yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Yeah hmmmm but I have more questions :P see no shutterings at all :)

Is Autofocus so sensitive and want to sharp image more when it is already sharped well?

Will Autofocus work correctly in darky rooms\areas, where in SC module it is just blurred movie? Autofocus doesn't know how to work.

How long have you been without phone :)
[Galaxy S II General] jask05:
I have that:

Cam FW: SCEF02

Phone FW: TBEC28

Can I Update ?? And, Is it safe?

If anything go wrong, Is there any way to restore a FW backup ?

Thanks !!
[Galaxy S II General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
why is SCEF02 bad? I have the same Camera module as you and have no problems at all :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] alangrig:
This latest version. No update available yet. You try another firmware, but only one that removes video stutter it's SIEGE03, but take into consideration under Siege03 no flash or any flashlight .apk will work.

---------- Post added at 03:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:14 PM ----------

Well,

1. As for me autofocus under OM... module work fine. No extra sharp being applied.

2. Autofocus might take delay at the start but further it keeps working steady at least under OM.

3.Usually phone replacement in Latvia takes 10 business days.
[Galaxy S II General] nipip:
Please stop repeating SC module has problems!

This thread has 155 pages of the same useless info.

If you have a defective camera module keep it or flash SIEGE03 or send it to replace somewhere if you can.

Anybody @samsung: please update camera firmware to fix the issues without kill the flash.

Thanks.
[Galaxy S II General] jask05:
Thanks for the info. Now works perfectly. I prefer don't touch anything haha :)
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
You mean there are no symptoms of crappy SC module where it wants to sharp even when it is not needed, right?

Here you have example - in all movie were problems but at end of movie (since sec. 27) you have AF which couldn't get lock in such light area.

[YOUTUBE]EOxRRdJgYGU[/YOUTUBE]

Could you do some videos? I mean such conditions where AF is CRAP in SC. It doesn't know where to focus at, what a bul****:

Is OM alike to this?

[YOUTUBE]Xel-Qn5HD8o[/YOUTUBE]

Yeah but overal time without phone... was month. I guess it is painful but nothing else left. I changed my mind I go to the center and back phone to replace. But the guy told me if I flashed phone camera's firmware he would know that and it can be refused to replace. Is it true? What did you do before you took phone to them?

It will be over and over. SC has problems and we can discuss it. This is what forum is for.
[Galaxy S II General] alangrig:
Definitely, I will post video samples over weekend or next week on Monday-Tuesday.
[Galaxy S II General] suzaku:
I went to the service center but they told me we don't have any other FW other than SC...

after that I went to the retailer and he told that he could install the FW I asked for (OM) but the problem is, my phone is the middle east version which has arabic support, and he told me that I'll lose it since OM module doesn't support arabic :mad:

so it makes sense now why the service center didn't have it...

guess I'll wait for ICS which has arabic built into the system ;)
[Galaxy S II General] nipip:
Yes, I agree to discuss the problems but there are now 156 pages only with pink spots and fps drops!

I follow the thread from months and no new info, even less solutions from samsung.
[Galaxy S II General] re-2007:
Any body test the new ics leak from samsung in samfirmware.com ????

I9100XXKP4 is based on Android 4.0.1 Build date: December 20 2012

I9100XXKP8 is based on Android 4.0.3 Build date: December 30 2012

thanks in advance
[Galaxy S II General] jlieu:
Tested...and checked, they din't include CAM Firmware Update..

maybe will include in official kies update.
[Galaxy S II General] s2dh:
I have updated to the following, but I get a stutter in video and re-focus sometimes...

My version:

Cam FW: TBEE08

Phone FW: TBEC28

Is there a firmware that works ok, never had these issues before the update?

Could someone post a link to the original camera firmware or one that works ok..?
[Galaxy S II General] re-2007:
did your device have CAM: SCxxxx firmware

and you mean same problem still present as before ?????:confused:
[Galaxy S II General] manishdev:
Will this thing work on the i9100G?

i cnt seem to find it in samsung applications
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
Maybe they will not update the camera firmware anymore.
[Galaxy S II General] D3_:
I doubt that, especially with the problems on the SC firmwares.
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
The only feedback i receive from samsung support is "to bring the device to an autorized repair center".

