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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kempas:
Ah, could well be that. Cheers!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qazkamakazi:
well my brightness is always full and still this issue exists, can anyone else shed any light on this?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aristo2jzgte:
Its a known issue with international note 2 version. From what i know. its a hardware issue!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MarionCast:
Low light pictures are definitely grainy without flash. But aside from this, I can't really say the pictures from my Note II are dark.

Try switching your Metering mode to Matrix?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1The_Rock:
This means int. Got defective products ???

Regards

The Rock
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arujali:
IMO its a software issue i've been trying out a lot of third party camera apps and the noise(grainy-ness) is a lot different from the stock camera app. It would be really helpful if some developer looks into this. :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qazkamakazi:
Could you link us to where you found this out?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sami3000:
Agree, i like the camera on note 1 much more than note 2, to me note 2 beats note 1 in all areas except in camera.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sys81:
so this problem is confirmed??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] arujali:
I was going through the review on gsmarena, they have mentioned the camera to be better than the note 1 and really close to the S3 can someone confirm that the graininess is common on all note 2s or only the ones who have already discussed it here ??
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aristo2jzgte:
Only the international version.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qazkamakazi:
Source?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sys81:
sry for the noob question but how to tell if it is a international version?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qazkamakazi:
I guess nothing is to come from this article? The guy who said it's an official problem with int devices, won't back his claim via source, and hardly any replies must mean it's a small isolated issue...?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Payam93:
I'm so relieved to see that others have the same problem as I do. My first thought was that it was a specific hardware/software issue on my phone only and therefore decided to create an own thread on the issue. Should have searched through the forums before posting a new thread. :o

My 2 cents on this are that it's a software issue. Camera brightness seems fine before the shot is taken; it's only the resulting picture that eventually turns out to be too dark.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sami3000:
Please allow me to disagree with your last statement as i have tried other camera apps and i am still getting same result, however i find the outdoor pictures to be fabulous and even better than my old iphone 4s only in daylight.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dproldan:
Same here. Beautiful pictures outside. Indoor pictures are too dark. My previous sgs2 did much better indoor pictures.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hagba:
Settings-Shooting Mode-Low Light.

Or

Settings-Auto Contrast-On.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mido0:
I have the same problem, I noticed that the camera will take grainy pictures even during day light, but the video quality is very good and that confuses me!!

any suggestion?!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adithya_blr:
+ 1.. I am so disappointed with the image quality of Note 2 and hoping its a software issue. I have seen the fantastic quality of pictures in Note 1 even when zoomed to ~5X and the pictures taken from Note 2 are nowhere close :(

Initially I was wondering if I was using a wrong setting, but alas with similar setting on Note 1 and Note 2 the difference is remarkable and I feeling cheated with the latest upgrade... Will there be any firmware released for this current flagship device!!!!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junkeeroo:
I concur that if you use the Low -Light setting, pictures look way better. Haven't tried the auto-contrast yet.

So, in my mind, seems like a software issue.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaggyjagz:
Confirmed - Same Grainy Problem on My T-Mobile Note 2

Hello folks,

I am also having a grainy issue with all indoor photos taken with my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I can confirm that the photo's definitely do turn out quite a bit grainy (see http://i.imgur.com/m4tgO.jpg). Any suggestions?
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junkeeroo:
Read the thread for suggestions. =)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rajatmal4:
My two cents...

I am facing the same problem. However, I have tried to explore further and here are my two cents:

Yes there is a lot of "noise" or "grain" in dim lit rooms. Even if you use the flash, the photos are not very bright. My Galaxy S 2 had better pics in dim rooms.

Then I also noticed that if you turn on the flash (to use as a torch) using the widget "assistive light", the light of the flash was not very bright. I then installed another app called "flashlight" and using this new app i turned on the flash - it was very bright!

I then installed Camera 360 as a third party app to take photos. While the image was still grainy, i noticed that the images taken with the flash on were much better than using the stock camera app.

I think it's some firmware issue. Samsung's in built apps do not turn on the flash LED to its brightest setting, for some reason.

So now I am making do with a third party camera app and a third party flash light app.

anyone has any thoughts on this??

Cheers!
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
Could you kindly post a photo taken with both stock and Camera 360? I wanna see the difference.

After seeing this comment the first thing I did was to compare them, but I can't see any difference, other than the fact the night preset in Camera 360 makes a photo much brighter, but that's software processing, nothing to do with flash intensity.

Thanks in adv.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saravana02:
auto focus issue

My note 2 camera has an serious auto focus problem. Images looks very blurry. It never focuses on the objects., even I tried to focus manually bt no use, it is fixed with some short range.. someone please help me to solve this. .

