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Why does video on 2.1 suck compared to 1.5?

I've tried re-encoding the movies and messing with the settings, but I always end up with much crappier video than when it played on 1.5. I don't remember 1.5 having the banding issues in the darker colors, but in 2.1 it's really quite horrible. Has anyone found a solution to this? Even youtube videos look like garbage. I thought the final release would possibly fix this, but it hasn't.

They have the 2.1 source now, so expect fixes in the camera since thats everyone's problem lol maybe they can implement 1.5 camera in the 2.1 rom who knows.

Powers16 said:
They have the 2.1 source now, so expect fixes in the camera since thats everyone's problem lol maybe they can implement 1.5 camera in the 2.1 rom who knows.
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Devs had 2.1 source before, and have had for a long time. What devs do NOT have is source for the HTC .29 kernel (yet).

It's not really the camera I'm talking about... I probably should have been clear. lol Sorry, I was just a little disappointed..
I have some movies that I ripped from my dvd collection that I watch once in a while on my phone. On 1.5, I never noticed any "Banding" issues. The video would be smooth and look really good. But since I updated to 2.1 (custom roms with leaks) the video just looks like crap, especially if it's darker. You can see pixelated areas and severe banding. Especially in Total Recall and The Thing from Another Planet (1950s one). The darker areas are just crappy looking. Tons of banding issues and pixelation.

Those of you who dont know what banding is..
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**edit** i havent recorded a video since fresh 2.0d and i just now recorded a video on the new 2.1 oc fresh toast rom and i get this lol. Very odd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5kh1aq3g-o

I personally have not noticed this. I cannot imagine that it has to do with your conversion software/format, but I use videora without any issues. It's made for an iPhone but works perfectly for our heros since they have the same resolution. Might be worth a look.

Handbrake for the win.

tstack77 said:
I personally have not noticed this. I cannot imagine that it has to do with your conversion software/format, but I use videora without any issues. It's made for an iPhone but works perfectly for our heros since they have the same resolution. Might be worth a look.
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Iphone has A 1.3 MP Camera the Hero has 5 MP Camera they dont have the same resolution. The hero is capable of downgrading to a 1.3 resolution.

Powers16 said:
Iphone has A 1.3 MP Camera the Hero has 5 MP Camera they dont have the same resolution. The hero is capable of downgrading to a 1.3 resolution.
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Screen resolution and camera resolution are two completely different things.

My bad i thought he meant camera Res

Dochoppy said:
Handbrake for the win.
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.......yup yup.........

I've used both videora and Handbrake. I mostly have used Handbrake, but I went as far as downloading a crap ton of others to try them out and nothing fixed it, no matter how many times I tweaked the settings.
Do any of you watch movies? Not ones made by the camera on the phone, I'm talking about real movies from DVDs.

CodeMonk said:
I've used both videora and Handbrake. I mostly have used Handbrake, but I went as far as downloading a crap ton of others to try them out and nothing fixed it, no matter how many times I tweaked the settings.
Do any of you watch movies? Not ones made by the camera on the phone, I'm talking about real movies from DVDs.
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The screen resolution on the hero to me wouldn't be all too great to watch movies from. I think the EVO might be better for that among other things.

markus_del_marko said:
The screen resolution on the hero to me wouldn't be all too great to watch movies from. I think the EVO might be better for that among other things.
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It worked fine on 1.5. Screen resolution has nothing to do with it.

Xperia™ XZ Premium Android 8.0/Oreo Rolling-Out [47.1.A.3.254] / 23.10.2017

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thank you for this confirmation !

It's actually true. Thank you so much sir.
Downloading through XperiFirm right now
Best birthday gift ever lol

This is siny, number one in software

How to flashing this update without losing DRM keys ?

Ugh I have to wait till my battery is at least 50% before I can install this! So excited tho!!
Edit: my auto brightness is way too overly aggressive now. Have to turn it off

Yes finally we have oreo in sony xperia xz premium. Thanks sony

how to flash without any trouble ?

True

Looks like its rolling out only for dual sim version at the moment but i guess who has the single sim will have it in 1-2 days

Pictures

I just updated my G8142 to 8.0 through Wi-Fi. Phone is really much faster awesome. Rest of my experience I will share later when I will explore it more.

