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[Xperia Z General] Sidd_9:
Look stop asking for a perfect photo in complete darknes. Yes Lumias illuminate a room in an bizzare way, but that is so artifitial. The point of LOW LIGHT is that when there IS SOME LIGHT the phone captures SOME MORE DETAIL. It's not meant to be a night vision feature. LOW LIGHT - even in the name it indicates that there has to be some light.

And with the recent updates it takes relly good lowlights in superior auto.
[Xperia Z General] joejoe23:
Nobody's asking for a perfect photo. He's just sharing what what he found that is taking good photos in low light.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
[MENTION=4364432]Sidd_9[/MENTION] Okey,but the 'Low light' is bad at superior mode,and night scene is nothing better.

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] electric0ant:
it really depends on what you classify as a "better" low light photo.

OPs photo is one that is lit up brightly with the flash, and looks like you have the light in the room turned on.

But others may want a photo which shows the ambience of the scene in low light, and have a more evenly exposed photo albeit it being a bit darker overall.

End of the day, depends on what you are trying to capture in your photo.
[Xperia Z General] DoubleYouPee:
If you can hold it still, use fireworks mode:
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
If u want to make a photo for examp. to your friends. They will be dark and hard to see with superior mode.

I just hate that. It's more detailed and more light with this manual settings like with an S4 or HTC One.

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
You think I didn't tried it? :p

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] AcoAlex:
svaka cas majstore :cool:

sent from moa G-Nex7
[Xperia Z General] boyq:
How bout shooting friends at night? Any sample +settings?

-sent from that phone below
[Xperia Z General] ~iPod~nano~:
you may limit the ISO, to 400 or 800 with EV+1

Noise will greatly reduced, but you must hold steady too...
[Xperia Z General] danw_oz:
A gun with a laser sight ;)
[Xperia Z General] Starlith:
Thanks to the OP I tried this with my ZR and it works a treat.
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
Np :)

Tried something else,the pictures are better at night with superior mode when you shoot landscapes.

So, this settings are only for near objects,like people,pictures in the room..

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] joejoe23:
Night portrait and night works good too for me.

Sent from my C6603
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
For landscapes, yes :)

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] vainqueur:
Try night portrait like some friends here have mentioned, not night scene. Night portrait works the best for me.
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
Superior auto:

Night portrait:

My settings:

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] DrKrFfXx:
Not too much of a difference.

"Your" settings look whashed out. A bit too grainy.

Night portrait looks darker, but somehow carries more detail.

Whiter image is not necessarily "better" in my book.
[Xperia Z General] Don MC:
Your bed is messed up.
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
I like the night portrait here too.

But the picture isn't good everytime in that mode like on this pic.

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
I know man, I'm tyding it now ?

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] morfini:
In low light photos when using flash, I almost constantly have something like a purple shadow in one corner of the photo. Does anybody else experience this?
[Xperia Z General] Dpk1:
Just clean the back glass of your phone with a moist microfiber cloth, especially on and around the camera lens glass & flash. Make sure there isn't any grease or dirt left. Try again & if the problem persists then get your phone checked at sony service center. Hope it helps!
[Xperia Z General] morfini:
Well it worked! I had the nfc sticker (I have never used it, I think it has to do with the nfc function) very close to the camera, and on top of that I had put a protective skin. I removed both and the purple shadow disappeared. Sorry for the stubid question, but what do I must do with the sticker? I don't think I can put it back. Do I have to?
[Xperia Z General] Dpk1:
No need to put it back. As far as I know, the nfc sticker just indicates the place where you've got to touch/tap the device for nfc functionality.

Now, let's stick to the topic of thread. I've found the night portrait mode (flash on) to work very well indoors (in low light). Alternately, normal mode works well too with metering average/spot, hdr on, flash on auto. One needs to keep in mind is that you've got to keep the phone very steady while taking pics or they'll all end up blurred.
[Xperia Z General] doministry:
My experience is this:

In many cases Auto mode works well.

