Hi everyone, I haven't seen anything in the threads mention anything about this but I've been trying to use my phone for video calls and it's god awful. It looks zoomed in and it's just blurry looking in every app that I've tried so far including Google's own Duo application. I have never been so embarrassed by a phone until yesterday when my friend asked what kind of phone I have. I was like I had a Pixel its made by Google the creators of android and asked to video call someone just to hear the person on the other end of the call say whats wrong with ya connection the picture looks horrible.
Came home and Duo called myself from my Samsung A72 and wow it looks like utter crap. On the other hand, the budget Samsung A72 was looking great, not to mention the A72 has the ability to record 4k with its front camera as well. I was thinking the latest update would fix this but nothing. This may definitely be a deal-breaker for me.
One more thing, does anyone else's background looks orange/yellow when taking a selfie that has a wall background?
Is anyone else having this issue with their Pixel?
I have used only Viber and Telegram calls and quality was fine. I haven't tested Duo yet. Maybe you could try with other application...
I have the same problem with my Pixel 7.
Quality on WhatsApp, Viber, Messenger, Instagram, and its own google app for video calling, its just bad .i mean for a phone that you give solid amount of money should make the job for the most common task,video calling.
To mention that camera is perfectly fine when using it from phone.Just in apps it's really bad.
Hopefully it get fixed with future updates.
Front camera is plain bad. Small sensor and bad software. It's the same camera since Pixel 2...
I fixed photos quality by installing Google Camera mod with some personal settings, but video quality is terrible...
biglo said:
Hi everyone, I haven't seen anything in the threads mention anything about this but I've been trying to use my phone for video calls and it's god awful. It looks zoomed in and it's just blurry looking in every app that I've tried so far including Google's own Duo application. I have never been so embarrassed by a phone until yesterday when my friend asked what kind of phone I have. I was like I had a Pixel its made by Google the creators of android and asked to video call someone just to hear the person on the other end of the call say whats wrong with ya connection the picture looks horrible.
Came home and Duo called myself from my Samsung A72 and wow it looks like utter crap. On the other hand, the budget Samsung A72 was looking great, not to mention the A72 has the ability to record 4k with its front camera as well. I was thinking the latest update would fix this but nothing. This may definitely be a deal-breaker for me.
One more thing, does anyone else's background looks orange/yellow when taking a selfie that has a wall background?
Is anyone else having this issue with their Pixel?
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Try to set a native aspect ratio (4:3), disable EIS, and zoom all the way out.... if your software allows it.
The "default" way to capture video from that camera tends to be in 16:9, EIS, and zoomed in a bunch. All of these cause the image to be cropped. EIS uses a buffer zone around the captured video and moves the selection around in it to stabilize the video.
Unfortunately, most video chat programs don't allow these kind of controls.
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Never noticed this, since I rarely use my p500h camera. Today I recorded some small videos and took some photos. I noticed the image gets deformed if the phone is subject to some vibration, I recorded a sample where I moved the phone way more and well the effect is more evident now, is it normal behaviour for these kind of cameras?
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and it looks like to me you might just need to be a lil more carful when you take video cause i was able to duplicate what happened to your video with mine but i had to move the camera a lot like i was practicly shaking it and any camera will do that if you move it too much i have never had a problem with my video yea it can get shaky at times but its a none HD 3.2 mega pxel camera on a phone so i dont expect much what ROM are you running im not sure if it matters but i wondering ???
Hi there.
I have had this phone for a few days now. I must admit, the camera is very very good indeed. I have no complains what so ever with the still images that the camera records... its just the vids...they are way way dark.
I compared the video recording with samsung wave, S 3, note 2... and lg optimus 3d... in all the comparisons, the video turns out to be darker than any one of the ones i tested.
Is there something wrong with my unit??? I tried the few settings video recording option is loaded with, but that's that.
Can someone plz tell me what's wrong here?
because WP never had night mode, simply to nerv users
If you are shooting outdoors I have noticed if you slightly tilt you phone towards the ground it will expose a bit better compared to if you shoot it up facing the sky.
just put your phone on video and move it from facing the sky to the ground and you will see the exposure change.
I wonder if a software update will fix some of the issues with the camera like focus etc.. Does anyone know? Also, does the new Mate 7 have the same internal hardware for the camera since they are both 13mp? Guy on huawei chat said yes but I think he just read that both were same resolution.
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I wonder if a software update will fix some of the issues with the camera like focus etc.. Does anyone know? Also, does the new Mate 7 have the same internal hardware for the camera since they are both 13mp? Guy on huawei chat said yes but I think he just read that both were same resolution.
