I'm very curious if the camera is behaving really strange for anyone else? What I have observed:
- the Camera app takes a long time to open sometimes (for example during Google Maps navigation)
- the camera button doesn't react to presses sometimes, lags and freezes the app for like 5 seconds
- sometimes instead of snaping a picture it captures multiple pictures at once and gives me like 10 similar images (I forgot the name of that function but I have it disabled)
- camera in apps like Messengers opens up really slow sometimes but that could be the case of ****ty FB app
Is anyone having a problem with camera and it's performance? Please let me know, I did a factory reset and it does not help.
stranded.eu said:
I'm very curious if the camera is behaving really strange for anyone else? What I have observed:
- the Camera app takes a long time to open sometimes (for example during Google Maps navigation)
- the camera button doesn't react to presses sometimes, lags and freezes the app for like 5 seconds
- sometimes instead of snaping a picture it captures multiple pictures at once and gives me like 10 similar images (I forgot the name of that function but I have it disabled)
- camera in apps like Messengers opens up really slow sometimes but that could be the case of ****ty FB app
Is anyone having a problem with camera and it's performance? Please let me know, I did a factory reset and it does not help.
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Bro after clicking the pictures the image quality is trash. But in emui8 it was so better
thats odd the only issue i have is that the codecs are locked on bluetooth but im sure that happens on all pie betas
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Not sure if this is a common problem. I couldn't find anything on the interwebs indicating that others are having this issue frequently.
It seems like my Camera application will almost never allow me to see the pictures that I've taken. When I tap on the picture preview it just goes to a blank screen. If I hit slideshow, it momentarily tries to take me to the slideshow and then bounces me right back.
Sometimes after force closing it with the system monitor app a few times will eventually let me see previews.
It's pretty infuriating that it does this and I have no idea what would cause it. I'm thinking about buying Vignette, but in my opinion the stock camera should work.
Any ideas?
You know what I just noticed - it appears to be the gallery app and not the camera app. Anyone else have this problem with Gallery?
It is most likely a media scan issue with the gallery (sometimes my pictures take a long time to show up on their own as well).
You can either reboot the phone or use an app to rescan media. There are a bunch out there (search market for rescan or scan media). Or if you are running CM6, you can choose the function in the built-in Dev Tools app. Tasker also has this function built in if you wanted to set up something like forcing a rescan every time you exit the Camera app.
durring a call you can't take a picture or even open the camera app. anyone know how to fix this problem?
zozodouce said:
durring a call you can't take a picture or even open the camera app. anyone know how to fix this problem?
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It is pretty annoying. I ran into this today when I was in a call and I wanted to access the notification bad... TW wouldn't let me. Then I tried to pull up the app drawer and it wouldn't let me. The phone dialer app seems to lock out all of the other functionality. It really stinks.
I know that on HTC Sense you can put the call in the background (still talking) and do other tasks like opening Google Maps, Camera, etc.
I've enjoyed how fast and battery efficient TW 4.0 is, but I just keep finding more and more things about it that really bother me. Then I find out that the screen drivers are a mess and that future support of the device might be questionable... my biggest hope was to get TW off and install Cyanogenmod or another great ROM. But now it is sounding like there won't be nearly as many ROMs and support available for the TMO SGS2 as compared to the other SGS2s due to these special gpu drivers. ugh.
I don't know about you, but I'm actually able to access the notification bar and everything. Although the camera would give me "Unable to access camera while on call"
DyingBlade said:
I don't know about you, but I'm actually able to access the notification bar and everything. Although the camera would give me "Unable to access camera while on call"
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Interesting. Hopefully it was just a glitch then. I'll give it another shot as soon as I get a chance. My phone did lock up and reboot itself about 15 minutes later, my first such occurrence on a SGS2 yet.
I tried what you mentioned here and here are my findings....
- During call i pressed the home key and it took me to the home screen.
- I was able to open the camera but got the same error "cannot use camera during call".
- I have installed FXcamera as well and was able to open it and take pic during call from it.
So i guess this behavior is of the stock camera app.
