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[Android Apps and Games] nlmurmur:
Thanks for your great app, is it possible to add a function which let me select the focus mode manually? Although I have enabled the auto focus but the pics is still blurred, I think the problem cause by focus mode. And it is not working well when using high resolution, automatically stopped the photo taking function after 1-5 photo were taken in auto capture mode, my phone model is HTC new one, really thanks a lot if you can fix it:good: (it is not an order lol)
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
I like the app as it is. It's simple and easy to use. My only suggestions would be to improving the quality of the images which can be done by focus on zero accelerometer with no focus when taking the picture (see the LG Camera app for how that is done)
[Android Apps and Games] DerH:
Videos are´nt sharp :(

Hello!

First i want to thank you for your free and great app. I´ve changed my phone from S3 to HTC One and now i have the problem, that the videos are not sharp. I´ll hope you are able to fix this as soon as possible :D

Thx and best regards!
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
I think this again comes down to the focusing issue.

Improve the focus and Spy Camera OS becomes a Top Ten app!
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
Problem Recording Video

I'm having a problem recording video.

While holding the phone upright I can take a photo fine - everything in the viewfinder is snapped in the video so I get a portrait- oriented photo.

But when hold the phone upright and line up a scene in the viewfinder to take a video, when I play back the video the top and bottom is cropped!

I should get a portrait-sized video, but instead the crop turns it into a landscape by cropping the top and bottom.

I'm using my LG G2X. Please fix?
[Android Apps and Games] jimmod:
Thank you for the feedback.

1. Great input, I haven't really focus on video yet. Will start to find the best way for autofocus on video.

2. Will check this out.

3. Hm.. this can be an option since not all user will want this.

4. Currently only quality template setting to maximize the compatibility across brands & models.

- Bluetooth is great idea, although I never code bluetooth control before so I'm not 100% if app can capture the event or not.

- I'm currently playing with colors too, to find ways to maximize picture clearness/quality.

- Vibration feedback for start & stop similar like above idea, we can use different vibration.

- More Widget configuration is already on my mind too :)

Volume control can only be used when the app is in foreground, so notification bar is not really necessary on this case.

The app is prevent the display to switch off but when it's active - not when it on background.

Sure feels free to check the latest code in bitbucket :)

I want to prevent complicated configuration for the app, most user (except people in xda ;) will find many configurations are hard to understand.

But I will check on this focus mode config, if I can fit it in the setting but user won't confuse.

Can you send the feedback email (with log) after reproducing the unwanted stopped on high resolution. Thanks.

True, anti-shake (like in stock camera) will help reducing blur images.

*Thanks for also help replying user questions, I really appreciate it.
[Android Apps and Games] jimmod:
Try to change the video quality configuration in setting. Maybe you can better video sharpness with other quality.

:good: got it :cool:

Will check, possible device specific issue since I don't remember having landscape video recording issue (when the portrait is ok).
[Android Apps and Games] Mittaa:
GT-i9505 (LTE)

Version prior to update received today didn't work on my S4, but now it seems to work fine. Nothing in change log about S4 support so, but anyway thanks to the dev ;)
[Android Apps and Games] fajarep:
hello jimmy,

nice to meet you in here from ex collages @ simpli. i think we should work if i build kernel again later :D

btw, nice application going to test it with my phone later..
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
Since the last update on my LG G2X I'm still having a problem with it rotating and cropping my videos. Makes it totally useless for taking videos.
[Android Apps and Games] jimmod:
Last update fix FC issue on exiting the app on some devices.

Not sure which part of the S4 fixed by it

Hello Fajar.. long time no see :)

Agree. Let me know if you want to build kernel again, I would love to learn kernel things from you.

Crash or the video file error?
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
NO - I said nothing about crashing. Like I wrote, it crops and rotates the video.

Like I explained before

If I hold the phone upright, and take a PHOTO of a door that is completely in the viewfinder, viewing the photo holding the phone upright I see the photo with the door properly framed.

If I hold the phone upright, and take a VIDEO of a door that is completely in the viewfinder, viewing the video holding the phone upright I see the photo with top and bottom of the door cropped so as to create a landscaped video, and the video is rotated 90 degrees.

With any other video camera, if I hold the phone upright, and take a VIDEO of a door that is completely in the viewfinder, viewing the video holding the phone upright I see the video upright with the door properly framed.

Got it now?
[Android Apps and Games] jimmod:
Hm..

I understand, although not sure why on LG G2X the video result is cropped like landscaped video + rotated.

Will need to check (googling - since I don't have that phone model).
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
I just emailed you a photo and a video so you can better see what I am describing. Hope it helps!
[Android Apps and Games] Piratis7:
problem

Thanks for your great app. However i have a slight problem.