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I really do hope it does. The front facing camera is alright, can't really complain, but the rear is quite annoying.
What sort of issues are you having? I've had excellent results with the camera. I'm 100% stock, no mods, kernels or anything.
I don't use the huawei camera app or google. I use the Camera FV-5 app, because it has a ton of customizations.
I took this one this past Easter. Other than being cropped, straight from the camera on the Mate2.
p51d007 said:
What sort of issues are you having? I've had excellent results with the camera. I'm 100% stock, no mods, kernels or anything.
I don't use the huawei camera app or google. I use the Camera FV-5 app, because it has a ton of customizations.
I took this one this past Easter. Other than being cropped, straight from the camera on the Mate2.
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That's a great pic. I noticed what most seem to notice when I googled. The camera has a focus issue and won't seem to lock on. Daily I'm taking pics and you think you got a good shot then the picture is blurry. My gf took some good shots with hers but the object has to be non moving with perfect light and just stand there and wait for the focus to grab versus all the other phones I've had before. I downloaded many different apps and took the same shot with all of them but non seem to do better and some weren't even capable of using 13mp. I'll check out the FV-5, thank you.
That picture is actually quite bad. Poor saturation and quite underexposed.... but meh, it's a phone camera. Pretty flower though!
I think the HAM2 rear camera could definitely be improved in software. It's my opinion that the front facing camera actually works better than the rear camera half the time. Take video for example... try shooting video in a somewhat darkened room with both cameras - you'll find out that the rear camera suffers a horrible loss of framerate while the video from the front facing camera is smooth as silk.
The front camera also has odd tap-to-focus issues especially when flash is enabled.
With that being said it's a cellphone camera and I've definitely seen much worse. And I love the question in the original post.... no one knows the answer but Huawei and their software development team. How would any of us know what Huawei is including in their Android 5.x based update? I'll still be quite surprised if we even get one, and that's WITH the Huawei blog announcements and the so far worthless 'beta' registration site.....
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That picture is actually quite bad. Poor saturation and quite underexposed.... but meh, it's a phone camera. Pretty flower though!
I think the HAM2 rear camera could definitely be improved in software. It's my opinion that the front facing camera actually works better than the rear camera half the time. Take video for example... try shooting video in a somewhat darkened room with both cameras - you'll find out that the rear camera suffers a horrible loss of framerate while the video from the front facing camera is smooth as silk.
The front camera also has odd tap-to-focus issues especially when flash is enabled.
With that being said it's a cellphone camera and I've definitely seen much worse. And I love the question in the original post.... no one knows the answer but Huawei and their software development team. How would any of us know what Huawei is including in their Android 5.x based update? I'll still be quite surprised if we even get one, and that's WITH the Huawei blog announcements and the so far worthless 'beta' registration site.....
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I was thinking more if anyone has noticed improvements in camera in previous upgrades of other devices so someone could comment "hey when the Honor 6 got it's new OS the camera problems were largely improved" or something like that. For sure nobody can know what the Huawei peeps are doing unless there is a Huawei peep on our lil ole forum. I'm sure you're right, if we even get an update they'll act like there was never an issue with the camera and do nothing. My friend ordered the Mate 7 but I read a review that sounded like it's the same camera as ours still and that's an expensive phone.
TheGeekRedneck said:
That picture is actually quite bad. Poor saturation and quite underexposed.... but meh, it's a phone camera. Pretty flower though!
I think the HAM2 rear camera could definitely be improved in software. It's my opinion that the front facing camera actually works better than the rear camera half the time. Take video for example... try shooting video in a somewhat darkened room with both cameras - you'll find out that the rear camera suffers a horrible loss of framerate while the video from the front facing camera is smooth as silk.
The front camera also has odd tap-to-focus issues especially when flash is enabled.
With that being said it's a cellphone camera and I've definitely seen much worse. And I love the question in the original post.... no one knows the answer but Huawei and their software development team. How would any of us know what Huawei is including in their Android 5.x based update? I'll still be quite surprised if we even get one, and that's WITH the Huawei blog announcements and the so far worthless 'beta' registration site.....
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It sure doesn't match my dSLR, but like you said...it's a pinhole cell phone sensor...not much wiggle room.
Okay, I love this phone. I love the camera. Just work with the settings to get what you want. Now, THE ONLY THING, is the warp zones in the front facing camera. Always try to get the faces in the center of the screen or else itll appear warped.