Night landscape is actually less convincing for me since it requires very steady position

impossible without locking the device on a stand or any surface.

What I often use is Normal mode with different zoom/light/ev settings.
[Xperia Z General] morfini:
I was looking at galaxy s3 photos and I noticed that it has stronger led flash. Is there a way to make Z's flash give more light?
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
I think not.

I made a photo with the XZ + HTC One flashlight. The picture was really better than with the XZ flashlight.

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] morfini:
I can't understand what you are trying to say. Is Z's flashlight good enough for you?
[Xperia Z General] Destroyedbeauty:
You can always tweak the flashled parameter file that is laying in /system folder on your phone with an init.d script so output of the LED flash will become higher but if that works, I don't know..

Skickat från min C6603 via Tapatalk 2
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
My brother has a HTC One, I took my XZ and made a photo with XZ's flashlight OFF but HTC One flashlight ON.

The picture was better than with XZ's flashlight

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] morfini:
Ok then, instead of experimenting only with camera's settings, I think it would be useful to find a way to experiment with the led flash too. It's acceptable the s4 and htc one to have better low light pictures but s3?
[Xperia Z General] beni8978:
I had a HTC One S earlier.

Much better low light picture than the XZ.

C6603 ?
[Xperia Z General] Destroyedbeauty:
Less megapixels = more light on the already existing pixels and thus sharper output with stronger details. The sensor itself is also responsible for how the output is in low light situations.
[Xperia Z General] morfini:
We'll I am taking 9mp photos in order to keep the 16/9 aspect. I still believe a stronger led flash would be helpful. I think the sensor is good and a better software from Sony or developers here would improve low light photos. By the way I 'm using night portrait to get nearly decent photos.
[Xperia Z General] Destroyedbeauty:
To strong flash will though cause other weird artifacts like overexposed skin colours and stuff like that, and some people are not using something else than Superior Auto mode on their Z because of 1) No knowledge of how-to tweak camera settings or 2) lazy attitude toward Learning how to maximise the camera on the Z and then starting to complain on bad output etc etc..
[Xperia Z General] morfini:
Well you are right, but in my opinion phones have be easy to use, and high end phones should take good pictures without effort. And on xperia z it takes a lot of effort to get a good low light photo. I agree that strong flash can produce artifacts, I just wish I had the choice to use it when other options don't work well and I wonder if someone could make a tweak to give us this opportunity.
[Xperia Z General] jonmorris:
What's annoying on the XZ is that the superior auto mode is really good at detecting the scene, but then makes a right mess of things. And if it detects movement it should not use HDR as that will always mean a ruined photo.

My Sony NEX camera has the same auto mode and seems to get things right, so it can obviously be done. The quantity of going manual proves it.
[Xperia Z General] morfini:
Has anybody use a different camera software for low light? I have only used 360 camera which gives decent results with auto settings
[Xperia Z General] antonis1978:
Please Devs...Give us a tweak for a brighter flashlight....
[Xperia Z General] alexvv:
i'm obsessed with low-light shots, because i usually take pictures at night and your solution my friend doesn't really show better results - and to other users upping the iso only adds noise. by far the best low-light mode is (on manual of course) the hand-held twilight or the backlight correction/hdr and toggle the flash on/off depending on the situation, that is if you are taking photo of a friend or a landscape for instance. night mode is rubbish, fireworks is only for... fireworks and night portrait is just like hand-held twilight, only worse. i can email night scenes to anyone who is interested using hand-held twilight or backlight correction.
[Xperia Z General] arismelachrinos:
night mode works the best on me
[Xperia Z General] fernando823:
Well, Xperia Z is not known for its amazing photos... My Xperia Neo of 8Mpx was taking better ones, specially in low light conditions.

Also, the led flash sucks.

