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Possible Nexus Camera "Issue"

So I like most everything about my nexus but the way it takes pictures. Its not so much a real issue because it doesn't prevent the camera from working.. but it seems the chip/sensor they used for the camera gives a red spot in all pictures in the center of the image, most noticeably in pictures with a white or light background/image. I'll attach a picture so everyone else can confirm what I mean... I was hoping we could get HTC to replace the phones that have this issue via the warranty as this seems to be an issue with many nexus ones (based on a couple of reviews and the pictures they provided there). Here's my sample picture. You can also see it on screen when looking at what you're going to take a picture of.
Also I do research in a lab and its a procedure for an experiment I'm doing... just realized what I was posting might seem odd... didn't really read it before posting.

It is a software issue, so they are not going to do a warranty replacement. Droid had the same deal with it, seems to be something with the base 2.0/1 Android framework, I am sure it will be fixed when google releases their bug fix update(don't ask when, no legit idea beyond guessing sometime around the start of February, since that seems to be the typical timeline with phone bug updates, about 30 days after launch the first update is released).

Correction. It's a HARDWARE issue. Dont believe me? leave your cammera on for a couple minutes.. Goes away right? Its cuz droid camera was the same.. or similar? They had a bad batch. Mine has no pink eye(N1) =>

The Droid's issue was partially a software problem...
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
As well, it is a "who really knows?"
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=10749
It seems many phones, with different camera's and so forth are having this issue... CCD seems to be the manufacturer of all the sensors, though, so perhaps there is a problem with the firmware from CCD causing this?
I highly doubt that every single camera sensor ever made by this company happens to have this sort of issue due to hardware. That would be pretty insane! However, if it was a firmware issue, then it would be present in every handset that uses a CCD manufactured/firmware supported camera, and this seems to be the case.
As well, it has already been stated the HD2 will get an update that fixes it. Hopefully the Nexus One is in the same boat. I didn't notice it on the test unit I used, but I asked the current tester if it was happening, and on all 3 it is present. It isn't noticeable in most pictures, though, especially with the flash on, FXcamera set to the proper white balance, and so forth.

EVERY Nexus One you get will have this issue. IT IS SOFTWARE. My N1 has it, the replacement I got has it too.

I've just taken a load of pictures and no pink from what I can see with both flash on and off.
Took pictures of a white surface and no pink. Must be hardware.
EDIT: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...authkey=Gv1sRgCNKM3fOF452TyQE&feat=directlink
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/phot...authkey=Gv1sRgCNKM3fOF452TyQE&feat=directlink

Do you have any camera apps installed? FXcamera with proper white balance settings(sometimes auto is perfect, sometimes you have to do it manually) makes it go away a lot of the time too.

Eh Hem.. Guys are you all forgetting that my N1 DOES NOT HAVE PINK EYE

From what I understand this is a hardware issue. This was also present in an earlier HTC phone (I think the HD2) running a different OS altogether.

yes this was a widespread issue on the HD2... and it was completley fixed by a SOFTWARE UPDATE! >.<

A cursory search of the words "hd2 pink camera issue" on Google seems to imply that this is actually a hardware issue.
Edit: The source of the confusion http://www.redmondpie.com/fix-pink-camera-problem-on-htc-hd2-9140202/:
HTC first confirmed it as an hardware issue but then later they found out that it was infact a software issue, rather than a hardware one.
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http://www.gsmarena.com/a_hardware_fault_causes_htc_hd2_*pink*_camera_issues_confirmed-news-1276.php
I believe the SOFTWARE update is just overcorrecting the blue/green settings on the center of the camera (Guess...) to cancel out the HARDWARE problem with YOUR camera. But again.. It is a Hardware issue for sure. Sorry guys xD I win!
I wouldnt trust htc if you ask them though.. I dont think they are certain what planet they are on half the time.. I asked about how they know that I unlocked my bootloader and his answer was basically.. voodoo. Soooo yaaahhhh... Notice that the cameras are the same for droid HD2 and Nexus one? and those are the only 3 with the issue? Not the G1 with ported software? => hardware folks

flamerider88 said:
I wouldnt trust htc if you ask them though.. I dont think they are certain what planet they are on half the time.. I asked about how they know that I unlocked my bootloader and his answer was basically.. voodoo.
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You asked someone in support; customer support for any company is always uninformed. These aren't the people making press releases or even official forum posts.