Try it out and see for yourself. I guess that's the downside to having a long phone. The lens in the camera has to recompensate and redistribute the photons evenly.
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And cant forget about the alien beauty filter! Makes it look like you did some zoomers!
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Me and a friend used Google Hangout and he noted that the image quality was poor.
I updated the tablet and we tried again the next day (now with 8.0.0.123) but the quality was still bad.
First time it was a bit dark as it was in the evening, but the last time it was during the day.
I have an M3 so swapped to that to try it out and was told the image quality was now much better
(hence I believe it to be a software issue unless they put in a worse camera).
I did a Hangout with someone else to make sure it was nothing at his end.
The audio quality was better but the picture was still terrible.
Anyone else experienced this?
It looks like the M5 is over exposing the image.
Is it isolated to hangouts? Take a few selfies with the camera app.
Greetings from Moldova, comrades.
There's an issue bothering me for a couple of months so far... I have an Redmi 4X with very high and good quality cameras, both - front and rear. I get awesome pictures and a very stable video record... but when it comes to Viber, Google Duo and Whatsapp.... the camera they use ( the chromatics ) offer a very poor quality, with a very low bitrate and FPS... lagging and so on.
Could you please explain to me what codecs/ drivers / files do these apps use in order to manipulate the camera? Is there a way to give them the same quality I get with the stock camera? The image is very blurred and laggy....just excatly like the viewfinder of the Photo-Stock-Camera.
please advice me where to put an eye on and where to start digging in order to higher the quality of the video calls for these sensors?
As a tip:
The quality of the image during the viewfinder is opened is exactly the same as the video call using any of the messenger apps. But if I turn of the Noise Reduction in the settings of the Stock Camera, the viewfinder gives a very brilliant clear image. The second problem is the low fps of the viewfinder during low light, but it reffers only to the photo camera. When I switch to the video camera, even the viewfinder has a high FPS.
A guy from the russian forum told me that video/photo viewfinders use different chromatics. What does this mean? How to make them identic?
Why isn't anybody touching this subject? Is this a mistery or a fact that is kept in secret? I am trying to ask this thing for 2 months already and each time the forum users keep ignoring this or telling me I am using the wrong thread or stuff like this.
My question is simple! What is the way an app connects to the sensor and what driver it uses? Why the quality differs from the global camera?
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Why isn't anybody touching this subject? Is this a mistery or a fact that is kept in secret? I am trying to ask this thing for 2 months already and each time the forum users keep ignoring this or telling me I am using the wrong thread or stuff like this.
My question is simple! What is the way an app connects to the sensor and what driver it uses? Why the quality differs from the global camera?
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I think you're a little bit pissed off ?.Take some time to relax .
The bad quality during video calls is caused by a poor internet connection.
If you were talking about the video quality when you aren't calling , I can't do anything for you .
Have a good day ( or night )
RaiZProduction said:
I think you're a little bit pissed off .Take some time to relax .
The bad quality during video calls is caused by a poor internet connection.
If you were talking about the video quality when you aren't calling , I can't do anything for you .
Have a good day ( or night )
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The bad quality in the same room with another phone with good quality means the phone is related to the problem. First of all Noise reduction isn't turned off like to the stock camera app secondly the bitrate is very low comapring to a Samsung phone with lower CPU and RAM . And it's not the camera sensor that is cheap ( it shoots perfect video and photos even in LOW light ( especially with the API2 camera ON ) I am thankful someone answered lol will still be hoping someone knows how to modify the setting of the camera for a video app. There is something in Android that tells these apps how to use the camera
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The bad quality in the same room with another phone with good quality means the phone is related to the problem. First of all Noise reduction isn't turned off like to the stock camera app secondly the bitrate is very low comapring to a Samsung phone with lower CPU and RAM . And it's not the camera sensor that is cheap ( it shoots perfect video and photos even in LOW light ( especially with the API2 camera ON ) I am thankful someone answered lol will still be hoping someone knows how to modify the setting of the camera for a video app. There is something in Android that tells these apps how to use the camera
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It looks like you've searched for a long time before asking on those forums .
Unfortunately I don't see at all what can be wrong , sorry for that , I hope you'll find
RaiZProduction said:
It looks like you've searched for a long time before asking on those forums .
Unfortunately I don't see at all what can be wrong , sorry for that , I hope you'll find
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There is more than this. I am sure there are developers here who understand what I mean, but I guess it is more a policy of the brands. Camera quality is lowered in the code of the ROMs. I am just asking how.
No problem, I will wait until a "good''guy will decide to be open.