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Slow Camera :(

Is there a way to get the camera on the Streak to take pictures faster? I thought we had a fast phone here... why do I have to stay completely still for 15 seconds so I don't end up with blurry images?

If you're not exaggerating you have some serious problems. Either it's not focusing or there's something else eating up processor cycles.
My camera is faster than any phone I've had before, not as fast as a proper digital camera but fast enough.

i do experience a lag as well but not as bad as other phones and it is manageable. I've noticed if you increase the brighntess you don't have to hold too still and causes less motion blur in the pics.
Also look up vignette, its a 3rd party camera app which has many filters and effects.

I have the exact same issue. The camera takes forever to take a picture. I use the fine 2048*1536 resolution and it takes a good ten seconds from button press to shot. If anyone has any advise on how to speed it up, let me know.
Coreth5

On 2.1 (build 8105) it takes about 2 seconds on a bright day when pressing the on-screen shutter button. When using the 2-stage hardware camera button, it takes close to a second to auto-focus on the half-press, and about a half second to take the shot after proceeding to a full press.
It's no speed demon. It seems noticibly slower than my iPhone 3GS on iOS4.
If it's taking 10 seconds, there's someting really wrong.
My settings are Fine, 5MP, GPS ON, and everything else on auto/default.

I do agree that the camera on the streak is dreadful.
Especially compared to my Nexus which also has a 5MP Camera (ported over from the Desire) which takes absolutely amazing photos.
The Streak's photos are always way over saturated, over sharpened and the focusing takes a very long time.
Hopefully this will be improved in 2.2 or maybe we can even port over the camera from the Desire or something

Is it software that controls the camera function or hardware? Is it possible to have an app to improve the camera?
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borijess said:
Is it software that controls the camera function or hardware? Is it possible to have an app to improve the camera?
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
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I've tried many different camera apps on the market and whilst they do offer some improvement (image stabilization, etc.) It still is limited by the slow shutter speed.
I imagine it's either hardware controlled and can't be changed (which i doubt) or it's controlled from the Kernel or something (which could offer room for improvement).
I don't know enough about android really, so i could be completely wrong

I've found a few apps that actually take faster pictures. Fast camera, which has a terrible resolution, takes pictures almost instantly. Retro camera (also low res) also takes pictures quickly. I think the camera speed must be limited by the hardware, which is unfortunate as I would say the camera is this device's weak point.

Ive also noticed my camera shutter pretty slow. Its slow indoors mostly. Outdoors is decent though.
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I don't get why its a hardware issue. I tried the option in the camera setting to snap four photos in a row. It take great pictures and quickly maybe its because it lowers the resolution.
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coreth5 said:
I have the exact same issue. The camera takes forever to take a picture. I use the fine 2048*1536 resolution and it takes a good ten seconds from button press to shot. If anyone has any advise on how to speed it up, let me know.
Coreth5
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How did you set that resolution?, on my Dell with Android 2.2 I can only get 640x480 ubber ugly pictures...

Make sure your camera is in 5 MP mode and not VGA...it will set to vga if you've switched to the front camera and then back...when mine does that it takes several seconds to take the picture and then they are grainy and blurry.

jhotmann said:
Make sure your camera is in 5 MP mode and not VGA...it will set to vga if you've switched to the front camera and then back...when mine does that it takes several seconds to take the picture and then they are grainy and blurry.
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I don't see any option to set it up. I'm running Android 2.2 from Dell (no custom firmware)...

See attached images.

Hmmm, it wasn't obvious that you had more options after scrolling. Thanks!

[Q] Autofocus must be bugged, right? It refuses to focus except with direct light

I love everything about the Nexus 4 except the camera. The autofocus is having serious trouble unless you have a LOT of light. Compared to other smartphones, it seems to be broken. Does anyone else have this problem? Also, I've used 2 Nexus 4's, so I'm sure this is a software issue. Have any past Nexus devices had similar issues and been fixed?
Thanks!

I don't have that problem. Both with normal and HDR mode. In HDR mode it can be blurry, but not because out-of-focus but rather because my hands move while the phone still taking the picture (it takes more than one picture to create a HDR picture)
Also, I do notice that even in normal mode the camera actually takes longer to take the picture than one would expect, so usually holds your hand steady for a few extra seconds do the trick.
I hope that helps.

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I love everything about the Nexus 4 except the camera. The autofocus is having serious trouble unless you have a LOT of light. Compared to other smartphones, it seems to be broken. Does anyone else have this problem? Also, I've used 2 Nexus 4's, so I'm sure this is a software issue. Have any past Nexus devices had similar issues and been fixed?
Thanks!
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Yes, I have the same exact problem. It's very annoying and makes me feel like my phone is defective.