flamerider88 said:
I believe the SOFTWARE update is just overcorrecting the blue/green settings on the center of the camera...
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I agree, just because the manufacturer releases a software fix doesn't mean its a software problem to begin with.
The first day I had the phone, I really noticed the pink spot. Yesterday I took 30 pictures, I didn't notice it at all. Today If I look hard enough I think I see a little tiny pink, viewing the image of a white piece of paper in the same place (office) I first tested the camera.

Yeah I noticed this too. It only really shows up if I take pictures of white paper or a white wall. Every other normal pic I take turns out fine but I do hope they can fix it with a software update... wouldn't be too hard.

dinan said:
Yeah I noticed this too. It only really shows up if I take pictures of white paper or a white wall. Every other normal pic I take turns out fine but I do hope they can fix it with a software update... wouldn't be too hard.
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My n1 has it too. Ive tried it now in room with room light and it gives this violett spot when i tak a picture with automatic colorbalance, if i put room light as colorbalance there is no spot...

google already knows about that issue and a fix will be released!
"I have great news! The issue has been fixed and should be included in the next update to Android. I say "should" because things can change at the last minute. Keep an eye on your notification bar for a system update."
source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=7a22ebb69da2b253&hl=en#all

navahoo said:
google already knows about that issue and a fix will be released!
"I have great news! The issue has been fixed and should be included in the next update to Android. I say "should" because things can change at the last minute. Keep an eye on your notification bar for a system update."
source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=7a22ebb69da2b253&hl=en#all
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I followed the link, but didn't see the response you quoted...?

flarbear said:
I followed the link, but didn't see the response you quoted...?
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That's because it was removed by Google. I read it this afternoon. Is not there any longer. The Google employee was "Tommy" and you can't find his posts any more.
You can read other people's response to his post but his don't show up any longer.

well, that post is very hopeful. i suppose all we can do is hope for the best. i dont know if google deleting the post is good or bad though

[Q] Nexus 10 Photosphere and compass / tilt accelerometer drift issues

Hi all
Just got my Nexus 10 yesterday, and am wondering if I have faulty hardware, or Photosphere is just unusable on a stock tablet.
I'm not talking about stitching issues with nearby objects; I know about parallax. What I'm experiencing seems to be an issue with the accelerometer / tilt sensor, compass, or both.
So far, out of three Photosphere panos I tried, only the first worked. On the second, after I'd completed only one row of photos, the blue dot for the first picture in the second row suddenly drifted away across the sphere, while I was holding the tablet perfectly still.
I stopped the pano, and tried to start a new one, but when I centered the blue dot, the three circles above the frame flickered wildly and the camera wouldn't capture even the first shot of the pano. I completely cold-booted the tablet, and the exact same thing happened on reopening the camera; it just wouldn't take a photo with the blue dot centered, no matter how I held the tablet or tilted it. That first pano row did stitch correctly, although not a full 360 degrees, probably more like 270 degrees or so.
I did some Googling and downloaded the GPS Status & Toolbox app, then ran both the Compass Calibration and Calibrate Pitch & Roll tools. When I reopened the camera app and tried another Photosphere, it took photos correctly again, and I completed the full first row without problem. I almost completed the second row of photos, but then the same problem occurred again -- right before I reached it, the blue dot drifted away from the correct location. I stopped without that shot, and checked the pano that stitched, but it was completely nonsensical -- shots from the first row appear up in the second row instead, random pieces of house floating in a cloud-free blue sky. (So it's not that a texture tricked the app into thinking the shot belonged there.)
If I leave the GPS Status & Toolbox app sitting, it only seems to show around one degree of compass drift with the tablet sitting perfectly still, although immediately after I started the app it did show the compass jump around by 90 degrees 3-4 times.
I'm baffled by whether this is a hardware or software problem. The tablet is brand-new with little software installed, and isn't even rooted, let alone anything else. It's as stock as stock can be.
Anybody else have similar issues, or any suggestions?

