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[One (M7) General] drspikes:
It is down to the flicker frequency of the florescent light. I don't think anything will change this other than change of shutter speed which I don't think the user has control of.
[One (M7) General] MasterThiefGarrett:
It doesn't do this outside, does it?

Like many others have said, it's the lighting in your office...
[One (M7) General] coupetastic-droid:
This actually looks like it maybe the screen than the camera.

OP, can you load up a picture on the web of a white board or just any picture of just bright white and turn your brightness on full brightness and see if it gives you the same effect.
[One (M7) General] Ranger302:
"Camera scenes

A scene is a

collection of settings to suit the lighting and environment

. Use Normal

and let the camera automatically determine optimal settings, or choose from a wide

selection of scenes before you start taking photos."

This is from the HTC ONE user Guide. You can find it here: h**ps://support.htc.com/en/005-HTC_One/user_guides

This is where you will adjust the camera for using it in fluorescent light.

Also here is a vid of a Conon 5D Mark III with the same issue: h**ps://w*w.youtube.com/watch?v=MOer6WPnPDM

It's not the phone, it's the lights.
[One (M7) General] battletank:
Thanks, but as I said earlier in the thread, the same happens in each scene setting. The only option for fluorescent lighting is under white balance, and unsurprisingly, this has no effect on the interference patterns.

For everyone stating that this is because of the lighting.... I KNOW, that's why I mentioned the lighting. The reason for posting is because there is no way to adjust for this phenomenon, and it's far more prevalent than, for example, on my Note 2 or iPhone 5 or my colleague's One X.
[One (M7) General] yvibes:
Ok tell me how I would test this out?! So I can see if my ONE has this :/
[One (M7) General] nsane:
Bought my HTC one yesterday.

I tried this in my local library, as it is entirely illuminated by neon lights.

I have the same banding as OP.

I tested this against my Xperia Arc (my second phone).

Sure enough the Arc does not do it.

I guess the next step is to try a third party camera App.

I tried Camscanner and it showed the same banding.

I do not have instagram or any other 3rd party camera app.

I must confess...this is a rather disappointing...considering that a 2 year old phone does not experience this issue.
[One (M7) General] Cedup:
Same here! got 1.27.206.1 - HTC One O2 Germany.
[One (M7) General] drspikes:
You might be able to reduce the effect by mandating use of flash. That's what you'd do with a proper DSLR in tricky lighting. Just wanted thinking out loud. I don't think it's too dig an issue as only noticeable in pretty specific conditions.
[One (M7) General] horsetastic:
It's surely due to the ultrapixels letting in more light perhaps? I think most cameras will 'not like' harsh indoor fluorescent lighting but obviously the one is more adapted to lower light conditions so is simply showing the banding more....

You tried taking with the flash on force flash to try and cancel out the lighting effect?

Edit. Literally just seen the post before mine....try with flash like we say lol
[One (M7) General] nsane:
Interesting thing.

If I take a picture of my laptop screen...I have no banding due to the refresh of the screen.

By contrast...the banding under neon lights...is just awful.

What is curious is that...it shows on the screen before I actually snap the picture...

Using flash...changing lighting options...NOTHING...comes close to alleviating this.

Again...I am quite disappointed by this....particularly as I need to use my HTC one to scan documents and books and often do so in an office environment with neon lights.

I just cannot get my head around how something like this was not spotted by HTC...
[One (M7) General] horsetastic:
To be fair they may well have spotted it as I'm sure they'll have tested the camera to death before approving it. I can only assume they deemed that the pro's outweighed the cons and perhaps had to make some assumptions on usage. Like that the likelihood of the phone being used in an office type environment would perhaps be limited compared to it's use on days out, trips, in pubs, clubs etc etc.....I'm sure if it was something that they perhaps didn't realise was quite as bad as it is that as soon as it begins to be flagged up they will attempt to resolve in future software updates....

The only thing that people can do with the phone already is flag it up to HTC to make them aware...The more people that do this the better!
[One (M7) General] nsane:
I see your point.

But honestly? This is horrible. I am in the office right now...so I have daylight as well as neon lights in the room....if I try shooting a picture...I have WAVES all over my screen...