Stretch3000 said:
Yes, I have the same exact problem. It's very annoying and makes me feel like my phone is defective.
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+1. My N4 16GB refuses to take any macro shots. The auto focus keeps engaging and is extremely annoying. The video recording seems ok, but the picture taking is atrocious.

I think I'm getting the same thing... but then, I started to think maybe it was psychological. You know, the circle showing you constant auto focusing? It moves so much, it makes you feel the "focus bouncing" much more than it would do if all you saw was the picture being focused only.
Well, that's my theory, anyways.

Any 'fix' for this?
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I think I'm getting the same thing... but then, I started to think maybe it was psychological. You know, the circle showing you constant auto focusing? It moves so much, it makes you feel the "focus bouncing" much more than it would do if all you saw was the picture being focused only.
Well, that's my theory, anyways.
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I was trying to take a picture of my old Sensation XE to put on ebay but the N4 just wont focus well enough, it constantly focuses and refocuses. Its hugely frustrating and disappointing for a phone this powerful. Has anybody had any success perhaps with different software? There doesnt seem to be any kind of 'macro mode' built into the JB app?

Yes, I find the camera to be bad too, especially the autofocus that fails to focus on objects that are further away.
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Unless you are using tap to focus... if the camera is refocusing it is because your hands are not steady, which most likely is also the reason your shots are blurry.
I have noticed that the default program tends to set shutter speeds low to get the ISO down, but anything under 1/60th is going to take steady hands or a tripod. Consider using action mode to tell the camera you want it to use higher shutter speeds (but be aware this will cause more noise in low light due to higher ISO settings).

I've noticed this alot, when I try and take a close up photo, say of a phone, with the flash on, I use touch to focus and the flash turns on for a split second, and the green circle comes up saying it's focused, when it's badly out of focus, it seems to be a bit better with the flash off, but I've noticed the best improvement, whilst still not great, is pressing the shutter button before it focuses, so no ring on the screen, then it seems to have more luck focusing.

I honestly haven't had any problem with this. I have noticed the flash turning on briefly when focusing in low-light conditions, but the resulting pictures turn out fine.
Dunno if this will help, but someone on another thread suggested holding down (basically long-pressing) the capture button, waiting for the camera to focus, then releasing when you actually want to take the picture.

I don't have this issue either. Sorry to go a little off-topic but what is 'HDR'?

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what is 'HDR'?
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High dynamic range. The camera uses multiple exposures of the same image to generate more levels from shadows to hilights.

I think the problem lies in the new Camera app in 4.2. I had this same problem with my Galaxy Nexus when I updated to 4.2 so I reverted back to 4.1.
Now with Nexus 4 the problem seems to presist, but only when trying to focus very close.

the issue I have is with PA (so maybe not hardware related), but videos don't focus, only the camera function (unless I've not worked out how).
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Very helpful, was having same issue (no autofocus) with the wonderful PA ROM on the (so far) fun Nexus 4.
Only real issue I've had with it so far, good to be past it (hard to know where to look).
Clearly I have no idea what radio even means, time to read.

Same problem here
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I've noticed this alot, when I try and take a close up photo, say of a phone, with the flash on, I use touch to focus and the flash turns on for a split second, and the green circle comes up saying it's focused, when it's badly out of focus, it seems to be a bit better with the flash off, but I've noticed the best improvement, whilst still not great, is pressing the shutter button before it focuses, so no ring on the screen, then it seems to have more luck focusing.
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I subscribe to you + it makes a noise at focus
---Lg nexus 4 - Android 4.4---

Same Issue w/ my Nexus 3
Must be software related...I have the same issue with my nexus 3. Completely unable to take photos at certain distances...

Camera slow shutter speed

I know the camera issue has been beat to death already but I've been testing it for many days and would like to relay my results. A lot of people are saying that the auto focus is bad causing blurry pictures. This is false, the focus works great but the camera always chooses a shutter speed that's to low for the lighting causing blur on subjects in motion. The only way I can get the shutter speed over 1/20 is by taking a picture in bright light. Even in above average lighting conditions the shutter will go to 1/20 or below. There is no option for metering so I wonder if LG coded something wrong in the camera drivers. I have tried every camera program out there and they all take the exact same picture using the same to low shutter speed which tells me it's not the stock camera app. I don't have the skill to dive into the programming but that is where the problem seems to be. It's the same brand (Sony) camera sensor as the SGS4 so I know that it's not the sensors fault.
Any thoughts?
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Anybody else have any ideas?

