Ever since I've had this phone I've never managed to get the timer working on the camera. I thought an update would sort this out. Having updated to B140 I see that the timer is now more accesible in 'pro' mode rather than buried in the menu... but it doesn't work. Whether I put it on 2,5 or 10 second delay the shutter goes immediately when I press the button. Could someone please confirm?
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ludovicien said:
Ever since I've had this phone I've never managed to get the timer working on the camera. I thought an update would sort this out. Having updated to B140 I see that the timer is now more accesible in 'pro' mode rather than buried in the menu... but it doesn't work. Whether I put it on 2,5 or 10 second delay the shutter goes immediately when I press the button. Could someone please confirm?
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I tried it just now (normal mode) and it works as supposed. I’m on B140 as of yesterday, and I didn’t try the timer until today. The selection buttons are a bit confusing in the settings depending on theme and colour selection, but once you go back you see what timer mode you have selected and it stays that way.
Thanks for trying. This is plain weird. I can select 2,5 or 10 seconds delay and it appears at the top of the screen but when I press the shutter it takes a picture immediately. I can't imagine hardware damage causing this and I had the same problem in B121 so square bugs seen unlikely. Irritating, as I'd like to try out the night mode.
Works perfectly for me too. Only thing I noticed is that you must lightly tap the shutter button to start the timer countdown - if you hold it down it will take the picture immediately. If you are struggling with that, use the fingerprint scanner as the shutter button, its less sensitive.
admisi said:
Works perfectly for me too. Only thing I noticed is that you must lightly tap the shutter button to start the timer countdown - if you hold it down it will take the picture immediately. If you are struggling with that, use the fingerprint scanner as the shutter button, its less sensitive.
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Thanks for your reply but nope, just doesn't work. The shutter works immediately. Looks like I have a dud even though it makes no sense as it can't possibly be a hardware problem.
timer for me only works for rear camera and not for front
ludovicien said:
Ever since I've had this phone I've never managed to get the timer working on the camera. I thought an update would sort this out. Having updated to B140 I see that the timer is now more accesible in 'pro' mode rather than buried in the menu... but it doesn't work. Whether I put it on 2,5 or 10 second delay the shutter goes immediately when I press the button. Could someone please confirm?
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How do you switch to the pro mode? I am on B160 with the Indian version and presuming would have this feature
No, the pro mode is available on Android 5.1.1 and Indian users are on 5.0.2. So either an update to 5.1.1 or marshmallow should bring us there, hopefully
A full phone reset solved this problem. The timer now works. Many thanks for your answers.
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Two things about the Evo LTE dedicated camera button.
1. When the phone is locked should this turn the camera on after a few seconds? I cannot get mine to do it.
2. I was using the camera in the dark with Auto Flash on and the flash did not flash when using the dedicated camera button. If I use the soft button on the screen it would work.
Any thoughts on either of these two items would be appreciated.
bkcoke said:
Two things about the Evo LTE dedicated camera button.
1. When the phone is locked should this turn the camera on after a few seconds? I cannot get mine to do it.
2. I was using the camera in the dark with Auto Flash on and the flash did not flash. If I use the soft button on the screen it would work.
Any thoughts on either of these two items would be appreciated.
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your first point is as designed the second point is probably a software bug
I noticed this problem too, and I just got the phone yesterday. I found that if you press the camera button quickly all the way that it will flash. It just doesn't flash if you do the half press first.
My auto flash works with fast full or half to full press from hardware button. However, I cannot get the camera button to launch the camera from the lock screen. I could have sworn that I saw review vids showing this feature.
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Doctechx said:
My auto flash works with fast full or half to full press from hardware button. However, I cannot get the camera button to launch the camera from the lock screen. I could have sworn that I saw review vids showing this feature.
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are you sure they weren't just pulling the camera shortcut into the unlock ring?
I cant say Ive heard of the camera button waking the phone. I know if you have it unlocked you can hold the button down and the camera will turn on no matter what screen you are on.
I sure hope there's some software updates coming soon, mainly to address memory management issues with Sense 4, but I would also love a more functional hardware camera button. I may just be ranting, but it honestly sucks. It's a 2-step button, but the first step doesn't do anything. I would love it to auto-focus at least, and properly control the flash would be amazing as well. The camera UI could use some tweaks also. The camera has a very powerful auto-focus, but a cross-hair type box wouldn't hurt so that we have a better idea of what exactly is being focused. Also, how about some AF metering settings? Taking a portrait of something when there's lots of light in the background will create a very dark, underexposed picture (of the primary target).
I think the camera is very powerful, and would love to see HTC make the software just as powerful... or at the very least fix the things that are broken.
Does anyone else have this issue?