The sc camera simply does not meet the minimum standards declared by samsung itself (30fps@1080P). Even with the sieg0 fw, framerate goes low to 25fps instead of the rock-solid 30fps guaranteed by other camera modules.
[Galaxy S II General] juancaretta:
I have an SC camera module, updated with the last firmware. Video quality and AF seems to be fine, at least in 720p, but I do get frame drops on the recorded video. The update did improve the camera in photo mode, AF seems to lock faster and more accurately, both with autofocus and touch to focus. Metering and white balance improved as well. Shame about the video recording though.
[Galaxy S II General] tommygun100:
Very weird thing here:

I'm on Fujitsu ISP, originally on SC firmware. The autofocus does not work properly. It only focuses when I aim it up to the sky. It focuses for 1 moment. Whenever I put it back in normal position the focus is gone and everythings blurry. It doesn't matter what focus mode I use, what app I use. SIEG03 worked for literally 5 minutes, afterwards the screen turned black and it gave camera error.

I'm sure it's a software issue: one time when flashing MIUI it worked fine, but when flashing back it doesnt work anymore. If I flash MIUI now it doesnt work either. Does anyone know what to do? Tnx in advance
[Galaxy S II General] eric-filth:
What i indeed

Have 2 cams.

1 - Good

2 - Bad

Correct? if this correct and my cam is a bad cam, i can change for de good cam?

Cam FW : TBEF04

Phone FW : TBEC28

ISP : Fujtisu M5MOLS
[Galaxy S II General] Phaege:
Is the Camera update also fixing the red dot spot?
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Fujitsu SC parts are broken. Demand in service new replacement for example OM module (Sony IIRC). Don't know about Autofocus but surely FPS problem is gone then.

It is unlikely Samsung will fix their firmware. If they wanted to fix it, they would have already done it. SGS II is not new phone, problem exists many months.
[Galaxy S II General] re-2007:
If they wanted to fix it, they would have already done it. SGS II is not new phone, problem exists many

thats i am worry about !!!!!
[Galaxy S II General] s2dh:
Anyone..?
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
No i never heard about stuttering in TBxx firmwares. I have stuttering, but i got the SCxx firmware.
[Galaxy S II General] s2dh:
Can I update to SCxx?
[Galaxy S II General] re-2007:
Dont think so ....
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Today I was again in the local service.

Man said it was random - either you'd get OM or not. He gave me direct phone to Samsung Service Center.

I had asked and got reply - overall they in the center have some boxes of camera modules but they don't know which one belongs to Fujitsu, which one to Sony. Samsung just sends packs with written text that all belongs to SGS II and fulfill the requirements of the SGS II camera (30 FPS, Full HD, ect). In such case they put whatever they have. You cannot choose which part.

I guess when accepting parts they know what they accepted, but other departments doesn't have such information. Frankly for repair center it doesn't matter - if all fulfil overall requirements - it is accepted as is.

To get demanded module I would have had direct contacts to the lower levels of company, before parts arrive to Center as ready to mount modules. As I don't have such contacts, I must stay with crappy firmware, and wait for Samsung's movement in this area.

Camera module itself (technically) is OK. I cannot agree it doesn't fulfils overall SGS II camera specifications. Technically it doesn't have shutterings. It doesn't have problems. The firmware has, and by this I am not so surprised by Samsung Main Service Center reply. In this case and possible long time waiting for phone back from service (not counting possibility to send it back few times), I stay with Fujitsu. In the Autumn, I will buy (maybe but I guess so) Galaxy S3 so I sell this phone if they don't release fixed firmware.
[Galaxy S II General] Marcb:
I have this:

Cam FW Ver: SCEE07

Phone FW Ver: TBEC28

ISP: Fujitsu M5MOLS

Guess it's a pretty old firmware isn't it?

Should it update? What's the newest firmware?

I just got my phone, but never really used camera that much...
[Galaxy S II General] re-2007:
you have the newest firmware.....and worst camera module!! like me !!!:rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] Marcb:
I don't think so... I saw people with SCEE09...

Technically, it's newer than SCEE07...

