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iPhone 4S has AE/AF Lock - I wish we had too.

Even though I suggested my GF to get the iPhone 3GS and 4S, I'm not a fan of iOS or any iDevice for that matter - I just don't like the lack of flexibility without jailbreaking.
Still, Apple has been able to do it over and over again, they find some missing feature, and nail it. They just implement it perfectly.
This time it's the AE/AF Lock.
I wish SGS II had this as an option, this would prove so useful with the autofocus problems it is having. And ofc it's a great feature both for still images and video.
If anyone knows about any fixes/patches/way to get this done on android/sgsII - This is the place to share!

The exposure lock will be available to apps in ICS .. i am hoping Google implementation of ICS camera will carry it too.
Keeping my fingers crossed ... i honestly feel the camera module on SGSII deserves better camera app capabilities

Could not agree more. I was freaked when realizing that it's not possible at all on our phone. Always liked that about camera+ from the apple app store
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eitama said:
I wish SGS II had this as an option, this would prove so useful with the autofocus problems it is having. And ofc it's a great feature both for still images and video.
If anyone knows about any fixes/patches/way to get this done on android/sgsII - This is the place to share!
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The SGSII has AF/AE lock. What drugs are you on? To AF/AE lock both at once, just hold down the shutter button on the screen. You will hear the beep and the focus box will go green. Now the AF/AE is locked you can pan the camera around and you'll see the focus is locked and the exposure doesn't change. Now you just let go of the shutter button and the SGSII will take the photo.
If you want just AF lock, you tap on the area of the screen that you want to focus at and you'll hear the beep with the box going green. Now you can move the camera around and you'll see that the focus is locked but AE is still active and adjusting the exposure. To take a photo in this mode, you tap the shutter button. If you hold the shutter button down instead, it refocuses and goes into AF/AE lock.
I've had this feature ever since I bought my SGSII in May.

Sleepycat3 said:
The SGSII has AF/AE lock. What drugs are you on? To AF/AE lock both at once, just hold down the shutter button on the screen. You will hear the beep and the focus box will go green. Now the AF/AE is locked you can pan the camera around and you'll see the focus is locked and the exposure doesn't change. Now you just let go of the shutter button and the SGSII will take the photo.
If you want just AF lock, you tap on the area of the screen that you want to focus at and you'll hear the beep with the box going green. Now you can move the camera around and you'll see that the focus is locked but AE is still active and adjusting the exposure. To take a photo in this mode, you tap the shutter button. If you hold the shutter button down instead, it refocuses and goes into AF/AE lock.
I've had this feature ever since I bought my SGSII in May.
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Yes, but it don't work @ video mode. Our phone will only start auto-focus when the recording has started. Did you even watch the video?

11768 said:
Yes, but it don't work @ video mode. Our phone will only start auto-focus when the recording has started. Did you even watch the video?
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+1
10 Chars

Haha who's on drugs now
I guess with ICS a lot is gonna change and we will have more freedom to.tweak the camera
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NoOneCanHelpMe said:
Haha who's on drugs now
I guess with ICS a lot is gonna change and we will have more freedom to.tweak the camera
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Looks like I am the one on drugs! Apologies to eitama for my biteyness.

Never mind. His post at least helped a few people to use their Camera better (if only for still photos)!

Pat123 said:
Never mind. His post at least helped a few people to use their Camera better (if only for still photos)!
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Yep. I learn about the holding the shutter button to lock both AE and AF. Cheers!

11768 said:
Yep. I learn about the holding the shutter button to lock both AE and AF. Cheers!
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I just learnt that too! Thanks haha =P

11768 said:
Yes, but it don't work @ video mode. Our phone will only start auto-focus when the recording has started. Did you even watch the video?
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It DOES work on video mode. SGS II has had this feature since day one. Stock Video Camera app just doesn't implement it. If you're a developer, it's easy to add to your app.
Here's a video I made testing no auto-focus & no auto-exposure for the SGS II...although this is for my private video recording app, not released & probably never will be.

Pat123 said:
Never mind. His post at least helped a few people to use their Camera better (if only for still photos)!
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haha +1. Me is one of them!

aerobahn said:
It DOES work on video mode. SGS II has had this feature since day one. Stock Video Camera app just doesn't implement it. If you're a developer, it's easy to add to your app.
Here's a video I made testing no auto-focus & no auto-exposure for the SGS II...although this is for my private video recording app, not released & probably never will be.
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Great news! Well, maybe someone here can try to look into Camera.apk as I do not have any knowledge on smali.

Sleepycat3 said:
The SGSII has AF/AE lock. What drugs are you on? To AF/AE lock both at once, just hold down the shutter button on the screen. You will hear the beep and the focus box will go green. Now the AF/AE is locked you can pan the camera around and you'll see the focus is locked and the exposure doesn't change. Now you just let go of the shutter button and the SGSII will take the photo.
If you want just AF lock, you tap on the area of the screen that you want to focus at and you'll hear the beep with the box going green. Now you can move the camera around and you'll see that the focus is locked but AE is still active and adjusting the exposure. To take a photo in this mode, you tap the shutter button. If you hold the shutter button down instead, it refocuses and goes into AF/AE lock.
I've had this feature ever since I bought my SGSII in May.
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Thank you for the explanation. You helped me in understanding the camera better and use it in much better way

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Never mind. His post at least helped a few people to use their Camera better (if only for still photos)!
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+1 on tht yes the feature is present , but its a good post as said aboue, will help others.....cheeerz

aerobahn said:
It DOES work on video mode. SGS II has had this feature since day one. Stock Video Camera app just doesn't implement it. If you're a developer, it's easy to add to your app.
Here's a video I made testing no auto-focus & no auto-exposure for the SGS II...although this is for my private video recording app, not released & probably never will be.
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Hi! That's amazing. Are you sure you can't share this app? It's the only thing missing from the whole android world at the moment.
I would enjoy paying for an app capable of this. And many people like me.
No kidding this would be awesome for some creative video making.

LuffyPSP said:
haha +1. Me is one of them!
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Plus me
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[PORTING][Devs needed] Possible Port of Note2 Camera

Hi
I am wondering if it would be possible to port the Galaxy Note II Camera app with all its functions like burst mode, best shot, best group pose among all the other effects available..
I have tried to port it my sefl and gotten as far as the camera opens but force closes after a second or two, i have also tried all the note 2 camera apps for the SGS3 and no go, i am including the nessesary files in a zip HERE
So what do u think, would u like the Note 2 camera on our Note 1??

+1 Would like to have these options too, even though our camera wont take the pictures as fast as Note 2..

slitex said:
Hi
I am wondering if it would be possible to port the Galaxy Note II Camera app with all its functions like burst mode, best shot, best group pose among all the other effects available..
I have tried to port it my sefl and gotten as far as the camera opens but force closes after a second or two, i have also tried all the note 2 camera apps for the SGS3 and no go, i am including the nessesary files in a zip HERE
So what do u think, would u like the Note 2 camera on our Note 1??
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Our camera sucks compared to Note 2. So deal with it.

I guess it would be cool. But as stated above our camera is worse to note 2. So lets not mess with it much

Rivan_92 said:
+1 Would like to have these options too, even though our camera wont take the pictures as fast as Note 2..
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+1

We know the camera in the og note is worse than note 2, but still, we would like more features

You can't increase the Software-Performance so much, because the Hardware isn't good enough
But anyways, it would be very cool
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I also agreed. Note 2 camera is much better than the Note 1. Specially GroupPose option is awesome.
If anyone can be ported GroupPose fearture would be nice.
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But then all off you, why can our camera be blazing fast with other camera apps on Google Play?
Like this, the millisecond that i press the camera button the camera shoots..
Fast Burst Camera
So i dont buy that nonsense of u saying that it camt perform..
It's all in the softwares commuciation against the hardware..