Only for dual for now but checked xpericheck and the single sim has a commercial and journalism that's been updated so expect maybe by the end of the month max

any new things on camera?

Our Android 8.0 Oreo* rollout starts from today**, with Xperia XZ Premium*** – some of the neat new features for this device include:
3D Creator – Our acclaimed 3D scanning feature first introduced with Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact. It lets you scan your face, head, food or any object, rendering it as a 3D avatar or free-form image in less than 60 seconds, and makes it easy to share on social media with friends or 3D print
Predictive Capture (smile) – Never miss an unexpected ? again, as Predictive Capture automatically starts buffering images when it detects a smile (even before you press the shutter button), allowing you to pick the best from a selection of up to four shots
Autofocus burst – Recognises, tracks and captures sequences of moving objects in sharp focus for blur-free action shots
Improved sound quality – Tuning improvements to the front-facing stereo speakers, and Qualcomm® aptX™ HD audio**** support for high-quality sounds when using wireless headphones
App Shortcuts – Re-imagined app shortcuts, which allow easy access to actions menus by long pressing the app icon
Software rollouts are a phased process

Are the speakers actually louder now or am I just assuming things?
Loving the update so far. Glad that they've included 4k in default video settings.
Also, is that a new setting for ISO in manual cam mode?

alex134679 said:
any new things on camera?
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Yes, anything about camera distortion?

indusporus said:
Are the speakers actually louder now or am I just assuming things?
Loving the update so far. Glad that they've included 4k in default video settings.
Also, is that a new setting for ISO in manual cam mode?
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I don't think you are assuming about the speakers. One of the things that was included was "speakers sound enhancement".

tomo100brt said:
Yes, anything about camera distortion?
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alex134679 said:
any new things on camera?
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Yes, distortion is practically solved

Has the 4K HDR playback issue on YouTube been solved with the Oreo update?

camera?

I had my essential but returned it due to numerous issues. Have software updates done anything major to the camera? Is it anywhere close to the pixel now?

Nope nor will ever be anything like Pixel camera. It's more like 2015 ish camera quality.

km8j said:
I had my essential but returned it due to numerous issues. Have software updates done anything major to the camera? Is it anywhere close to the pixel now?
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Camera is great with gcam. Stock app is still bad and compresses the pics. They just pushed another update today. I just took a pic using both came and gcam file size was 4.47 mbs while stock app was 1.4 mbs. Not sure why they can fix that but it's never going to be good compressing pics like that.

Gcam. 4.0., 3.8c settings.
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bill3508 said:
Gcam. 4.0., 3.8c settings.
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Where'd you get that gcam port from??

mpetruzz said:
Where'd you get that gcam port from??
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/themes/google-camera-port-t3665197

How about low light?

Bump

Has the quality drastically improved after the update? Any side by side comparisons of gcam and stock as I'm looking to buy this today

ermacwins said:
Has the quality drastically improved after the update? Any side by side comparisons of gcam and stock as I'm looking to buy this today
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I had an LG v30 and took multiple pics and showed them to my wife on my laptop. Out of 20 or so comparisons there were only 1 or 2 that she felt looked different and they weren't even that bad.
Is it going to beat the Pixel 2 no. Is it a more than capable phone that takes great pics most of the time, yeah!!
After the recent update it's WAY better than when it launched and I'm actually liking it.

Performance, both visually and functionally, has improved greatly from when I first bought the phone earlier this month after the drop to $499. Pictures are still compressed, would be great if they'd get rid of that, but to my/my wife's eyes, *that* is the difference between GCam and Essential Camera. It's like the pictures it takes are good quality, and then it compresses them down to less-than-good quality. GCam doesn't compress, and is visually nicer, but can be a bit of a pain to get the settings right. For quick/social media pictures, the camera is just fine, and hopefully soon they'll either give an option for disabling compression or just disable it altogether, which would (I believe) drastically increase picture quality. Until then, almost any other camera app that doesn't compress will be better.
Also, I've found the quality of the B&W pictures to be considerably better than they were, and that has also increased the quality of the low-light photos (though they still suffer from the same compression artifacting).
Short answer - if you're able to get it from Amazon for the $400 with the 360 Camera, it's well worth the price. It is an amazing phone for the current price.

