Can someone make it possible to retain camera settings

[Guest Quist09]

Ok, so I know a good number of us turned green with envy when we saw the specs of the HTC Touch HD and the fact that it's in roughly the same price class as the Omnia.

However, with all its bells and whistles, early reports said that its 5mpix camera couldn't hold a candle to other 5mpix phone cameras on the market, including the Omnia. So, as per those reviews, the Omnia's camera appeared to be one of its major selling points over the Touch HD.

But now, as the Touch HD is making its way to the early adopters like ourselves, many are quite happy. See the proof in the pudding on this poster's own pics taken with the Touch HD: http://www.modaco.com/content-page/272214/...ch-hd/page/249/

Now the thing is, reviews of the Omnia camera raved about its flexibility and options, as well as the high quality pics taken with the macro mode/standard settings. None of them apparently noticed that the majority of those settings were lost when closing and reopening the camera app.

After a plethora of roms, Samsung has yet to make it possible to, say, set sharpness and contrast and retain those settings after closing the camera app. Quite a few of us have found our own "perfect settings", but it's a major pita to set them all everytime we start the camera app - and oops, got a phone call in the middle of a Kodak moment, time to set them all again - UUUUUGGGGHHH!

So is there anybody out there who could solve this issue for us???

If you're into Mortscript, give it a go. Or if you can see the matrix in the hex code, please give us an app that lets us automatically reset our "perfect settings" everytime we open the camera app so we don't. SOMEBODY please help us make the Omnia the best damned device out there!

Edited November 22, 2008 by Quist09

[Guest moldowan]

Maybe you find my litte quick and dirty mortscript solution useful. It just simulates/automates the input the user normally would have to do manually.

I tested it on a german HI5 ROM, so I don't know whether the menu arrangements are the same on english ROMs.

The script starts the camera app and sets the following:

SCN

ISO 400

Contrast +1

Saturation +1

Sharpness +2

It takes about 6-7 seconds.

Use at your own risk!

cam.zip

Edited December 9, 2008 by moldowan

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

I assume these settings are held in the registry, can anyone check? If so, then should be easy enough?

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[Guest Michael122w]

I assume these settings are held in the registry, can anyone check? If so, then should be easy enough?

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The entries are held in "HKCU\Software\Samsung\Camera" , but there aren't any keys for Sharpness, Saturation nor Contrast. B)

Edited December 9, 2008 by Michael122w

[Guest finaldestiny]

Thats odd. I think mine keeps the settings every time i close it. I was on the M2D03 ROM before the 'fix' and, sharpness etc was saved when I close the camera. I know for sure the iso and antishake etc was saved, and i'd bet the keys to my house that the contrast etc was saved too B) I'll do some more investigating...

[Guest bobobird]

Thats odd. I think mine keeps the settings every time i close it. I was on the M2D03 ROM before the 'fix' and, sharpness etc was saved when I close the camera. I know for sure the iso and antishake etc was saved, and i'd bet the keys to my house that the contrast etc was saved too B) I'll do some more investigating...

The "fix" ??? Which fix ??

Thanks

[Guest Michael122w]

Thats odd. I think mine keeps the settings every time i close it. I was on the M2D03 ROM before the 'fix' and, sharpness etc was saved when I close the camera. I know for sure the iso and antishake etc was saved, and i'd bet the keys to my house that the contrast etc was saved too B) I'll do some more investigating...

I am certainly keen to here about the fiix. Does it solve many issues?

Agree that ISO and anti-shake are memorised. The ISO actually has a registry key - so you could write a short Mortscript routine to change it - but there isn't anything for the sharpness, etc.

Interestingly, there is a registry key for "Blinkdetection" which is currently set to 0. I tried to change it to 1 - but it still let me blink.

[Guest Quist09]

Maybe you find my litte quick and dirty mortscript solution useful. It just simulates/automates the input the user normally would have to do manually.

I tested it on a german HI5 ROM, so I don't know whether the menu arrangements are the same on english ROMs.

The script starts the camera app and sets the following:

SCN

ISO 400

Contrast +1

Saturation +1

Sharpness +2

It takes about 6-7 seconds.

Use at your own risk!

Wow! That was pretty cool. Not sure if these are the optimal settings for me, but you sure put in some time to set that up and it works really well.

So are these the ideal settings you use as a standard? Any differences for indoor/outdoor or motion/still?

[Guest moldowan]

Wow! That was pretty cool. Not sure if these are the optimal settings for me, but you sure put in some time to set that up and it works really well.

So are these the ideal settings you use as a standard? Any differences for indoor/outdoor or motion/still?

Actually I did not spend much time tuning the camera. A higher ISO value however DOES improve picture quality in most cases for me.

I'm not sure about the sharpness, saturation and contrast settings but the values that are currently set by the script are the ones that have been mentioned by various people here and in other forums.

I'm open for suggestions to improve the script, make more settings etc.

You could also have multiple scripts, of which each is fine-tuned for a different purpose (indoor, outdoor etc.). It's a shame that the camera app does not support those user defined "profiles" out of the box...

PS: Actually it did not take that much time! When automating user input with mortscript you have to know the approximate x and y coordinates. For this, a printed out grid that matches the display dimensions of the omnia comes in handy!