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[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
I think sammy might have changed how a firmware dump is made and it could actually be the file in /etc/firmware

The one thing we need is to know whether camera modules with GDFE01 have metal or plastic casing, cuz if wrong firmware gets installed it might be bad :p so if ppl that have gdfe01 have metal casing i could try change my zdfe02 and upgrading/downgrading firmware might as easy as just swapping the files in /etc/firmware. Dont wanna risk it now though :))
[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
camera module with plastic casing on a white one has: Camera:GDFD06 Phone : GDFE01

i've updated the OP as well,

can anyone with GDFE01 upload the .bin file in etc/firmware pls :)) I'll see if I'm gonna be able to change the firmware of mine :)
[Galaxy S III General] foxy4270:
I think Galaxy S3 uses two different camera modules.The Sony module

which is the best and the samsung module which is crap.The first phones with Sony module went to reviewers and the rest to retailers in order to reduce the cost.
[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
they might be doing this to meet the enourmous demand, cuz they cant probably get Sony modules in all S3s :) dunno :) it sucks really, I love the phone, but I'm dissapointed a bit. The bigger the corporation the less they care about a few hundred thousand customers with problems with the camera :D
[Galaxy S III General] NaimC:
Do we have confirmation of two different modules? And how can we tell which one we have?
[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
1.read the op

2.I have no info on which one is samsung and which one sony :)) yet
[Galaxy S III General] NaimC:
I have ZDFE02 on mine, a brand new 32gb Vodafone UK international version.

Not really happy with Night Time performance but not sure if it's a good module or bad module. Maybe I'm being fussy. But the 4S has been better at night shots compared to this one and my last 16gb version.
[Galaxy S III General] 380AU:
Which one is to the supposed better camera?

My white one has the plastic casing with the GDFE01 firmware, while my blue has the metal casing with the ZDFE02 firmware.

I still haven't decided which colour I'm going to keep, and this may sway me either way.

Also, seeing as I have both, if there's anyone that wants me to try or do anything with either of them to help determine the better module let me know.
[Galaxy S III General] yokken:
I don't know what you guys mean by metal casing, I thought the SGS3 was made with plastic. I have the AT&T 16gb, blue, with ZDFE02. I haven't tried it much yet to know nighttime performance, but I'm not very encouraged by this thread. :(
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
ZDFE02 here, metal casing ( is the corner around the cam glass )

Do you guys think will be better situation with futures upgrade? or ZDFE02 is the crappy camera?

@380AU, if you got both, try to make same photo(s) in low light condition without flash and report us results !
[Galaxy S III General] TotallydubbedHD:
How does one see the casing - by that I mean plastic or metal?

I'll take some pics with S1 vs S3 now :D
[Galaxy S III General] n70shan:
hey man i hve gdfe01 also and the pics are worst.!!
[Galaxy S III General] erto90:
In my point of view, there are no differents chips...

I think firmware update will be available for all, maybe in differents times.
[Galaxy S III General] TotallydubbedHD:
Here are pictures, all compressed after, thus the same resolution.

S1 vs S3

S3 wins, but not by a mile.
[Galaxy S III General] ssaqib4e:
ZDFE02 here... nd yes without flash nd low light produces sad results.. will share some pics tonight with u guyz..

M kinda sad abt it... bt surely i believe xda nd u folks wud come up with something to take of this..?? Nt much techsavvy abt cameras.. so a question... will the version upgrade with upcoming updates from sammy????
[Galaxy S III General] foxy4270:
Take some indoors pics with both phones.

Also take some pics in low light conditions.

Finally take some pics with flash from a normal distance not close-ups.

In my opinion the one with the plastic case is using Sony module

which is the best and the one with metal case like mine is using

Samsung module which is crap.
[Galaxy S III General] bdmridgeback:
Can someone elaberate in hiw to tell difference between plastic and metal camera housing? Is Sony chrome plated plastic and Samsung camera aluminum?

Mine is a 32gb white snd has what appears to be a chrome plated plastic housing.
[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
have u seen the OP? that's also a question to everyone who is asking about what casing etc.

:)
[Galaxy S III General] TotallydubbedHD:
quite hard to tell the difference, and more so, how to see this on ours?