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Even I tried using camera 360, but I found no issue cleared n same auto focus n blurry issues remains.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vash_h:
Try using the hdr function. Or lower the iso value. The noise or grainy photo is due to high iso values.

Do note that with lower iso value the shutter speed will b slower resulting in blur photo of your hand shakes

Sent From my Samsung Note 2 GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] emprize:
are u using original back cover? try take off the cover and take photo again, if still the same, get to warranty
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ayush3090:
Guys I have noticed the same grainy camera issues with my note 2 (that explains why I'm here on this thread). I tried a third party app called camera zoom fx. Although I didn't play with settings because I got so excited to post the results here with the default settings in that app.

So, I noticed that the image was less grainy with that app for the same scene. Clicking on details, I saw that the ISO for the stock camera was 640 and that for zoom fx was 320. Could this be the problem? Probably the stock camera app is increasing the ISO too much to add more light?

PS: I'm not an expert on cameras. This is just what I feel.

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Also, the exposure time in zoom fx was about 1/17 and in Stock was about 1/33.

So, is zoom fx allowing more light?

Anyway the pictures are much clearer. I haven't tried any other apps, though.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WM_Rizzo:
I just got my Note II yesterday, and was very disappointed by the low light photos. But, I too have found that other apps give much better results. I also tried Camera Zoom FX, and it has different modes for flash light - if you press it 2-3 times, you will get the "torch" setting, which gives much, much stronger light and also better photos, though the grain is still there. I took photos of my borther with both apps and he said that the second time (Camera Zoom FX) nearly blinded him, while the first was just regular. So, yes, I guess this is not hardware issue, but the issue with the default camera app on Note II.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jujuburi:
To reply both the above posts,

Yes, I've also seen that Camera Zoom FX takes better photos than the stock camera app. Lower ISO will give better photos, this is basic photography rule. Haven't checked the exposure time yet. The photos with Zoom FX come out less grainy, better for eyes, post processing seems better than stock. But I'm not sure the flash is any better, even with torch mode on. Whatever, I've purchased Zoom FX knowingly, the macro mode on it works better than stock app, so better use it anyway.

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WM_Rizzo:
Could be that it isn't, there wasn't any serious testing involved, just a couple of snaps and a general impression.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ayush3090:
Well, I've noticed that with the regular flash mode, the focused object looks more natural. Whereas in the torch mode, it becomes paler and loses a little focus. The intensity in my opinion remains unchanged.

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Regular mode

Torch mode

---------- Post added at 01:56 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:37 AM ----------

Regular mode

Torch mode
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viniciusrsouza:
Guys, just set ISO to 800 and to get the same old and good quality pictures, just like Galaxy Note I, whithout all this "grainy" effect! Or, at least, it's much and much less noticeble!

Take a look at these pictures I just took. The first one has ISO configured to automatic and the second one is at 800.

And here is a picture I took yesterday, showing that in daylight conditions the quality of the camera is just incredible!

All original files attached.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prettysenshi:
I, too, am experiencing the same thing. My iPhone 4 had better camera quality.

That's what I get for all shots...not just indoors.

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[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junkeeroo:
ProCapture app: night mode = all good. Note natural colours of ProCapture vs stock camera.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrMuhammadElHanafy:
Thanks Man. I tried taking a picture in "Low Light Mode" and it turned out to be Wonderful. With Minimal Noise compared to without it.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khixar27:
well iam experience the same problem but there is another int not2 which has better camera quality then mine

he is stock iam rooted so i will flash stock and see if there is a difference :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eggshaped:
Please come back to let us know. My back camera is terrible quality, very grainy. It improves slightly with the suggestions in this thread but it's still poor. My front facing camera takes much, much better photos.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khixar27:
just got everything working either use stock rom

or just use camera fv5 app from playstore mine has improved drastically :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eggshaped:
Thanks for letting us know :) I'm glad it seems to be a software/firmware problem. If stock camera is good then I think I'll revert back to a stock rom.

Many thanks x
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khixar27:
thats what i noticed :)

do share your result

thanks :)
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vash_h:
I'm on international note 2 and my photo taken is fantastic. No issues on grain or brightness.
[Galaxy Note II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asterixcomp:
Note 2 grainy camera photos

Guys

I have same problem & I am a heavy custom ROM user. I have come down to to conclusion that the quality of photos do not much matter whether its stock or custome ROM. I think since jellybean version the camera quality has deteriorated.