I often compare my pics with the ones from an iPhone 4s and I and I finish so ashamed...
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] aznlunatic:
Ive had the samsung s4 for about 2 and a half week now. I rooted and romed the phone the day I got it with no issues until a few days ago when I get random shut downs. Every time this happens I would have to turn the phone back on, no battery pull needed to turn it back on. Anyone know how to fix this issue? Should I flash back to the stock verizon mdk? And reset the whole phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S 4] hexitnow:
Without more specifics its hard to determine the root of the problem. Anything specific you did before this started happening? If you cant determinr it then I would backup anything you dont want to erase and then try doing a factory data reset. See if that solves it. If not might have to use odin and restore the phone back to stock.
[Security Discussion] LightTheEntertainer:
Hello

I'm looking for a way to have an app record my input. Not the regular input, touch input. Isn't there something like MotionEvent to generate screen touches?

I'm not looking for actual app help, only to find out if this is possible.

Can I program an app to generate screen touches? Such as to unlock a lockscreen by automatically dragging the unlock button?

I would be using this in a testing hack if possible.
[Security Discussion] tuning_xx:
Via ADB is possible.

Some more useful info
[Security Discussion] Linksbro:
Like tuning_xx said, adb is the correct way to generate screen presses. Your app will need root access though!
[Security Discussion] mynote:
No, it should work without adb. Use AccessbilityService to do that.

you can capture touches, refactor fields, ..

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/accessibility/services.html
[HTC Droid DNA] UchihaKite:
Not sure if anyone would know how, but here we go. I found an old Micro SD Card, and thought it'd be cool to load some old pictures onto my DNA. When I go into my gallery, I see the entire image as a thumbnail. However, when I click the image, half of it is covered with a weird grey box. Anyway to restore the image?
[HTC Droid DNA] mushroomhead13xx:
I would suggest using a microSD to USB adapter (or if you have a card reader microSD to SD Adapter) pull the pictures via a computer. If you see the same issue, the actual photos are corrupt. However, if they are clear, you might want to just transfer via the computer, drop box or google drive.
[HTC Droid DNA] UchihaKite:
Thanks man I will try that when I get home. It's just weird because the thumbnail is perfect but when I click on it half of it is gray. Is their anyway to fix the image if transferring it via computer doesn't work?
[HTC Droid DNA] mushroomhead13xx:
More than likely the images are fine, the file architecture has changed a few times so the card may not be in a proper format for your current android OS to read it correctly. In the case that the SD card/images are in fact corrupt, there isn't really a way to correct them. Find out via your computer first, there MIGHT be some tools that could help but it's a slim chance.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] seanvree:
So I purchased both the white Samsung Wireless charger and the black Verizon charger. My thoughts:

I'm upset that they both only charge at 640. This is HALF what a normal USB charges at. Also, the Samsung uses a standard Micro USB as power supply, while the Veirzion has a special adapter (annoying). Also, the Samsung is more sensitive where the device is placed on the pad, has to be directly in one spot or it won't charge. The Verizion has a much larger charging area.

So my question is -

1) Are all wireless charging bases only charging at 640?

2) is there a better charger that used micro USB?

Thanks,
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] CountParadox:
Normal USB 2.0 charges at around 500Mah. Some special ports offer more power.

The stock Samsung wall charger, can output UP TO 2amps

My wireless charging receiver, a generic eBay one claims up to 1amp, and i usually get between 400 and 800 depending on what im doing.

The base itself, I think sends only up to 1amp, so the real limitation is in the receiver in the phone.

Second part of your question, are you asking about the charging plate?

In terms of what charger plate to get, Is the standard micro USB plug so important to you ?

there are some pretty handy ones, such as the Panasonic QE-TM101 that offer a feature where you can place the phone anywhere on the pad and the charge will start.

I cant comment on the Verizon one because im not from america :)
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] seanvree:
Yeah, I'd like to get a pad that used the standard Micro USB.

Thanks for the advice!
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] jax5ter:
I have been looking for the same answer you are, I bought a off brand wireless charger off eBay and that charges at 640 as well. So I'm guessing it's the norm right now unless I'm wrong.

But I really wanted a wireless charger for bedside so even if it's slow I'm okay with it so far.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] chamberc:
That's expected. 640 is max rate wirelessly. I don't have the Verizon pad, but have several of the Samsung ones (thanks to the 50% off coupons) and none are sensitive to where you place the phone.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] seanvree:
I also have the white Samsung pad, and it's significantly more sensitive that the Verizon one. Can you give me a link to which one you've bought.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] cbb77:
What's the Verizon one? Can you provide link?
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] seanvree:
I can't because it's not sold anymore.
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] chamberc:
It's the only one for the s4 on Samsung.com
[Galaxy S 4 Accessories] seanvree:
Yeah, I have that one and in my opinion it's pretty sensitive where you place the phone.

Thinking about snagging this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Koolpad-Wirel...TF8&colid=3616U4BBPMOR4&coliid=I2QTGCL6YI3QYJ
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nanoteam:
hi .. i have wireless mouse with dongle it uses 2.4g not bt ... so i can't use it directly ...i have use the dongle .. but it detected as keyboard .. is there any way to change it ...

plz help ...
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] nanoteam:
plz reply ...........
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jonalvrd7:
I tried doing a factory reset but the phone just boots into download mode. The way I fixed this was by following the "The Cure for Kies Update Error Triangle Screen". I just want to do a factory reset :/ I debloated the phone as well, I think that might be the problem. I have a system.img file of mf3, is there any way to flash it? Or is there any way to fix this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jonalvrd7:
Any one? :/
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] SaltyFoam:
the only solution for now is a warranty replacement...

Read these threads and be forlorn...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2361870

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2376355

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2384352

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2374221

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2372990

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2359102
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] jonalvrd7:
Yet salty, I appreciate the reply. Will try the system odin flashables. I've been googling for the past two days. I appreciate it.
[Galaxy S III General] paddy090587:
Hello guys.

I have been on this forum for three days now, I can safely say this is an amazing forum! Three days ago I didnt have the foggiest on how to root a phone. Knew absolutely nothing at all. Its amazing the amount of knowledge I have gathered I three days! I now have a quality and smoove running and looking phone, after bricking it three times! Top notch work the people of xda keep it up!!!

Peace out.:D

Sent from the moon mother****er! Using xda app-developers app
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
Do come visit us in the General thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1889453

But don't let the talk of eels, [MENTION=308095]Gustopher[/MENTION]'s incredible handsomeness, [MENTION=3658059]slaphead20[/MENTION]'s alluring dome and of course my swaying indecisiveness scare you away. :D
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Swaying? Ha!
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Nice to hear you're learning lots.

Just some friendly advice, please some time soon read the rules so you understand how and where to post and when to create threads, correct posting saves the moderators a lot of hard work and prevents you getting flamed.

Really you should have posted this in the general forum/general thread which is always welcoming apart from some grumpy old gits like me :D....joking aside, if everyone plays their part the forum is much easier to use and find information on.

All the best....the moderators will probably lock this thread,, so read the rules and help them out :thumbup::)

---------- Post added at 11:48 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:40 PM ----------

I would just like to point out that Theshawty is referring to my bald head.....it sounded wrong....veeeeeery wrong! :D
[Galaxy S III General] Theshawty:
I wonder what would happen if you polished it :eek: :D

Kinda like a Seer's Crystal ball? :D
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
It is quite shiny enough as it is! :p
[Galaxy S III General] Mr Woolf:
Gets polished PLENTY. Edit, we're not still talking about your head are we? I'm confused. I just get images of Slappy furiously, well..... 'slapping' away.

:D
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
I hope you're referring to those Woolf clubs! ;)
[Galaxy S III General] Mr Woolf:
I edited. ;)
[Galaxy S III General] danarama:
Turned into another general thread
[Galaxy S III General] sreekanth.ach:
I am a noob too

I am probably a 100 times worse a noob than you are. The only thing I have done on my S3 is to get root access via Odin. Is there anyway you could point me to some threads from where I can start?
[Galaxy S III General] keizero:
Well, IMHO, this would be a great place to start :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2344125
[Galaxy S III General] sreekanth.ach:
Thanks!