I guess disassembling it is the only option?

As I can see the back of my S3 - attached pic.
[Galaxy S III General] NaimC:
That's also what the background of mine looks like. International 32gb blue. Not sure if it's the plastic or metal one mind. To me it looks like chrome plated plastic lol.
[Galaxy S III General] ixon2001:
I agree now indoor shots not a massive difference tbh, but the outdoor one is sharper than the GS1.

As for the camera module's, the S2 had both metal and plastic, the Plastic was Sony & the metal one was Samsung.

Going off how common ZD is im guessing this is Samsung, while GD being less common is Sony.

Hopefully Samsung will continue to offer firmware's for the camera, but don't hold your breath, if going of the past S2 camera firmware, were people with Samsung Modules suffered low light stutter in HD recording, to this day Samsung still hasn't fixed.
[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
I've put some text on the pics so that people can easily understand which has plastic and metal casing :) Also two videos from youtube :)

Check them out in the OP
[Galaxy S III General] yokken:
Oh no...

Well, looks like mine isn't taking good pictures inside. Really sad, actually. My SGS2 took amazing pictures, inside or outside.

Edit: took some with the lights off, with sunlight coming in the window behind me. Still noisy but not terrible like with the lights on. The last 3 photos are with the lights off.
[Galaxy S III General] electric0ant:
I would like to know where the OP got the information that the GDFE01 takes good pictures without noise?

me and my gf both bought S3 from same shop at the same time, I have GDFE01 and she has ZDFE02, as far as I can tell both cameras perform equally so far.
[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
I got the info by reading the posts of the other people :D

as far as u can tell doesnt count :) please make some photos in low light and night mode with default settings (no antishake, no auto contrast etc.) and post some pics actually it will be better to share them in dropbox, full resolution and name them like GD and ZD :) it would help us a lot.
[Galaxy S III General] n70shan:
so tonite i went out to garden . here the pics in extremly low lite with night mode on. anti shake and auto contrast was off and the results were not upto standard for an 750$ device:eek:my cam fw is Gdfe01. and i have to say that nokia is a master. atleast in camera's hardware:D i remember my n95 8gb and n8:p
[Galaxy S III General] yokken:
These were all taken right by my window, with, in my opinion, plenty enough light. Notice the grain on the pack itself.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wcwws42pptan9tm/2012-07-01 13.38.48.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4nxuvel7rvockl/2012-07-01 13.39.42.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/htculm6t44o4kw5/2012-07-01 13.39.45.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ckssps8agmczkdc/2012-07-01 13.39.59.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/htd2jkm5qs2a65o/2012-07-01 13.40.09.jpg

The white looks great, as does the ink printed on it, but I can't help but feel it's being oversharpened.

Again, my cam and phone firmware are both ZDFE02. AT&T 16GB Blue.

Those are awful. Samsung really screwed up the camera. I swear, they gave the phones with the good cameras/firmwares to reviewers, then sent out the crap sensor to everyone else.

-----

I took a couple things from the OP and posted this in the US SGS3 general forum. Hope that's okay. I linked back here. :) Thanks again for all the information!
[Galaxy S III General] n70shan:
i dont think so they would adopt such a hypocratical strategy actually they cant. but infact i come to know that samsung is far behind from nokia especially in terms of camera. had anyone of u ever listened such a crapy camera sensors result of nokia phones?? i m not a nokia fan boy but truth is bitter and have to be accepted.i wonder how nokia 's 808 could play 1080 p video on 1.3ghz single core device:eek: even my old core 2duo struggled to play that.:D any how u plz take some pics at nite or in darker place then show us result.
[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
sure man no problem :) we have to spread it! otherwise people would not know how samsung treats it's customers :)
[Galaxy S III General] NaimC:
We don't even know for certain if there is a difference in quality between the modules...
[Galaxy S III General] yokken:
My SGS2 took amazing photos. In fact, people's jaws often dropped when seeing photos I took with my phone. The low light was the best part about it. Now it sucks. I can understand putting different sensors in due to shortage, but it just really sucks for those of us who didn't get a good sensor. In fact, it's not even about the sensor. It just doesn't meet expectations, nor is it even better than the SGS2 like every review said. If my phone took great pictures, I wouldn't care about what sensor it has. But I think I have definitely downgraded in camera performance. It makes me quite sad, actually. It was one of the things I was really excited about for this phone.
[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
it's not about the modules. I meant to spread the info of how Samsung actually downgrades some of the camera features in S3. it's being advertised with backlight sensor and yet it cant (some not all) take better pics in low light than S2.... people have to know :)