Anybody can confirm on this ?
[General Questions and Answers] fatesee:
hey, I tried to unlock this cell phone (SGH-T679) for few days now

but I failed to unlock it

it's really tough to unlock it :( i guess

Tried using several unlock Apps from android market but they didnt work ;(

and I even bought a code from a website but it didnt work either lol

nah.. can someone please help me out to unlock this phone?

it is originally from T-mobile but now i'm using Fido (in canada) ... so have to unlock it ASAP
[General Questions and Answers] post-mortem:
If the phone is from T-Mobile, and you are using it successfully on another carrier, then it is already SIM unlocked.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nolook:
since the 32gb will be out soon can i restore nandroid backup from my 16gb to the 32gb? thanks in advance..
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flimsy888:
Unless they change something else hardware or software wise besides the memory I would say yes.

Sent From My Nexus 7- Corrupted by Trinity
[HTC One S] Spastic909:
First off, if you know you are asking a question(though this seems more of a statement than anything, please post in the question section.

I had g2/dz and this phone blows it out of the water.

I don't see why people feel the need to load so many gigs of music. It's not that hard to delete stuff you dont want and add stuff you do want
[HTC One S] lykos:
Widrive is my solution. I keep almost everything backed on there.
[HTC One S] ATSPerson:
It wouldn't bother me if the One S had half the storage it has. For me a phone with 150gbs of storage wouldn't be enough to house my music collection, and even if such a device were available and affordable there's no way I'd load all my library onto my phone.

That's what playlists are for.

In my case, my music, video, photo collection etc is on my NAS, and distributed around my network regardless of the rendering device, music station, tv, phone, MP3 player, etc. All I ask of my phone (or any device I want to play any media) is the ability to join my network and a client. I always have more than one or two of my many playlists stored locally for when I'm out and about, but if I'm pottering in the garden I can stream any playlist, album, whatever, whenever. It's easy, fast and it works. My music files stay safe, backed up and RAID 1 protected, my phone stays uncluttered.

It doesn't have to be NAS of course, it could an ordinary PC, the point is the mindset. A requirement for local storage will always end up in disappointment because your OGG and FLAC collections will always grow much faster than your ability to pay for devices with increase storage capacities with which to cope with them.

If you insist on vast amounts of local storage, good luck. But perhaps the HOS is not for you. I would instead save your money buy a cheap phone and spend the difference on a separate MP3 player.
[HTC One S] LalyGirl:
You can buy the HTC ONE S special edition, or ONE X \ ONE X+, and even GALAXY S3.

And yeah.. I have the same problem that you have - 16GB is not enough for me :(
[HTC One S] Sirandar:
My reasoning

Double post
[HTC One S] Sirandar:
My reasoning

From the OP

Sorry for posting in the wrong section .......

I am surprised people can't understand how luxurious my HTC Desire Z with PowerAMP is/was for music and why I don't want to give it up.

1) When all your music sits on a microSD card there is no maintenance of your mobile music whatsoever except to copy a new tracks over from your PC once and a while. No syncing, no copying files back and forth. There is no work and who wants more work. I don't want to have to babysit my music or sync new tracks in the morning trying to guess what I might want to listen to during the day.

2) Music choice becomes spontaneous when you have it all with you. I just pick up my Desire Z open Power AMP and all my music is already cataloged with album art. It takes 30sec to make a short playlist suited exactly to the mood I am in. Every time it is a new listening experience exactly tailored to my mood.

3) I have a home music system ..... my Desire Z is for playing music everywhere else. When your files are cataloged and local you can play them anywhere regardless of data usage or cell reception, even when you need to turn off data because of roaming charges.

4) 32GB cards are fairly cheap and 64GB and even 128GB cards are becoming available. Nothing on-line can even remotely compete with the speed and accessibility of them.

5) A dedicated music player is a waste of money for me because when I want it I probably won't have it because I don't want to lug it around. I lug a cell phone around because it is a necessary evil and it is very nice to automatically have a really good music player along for the ride.

If I could load up all my music to Dropbox and be able to seamlessly catalog and access it with PowerAMP just like the music was on a microSD card I would probably pay for 100GB of storage and be done with it. But as far as I can tell there is no on-line storage that can do this.

I wouldn't even consider this phone but it is the phone Bell wants to give to me as a replacement for my Desire Z. Before I fight with them I would really like to have HTC One S work for me because other than the limited storage it suits me just fine but alas there doesn't seem to be any solution.
[HTC One S] shadowch31:
Well looks like your getting a different phone then. I have 42 mp3 albums on my phone which I change when I'm bored with what's on it. Now taken into consideration that each album has 12 tracks (average) and run for 4 minutes each that's 33.6 hours of continuous music. Please explain to me why you could possibly need any more than that? Not to mention the extra workload with so many files.