I recorded a video in highest res mode. The video is in my gallery and is at least 100mb big. In my cellphones screen (Razr XT910) its clearly a full hd video with great quality.

When i select video properties it says it is 1.21mb and when i find the file and copy-paste it to my pc it is 1.21mb and can not be played.

how can a file that is clearly a full hd video says it is only 1.21mb. i found the file in spycam folder. there was nowhere else and it is definitely the actual file.

thanks for your time and efford, keep up the good work
[Android Apps and Games] Piratis7:
everything ok now. i did a restart on my cellphone and the file size changed from 1.21MB to 142MB which was the actual size.
[Android Apps and Games] prasik:
Improvement required

Thx Great App, Please add following features in Spy Camera OS (Open Source)

1. Password protection for APP

2. Hide App from App list and recall App after dialing special no in contact feature

3. Choice to select folder with any name and location for saving Photographs and Videos. (Currently it is saving in folder SPYCAMERA)

Hope you will work on these
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
Figured out anything from the files I sent you yet?
[Android Apps and Games] jimmod:
Hi thank you for the feedback.

1. Several user also requesting password protection, it's in queue although it's not really priority for me since there's a lot of password protecting app in the market that you can use for this.

2. I still try find a way how to hide an app from recent open app. I'm not sure about calling an app with specific dialling no, do you have example app that do that?

3. Custom folder selection is almost finish will be release soon.

Thank you for the video.

It's weird how it was cropped to be landscaped. I still not sure which configuration causing this, might need some testing.

Do you experience this cropping in all video quality setting?
[Android Apps and Games] scorpion.poison:
great app,
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
Yes, both hi-res and lo-res video crop and rotate the video. Is there a debug setting I can play with and send you?
[Android Apps and Games] prasik:
Hi Jimmod, thx for your replay,

I am using 'APP Lock' application from DOMOBILE LAB for providing password protection for SC-OS. 'APP Lock' is having feature to hide app and launching app after dialing *#*#12345#*#*. Please check if you can provide same. Please release Custom folder selection ASAP. my phone (Samsung Galaxy Grand I9082) is unable to hide 'SPYCAM' using SC-OS app. After renaming SPYCAM folder to .SPYCAM folder, SC-OS is creating another SPYCAM folder. Please guide how to fix this

Thx in advance
[Android Apps and Games] jjbr2:
Great app

Is it a bug? I can only record 2gb videos. Is it possible to keep recording even after this limit is reached? The app could start a new file every time this limit is reached.

Features wanted:

1) I know number custom folder is about to be released, but custom file name selection is also a must.

2) Endless recording ... when the storage limit is reached the app could erase the older files and keep recording.
[Android Apps and Games] dafunkydan:
Thanks for this great App! Just discovered it and still playing around with it to find out what i can do with it...

One (Feature-)Question: Are the Widget-Options set as an intent or something similar?

I'd love to integrate it with Tasker, e.g. to auto-image when navigation-mode is activated, automatic take images when secure-pattern is entered wrong or keyguard is passed, and so on...

Therefore of course it would be even cooler to have the possibility of renaming/disabling the notification (so a possible chief doesnt recognize it), and maybe even disable the vibrate at the stopping of recording.

But keeping in Mind what the app already can do, i end my suggestions with a big "thanks", "cheers" and "well done mate!" :cool:
[Android Apps and Games] SeveQ:
Hi there, it's a great piece of software, really love it! Aside from one thing: stability. Single, burst and auto capture work like a charm on my Samsung Galaxy S2 with CyanogenMod 10 and Dorimanx kernel. Video capturing however often crashes resulting in corrupted video files that can't be viewed. I can't tell when, but sometimes it works. It's really unstable and unreliable.

Regarding auto capture of pictures, sometimes, just sometimes, while auto capturing SC-OS saves the same picture over and over again. I've got a bunch of duplicate images due to this behaviour and lost some good scenes.

Besides these issues it's the best SC app I've found so far. The reason why I've donated. Keep it up! :good::good::good:
[Android Apps and Games] Mittaa:
Like this SC app very much ... thanks :good:

I have a Galaxy S4 (i9505 int).

I'm able to shoot high resolution images in "auto mode" but capture will fail if delay is set lower than 4 sec. between each capture.

Isn't it possible to detect when capture is done and never initiate a new shot before the last one is done/saved?

Like:

Shoot and wait until done --> if delay time isn't timed out --> wait ... else shoot again immediately. Said in other words: add some delay if capture and saving isn't done yet

Tried burst mode and lost contact to my camera (had to re-boot in order to get it back).

I guess this problem somehow is related to high image resolution (again detect when capture and saving is done, before taking next shot)

On some resolutions image will get a frame to the left and right with pure noise. Nothing I can't live with, but I prefer black :laugh:

Keep up the good work ... it's the best SC software I ever used :o
[Android Apps and Games] jjbr2:
Latest code

Hi, I want to implement a new feature on this app: loop recording.

