Whatsapp Camera - Picture Size? - Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers

Hi, just want to double check with other users about the Picture size/ratio of the Whatsapp Camera.
On my S8 it is currently 1:1 even though the camera is 4:3, is this the same for everyone? Can you change this?
No biggie, its just annoying me a little, as I swear it was 16:9 on my S6.
Also when i rotate the camera to landscape, the picture is still 1:1 and the camera rotates in the opposite way.... then crashes...
I'll upload pictures if anyone wants

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me too on s8 and a friend of mine with his s8+

Hi I don't use that app but have you looked at what settings are on your camera?
Also maybe the app ain't rdy just yet for the s8 might need updating.
And have you tried running app in full screen mode?
Just a few suggestions but hope you get it sorted.

Same here me on my S8 plus. Friend at work has an S8 and his is fine and we are on the same Whatsapp version number.
I have a UK XEU version from the Carphone Warehouse.

I too have similar camera problem in WhatsApp when using on my S8. It was not there when I first installed. There was a system update and after doing that this camera problem as started. Can anyone help? Previously I was using S7 and never had any problems.

Whatsapp can't use full screen mode yet, and no solution at 1:1 camera which works only in portrait mode

the cameras within other apps are often not as good as the stock camera.
for best quality at least, i normally use the stock camera app, and then just share the image

I set full hd then become normal on WhatsApp camera full screen ratio.

Same issue here. If I rotate camera in whatsapp, the image is rotated wrong.

The solution!!!!
Hey Guys i just found out the solution for the problem!!
Its the resolution of the phone that messed up the camera.
Settings -> Display -> Screen resolution -> Set screen to FHD+
I had it on WQHD+ 2960x1440 and that gave me some weird resolutions on whatsapp (also the problems with rotation of the phone/camera)
then i just changed the resolution of the phone and the problem was fixed!!!
Hope it works for you too!!

Titu91 said:
Hey Guys i just found out the solution for the problem!!
Its the resolution of the phone that messed up the camera.
Settings -> Display -> Screen resolution -> Set screen to FHD+
I had it on WQHD+ 2960x1440 and that gave me some weird resolutions on whatsapp (also the problems with rotation of the phone/camera)
then i just changed the resolution of the phone and the problem was fixed!!!
Hope it works for you too!!
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Yeah, I can confirm that.
Which means that Whatsapp is not supporting WQHD+ yet.
I have just added Whatsapp in Game Tuner, to run it in FHD+ (75% WQHD+).

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Snapchat front facing camera zoom issues

