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[Q] Milestone camera quality after oferclocking

Hello Droid/Milestone owners!! I'm going to change my mobile. I red something about this device and it looks interesting due to ability to overclock CPU. I've also seen sample photos from Milestone and they are rather good, not perfect. And here is my question > is there any solution to improve the quality of pictures taken by Milestone ? Does overclocking do that? Maybe changing ROM does something ? And what about battery usage avter Overclock? Until , I have been using HTC Legend and it has quality of camera I desire Any sugestions?

the camera on the milestone/droid produces crap pictures. its been slammed in pretty much every review. and no, overclocking doesn't solve it.

Agree, but everyone Android phone have "****ty" camera, i heard the only one is kindìa good is the Sony Ericcson devices.

M4zinkaiser said:
Agree, but everyone Android phone have "****ty" camera, i heard the only one is kindìa good is the Sony Ericcson devices.
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I had 8 mpix Xperia X10 and it takes poor photos. No contrast and generally poor as for 8 mpix

Are there any ways to do sth with the camera.... Colors are so poor, noise etc...

(help) need camera sample pics from spice mi410

Hi frendz.
I dont know that this is propper section for help or not.
I m planning to buy spice mi410.
But want to sure about camera quality.
Can somebody post original pics taken from ur camara ? In day and night, with flash, without flash etc.
Hope i will get it soon.
Also any cheap online deal in india for mi410 ?

RohanAJoshi said:
Hi frendz.
I dont know that this is propper section for help or not.
I m planning to buy spice mi410.
But want to sure about camera quality.
Can somebody post original pics taken from ur camara ? In day and night, with flash, without flash etc.
Hope i will get it soon.
Also any cheap online deal in india for mi410 ?
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hi
if ur specific about the camera then even though it is 5Mpik its not great
sorry i dont have the time to take piks but its not great and dont expect great piks for the same.But u can go to lowyat.net site some one has loaded the piks as requested by u
ok
see this piks given at lowyat
out door : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=304167336265062&l=7693dd9b24
indoor : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=309031135778682&l=36948e7a25
this is given by pip_x of lowyat forum thanks and credit to him

The camera quality is not good even in day light, forget about night and more over the camera has a problem, after some time it gets some hitch and you need to go to service center, so know all these points before hand and then plan to purchase it.

paarkhi said:
The camera quality is not good even in day light, forget about night and more over the camera has a problem, after some time it gets some hitch and you need to go to service center, so know all these points before hand and then plan to purchase it.
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realy ?
all models have this problem ? ie i need to go to service center.
and i checked video from igyaan.in about video quality and camera samples, and see its good, not betterm but good for normal photoshoot.
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plz, can u upload just one sample pic ?

ok, finaly got this
http://www.pinoytechblog.com/archives/cherry-mobile-magnum-hd-review
this have bunch of pics taken from magnum hd which is same as mi410.
so guys, now just confirm me that magnum hd and mi410 are same phone ?
means i get same camera quality as magnum hd ?
I m satisfied with pics posted in above review.
just confirm me, also issue posted paarkhi bro, is happening every mi410 ?
i m planning to nuy from saholic at 13k.