Apologies, I thought I posted this on Q&A, I'm not sure how it ended up in general. If a mod would like to move it, please do!

Done.
Next time please use the report button in order to bring something to our attention instaid of posts like the above.
You can imagine the difference in efficacy.

stamatis said:
Done.
Next time please use the report button in order to bring something to our attention instaid of posts like the above.
You can imagine the difference in efficacy.
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Thanks very much!
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD

I just tried this again in bright mid-afternoon sunlight, and the results were comically awful. This time I successfully captured the first row of the Photosphere panorama, although it seemed that the compass might have drifted a little bit in one 360 degree rotation, because the first and last shots were off from overlapping by about half a shot-width.
However, when I started the second row of the Photosphere (this time I went for the row beneath, rather than the row above as I had been doing), it went absolutely insane. I continued turning at the same rate with which I did the first row, but in the time I did less than a half-turn, Photosphere acted as if I'd done closer to a three-quarter turn; the second row's shots were off by more than 90 degrees from the correct direction. I stopped moving at this point and stayed absolutely still, but the blue dot continued to track around as if I was still moving, capturing multiple identical photos and using them to fill in the next 90 degrees or so to complete the second row.
Nobody has answered me yet, sadly. I cannot believe that it is like this for anybody else, or Google would be being lambasted for the hopelessly, absolutely unusably-bad performance of Photosphere.
That leads me to believe it is a problem limited to my tablet -- but how? Looking at GPS Status and Toolbox, both of my tilt sensors report accurately, and the accelerometer *seems* to do so as well. (It shows a zero value when the tablet is stationary.)
The compass is another matter. 99% of the time, it is perfect -- even with sensor filtering disabled, it reads a rock-steady value that changes instantly when I move the tablet. Just occasionally after I move it, it will drift by 2-4 degrees while the tablet is stationary though -- and just one time it changed radically without warning. Having been showing values that stayed steady when the tablet was still, and returned to the same value after the tablet was moved back to the same position, the value suddenly drifted by more like 30-40 degrees without the tablet being moved, and if I moved the tablet around and put it back in the same place, it returned to this new value instead.
It seems like the compass has an intermittent fault, although how I persuade Staples of this I don't know. I guess I can try to show them its complete inability to stitch a panorama, because it took significant effort to get it to show a major issue in the GPS Status app.
Or is there something I'm overlooking, a setting I could change or something that needs wiping or recalibrating somewhere? There's no magnets near the device, btw.

Figured I'd drop a status update here, even though I never got any answers.
The result: Yes, my tablet had a hardware fault. I swapped it out, and the second tablet is rock-solid stable when making Photospheres.
Now, if only there was a way to lock exposure and white balance from the first frame. :-/

I have the same problem. Can you help me descripting your call to Google?
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supertaco said:
I have the same problem. Can you help me descripting your call to Google?
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I didn't need to call Google. I took the tablet back to the store and they swapped it, after a very brief description of the problem.

That's muy problem. I live un mexico and a friend of mine send it to me... And i don't have the warranty booklet and i don't unos where or who to call
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supertaco said:
That's my problem. I live in mexico and a friend of mine send it to me... And i don't have the warranty booklet and i don't know where or who to call
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[Q] Touchwiz lag can't be THIS bad - faulty model perhaps?