This is same as when your battery is below 15% you cannot use camera but i can use FXcamera even with 1% battery.
So, install any third party cam app for taking pic in call.
Note - I have another Samsung Galaxy S5830 phone running Android GB. This camera behavior is present there too. So this is not something related to T-Mobile GS2 specifically.
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I tried what you mentioned here and here are my findings....
- During call i pressed the home key and it took me to the home screen.
- I was able to open the camera but got the same error "cannot use camera during call".
- I have installed FXcamera as well and was able to open it and take pic during call from it.
So i guess this behavior is of the stock camera app.
This is same as when your battery is below 15% you cannot use camera but i can use FXcamera even with 1% battery.
So, install any third party cam app for taking pic in call.
Note - I have another Samsung Galaxy S5830 phone running Android GB. This camera behavior is present there too. So this is not something related to T-Mobile GS2 specifically.
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Same thing on the vibrant with the battery and while on a phone call.
Also if you open your camera app while listening to music it will pause or skip.
I think that's how stock is, no matter what. My G2 and G2x has this problem. Doesn't iPhone have advantage on this? just saying..
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I take a picture, and then select the photo at the bottom of the camera screen.. it opens the gallery, then is VERY slow.. often I can't pinch & zoom, or select a sharing icon.. then suddenly the multi screen sometimes turns on. I though maybe it's because the tv icon at the top of the photo is showing 9+ meaning that's it's found 9 devices to share my photo too.. I thought maybe that is slowing it down. I tried turning off allshare cast, but can't seem to keep it off. I don't even know if that is even what it is. Frustrating. Not sure if that even made sense?
Anyone else having a gallery bog down like this?
thanks.
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I take a picture, and then select the photo at the bottom of the camera screen.. it opens the gallery, then is VERY slow.. often I can't pinch & zoom, or select a sharing icon.. then suddenly the multi screen sometimes turns on. I though maybe it's because the tv icon at the top of the photo is showing 9+ meaning that's it's found 9 devices to share my photo too.. I thought maybe that is slowing it down. I tried turning off allshare cast, but can't seem to keep it off. I don't even know if that is even what it is. Frustrating. Not sure if that even made sense?
Anyone else having a gallery bog down like this?
thanks.
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What is the Android version that you're using? 4.1.1? I'm using 4.1.2 and I have the same issue, but it feels more like a bug than an actual issue. I hope Samsung fixes this in the next 4.1.2 release.
I noticed the gallery lags terribly if I have photos that sync to it (Dropbox or FB sync to gallery) so I turned those off and it was lagless.
Other than that, I have no idea what could be the issue.
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I noticed the gallery lags terribly if I have photos that sync to it (Dropbox or FB sync to gallery) so I turned those off and it was lagless.
Other than that, I have no idea what could be the issue.
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I know this is an old thread, but I was suddenly having the same issue. Turning off Dropbox sync seems to have solved it. Thanks for the tip.
I've seen threads about performance issues when charging etc and I have them myself!
One thing that completely destroys me is the performance when trying to take a quick picture or use an app that uses the camera.
E.g. barcode scanners move the complete opposite direction
Snapchat is also practically unusable. When I open it, it completely s**ts itself every time and is unusual!
I guess my question is..... Do you think custom ROMs and recoveries will solve the issues?
Thanks
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I definitely think we should see some optimizations in the next weeks. Snapchat would crap out on me and eventually cause the camera module to crash. It got to the point that the camera would turn black within Snapchat and even within the camera app itself. Only fix was to reboot the phone to get the camera working again. Yesterday I received a snapchat update, not sure if it was meant to address performance issues, but it now works more smoothly and doesn't crash as often. There is definitely room for improvement!
It's really doing my head in and glad I'm not on my own in seeing this!! I don't know anyone else with the 5x to compare so been searching online.
I timed it today, I rebooted the phone and left it 5 minutes without opening anything. I fired up the camera app and it took 124 seconds (just over 2min) until the app was ready to take a photo (the blue circle showing around the shutter button). Then tapping the button to take a photo took a further minute to take the actual photo. Then the phone was that sluggish it needed a reboot.