I know you can select the Flash as Auto / ON / or OFF... when I select Flash ON and tap the screen to focus on an area, I would normally suspect to flash to light up so I can focus on an area. However it does not come on at all. But will come on to take the picture, but the picture will be blurry because it cannot focus on the spot I want.
Love the phone overall, bought it through Samsung. Just waiting for a good root to come along the way.
Takimaru85 said:
Does anyone else have this issue?
I know you can select the Flash as Auto / ON / or OFF... when I select Flash ON and tap the screen to focus on an area, I would normally suspect to flash to light up so I can focus on an area. However it does not come on at all. But will come on to take the picture, but the picture will be blurry because it cannot focus on the spot I want.
Love the phone overall, bought it through Samsung. Just waiting for a good root to come along the way.
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I noticed the same but if I are the picture, the flash turns on and the autofocus is working and after the folks is right the photo is taken.
But as you said no flash when using tap to focus. That was there on the S8.
Could this be a bug in the OS? Haven't tried contacting Samsung yet to report this, but wanted to make sure if others are having the same issue too.
Takimaru85 said:
Could this be a bug in the OS? Haven't tried contacting Samsung yet to report this, but wanted to make sure if others are having the same issue too.
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Yes it should be. Or Samsung made this.
Please report it to them.
Same here. Flash does not come on when you tap the screen on auto flash.
Spoke with a customer expert and even tried the phone in safe mode as he suggested. He stated that if it existed in safe mode, it is a software issue. And yes the issue stays within safe mode, his only suggestion was to take it to a Samsung Repair center. In my case, I will just wait for a hotfix or patch. Unless xda beats samsung to it first haha.
Got a reply again from Samsung care page, apparently the features were removed on the s9. I guess they are now wanting to reimplement it since most are complaining on it.
Found out if you want the flash to come on before taking a picture, just tap the shutter button for 1 second and then slide your finger off it and the flash will go off without taking a picture.
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krico said:
Found out if you want the flash to come on before taking a picture, just tap the shutter button for 1 second and then slide your finger off it and the flash will go off without taking a picture.
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But that activates burst shot. And if sliding it, it would create a floating button. Unless I'm missing the ''shutter'' button you are talking about.
Sony seems to have added a double tap shortcut for the Google Assistant on the power button. This causes a short delay when opening the display. Did anyone find a way to disable this?
Go to settings -> system -> power key behavior -> none
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Go to settings -> system -> power key behavior -> none
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I don't know if it's a placebo effect I'm having, but changing it to none only disables the Google Assistant. The delay is still there. Hope someone confirms this to me, it kinda irritates me.
I was also having this exact issue.
Immediately after going from Oreo to Pie, I was shocked at the delay (even with the power key behavior set to disabled).
Not sure if I am just getting used to it, but it doesn't seem as slow as when I first disabled the setting.
Do you still feel a delay after using it for some time? Shortening Android animation speeds also helps to make it faster.
Rumzie said:
I was also having this exact issue.
Immediately after going from Oreo to Pie, I was shocked at the delay (even with the power key behavior set to disabled).
Not sure if I am just getting used to it, but it doesn't seem as slow as when I first disabled the setting.
Do you still feel a delay after using it for some time? Shortening Android animation speeds also helps to make it faster.
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Definitely still noticable if I look for it, but I got used to it. I like the animation speed so rather not speed it up. I still hope that they fix this next patch.
There is some specific timing to it. If I wake the phone after it's been sleeping for a couple seconds, then there's almost no delay waking and unlocking.
But if I press the power button twice consecutively (or within a couple seconds), then there easily at least a .5 second delay.
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Definitely still noticable if I look for it, but I got used to it. I like the animation speed so rather not speed it up. I still hope that they fix this next patch.
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After getting the S23U initially turned on backtap but found it too sensitive (2as getting too many screenshots that I was not intending) so I turned it off. However I am still seeing screenshots getting captured spuriously, particularly on my morning drive to work. Practically every morning I have screenshot notification and a gmap capture in my Pictures folder. Anyone else seeing this? I confirmed that backtap is not enabled, and I am being extra careful to make sure I am not accidentally triggering a volume down/power button press when I insert the phone in the car holder.
Palm swipe to capture maybe? Like, you might have this option enabled, and you might be capturing Screenshots by doing this accidentally...
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Palm swipe to capture maybe? Like, you might have this option enabled, and you might be capturing Screenshots by doing this accidentally...
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That is likely the case, did not even knew it existed. Thx
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Palm swipe to capture maybe? Like, you might have this option enabled, and you might be capturing Screenshots by doing this accidentally...
