Hi,
Is there any possibility to speed up the camera?
No.
Damn, why does this forum force me to make my message at least 10 characters long...?
Switch off the shutter sound.
Have you tried this,while you are in camera mode turn off the PDA wait for ten seconds and then turn it back on,you will notice that while the image is somewhat darker the framerate does not lag when you move the phone, its more noticeable when you are in a not very well lit room.
Actually what you mention works better when in camera mode you turn it off, cover the lens with your hand, then turn it on with your hand still covering the lens, wait a second or two then use the camera. while the image quality isn't as great because it's low light, frame rate is much faster. but the moment you point at some bright light, it resets again. kind of a lame hack but what are we gonna do...
if you're in a bright light situation, such as outdoors on a sunny day, frame rate is fine.
Try this from the Kaiser forum. It worked on older roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2139190#post2139190
Hi, I recently got a polaris and I'm loving (most of) it.
One thing I realy hate, is the way the fps goes way down with video's in low light conditions. I searched trough the registry myself and found some values to increase the fps of video's a bit, but the moment the light conditions change, it get's crappy again.
Is there some way to fix the light condition so it doesn't adjust while making a video?
I love going to parties and I'd like to make some video's. There is enough light there to make a video, but because of the strobing of the lights, the camera thinks there isn't any light and goes to crapy fps mode trying to...I don't even know why it does it, longer shutter timing maybe or something. So I want to find a way to fix the fps, light mode and shutter timing. If that is possible.
Or I would be hapy with any other info you guys can give me on this matter to improve the camera.
In case someone would like to change some camera settings:
HKLM\software\HTC\camera
In the recparam, you can set the framerate at witch the video records. It can handle a bit more then the default setting. The default is 15, I got mine set at 25 witch works fine. The display isn't able to keep up while recording, but the recording itself looks fine on the pc while playing back.
If anybody can help out more with tweaking the camera more, I'd love it!
I'm especialy looking for the light metering settings that change the fps when the light changes.
Clicky!
Welcome ^_^
cellshadow mean welcome to Camera & Graphic issues Polaris club
to get some information about it you can read this loooooong thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=359991
any way, I will teach you a trick to get full performance from Camera and you can shot video if you have enough light
start camera, hide the lens by your hand, press the power button, wait for 5 or 8 sec, press the power button again, remove your hand from up the lens
now you can shot video in 25 frame/sec
if you get any new tweak or trick for camera please post here
Secoseco, your trick really works! The illumination auto-adjust seems to be not processing the image when I follow your steps, so the image is just captured, a bit darker, but almost realtime!
Is there any official fix on this?
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Zomg the trick really works. thats nice.
SuperJMN said:
Secoseco, your trick really works! The illumination auto-adjust seems to be not processing the image when I follow your steps, so the image is just captured, a bit darker, but almost realtime!
Is there any official fix on this?
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benleonheaert said:
Zomg the trick really works. thats nice.
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waiting for some one to analysis this trick to solve the camera issue
may be shutter speed, or white balance
Well I know a little bit about imaging and stuff.
Camera's have different ways to alter the amount of light in a recoring. They can change ISO values (higher value means more responsive to light) wich would not affect the shutter time.
The sensor in a camera (video or photo) needs a certain amount of light before it can register the image projected on it. The better the sensor, the higher quality and options. If you got a lesser quality, like in most cell phone camera's, you don't have to many options for changing the sensivity of the sensor. Meaning, if you want more light projected on your sensor in low light conditions, you need a higher shutter time. This is for both video and photo, the way the finer mechanics work differ, but a video is nothing more then a series of photo's put together. Now when the camera, or in our case, our lovely polaris, notices there isn't much light, it sets the shutter speed (for photo's) longer (that's why photo's in low light get blurry) and the fps (for video) lower (giving the sensor more time to register the light for each frame).
How the trick from secoseco works, I do not know, but it works like a charm. It has to be some sort of bug for it to work this way.
Now I know about the wm6.1 that is supposed to increase video preformance, I have not installed it yet. But the thing I want to fix is the way the camera measures the light and addapts to it. There are so many settings, there just has to be one that controls the way camera settings change in different light sircumstances. Because in good light, and with the trick of secoseco, the fps is just fine and the video is good quality. But the moment the light value gets lower, the fps drops waaay down and the video gets crapy. Wich isn't always needed, like at a party when there is enough strobing light to get a good video, but when the fps is still way down.
I want to either lock the fps, shutter time or disable the light measuring or any other thing that can cause the current proformance of video's in low light conditions.
I'll try looking for myself when I'm not working, but I'm new to this phone, so if people come across anything that can help, it would be great. Registry locations of stuff related to the camera, files that control the camera, anything.
Yeah that trick has been around for awhile. However the moment you point the camera to a bright light source it resets again and will lag in low light conditions.
hambola said:
Yeah that trick has been around for awhile. However the moment you point the camera to a bright light source it resets again and will lag in low light conditions.