slitex said:
But then all off you, why can our camera be blazing fast with other camera apps on Google Play?
Like this, the millisecond that i press the camera button the camera shoots..
Fast Burst Camera
So i dont buy that nonsense of u saying that it camt perform..
It's all in the softwares commuciation against the hardware..
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+1 I manage to take over 70 photos in like 5 seconds..
Tapatalking on my n7000

Any way to replace our camera sensor to note2 cameras sensor??

rohi said:
Any way to replace our camera sensor to note2 cameras sensor??
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Yeah, buy Note 2.
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[Q] Motion gesture for Nexus 7?

Is there any mod for the Nexus 7 to enable motion gesture, like going to a next picture with a handwave.
Thanks in advance!

brakke97 said:
Is there any mod for the Nexus 7 to enable motion gesture, like going to a next picture with a handwave.
Thanks in advance!
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hey i m not sure that nexus 7 has proximity :|
anyway u can find some apps that do this with another sensor like front camera or light sensor
wave alarm
sensor music player
and maybe u will find sth for album
:good:

If you mean like some of the samsung devices where you wave your hand in front of the screen and it scrolls and stuff like that. I don't think the N7 has those sensors/hardware to do that. I think at best you actually need to touch the screen, as the only other way to do it would be kinnect style (via the front end camera which wouldn't do much good anyways).

Camera settings - mods (without root)

Hi, is there a way to enable saturation control on this phone? or maybe shutter speed? some mod? some apk?
Also smooth-motion, is this another fake 1080p like the LG G2 60 fps option? which actually shot in 720p (upscaled) and does the digital stabilization works along with the OIS in this mode?

I'd like to add one topic to the wishlist: A FOCUS INDICATOR !
Just all digital cameras tell you if the autofocus worked - by changing the color of the reticle, by a sound - just the Note 4 does NOT tell you if it's autofocus succeeded or not.

So no one?

Chefproll said:
I'd like to add one topic to the wishlist: A FOCUS INDICATOR !
Just all digital cameras tell you if the autofocus worked - by changing the color of the reticle, by a sound - just the Note 4 does NOT tell you if it's autofocus succeeded or not.
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You can press on the screen for a bit longer and the circle/focus will lock on the subject you want to shoot.

dazed1 said:
You can press on the screen for a bit longer and the circle/focus will lock on the subject you want to shoot.
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Sure. But it still does not show if focusing was successful or not.

Chefproll said:
Sure. But it still does not show if focusing was successful or not.
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It locks the focus when you press for sure imho....

dazed1 said:
It locks the focus when you press for sure imho....
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Erm... Am I talking Suaheli ?
OF COURSE it tries to lock the focus, but that's not the point.
There's NO indication if the focus lock was successful (picture focused, sharp) or if the focus lock failed (picture still unfocused, blurred). There's no indication by the Note 4, while other digital cameras output an audio signal, a beep, or change the color of the focus reticle (e. g. green for success, red for a focus failure) if the focus lock was successful.
Nothing of that with the Note.

So no one has any option to control shutter speed?

Camera being a system app, I don't think it's moddable (I know that's not a word) without root. You can install a different cam app though.

pedmond said:
Camera being a system app, I don't think it's moddable (I know that's not a word) without root. You can install a different cam app though.
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But often custom camera aps have terrible processing, the reason why i never install cyanogen on my phones
Maybe i will decide to root, but even with root, i don't see an option (mod or apk) to manually control the shutter speed?

Bump, what about saturation control?

Anyone knows a way how to control the saturation?

dazed1 said:
Anyone knows a way how to control the saturation?
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You can download Food mode, it has temperature control and produces more vivid pictures in terms of saturation.
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iridaki said:
You can download Food mode, it has temperature control and produces more vivid pictures in terms of saturation.
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WOW really? but is it only for that mode?
Thanks so much.

dazed1 said:
WOW really? but is it only for that mode?
Thanks so much.
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Yeah, only for that mode. Works well, definitely worth trying.
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New Galaxy S20 update with camera improvements out now. Primarily the ultra.

https://www.sammobile.com/news/new-samsung-galaxy-s20-update-with-camera-improvements-out-now/

Has anyone tried it yet?

