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14.1.G.1.534 vs 14.1.G.2.257 Camera Comparison

These pictures were taken with both firmwares about 8 minutes apart (updated in the park) on the same phone and in roughly the same light. I would have been faster but there was a Dutch family taking pictures and I didn't want to have them in the picture.
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jluster said:
These pictures were taken with both firmwares about 8 minutes apart (updated in the park) on the same phone and in roughly the same light. I would have been faster but there was a Dutch family taking pictures and I didn't want to have them in the picture.
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Great job! Is nice to see some actual comparisons behind everyone's anecdotal comments that the camera is better in 257. Thanks for the proof. :thumbup:
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Are these on SA mode?

kiwi45 said:
Are these on SA mode?
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No, Manual, 8MP 4:3, no scene, no EV, no processing.

goodjob dude

This is brilliant. Only just got my xperia Z1 yesterday, so these comparisons are superb

Great comparison, thanks! Any chance of uploading the full size originals?

jluster said:
No, Manual, 8MP 4:3, no scene, no EV, no processing.
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Perfect! I was wondering if the improvement only applied to Superior Auto mode, Burst, Panorama and what not but not the Manual. Turns out it seems to really be on their post-processing software and not just the various modes!
This made my day and I'm excited to shoot even more stuff with the new firmware. Thanks!
P.S. 8 Minute update time is really fast! I updated mine through SUS around 2 hours

bloodfire1004 said:
P.S. 8 Minute update time is really fast! I updated mine through SUS around 2 hours
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I had the download finished, all it took was the flash and reboot. Was amazed, too, considering it takes about 3 hours for my HTC phones to upgrade.

SA mode compare, please, someone.

jluster said:
I had the download finished, all it took was the flash and reboot. Was amazed, too, considering it takes about 3 hours for my HTC phones to upgrade.
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I see Phones Review have picked up on this.

Beards said:
I see Phones Review have picked up on this.
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Yeah, way to go just grab content and **** adverts around it (I am borrowing liberally from the commenter on the piece). Also how did they make me "Dutch". As an Icelander I am shocked by this accusation. An Icelander taking pictures in Germany becomes Dutch, I guess...

jluster said:
Yeah, way to go just grab content and **** adverts around it (I am borrowing liberally from the commenter on the piece). Also how did they make me "Dutch". As an Icelander I am shocked by this accusation. An Icelander taking pictures in Germany becomes Dutch, I guess...
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every site has copied the same post and even on GsmArena, PhoneArena everyone calling you Dutch :silly: Mail them regarding this if you want :good:

one more here .

Post full res pic please. Wanna see the noise levels.

eggman89 said:
Post full res pic please. Wanna see the noise levels.
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u can have very good comparison idea with the one i've posted its only resided 50% coz of huge size .

Thanks for this @jluster
I was in a dilemma should I flash 257 or wait for next firmware and now I have my answer.... I will flash it and will flash it as soon as possible
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It seems that the old version can't focus accurately, or it was a Gauss Blur filter in the old algorithm.

more photos comparison pleaseeeee :good:

New firmware using manual
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[icons][add-on][xxhdpi multidevice] MIA ex pack - app & activity icons galore!

I made an add-on for the MIUI theming engine on XXHDPI devices running MIUI 8.
If you like the standard theme of MIUI 8 (as I prefer it), you can extend and skin your app icons
with this pack including thousands of app and activity icons.
Read the info at the download page please.
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Use at your own risk. I tested the pack of course and all is fine on my device.
I am not responsible for bricked devices, thermonuclear war or your monkey dancing samba!
DOWNLOAD PAGE LINK
XDA main thread LINK
I do not accept icon requests for this!
No additional mirrors please!
This is and will stay non-profit. No donations accepted.
This was quite a bit work, so please apply to the rules.

Thanks, I'll try later on Xiaomi.eu ROM.

Updated to v4.0.
>10.500 apps & activities.

Updated to v5.0
- added ~1700 apps & activities

Thanks! Testing on xiaomi.eu

Thanks for this icon pack, it's very beautiful. Just one thing, excel and word icon are the same.

Updated to fix MS Office icons.

Updated to v6.0 - enjoy!

Thanks man, I use your mimaui. I miss MIUI but, choosd AOSP multitasking abilities and your icon package really makes me feel it was on MIUI. You should post it on PS

yoghibawono said:
You should post it on PS
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Sir, thank you for the kind feedback. Actually mimaui was available on Play Store for a few cents,
but I chose to make it available for free as final version. I took all the Play Store earnings and donated the
money to tung91 who did the most work with his discontinued MIUI 7 theme (base of mimaui). Feels better.

