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[Android General] WilhelmPrice:
current gen Nexus 7 basically fits the bill of all of those, except being able to make calls using the sim and it's a really successful well known tablet with good dev and community support lol
[Android General] aarif_ziaee:
i just now checked the forums for nexus 7 3g but i dont think we can make gsm calls through it ??
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Oreo13:
Ive keep being told that everyone hears an echo while I on my side don't hear an echo. Idk if its my phone or what. I tried different roms, and can confirm its not the rom. I also have an otterbox case on my phone. Any ideas before I go back to stock and warranty exchange it?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Turn off noise reduction
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] asidrave:
Have you tried calls without the case on? I had the same issue years ago with an iphone 3g with an otterbox case on...took the case off...no echo
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] OmmNomNom:
How do you do that
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] erica_renee:
two things cause this...

First wifi calling to another voip number..

you can limit this by Turning volume down. and while in call tap menu button and turn off the noise reduction. Had this issue two days ago.. I was going Insane..

I also have otter box defender case. Case has nothing to do with it.. Your Mic is picking up your speaker and transmitting it back to the speaker..
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Open the dialer, hit menu, call settings then select additional settings then uncheck nose reduction.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Oreo13:
Actually its not a echo on my end. More of the caller constantly hear themselves echo. I think its the phone itself, and I have to return to stock to exchange the phone. Its a shame, because I had my phone set up nicely sigh. Just thinking about selling my note 2 smh. Freaking lemon I got.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
It's a kind if common problem in Samsung phones. The mic picks up them and send it back over. It's usually fixed my turning off noise reduction, did you try that?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Oreo13:
I actually did and the caller on its end still heard echos.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] kintwofan:
Worth a shot, sorry it didn't work
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Oreo13:
Its cool appreciate the help though. Guess I got a lemon phone. Lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] You_got_owned123:
That's happened to me before but it's completely random for me. Most times, they have me on speakerphone so they hear an echo. Most likely not your phone. There are a lot of factors that play in, including different wave interferences and stuff.

But since you mention that everyone hears an echo.. I am probably wrong.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilipTD:
Defender?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Oreo13:
Yeah, defender case. Just checked my phone no. Echo!!!
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Oreo13:
Yeah, I thought it was my phone not connecting correctly. But it was my phone being defective. I just received the new phone, and no problems so far.:):thumbup:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilipTD:
I asked because I had to cut out the flaps that cover the charging and earphone ports in order to get rid of the echo.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] Oreo13:
Hhhmm. Well I'm still testing out the new phone today. But so far no need to mutilate my case. I hope....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II] PhilipTD:
No mutilation necessary.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] amazin1988:
Im doing all the steps right and my flash counter doesn't go to zero, it stays at 1. Do I have factory reset ? Can I get some help please.

iTzAmazed on note 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] elwood:
If you are using triangle away to reset your flash counter it will automatically go to 1 as the application states that some phones stay that way. Id rather have a flash count of 1 instead of 200+ like I did on my e4gt

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] amazin1988:
Yes you are correct but that's only if you are using a custom recovery or custom kernal. Ive tried flashing back to stock recovery and its not working threrfore it will continue to go back to 1. So it there any other way ??

iTzAmazed on note 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] amazin1988:
Im thinking that im gonna have to do the stock tar through odin and factory reset.

iTzAmazed on note 2
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
its still going to say 1
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] amazin1988:
Naw it say zero now
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] -EViL-KoNCEPTz-:
As soon as you put a custom recovery or kernel on it'll go right back to 1 even if you don't use odin to do it. It checks the recovery and boot partitions for the Samsung signatures as well as increasing from using odin to flash.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II] XxLostSoulxX:
hence my point that its going to still say 1 lol
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stu-ton:
Yesterday my Yahoo mail app has stopped pushing thorough emails to me! Anyone had similar probLen or have I changed something without realizing?
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x102x96x:
backup accounts and reinstall app :good:
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] mrkool444:
I just purchased the HTC one for sprint a few days ago.

I have been taking mostly indoor vidoes/pictures under normal lighting conditions.

And all the pics are awful. They are blurry , not focused properly and the photo just looks horrible - like one taken from a bad camera phone.

I have tried messing with the settings...tried HDR mode...zoe mode. Still...pictures come out very grainy or just plain out of focus.

Is this a defect or what? Im hearing all these great things about the camera , but the pics don't come close to what my 4 year old HTC Evo takes.

