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Front video camera

video call camera testing- possible?
is it possible to check the video cam? just turn it on to see if it's working (without entering the video call mode)?

Yes, the camera app allows you to switch to front facing camera

camera app?
I don't think that is possible, changing profiles using the camera app always use the back camera, not the video call one.

latinoxxx said:
I don't think that is possible, changing profiles using the camera app always use the back camera, not the video call one.
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The coolcamera application can be set to use front cam. For example as a web cam Not a free application but can download it for trial purposes but it limits use to 25 seconds or something until you start it again.
For info/download of latest beta
http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2006/10/new_beta_versio.html
or straight to Ateksoft download
http://www.ateksoft.com/download.html
Mike

thanks . . .

sparkyxda said:
Yes, the camera app allows you to switch to front facing camera
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My mistake, must have been the universal that allowed this

you could always call your video mailbox. still have to make a call though, but not to another person

nah i just wanted to see if my video cam works properly. done it with coolcamera, thanks

Does anyone know a app that allows for transmission of Tytn front camera pix over GPRS/3G, like a webcam? Over IP, not videocall. Cool Camera has extracted its webcam part as addon (on Dec. 5), so maybe it can do it now? Anyone tested?

Is there a way to check this is working without making a video call?
I have no 3G reception here and need to check it works before my 7 day return is up.
Thanks.

I heard there is a program called CoolCamera by Ateksoft which will let you do this. I have not tried it out yet, though.

Just call a land line you will see the front camera image for a moment and then the call will fail.
K

QuachMD said:
I heard there is a program called CoolCamera by Ateksoft which will let you do this. I have not tried it out yet, though.
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CoolCamera has that feature alright, but for some weird reason the video displayed is tilted sideways and there is no way to fix this inside CoolCamera settings...
What I did noticed tho, is that the video quality is of inferior quality and lower framerates.
Peace!
Rayan

Thread Merged with previously existing thread on identical subject.
Mike

Samsung Galaxy s i9000 Mic sensitivity recording

This is my first samsung. And I think i'm a bit spoiled as a nokia n900 user. But the recorded sound on my samsung galaxy is just horrible in comparison to my n900.
Last night I went to a show of cypress hill here in the Netherlands. And started recording. The video quality is super. Only the noise makes it almost impossible to distinguish any of the songs etc. I mean really horrible.
After some research i found out that users with the samsung omnia had this same issue, and they found a solution wich was adjusting some settings in the hidden menu of the phone.
Is it also possible to adjust these settings in the galaxy s i9000?
Below are the settings for the omnia hd reducing
with phonepad digit *#0002*28346#
then 3) Record
then 04) CamcordARM_AMR (this is volume gain in video record)
Go to
TxMicAmp : 24
digit 18#
and then when you go back will see
TxMicAmp : 25
Then go to
Tx Channel: 18
digit 18#
and then when you go back will see
Tx Channel: 18
To save all changes go back back
6)Backup and will show "Backup OK"

Yeah I noticed the heavy clipping (sounds like static, noise, distortion) in all of the Galaxy S recordings. I haven't really seen anyone else mention it.
However the Omina HD runs Windows Mobile does it not? Totally different OS there..

this should show that menu *#197238640#

Any luck with this? I have opened the service menu, but no idea what to do after that.

i also would like a fix for this!

izmenar said:
this should show that menu *#197238640#
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Doesn't do anything for me.

still no idea to fix it?

dsjr2006 said:
Doesn't do anything for me.
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Try this instead *#*#197328640#*#*

Any idea what to change these settings to?
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

I got the same problem when I try to run VOIP application. The noise is so terrible. I can enter "service mode", but I don't know how to setup them either.

Same here, video recording is quite useless like this... Went to a concert last evening and video is great but sound is ultimate crap! As in one big pile of noise.
But also when recording a video in the car, with just the radio on, is stretching it... It is at least possible to distinguish different sounds but already distorted.
Such a shame! Any fix for this would be great (and couldn't find much in the servicemode settings unfortunately).