I bought my SII at launch and never updated any firmware...
[Galaxy S II General] re-2007:
it is SCEF07 not SCEE07 !!:eek:
[Galaxy S II General] Marcb:
oh, so I do have an outdated firmware...

any benefits in having this SCEF07 ?
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
Latest firmware should be SCEF02
[Galaxy S II General] re-2007:
I am sorry about my mistake..... the newest is firmware SCEF02
[Galaxy S II General] Prasad:
Just checked Samsung Apps.. The latest released Samsung Galaxy S 2 camera firmware update was on 2nd December, 2011. Installed that, but it kept crashing on KP8... any pointers?
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
It is the same version as earlier. It doesn't fix anything (uploaded just to make impression they're working).
[Galaxy S II General] thelestat:
the firmware dumps to:

/etc/firmware
[Galaxy S II General] virland:
Yes, I have take a picture of a white wall also took a video of it and none of them had any pink spot.
[Galaxy S II General] MikeMaMan:
Nothing new there. Only old file. And I dumped today camera firmware. So it went somewhere else.
[Galaxy S II General] DruNKfuX:
Same here, still can't find it.. it's not in etc/firmware
[Galaxy S II General] maximusl:
I dumped the new one and there are 4 files qt602240 and 3 files which begin with RS**. But these are new firmware dump :( cmon somebody dumb the old one :( please

It appears these files are not camera firmware files...

Someone please whwrw does firmware dum??
[Galaxy S II General] JuniorGG:
Let's keet this thread alive... I also need a dump! Pleeeeeasee.e...
[Galaxy S II General] Flowlance:
TBEC28 on both.. Where do you find the updates? Nothing in samsung apps. Anyhow, why fix something that works? :) No pink dot for me.
[Galaxy S II General] El Salvador:
Don't update mate! It'll make the cam perform worse. I had TBEC28 on both as well and I got some weird yellow stuff going on when using a flash. White surfaces (parts) on pictures taken inside w/o flash turn out blue/purple'ish as well. So instead of updating, please find a way to dump your precious TBEC28 cam FW ;)
[Galaxy S II General] Flowlance:
Heh thanks for informing me. I tried dumping it like the guys above me, but i have the same problem. The dump is nowhere to be found. Not to mention that i have no idea whst to look for xD
[Galaxy S II General] JuniorGG:
Anybody brave enough to ask Samsung the apk of the older firmware?

Mine was OCED11, and I miss it :(
[Galaxy S II General] maximusl:
I cannot. I have a preproduction galaxy s2 1ghz version without Samsung logo in front
[Galaxy S II General] DruNKfuX:
****sake, mine was fine when i was on KE2 with old cam firmware until i flashed Litening rom v1.1, then i got the pink spot (still with old cam firmware) , so i restored my CWM nandroid backup from stock KE2, and guess what, still the pink spot! :(

That is without updating the firmware from the camera.. I checked the software version after the restore and it was KE2 but with the KE7 kernel that stayed on my phone from the Litening rom..

I forgot to try and flash the KE2 kernel to see if that got rid of the problem and instead flashed the new camera firmware (so stupid, i know), still pink spot.. so maybe it's not the camera firmware but a problem in the KE7 kernel?

Anyone care to find out? I'm a bit tired of all that flashing atm so i'll try it later tonight..
[Galaxy S II General] El Salvador:
Yeah I don't even know if it's even possible to get a dump but I do hope so! Anyway, in your case (and everyone else) if your cam is working fine, at least hold on till KE7 or 2.3.4 is released before updating anything.
[Galaxy S II General] Flowlance:
Yeah. I'm already on ke7 tho. So that can't be the cause of the pink spot
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
I'm guessing/hoping that the 2.3.4. update will address some of the funkiness with both the display and camera. If the tweets from Samsung are correct we're talking weeks not months.
[Galaxy S II General] renton82:
I'm interested too, before i had TBEC28 and now TBEE08, i don't know if before i had the pink spot, but now i have it!Not so pronunciated but the pink spot it's here!
[Galaxy S II General] Techvir:
I have the same version. ( from expansys-usa )

Did not notice any pink spots in the camera
[Galaxy S II General] yyhd:
Before update:

Cam FW : OCED11

Phone FW: TBEC28

On Firmware : KE2

After Update :

Cam FW : OCEE09

Phone FW: TBEC28

On Firmware : KE2
[Galaxy S II General] renton82:
Any solution yet?
[Galaxy S II General] hiperjp:
Cam FW : OCED11

New Cam FW: OCEE09

KE7 XEU
[Galaxy S II General] Prasad:
Thanks! But are you certain of that?
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
Humm, this would mean that:

1) The q.c. on camera modules are faulty, at the least for the fujitsu modules.