Should I try to exchange it out for another at sprint store ? anyone else having this issue?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] gk1984:
Is the lens dirty or covered by anything? Try tapping the screen to focus. Do you have a sample to show us?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] uscjunkie:
The photos are grainy because of the ultra pixel system that they used in this camera. It is sort of a trade off really....in order to get those nice low light shots they had to devise a camera with larger light sensitive cells. It is like in the old film days when you used 1600 speed film for low light conditions but ended up with pictures that were super grainy. Same concept but now in digital form.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] FlowingAway:
I know what the OP is talking about, this is a different issue than just having grainy pictures. Mine cannot seem to focus on anything more than 10 ft away. I'm attaching an example from a graduation last night. The focus was so bad that I will not using any of these pictures for anything.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] FlowingAway:
And yes I tapped on the screen multiple times to get it to focus, this is what came out. I can replicate this basically anytime when taking pictures of anything kind of far away. It freaking sucks.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] mrkool444:
This is not due to not focusing or pics being slightly grainy

Im saying the pics are awful.. Way out of focus and look distorted, phone is only 3 days old so it's not a dirty lens

Taking this back to sprint today... Will update you guys on what they do for me..
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] gk1984:
I've had time where the front camera is blurry from smudges on the lens taking it out of my pocket. Wiping off the lens helps. It happens pretty frequently actually.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Sim-X:
Sounds like bad hardware to me, I would have taken it back to.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] mrkool444:
I went to the sprint store yesterday and they exchanged it out for a new HTC one.

Same problem with the new one. Blurry images, out of focus objects, when you zoom in the images, they are too grainy/fuzzy.

I'm now beginning to understand that it's not a hardware problem, but just a bad camera on the HTC One.

I have been comparing pictures over the past 3 days from HTC One vs my 3 year old Galaxy S2 phone.

The galaxy s2 phone pictures are significantly more clear, crisp and more detailed.

The HTC One pictures are routinely blurry, noisy and just plain out of focus in certain areas.

The HTC one pictures look good when you look at them zoomed out...but when you pinch n zoom in, you begin to see fuzzy edges and blurred focus. This does not happen on my S2.

The S2 images are 3.5 MB with resolution of 3264x2448

The HTC one images are 2.17 MB with resolution of 2688x1520

So, clearly, the galaxy s2 pics are going to look better.

I love everything about the HTC one , but the camera is a total disappointment. I wish it was a hardware defect so I could swap it for a better unit, but I suppose that's just how it is :(
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] h22ajspec:
I am on badseed rom and I opened zip and replaced the camera.apk with the new one found in international roms and wiped and reflashed and my camera is 1000% better . The one I used is from cleanrom 2.0
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tkoreaper:
Mine has been the same way and I use it a lot for work. I will try the different apk.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] thronnos:
Is this an effect of running custom roms? Isn't all the after picture stuff done via image sense?

HTC ONE! Everything your phone isn't.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tkoreaper:
Not sure all I know is ever since I've had the phone (I've used stock, Viper, and badseed) it's been that way.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tkoreaper:
I replaced the camera apk and reflashed my rom and the issue is still there.

It's like it only focuses in the center of the picture... everything around the center is blurry even if i touch the screen outside the center.

Here are some examples:
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] gk1984:
I'm using the xda app which doesn't handle pics very well, so it's hard to tell for sure but it sounds like you're complain about the depth of field - area of importance in focus, background/foreground blurry.

Photography 101:

The HTC one uses a camera with a f/2.0 or so lens. This means it can allow lots of light in. The lower this number is, the more light passes through the lens. There's a catch, this extra light isn't as sharp. Parts of the image fall out of focus. This is called shallow depth of field. The lower the f-stop (f number), the shallower the depth of field. There's a distance from the lens that's the sweet spot in focus, adjusting focus repositions where the sweet spot is, but the sweet spot is smaller on lower f-stops
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tkoreaper:
Still don't really understand the issue... Never had these problems with my GS3. And it really has nothing to do with background/foreground... Everything that is the same distance form the lens that is outside the center is blurry as %^#@.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] gk1984:
I took another look outside the app at the pics. I think it's a shallow depth of field. Our camera is capable of a much lower f-stop than most others. The average consumer camera it around 3.5 f-stop for example. Until the HTC amaze, android phones never had an f-stop this low. I'm not sure what the galaxy's used though.

The pic of the signs tells me a lot that this is the case. Most people like this effect as it's artsy. The sign on the left is in focus and closer to the camera, the sign to the right is further away and not in focus. This is what depth of field is. Shallow depth of field is a smaller area in focus.

Now, I don't want to make excuses for HTC. The f-stop isn't a fixed number. It's supposed to be adjustable in cameras, we just may not have the option to. Try using landscape mode. That should keep everything in focus. This depth of field shouldn't be for every pic
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] themuffinman:
If you reflashed the rom after installing the new camera apk then the old camera app will still be there since you relfashed the rom. If anything flash the newer camera apk after not before.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tkoreaper:
I replaced the APK inside the ROM then flashed it. Simply replacing the apk from within android didn't work and it wouldn't let me just install it either..
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] themuffinman:
Oh ok, well I used root explorer to replace the apk and it worked just fine. Anyway I do see a difference with the newer apk.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] retnuh730:
This is very peculiar... I wonder what you guys' issues are. Those pictures look markedly different from mine... here's an example of mine hosted on imgur
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] anotherfakeusername:
Actually your picture describes what they are saying. The object of the photo (your nice dog) is clear, but the objects in the background and the grass in front of him are blurry.

