ok so i like photography and iv had many samsung phones s2,s3,note2,s4,note3 never really had a problem with the camera i decided to take the plunge and get the iphone5s used it for 8 weeks and thought shove your restrictions up your bottom so got the galaxy s5
i started using the camera on the s5 and noticed the pictures were slightly smoothed i made sure the mode was on auto but it always seems to give that smooth blurry edge to the images especialy portraits so im guessing the auto mode is still choosing to add blur from the beauty mode.. i dont want any of samsungs effects i just want the straight image but there seems to be no option to switch the modes off.. my wife has the iphone 5c so i compared the pictures and the iphone phone camera kills the galaxy s5 for sharpness and realistic colours. which im kinda disapointed by. also the samsungs s5 front camera distorts your face and body pretty bad as well as producing very noisy images indoors..
my point... is there a way to switch of the modes on the s5 camera... is there a fix for the front camera distortion(who wants a wide angle lens on a front facing camera anyway) video calls suck and so do selfies.
You can try like so - switch on the camera, choose the front facing one - tap on mode button - scroll down to "manage modes".
There you can either switch on or off all the modes you like - if you untick all then you should have this mode disabled for the pictures.
Check if it works in the long run. Good luck
Cheers!
Hi guys, I'm new here but i was looking for an answer to a question that i have.
I bought a third party S View cover which resembles the genuine S View cover case. But it lacks the IC chip that would activate the S View mode on my Note 4. I did find out that this fake cover does have the magnet that can work to trigger the auto wake/sleep feature on the phone.
My question is that if there is any way to bypass Samsung's authentication of S View IC chip with/without rooting? I tried using third party apps that uses proximity sensor but they all look ugly and doesnt work nicely. I did some research and found this IC chip that works with third party cover for galaxy S5.
tvc-mall.com/details/S-View-IC-Chip-Auto-Sleep-Wake-IC-w-Sticker-for-Samsung-Galaxy-S5-G900-Leather-Case-MCH-S5-31/
(Sorry I can't post any direct links yet.)
Video of it: youtu.be/BsACvwvqYgk
Is there one like this thats compatible with Note 4? Or any way to hack it with/without rooting?
saw it. cheapest solution you can find but guy says not working on note 4. :/
Can anyone suggest a no root macro recorder for android 6? Looking to set up bots for a game
Ok now looking for a root macro recorder broke my screen, not noticeable and still fully functioning, and voided my warranty so going to root it
Anyone?
Frep
Work with root or temporary with usb.
Hello. I am new owner of S8. As they claim front camera now has autofocus so selfies will be now "sharper" .
I dont know if I just have wrong model but when I am doing selfies really close to front camera they are really sharp.
However if I move camera little bit further it start re-focusing almost all the time. If I touch on the object sometimes it helps a little bit but it still not good.
The best result I could achive, you can see on the photo (and I tried many times and others were even worse). The text is totally unreadble. It is same with faces, but you can see it better on text.
I compared it to much cheaper phone Honor 8, which does much sharper photo without any autofocus.
Does any of you have the problem, or it is just me?
I tried restore camera setting but it didnt help.
Thanks for feedback. (cause I have no feedback from samsung )
I got the s8 plus and for me the front camera is beast! I know back on the s7 the camera was eh and the keyboard lag was real so I got the edge. It could be the camera or you could be snapping the camera too fast. Takes a sec to grab the image.
Do you have selective focus on? This mode will blur background to simulate portrait mode with telephoto lens on DSLR. I find it useless, but stupid iphone has it so why not galaxy?
Mine is not 100% sharp either (however much better than yours), but I have low light now and get shutter speed of 1/24sec, it's hard to hand held photo at 1/24sec without some shake. Need to retest this in full sun tomorrow.
pete4k said:
Do you have selective focus on? This mode will blur background to simulate portrait mode with telephoto lens on DSLR. I find it useless, but stupid iphone has it so why not galaxy?
Mine is not 100% sharp either (however much better than yours), but I have low light now and get shutter speed of 1/24sec, it's hard to hand held photo at 1/24sec without some shake. Need to retest this in full sun tomorrow.
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Hi, no I dont. And this is another problem. When I try to do picture in this mode it always say me something like "Picture was taken but the effect of contrast cannot be used because no object was reckognized" . So there must be something defenetly wrong.
And when I was doing photo I was waiting more than 5 secs to focus but the result was still same. And I put phone on the table so I didnt move with it at all.
dominik01k said:
Hi, no I dont. And this is another problem. When I try to do picture in this mode it always say me something like "Picture was taken but the effect of contrast cannot be used because no object was reckognized" . So there must be something defenetly wrong.
And when I was doing photo I was waiting more than 5 secs to focus but the result was still same. And I put phone on the table so I didnt move with it at all.
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Thats sounds similar to message I got when using selective focus. It tells you that it couldn't recognize your face so the effect wasn't fully applied (in selective focus that effect is to keep sharp focus on face and blur everything else). Seems like you have some effect enabled and that could be your problem. I never got any msg, except for selective focus, but didn't have much time to play a lot.
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Thats sounds similar to message I got when using selective focus. It tells you that it couldn't recognize your face so the effect wasn't fully applied (in selective focus that effect is to keep sharp focus on face and blur everything else). Seems like you have some effect enabled and that could be your problem. I never got any msg, except for selective focus, but didn't have much time to play a lot.
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I tried factory reset as a last option and it still didnt helped. I reviewed lot of videos and pictures of S8 online and for sure mine is behaving different. Probably I will have to take my S8 to the nearest service..
Sounds like you do have a problem. I used my S8 and stood back and the picture was focused. Closer ones have always been focused.
I had the same issue, but really don't know If what I did was the fix, because this issue was happening every time I open the camera app after a while (like half an hour) and I had to knock my phone just to wake up my focusing sensor or what ever it called, but after I:
- re-enabled all the disabled bixby apps.
- stopped using my car magnet holder - so it never gets too cold because of the car's AC and never gets attached to a magnet.
after that, camera never miss-focusing anymore, now more than 3 hours.
So please, if anyone had this issue and:
- not using any magnet holder.
- not disabling bixby apps.
- not having the phone too cold.
please tell us to be aware.
I know it's not logic, as long as I can use the camera normally after I knock the phone, so it might be a hardware problem, but I'm sharing my experience with you just to find out the fix.
Thanks
Update: Nothing from the above was the issue, still; miss focusing, even after a factory reset... waiting for July update and see if they will fix it.
Hey there, I too have an issue in front camera of my galaxy s8 when I put it too far then it shows blurry image but when the camera is nearby the object then it shows some good quality, but not showing as much good as it was showing before .
i have the same issue. But the camera works when it wants to work... but sometimes is blury (most of times)
hello guys ,
it's my first post but been here for a long time , rooted some phones with your help along the way.
now to get to the point i own 2 samsung j7 2017 for me and my wife, so i noticed something on camera, when in contact with skin has a very strange effect , think it's the "beauty face" effect, even if it's set to "0" still has a strange effects, on both selfie and rear camera like a bad game without AA , so my question is, can i do something to disable it so i can get a better focus ?
thanks in advance!