tonight im doing a test with my S2. will post the pics tomorrow :)
[Galaxy S III General] n70shan:
same like me man!! but what to do now??
[Galaxy S III General] htcsnap93:
Havent read the article but i think its fine.
[Galaxy S III General] yokken:
Just took some pictures outside, mostly everything looks good. But I got some slightly blurry pictures in my garage, despite there being ample lighting. Looks like their shutter isn't that fast after all, either. Gotta love the macro though. You can still read the text on the ash.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zerd614z9fkbijx/2012-07-01 14.53.02.jpg
[Galaxy S III General] Motogp1:
Not that I'm that bothered as I have a Canon dslr for taking pictures but I tried a few pictures last night with the S3 and the picture quality was awful, way to much noise in the picture its as if the iso is turned up way to hight a friend sat next to me using an I phone 4s his pictures were 10x better, my HTC Desire takes better pictures. I sure these results are due to 1 of 2 possibilities, there is hardware fault with the camera or orange has screwed up when putting there bloatware on.

As I said I have a real camera for taking photographs but it would be nice if an update fixed this.
[Galaxy S III General] yokken:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ppeazpdl2lwxhwk/2012-07-01 15.28.37.jpg

Just took that, set the ISO manually to 200. Looks WAY better in my opinion. I was blocking most of the light in the room with my shadow.

Edit: Took another at ISO100. Crisp as hell. 1/15 shutter.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/117294/2012-07-01 15.34.47.jpg
[Galaxy S III General] n70shan:
now u r just satisfyng urself!!
[Galaxy S III General] yokken:
Like I'm lying to myself to make myself feel better? I guess it's possible, but I don't think that's the case. I'll definitely take some pictures outside tonight.
[Galaxy S III General] limeaid:
ZDFE02 firmware here. 16GB Pebble Blue SIII on Sprint in the US. I'm willing to bet all US GS3s have the ZDFE02 firmware and Samsung sensors.

Very disappointed in the low light pictures--like others have said, the camera was one of the main reasons I chose this phone over the One X and now it looks like it might be worse
[Galaxy S III General] Zanr Zij:
Normal mode:

HDR Mode:

Night Mode:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w7h30mpw1dr0nsr/20120617_212159.jpg

So I think S3 camera ok! With difficult inviroment or want best quality, I love to use my Olympus OM-D - fast prime lens!

Sent from my GT-I9300
[Galaxy S III General] NaimC:
Just carried out a fairly comprehensive comparison of the S3 vs the 4S in low light conditions.

I'll post results soon, just getting all the 100% crop images sorted. Will be rating each of the shots on numerous elements including overall detail, centre focus, outer focus, colour accuracy, exposure, and noise. The findings are quite interesting and not necessarily as cut or dry as one would expect reading through this thread.
[Galaxy S III General] tulpek:
Hi

I've accidentally pressed a Phone to CAM FW Write (rear) and now my camera is crap it has so much noise that the pictures are rubbish is there any way to fix that. Thank You
[Galaxy S III General] crystalnicollee:
how do you check your camera firmware?
[Galaxy S III General] Daelyn:
You flashed your camera with the firmware on the phone. Could have been a upgrade, or could have been a downgrade.

How to get hold of good firmware matching your phone, I don't know.

---------- Post added at 06:58 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:58 AM ----------

You read the first post of the tread, entirely.
[Galaxy S III General] n70shan:
*#34971539# and click 1st option
[Galaxy S III General] 380AU:
I've taken a few sample pics.

The GDFE01 is my white GS3, and ZDFE02 is my Blue one.

Pics are prefixed with which photo was taken by which phone.

They were taken quite hurriedly so pretty ****ty, but pics were taken with both phones right next to each other so in identical circumstances.

They look the same to me to be honest, but you guys judge for yourselves.

Taken in low, but natural, lighting.