Has anyone noticed how the front facing camera on snapchat is zoomed in?
Same on Beta
huggosz said:
Has anyone noticed how the front facing camera on snapchat is zoomed in?
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This is happening on the Beta as well (v 10.6.6.0). I also noticed that the send button is mostly covered when choosing more than one person.
wrileys said:
This is happening on the Beta as well (v 10.6.6.0). I also noticed that the send button is mostly covered when choosing more than one person.
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Ya I noticed that too. I'm glad I'm not the only one. Hopefully they'll fix that soon.
A fix
I have the same issue.
huggosz said:
Has anyone noticed how the front facing camera on snapchat is zoomed in?
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I'm having the same issues here but I was feeling the same way when I use the default camera. Seems like the angle is wider on my S7 than on my S8
I don't think its technically "zoomed" in. If you compare what you see in Snapchat to default camera, you will notice that you still see the same amount of vertical image. But because of the 18.5:9 screen ratio and the way Snapchat works, it crops off a lot of the side image. Same goes for the back camera. And yes, S7 and S6 have much wider front facing camera, it was probably reduced to fit in the focusing mechanisms.
I've noticed if you view Snaps with a 16:9, the top and bottom will be letter boxed. Where as my friends who have also an S8, will fill the full screen.
Hopefully Snapchat will include a way for you to pick a screen ratio, but i doubt it.
Infiniteey said:
I don't think its technically "zoomed" in. If you compare what you see in Snapchat to default camera, you will notice that you still see the same amount of vertical image. But because of the 18.5:9 screen ratio and the way Snapchat works, it crops off a lot of the side image. Same goes for the back camera. And yes, S7 and S6 have much wider front facing camera, it was probably reduced to fit in the focusing mechanisms.
I've noticed if you view Snaps with a 16:9, the top and bottom will be letter boxed. Where as my friends who have also an S8, will fill the full screen.
Hopefully Snapchat will include a way for you to pick a screen ratio, but i doubt it.
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Damn, I would take the wider aperture over the auto focus any day.
I'm glad i'm not the only one having issues putting doggo filters on selfies
How Is the Snapchat Camera quality ? Is it still same old not so good on android ?
jordy787 said:
How Is the Snapchat Camera quality ? Is it still same old not so good on android ?
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yea you can definitely tell the difference. i usually just take a normal photo and then use snapchat and select from gallery
I've also noticed this. I hope they fix it. It really annoys me?
Yeah the option to opt out of full screen crop mode is greyed out! I hate the S8 cropping out my pictures and other peoples pictures
I'm having this same problem and it's driving me NUTS. It makes me not want to use snapchat anymore. Grrrrrr.
Horrible hope they fix this!! I don't need close ups of every pore showing up on my face in Snapchat.
Its also pretty annoying where sometimes you can't swipe out of a story (swipe up to get the soft keys to show and then back) as swipe up from the bottom is also "chat" within Snapchat.
My instagram does this too!!! So frustrating. I have to use my normal camera on my s8 and then use the gallery option to edit it on Instagram . I hope it gets sorted!
This is awful, I've had the phone a few weeks and as soon as I used snapchat I noticed how close it seemed to my face, every single pore! What the hell is that about!
Its November now and you guys noticed it earlier in the year.. I'm guessing there is no fix

Stock camera app changing default resolution

Have been having issues with the stock camera app. I always set HDR to auto and resolution to full 4:3 12mp, however i have noticed that sometimes i will open the camera app and it will have turned off HDR and set back to 16:9 9.1mp.
Doesn't seem to happen all the time. Its not really a big issue but am wondering if anyone else has experienced this.
Model : SM-G935W8 running latest Rogers Rom not rooted.