I'm also seeing these ridiculous shutter speeds (1/14, 1/20) when shooting in low light indoors, even if picking Sport mode, and was looking for a discussion on the topic here. Happy to find it
I had almost given up getting the camera to do what I wanted, when I discovered that the Intelligent Auto feature actually sometimes is ... intelligent. I took 4 photos of my toddler - obviously, not a subject willing to sit still. All photos on intelligent auto.
For two of the photos, the software shot with ISO 700 and 1/15th shutter, pretty much what Normal does every time. But - the other two were taken with ISO 1400-1/30 and ISO 1500-1/30. Naturally, the latter two were a lot sharper.
This is incredibly annoying since the Normal mode only lets you manually pick max ISO 800 and gives no shutter speed control. Until I found out about this intelligent auto thing, I forced -1, -1 1/3 stops underexposure to make the camera use a faster shutter (it typically used 1/59 for some reason). Now I guess I will take 5-6 pics every time and hope the camera is indeed intelligent part of the time.
- Is there no custom camera app capable of setting shutter speed manually, and use the ISO settings available to Intelligent Auto?
- Noone's had any word from LG on this?
I will be contacting LG support about this as well, but wanted to get the XDA word on the matter first...
Cheers, Are

Just replying to say I'm having the same issue. The fastest shutter speed I've seen is 1/15 in a well lit, easy to focus shot. The vast majority of my shots are blurry as a result.
I'm running Cyanogenmod at the moment.

I'm having pretty bad shutter speeds as well. It take 2 seconds to take a well-lit picture.

Guys , Try out the Moto X camera app. I may be wrong but i think its a bit faster .

JasElS said:
I'm having pretty bad shutter speeds as well. It take 2 seconds to take a well-lit picture.
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Guys , Try out the Moto X camera app. I may be wrong but i think its a bit faster .
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I'm not talking about how long it takes to take the picture, that's delay. I'm talking shutter speed, how long the shutter stays open allowing light to hit the sensor.

I have not had any big problems with this, most of my shots are pretty tack sharp, and seem to have some decent shutterspeeds.. Only in very poor light I do get 1/15 shutterspeeds but at pretty average lights I get 1/30-1/120 sometimes faster, but mostly 1/40..
My shutterdelay is almist nothing too..

I found a modified version of the stock LG G2 camera by sefnap that works with CM 10.2 M1 and produces much better results: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2522889
Some of the features don't work but overall it's vastly better than the camera included with CM.
There is also another modified version of the stock camera put up by Heatshiver that probably works even better but it doesn't currently work with CM (only works with stock and some AOSP ROMs): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2525783

I just discovered something the other day when playing with my camera... Albeit in bright light. Check out these pics taken at 60mph from my car while I was driving (ie not the most steady hand).
What I did was set it on sports mode and then old down the camera button until I heard the beep, and then released to capture the image I wanted (ie the road signs). The one out of my car window was actually more focused than I could focus with my naked eye...

Slow camera performance?

Just wanting to touch base with other people who have the U11 to see if other people have this experience. The camera is good overall but there is one critical flaw that's driving me crazy. When I push the button to take a photo, the phone will hang for a noticable moment before actually taking a photo. The last two phones I had (the S8 and the Pixel) were blazing fast in this regard. The instant as you hit the shutter button the phone took the photo. Seeing the U11 hang for a half a beat between me pushing the shutter button and the phone actually taking a photo is weirdly maddening. And if I'm in a low light situation, the pause is much longer - something like a second and a half between me pushing the button and the picture actually being taken.
FWIW, I'm not using edge sense to launch the camera or take the pictures - just the touch screen.

KevinDC said:
Just wanting to touch base with other people who have the U11 to see if other people have this experience. The camera is good overall but there is one critical flaw that's driving me crazy. When I push the button to take a photo, the phone will hang for a noticable moment before actually taking a photo. The last two phones I had (the S8 and the Pixel) were blazing fast in this regard. The instant as you hit the shutter button the phone took the photo. Seeing the U11 hang for a half a beat between me pushing the shutter button and the phone actually taking a photo is weirdly maddening. And if I'm in a low light situation, the pause is much longer - something like a second and a half between me pushing the button and the picture actually being taken.
FWIW, I'm not using edge sense to launch the camera or take the pictures - just the touch screen.
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Try turning off HDR?

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Try turning off HDR?
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Thanks for the quick response. I've tried it with HDR off, on the auto setting, and with it full on. It doesn't seem to make any difference. Even with the HDR fully off, in bright outdoor conditions, with the screen solidly holding focus - I still get a half a beat pause between pushing the button and the picture getting​ taken. That's in ideal conditions. I'm trying to figure out if that's just how this phone is, or if maybe if mine is behaving differently than it should.