bro i can say this 5mp is not good..
bad noise reductions + bad contrast capturing..
also the pics taken atm night or day looked washed out with colours on the poor display.. as its not bright & crisp as my sgs2 superamold..
but the cam is ok with third party cam apps like camera 360 ultimate which i use for daily myself..
& results..
daylight-awesome with hdr light & enchancment modes.. you can try others too..( daylight & heavy light results are awesome )
night or places with bad light - there you can use night mode ( but if you are'nt still satisfied this is much a smartphone can do.. ) i iknow these results with modes in night or bad light are not good at best but ok.. you can compress these pics to smaller size ( reso. ) to get more sharpness & clearity it pc easily ( use microsoft picture manager or i forgot the name¿ )
& the thing about cam hardware failure after some days is only prob. with stock or stock build based roms. actually its a bug in our stock builds which make some bad log files to conflict hardware, this can easily be fixed by wiping user data & cache by cwm.. ( which is not difficult )
the cust. care people do the same trick & then install their buggy stock rom to fix.. it
no cam failiure prob. with miui or cm7, once you reverted accuratley
as you seen the samples from above posts that they are not bad either.. i will not force you but still you can't everything in 13k & that also in a smartphone..
one more prob. is dust under screen which you might face..
but this best at 13k again.. don't buy defy as it got poor gpu & support for games.. although defy cam. is good.
best cam. yet in all samartphones is xperia ray 8mp at 18k which can beat iphone 4s & sgs2 ... or you should go for that if you take cam. as a criteria only..
good luck

Realy thanx nitindeck.
what to u actualy mean by dust under screen ?
means dust from external air will go inside of phone ?
this means bad manufacturing, ryt ?
and how to avoid this ?
if dust go in, how clean it ?
can we remove body and clean out dust ?
I m ordering today.

paarkhi said:
The camera quality is not good even in day light, forget about night and more over the camera has a problem, after some time it gets some hitch and you need to go to service center, so know all these points before hand and then plan to purchase it.
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hi
just to add on the same.If u want this phone for the Camera features then dont look at it the cam is not great.Frankly speaking i dont care about the cam as i have a good camera and i use it for all my req photography and my personal feeling is the cam is just a feature and this is made more for the phone function than the cam function
so once again if camera is ur main thing then look at other Brands like HTC samsung , Sony ETC... and these phone with the same features as this phone may be better would cost double the cost of this phone to my knowledge

I m getting Xperia Neo 8mp at 17k, should i go with that ?
and also please confirm that the sure dust problem will happen..

in this photo's resolution is low because of facebook.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...10348954.21568.100002849168556&type=3&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...10348954.21568.100002849168556&type=3&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...10348954.21568.100002849168556&type=3&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...10348954.21568.100002849168556&type=3&theater
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...10348954.21568.100002849168556&type=3&theater
and i don't have dust problem till now.
video sample of front camera.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=132743856830586

Sony Xperia T Camera

I Just got my Xperia T and wanted to compare the image quality to my HTC One X I'm getting rid of (God awful phone by the way)
These pictures are in no way 'the best' the camera can do I'm sure and I hardly used a good subject... in fact it was just what was in the corner of my room
All pictures however were taken now (11:10pm ish) in a fairly dullish room so all had to use the flash feature.
See for yourself
oi46.tinypic.com/2qj8xfb.jpg (Add the usual http part!)
^^ I had to do it like that as it wont let me post a link, so I do apologise to any forum admin I'm not doing it to break the rules.. sorry!

Excellent shoot. Xperia T's camera definitely has a greater contrast.. which is the most noticeable thing that popped out to me. The shadows were darker, etc.

Fuzalert2k said:
Excellent shoot. Xperia T's camera definitely has a greater contrast.. which is the most noticeable thing that popped out to me. The shadows were darker, etc.
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It also picked up the varnish shine effect that the cabinet has where the HTC one x made it look dull. So far I'm very impressed with the Xperia t,for once I'm using the stock keyboard as its actually very good. Normally I install swiftkey but not this time.

I have both phones aswell and SXT has the far better camera and video and video sound quality too and I like the fact that the videos arent so zoomed in like on the hox, htc really need to do something about that because it is a horrible feature.
I like my HOX but seriously Tegra 3 really lets it down, phone has a tendancy to be zippy fast one minute then snail slow and laggy the next and not to mention it overheats like crazy when playing games or on the internet for even three mins which my sxt doesn't

How fast does your xperia t take shots, i came from a gs3 that was lightning quick at taking pics. I get some amazing pics with the xperia t, but sometimes it just seems sluggish at focusing if at all. Would you mind sharing detailed camera settings for everyday use so we can get the best out of the Xperia Ts Camera?
Thanks

jkr284 said:
How fast does your xperia t take shots, i came from a gs3 that was lightning quick at taking pics. I get some amazing pics with the xperia t, but sometimes it just seems sluggish at focusing if at all. Would you mind sharing detailed camera settings for everyday use so we can get the best out of the Xperia Ts Camera?
Thanks
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I have the stock settings only got my phone yesterday. When I press the capture button it takes about 0.5 to 1 seconds for the picture to flash in the gallery icon in the bottom right.