I'm using the JM2 firmware and the sound of recorded videos is poor.
I wish we found the solution, as I had found on i8910

Meh, contacted samsung helpdesk (mail) and got a standard response
'We are currently developing a firmware update, please keep an eye out for it on the samsung website'. (translated from dutch ).
My guess is the firmware update won't fix a thing since it's still present in JM2 but we'll see.

dagrim1 said:
Meh, contacted samsung helpdesk (mail) and got a standard response
'We are currently developing a firmware update, please keep an eye out for it on the samsung website'. (translated from dutch ).
My guess is the firmware update won't fix a thing since it's still present in JM2 but we'll see.
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In other words: keep waiting. Saying it will be fixed in next release is the best way to keep customers happy without doing anything
But on the other side maybe with 2. 2 it will be fixed.
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In other words: keep waiting. Saying it will be fixed in next release is the best way to keep customers happy without doing anything
But on the other side maybe with 2. 2 it will be fixed.
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Yup, I know... But what can you do. They prolly also don't know much about the technical stuff.
At least there's a new firmware coming up, I think I'll give JP3 another shot and see if things have improved there.

Hey guys,
anyone tried playing with *#*#197328640#*#* => audio => handset => diamond solution => voice booster? or acoustic shock free? sounds like something related to me, gonna try.

Eindbaaz said:
with phonepad digit *#0002*28346#
then 3) Record
then 04) CamcordARM_AMR (this is volume gain in video record)
Go to
TxMicAmp : 24
digit 18#
and then when you go back will see
TxMicAmp : 25
Then go to
Tx Channel: 18
digit 18#
and then when you go back will see
Tx Channel: 18
To save all changes go back back
6)Backup and will show "Backup OK"
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that's a good tip
can more people confirm if this optimization works well?
if so, then we can put this as a sticky / FAQ / wiki

Disregard my post about Diamond solution, it's for headphones. I'm pretty sure some parts of the service menu => audio => handset could be tweaked to make audio recording better, just need someone who knows what means what.

There is a way to alter the recording volume during the recording however it requires adb shell and it only lasts for the duration of the remainder of the recording.

nsgtr34 said:
There is a way to alter the recording volume during the recording however it requires adb shell and it only lasts for the duration of the remainder of the recording.
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That's something at least, wanna share that?
Also I found a quick and dirty workaround if you wanna record some music before some kind of fix appears - just put your finger on the mic hole while recording ^^

Setting Rear Facing Camera's Picture Resolution and Quality?

Hello All,
I have searched everywhere for a solution to my problem and even just got off the phone with Dell Mobility!
My problem (and I imagine "every" Streak owner's!) is that I cannot find anywhere in/on/around the Streak (running "318" - "00-US" Froyo) to set the resolution of picutures taken using the 5MP rear facing camera. I just took some pics and they are all 640x480! After looking at my gallery, I noticed that all pics taken with version 1.6 were all "max megapixel and quality" (300K-to-700K bytes), now all the pics are "vga" (50k-to-80k bytes) in size!
Dell mobility tried on several of their cameras, no luck! I just downloaded the version 2.2 User's Manual from Dell's website, again no luck!
So I'm throwing this out to the XDA community, does anyone have any idea how to set the image size (resolution) and quality level using the latest Froyo firmware?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Regards.

UPDATE:
Just got a callback from Dell Mobility, they have confirmed that the ability to use the 5MP rear facing camera as anything other than a VGA camera was lost in the 2.2 upgrade!
Or put another way, its a feature of Dell's Froyo build(s)!!!!
The customer suport rep. commented that if more people call and complain about not being able to actually use ther 5MP camera, perhaps Dell may then consider fixing it!!!!!!! Completely ignoring the fact that this is not an isolated "bug", but a major design, implementation and verification flaw - how this got through testing, I/we will never know!!!!
Hopefully someone here in XDA land can figure out a quicker fix?
Thanks.

what a bunch of goofballs.
morons.