Google HDR+ vs Stock Camera

Hi guys,
So I have Google camera installed and works smooth while taking pictures compare to the stock camera.
But I have a question here in the comparison of both.
Attached is the comparison collage for same shot on stock camera and Google camera. In the Google camera, for the sky, it creates the color using dots which are clearly visible when I zoom in. And it is something which is bothering me.
Can anyone here tell me, if I am using some wrong settings or it is there in every setting?
I have the dots also, didn't find what's causing them, but version 5.0.009 gives me much less dots, so try to find that version and see if it helps.
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sunshinebhushan said:
Hi guys,
So I have Google camera installed and works smooth while taking pictures compare to the stock camera.
But I have a question here in the comparison of both.
Attached is the comparison collage for same shot on stock camera and Google camera. In the Google camera, for the sky, it creates the color using dots which are clearly visible when I zoom in. And it is something which is bothering me.
Can anyone here tell me, if I am using some wrong settings or it is there in every setting?
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same problem here, did you find a solution?
I have tried several different Gcam versions, types and configurations and all of them had this behavior with HDR engine activated. Gcam might need additional fix for our phone :-\
here is my comparison video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIZBvtrKi8k
i use version Arnova's 5.1.018_v1.2
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/
without problem
harFa said:
i use version Arnova's 5.1.018_v1.2
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/
without problem
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Nope, still the same problem. It's extremely easy to replicate, just take HDR photo of Kinder surprise yellow egg (or anything similar). It will show dotted pattern no matter what. The same pattern is visible on light uniform color (sky, wall,..).
_mysiak_: i try it now and i have same problem :/ ...but i must zoom in this photo, otherwise I can not see dots
Photo - yellow wall
https://imgur.com/2IWdI90
I see it too. I switched back to MGC_5.1.018_7.0+c2API_Min_2a_AllInOne (December 12) and it does'nt appear to have this problem. I was on 3a and it had this problem. I'm using the Pixel setting (Marlin + Taimen) as device, with Pixel auto HDR+ and ZSL enabled.
goofball2k said:
I see it too. I switched back to MGC_5.1.018_7.0+c2API_Min_2a_AllInOne (December 12) and it does'nt appear to have this problem. I was on 3a and it had this problem. I'm using the Pixel setting (Marlin + Taimen) as device, with Pixel auto HDR+ and ZSL enabled.
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Just tried it and even this version failed my yellow test, pattern still visible.
Edit: 5.1.018 versions crash on my phone here and there, so I'm back to "stable" MGC_5.1.014_7.0H_C2API_v.1.5g_AllinOne
_mysiak_ said:
Just tried it and even this version failed my yellow test, pattern still visible.
Edit: 5.1.018 versions crash on my phone here and there, so I'm back to "stable" MGC_5.1.014_7.0H_C2API_v.1.5g_AllinOne
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Try these settings and app version from a photographer using our phone.
Just tried the photographer config and I can still see the dotted pattern.
My hope is that Xiaomi can upgrade the camera with android O update next week (and add image stabilization)
tosmopolitan said:
Try these settings and app version from a photographer using our phone.
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You are right, pattern is not visible, but also output of HDR+ isn't so good :\ I would even say that's it's pretty much on the same level as stock camera app.
I have tried almost all versions and settings combinations and it seems that we either have amazing HDR mode with strange pattern or HDR with low details and no mysterious pattern.
Try 3.5 BSG version. I've tried the AllinOne_Full_Manual 3.5 version and it doesn't appear to have the blocks. Using the same test subject, and I noticed that all versions from current all the way back to 1.2 have this flaw. I am working my way up on the versions, got to 3.7 and 4.0 but I can't get HDR to actually process.

Images and videos don't auto-rotate anymore (OOS10)

Hello!
I've updated to the current OOS10 open beta and now if I take photos or record videos, they are not rotated anymore when viewing them in the Google Photos app. Usually after taking a photo by holding the phone horizontally, the image rotated when viewing the photo holding the phone vertically.
Please help!
jackennils said:
Hello!
I've updated to the current OOS10 open beta and now if I take photos or record videos, they are not rotated anymore when viewing them in the Google Photos app. Usually after taking a photo by holding the phone horizontally, the image rotated when viewing the photo holding the phone vertically.
Please help!
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Install stable rom instead of the beta. Beta has ended. I hope that will probably fix it.
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jackennils said:
Hello!
I've updated to the current OOS10 open beta and now if I take photos or record videos, they are not rotated anymore when viewing them in the Google Photos app. Usually after taking a photo by holding the phone horizontally, the image rotated when viewing the photo holding the phone vertically.
Please help!
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Here is the link for the stable A10 OOS in case you interested in updating your phone
https://www.xda-developers.com/oneplus-6-oneplus-6t-stable-oxygenos-10-android-10/#disqus_thread
I can concur with exactly the same problem. After googling I appened the reddit user post with same issue.
Nothing fixes it to me (In reddit there was a reboot and other suggestions). Nothing worked for me at all and like you it's extremely irritating that all videos and photos in landscape are wrongly oriented. Everything else I can sort of grumpily cope with.
If you upload photos to google photos then shift+R allows for rotation but that's hardly a solution is it and doesn't work for videos obviously.
So yes, its a nightmare, and every day I press the update button in the forlorn hope that there is a new beta to fix this
My config is Oneplus 6T with OP6T_O2_BETA_30
regards mb
amouses said:
I can concur with exactly the same problem. After googling I appened the reddit user post with same issue.
Nothing fixes it to me (In reddit there was a reboot and other suggestions). Nothing worked for me at all and like you it's extremely irritating that all videos and photos in landscape are wrongly oriented. Everything else I can sort of grumpily cope with.
If you upload photos to google photos then shift+R allows for rotation but that's hardly a solution is it and doesn't work for videos obviously.
So yes, its a nightmare, and every day I press the update button in the forlorn hope that there is a new beta to fix this
My config is Oneplus 6T with OP6T_O2_BETA_30
regards mb
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You mean rotation doesn't working at all?...
I don't understand exactly the issue...
Also on beta android 10.. everything works great..
Any foto or video working properly on google photos
i had few issues with rotation in the beginning right after updating to android 10...
I've made a clean flash from this beta..and all bugs or glitches are fixed...
I recommend to wipe data on recovery and start from scratch
Yes. To be clear no rotation works.
Except an explicit button say on YouTube
That would perform.
To debug further I loaded cpu-z and noticed that
If you goto sensors tab it's completely blank
Also from phone
*#808#
Device debugging
Sensor self test
Also gives totally blank.
So the tilt ska autorotate and perhaps more is
Busted.
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If you get it, you'll realise how flippin annoying
It is
amouses said:
Yes. To be clear no rotation works.
Except an explicit button say on YouTube
That would perform.
To debug further I loaded cpu-z and noticed that
If you goto sensors tab it's completely blank
Also from phone
*#808#
Device debugging
Sensor self test
Also gives totally blank.
So the tilt ska autorotate and perhaps more is
Busted.
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If you get it, you'll realise how flippin annoying
It is
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Also rotation and all the sensors didn't work for me after dirty flash the Q from pie...
After wiped data on recovery .. Everything works great