Did they add EIS for video recording? If so does it also work I'm google camera?

The issue isn't the lens or optics. The camera hardware is legit.
The problem was the dodgy camera app which Essential has been ACTIVELY fixing and releasing speedy updates for.
I have an Essential; hell I'm writing this post from it right now; and I can tell you that with all the updates that Essential had pushed out, the native camera so had gotten MUCH better.
The stock camera is still about 1-2 updates from being perfect so in the meantime I alterenate between the stock camera app and the Google HDR+ app depending on what I'm doing and the effect I'm going for.
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Camera2 API support?

Does this phone have it?
If yes, is the support enabled by default? Or do we need to root and enable it later by editing the build.prop?
Can someone with this phone post a screenshot of this app? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.weis.camera2probe

Hi awaaas,
Looking for this phone too? I have created the lounge at kaskus, you might want to check it out. Reminds me of old days.
Unfortunately, no C2A support yet, at least not in the demo unit.
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Desmanto said:
Hi awaaas,
Looking for this phone too? I have created the lounge at kaskus, you might want to check it out. Reminds me of old days.
Unfortunately, no C2A support yet, at least not in the demo unit.
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Long time no see, bud... :highfive:
One of my relatives wants this phone, just want to make sure some of the phone's capabilities that reviewers often left out. For comparison, Redmi Note 5 Pro, the one that compared to this phone a lot, has Camera2 API support, but only if you edit the build.prop first (according to my friend that have it, I don't actually have that phone).
For me myself, I might will be still using my Mi 5s for foreseable future...

awaaas said:
Long time no see, bud... :highfive:
One of my relatives wants this phone, just want to make sure some of the phone's capabilities that reviewers often left out. For comparison, Redmi Note 5 Pro, the one that compared to this phone a lot, has Camera2 API support, but only if you edit the build.prop first (according to my friend that have it, I don't actually have that phone).
For me myself, I might will be still using my Mi 5s for foreseable future...
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:highfive: Yeah, probably several years.
If me, it is me myself who are looking for this phone. RN5P still disabled the C2A, need (temporary) root to enable it. Same with this phone, if no C2A support out of box, at least we can enable it using the same method. But there is a rumour about major OTA update at 30 April. We expect to see a lot of improvement compared to the somewhat "beta" ROM from the media review unit. Let's hope to see the C2A has been enabled in this major update.

Desmanto said:
Hi awaaas,
Looking for this phone too? I have created the lounge at kaskus, you might want to check it out. Reminds me of old days.
Unfortunately, no C2A support yet, at least not in the demo unit.
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what about slowmotion and 1080p 60fps ?

mohtaprashantrocks said:
what about slowmotion and 1080p 60fps ?
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Haven't seen it anywhere yet. Only the 4K DCI/UHD and the 1080p has EIS already in the retail unit. The camera app seems will be updated tomorrow to support it. Hopefully, we can see the C2A support too in the next update.

Gcam will not work without camera api2 ! Let's wait and see...

Hope they will update to add support soon. Don't let the stock camera app be the limiting factor of image quality!

I hope someone comes with a GCam port for this phone. As far as what I tested, the phone's rear cam is quite good (except for very low light scenarios).
Also, the front cam desperately needs better balance in colors, dynamic range. Currently, selfie quality is quite decent, the colors are not accurate/natural even under good light (skin has a red tinge). And overall, brightness, noise level etc., could be tweaked a bit too.
Any suggestions for a different app that can bring out better photos out of the front cam??

ramdante said:
I hope someone comes with a GCam port for this phone. As far as what I tested, the phone's rear cam is quite good (except for very low light scenarios).
Also, the front cam desperately needs better balance in colors, dynamic range. Currently, selfie quality is quite decent, the colors are not accurate/natural even under good light (skin has a red tinge). And overall, brightness, noise level etc., could be tweaked a bit too.
Any suggestions for a different app that can bring out better photos out of the front cam??
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Oneplus or MiUi camera

can anybody install thishttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.weis.camera2probe app into their ASUS Zanfone Max pro m1 & post the result here to show whether the camera h/w has the support for the Camera2Api