XanoZuke said:
Has anyone tried it yet?
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G98xxXXU2ATE6, according to one user new function in camera application called cloe-up zoom very useful to take very close objects something like micro camera
not test yet
wait and see

UNIK97122 said:
G98xxXXU2ATE6, according to one user new function in camera application called cloe-up zoom very useful to take very close objects something like micro camera
not test yet
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S20 Ultra 5G i dont see any additional features

Darkat70 said:
S20 Ultra 5G i dont see any additional features
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hi, that's why i mentionned "according to one user" on sammobile https://www.sammobile.com/news/new-samsung-galaxy-s20-update-with-camera-improvements-out-now/
i didn't upgrade for the moment

UNIK97122 said:
hi, that's why i mentionned "according to one user" on sammobile https://www.sammobile.com/news/new-samsung-galaxy-s20-update-with-camera-improvements-out-now/
i didn't upgrade for the moment
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It does pop up with use close up text that you have to press. But that isn't available for 108MP, just 1:1 and Full Options.
Still needs improvements though, its nowhere near comparable to super macro mode on Mate 20Pro

Darkat70 said:
It does pop up with use close up text that you have to press. But that isn't available for 108MP, just 1:1 and Full Options.
Still needs improvements though, its nowhere near comparable to super macro mode on Mate 20Pro
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can you please share a screen shoot ? i'm curious about this option

UNIK97122 said:
can you please share a screen shoot ? i'm curious about this option
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new kernel too , u can check here to download and there is post about this function with screen shoot
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink/to...9&share_fid=3793&share_type=t&link_source=app
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Darkat70 said:
It does pop up with use close up text that you have to press. But that isn't available for 108MP, just 1:1 and Full Options.
Still needs improvements though, its nowhere near comparable to super macro mode on Mate 20Pro
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It does. 108mp closeup up zoom work.

Just heads up, small bug after updating is that fingerprint animation is off-center, other than that it actually seem faster.

MORE NEWS
https://www.indiatoday.in/technolog...mproved-camera-performance-1680661-2020-05-22
https://www.rprna.com/updates/galaxy-s20-camera-autofocus-fix-may-2020/ VIDEO

I read on some websites that the sound quality of the stereo speakers also has improved with this update. Can anyone who has already received this update confirm this?

YH93 said:
I read on some websites that the sound quality of the stereo speakers also has improved with this update. Can anyone who has already received this update confirm this?
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I can confirm that.
I have s20 plus and sound quality is way better than previous versions.

o.basar86 said:
I can confirm that.
I have s20 plus and sound quality is way better than previous versions.
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That's good to hear. How has it improved？
I am pretty satisfied with the SQ but only find the bass to be lacking. Is this improved with the update？

Sound quality is GREAT with the ATE6 Update! Fingerprint unlock is faster, smoother and there is now an option to disable the stupid ripple effect!

Upload photos if anyone has the update.

Has anyone with a G9880 TGY Hong Kong version get the update yet??

Close-up zoom doesn't sound like a fix. Sounds like a it's just doing a crop, causing you to move the phone further from your subject, into the focus range. I guess it's a convenience for not having to crop or zoom in to the photo afterwards. Or just manually invoking zoom before taking the shot.

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Has anyone with a G9880 TGY Hong Kong version get the update yet??
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No, it looks the update is not available yet for the HongKong version. I'm also still waiting for it.

How can I disable it the ripple effect???
Where is this option ? Its really bothering ?
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Sound quality is GREAT with the ATE6 Update! Fingerprint unlock is faster, smoother and there is now an option to disable the stupid ripple effect!
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