JIAYU S3 focusing problem - JiaYu S3 Questions & Answers

I would like to know from another owner whether he faces the same problem with this phone. i wonder if this problem has anything to do with the sony sensor. or is it a malfunction of my own phone.
The problem is taking pictures in (low ?) light, indoor conditions. If I switch off the flash and try to focus, that is touch focus on a close piece of text such as , a fine print on a prescription, the camera will just not focus. I wonder if anyone else has faced the same problem.
Perhaps some other owner can do a similar test and fault their feedback here Now if you turn on the flash in low light conditions , I mean indoor conditions (they are not really low light,) then with flash on the pictures are nice..It leads me to think that in low light conditions the camera depends on the reflection from flash to achieve good focusing.
When I use an iPhone 4 in similar condition the iPhone camera will focus
Very precisely without any flash. the Sony sensor here is IMX215 and the iPhone 4 has an Omni vision ov8850
Please let me your thoughts
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Try to use camera mx from playstore

I'm already using other camera apps that offer a lot of options in terms of focusing but the problem is the camera itself will not focus up close unless flash is turned on . If you have the same camera can you try it at your end and share your results - switch off the flash and focus on small print in doors and tell me if it focus correctly
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It is happening to me too. I think it's a software problem, not a hardware one. Let's hope that the stable lollipop will solve this.

If I use this app open camera then I can get slightly better pictures without flash in low light conditions for close ups by changing the various focus options
So I do not expect it to improve w lollipop .this is the limitation of the camera under low light conditions . They use a good sensor but just standard or possibly substandard lens so the full potential of the sensor cannot be exploited.
buying the cheaper Chinese brand cameras get you compromised someplace . If they do a good job and sensor they will short on the lens. Xperia cameras have the g lens from sony and I think that makes a good diff.
For this one I think when the flash turned on it uses the flash to focus as well so without flash it relies on passive light coming and so the focusing is not precise . Why can't they just charge 50 dollars more and put in a class lens to match the sensor.
Anyways do you have a place where I can upgrade to lollipop. I was looking around for lollipop rom
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Milestone 2 Camera Issues

Use samsung omnia and blackberry before and now using Moto Milestone 2. The camera setting and option is less compare to samsung. When taking picture under fluorescent light, the camera is flick. Pictures appear stripes.
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same here...:S
kiawey said:
Use samsung omnia and blackberry before and now using Moto Milestone 2. The camera setting and option is less compare to samsung. When taking picture under fluorescent light, the camera is flick. Pictures appear stripes.
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Motorola's camera-app is a real pain... You have to try a different cam-app from the market. My suggestion is "Camera 360". There is a free trail version at the market. This cam-app provides not only "funny" effects, but also a better image-(post)processing, and also the ability to choose a 100%-jpeg-quality setting, so that saving-artifacts are reduced to a minimum.
At the German Forum "Android-Hilfe.de" we've discussed this topic a while ago and some people were complaining that the autofocus hasn't worked at all (blurry pictures etc.).
So if you're not hearing any sound coming out of the MS2 (I don't mean a speaker-sound! I mean clicker-sound directly from where the cam is!) while you starting the cam-app, or while your holding the cam-button half way down, you have probably a hardware-failure!
If you are getting stripes, you probably have the cameras 'scene' set to something like Steady Shot, make sure the scene is on auto (changing from steady shot to auto removed the vertical bands from my photos when under fluro lights).
And strange sound when camera is starting up
Tested but problem still persist. E-mail to complaint Motorola but they tell me this is due to hardware limitation. Helpless!!!

Camera seems out of focus

Hi everyone.
I've noticed that my nexus 4 isn't really able to focus properly except for fairly close shots. Everything just seems really blurry and it's even worse for HDR.
Using camera 360 it doesn't seem as bad.
Anyone else have this issue?
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i haven't been able to take a good picture with my n4
it takes worse pics than my galaxy nexus, i didn't think that was even possible
i'm hoping google improves it because i can't imagine the sensor is actually that bad
Camera sensor isn't bad. If it still remains the Sony Exmor R from the tear down, that's the same camera module in the Sony Xperia lines of phones AFAIK.
It's usually the software side of it to interpret and compress the images taken. From the looks of it though, camera quality isn't Google's top concern in my opinion.