I always have my camera in normal mode as opposed to auto scene mode because auto scene mode it is too slow to focus and I use touch focus instead of auto focus.

RWSAMHTC said:
I always have my camera in normal mode as opposed to auto scene mode because auto scene mode it is too slow to focus and I use touch focus instead of auto focus.
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The scene selection seems to take a while. I leave mine in normal mode but let auto-focus do its thing and select a specific scene mode (landscape, sports mainly) when needed. I only use touch focus when I want to focus on a particular area of the shot I'm taking.
If I helped, hit Thanks!

I left mine in auto for everything

RWSAMHTC said:
I have both phones aswell and SXT has the far better camera and video and video sound quality too and I like the fact that the videos arent so zoomed in like on the hox, htc really need to do something about that because it is a horrible feature.
I like my HOX but seriously Tegra 3 really lets it down, phone has a tendancy to be zippy fast one minute then snail slow and laggy the next and not to mention it overheats like crazy when playing games or on the internet for even three mins which my sxt doesn't
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That's the problem with all the Tegra devices. I refuse to buy one again
Sent from my LT29i using xda premium

today my focus froze completely when trying to take a picture of some christmas lights, I had to exit the camera and go back into it before it focused and btw that time the lights went off. This is kinda the same issue i had with the xperia s but the s was worse. Please, please, please SONY just stop it. why cant the camera focus straight away like on the HOX or SGS3 for example.
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weebnuts said:
That's the problem with all the Tegra devices. I refuse to buy one again
Sent from my LT29i using xda premium
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Please believe, same here never ever again!

Unfortunately Xperia T is not the leader in good quality pictures. I would say my T makes awful pictures!! I have it now for a few weeks and I am really really disappointed in photo quality by my new Xperia. I had Samsung Galaxy SII before but I didn't like it due to network signal problems so I sold it after a few weeks and I decided to go for Xperia T. S2 was making way better pictures than Xperia T does. I wanted to by S3 but I didn't like the week network signal in S2 and I have used Sony Ericsson for many years before so I picked Xperia T. I was very disappointed when I noticed after my first shot how noisy it was. It is hard to catch focus, many pictures are blurred. Making a shot in bright sun is fine. But as soon as You will get inside and use a lamp as a light sources even with LED light it will be hard to make a nice clear shot. I had SE Satio before and it was making much better pictures. I also compared shots in the same room and lighting with my friend's Galaxy S3 and Samsung was making much better pictures without that much noise. So If you are looking for a good camera with your smartphone Xperia T might not be the best call.