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Sir, thank you for the kind feedback. Actually mimaui was available on Play Store for a few cents,
but I chose to make it available for free as final version. I took all the Play Store earnings and donated the
money to tung91 who did the most work with his discontinued MIUI 7 theme (base of mimaui). Feels better.
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Ah wow a great way to support another devs. Though a quick look at PS, I still cant find mimaui. Thank you for releasing it for free on ur site

It was deactivated at Play Store before I released the free version.
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Great contribution 🍻 ...post linked to my favourites.

Updated to v7.0

thank you for your work, icons are generally right but when it comes to games many of them are wrong: eggs out, rgb express, super line rush, high risers, extreme landings, draw free, SHORTer, assoluto racing, dubai drift 2 are wrong on my device. google translate has stock aosp icon with white background, and drive has google docs icon.
an advice: on devices with xiaomi.eu roms (like mine) /system can't be wiped, it will brick your phone. i wouldnt write to wipe it on your site

@gian569 Sir, thank you for your useful feedback. I changed the text on my website. Do you wish to help me fixing the incorrect icons for the games?

I tried to fix stuff now, but even if the right icon/package/activity name is declared the MIUI theme engine acts buggy and uses the wrong icons.
Seems like I just can not fix all.

Can you post some screenshots please?
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Awesome icons ,man. Look similar as what I get in miui.eu.rom ,just what I've been looking for.
At the moment I've moved back to global stable miui 8 ,and I've flashed your icon pack.
But I doesnt change many of google apps icon beside google photo ,keep and play games.
Those google apps which ,are preinstall in my mi5. Can this be the reason?

Anyone there with this?

Just got it now. Started downloading.
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How did you get this? ??

http://www.fonearena.com/blog/237345/xiaomi-mi-a1-android-oreo-beta.html
Welcome guinea pigs =P

Any update to camera app ?

Please share the changes and your experience of the ROM here!

jazzthe#1 said:
How did you get this? ??
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Hes probably join beta program for A1,
I already join but cant see update for oreo

I have also applied! Followed the procedure correctly and submitted the imeis too! But still no update! ?

Leak the OTA link!!!

jazzthe#1 said:
How did you get this? ?
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I applied for beta program and they selected. As I was a beta tester since Redmi Note 4G. When I got the device there were two updates I installed. October patch and November patch, I never got december patch and directly this.

maross said:
Any update to camera app ?
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Camera ui and features are all same except 2x zoom quality and portrait quality has drastic change. It is far better now.

Hriddhi said:
Please share the changes and your experience of the ROM here!
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Huge difference in UI, Performance, Animations. Some basic features like battery percentage and night light are there. Camera quality improved, New Dialer but almost looks same. Mi Sound Enhancer is present now.

konradit said:
Leak the OTA link!!!
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I can't, They'll stop my OTA's. They're seeding it through IMEI.

carastroren1991 said:
Huge difference in UI, Performance, Animations. Some basic features like battery percentage and night light are there. Camera quality improved, New Dialer but almost looks same. Mi Sound Enhancer is present now.
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Well, keep us updated as you discover something new
Did you noticed any scrolling issue?
Are Camera 2 API and EIS enabled?
Is camcorder still laggy when there isn't much light?

What about hissing sound with headphones?
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Pardon my ignorance, but if you make a TWRP backup and share it how do they know it was you XD? Is there any secret partition that identify your device ?
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Did they update the launcher, or are you using Pixel2 launcher?

carastroren1991 said:
Huge difference in UI, Performance, Animations. Some basic features like battery percentage and night light are there. Camera quality improved, New Dialer but almost looks same. Mi Sound Enhancer is present now.
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What about the hissing issue? Is it still there? Seems like they have added some kind of sound enhancer.

Tyrany22 said:
Pardon my ignorance, but if you make a TWRP backup and share it how do they know it was you XD? Is there any secret partition that identify your device ?
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Read the rules for beta tester.
Cannot unlock bootloader to install twrp.

KDash4 said:
Did they update the launcher, or are you using Pixel2 launcher?
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I'm using Nova Launcher, but they've changed accent in default launcher.

Hriddhi said:
What about the hissing issue? Is it still there? Seems like they have added some kind of sound enhancer.
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I have Indian variant, and I never had that hissing problem. I had echoing in call using headphones, but it is solved now.

Night sight mode

Anybody got it yet? If so is it as good as the pixel version?

Notefan161 said:
Anybody got it yet? If so is it as good as the pixel version?
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Have no idea about that is there any?

frederick.joe said:
Have no idea about that is there any?
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Suppose to be rolling out end of April

The latest april firmware introduced a separate Night Mode, it's not clear if this is what Samsung believes should be its Night Sight Mode or if something else is coming. If this is it, it leaves much to be desired.

Fafner76 said:
The latest april firmware introduced a separate Night Mode, it's not clear if this is what Samsung believes should be its Night Sight Mode or if something else is coming. If this is it, it leaves much to be desired.
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well if it's better than what it was before thats all that matters...