Let me know what you think.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/GDFE0120120702_164355.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/GDFE0120120702_164415.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/GDFE0120120702_164444.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/GDFE0120120702_164457.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/GDFE0120120702_164521.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/ZDFE0220120702_164354.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/ZDFE0220120702_164417.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/ZDFE0220120702_164446.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/ZDFE0220120702_164459.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/ZDFE0220120702_164522.jpg

Here's a couple of quick vids, but just realised my Blue GS3 was taken at its full resolution, where the white was taken just one below the blue.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/GDFE0120120702_164850.mp4

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/88947486/ZDFE0220120702_164851.mp4
[Galaxy S III General] pacc:
Can't notice much difference, actually in some shots ZDF is slightly better than GDF.
[Galaxy S III General] n70shan:
pics are dull and crapy. especially check out the corners of pics so noisy :(
[Galaxy S III General] 380AU:
Like I said, they weren't taken in ideal conditions, but they were taken in IDENTICAL conditions.

They weren't meant to be.

Just demonstrates the differences (if any) between two different firmwares and two different modules.

This is what was asked of me.
[Galaxy S III General] foxy4270:
They look the same to me. I see no difference.

Both firmwares have noise though.
[Galaxy S III General] foxy4270:
here is mine taken with night mode. CF is ZDFE02.
[Galaxy S III General] foxy4270:
photo taken with night mode.

fw is zdfe02.
[Galaxy S III General] Guantanamo86:
i see no difference between the photos, some of them are a little blurry
[Galaxy S III General] foxy4270:
the problem is the indoor pics. Outdoors pics look amazing

but indoor pics have much noise. On the phone's screen look ok though.
[Galaxy S III General] Guantanamo86:
yes i understand but the photos above are taken with the two different camera moduls and look similar

sorry for my bad english:D
[Galaxy S III General] nanoo-eg:
Yes there is big problem. I try to find a solution using manual settings.

See my pictures from a mini test I did between HTC one x and Siii.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/232/s3vsonexauto.jpg/

And here the original pictures:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/...OW LIGHT.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/...OW LIGHT.jpg

The same using HDR

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/onexvss3hdrjpg.jpg/

Original pictures:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/...OW LIGHT.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/...OW LIGHT.jpg
[Galaxy S III General] kiwi_radical:
Something Interesting?

My camera was on D06 firmware, I did the write to E01 ..all fine. Then by chance I looked at two identical low light shots of my lounge, one taken with D06 and one taken with E01, quality seemed slightly better, but the jpg size with D06 was 3.06mb, with E01 1.88mb!! For a virtually identical scene, with the same settings ..both superfine etc. Perhaps one of the things in the E01 firmware update was increasing the jpg compression????

Can anyone confirm that?
[Galaxy S III General] n70shan:
i wonder that htc is really nice here and S3 is crap. ****ty noisy!
[Galaxy S III General] ventolino:
Hi all.

I have Phone FW Ver: GDFE01 and then Ihave upgrade from Camera FW Ver:GDFD06 to Camera FW Ver:GDFE01

I don't take many photos so I don't know if there is any different.

There is a way to come back. Before upgrade I push the dump, but I don't know where is now this dump and how to use it to come back
[Galaxy S III General] zodiaxe66:
I daylight my stock camera takes amazing pic,but night pics is dark,noisy and crappy.i'm quite sure it's a firmware problem,not hardware.try procapture from market or the modified stock camera by "hyper-x" then most problem disappear.
[Galaxy S III General] penfold:
they are definitely two different sensors, sony and samsung, see the chart in the article:

http://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2012/06/samsung-galaxy-s3-camera-supply-chain.html

and in the samsung securities pdf:

(which states: While Korean handset makers are aggressively rolling out their flagship models, a supply shortage of high-megapixel camera modules has worsened)

http://equity.co.kr/upfile/issue/2012/06/25/1340588656589.pdf

i was still waiting for a blue s3 to show up in my area, but now this is making me think about getting a one x instead .....the reason i didn't upgrade my s1 to the galaxy nexus was the poor camera on the nexus
[Galaxy S III General] kaweksl:
Today i was in Samsung Mobile Live and there was 7 sIII phones, just one had gdfe01, rest gdfd06. SIII with gdfd06 and gdfe01 have same sony camera module and only difference is firmware version ? I want to buy SIII and of course i want a better version :P .
[Galaxy S III General] limeaid:
Q

Thanks for posting this. If the ZDxxx sensor is truly inferior then this is very disappointing and should actually be considered a form of fraud.