Here -

aniket.lamba said:
Here -
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Thanks!
Is this the default settings? or do you need to edit the build.prop?

awaaas said:
Thanks!
Is this the default settings? or do you need to edit the build.prop?
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You need to edit the build.prop.

aniket.lamba said:
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Hey Aniket, thanks for the SS, can you install this Camera2 API Probe https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airbeat.device.inspector app, actually, in this app its gives the individual camera parameters for both front & back camera & earlier the app link that I gave, that shows the overall result so basically it was my bad so I'm requesting you to install this app instead now this time & ost the SS once again as I want to know all the parameters for both of the cam of this hone individually.
& is it possible to install Gcam in this hone without rooting or is there any tools available like this MI A1's AIO Toolhttps://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a1/how-to/tool-xiaomi-mi-a1-tool-drivers-unlock-t3742857 so that it can be rooted & unlocked automatically & that can be used by all the novice users, & whether all future OTA updates will be available if bootloader is unlocked & rooted & warranty will be voided or not

daydream support on new ROMS?

Hi guys,
The only reason I'm still using stock Nougat is to have good Daydream support with low persistence mode.
The device, however, feels too slow and I would like some Oreo or Pie.
I've read a few mentions about new kernels supporting Daydream however I haven't found a concrete answer.
Could Daydream users please share their experiences?
Thanks a lot.
Edit : in addition, are there custom ROMs / kernels with which i can get better battery life compared to stock? I've actually replaced my battery and wiped data but my battery life is still not great.

I'm using A2017X_O_B04_SL!M8 that is running Oreo and while it technically has Daydream working I can't recommended it as the low persistence mode seems to be broken and it is too blurry.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/development/rom-slm8-t3947376

Daydream on stock B04 works but due to the battery killing nature of Daydream I haven't given it a good go to see how well it works. Can have a look. I do wear glasses so I usually get blur anyway but if careful I can put them on behind the Daydream View 2 just to test.
Mine is totally standard, bootloader never been unlocked.
It does run nicer than on Nougat but there are some bugs. It seems to cause an early shutdown as battery gets low plus the 10 second power button hold doesn't restart it. They've buggered something up with power. Dolby Atmos works.
What's the deal about low persistence? I haven't heard of it. What should I be looking for?

RobboW said:
Daydream on stock B04 works...
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I'm running a A2017U and it never got the Oreo B04 rom that re-added Daydream certification and I'm too chicken to try to flash the Stock A2017G ROM on it.
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What's the deal about low persistence? I haven't heard of it. What should I be looking for?
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This is a generic screen cap since my Axon is flashing a rom right now but its the setting at the bottom for "Reduce Blur" its typically on by default and toggling it isn't even an option in Nougat Roms from what I can tell:
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I hope I'm not spreading mis-information but it reduces blur/makes movement more fluid by adding in extra black frames that brings that total Frames Per Second up to 120. When the phone swaps to VR mode it should get slightly "dimmer" because of those added black frames. That's also how many TVs cheaply add more frames to 30FPS content and display it as 60FPS or 120FPS content to make things look more "fluid" (which seems to be what you want for VR).
On the Sl!M rom mentioned in my other post (which is rock solid in nearly every other way) toggling the Reduce Blur option seems to make no change one way or another so its just my assumption it doesn't work so maybe it is working but it is way more blurry when moving around than in the Nougat Roms or my Pixel 2. Combing through the XDA forums seems to indicate that something in the build prop needs to be edited to correctly identify the phone as the A2017U to engage Low Persistence on the A2017G B04 rom but that is above my skillset.
Its too bad too as VR seems to be the most stable and have the clearest picture- as long as I'm not moving compared to the handful of other Nougat ROMS I tried.
So while they had less "motion blur" they had other weird issues (the Skybox app says the phone isn't certified on A2017U_B35_NOUGAT_FULL_EDL and flat out doesn't load on the Lineage OS 15.1 & neither does the "Drop down menu").