And as the other poster mentioned, some of the artzy snob photo types love using "depth of field", as it's called.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] retnuh730:
well **** now i'm upset and I'm not even entirely sure why. Welp.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] harry674:
My experience

Hi I had this phone from day 1 it was released on 4/19. First time i noticed there was problem was when i as recording video and it seemed picture went in and out of focus anyhow i forgot about this..I was recently gone to international event in Europe where i noticed problem became very severe and i cannot take any pictures or record video anymore and had to use my office blackberry to take pictures. What i found interesting was my colleague from europe also had HTC ONE and it was working perfect no issues, i asked him if he had updated his device with any firmware and he said no so maybe that is clue? It is very dissapointing and i really wanted to Help HTC and now i am probably stuck with this defective device as 30 days is up. I have insurance so i could probably get another refurbished device..
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] childlikecake:
Int. version - same issue

I'm in New Zealand and have the international 801S model - same issue. I find that I'm getting incredibly blurry and out of focus photos. What pisses me off is that this was never mentioned in any of the reviews I read before buying the device. Does anyone know if maybe that firmware upgrade that improved the camera is still forthcoming for some versions of the One? Will that help?

I get the DoF thing, but it goes too far and just provides a difficult photo taking experience. Who wants depth of field on a 4MP image?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tkoreaper:
I tried switching to landscape mode and the same issue is there. I'm very fed up with this and tempted to return the phone because pictures are important to me. Let me give you some more examples. First one is using my HTC ONE and the second is from my previous phone (Samsung GS3) Take particular notice of how clear the the second one is at all depths of view.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] gk1984:
The blurry problem you complain about

IS

shallow depth of field as I mentioned. It is literally a physical limitation to a large aperture (or low f-stop). As I mentioned before, the HTC One uses a f/2.0 lens. Your average camera (smartphone or not) uses a much larger f-stop, or smaller aperture - same thing.

I agree that every photo shouldn't use a large aperture. This is probably a flaw or design choice by HTC. I'm not complaining, though and it appears few others are. What normal cameras do is recognize you're snapping a picture of things further away at equal distances and adjusts the aperture so that everything is in focus (known as infinity focus). This is why I asked you to try the Landscape scene mode, because this usually forces this.

Now, you have a couple of options. You can express to HTC your concerns with this, ask if this is a fixed/permanent aperture on the lens (which would mean this is always going to happen), return it and purchase a smartphone that does not have a low f-stop like this (f/2.0 or so), or find some work arounds. It's not normal that the aperture is fixed, because this is one method cameras control exposure.

The advantage to having a low f-stop like our phones have is that it captures a lot of light. HTC wanted to stand out in this regard. Just keep in mind that you will likely lose this advantage by switching.

For a little more explanation about this: http://www.exposureguide.com/focusing-basics.htm

I haven't tried this app out yet, but it appears you can manually control the aperture (f-stop): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flavionet.android.camera.lite&hl=en

I may try it out myself after today, just was browsing to see if there was anything that might help your situation.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] jcazes:
In this example, the blurring is ABSOLUTELY NOT bokeh, which is the blurriness associated with a shallow depth of field. The entire right side of the image is out of focus, including the grass in the foreground (which is technically the same distance as the sign). A low f-stop will create bokeh with the right subject and background, but there should be no blurriness given the focal distances in the pictures on this thread.

Here is an example of a One picture that has bokeh (albeit with terribly enhanced sharpness, applied by the phone):

Here is another example of incorrect bokeh, where depth of field is not the cause of the blurriness. Notice the right side buildings that are out of focus compared to their counter-parts towards the middle of the frame.

Overall I'm very disappointed with this camera, and I think there's a serious problem with lens distortion or some sort of software processing.

---------- Post added at 01:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:44 PM ----------

What a joke. I called HTC about this and the phone reps do not have access to email tickets? They also said I have to factory reset the phone before I can send it in for repair, to make sure "it's not a software issue." To boot, the turnaround time for repair is 10 days. Are you kidding me??

Here's another example of real / correct bokeh:

The phone seems to struggle with focus without sunlight. Using the wall as a stabilizer/tripod, here is a photo with sunlight (right side of image is incorrectly blurry):

And the same photo (after several attempts) when the clouds came out:

Panoramas look great from afar, but no detail upon any zoom:

I think I'm going to sell this thing and get an S4, or maybe even switch carriers to open up my options. I don't care how nice the aluminum body and screen are. If the camera is junk and the support is non-existent, what's the point?
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] bpschoon:
I have the same single side blurringthat others in this thread and the one on the intl forums have posted. It's present mostly in the sun. I've seen people mention they took their phone back and the issue still exists.