Camera

I've seen mixed reviews on the camera of nexus 4. From my experience I observed a few things.
Camera is excellent in well lit scenes as many reviews point. When using it in low light setup like I did in a restaurant a last night with my family. My cousin was having the iPhone. On the display itself, it was all to dark in my nexus 4 while my cousin's display on his iPhone shored even more light. Then I tried 'Camera FV5' app and the display on my nexus immediately overtook the iphone's, which makes me think that an updated stock camera app has lots of scope to take it to a new level. Or has anybody already cracked this.
I could settle for a third party app but the stock camera app's simplicity and some features like photo sphere are too good to miss.
Why is Google not thinking about this? I think the optics ( hardware) is already on par with the other popular flagship phones out there, just a bit of improvising will do the trick. Please share your views and any solutions that may already exists.
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sany said:
I've seen mixed reviews on the camera of nexus 4. From my experience I observed a few things.
Camera is excellent in well lit scenes as many reviews point. When using it in low light setup like I did in a restaurant a last night with my family. My cousin was having the iPhone. On the display itself, it was all to dark in my nexus 4 while my cousin's display on his iPhone shored even more light. Then I tried 'Camera FV5' app and the display on my nexus immediately overtook the iphone's, which makes me think that an updated stock camera app has lots of scope to take it to a new level. Or has anybody already cracked this.
I could settle for a third party app but the stock camera app's simplicity and some features like photo sphere are too good to miss.
Why is Google not thinking about this? I think the optics ( hardware) is already on par with the other popular flagship phones out there, just a bit of improvising will do the trick. Please share your views and any solutions that may already exists.
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There are some conditions that the camera will take not so good pictures (if you just point and shot), but when you get the hand of it, for me, there's no difference with other 8MP cameras out there, it takes great pictures.

Best camera settings for indoor party?

So i'm going to a huge indoor event called Reverze, and i was wondering what the best camera settings/app would be for recording/taking pictures.
Basically its a pretty much dark room with much flashing lights in all colours, lasers and flames.
My galaxy s2 for example had mych trouble to keep its focus during recording. Note 4 doesnt serm to have this problem but still, i'd like to know what will give me the best result.
(And yes i know this isnt a professional camera and i dont expect equal performance, just the best i can squeeze out of it)
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Wally93 said:
So i'm going to a huge indoor event called Reverze, and i was wondering what the best camera settings/app would be for recording/taking pictures.
Basically its a pretty much dark room with much flashing lights in all colours, lasers and flames.
My galaxy s2 for example had mych trouble to keep its focus during recording. Note 4 doesnt serm to have this problem but still, i'd like to know what will give me the best result.
(And yes i know this isnt a professional camera and i dont expect equal performance, just the best i can squeeze out of it)
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you can make some tests in your room
I have found taking videos work well than using bloc on desktop to take stills. And for close ups u can turn on your flashlight as well when you take videos

A better camera app?

First day with this fabulous device. Came from Note 7. The only disappointment so far is the camera, especially low light. I'm wondering if it's just the app itself. I downloaded LIGHTROOM and I'm getting better results but has anyone found another camera app that works well?
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"A Better Camera" seems to take better quality pictures in low light (just testing it at my desk). It crashes on setting image size in the setting though (but not from the in app menu).
However, it's video function doesn't let you set resolution/rate and such like the built in app.
ekerbuddyeker said:
First day with this fabulous device. Came from Note 7. The only disappointment so far is the camera, especially low light. I'm wondering if it's just the app itself. I downloaded LIGHTROOM and I'm getting better results but has anyone found another camera app that works well?
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People seem to like "snap camera" app the most especially on low light. Maybe you can try this.
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Camera FV-5
The Best Camera app I use is "Camera FV-5" its only a Camera not a video recorder though, its a professional camera soo yeah
Camera Zoom fx premium
None of these seemed to make a difference for me. Mist be the hardware.
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1) As a general point, low light photography is the weak point of the Axon 7 camera
2) You can try open camera. I have had good results. It is a free open source app
One thing i found just by mistake, was if you tap on where you would like to focus in low light conditions it will turn on nightmode and give slightly better picture.
Anyone able to extract the stock camera app?
Can u use Google camera ?
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I was not impressed with Snap camera's low light performance. I actually think it's worse than the stock camera app.
Cinema fv-5 for better video
And the app called: 'a better camera' for better pictures
tupirujp said:
Can u use Google camera ?
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Yes, Google camera works great... Not any improvement in quality, but works great. Not like it did on the Nexus 6P (not able to swipe to change from camera to video, have to use swipe-out menu).
If you have the ZTE camera open, then try to open Google camera (or any other), you'll get an error the camera is in use by another app.
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Anyone able to extract the stock camera app?
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You should be able to extract it from any of the stock system partition images -- either direct from ZTE's files or from DrakenFX TWRP backup versions.
tele_jas said:
Yes, Google camera works great... Not any improvement in quality, but works great. Not like it did on the Nexus 6P (not able to swipe to change from camera to video, have to use swipe-out menu).
If you have the ZTE camera open, then try to open Google camera (or any other), you'll get an error the camera is in use by another app.
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Oh well i had the axón 7 twise for over 2 weeks and its just too much the lack of development so I went back to the 6p got tired of waiting and waiting it's not my game
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The default camera app already has the best options for low light. It's just a trade-off between shutter speed and grain. You can use SUPER NIGHT mode or ISO100 mode in manual to get less grain but you have to hold still to avoid blur. SUPER NIGHT seems to make a composite to reduce blur though.
Any sample shots using super night mode?
Zte is not using the CameraApi2 so you won't get the same quality with a 3rd party camera app.
I've personally found that HDR works quite well in low light, sometimes making the shot look brighter than real life. The only annoying part is keeping the phone steady to avoid blur.
Freedcam
Color OS camera
I feel are the best
Using MI4W with CM13

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