matexone said:
Unfortunately Xperia T is not the leader in good quality pictures. I would say my T makes awful pictures!! I have it now for a few weeks and I am really really disappointed in photo quality by my new Xperia. I had Samsung Galaxy SII before but I didn't like it due to network signal problems so I sold it after a few weeks and I decided to go for Xperia T. S2 was making way better pictures than Xperia T does. I wanted to by S3 but I didn't like the week network signal in S2 and I have used Sony Ericsson for many years before so I picked Xperia T. I was very disappointed when I noticed after my first shot how noisy it was. It is hard to catch focus, many pictures are blurred. Making a shot in bright sun is fine. But as soon as You will get inside and use a lamp as a light sources even with LED light it will be hard to make a nice clear shot. I had SE Satio before and it was making much better pictures. I also compared shots in the same room and lighting with my friend's Galaxy S3 and Samsung was making much better pictures without that much noise. So If you are looking for a good camera with your smartphone Xperia T might not be the best call.
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Yeah coming from a Nokia N8 I have to agree that the image quality is just not to the standard I've been used to. I got camera zoom fx app but even with uncompressed images @ 12.8mp there is far too much noise in low level lighting. There is a mod you can get that will probably give you a real uncompressed JPG but as far as taking a decent shot without any motion blur it's almost impossible..The Video capture on the other hand is good.
I may have to wait a bit before trying this mod out as need to root the phone. Personally I would prefer if Sony wouldn't handicap the camera quality as the images are re-sized for sharing online.. The phone can store 14gig plus 32 gig of expanded memory.
IMHO if you want good camera hardware in a phone go for the Nokia 808 or the 920.
Irrespective of operating system. If you want a good photo you need good hardware and I never needed to buy extra software with Symbian to get a good shot every time I used the camera on the N8.

I don't know why Sony made such a poor quality camera/pictures. I am not sure where the problem is - is it the hardware or software, but pictures out of Xperia T are barely usable. I can compare pictures to old but good Sony Ericsson C902. Compared to Galaxy S3 Samsung makes much better pictures. If camera would be better T would be the best phone. For a plus is that videos are quite decent.

And most of the tests show the opposite as well as many other users say the oppostite too.

Another thread in loop. One likes this, another one likes that.
Truth is, that the image stabiliser needs to be turned on, to make not blurry photos in low light conditions. Noise is normal on this kind of cameras. If another phone has no noise, then it's only post processing.
Btw. this camera is perfect scanner of documents, even in low light conditions. It proved to be very useful for me.

peetr_ said:
Another thread in loop. One likes this, another one likes that.
Truth is, that the image stabiliser needs to be turned on, to make not blurry photos in low light conditions. Noise is normal on this kind of cameras. If another phone has no noise, then it's only post processing.
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But the stabiliser is a digital stabiliser right ? Do you know how does it work for pictures ?
edit : by taking multiple picture and keeping the sharpest one a suppose
So the image stabilizer is most likely "off" with the auto setting ? Why they don't choose to keep it "on" if its better ?
I also have been surprised by how much chroma noise the pictures have.
So maybe Sony just made the choice to apply less chroma noise reduction than its competitor. (but having chroma noise at lowest iso setting feel weird for sure)

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(but having chroma noise at lowest iso setting feel weird for sure)
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Just a prove that it's not possible to make photo without noise in low light conditions with this optics. ISO is not everything.

crmb said:
But the stabiliser is a digital stabiliser right ? Do you know how does it work for pictures ?
edit : by taking multiple picture and keeping the sharpest one a suppose
So the image stabilizer is most likely "off" with the auto setting ? Why they don't choose to keep it "on" if its better ?
I also have been surprised by how much chroma noise the pictures have.
So maybe Sony just made the choice to apply less chroma noise reduction than its competitor. (but having chroma noise at lowest iso setting feel weird for sure)
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Not sure about the xperia t, but on my sgs3 when i turn on image stabilization all it really does is increase the iso therefore producing a faster shutter speed...which is what you want to prevent blur. The exif data of each photo shows this.
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Camera questions
Hi all,
New to the Xperia T and, more importantly, new to XDA. This is my first personal smartphone!
I got the Sony as I wanted a smartphone, but I wanted one that takes good photos, as I cannot take my dSLR everywhere.
A
In the default app, can you change jpeg compression? it is reported to be very high
What app do people use?
Image compression - can you set the shutter button open a different app?
B
Why do some reviews show that you can change the ISO, whilst others report you cannot?
Is this option "lost" in an update, ie has Sony removed it?
Thanks for your help!
icstm
Right now to find where to ask the idot's questions of - i)how do you stop free apps installing their advertising engines, or at least access the same information that you permit the app to access - ii)apart from allowing you to tinker what is the benefit of rooting (which I assme means gaining admin access df. unix) iii)what are the additional features on the xperia t of the popular customer ROMS

Video Camera quality?