2) The problems is not beside the camera module, but elsewere.

What i see with my camera module (SCF02) is that the maximum framerate in night or low light conditions is 25fps, that does not fullfit the camera specs. Even if i set the sensor gain to -2 or i use fixed or infinity focus to avoid refocusing (using lgcam app), the framerate is well under the 30fps (but enough to have a good video experience).

---------- Post added at 12:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:27 AM ----------

Yes, the firmware is the same of the scf02. The camera firmware developement is stopped until now.

It's clear that samsung have no reason to keep developing camera firmwares. I think that now samsung is focused for the new product (galaxy s3 or what else is it's name), and soon the sgs2 will be forgotten.
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Weird thing some of my videos as I checked long time ago had FPS going from 27 up to 33 and 35 (!). Don't know how it is possible but media information said such thing.

Low FPS occurs in my case only in the artificial light where it has problems. In dark areas when light is more natural (the Sun I think) fps is stable and IIRC starts from 28-29.

As I said I am not surprised their answer and it looks for me quite sensible. Imagine you are developer of processor. You develop 1 Ghz CPU but BIOS which is programmed by somebody else limits it to 800 Mhz. Technically you sell 1 Ghz, failure is not in processor but firmware.

This is technically correct but immoral to leave problem as is, knowing something is wrong, like Samsung does. The ball is on the Samsung area. Single developers cannot do anything - lgCamera is rather poor application. Cameras in various mods, Cyanogen, MIUI are worse than stock ones. Nothing can be done it seems.

They focus on SGS III, leaving SGS II as they did in SGS I. Camera firmware is not their priority.
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
I think that the problem could be resolved keeping the max sensor gain tapped to the iso200 equivalent. But this can be done only in the firwmare, becouse the firmware acts in different way when camera mode is activated (camera mode is basically the preview mode of the fujitsu isp).

Try this:

in camera mode set manually the iso to 400, and point the device to bright and dark zones, you will notice that framerate will drop when you point to dark zones.

Setting the iso to 200, you will notice stable framerates.

So what does it happens in preview mode? Maybe that during autofocus, the gain is raised over the iso200 and the framerate, of course, drops down.

It should not be so difficult to implement by firmware, but it's a clear samsung decision to not do so (do you remember the absurd 16Khz audio limit in previous firmwares??).

P.s. with lgcamera i can record 192Kbps/48Khz audio, and it saves the lower sensor gain so i don't have to set it manually every time. In this way i have always fluid videos with excellent audio. F*** you samsung.
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Do you know what ISO values are used in camera mode? I know it is higher than 100?

Yes it is true.

If I had known Android App API used by Samsung I could have messed with Hex values inside. Somewhere they're stored.

In my case lgCamera:

records not playable videos;

sometimes freezes camera;

crashes itself;

[...]

Overall it is not too good app. It lacks full compability to SGS II. I liked fixed macro mode but it doesn't work after (freezes, lags, not playable video).

I am surprised why Sasmung decreased camera options.

We have AF, there must be option to turn off AF too. We have macro mode. We could have had macro mode for movies too. Why didn't they included more options regarding such things? Don't know.
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
Use LGCamera 6.1, it's fully compatible with sgs2. And no, unfortunately the firmware to be edited should be stored in the isp (wich is a dual arm based dsp) memory and the source code is not relased.

To fix the camera issue it may be needed to edit the isp firmware and the kernel modules..
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Hmmm is it normal in macro mode the compensation of light is not changing (and big lag since I press record to start recording, about 4-5 seconds)? I started macro recording on white paper, when I moved to the darker area it didn't bright up. I'll test tomorrow its abilities. So far it didn't crash.
[Galaxy S II General] Pako7:
There were new versions of camera_fw - vendors OD (ODEI03_I727_23.09.2011) and SD (SDEH0D_I727_24.08.2011) (from I727). To take in the same place, in my archive - Camera_FW_I9100

Good testing ;)
[Galaxy S II General] bisat:
SDEH0D on SCEF02 .... black camera with phone freeze using camera app...
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
My God, the sgs2 has more hardware fragmentation than an assembled home pc P_P
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
Well after few days of testing lgCamera I am more and more convinced bad camera behaviour is due to only firmware not hardware as Main Samsung Service Center says. I made comparision:

If lgCamera programmer was able to improve camera performance where originally it sucked a lot, even using such API with bad firmware, it means there is hope just by correcting firmware. I know I am repeating this again, but I think now it is easier... just of good will of Samsung.

