We have 2 LG G2 phones in the house and recently I noticed one of them has had problems with about 80% of the photos looking blurry or having a ghosting effect. At first I thought it was the lighting conditions since I first noticed them during an indoor concert but after some additional testing I saw it was happening under different lighting conditions as well. Only very close macro shots consistently came out great but most others experienced the ghosting effect.
The interesting thing I discovered was that if I tapped or shook the phone and retook the same picture, it would usually snap the picture properly. The photos below were taken within seconds of each other to show what the before and after the "shake" did to the pictures. For the blurry pictures, I could see the ghosting on the screen while it was trying to focus. I also tried manual focus and although it looked clear for a brief moment, the ghosting would remain and is clearly seen on the clock and thermostat pictures below.
My other G2 does not experience this at all so hopefully it's just a bad phone but I'm curious if others have seen this with their G2.
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I appear to be having a similar issue. Even a still image with no moving objects looks blurry. Not sure what the problem is. I have the D802 UK version.
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I know exactly what you mean. At times it seems just part of the image is blurry or not in focus.
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well, the last photo was better on the left one.
Can you get warranty for the left one ? Because there is something weird with it.
bender_007 said:
well, the last photo was better on the left one.
Can you get warranty for the left one ? Because there is something weird with it.
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The last photo was just reversed. I received my warranty replacement and the new phone works perfectly. I was even able to get some really good low light photos during our weekend blackout.
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I have the same problem. Most pictures out of focus. I thought this camera was supposed to be good...
Camera MX also has its issues, but seems to work better...
Video on the other hand just flat out doesn't produce viewable videos. Its always trying to focus during the video. Really disappointed in this phone.
keypox said:
I have the same problem. Most pictures out of focus. I thought this camera was supposed to be good...
Camera MX also has its issues, but seems to work better...
Video on the other hand just flat out doesn't produce viewable videos. Its always trying to focus during the video. Really disappointed in this phone.
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I'd replace the phone under warranty as that's not the normal behavior. Both my wife's and my new replacement G2 take perfect pictures now. It's interesting that the whole reason I switched from my HTC One to this phone was because the the famous purple picture issue and the first one I get has the ghosting image issue . All good now though.
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Do you guys experience the same ? Pictures are not sharp, colors are mixed up.
only in darker rooms. outside with sun pictures are looking quite well.
look here: http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/29/htc-trophy-review/
Horrible quality.
As usual with HTC... always these "orange-pink blurry" images.
Nothing compared to the great Omnia 7 camera unfortunately.
Quality is indeed very bad:
Here's a picture taken with my Trophy:
http://img826.imageshack.us/img826/8599/wp000050.jpg
You can cleary see the pink/orange circle in the middle.
I hope they put a better camera in this when it comes across the pond to the us. I don't care about mp I want better quality
Yeah camera quality is quite awful. subpar when outside and when inside it's just horrible.
On another note are any of you noticing the 'GSM radio' sounds on video files you've recorded with the device?
kingwild said:
Do you guys experience the same ? Pictures are not sharp, colors are mixed up.
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It doesn't look good even outside with clear sunlight! What a shame
Mobiplayer said:
It doesn't look good even outside with clear sunlight! What a shame
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my photos come out ok during the day.
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i was in quite cloudy conditions and photos still looked good. i think it's just night shots or dark places that it falls over.
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my photos come out ok during the day.
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Too much noise. They are OK for a low budget phone, but I don't think that the Trophy is low budget (at least I payed more than 200€!)
Thanks for sharing
I'am having the same issue, only outside with clear weather it makes nice pictures. Also the flashlight is horrible, if you try to make a picture of a person it will always look away from the camera
I'm thinking of getting a trophy but I'm really put off by this pinky orange circle issue - does everybody experience this? Is it a hardware issue or could it be fixed by a future update?
Cheers
I have the red colorisation in the centre of the image also, not too fussed as I never use the phone to take pictures I use my Canon D450, if its that important that you need to use the camera for images then you can fix them images in Lightroom.
I got my HTC 7 trophy (australian stock) and think the camera is outstanding. Definitely the best non-iPhone camera phone I've used. Don't understand what all the fuss is about, really.
I have one and the camera is like my old htc p3600 in outsides when I use the flash the quality of the photo is bad with too much noise and blur.