Hey guys, picked up the new S5 mainly because I really didn't like the camera on the M7, and actually missed the warm un-inspiring plastic of my S3, but one thing I new I wouldn't like is TouchWiz.
Now I'm really confused as to who has been experiencing lag or not, a lot of websites say there is none, some say there is a lot, but I haven't really seen a conclusive post on XDA.
My phone lags a LOT - like sometimes if I'm typing there will be a half-second stutter whilst it recomposes itself, if I am scrolling a lot there also might be a half second hiccup, even swiping through app draws/recent apps can sometimes cause this stutter.
It a massive step back from the buttery-smooth Jelly Bean/Kit Kat I'm used to on AOSP ROMS or even Sense, but I was just wondering if this may mean my model is faulty.
Whilst you may be thinking, a half second here or there? Chill out bro! - there is one section that I know CANT be right - the camera/gallery!
My camera can take a good 5 seconds to start up sometimes, burst shots have a good 5 second delay, and generally my pictures dont look as great as I was expecting - as if the focusing doesn't do its job properly.
Sometimes after takign a picture the camera app can hang for up to 5/10 seconds or even require me to switch out and back in again - and the GALLERY IS HORRIBLE. The gallery is taking >5 seconds to boot from the camera screen and hiccups the most when swiping through.
I tried an Antutu test just to see if I was underperforming, hit 34k when other S5's hit 36k but don't really think it's all that relevant.
Anyone else with similar experiences? Is my phone perhaps faulty or shall I just suck it up until hopefully a GPE ROM comes out (PLEASE INCLUDE ULTRA POWER SAVING MODE GOOGLE/SAMSUNG - it's the only TW bloat I really like!)?
Cheers guys, it's been a while since I was last here!

nobody?

Mine can be pretty damn slow sometimes too. Try going into developer options and disabling all transitions and animations.
That might help it be a bit speedier
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Camera going weird?

Not sure why my Note 3 is doing this, but it used to be a lot better at taking pictures! It is stock, not rooted or anything.
It used to be pretty quick to focus and take pictures, but now the majority of the time it takes forever to focus and usually ends up blurry. It says 'processing' forever now too when taking pics and if i move it takes a pic of whatever is in the way then. Not been dropped or abused. It running stock android 4.4.2 on it (newest available to me.)
I'm don't know what is wrong with it, but any ideas would be good, thanks

IcarusLSC said:
Not sure why my Note 3 is doing this, but it used to be a lot better at taking pictures! It is stock, not rooted or anything.
It used to be pretty quick to focus and take pictures, but now the majority of the time it takes forever to focus and usually ends up blurry. It says 'processing' forever now too when taking pics and if i move it takes a pic of whatever is in the way then. Not been dropped or abused. It running stock android 4.4.2 on it (newest available to me.)
I'm don't know what is wrong with it, but any ideas would be good, thanks
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Turn off Smart Stabilization.

Graffiti Exploit said:
Turn off Smart Stabilization.
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Ok, will try it out tomorrow when I'm out and about. thxs I've always had it on though...

Hmm, took a few pics tonight and the Smart Stabilization does make a big difference with it off it seems. Weird as I've had it turned on since I got the phone, but its gotten worse and worse... Will try some more tomorrow during the day...

Nexus 6p Noise/Lines in Photos

Recently bought a Nexus 6p 2 daya ago and observed these lines in the photos taken using the camera, they show up while I am pointing camera at something. Sometimes they go away if I restart the camera app multiple times. I thought it's related to marshmallow so I updated to 7.1.1 using the OTA update, but the results are the same. It's not all the time but like 70 percent of the time the lines are there and will vanish upon restarting the camera app 3 4 times. Any leads if it is a hardware issue as my phone is under warranty and I would be returning it if it's a hardware issue. Any fixes available?

A sample

Did you buy the phone new?

Yes

scurrminator said:
Yes
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I would contact Google or Huawei depending on where you bought the phone and see what they have to say.