Oh and I have ALOT on my sdcard but still have 2.5gb free. I think you need to understand that your buying a phone not a mass storage device to hold all your sh*t on. This phone is in my opinion outstanding, certainly the best phone I have ever owned and so what if it doesn't have an sd slot? It stills beats the snot out of most other phones on the market.
[HTC One S] ATSPerson:
You make all the antediluvian arguments for having a separate music player then say you don't want to lug one round.

Take the HOS from your network provider sell it and buy another desire or somesuch. I'm not sure you are ready for this phone.
[HTC One S] Sirandar:
Actually have the phone now

From the OP

I actually got my HTC One S in the mail.

Its beautifully designed and almost a work of art. For everything other than music it is a great phone. Yes it is fast and smooth but it really doesn't do anything that my Desire Z couldn't do with apps. ICS and Sense is getting pretty bloaty too.

For music it is utterly horribly crippled. How can HTC sell a music oriented phone and only give it 10GB storage? They make a phone that actually has a good audio quality and then they make it inferior to 2 year old technology by forcing you to synch files.

Does anyone actually like syncing files? It is a horrible waste of time and energy and there is always a good chance you won't have the song you want to listen to with you. When you have your whole collection with you all the time, you just scratch your head and wonder how you could have ever synched files.

HTC Desire Z with a microSD card - reach into your pocket and queue up the songs you feel like playing .... Done

HTC One S - wake up and try to remember to sych songs you think you might like to play, wait wait wait ... Error the tracks won't fit .... search through to find the files you wanted but must leave behind..... try syching again ...... leave for work. Later, reach into your pocket, but your mood isn't the same and you are missing what you would like to hear. Then you try to remember what you actually have on the device ..... then you give up and just pick something second best (or 3rd) because it happens to be there. Repeat 2-3 times a day.

I don't think the two experiences are even remotely similar. Wouldn't you rather just reach into your pocket and play what you want to hear? ...... that is 2 year old tech already mature and working and now there are 128GB cards so even a huge collection could be sampled down in OGG and it would fit.

For music nothing can come close to local storage, until data is unlimited and on-line files can be cataloged locally and transparently on the phone.

Can anyone really say they like leaving 1/2 their collection at home? There is no need to as long as a phone has a microSD slot. Even a cheap 32GB card is big enough because OGG is more than good enough for phone hardware.

The point of all this: an microSD slot is an essential aspect of Android .... no phone should be without one, especially one where they bothered to put Beats Audio on it. I switched to Android almost for that alone.
[HTC One S] LalyGirl:
I don't understand your problem...But I know that 10gb is really not enough. So I suggest you to buy samsung galaxy s2/3, or htc one x+ or Iphone.
[Asus Transformer TF700] I_EAT_BABIES:
Now this makes absolutely zero sense. Here are the steps I followed during the short time (~3 weeks) I have had my TF700:

- Root Tablet

- Use Root Apps

- Unlock Bootloader

- Use Root Apps

- Set Up NvFlash

- Use Root Apps

- Install TWRP Via GooManager

- Use Root Apps

- Update TWRP Via GooManager (using the exact same method used on first install, maybe I did this wrong?)

- Flash US Sku JB via TWRP

- Use Root Apps (actually one of the things I did was try to apply a max CPU value and use the performance Governor via ROM Toolbox Pro)

I included the times I know for a fact that I used applications that require root access. I flashed JB on Monday night, then let the ROM break in overnight and was used very lightly since. Then just a few minutes ago I go into Voodoo to backup and protect my root before applying the minor update and it's telling me that I don't have root access. Then I fire up SuperSU to confirm and low and behold it informs me that there is no root binary present and that it can not install it. So then I reboot to recovery to see if I can just flash su from TWRP and I get the stock Andy laying on his back with his case open and a red exclamation point screen.

How in the hell could this have happened? Can I just re-root using the new JB method then re-install TWRP?

This really concerns me, it baffles me how this could have happened... Any help is greatly appreciated.

Sent from my unlocked Transformer Infinity
[Asus Transformer TF700] I_EAT_BABIES:
Would I be able to just download the newest TWRP, rename it recovery.blob, boot into fastboot, then execute the following commands:

fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery recovery.img

fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot

then flash SuperSU from there? Sorry if this is an obvious question.

Sent from my unlocked Transformer Infinity
[Asus Transformer TF700] I_EAT_BABIES:
Issue resolved, but I would still like to find out exactly what happened so I can potentially avoid this situation in the future.

Sent from my unlocked Transformer Infinity
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
The stock firmware contains the stock recovery, so installing it overwrites your custom one.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
^^this
[Asus Transformer TF700] I_EAT_BABIES:
Ah that makes sense. I'm glad it was supposed to happen; what had me worried was the possibility that something odd happened. Thanks!

Sent from my unlocked Transformer Infinity