New to this site so Hello
Seems to be several topics on Photo quality but very little on the video camera.
Personally i have no complaints about photo quality, seems a decent upgrade from my iPhone 4s but the video camera does seem kinda poor to me.
also going from iPhone to Android, ive noticed the lack of video camera apps the is within the Playstore
curious to know what others think

Not sure why you are having problems with your video camera but, Z1 is rated on of the best video camera on a smart phone...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2484670

Morlock O said:
Not sure why you are having problems with your video camera but, Z1 is rated on of the best video camera on a smart phone...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2484670
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thats 1 review. the reviews seem all over the place with this phone. mostly on photo tho. some say the camera is the best available (excluding the Nokia 1020) some say it isnt as good as a Galaxy s4.
Ive found the videos look grainy or faded in well lit areas. sometimes looks like the video is upscaled rather than true 1080p

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thats 1 review. the reviews seem all over the place with this phone. mostly on photo tho. some say the camera is the best available (excluding the Nokia 1020) some say it isnt as good as a Galaxy s4.
Ive found the videos look grainy or faded in well lit areas. sometimes looks like the video is upscaled rather than true 1080p
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im really impressed with the video quality and its really good meanwhile i tried most of the smartphones and believe me z1 is damn good in video recording...................

i think the video quality is pretty good on the z1, obviously the king of video recording is the galaxy note 3 with its 4k video capability(Sony take a note here and enable this on our phones damn you). Its not just 1 site which has given the z1 a pretty good video recording score (gsmarena, tech radar, engadget and more). In optimum lighting conditions the quality of the videos are pretty good better than the iphone 5s never mind a 4s, one thing that the z1 does suffer from is when you record in low light, the quality of videos and photos begin to degrade, would have been nice to see some sort of OIS to combat this, but overall i find the z1 a very capable shooter.

shut the steady shot ... and try again thx

Xperia SP camera problems?

Hi all,
I am currently owning Sony Xperia P and I am thinking about an upgrade to SP. But one problems remain. Camera.
I have read a ton of reviews and it seems that camera is producing pictures with a lot of noise and that the camera of older model P, is actually, better.
I have seen that people say that some custom roms and mods solve this issue, but nothing concrete.
Can you please tell me your experiences with camera? Is it really that bad? Any of the updates solved the problem?
thanks

fleks5 said:
Can you please tell me your experiences with camera? Is it really that bad? Any of the updates solved the problem?
thanks
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I'm using the Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition camera (gallery app) and this solves any problem with the camera(you can use it on stock and all other roms), from autofocus to noise. So I'd say dont worry about it and get this amazing phone!
Produces great pictures. But besides that, it still is a phone, not a professional camera hehe.

Robin>Hood said:
I'm using the Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition camera (gallery app) and this solves any problem with the camera(you can use it on stock and all other roms), from autofocus to noise. So I'd say dont worry about it and get this amazing phone!
Produces great pictures. But besides that, it still is a phone, not a professional camera hehe.
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Can you put here some samples of photos taken with stock camera and this S4 camera? Some in dim conditions and some in bright conditions. You know. Some kitchen photos, some landscape with blue sky, etc...
thanks !

fleks5 said:
Can you put here some samples of photos taken with stock camera and this S4 camera? Some in dim conditions and some in bright conditions. You know. Some kitchen photos, some landscape with blue sky, etc...
thanks !
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No.
Edit: There is other threads about this and not only on XDA. Look before asking or get a real camera.

its true that the camera of Xperia SP is not that good compared to XP or S3.
the pictures are very noisy and yellowish and in low light the camera get more worse.
i have also tried S4 play edition camera, camera 360, moto x camera but no major difference.