers, the one with 256x256 resolution. All other versions and programs still points to the old location where a low res photo is stored. This is done for compatibility.
If you create a contact in ICS the Android will sync the picture in to places e one with hi resolution and one with the normal (old) resolution (96x96). The new programs will know how to check in both places, but until then only ICS does this.
I have managed to sort of solve the issue ... i have turned off sync and then replaced the pictures off my memory card ... which then retains the picture at the proper resolution ....
it appears that if you turn back on sync it will then sync back to google and the pictures go back to low quality
until google or who ever sort out the issue , i will leave off sync .... so i have good quality pictures on my contacts
thank you to everyone for your help .. roll on ics
Issue still persists... :crying:
"Facebook Sync" on the Play Store grabs 720x720 pics and it looks really good, BUT as soon as it sync's again with Google it grabs the fugly low-res versions again.
Google should fix this ASAP.
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You guys need to install Google Plus and sync your Google Plus contacts to your phone. Anyone who has a Public Google Plus profile would show as a high resolution pic on your Note.
I've made many of my friends force join Google plus just to sync their higher resolution pictures.
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Me too.. over 10 here... but i think in JB they solved this, they sync pics at 720px.
mdalacu said:
Me too.. over 10 here... but i think in JB they solved this, they sync pics at 720px.
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JB itself handles 720p images in "People" application, locally. Yet, Google still syncs it on 256x256, which looks disastrous on 720p screen. As long as you keep it away from syncing with Google, all looks fine. That's what I usualy do.
LordManhattan said:
"Facebook Sync" on the Play Store grabs 720x720 pics and it looks really good, BUT as soon as it sync's again with Google it grabs the fugly low-res versions again.
Google should fix this ASAP.
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Try Haxsync
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thank you. I will try it.
Leechoonhwee said:
Try Haxsync
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Same story. It'll grab low-res images the next time i sync. This is something Google has to fix on their side.
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haxsync
Haxsync will fix the problem. It will download all your friends on facebook as phone contacts... You just have to associate each facebook contact with your google or phone contacts. The phone will display high quality photos and google sync won`t change them ...
No need to anymore. Google updated their contacts page in Gmail yesterday. It supports 720x720 now.
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Oh my gosh!! So I'm going through my Google Plus that I rarely use and what do I see? Moving pictures like the HTC One gallery. After examining, I realize that they're my Zoe's. They move like in the HTC One Gallery. Except!! All the Zoe's move at once. They're playing at like 10 frames per second. LoL!! So it's pretty choppy, but it's cool nonetheless.
The thing I noticed is that the actual videos aren't moving, just the Zoe's I've uploaded. I find that very cool since Zoe's are nothing more than a 3 second video file. It's like Google+ knows the video is a Zoe. This just made Google Plus so much cooler. I want to show EVERYONE my photo album now. LoL!! =.P
Haha, I know it's very cool. It wasn't always like that (still have albums that show the individual frames from my Zoes from April) but it does makes G+ that much better. Besides, I like G+ simply because I can snap a pic and forget about it with the auto uploading feature.
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