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what is the benefit to point the camera to the light source during picturing ?
There is no benefit in intentionally pointing it at a light source. But if it so happens as you're trying to take a picture or video of something and you do happen to get too much light it will lag again.
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I have problems with Send/Receive email client on me Polaris,not working. Internet connections is ok, help me pls. Sorry for me english.
Thanks secoseco
For real. Thanks secoseco. This trick really works
Wow this trick works like a charm! Many thanks goes to you secoseco!
I think it has something to do with whitebalance because changing it in low light conditions will give me some more fps... but it is still not enough for taking videos!
Too bad that the picture quality sometimes gets worse after using the trick.
Thanks a Million it workssssssssssssssssss..
Hi
Anyone experiencing a low click like sound when trying to set the focus or when exiting camera on HD2? I am not talking anything about the shutter sound, this is something different. Not all times I can hear this, but for sure at some instances when setting the focus.
Thanks
Yes, I think it has something to do with the lens aperture. It decreases or increases in its range to compensate the image exposure to light...I guess that's normal behavior for a digital camera, even if inside a cellphone..
Since it also happens when zooming, I'm pretty sure it's the lens "mechanical" movement..
It's the focus lens being released to its "infinity" end position. It's most likely spring-loaded, and it hits the end point when control is released.
yup, anyone with experience of compact igital cameras knows that's a pretty normal thing
What's strange tho, is that I often/always get a very fast flash discharge blink when going from preview mode back to camera mode, or something... don't understand why that happens
Just thought I'd start this thread to ask what settings you guys have enabled to get the best quality pictures and videos on the Omnia 7?
Obviously I've already switched it to 720p recording!
pLUSpISTOL said:
Just thought I'd start this thread to ask what settings you guys have enabled to get the best quality pictures and videos on the Omnia 7?
Obviously I've already switched it to 720p recording!
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hope you realize you need to set it to 720p every time you open the camcorder! personally i find 720p makes the framerate drop too far and the videos seem stuttery unless you are moving very slow and precisely.
i mostly use camera and always turn on anti-shaking as you dont really get a good picture without it under most conditions. I usually also put wide dynamic range on and turn the sharpness to high.
frustrates me a lot that there is no setting to shut the camera up as it makes it impossible to take photos in quiet setting without looking like an ass.
and whos idea was it to not let us save the settings! they make such a big deal of being able to take a picture realy quickly but in reality by the time you go into the settings and adjust everything it takes twice the time as any other phone! plus everyone turns to look at you because of the irritating noise.
rant over. generally im quite happy with my phone. cant wait for the update in January!
NikD1 said:
hope you realize you need to set it to 720p every time you open the camcorder! personally i find 720p makes the framerate drop too far and the videos seem stuttery unless you are moving very slow and precisely.
i mostly use camera and always turn on anti-shaking as you dont really get a good picture without it under most conditions. I usually also put wide dynamic range on and turn the sharpness to high.
frustrates me a lot that there is no setting to shut the camera up as it makes it impossible to take photos in quiet setting without looking like an ass.
and whos idea was it to not let us save the settings! they make such a big deal of being able to take a picture realy quickly but in reality by the time you go into the settings and adjust everything it takes twice the time as any other phone! plus everyone turns to look at you because of the irritating noise.
rant over. generally im quite happy with my phone. cant wait for the update in January!
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I think I agree with all your points. So annoying that settings can't be saved, what the hell is that about?! There is even a "revert to default settings" which is pointless because it does it regardless lol. It's the same with the "feedback" in the main settings, that always reverts to enabled.
WDR I had never heard of before but I see that it mixes both light and dark areas of the picture, which will be good for a lot of instances I imagine.
as the guy before i've found.
*anti-shake, wide dynamic range* sometimes sharpness depending on the object/scene* to work for me.
I'm hearing they did the settings to save power, as it's like putting your laptop on high performance *720p, anti shake* it's all CPU power in the end which = bat life, but people are expecting the same level of bat life as when it's in "power saver mode", a few seconds to change a setting isn't the end of the world for me...
BUT...
WOULD be bloody nice to lets say have a profile arrangement of some kind then.
So at least we could hit a button in the camera settings and bring back the settings from a previous time/profile.
I've been having this problem when every few photos, just a plain green picture is taken. And sometimes there are distorted colors. I decided to play around with the settings to check if it changes anything.
I found out that the problem is keeping the focus mode in Continuous Auto focus. Keeping it in this mode apparently has problems which are the green photos, distorted colors, and around 2 seconds of lag between the shutter and the photo being taken.
Keeping it on Auto took off 2 of the problems which were the green photos and distorted colors. But it was still kind of laggy, I think it's supposed to be this way though to have time for it to focus
Putting it on Infinity fixed all of it, I took over 20 photos without any problem or lag.
I don't know why that problem occurred, but it's probably just the camera firmware and not a hardware problem.
Hope I got to help