The reason why I am shocked is that the technology to prevent this clearly exists...HTC made a BIG deal out of their new camera technology....and then came up with THIS?!

Moreover...how long do you think it will take before this gets out on websites like "engadget" and "bgr" and starts hurting the reputation of the phone?! You have to keep in mind that proper distribution of this phone will only truly commence in April...
[One (M7) General] horsetastic:
Yes it could be something that isn't great for HTC but thus far it does seem to be the only real issue with the phone currently and it should be sortable through software which is promising. If it was a hardware issue (which it still could be I suppose) then there'd be no hope of it being fixed. I suppose all you can do is try not to let it get you down about the camera, hope that a software update fixes it soon and for now take as many pics as you can in different situations to gauge the camera on a whole. That might make you feel happier about it but also give you some meat to a bug report to HTC.
[One (M7) General] wilsontree:
It's a very common banding issues for any flickering light source, including fluorescent or LCD monitors.

As long as your shutter speed is not a multiple of the light source flickering rate, then it will show up.

Change white balance setting will not help anything.

The best solution is to set the shutter speed a multiple of the flickering rate, but that may not be available on built-in camera app...

Maybe you'll need to find another camera app with such option:eek:
[One (M7) General] madindehead:
Just tested mine, and the banding definitely gets worse if you point the camera at fluorescent lights. Here in uni currently, and that's all we have here. Those horrible tubes.

If I point the camera at the ground, it gets noticeably better overall. Need to test it outside still, but I assume it will be gone.
[One (M7) General] Awesomesaur:
I'm having this problem on my One too, though it's happening on Halogen and LED bulbs too. Anyone else noticed it?
[One (M7) General] cachookaman:
my galaxy S2 sometimes does the same thing in my office which is lit with industrial fluorescent lights
[One (M7) General] idanfima:
It's a lighting problem, not a phone problem.

The same things happens to a DSLR camera when there are florescent or tv's in the pic, what you are seeing is the blinking of the florescent, it happens because of a slow shutter speed which is caused by the low lighting.

ever wonderd why when you take a pic at night without a flash it will take longer? and the picture will probably be blurry? because the sensor is being exposed for long time, in that long time it catches the waves.

"the light turns of 50/60 times a second. And because of the cameras rolling shutter you get this lines when the shutter speed doesn't match the light at 50/60hz."
[One (M7) General] afilopou:
OP did you try taking photos using other phone with the same lighting conditions?
[One (M7) General] :
I think this is a software issue because I have the banding when pointing the camera towards a bright light source but as soon as I focus the camera onto something dark still with the bright light source there the banding disappears, see pictures below.
[One (M7) General] idanfima:
Read what I wrote.

Thats the "problem".
[One (M7) General] llothar:
Pro-tip: If you experience banding in pictures - take a picture in HDR mode - it will fix the problem. Tested in my office with fluorescent lightning.
[One (M7) General] tsang_alan:
The flickering is mainly due to the the frequency of the light source. The fluorescent light "flashes" 100-120 times a second (100-120Hz). As there are usually more than one light source in a room. The flashes of the fluorescent lights generate interference end up like waves/banding. Human eye cannot see it as our eye refresh at about 30 Hz.

HTC one has a large aperture, which absorb quite a lot of light. The shutter speed in a easily reaches 1/400-1/500 in a fluorescent light environment, like office. As the shutter speed is too fast, it capture the waves/banding between each flash of the different fluorescent lights. So, the only way to solve this is to lower the shutter speed (which we dont have the option on shutter speed in HTC one).

Ways to decrease shutter speed and to ease the banding effect,

- decrease ISO to 100 (lowest)

- Use HDR (capture couple images, kinda extend capture)

- choose a shot with darker environment

* although we might encounter banding under fluorescent light, it is still worth to have a large aperture as you can take gorgeous low light shots with no other phone can do it (at least for now).
[One (M7) General] llothar:
Agree, but light sources flash in sync - the frequency comes from the alternating current in the power socket. Frequency is 50Hz or 60Hz depending on the country which translates to 100 or 120 flashes - light is on at both +230V and -230V (or +/- 110 if you are in the US)
[One (M7) General] BenPope:
...read about ballasts, flourescent tubes don't have to flicker at mains frequency. The cost of an electronic ballast is very very low, and you get increased efficiency and higher light output.