Notefan161 said:
well if it's better than what it was before thats all that matters...
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It is not...

pgamaleri said:
It is not...
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Guess will see when it's out here if it's any better
Seems pointless doing an update for it if it's the same.
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Notefan161 said:
Guess will see when it's out here if it's any better
Seems pointless doing an update for it if it's the same.
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They just let you choose the option by your self, nothing else.

I got an update (Poland).
- you're able to shot with night mode in any conditions
- pictures are much brighter most of a time, but quality is rather bad (comparable to auto night mode before) most of the time
- it's not blurry. It's more like "blocky" instead.
- it takes few seconds to take a shot (like Huawei and Pixel)
- IMO - it's definitely still not Pixels or Huaweis territory.
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Samsung night mode:
Pixel night sight:

I installed the April firmware yesterday and tried the night mode
It is totally different from the old night mode as it now works the same way as Google pixels and brithen the photo by large amount
The downside is that it have so much noise
Right now am using gcam 6.1 port with nightsight and it is so much better and working as it should but slower than the Samsung application during the stacking and processing of the photo.

I come from P20 Pro so in comparison Samsung version of night shot is sh*it, way too noisy and not even close to as bright or colour accurate.

I tried the Night mode on my S10+ last night in the middle of the night in my dark living room and I am really impressed with the results - it was very dark in the room at the time and image came out pretty darn good -
forget my messy living room.....
after uploading it here - I noticed that the image was rotated but when I took it was in portrait mode - I don't know why it changed it's position when I uploaded it here ? Or does happen from time to time ?

100% dark room and you got that photo? Impossible .
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Maybe my update just doesn't work, but I don't get night mode. Using it just yields a completely dark undistinguishable picture. Normal photo mode with flash gives a clear fairly decent pic. Don't really need it, so I gave use trying to make it work

Just received an update to fix camera issue

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I will report as soon as possible.

Briefly tried the camera and it seems the autofocus is much much faster than before.
I will test more during the day.

What region you are ? I'm UK BTU and still nothing

Adam1906KSC said:
What region you are ? I'm UK BTU and still nothing
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Middle East
Israel

cizake said:
Middle East
Israel
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Looks like they are starting to roll out. Exynos version in this video here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snatjrpJ6eI
Video of actual footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZoWAben4CA&feature=youtu.be

I have been taking pics and videos for the last hour and it's night and day.
Auto focus and auto brightness are finally fixed.
Dynamic range working as it should.
The camera is much faster. Zoom has also improved up to X10. After that it remains funky.
Really happy now.

cizake said:
I have been taking pics and videos for the last hour and it's night and day.
Auto focus and auto brightness are finally fixed.
Dynamic range working as it should.
The camera is much faster. Zoom has also improved up to X10. After that it remains funky.
Really happy now.
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Glad to hear man. Really excited to see this roll out in the US.
Cheers!

slow mo video also fixed dynamic range and autofocus.

Have you tried pictures in a dim environment?
For me it's absolutely smudging every detail even after the update, doesn't matter if scene optimiser is on or off.
Taking a picture of my dog she looks like a white splotch where as the Plus model shows her fur in very good detail

Those are pics in dim light. They are so much better than before the update.

cizake said:
I have been taking pics and videos for the last hour and it's night and day.
Auto focus and auto brightness are finally fixed.
Dynamic range working as it should.
The camera is much faster. Zoom has also improved up to X10. After that it remains funky.
Really happy now.
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Can you please tell me if the zoom is improved only after taking a pic, or in the viewfinder as well?
Also can you post some pics to imgbb in full res before and after, if you got some close stuff you took shots before. Thanks alot.

Just took a few pics so far, but Soooo much better!!! Auto focus and dynamic range are fixed!!
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Neo_Sk8eR said:
Have you tried pictures in a dim environment?
For me it's absolutely smudging every detail even after the update, doesn't matter if scene optimiser is on or off.
Taking a picture of my dog she looks like a white splotch where as the Plus model shows her fur in very good detail
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Can you post this example of the dog?
Curious to see it.

hello mate, glad that you received the update. can you tell how is the quality of the picture when you zoom in like 50 times, is it still oversharpened and like oil paint?

Here are examples of zoom X0.5 X2 X4 X10 X30 X100
It's indoor, I think it's much better than it was before. I'll post outdoors pics tomorrow.

Are you sure this is the update for the Camera ? Looks more like the march security update to me...
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the one that fixes the camera has an atch at the end.

Got the update, downloading now.
For reference: US, Unlocked.

What carrier are you on?

Yes I'm sure, look at the original screenshot on my opening post. ATCH.
Here are outdoor images: