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Is there a way to not use bright Mode when taking photos. I am finding it is making medium to close up shots too bright and over exposed. I can't believe there isn't an option in the camera settings not to use it. with the normal mode the images seem too look ok in the preview then the bright mode ruins it when you take the shot.
anyone else experienced this?
Is it just me then?
Have you tried changing the brightness settings? You can also adjust the Contrast, Saturation and Sharpness in the Advanced settings.
I personally haven't had any problems with shots being too bright and over exposed.
you probably haven't used your flash then! try taking a picture of a group at dinner, looks fine in preview then bright-mode turns everone into ghosts!
richardirv said:
Is it just me then?
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No it's me too..................
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=588153&highlight=dissapointing+camera
mkent_barbados said:
you probably haven't used your flash then! try taking a picture of a group at dinner, looks fine in preview then bright-mode turns everone into ghosts!
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Ah ha, finally someone who knows what I am talking about.
Me too, its rediculous. Trying to take close up pics of people faces, everyone has their eyes closed! Its as bright as a xenon flash but instead of flashig for a split second, it stays on for over a second!
Wow, that is strange. I have no such issue when using flash. My white balance is set to auto and picture quality at super fine. My only issue when using the flash is that my face seems blushed rather than flushed.
for me its not about the quaity of the photo or any settings, its just the fact that the flash blinds people
I agree, even my black friends are coming out white.
I've found a way around it,
already posted it too, but no one seems to be caring.
Install the App TorchButton.
Then, before taking a picture at night in closeup (with overexposure usually)
Turn on Torchbutton (mode 1 bright or mode 2 very bright), then go to camera and disable camera flash. Torch button Flash still stays on and the camera now meters the current brightness and doesnt add any bright mode anymore.
Now you get quite decent pictures.
It sounds complicated but it works great on closeup pics
Example of the difference below
Pic1 camera without Torchbutton
alibehzad said:
I've found a way around it,
already posted it too, but no one seems to be caring.
Install the App TorchButton.
Then, before taking a picture at night in closeup (with overexposure usually)
Turn on Torchbutton (mode 1 bright or mode 2 very bright), then go to camera and disable camera flash. Torch button Flash still stays on and the camera now meters the current brightness and doesnt add any bright mode anymore.
Now you get quite decent pictures.
It sounds complicated but it works great on closeup pics
Example of the difference below
Pic1 camera without Torchbutton
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Thanks for the heads up
I updated my ROM to 1.48 and now I have the exact same "bright" problem and man is it annoying. I'll take a look at the reg to see if anything has changed.
fredskis said:
I agree, even my black friends are coming out white.
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hahaha now that's funny. agreed, same problem here. in fact my wife says i cant take picture of the kids anymore because it makes them cry its so bright lmfao.
i never thought that i would hear the camera flash on a mobile phone being "too bright" and blinding people
Getting mine tomorrow.. Stupid fedex already has it in my town since morning but won't deliver because it's not due until tomorrow!
here4info said:
i never thought that i would hear the camera flash on a mobile phone being "too bright" and blinding people
Getting mine tomorrow.. Stupid fedex already has it in my town since morning but won't deliver because it's not due until tomorrow!
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yup, and all of this after the problem of there not being enough lightin the past. lol one extreme to another
alibehzad said:
I've found a way around it,
already posted it too, but no one seems to be caring.
Install the App TorchButton.
Then, before taking a picture at night in closeup (with overexposure usually)
Turn on Torchbutton (mode 1 bright or mode 2 very bright), then go to camera and disable camera flash. Torch button Flash still stays on and the camera now meters the current brightness and doesnt add any bright mode anymore.
Now you get quite decent pictures.
It sounds complicated but it works great on closeup pics
Example of the difference below
Pic1 camera without Torchbutton
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Thanks for the work around, but I'm sure you will agree that in most cases when you just want to take a quick snap we will either forget to turn torch on or just won't be bothered because you don't want to fiddle around. It would be nice to have a button in the camera to turn bright mode off.
Lets hope HTC are listening to the forum! and not got the blinkers on!
Is there any tweak out there to reduce the brightness ? Every picture is over-exposed when the flash is activated.
Thanks.
fredskis said:
I agree, even my black friends are coming out white.
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yeah right on koala
richardirv said:
Thanks for the work around, but I'm sure you will agree that in most cases when you just want to take a quick snap we will either forget to turn torch on or just won't be bothered because you don't want to fiddle around. It would be nice to have a button in the camera to turn bright mode off.
Lets hope HTC are listening to the forum! and not got the blinkers on!
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The issue behind this is that the camera meters and focuses on the initial flash (assist flash) and then when you press the shutter button, the bright flash (shutter flash) comes up leaving no time for the camera to react to the new light conditions.
I've found that in these circumstances the best is to set forced flash on so that the metering is done properly.
What is this for? I can't even figure out why it comes on exactly. It's not coming on as a notification light, not when docked with zune, seems like it only comes on sometimes when I plug in. It's around one of the sensors, and it's just bugging me that I can't figure out what it's for.
When you plug in what?
My charger, but I can't be certain. I know I've seen it light up, a red circle around the round sensor, but it's rare and random. No big deal, just curious ya' know?
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Around what sensor
I haven't see any lights in my focus. Can you take a picture?
I think you are talking about the proximity sensor
yeah I believe it's the proximity sensor. It's whatever one is closest to the speaker. I can try to take a picture, I just don't know exactly what triggers it so it'll be kinda hard. It's a ring around the sensor, lights up red. I was really hoping it was a notification light, but alas, MS did not give us one.
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yeah I believe it's the proximity sensor. It's whatever one is closest to the speaker. I can try to take a picture, I just don't know exactly what triggers it so it'll be kinda hard. It's a ring around the sensor, lights up red. I was really hoping it was a notification light, but alas, MS did not give us one.
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Ha ha...too funny. We have all been lobbying for years to have LED's taken off of phones as battery drains and sure enough once somebody does, the complaints come in "Where is my red LED?"
I suppose that the only option is to make the phones with the LED's and then have a setting to turn LED notifications off. Those never seem to really work though.
Paolo01 said:
Ha ha...too funny. We have all been lobbying for years to have LED's taken off of phones as battery drains and sure enough once somebody does, the complaints come in "Where is my red LED?"
I suppose that the only option is to make the phones with the LED's and then have a setting to turn LED notifications off. Those never seem to really work though.
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now that you mention it....back in my nextel days, I sure hated that little blinking light. Especially at night in the car. hmmmmmmm...
When I use the flashlight app one of the lights on the face will flicker on and off after about thirty seconds and then turn off. I was wondering if anyone else was having issues using the flashlight app and whether its a defect, or just buggy software?
It happened to mine when I had it for a while.
Not sure why it flickers on/off when it could shut off one led, which they do get hot at extended uses.
normal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-eye_effect
Using the red-eye reduction capabilities built into many modern cameras. These precede the main flash with a series of short, low-power flashes, or a continuous piercing bright light triggering the iris to contract. (This should not be confused with the autofocus assist beam, which uses a series of flashes for focus instead.)
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When I use the flashlight app one of the lights on the face will flicker on and off after about thirty seconds and then turn off. I was wondering if anyone else was having issues using the flashlight app and whether its a defect, or just buggy software?
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I got my Atrix replaced. The replacement Atrix's LED flash is yellowish now but at least it's not flickering.
squarejp said:
I got my Atrix replaced. The replacement Atrix's LED flash is yellowish now but at least it's not flickering.
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The one with the flickering wasn't Yellow?
The outside bulb has done that on my phone as well. I used the app search light. I tried it again the next day for a shorter time span and both bulbs lit up normally. There might be a work around. Auto-off flash first? No clue... I'd like to know, if anyone figures this out.
My right LED flickers on and off after about 15 seconds then switches off. After about 30-45 seconds both start flickering on and off.
This happens when recording videos or when using Droid Light :/ Faulty?
I have the same problem on my Atrix, but I was like, "Eh, one is fine for me, I don't care too much". It seems moody, as sometimes both light up for extended peiods, sometimes only one lights up, and some times the left one flickers..
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I left the LEDs on using 'Tiny Flashlight + LED' app for 2-3 hours the day I got the phone as I tried to accelerate battery drain. They never flickered or turned off.
Sidenote: This phone's battery lasts forever!
This is a major defect in these devices!!!!!! I recommend everyone test their leds with a light or camera app. I retured 4 phones due to this issue. My brother and his wife also replaced multiple atrix's to resolve. You only have 30 day from ORIGINAL purchase date to resolve this issuse. After that you must go through warranty which will only issue refurbished phones. That is phone that were defective that they fixed. Dont get screwed. Great phone nonetheless.
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The one with the flickering wasn't Yellow?
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My LEDs don't flicker at all, but I have noticed (is everyone's like this?) that there is an inner circle where the light is white/blue and the outer circle is yellow.
Now that you mention it, yeah the center is white/blue with yellow around it.
I'm trying keeping the light on again, at 10 minutes now. The LEDs are getting hotter than I remember from the first time around... like now the temperature stings the finger a bit.
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20 minutes no flickering and both LEDs are still on, turning it off now.
Just experienced this weird thing so.wanted to let you guys know.
I am sure many of u will be using countless torch and heart rate monitor apps out there.
Today I was using heart rate monitor app for first time on this phone and the damn thing got so hot so quickly that out almost burned my finger tip after just 20 odd seconds.
Expecting something.might be wrong with the app, I started torch app, and same thing. It got hot.enough.to cause burn.
So just a friendly advice, dont use it for long period. Its getting too hot for my.comfort to even use it as video flash or torch for more than few seconds
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tried "flashlight" and did not experienced the problems you mentioned. switched the LED on for 30secs, after that the LED wasn't even warm...
I just ran a flashlight app for a good few minutes didn't even get remotely warm. Was just as cool as it was without running the LED. So no issues (bar accidently blinding myself, christ that things bright)
Its more severe with heart rate monitor apps when your finger needs to be touching LED and camera lens.
None of the phones before this caused any discomfort using this app. But you cant keep your finger next to the LED of this phone.
Try it even with torch app, put your finger steady on the led and wait for 30 seconds.
I didn't even know LEDs could cause that much heat
OP - yes this LED heats quite well especially when you cover it with your finger to prevent heat dissipating.
Guys who claim your LEDs do not heat up - "you are doing it wrong" , all LEDs heat up, it is a physical process. Your battery heats up too when being charged or discharged rapidly. Your Amoled screen heats up too. Electronics - no current will pass through it without heating it up. How much is another question.
Exactly, this one heats up lot more when you cover it for apps like heart rate monitor compared to say DHD or Nexus S or any other phone I have used recently.
DHD will feel luke worm and stay that way regardless how long you use it.
This one gets toasty way too quickly.
You got it completely wrong, it's not a bug, it's a FEATURE. When you take the pulse of the unconscious person (surely after consulting the CPR app), the blistering heat of the phone LED will restart their heart!
2 FEATURES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!
That's value if I ever saw it.
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You got it completely wrong, it's not a bug, it's a FEATURE. When you take the pulse of the unconscious person (surely after consulting the CPR app), the blistering heat of the phone LED will restart their heart!
2 FEATURES FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!
That's value if I ever saw it.
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You got it wrong. You measure your heart rate, make sure you are still healthy, and then light up a cigarette with the LED lens.
What app is it to turn the led on ?
and there i was thinking i was the only one who couldn't handle the heat using the heart rate monitor apps, definitely gets much hotter than my desire ever did
eddie21 said:
What app is it to turn the led on ?
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There is many flashlight apps on the market. A light one I am using - Search Light
Also try out the Heart Rate Monitor mentioned by the OP in this thread - this is the app where you hold your finger to the camera covering the LED light.
Have you thought about sending the Dev of the heart-rate app a request for them to add a bit of functionalitly to adjust the light output of the LED ?
I suspect that the LED is a much, much higher rater Lumen output unit compared to all other phones. This provides all of us with better 'flashes' when taking photos. The heart rate monitor apps will not need all that light to just shine into the skin to detect the color changes as blood pulses through the capilaries. I bet you that the heart-rate monitor app developers never considered that they'd have an LED that bright to use. So a simple way to fix it would be to have a setting in the app that you adjust to get the LED only as bright as absolutely necessary. You then save the setting, and from then on the app only turns the LED on to that brightness. This would then stop the LED from heating up so quickly.
The only flaw in my above plan / suggestion is that I don't know if the LED brightness can be adjusted.
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Have you thought about sending the Dev of the heart-rate app a request for them to add a bit of functionalitly to adjust the light output of the LED ?
I suspect that the LED is a much, much higher rater Lumen output unit compared to all other phones. This provides all of us with better 'flashes' when taking photos. The heart rate monitor apps will not need all that light to just shine into the skin to detect the color changes as blood pulses through the capilaries. I bet you that the heart-rate monitor app developers never considered that they'd have an LED that bright to use. So a simple way to fix it would be to have a setting in the app that you adjust to get the LED only as bright as absolutely necessary. You then save the setting, and from then on the app only turns the LED on to that brightness. This would then stop the LED from heating up so quickly.