Nobody should fit a flourescent tube fitting that doesnt have an electronic ballast any more, and the advantage is 20KHz or so operation.
[One (M7) General] llothar:
Neat, didn't know that.
[One (M7) General] dvsk69:
LoL this banding is the first thing I noticed when I was in a store buying the phone.

The sales person also thought my piece had an issue. But another technical help guy from the store took out his Lumia920 and showed us that it had the same banding too.It's due to the yellowish lighting effect in the store. Camera just works fine otherwise
[One (M7) General] BenPope:
Yeah, all this talk of AC frequency of certain lights creating flicker that the camera picks up on because it doesn't sample all of the "pixels" simultaneously is just misdirection.

It's because the lighting is yellow. That makes more sense.
[One (M7) General] tylik_dev:
Defect Camera

I got one issue on my HTC One.

When i put my finger to the camera, the screen is not black colours.. ( See the attachment file)

So when i want to get picture from camera with low light, the result is worsth

Is it a hardware issue or just software issue?

Can i claim to replacement another one? (my hh has been rooted and use custom ROM)
[One (M7) General] The Project:
Install a new rom
[One (M7) General] afu0415:
This might be a hardware issue. Taiwanese forum, mobile 01, has tons of discussions about this. People there call it "purple aura", and some of them called HTC for solution, all of them receive the same answer: send it for RMA...
[One (M7) General] y.prashanth92:
This is the one taken on my phone with flash and the cam was fully covered with my finger
[One (M7) General] Rage1ofakind:
Same thing happens to my phone :(. Tried it on my Bros One and it goes black, like it should do.
[One (M7) General] hello00:
flash a custom rom
[One (M7) General] sauprankul:
Guys, try turning the ISO to 100.

If it works, it should be added to the FAQ.

EDIT: Sorry, this only pertains to those complaining about low light shots.

Auto ISO:

ISO 100:
[One (M7) General] jamiee6610:
Your not alone, it's a software issue.

I think your be able to resolve using custom settings?
[One (M7) General] jmkhenka:
Dude, thats the blood in your finger. Repliace with a none-transparent surface not a finger that quite visibly turns red if you light it through with a LED.

If you record this you can se your pulse. There is apps in play store that uses just this to show pulse - and is the same method those finger-clamps on the hospital use.

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Yeah i think the gain is to high on the sensor when iso is set to auto. It can even be infrared light that is visible, try a IR filter in front of the camera to confirm. ISO just ups the sensitivity/gain on the sensor and cause lots of artifacts - grain.
[One (M7) General] monkeypaws:
I noticed the red also on my finger . when I placed against my pants which where dark the picture was black but the areas where light would leak in where reddish. I think its picking up reds. I don't see anything wrong with that.
[One (M7) General] jamiee6610:
Ok can answer the problem, it's an exposure setting!

I adjusted the exposure and it went.
[One (M7) General] Corduroy-21:
Ι've seen the banding issue at my work where I have these kinds of bulbs. It's 100% a light issue.

I also see it with LCD screens (like my laptop).

I've seen it before in various cameras, but no with all of them. It seems the One has it.

With HDR I can take normal pics under fluorescent light, but laptop again has the banding (not that I usually take pics of my laptop screen, but just sayin).
[One (M7) General] jamiee6610:
As I stated adjust your exposure settings, the banding issue is visible on screen with out having to take a pic or film once you open the camera up it's there.

Yes it's caused by the frequency of the light and how you resolve it is change the exposure.
[One (M7) General] Corduroy-21:
Ι don't see any differences with changing exposure when taking pics of my laptop.

With +1 the laptop screen still has banding and with +2 the picture is so much exposed that you can't see anything.

I'll try it with my working place lights to see if it is solved there, although HDR worked fine as I said.
[One (M7) General] mathrania:
Yes, happened with me several times....if i focus on a very bright light..it happens......see the pic attached...yesterday i got the OTA, i will report if it happens again...
[One (M7) General] jhonsok:
This use to happen to me. It's been great after flashing ViperOne running 4.2.2.
[One (M7) General] jamiee6610:
I stand corrected, checked the camera yesterday.

Exposure will make an impact on the banding but it can still be detected in a majority of shots.
[One (M7) General] tylik_dev:
I think it's not ROM Issue, its hardware issue. CMIIW. cause i had flash custom ROM. and now back to stock ROM, the result is same.

tomorrow i'll go to HTC Service center.. maybe they can help...
[One (M7) General] amolbali:
i'm also facing the same problem..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2317507
[MDA, XDA, 1010 Software Upgrading] FDPM:
Is there a (easy) way to add other programs to the ROM?

For instance, I'd like to put Citrix ICA Client into the rom, or eventualli TomTom GPS driver...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Golempl:
Hello

According to Sammobile we dont get 5.0 android update - at least no official update. S3 mini is recently new Samsung phone and having least no 1+ version upgrade is no fair, if i remember there some +1 version promise for all samsung phones. Im not going ever buy again any Samsung device if this become true. 4.2.2 is minor upgrade and dont count, not for me. What do you all think ?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] cheech01:
Yes here you can See.....
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Golempl:
It looks like, but this phone is still one of lastest released phones from samsung. I called samsung to ask them and they dont confirm this list and says there is no official information about future firmware upgrade for S3 mini. I still have hope !
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Tomass0:
Thats a shame if its true...I thought I was safe buying this phone thinking we would get the next generation Android OS. Hmm I hope its not true. You really have to buy high end to be guaranteed anything. Im amazed to see the S2 on our list. That phone seems pretty old now.

Sent from my Galaxy S3 mini
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Kvidli:
I've heard talks about there being two versions of 5.0. Regular and lite... Someone said google wants as many devices as possible on 5.0 so that's the reason for lite version. Who knows, that might be all rumors, it's too early to tell...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Pezmet:
I really did not expect the 4.2.x update to hit the s3 mini.

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If you like samsung and want to keep you device for a longer time while still getting the updates go for the exynous powered ones, as i noticed it is more likely for them to get updates.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] vonuzu:
Can you give me the link for this info picture?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] ztandroid:
As the list say it's a pre-list. We still have a chance..
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Tomass0:
Heres the link :(

http://www.gsmarena.com/galaxy_s_ii...roid_50_others_get_stuck_at_422-news-5720.php

Sent from my Galaxy S3 mini
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Ai<3GG:
its not fair, considering that the SGS3 and the SGS3Mini both have the same Cortex A9 Processors and Mali400 GPU. If you'd look at it, the donwside should be on the SGS3, since it needs to cope up with a huge screen resolution as compared to the SGS3Mini. Bigger resolution needs bigger RAM since the devices both have the same GPU,. Can the bigger RAM needed by the S3 be handled only in a 1GB of RAM as compared to the smaller resolution, less RAM intensive S3Mini with the same 1GB RAM..?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Pezmet:
S3 and S3mini have diffrent cpus with difrent clocks, even the gpu is diffrent. Look it up on gsm arena.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] CaseyS:
Hahaha are you being serious? The only thing our phone has in common to the S3 is its design...
[Galaxy S III Mini General] habusho:
is not official, and updating one time is a bad strategy from samsung, i think they will update our device to 5.0 and leave it there
[Galaxy S III Mini General] blackknightavalon:
That's just a preliminary list. Give them time to work something out.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Ai<3GG:
The only difference is the chipset, clockspeed and the number of cores. But both have the same type of processors intended for the same instruction set and the same GPU. If you'd take a look at Quadrant's benchmark at system information, you'll see that they both have the same Mali-400 MP GPU. See?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Pezmet:
The proccesor is allready a big diffrence. And s3mini has mali400 vs mali400mp (s3), i'm not sure it's the same chipset.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] limduldk:
Really can't see the problem?

Isn't the phone working fine on 4.x version of Android?, why would you expect Samsung to spend money on firmware upgrades for older phones if there is nothing wrong with them?
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Tomass0:
To give us more features....

Sent from my Galaxy S3 mini
[Galaxy S III Mini General] tickmaster:
Well because they want us to buy another Samsung when the time will come.