Not sure if it's the hardware, the os or the app but I've tried Open Camera too and that seems to be really really slow. And, as the OP says, Snapchat totally craps out as do other apps that use the camera.
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It's really doing my head in and glad I'm not on my own in seeing this!! I don't know anyone else with the 5x to compare so been searching online.
I timed it today, I rebooted the phone and left it 5 minutes without opening anything. I fired up the camera app and it took 124 seconds (just over 2min) until the app was ready to take a photo (the blue circle showing around the shutter button). Then tapping the button to take a photo took a further minute to take the actual photo. Then the phone was that sluggish it needed a reboot.
Not sure if it's the hardware, the os or the app but I've tried Open Camera too and that seems to be really really slow. And, as the OP says, Snapchat totally craps out as do other apps that use the camera.
MaFt
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I just tried the same test. The camera app opened and was ready to shoot (blue circle showing) in about 2 seconds. Double pressing the power button to open the camera app had the blue circle around the shutter button showing right away
Every now and then it does work perfectly. But more times than not there is a massive lag. Usually after the phone has been on for half a day, but like this morning sometimes when it's just turned on.
I've experienced the same issues mentioned by you guys, especially in the OP.
Snapchat has practically been completely unusable until the most recent update, and that only marginally improved things. The root cause seems to be the camera itself, as I'm only seeing this type of lag in apps that access the camera. I can't help but imagine Google is working on a fix for this in the very near future, just one of those 'early adopter' issues I guess. It has caused me to do daily reboots just about, which is very aggravating because that defeats the purpose of a good camera if you miss the moment you're trying to capture. As I'm sure you guys have noticed, when the camera app actually works properly, the pictures are pretty impressive, which makes it all the more aggravating that it can't be used as fluently as designed.
Hoping for all of our sake that Google fixes this soon.
I'm in the same boat.
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I've experienced the same issues mentioned by you guys, especially in the OP.
Snapchat has practically been completely unusable until the most recent update, and that only marginally improved things. The root cause seems to be the camera itself, as I'm only seeing this type of lag in apps that access the camera. I can't help but imagine Google is working on a fix for this in the very near future, just one of those 'early adopter' issues I guess. It has caused me to do daily reboots just about, which is very aggravating because that defeats the purpose of a good camera if you miss the moment you're trying to capture. As I'm sure you guys have noticed, when the camera app actually works properly, the pictures are pretty impressive, which makes it all the more aggravating that it can't be used as fluently as designed.
Hoping for all of our sake that Google fixes this soon.
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could u please test camera functionality with this app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.geekstools.cameraW
and if possible gather log info
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So I'm kind of concerned with this unusual sound the camera makes whenever I open the camera app (or any other app that uses it; Snapchat, VSCOcam, etc). I can physically hear the camera making a somewhat stronger focusing / refocusing sound as soon as the app opens, as well as physically feeling the vibration from the sound it makes throughout the phone. What I see on the screen is the picture regularly refocusing on the image, although every photo I take has been beautifully flawless. At the same time I feel like it's the camera dying on me, hopefully not.
Restarting & clearing cache/data on the camera app unfortunately does not fix the problem. Hope I'm not the only one out there with this problem.
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So I'm kind of concerned with this unusual sound the camera makes whenever I open the camera app (or any other app that uses it; Snapchat, VSCOcam, etc). I can physically hear the camera making a somewhat stronger focusing / refocusing sound as soon as the app opens, as well as physically feeling the vibration from the sound it makes throughout the phone. What I see on the screen is the picture regularly refocusing on the image, although every photo I take has been beautifully flawless. At the same time I feel like it's the camera dying on me, hopefully not.
Restarting & clearing cache/data on the camera app unfortunately does not fix the problem. Hope I'm not the only one out there with this problem.
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You sure it's not the optical image stabilization? If you zoom in all the way and look at your camera , shake the phone and you can see it move...also close the camera app and hold your phone to your ear and shake it , you can hear it move.