Can you upload the latest code to bitbucket?

tks.
[Android Apps and Games] arun_7:
There is a bug, when i reached memmory full, video file corupted. Could you fix this. Thanks for great app :D:):thumbup:

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Video recording, photo capture and all feature work on LG optimus one (p500).
[Android Apps and Games] dermoritz1:
bad last update

sc os always had some difficulties to properly shut down/ stopping video recording resulting in error "can't start camera, reboot" and an invalid video file. i had the feeling that this happened fewer in some of the older versions but in current version it is happening very often what is really bad. I guess the camera handle is not properly released in all circumstances (stopping recording, exiting app or putting it to background and bring it back while recording, press stop and start again before video stopped properly)

i am a capable java developer and want to contribute but how to do so? i can check out the code but how to become a contributor? you didn't reply to an email.
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
The latest update still crops and rotates the videos on my LG G2X.

I set a SetCPU rule for this camera to overclock to 1.5GHz when running (before it was set to 1.2GHz). Noticeable performance improvement - this camera uses lots of CPU power.
[Android Apps and Games] jimmod:
I was become more busy lately so can not directly reply to the question.

But every severals day I will reply all pending questions

Currently no debug setting.

For rotating video I haven't implement it, what weird is the cropping since it not happen on most devices.

Thanks for the info will look into that.

Some user also told me about the 2GB limit.

What type of partition do you have on your card? if it's FAT32, maximum filesize is 2GB (cmiiw) so the limit cause by the FAT32 limitation.

Although there's also possibility maximum limitation from device itself but I'm not sure. Will check more

Custom filename is good advance setting, although only advance user will need it.

Thank you.

Hm... I think tasker can use shortcut, I haven't implement it but shortcut might be a good way for integrating spy camera os to other tools-app

Sure I also think of more customization but on the other hand I want to keep it simple for most user.

btw for vibration it can be disabled in setting.

Thanks for the feedback.

If you disable the background/minimize (setting-more) do you still experience video corrupted?

Similar question for the duplicate image, do it only happen when you minimize?

I see couples email regarding source code, one of the email that I haven't answer might be you. Sorry for late reply like I mention above I was a bit busy lately but I will reply every couples day.

I haven't update how video work since I implement minimize feature (around v1.3).

If you disable the background/minimize (setting-more) do you still experience video error on stopping?

From code point of view it should be already released properly, since most device didn't have problem.

What device model do you have?

When implementing video recording I already feel that this feature will be the one that have many compatibility issue.

I postpone source code update because seems there several people try to take advantages of my app full source code.

Which make me need to analyse further how to keep contribute to the community but till protecting the original Spy Camera OS app - because even Google Play team didn't really have policy to help me protect it.

Yes, I haven't found the cause yet for this.

Probably with adding advance setting for video recording (framerate, codec, etc) it can work fine on all models, but I don't want to give complicated setting to user :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
Took some photos in burst mode - photos are taken properly, but they are stored rotated.
[Android Apps and Games] DeucesAx:
*tincaphaton*

Why does it need network access?
[Android Apps and Games] arun_7:
Its only for ads, if u want no ad and help development just buy donated version.
[Android Apps and Games] dafunkydan:
Thanks for your kind Support! Yes i think, too, Shortcut would work well! Beside the fact the widget would get obsolete, what (afaik) would use less ressources. Anyway, can you tell me if there is at the moment a way to e.g. trigger an action, the widget can already start? Is it working by intents? Id really appreciate if you could provide those informations (if available, of course *g*)

And, in addition, i guess most user of tool-apps are used to "frickle", therefore naming the corresponding intents would already help the most :)

Thanks and Cheers, keep up the good work!
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
So you can email photos to your gmail account.
[Android Apps and Games] jjbr2:
Request...

I was taking a look at the source code. Can you remove all uses of Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_SCANNER_SCAN_FILE ? I don't want my files to be added on the media scanner.

I found a way to do loop recording. This will avoid the app to stop recording when reaching the 2GB limit. I'm writing the code based on the old spycamera code that is on bitbucket. If I send you this code, can you merge it to your official code?

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
I'm using v0.1.6.0, the latest, and in some conditions autofocus can take up to 3 seconds on my G2X.
[Android Apps and Games] arun_7:
I have video recording problem after updated to jellybean 4.2.2. I have lg optimus one, I recently updated to cynagenmod 10.1.2. But in gingerbread spy cam work fine for me
[Android Apps and Games] joeyyamms:
issues

Hello. App seems pretty cool if I could just configure it rite. I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 rooted with Hyperdrive rls14. Any help or information to get this running properly would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
I cleared all user data and now it does not crop videos anymore! So somehow the process of updating messed up a setting somewhere?