Will you buy new phone if you will knew that there will be no updates? Not in this age. Updates are now parts on phone.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] ppero196:
You just single-handedly killed entire purpose of custom ROMs.

You can't say why fix if it ain't broken.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Ai<3GG:
they aren't the same chipset. but they do have the same GPU. S3Mini and S3 both have Mali-400 MP, as displayed in Quadrant Benchmark. As for the processors, they are both ARMv7 rev.1 or Cortex-A9 with the S3 having 4 cores and a greater clockspeed as compared to 2 cores and 1GHz of the S3mini.

I gave my Xperia Sola to my mom when I found out that Sony won't be updating it to JB, the main reason is its 512MB RAM being the bottleneck for its wvga resolution as compared to the Xperia Go with 512MB RAM and HVGA resolution which will be having JB... I gave up my well performing Sola for a 1GB RAM of the S3 Mini hoping that it won't get left behind the updates. But it seems that only the FLAGSHIPS get the AFTERSALES SERVICE every consumer deserves.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] zetazeta2:
**** samsung, this was my last ****ing samsung if 5.0 isn't coming for my device.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Atish91:
+1
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Pezmet:
Just buy Nexus devices if you want updates..
[Galaxy S III Mini General] PointsofAuthority:
I hope samsung won't screw up with the promised 4.2.2 update.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Cheeseball:
No, our Galaxy S III mini only has the single-core version of the Mali-400, which is three times slower than the Mali-400MP found in the S II and III.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Ai<3GG:
do you have the big SIII..? I get to use my friend's SIII and in my opinion, I don't think the GPU of the s3mini and the s3 are different. I get to use the big S3 on games and sad to say, it doesn't perform that well. Temple Run 2 can't even run smoothly on low settings. Mild frame stuttering can be seen. That is not the case on my Xperia Sola, which is identical to the S3Mini.

I just do hope that Samsung would still keep on creating updates for the 4.2 JB if they wouldn't be releasing 5.0 for the S3M.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] CaseyS:
That may be the case as its down to optimisation. The S3 may not be fully optimised for certain games.
[Galaxy S III Mini General] IvanKurnia:
The GPU for SIII Mini is same as the Big SIII. BUT, the big one has a Quad Core GPU. ours has only one/single core GPU. That's why it's different.

Keep smile guys! Google not yet approve Samsung to make his own Android 5.0. Let's just hope that 5.0 will be Key Lime Pie! And we will get updates!

Good day
[Galaxy S III Mini General] Kvidli:
http://www.sammobile.com/2013/03/25...android-4-2-2-testing-on-1st-gen-galaxy-tabs/

Take a look at the red sentence in this post :/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jurijvi:
Hello,

is it normal to have media server sucking 15% of the battery without apparent reason?

I do not listen to MP3s, I don't have videos or pictures.

Last night tired of this media server, i hard reset the phone, cleared cached, flashed the latest BTU firmware, removed the external SD card.

Today the evil media server popped up again, 14%....
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Corrupt media files possibly...but anyway this problem is quite common, you can get rescan media(root) from Play, or you can backup media files/internal sd , format it re add the contents, likewise external sd as well
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jurijvi:
As I said, I reset the phone, re-flashed the firmware and removed the SD card. I don't think there's a corrupted file after flashing.

It's a common problem and no fix from google yet...
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slaphead20:
Use rescan media root then, did you format both internal and external cards incidentally?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jurijvi:
Again, I flashed the phone (cleared cache) and there's no ExtSD card.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jurijvi:
Today the media server started sucking battery again. Android is by far the stupidest system ever, damn it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rikusuicide:
AW: Media Server battery usage

Use ios or Windows Phone if you dont like Android :banghead: . Both operating systems are for user who just don't understand the power of android. :rolleyes:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolhof:
Use search.

There are a lot of treats about it.

And stop whining.

Verzonden door mijn GT-I9300 met xda premium
[LG Optimus Black] HuEx:
HI,Guys my POWER botton is dead and i want to change it to G-key i use it lock and unlock now but i dont know how to make it turn on the mobile any hlp plz ??? thxx i use slim rom [JB] :confused::confused::confused:
[LG Optimus Black] shivraj3192:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1194058