Camera - P8lite Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi, as anyone noticed a small click when closing the camera app?
Sometimes it does, sometimes doesnt. I think its the camera lens closing or something.

I am not sure but i think that sound comes when camera "relases" focus

So that also happens to you. I can also confirm that, when I focus in close distance and close camera, I can hear a small click, sometimes its a different click sound. Im less worried now. If it works it should be no problem.
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HD2 Camera Lag

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem. It's nothing that's going to kill me but it is a little irritating. When I hit the shutter button, the camera doesn't immediately take the picture, there will probably be about .5 to 1 second of lag in between pressing and actually getting the picture. If this is normal then fine tell me. If there is a fix I would appreciate a link to a fix or an explanation on the fix. Thanks.
AFAIK that lag is the auto focus kicking in every time the image changes in the live preview....i wish there was a way to keep focus at infinity and leave it there permanently.
There is a way to turn off that delay...I just can't remember what it is
Whatever it is, I've done it, because I don't have any delay between when I touch the shutter and when the image is captured. I could have sworn it was a setting in HD2Tweak or BsB Tweak, but I can't for the life of me find it now apparently. I'll let you know if I recall, but it's out there, I promise
Thanks I'll keep waiting. I have BSB Tweaks and there's nothing about camera delay, and it can't be the auto focus because I allow the camera to autofocus THEN I take the picture and that delay shows up.
I guess coming from other auto-focus smartphones, G1, TP2, Blackberry, etc the autofocus lag on the HD2 is so incredibly fast compared to all others I've never even noticed it.
DeoreDX said:
I guess coming from other auto-focus smartphones, G1, TP2, Blackberry, etc the autofocus lag on the HD2 is so incredibly fast compared to all others I've never even noticed it.
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I Agree......
so there's still no fix... ahhhhhhhhh oh well -.-
i haven't done any tweeks and there is no delay unless I'm using the flash...
there are 2 ways to take a picture
press and hold
this will focus then capture
tap quickly
fast capture
jfmckenna said:
there are 2 ways to take a picture
press and hold
this will focus then capture
tap quickly
fast capture
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Jimmy, you're a cotton picken' genius.
So yeah I tried it and that's obviously the difference. For anyone who's curious, I just took the same picture 10 times, 5 with the fast capture, and 5 with the focus then capture, and honestly neither way was consistently better at getting a well-focused picture Try them both, see which works better for you, but I don't think it really matters which way you choose

Macro Problem

I don't know why, but when I try to take macro pictures a certain distance, I hold the camera button halfway so the focus is made, I then see the picture getting real clear and suddenly a pop from clear to blurry, and it tells me the focus is done, anyone else experienced this? I mean, at a bigger distance I'm able to take the picture correctly, but if I'm a little close this happens, and since during the focus I do see the picture crystal clear for half a sec it should work I guess..?
God I miss my XSi...
I ve got the same... its irritating and its all because of ****ty camera software... i tried with vingette and focus works as it should...
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It's soooo annoying :/
Would've been nice if there was a manual focus mode.

[Q] Camera focus & light sensor sensitivity

I'm having a couple of issues / annoyances that I cannot seem to find fixes or work arounds for.
Are these normal things that everyone is experiencing or is it a problem just with my N4, and may need to be replaced?
My phone is stock, and un-rooted.
1. Camera (main) continuously refocuses when in camera app. It only locks for a few seconds after taping the screen. A bit annoying but workable. The problem arises in Skype (and I guess in any other app), when using the main (back) camera it continuously focuses and refocuses every couple of seconds which makes it almost useless when trying to use the main camera to show the person on the other end something.
Is there a way to lock the focus, or tweak how often it refocuses?
2. Light sensor sensitivity: When brightness is set to auto, the brightness bumps up and down every minute or 2. The sensor is too sensitive or the software is too aggressive. I'm stationary and lighting in the room is constant, but I guess slight angle changes in my hand are causing enough fluctuations to initiate an adjustment. And the adjustments aren't smooth, they are steps, so they get annoying after a while.
Besides switching off auto brightness, is there a way to tweak sensor sensitivity?
bump.
no one else has these issues or is annoyed by them?
trent25 said:
bump.
no one else has these issues or is annoyed by them?
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I have the focusing issue too. In Camera if I tap the screen to focus on something, it stays there for 3-4 seconds and then re-focuses at the center of the screen. Very annoying.
For the light sensor, I found that the automatic brightness was awful so I changed to manual brightness. Easier than tweaking I guess
about the camera, i've got the same issues as you
Ok thanks for the replies. At least I know I'm not having a one off issue particular to my unit.
Both of these issues should be software related, hopefully they will come to someone's attention and get sorted out. They're not deal breakers but annoyances that shouldn't be there in a final product imo.
Google is working on a patch for the camera right now. Sit tight and we should have a fix coming soon
spitefulcheerio said:
Google is working on a patch for the camera right now. Sit tight and we should have a fix coming soon
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Where did you hear that from?
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[Q] Camera keeps focusing?

The camera focusses over and over again, is that the way it should be? It auto focuses very often when I try to take a picture.
Lownita said:
The camera focusses over and over again, is that the way it should be? It auto focuses very often when I try to take a picture.
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I have the exact thing happening with me. I think it may be the camera in this phone. My RMA did it also (before I sent it back, because it had more issues than the original). Doesn't focus this often on my old Samsung Infuse running 4.2.1.
Connor Baker
Mine does it too, not sure why. I've found that once you hold the button to focus, then slide your finger off, it stops focusing. Then tapping the button should take the picture. While it's a crap method, it works for me instead of trying to time the focus correctly. Alternatively, simply tapping the button should focus it once and take the picture, though it may not be great in some cases.
So it seems to be normal I guess!
It's a feature, though not working very well. The idea is to have it constantly focused so you have zero shutter lag when you press the shutter key.
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What is wrong with S8 front camera autofocus

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.
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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.
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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)

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