I then went back to v0.1.4 and there is a noticeable performance improvement, takes pictures faster on my LG G2X - that is, with autofocus on it now takes two seconds to take a photo instead of three. Photos are beautiful.

Question: with autofocus off, how is the focus set?
[Android Apps and Games] SeveQ:
The thing is I can't really tell. The repeated picture issue only occurs infrequently. Same with the corrupted video which is somehow related to a crashing or failing camera connection. That is I start video capturing and for a few seconds it works. Sometimes (I'd say in about one of two cases) the camera gets lost, sometimes, on the other hand, it keeps working, I can stop capturing and end up with a valid and watchable video.

However when the camera crashes, the video image freezes and I can't use the camera anymore until I reboot my phone. In that case the captured video file gets corrupted, assumably because it's not properly closed/finished. To emphasise this, there is not a single valid frame in the captured video file after this happens. I don't know where they go but even those frames captured before the camera crashes get lost.

I have to watch wheather this behaviour also occurs when background/minimizing is disabled. But I'd really appreciate background/minimize to become stable and reliable.
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
Go to Settings > Applications > Manage Applications | All, scroll down to SC-OS and click on it. Click "Clear Data".

You'll lose all you SC-OS settings but see if that fixes your problem.
[Android Apps and Games] leifemagnuson:
This is a great app. I have one request. If I set hold volume up to start auto show I would like hold volume down to stop.
[Android Apps and Games] dermoritz1:
might have found cause for crashes - at least for s3

i posted about instability issues some days ago. now i think it is related to orientation change. the crashes reproducible if video is started stopped together with orientation change event.

There are 2 big problems about that: the phone must be rebooted (camera handle isn't closed correctly) and the recorded video is corrupted (not playable).

i think it is crucial to get the app stable before adding new features.
[Android Apps and Games] jimmod:
Another bulk reply from me :cyclops:

Right now it's still combination between intent and preference, so you cannot send only intent to start it.

I will change it on the next versions so only with intent we can start the spy camera with all it's necessary configuration.*

For Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_SCANNER_SCAN_FILE now it's already depends on the configuration.

If you enable option 'hide folder' it will not call the media scanner, but if you don't want to hide it will run it so gallery will display the new images.

Sure, you can send me the repository or send me the source code that you change.

I will happy to include it in the official code + adding credit to you on the change log for this feature.

Right now I set the auto focus always to FOCUS_MODE_AUTO. It's really depends on the device camera for the speed.

Try to change the resolution (the low res), I was having this issue with Galaxy W before but only for specific resolution.

I still not sure why, since other resolution was fine and no error log at all

Depends on what the issue.

Mostly issue can be solve by trying other resolution. For video try other quality setting.

Minimize feature sometimes still causing issue on some device (can be disabled at setting - more).

Great.. although I'm not sure what previous setting that causing the crop. Since there's can be various combination of setting that might I missed to test or think of.

With no auto focus it will depends on the camera, from my own checking seems it focus only when the camera start.. but then we move the phone around and if the object distance change it will be blurred.

I don't think I change the auto focus work after 0.1.4

Although there's various focus mode, and for now it automatically use the auto-focus mode.*

Right now you can configure the volume up/down action. But only when the app running.

I'm still searching the way to do that when the app not running, if you have reference other app that can do that let me know.

When camera not closed properly, beside rebooting (as the app info) you can also solve it by force close the spy camera os app (from setting - app manager - sc-os - force close).

Do you mean when you start video recording - minimize - change the phone orientation - stop video recording, the video file will be corrupted?
[Android Apps and Games] RXP:
I reverted back to 0.1.3.1: because the background recording worked with this version without quitting after a period of time. The latest versions quit after anything between 10 and 20 mins. This is on a Galaxy s4

I was wondering though could I download a previous version of the donate version? I've already paid for it but the app store only gives you the latest version. I'd like to use the widgets which aren't available in the other version.
[Android Apps and Games] mswilson2007:
I was sitting in my room and had the genius idea of creating something very similar if not the exact same thing as this app. I have a couple questions in hopes that someone can answer for me to know if I should scrap my idea and make small changes to this, or if I should build mine up from scratch.

1.) Can this program take a picture from the "screen off" position? What I was looking to do was have a program that would be able to quick snap a picture from the screen off position by use of an external button. For example, a long press of the volume down button would cause a quick snap of a picture able to be viewed later.

I guess that was my only question lol
[Android Apps and Games] EEngineer:
There is a spy camera app that does that, I think it's called Simple Notepad. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to aim a photo without a viewfinder. I much prefer this app.
[Android Apps and Games] PLUG313:
I have a suggestion/an idea, how about some more discrete widgets? for example a small clock widget, or a battery widget, that when you click on them they start recording video or taking burst shots. I would love that. thanks!