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Turns out that this is not the problem. Palm swipe is disabled yet I still see spurious screenshots of gmaps in drive mode exclusively. I am very careful not to insert the phone so that it triggers volume Dn + power.
Hi everyone! Just to kick it off; I'm not a developer, just a motivated user.
I've been using Astro mode quite a lot lately, and I always got weird crashes intermittently, but always had a semi decent night, all things considered.
Not tonight though. 3 hours, one usable photo.
Had many good compositions but the app keeps crashing;
At the end of the 4/7/10min exposure, the timer will run down, and sometimes it will need a moment to process and produce that little circular image preview. I always let it do it's thing.
But when it crashes; the timer runs down, and then the app freezes. It doesn't load a tiny image preview on screen. But the accelerometer/level indicator will still function on screen. Usually it will need to reboot after this happens.
Manually stopping the timer before it runs out basically yields the same results; intermittent to very certain crashing.
It crashed 3 or 4 times in a row on the same composition (after effing up all night prior but still somehow pulling off 15sec test shots) and that's when I gave up. As i mentioned, each time I'm there waiting for 7 minutes.
The camera can make awesome photos, but it constantly crashes for me.
Here's some results: some photos it just pumps out what seems like a single 15sec exposure, others can be completely fubar and im pretty sure some photos just disappear into the netherrealm;
Also added some screen recordings of app freezing after an Astro photo, and showing how 'continuous mode' set to 9 pictures on Avg. setting will frequently crash the app (at least on my phone) as well.
I though the cold outside might be a factor, but couldn't reproduce the issue when set to 10min in my fridge.
Main settings phone:
WQHD+ (highest res)
Light perf. Mode
Adaptive battery on
Ram Plus off
Camera assistant installed
S23U 1TB
March Update (holding out)
I turned off light perf mode and it seemed like it fixed the continuous mode 9 shot issue, but no it still happened.
Planning to turn ram plus back on but as you see, I'm just winging it here.
Did manage to file an error report in the field but didn't attach an image or a screen recording that matched with the log. I don't always get the option to report the error either.
Just to report back in case anyone else finds the same issue:
Just did about an hour and a half of long exposures in Astro mode, no crashes at all.
Either the issue is real intermittent, or I fixed it by clearing app cache and app data/turning off light performance mode
Astro4130 said:
Just to report back in case anyone else finds the same issue:
Just did about an hour and a half of long exposures in Astro mode, no crashes at all.
Either the issue is real intermittent, or I fixed it by clearing app cache and app data/turning off light performance mode
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Hi, i having the sames issues with multi exposures on ultra wide and Zoom lens from the biggining....
UNIK97122 said:
Hi, i having the sames issues with multi exposures on ultra wide and Zoom lens from the biggining....
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Since posting, I've moved to the April software update and someone told me a new expert raw version was available. Wasn't available 6hrs ago but it is now!
As far as crashes; I haven't seen a crash yet, but I won't be celebrating early. Clear skies tonight so I'll be testing if the update yields better results for Astro!
Astro4130 said:
Since posting, I've moved to the April software update and someone told me a new expert raw version was available. Wasn't available 6hrs ago but it is now!
As far as crashes; I haven't seen a crash yet, but I won't be celebrating early. Clear skies tonight so I'll be testing if the update yields better results for Astro!
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and what about that ..?
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and what about that ..?View attachment 5890469
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Lmao wtf? That is interesting to say the least.
Did you wait for the timer to run out and the small circular image preview window to update? Because it looks like you might just have picked up your phone a bit too soon.
If you grab your phone as soon as the timer runs out, you're going to have artifacts. The timer runs out but maybe it's still gathering data.
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Lmao wtf? That is interesting to say the least.
Did you wait for the timer to run out and the small circular image preview window to update? Because it looks like you might just have picked up your phone a bit too soon.
If you grab your phone as soon as the timer runs out, you're going to have artifacts. The timer runs out but maybe it's still gathering data.i
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I used to stay far away of my phone during nigth shoot (with tripod) and i still get this king of stanger things
i't only happen with light source, the rest is ok...
i just installed the update, i'll try tonight
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I used to stay far away of my phone during nigth shoot
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That's good!
But obviously the phone isn't moving itself, so it's either capturing light before you put the phone down, or it's *still* capturing light when you're picking up your phone. Otherwise you wouldn't be getting light trails.
Here's your problem: (in my estimation)
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That's good!
But obviously the phone isn't moving itself, so it's either capturing light before you put the phone down, or it's *still* capturing light when you're picking up your phone. Otherwise you wouldn't be getting light trails.
Here's your problem: (in my estimation)
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Ok, i have to try that i think you're rigth i never had this issue with s20 ultra or s21 ultra