Thank you!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshootin] white.noise:
The other day I installed the Google Play edition ROM on my GS4, and today its telling me to upate to 4.3. WHAT? Can someone please help me?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nathan-NL:
Dear XDA members,

While I'm not sure whether I have had this issue since the 4.3 OTA update, my phone doesn't seem to be able to connect to the internet when I am connected via UMTS and not via HSPA(+).

This is certainly a big issue for me, since no messages come in when I don't have HSPA(+) connection. And it appears that the phone is not able to connect to HSPA(+) anymore until connecting to WiFi/toggling airplane mode or possibly changing the phone's physical location.

Hoping you can clear this up.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
The Nexus 4 ONLY supports HSPA+.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nathan-NL:
Are you sure?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigDig:
False!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
Where did you get that?, it does make sense that it does support GSM but Google never said that.

EDIT: Wait, just looked at the site again and it looks like they do have it.

---------- Post added at 11:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:57 PM ----------

Ok, no need to shout that out.

Everyone does mistakes.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nathan-NL:
Now with a hyperlink to Google.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
No worries now, I just looked again and it actually says that unlike the last time I checked.

You may have to reflash your whole device clean to fix this issue.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simms22:
usually, when connecting to data(when data starts flowing), itll go from umts(H) to h+. and when data stops flowing, itll go back to umts(H).
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
I get "H" and somehow once it said "3G".
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigDig:
3G=umts H=hspa H+(on custom Roms ) =Hspa+. Stock doesn't have H+ symbol only H for both hspa and hspa+
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
Interesting, really good information there.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daglesj:
Not sure if this is similar but on 4.1 I had issues where 3G (whatever) would drop out signal wise but if I switched to 2G (GPRS) then it would be full strength.

Upgrading to 4.2 sorted it out and 3G/UMTS worked fine again for data/voice.

Now I have upgraded to 4.3 voice will only work via 2G and data just drops all the time. Again 2G is solid but if I switch to all bands then voice and data just don't work.

Yes the APN data is correct.

Might be going back to 4.2.2.

Maybe changing the baseband radio back to default 4.2.2 might work?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cream$ickleHJ:
How would I enable HSDPA/UMTS 3g only instead of hspa+?

"iPhone=Boat shoes,sweaters over shirt/tie,whores,non prescriptive glasses with slicked hair,hippie concerts,too much ignorance"-sent from my NEXUS 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Drew93:
Cream did you resolve the problem??
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fma965:
Hey guys recently no matter what ROM i put on my phone keeps freezing and locking up, Kinda getting annoyed with it to the extent of throwing it out my window, Any ideas whats up with it?

- Multiple ROM's and still same

- Tried simple things like clearing data/system etc

Any suggestions please let me know :)

Thanks.

- Fma965
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fma965:
Just realised i completely forgot to try re-flashing stock FTF so i will try that with the .62 pheonix vendor FTF and see what happens from there.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saqibkhan:
use this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2357756 ROM .. Format ur SD card.. (backup before doing that ofcourse).. Wipe through ADB.. Flash Kernel again.. Turbo Kernel 3.1 .. and AOKP SUper Lite Jelly Bean.. I hope it runs fine then..

PS .. just saw your Thanks MEter and Status on XDA.. did you really need these tips from noobs like us.. lol :p
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fma965:
Firstly thanks, If i didn't need help i wouldn't have asked :), I think i have fixed it now though, i flashed .62 and basically did all the above but installed latest FXP instead :).

TBH i probably didn't "need" you guys to help me but i was basically hunting around for people in the same situation :)

Thanks again.

EDIT: Also your not a noob compared to some people on XDA so you shouldn't refer to yourself as one :P