Many of us bought the phone based in reviews and if the final product differs from the test units, that is a total misrepresentation

Btw, I had a one x before the gs3. I didn't like the camera enough to keep it because I thought the gs3 would at least be as good as the gs2. Unfortunately, that is not the case for my Zd fw phone
[Galaxy S III General] NoOneCanHelpMe:
So me and a few more people were right that there are 2 modules :D

Thanks for the findings :)
[Galaxy S III General] foxy4270:
i was looking the forum "Post your pics taken by Galaxy S3" and i noticed this :

People who bought their phones at the very begining, at the end of May.

they are posting high quality pics and in low light there is no noise at all.

People who posted their photos at the end of June have crap pics.

so the conclusion is :

Samsung sent the first phones With the Sony module and then because of shortage of high quality sensors send the next bunch with the crap Samsung module.
[Galaxy S III General] bortak:
Ok I'm a bit baffled here..

Cam FW Ver: GDFD06

Phone FW Ver: GDFE01

Well, I have both... So I'm confused.. Do I have the good one or the slightly worse one?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] semaster:
Hi all,

I'd like to ask anybody with a network-locked Galaxy S2 phone based on new security (MP1.300 and higher) to test the new feature of Unlock code calculation, in newly released Omnius for Samsung v1.18.

For android versions from 2.3.5 it requires the phone to be previously rooted. Feature is still free for the test period (few days). You will also need an Omnius account, which can be created easily on omnius-server.com

semaster
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diaze:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEsBwtqY2xE&feature=channel&list=UL

i`ve used this tutorial to get my warranty back..everything work fine my status phone is normal but after doing the full unroot on SuperSU it didnt uninstalled the CWM app..and now if i factory reset my phone the cwm apps is still installed i want to remove it...any1 know how?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diaze:
bump
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laneyofdeath:
Haha
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diaze:
very helpfull =))

ps.i`ve rooted my phone again..i`ll let it rooted

Close the topic pls
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
Why don't you just delete the files through ADB?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyuk:
Remove the CWM app before you unroot then!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diaze:
how to do that?i`m quite new.. i only have to delete the apk file from system/data or how?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laneyofdeath:
Yeah pal or use application manager in settings, u won't be rooted so u just need to uninstall (sorry was only having a laugh btw I've asked worse myself) :-)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Product F(RED):
You can't. It's marked as a system app, which is why it's not removed when it's wiped. Easiest way is to re-root, then use Titanium Backup to remove it, then unroot.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laneyofdeath:
Oh yeah sorry u would need a root explorer of some sort (tb would do it nice as u say)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Diaze:
Thank you very much for the help guys

TC
[HTC Sensation] Daiskei:
Hey guys, just got my replacement Sensation and it is S-On with HBoot 1.27, I'm about to root it with all of the guides I've saved... However, I was curious... I saw a bunch of mention of temp root, is hoot 1.27 able to be perm rooted yet?
[HTC Sensation] jslim38:
You may won't to check this out if your looking for permanent root actually this is the ultimate tool http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1668276 this is the only option if you won't to s off you won't be disappointed
[HTC One S] ickedmel:
Hi when I try to refresh/renew my exchange account it says "warning exchange email synchronization is disabled" is that something that needs to be handled on my side on the phone? Or is that something I need to handle at work ? I'm currently in trick droid ROM T-Mobile.
[HTC One S] k1llacanon:
Settings - accounts and sync and switch it on? I'm guessing
[HTC One S] ickedmel:
Yea I did that still same error
[HTC One S] ickedmel:
It's working now not even sure how.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sticky1008:
HI

I'm stuck at Bootloader I need the original HTC ELF Orange Rom:

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Model:ELF0100

Retailer:Orange

ROM:1.15.63.4 NLD (Dutch Versions)!!!!!!!!!!

Radio:02.91.90

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Or CID Unlock from bootloader!!!!!

plz Help