Good to see using Camcorder mode you can choose example night mode which originally is available only for Camera Photos. Touch to focus is nice in Camcorder mode too, but I regret it doesn't work during recording.

I have more opinions about lgCamera but it is not the place to enlarge my point of view :)

At night:

[YOUTUBE]6JwtydW8veo[/YOUTUBE]

At day:

[YOUTUBE]f5AdS8Vd5XU[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S II General] Filiprino:
Hello,

I've the following camera related software versions:

Camera FW ver: SCEF02

Phone FW ver: TBEC28

ISP Ver: Fujitsu M5MOLS

I notice exposure problems, white color balance problems (I've to set them manually), focus problems and framerate problems with "low" light conditions (my six square meters bedroom with two 50W halogen bulbs) while recording video.

This camera seems to need the Sun to have nice framerates.

And the exposure problems I find is that bright areas appear too bright and dark areas appear too dark, when they aren't that bright at all.

Well, I've a phone full of flaws. The screen has the yellow tint and it has a f*****g smudged area visible when you load framed backgrounds, for example while opening the notification area used in stock TouchWiz firmware.

Samsung better gets their production better because their quality assurance seems to be lacking a lot.

Edit: Just installed and tested lgCamera and it seems to improve a bit the situation.
[Galaxy S II General] Filiprino:
Okay, the dips in framerate occur when there are changes in the light of the scene or you move the camera focusing on an area with different light conditions. Until the camera readapts to new light the recording is choppy.

As for the focus problem, it's there, it takes too much time to refocus or it can be easily distracted from the main object unfocusing the image. It would be useful being able to change focus point manually by selecting with the finger the focus point.
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
No, the problem occours during low light filming. In low light filming an higher aperture is needed, but becouse of the lack of a diaphragm, the aperture is emulated with the exposure time and sensor gain. The fps recorded is in inverse proportion with the exposure time. If the exposure time is too much, the fps will drop.. too much. This is what appens with our sgs2. As i said, with a max iso200 equivalent exposure, the frame drop should be resolved, but a new isp firmware may be needed.
[Galaxy S II General] Filiprino:
Nope, when changing light conditions in a global low light condition the framerate becomes choppy, but if you wait a second in the same position the choppiness will disappear, just shake the camera 10º to any direction and you will observe perfect smoothness, but if you move further then camera will try to compensate again and you get again low framerate.

Of course, if you don't stop moving camera then it's all time choppy.
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
I didn't notice such problem with my device :eek:
[Galaxy S II General] Burgscheinkerkdeiktraast:
I have such thing in my device, clearly seen in video.
[Galaxy S II General] Dark_Lord0122:
originally SC******

Flashing ODEI03_I727_23.09.2011 over SIEG03 ( which worked perfectly but no LED flash) ..

results :

Works, not sure of the results yet but still no LED Flash

no pink spot BUT i think i can see it on the bottom right of the screen not sure.

but it works on SC****

EDIT:

looks like it doesn't focus well :/

what is weirder i am getting better google goggles result with this firmware :eek::confused::eek: not sure why tested both SIEG03 and OD with the same pictures same brightness same pose
[Galaxy S II General] DrSlump76:
So it's confirmed that there are some firmwares that does not causes the frame loss during refocusing in low light conditions?
[Galaxy S II General] El Richardo PT:
Because OD**** firmware are fixed macro focus all the time... :thumbdown:
[Galaxy S II General] yanggame:
originally OCEF02 then flashed to ODEI03

1. Focus is faster and better than OCEF02, which is very good

2. Contract and color are a little bit different

3. Pink spot is still there and because of #2, it looks more serious, but I think the color of ODEI03 is better

4. LED Flash is working

5. White balance is a little bit different, but I can't tell if it is better or not

6. I think OCEF02 image quality is better but not significant

Compare to OMEF01

1. OCxxxx can flash OMEF01 and ODEI03 without any problem. But OMEF01 will have a focus issue which I think it is already fixed in ODEI03

2. Pink spot: OMEF01 better than OCEF02 better or equal than ODEI03
[Galaxy S II General] eric-filth:
i like it.

you can share with us this firmware?