The only flaw in my above plan / suggestion is that I don't know if the LED brightness can be adjusted.
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This is a good idea, bu I bet hard to implement. Agree on your last point. According to comments on that particular app that I linked above, the dev has problems switching ON the LED on the huge number of Androphones out there. Every phone would have a proprietary LED with its own driver, and I am guessing limited Android API directly for the LED? I am not a dev though , can't speak to this with authority.
turned on the led with flashlight app but after 2min i got bored. Im not sure if the led warmed up or my bodyheat warmed up the led but in any case it was still far far from hot.
Covering a bright light source with your fingertip generates heat? You don't say!
Come on guys, where do you think all the light energy goes to if it can't escape your finger? Conservation of energy, anyone? First law of thermodynamics?
Not getting hot when o use it either
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mchimney said:
I didn't even know LEDs could cause that much heat
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Some of the higher power LEDs require heat sinks.
Madrenergic said:
Covering a bright light source with your fingertip generates heat? You don't say!
Come on guys, where do you think all the light energy goes to if it can't escape your finger? Conservation of energy, anyone? First law of thermodynamics?
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Light energy need not always be converted to heat energy.
the blood circulation actually helps to take heat away from the hot spot.
This is first phone that can actually harm you if you do not move your finger. Human finger is not a solid passive body, so just imagine how much infra red energy this source is putting out.
The aim of this thread was to make people aware of it. Imagine what can happen if you left torch on and kept it on table facing down.
My last 2 phones DHD and Nexus S comes nowhere near this.
But gotta say that heart rate app works best on sgs2 due to this. You can actually see the light pulsating with your heart beat.
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Out of curiosity downloaded the app (Instant Heart Rate - Free) and tried it.
I thought the app was some novelty crap but it really does seem to work .
Held my finger to the LED/Camera for almost 3 minutes, got slightly warm but nowhere near uncomfortable.
How to solve it? Thanks everyone.
Settings-display-turn off notification light.
Oh, it is not always light, but a little light.
I think you need to elaborate a little bit, not really sure what you are experiencing. Do you have a camera so you can take a photo of what you are seeing?
Yeah, could you take a photo to make yourself clearer please? I can't tell if you mean a small amount of light (i.e. the backlight of the display is still on) or a physically little light (i.e. the notification LED).
But no problems in the day, the problem is happens at night, when I lock my screen, there is little light on my screen, I fell worried. I can't take a photo, because photos can't press the problem. the problem is happened when all the lights have turn off.
https://www.google.de/search?ie=UTF...ht+bleed&redir_esc=&ei=61ZpUfylDdHo4QTQxoGIDg
skyme said:
But no problems in the day, the problem is happens at night, when I lock my screen, there is little light on my screen, I fell worried. I can't take a photo, because photos can't press the problem. the problem is happened when all the lights have turn off.
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So are you saying that your screen stays on when you try to lock it? Do you mean that the backlight always stays on and you only notice this issue when it's all dark?
How is your battery life? If your screen stays on I'd expect your battery to not last very long...
Still confused about your particular situation though
Oooh light bleed? Mine has one visible when booting on google loading screen
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I think he's talking about that light when you press the power button. The transition effect. It looks like when you power off the TV. The old TV with the big butt.
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scream4cheese said:
I think he's talking about that light when you press the power button. The transition effect. It looks like when you power off the TV. The old TV with the big butt.
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But he says it's only happening at night... a power-off CRT animation would happen all the time
A quick look on the forum page and you can sort of tell this guy "skyme" is trolling for entertainment purposes. This post claims there is a light when you lock the screen at night, and his other post asks whether he can run Gingerbread 2.3 on his nexus 4.
Quit trolling and get a job buddy
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https://www.google.de/search?ie=UTF...ht+bleed&redir_esc=&ei=61ZpUfylDdHo4QTQxoGIDg
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my phone has this , is it ok ??
help how do i phone? pls help
But it is not the case, I just ask my question.
hoangtungst said:
my phone has this , is it ok ??
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Light bleed shouldn't be too much of a concern, because most of the time your screen will not be black and you will not be in complete darkness so the "problem" shouldn't be noticeable.
You are right. But it is really a problem. And thanks all the same.