Video issues with Teams/Duo

I was struggling with my phone freaking out while doing video chat on either Teams and Duo. Both apps did the same thing and I provided feedback to their developers that it appeared to start on my note 20 ultra 5g when android 11 landed.
Today I realized that if I changed my video resolution for the phone display from FHD+ to WQHD+ the freezing stops altogether...
Anyone else able to test this out?
My video Resolution is set to 16:9 FHD 1920x1080 (30 fps) and I use Duo to TeleHealth VideoChat with two different Doctors on a regular basis with absolutely no problems! Works great - Android 11/OneUI 3.0. I don't use "Teams" - hate it!!!
jimd1050 said:
My video Resolution is set to 16:9 FHD 1920x1080 (30 fps) and I use Duo to TeleHealth VideoChat with two different Doctors on a regular basis with absolutely no problems! Works great - Android 11/OneUI 3.0
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I only have these three options
Yeah, that's screen resolution under "Display" - that's what I have also. What I was talking about was in Camera Video Settings! Open you're camera, go to settings and look for "Front Video Size" - select 16:9, then open the Resolution and see all the choices and grab what I said before.
jimd1050 said:
Yeah, that's screen resolution under "Display" - that's what I have also. What I was talking about was in Camera Video Settings! Open you're camera, go to settings and look for "Front Video Size"
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I will have to check that out because that makes me wonder if the bug is a scaling issue between showing the preview of your camera on your display at different resolutions
I actually don't think one has anything to do with the other - my setting is probably what we're recording at to send to the other party!!! I have to log off so I'll check back later...
jimd1050 said:
I actually don't think one has anything to do with the other - my setting is probably what we're recording at to send to the other party!!! I have to log off so I'll check back later...
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I checked and that's what mine was already. When using duo can you exit the app (while still on the call) and bounce between apps without issue?
dottat said:
I checked and that's what mine was already. When using duo can you exit the app (while still on the call) and bounce between apps without issue?
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Sorry, just got your question AND I'm not staying - I have never tried, like I said, I only use it for Doctor's Appointments and never have a need to leave during the appointment. Short Telehealth Appointments and done... over and out! ??? Hope that helped!

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