Guest igors_s Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Hello, Upgraded to G300 yesterday from the blade. Brilliant device, but few things are rather strange. The camera is behaving strangely. When taking a picture, the autofocus starts working, the image in the viewfinder goes very crisp, but the saved version is blured. Is this a shortcoming of the camera? Does the ICS behave better in this regard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest samjam Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Hello, Upgraded to G300 yesterday from the blade. Brilliant device, but few things are rather strange. The camera is behaving strangely. When taking a picture, the autofocus starts working, the image in the viewfinder goes very crisp, but the saved version is blured. Is this a shortcoming of the camera? Does the ICS behave better in this regard? I have this problem with the ICS builds too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jordanclarke69 Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 same issue, about 1 in 10 photos come out properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dt_matthews Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 ditto - the camera [for me] is pretty poor esp. with regards to focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Davidoff59 Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 It seems to back off out of focus just as you hit capture. I have reported it to huawei who said they would look at it. That's prob why some images tht people posted are way better than others that have been posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rico_89 Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 (edited) I don't really have this problem unless I'm extremely close to the object.. is so then I just back off, take the picture, pinch zoom and take a screenshot. Have you tried turning off auto focus, then just tap to zoom? Edited August 23, 2012 by Rico_89 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Davidoff59 Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Being too close to an object, it won't focus at all which is standard on all cameras with a minimum focusing distance. What I mean is it focuses ok, then when you hit capture, it goea slightly out of focus just as it takes the pic.You can see it happen on the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tcpaulh Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Guess you could try the huawei camera app I pulled from b926 http://www.solidfile...m/d/31714a3275/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest belmet Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 the camera is not the best. I read a lot of reviews of the g300 before I bought mine and they all said the camera was crap so I wasn't disappointed when that turned out to be true :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rico_89 Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Being too close to an object, it won't focus at all which is standard on all cameras with a minimum focusing distance. What I mean is it focuses ok, then when you hit capture, it goea slightly out of focus just as it takes the pic.You can see it happen on the screen. Yea I know, what I'm saying is that if you turn off auto focus, then tap the screen to manually focus, the camera won't try to refocus which I think causes the blurry image. The only time I see the blur now is when I'm close, but not so close that I'm outside the limits of the camera, and I can't keep my hand steady enough, then I get a blurry image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MiguelPereira Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 (edited) Hi everyone! This time I really call for help!!! Here's the issue: As of curiosity, I decided to try the B926 camera that "tcpaulh" provided us. Moments before I did a CWM Backup, went into Root Uninstaller Pro, made a backup of the original (I'm on B934 - freshly Installed) and uninstalled it. Right after that, In Root Explorer, grabbed B926's Camera and replaced in "system/app" directory. Launched it and played with it alright. The strange thing is every time I start the camera the gallery shortcut icon is blank as if there was no picture in the gallery. I pressed it and it doesn't jump into it! If I start the gallery though launcher or app tray it shows up correctly but it states that has no pictures, albums etc. So I went back and restored the original. But the issue remains! I restored through CWM the backup done minutes before the swap and the issue still remains!!! I would greatly appreciate any help as I think it would be a pain reinstalling the rom, apps and so on! I've wiped all of dalvik cache, data of both camera and gallery, but with no results what so ever! On last mistery: If I go into the SdCard and dive into the DCIM folder.. all the photos are there, even the ones taken now!! Thanks! EDIT: Solved it by clearing "Media Storage" data! - Hope this may help someone else too! Edited August 24, 2012 by MiguelPereira Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tcpaulh Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 Hmmm. Sounds like the problem may lie on the sd card. Gallery stores info there. Out of interest, try JustPictures from the Play Store Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tcpaulh Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 How we're the pics with the alternative camera apk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MiguelPereira Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 How we're the pics with the alternative camera apk? Honestly I noticed no difference! I still think that with a steady hand and with a little play with camera settings, we're gifted with pretty nice pictures! That is, of course, in perspective to a 120€/100£ phone. The only thing that annoys me is the video recording resolution still downgraded on ICS to 640x480) maximum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tcpaulh Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 btw, the apk can install to data instead of system by double clicking on it. No need to integrate into rom unless you really wanted to. You probably knew this :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tcpaulh Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 Also, infusion has 800x600 recording Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest igors_s Posted August 24, 2012 Report Share Posted August 24, 2012 Considering that the image goes very clear on screen, I for one think it's the issue with jpeg compression method used to save the files. I've done tests where phone is held stationary on the table and taken same picture freehand. There is no noticeable difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MiguelPereira Posted August 29, 2012 Report Share Posted August 29, 2012 (edited) btw, the apk can install to data instead of system by double clicking on it. No need to integrate into rom unless you really wanted to. You probably knew this :) Edited August 29, 2012 by MiguelPereira Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest unaszplodrmann Posted August 30, 2012 Report Share Posted August 30, 2012 The camera firmware is shoddy, that's all. Its typical, the hardware is half decent, but they couldn't be bothered to support it properly, when they could instead be focusing on pumping out the next minor hardware increment and suckering people into buying yet another phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RussellS Posted August 30, 2012 Report Share Posted August 30, 2012 (edited) I've pretty much given up with the stock camera app. I now use 'Camera 360 Ultimate' https://play.google....droid.Camera360 The picture quality is much better and it is quick to focus. I recommend you give it a try. Edited August 30, 2012 by RussellS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rico_89 Posted August 30, 2012 Report Share Posted August 30, 2012 I've pretty much given up with the stock camera app. I now use 'Camera 360 Ultimate' https://play.google....droid.Camera360 The picture quality is much better and it is quick to focus. I recommend you give it a try. Camera 360 is good no doubt about it and at night it might actually be better than the stock HW camera, but during the day the HW camera has more detail and can be blown up much larger. Take a picture of your pet, then pinch zoom and examine the detail of the fur, or do the same with a flower. The detail and sharpness is much greater... For me anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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