I hope it is a software poblem and MS correct that in a future version!
Hy 4 all!
I have CM6.1 with Froyo on my Legend and I use the built-in camera app. My photos are always blurry and like so they were taken in a foggy, cloudy place. I have tried to increase the ISO, Deblur, decrease the lightness, increase the sharpness and etc... but nothing has helped. I think the LED flash is too strong. I dont know what more can I do. Has somebody else this problem? Is there a solution?
Thank you forwards!
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Unfortunately, the camera sensor on Legend has it's limitation, if you do care the quality of photo you shot, you better carry a DC or a DSLR to solve this problem.
Yes, the flash is way to strong and built too close to the lens I think. The only thing this cam is good for is well lit day time shots. The flash will destroy any picture if used.
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The flash is good as a flashliht though...I couldn't live without that...
I'm using Stock-like ROM with the original app and the quality is just bad too...
I don't find the Legend too bad, though I've never owned a really good camera so that might be why. I'm happy with the quality tbh, I used the app Vignette with the quality set to 'superfine'.
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Well, yes, it can do a good picture while taking shot on a sunny day, although the shot is too light and unbalanced...Also the quality is good because of the resize - look at it in original an you will be surprised
Oh, come on, boys and girls.
What do you expect from a lens as big as a pinhead, a focal distance of maybe 4 mm and 5 mm sensor behind it?
It's good for a snapshot but you woulnd't want your wedding picture being taken with that.
Yeah, I use both Legend and Samsung Fascinate, the Fascinate's camera is much much much better, and flashlight mode is really good. I believe I can take wedding photos with my Fascinate. HTC's camera is never close to "good", always causes pink area on the photo.
Actually none of HTC's phone produce good quality pictures. NONE. I find the quality is acceptable for a phone. If you want the picture perfect quality then I don't think phones will cut it. It is good enough for my use though.
I updated to 4.3 and am rooted and stable. I used the camera a bit yesterday. I know we're all different, but a good camera was one of the top two reasons I went to the S4 and paid a bunch of money to early terminate my HTC Evo 4G LTE contract. And up until this update, I've been very happy with it. I take a lot of outdoors pictures and the S4 camera was great at that.
But the pictures I took yesterday, all in good sunlight, were pretty badly over exposed. Reminded me of my line of HTC phones. It has me very worried at this point. Anyone else experience this on 4.3?
Here are a couple of pictures to illustrate the difference. And this is consistent so far in direct sunlight. I can turn the "exposure value" down to -1 in the settings and the pictures look pretty good again, but that's a PITA to do everytime I take a picture, since that setting does not stick between camera uses/reboots. Can anyone comment if they are or are not seeing the same behavior? Or post pictures from your stock 4.3 camera in direct sunlight?
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I updated to 4.3 and am rooted and stable. I used the camera a bit yesterday. I know we're all different, but a good camera was one of the top two reasons I went to the S4 and paid a bunch of money to early terminate my HTC Evo 4G LTE contract. And up until this update, I've been very happy with it. I take a lot of outdoors pictures and the S4 camera was great at that.
But the pictures I took yesterday, all in good sunlight, were pretty badly over exposed. Reminded me of my line of HTC phones. It has me very worried at this point. Anyone else experience this on 4.3?
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Mine looks fine... looks like dirty lense...:what:
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Thanks for checking. It was not caused by a dirty lens. First thing I checked.
We're suppose to finally get some sun again late today or tomorrow. We've had a rainy/cloudy period since I took the picture above. So I'll do some more testing when the sun comes back. The pictures I've taken that were not in direct sunlight or more distant shots in sunlight seem fine.
Well, the sun finally came back out today, and my problem has mysteriously vanished. I've not done any resets, etc since noting the issue a few days ago. I did install several other camera apps to test, so maybe one of those somehow made things better? But I only tested with the stock S4 app today, and it's working great again (thank goodness).
That's not overexposure. That's haze or diffusion due to something on or behind the lens. If the lens was clean, then there may have been moisture or condensation on the backside of the lens that has now evaporated or dissipated.
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That's not overexposure. That's haze or diffusion due to something on or behind the lens. If the lens was clean, then there may have been moisture or condensation on the backside of the lens that has now evaporated or dissipated.