Years back I purchased Camera Zoom FX for my gnex and on a whim installed it on my One. Completely solved the blurred images. So it seems to be a software issue that could be fixed. The question is if. Camera Zoom is great, but it lacks HDR and Zoes.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] cburch85:
No kidding? Could you send us some samples of pictures taken with that app? Also does anyone else have any 3rd party recommendations for cameras? I love zoe's and highlight real, but would be nice to have the 3rd party app when you need to take "that shot."
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] bpschoon:
So these are just real quick to show the blur in the stock app vs the 3rd party. The first shot is in landscape settings, so the colors are blown out. The second one is Camera zoom FX on default settings with more realistic colors. Notice how much clearer the ac condensor is.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] bpschoon:
To also show the other side, the first is the stock app default setting, the second is Camera Zoom FX. I definitely think the blur in the stock app is a software issue.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] 215Aphillyated:
Pics.look.good to.me....all my pics come.out good enough
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] BrianBaker:
Is it mainly outside pics? because i took this of my cat and unless im missing something im not seeing as much blur as in the other photos in here.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Rally187:
Does anyone know if bare android (no sense) has the same issue? great photos is what made me come back to htc, although i did leave the iphone 5 which took stellar photos.... anyways im really liking sense 5.0 and hope its a software issue that can be resolved.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] MrTeddyChills:
My hdr video looks like crap... There's red purple and pink dots in the videos..
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] BrianBaker:
HDR Video is mean't to be used outside in a well lit setting..Not in your bedroom or walking through out the house in the middle of the night.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sauprankul:
Wow seriously? This thread just disillusioned me about the camera on my One. It's true, most of the pics I've taken are blurry-ish on the sides. I never noticed until now. Landscapes look great, though, dunno what's up with that.

And about the "losing detail" thing. 4MP is 4MP. There's no way around it (afaik). Bigger pixels allow less information but capture it more efficiently. If you want to be able to zoom, a high MP count is needed. End of story.

I find the One to be a great daily use camera, for things like hikes, social events, random occurrences, etc. I wouldn't have doubted it had I not read this thread.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] MrTeddyChills:
I went to the beach and it was nice and sunny... Same thing happened.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] BrianBaker:
well....damn...I can take HDR Video outside and not have it look like the way you are describing..In dark areas with HDR Video I get a bunch of pink lines all over the screen but never outdoors in the sun.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] tavi4400:
try change iso manually

I had the same problem and tried to play with the Iso settings,and i change it manually on 200,and it worked for me,now it focus on a landscape photo just well.in the indoors,i let Iso automatic and it focuses fine,i guess is a software issue,and they'll solved it with the next update
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] drolgnir:
It's true that it is most likely software, a lot of my pics are shot out of focus. But if I take the time to play with iso or try different angles, I can usually get something decent. I hate having to **** around so much, I'm going to try another camera app.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] spd00:
It is not software based!

I've tried like 4 diff apps for camera, all of them do the same damn thing. Right side is always out of focus, no matter what settings I do to it. I was about to smash the damn phone. I'm putting it for sale, and buy myself an iphone5. Cheers. HTC ONE camera sucks!!!
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] Rally187:
Cool story
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] CasseTrop:
A lot of people don't seem to understand the issue here.

This is not depth of field, or bokeh or whatever your wanna call it.

This is a defective camera. I got the phones almost 2 months ago and always found the camera a bit on the ugly side, but I was only looking at the pictures on my phone.

I came back from a trip 2 weeks ago and I was looking at my dropbox account to see what my cellphone pictures look like and this is the result for most of them (Except when upclose).

And from this weekend, took almost 50 pics like this, with zoe and without, same result.

This is not depth of field effect, I own a Canon 5DMKII and I know a little about photography.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] :
I'm also highly disappointed with the HTC One's camera performance, coming from a Lumia 920. Even in low light conditions, pictures are very unsaturated, and grainy, with little to no sharpness.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] sauprankul:
Yep, those are some crappy pics.

Has anybody tried camera with CM yet? Do they use different camera software? Actually, I'll try it as soon as I can, tomorrow.

Uh oh... This isn't good...
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] lopezpm:
Crap, this thread is scaring me. I have a GS3 now and was going to get this over the GS4 but now I'm not so sure. Are most of these the Silver ones? I know those had issues and hopefully the issues are fixed on the black one.
[Sprint HTC One (M7)] raptoro07:
I do not have these issues and I have a silver one from day one.