I dont think this is a bug.it works just fine on 318.
Once your in the camera app click on the settings icon and scroll to the resolution and change it to 5M.

shababak said:
I dont think this is a bug.it works just fine on 318.
Once your in the camera app click on the settings icon and scroll to the resolution and change it to 5M.
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It is there once you find the ev setttings icon scroll up and there is and option for 5m. The settings icon looks like a timer. I could not find it at first.
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shababak said:
I dont think this is a bug.it works just fine on 318.
Once your in the camera app click on the settings icon and scroll to the resolution and change it to 5M.
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You are correct!
I (nor Dell's Mobility staff - ) ever noticed that the top settings dialog menu is actually scrollable!
It is not documented anywhere in Dell's Streak product guides or manuals!
Thanks Again!
I just noticed that if I had ever had the Streak in Portrait orientation and went to the settings menu, I would have noticed more stuff on the menu - in comparision to my oft used Landscape mode!
They should have text "Scroll for More..." on the menu... Or some other obvious indication that there is more stuff in the menu...
Regards.
.

actually, the camera resets itself to vga once you switch to front cam and then switch back. its like this in steve's froyo build too because the camera framework isnt designed to work with two cameras.

shababak said:
I dont think this is a bug.it works just fine on 318.
Once your in the camera app click on the settings icon and scroll to the resolution and change it to 5M.
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Works fine here on Android 2.2 (318_12821_00). You just have to select the settings icon at the top then flick your finger 'UP' to scroll down to resolution settings.

Dell doesnt seem to have a clue about anything.

missing zoom in camera (video) menu
Another feature which is msising in this 2.2 is the zoom in videomode 2.1 upd 1 had this option! Can't seem to find it here in the menu... Any of u guys found a way?

Whatsapp Camera - Picture Size?

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

Screenshots

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+).

Full screen Video Apps?

Is there any way to make apps like: YouTube, WatchESPN, NBC Sports, Dish Anywhere, etc. display full screen video around the camera instead of being cut of. Due to the cut off up top YouTube video's are also cut off at the bottom of the screen slightly.

Really interested in this also! Maybe with root?

I can say that MX Player videos get cropped and I wish they didn't.

dkotoric said:
Is there any way to make apps like: YouTube, WatchESPN, NBC Sports, Dish Anywhere, etc. display full screen video around the camera instead of being cut of. Due to the cut off up top YouTube video's are also cut off at the bottom of the screen slightly.
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Not a problem on DirecTV Now. Did I read that the November security update also addressed this?

roebling said:
Not a problem on DirecTV Now. Did I read that the November security update also addressed this?
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No, I'm on November update and no full screen option.

Youtube Apk
There is a YouTube modded apk that allows the pinch to zoom feature to work for irregular aspect ratios. Im not 100% sure if this will work on the Essential Phone however it works perfectly fine on the LG G6, it should just crop out some of the video so it can go full screen. Just download the MS Config file and the YouTube apk, dark theme is optional. Unfortunately I cannot post any links as I am a new user, but you can find a link on the LG G6 full screen YouTube thread.

Ajeyakumar1234 said:
There is a YouTube modded apk that allows the pinch to zoom feature to work for irregular aspect ratios. Im not 100% sure if this will work on the Essential Phone however it works perfectly fine on the LG G6, it should just crop out some of the video so it can go full screen. Just download the MS Config file and the YouTube apk, dark theme is optional. Unfortunately I cannot post any links as I am a new user, but you can find a link on the LG G6 full screen YouTube thread.
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No go, still doesn't work. It does the full screen animation but still shows the black bars.

Yep, me too. Will watch this thread and hope they fix it soon.

Amazon Prime full screen display for 21:9 movies
Saw "Arrival" with Amazon Prime app which utilizes the whole screen including the camera notch bar. Wow! what a sight. Hope Netflix, Hulu and some other video player app can do the same soon.

I'm really upset at the lack of immersive experience. Not a single video app takes advantage of this beautiful screen-- excepting Amazon which is hit or miss with full screen. It seems to differ from video to video...
Anyone know a tweak or a hack to get some immersive support?
Thanks
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Bump for some help. Thanks!
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Another one here watching this ,would love full screen

I guess nada?

I don't know how (and would love to know) but custom ROMS (lineage for example) does the full screen mode.

donrajni said:
I don't know how (and would love to know) but custom ROMS (lineage for example) does the full screen mode.
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It super annoying especially when watching videos in Chrome and the nav bar is white and still shows the status bar. If Lineage really does get rid of it, then I might need to rom

Viewing in fullscreen is possible with the aforementioned app. The pinch to zoom doesn't work due to the notch fill in not being enabled. To use fullscreen download the app, enable developer options, and once you've enabled developer options go to essential notch settings, set per application, and choose the app. Then click always use notch area. Pinch to zoom will now allow video to fill the screen, and the YouTube app will make use of the new formatting.