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While I appreciate the input, that was for sure not the cause. When I switched to other camera apps shooting the same picture on the same day, there was no problem. It was over exposure.
Hello everyone,
I'm facing a problem (or may be i have ocd) but I see that black texts on white background on note 4 is not even black. Actually it's more black on the left and some kind of gray on the right of the screen. But not completely like that. Some center block of the screen also have the gray texts. And somehow some character has the gray top and bottom and center black. It's very weird to me. I think I will borrow a camera to capture the screen and post here tomorrow.
I came to the Samsung warranty center this after and they say my screen is perfectly normal although I can see the unevenness by using web browser and especially kindle. I use kindle a lot and didn't spot the problem because mostly I use low brightness and black theme. They tested r/g/b/w/black using *#1*# and I don't see the problem here. I also borrow another note 4 and a s7e and also see the problem but not bad as my phone.
Is this by design?I used many lcd-product (iphone, ipad) and never met this problem.
same here, the display on note 4 is far from perfect. I have owned many note 4s most of them had an inconsistent display quality across screen. But not all people notice it...
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same here, the display on note 4 is far from perfect. I have owned many note 4s most of them had an inconsistent display quality across screen. But not all people notice it...
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Do you think this is amoled flaws? I don't have any problem view pictures, watch videos, but only seeing gray texts. I will borrow a good camera and upload the screen photo here.
I will borrow a better camera. Just got these pictures from iphone 6s. http://imgur.com/a/7JxGf
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Do you think this is amoled flaws? I don't have any problem view pictures, watch videos, but only seeing gray texts. I will borrow a good camera and upload the screen photo here.
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yes the display panel on most note 4s is like this but most people don't even notice it. Its not really a problem...very minor stuff....i used to worry about such minor things as well and kept wasting money on swapping one phone after another but i have learnt my lesson...there is no such thing as a "perfect phone" ! so get over it and enjoy your phone :good:
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yes the display panel on most note 4s is like this but most people don't even notice it. Its not really a problem...very minor stuff....i used to worry about such minor things as well and kept wasting money on swapping one phone after another but i have learnt my lesson...there is no such thing as a "perfect phone" ! so get over it and enjoy your phone :good:
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I found my issue. It's because the screen gets dirt and my finger print and effect the text quality. I haven't even think that text quality can be affected by such minor things. I cleaned them out and found the texts great again. But I want to say that even the screen is clear, some texts are not black, but not bad as in the picture.
Just got the following update.
Change log is minimal:
Camera improvement
Security patch
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So what is your question or is this just a statement?
From what I feel before and after this update, white balance issue seems to be fixed, photos taken isn't too warm anymore.
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I hope this update for the S20 plus 5g exynos will arrive also this week...
I have a simlock free German device.
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So what is your question or is this just a statement?
From what I feel before and after this update, white balance issue seems to be fixed, photos taken isn't too warm anymore.
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It was a statement officer.
I can see more improvement to autofocus, less over sharpening effect, better image quality when zooming.
One bad thing I noticed regarding stabilization magnets. They seem not to hold the sensor when using the phone. Lens makes a lot more noise [rattling] even though I'm not using the camera. Very annoying.
Not sure if it's a defect on my unit or something that this update caused.
I'll try to shoot a short video in a different thread about the issue.
new firmware already released in China ATD1 with more improvements
waiting for it in EU.
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One bad thing I noticed regarding stabilization magnets. They seem to not hold the sensor when using the phone. Lens makes a lot of noise even though I'm not using the camera. Very annoying.
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That was noticed by a number of people as soon as the phone was launched, it's annoying to have that rattle if you shake the phone but it seems standard and not a fault.
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That was noticed by a number of people as soon as the phone was launched, it's annoying to have that rattle if you shake the phone but it seems standard and not a fault.
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Yes totally aware about the rattling noise due to IOS. But after the update it seems louder than before. Is it due to the zoom improvement via firmware? Not sure.
In any case I think it should be easy to develop a tiny app to activate the magnets at all time (same as when opening the camera app). Might drain the battery a bit but that rattling is very annoying. I'm ok to trade 5% of battery drain to suppress the noise.
Those of you who got the ATCT fimrware update on exynos, can you try something out?
Pls take a pic of a white wall, indoor, dim indoor lighting, using night mode. Does it come out darker than it is or looks normal?