Yes the camera shutter does lag in low light and has been reported in some reviews. Overall I think it's a very good camera but i do question the DXO ranking.
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Camera issues with shutter lag, inconsistent HDR, etc

Hello everyone!
I have the Verizon S10+, March security patch. I just wanted to compare my camera experience with other people.
So I came onto the Galaxy S10+ from the Pixel 3, and some of the differences in the camera have stuck out to me. The first one is the shutter lag. Quick note - I'm not talking about shutter speed or exposure time or anything like that. I mean the difference between hitting the capture button and the phone actually taking a photo. On the Pixel, it snaps the picture the instant my finger hits the button. With my S10+, I tap the button, and it waits for half a beat before actually taking the picture. How long seems to depend on the lighting conditions. If I'm in a well lit situation, it's maybe a quarter second. But if I'm in less than ideal lighting, it's sometimes a pause of a full second between me hitting the shutter button and the camera actually taking the picture. This also causes the camera to fail to respond if I'm trying to take pictures in rapid fire. With my Pixel, I can hit the shutter button ten times in rapid fire, and it takes ten pictures every time. With my Samsung, in ideal lighting, doing the same thing will yield maybe five or six pictures, and if the lighting isn't good, it might only take two pictures. Is this just how the phone is? Or is there maybe something wrong with mine?
I've also noticed that whatever option you've selected for HDR seems to have no impact on how the phone actually takes pictures. I can turn HDR off completely, and it will still process HDR. I'll take the picture, then quickly tap on the link to the gallery and the picture will open and show the spinning circle as it processes for a couple of seconds and the HDR takes effect. Other times I'll have HDR set to always apply, but then it still doesn't use HDR and all the highlights will be blown out. With Live Focus, HDR usually doesn't engage. But 20% of the time, it does - I'll take a couple of Live Focus shots back to back, and in one of them all the highlights will be blown out but in the other, the HDR processing seems to have kicked in. Is there any rhyme or reason to the HDR? Do your choices in the settings menu actually make any difference, or is Samsung just trying to trick us into thinking we have a choice?
I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts and experiences!

The pixel cam is definitely more responsive, part of which may be due to the fixed focus lens but I don't know for sure. I can say that holding the shutter on S10 takes burst photos much faster than OnePlus 6t, for what that's worth.
As for the hdr, nothing to add.. but I agree it's confusing

Kevin-DC said:
Hello everyone!
I have the Verizon S10+, March security patch. I just wanted to compare my camera experience with other people.
So I came onto the Galaxy S10+ from the Pixel 3, and some of the differences in the camera have stuck out to me. The first one is the shutter lag. Quick note - I'm not talking about shutter speed or exposure time or anything like that. I mean the difference between hitting the capture button and the phone actually taking a photo. On the Pixel, it snaps the picture the instant my finger hits the button. With my S10+, I tap the button, and it waits for half a beat before actually taking the picture. How long seems to depend on the lighting conditions. If I'm in a well lit situation, it's maybe a quarter second. But if I'm in less than ideal lighting, it's sometimes a pause of a full second between me hitting the shutter button and the camera actually taking the picture. This also causes the camera to fail to respond if I'm trying to take pictures in rapid fire. With my Pixel, I can hit the shutter button ten times in rapid fire, and it takes ten pictures every time. With my Samsung, in ideal lighting, doing the same thing will yield maybe five or six pictures, and if the lighting isn't good, it might only take two pictures. Is this just how the phone is? Or is there maybe something wrong with mine?
I've also noticed that whatever option you've selected for HDR seems to have no impact on how the phone actually takes pictures. I can turn HDR off completely, and it will still process HDR. I'll take the picture, then quickly tap on the link to the gallery and the picture will open and show the spinning circle as it processes for a couple of seconds and the HDR takes effect. Other times I'll have HDR set to always apply, but then it still doesn't use HDR and all the highlights will be blown out. With Live Focus, HDR usually doesn't engage. But 20% of the time, it does - I'll take a couple of Live Focus shots back to back, and in one of them all the highlights will be blown out but in the other, the HDR processing seems to have kicked in. Is there any rhyme or reason to the HDR? Do your choices in the settings menu actually make any difference, or is Samsung just trying to trick us into thinking we have a choice?
I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts and experiences!
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Exact trouble here. My s7 makes photos so much faster

Hi all, I know this is an old thread but I just got the S10+ coming from a S8+ and I am having the same issue.
I am really frustrated with the lag after hitting the capture button and actually taking a photo. On the S8+ the shutter was super snappy, I could take multiple photos in succession without issues, but with the S10+ the lag is so bad I can only take a couple of photos even though I press the shutter button multiple times. I'm on the Snapdragon version with the latest Android 10 and One UI 2.1 update.
Did anyone find a solution to this?

The HDR issue drives me crazy. HDR applied to almost all the pictures EVEN IF IT IS TURNED OFF. Very frustrating. It seemed it solved finally after june update but the issue came back with the july update. I can't say for sure the last update is the main culprit but the issue came back after its install. I'd like to decide wether i want to use HDR or not but there's another thread on Samsung forum with the same topic dated back to the phone's release. There is no real chance it will be solved ever i think. :-\