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[Nexus 5 General] Cirkustanz:
Knowing a thing or two about taking picture taking results in some impressive pictures.

Whodathunkit!
[Nexus 5 General] danarama:
yup
[Nexus 5 General] PoisonWolf:
There's some pretty severe pink-camera-problem going on in the center of most of the photos.
[Nexus 5 General] addonelam:
Wow, these look great.

Getting excited to see if I'll be able to get shots which look are remotely as good :)
[Nexus 5 General] rayiskon:
and you had to get a photographer for those shots? :laugh:

anyways, OP has "generating clicks" written all over it.
[Nexus 5 General] biscuitownz:
Nice shots! :D I especially like how well OIS works on the n5 when taking videos too, much better than the n4.
[Nexus 5 General] EarlZ:
I think that issue is pretty common these days, you camera might even produce those with the very same conditions.
[Nexus 5 General] ghettopops:
Nice Pic's, probably could have been a litter better if it was from a White N5 ;)
[Nexus 5 General] matteventu:
Grande ciso! :D
[Nexus 5 General] PoisonWolf:
My N4 has it as well, I agree, but not to the extent as observed in those photos.
[Nexus 5 General] biscuitownz:
O_O explain :confused:
[Nexus 5 General] ghettopops:
Auto correct. Little. White N5's are better than the black ones
[Nexus 5 General] biscuitownz:
How are they a little better? :eek:
[Nexus 5 General] anactoraaron:
I am assuming that your friend bit**ed and moaned about the lack of manual shutter speed and aperture control, default camera app (awful), and in general lack of a manual mode (which is how most pros shoot- manually setting everything).

Disclaimer: I'm a photographer (not the 'I have a DSLR and use AUTO mode and press this thingy' photographer, the 'I have my own successful business' kind) and the lack of manual shutter & aperture is beyond frustrating to me. Sure there are (mostly worthless) apps that give you some control of ISO, WB, burst mode, etc., but without those vital exposure controls (shutter and aperture) to me all smartphone cameras will suck.

I know, I know. It's not a pro level slr... it's a phone...
[Nexus 5 General] MrBelter:
Of course having stunning locations always helps.
[Nexus 5 General] mr.r9:
While I agree with you that the default camera app is incredibly awful and lacks many controls, mobile phones are replacing point and shoot cameras, not DSLRs or micro 4/3. Also, most people use photos nowadays for stupid web shots/social/ready-made-filters etc and not for printing or cropping and zooming for the perfect frame.

I replaced my Cannon P&S since I had the HTC One X two years ago, but no mobile will ever replace my Fuji X-A1 :)
[Nexus 5 General] big_adventure:
I don't disagree with you on anything but this - most modern SLR pros I know (less than 100, but many more than 10) do NOT shoot all manual. Most may shoot A-priority or S-priority, or use P mode and wheel their way to the desired blend, but only landscape, product or portrait shooters really can practically go all manual, all the time - you need non-moving subjects and somewhat consistent lighting to rock all manual and get a decent return on your shots.

And let's be fair, manual shooting modes do not make better pictures: better photographers make better pictures.
[Nexus 5 General] anactoraaron:
I know this and agree with you entirely, but I do have an old Polaroid P&S that allows me to set the shutter speed (like from 1/30-1/200, but no aperture control) and that thing is 5+ years old now. But yeah, the need to own a P&S is mostly non-existent with how good smartphone cameras are getting now. It still wouldn't stop me from griping about the things I mentioned if someone gave me a smartphone to take photos with the expectation of delivering pro quality work though (OP was 'I gave my phone to my pro friend to see what he/she could do').

The only problem I have with P, A, and S priority modes is the reaction time of the camera to lighting conditions - especially outdoors. I particularly have an issue with P mode as most cameras seem to want a neutral/balanced shutter and aperture - like 1/60 @ f8 - whereas I may want 1/125 or faster @ f4.5-6.3 - and it gets worse outdoors (like wanting 1/160 @ f25 instead of 1/800 @ f8 etc) almost necessitating use of S mode if auto operation is desired. It also seems to take too long sometimes for the camera to read the amount of light and adjust the exposure (shutter speed in A mode or aperture in S mode) correctly. Shooting in manual mode for me is easier and better for me as I can read the light and pick a proper shutter, etc. based on conditions where I am shooting without having to worry about being occasionally slightly too bright (concern for a loss of detail being washed out) or too dark (where softness/pixelation comes into play).

But I suppose how you use your camera will vary on what you are taking pictures of. My gripe with the Nexus 5 is that with adequate lighting indoors and having the flash on auto the camera seems to always want to take pictures with the flash off at 1/10 or 1/20 @ f10 ISO ~400 or something like that, and that's just no good with really anything especially pictures of the kids. Why can't I at least just set the shutter? So many blurry pics... I thought there would be more emphasis on getting the camera experience better on a Nexus phone... the sad thing is that the hardware is actually really good for a phone but sadly the software side is woefully behind :crying:

Absolutely correct.
[Nexus 5 General] djtyres:
I always love these posts,

I have been an on again off again professional photographer for over 10 years mostly in industrial photography.

Even once owned an online photography magazine with pros writing articles from around the world.

My first thought is that it never really has much to do with the camera, its the photographer that stands behind this.

The best example I can give you of this, is the gear snobs that say you can't use mirror-less cameras in the professional setting.

Just grab a pro photographer give them a Nikon V1 or a Olympus OM-D and let them go shooting for a day.

As far as not having P/S/A/M modes, it's a phone....

1 in 100 000 people will even know what that is and about a third of those will actually know how to use it.

If we want to talk camera geek for a moment.

Sensor size is 1/3.2″

Aperture is f2.4 (fixed Aperture)

Max iso is 100 - 800

What does this mean?

Low light shots will still be grainy (Tiny sensor doesn't collect enough light)

The Lens is equivalent to about 28mm which if you have a Canon Rebel or a Nikon DXXXX camera it works out to the 18mm on a kit lens.

So why no manual control?

Well with a fixed aperture of 2.4 what can you change?

Well if you know cameras there is something called the exposure triangle, all this means is aperture, shutter speed, iso have to line up just right for an image to be exposed correctly. In A (aperture priority) you only control aperture and iso, S (shutter priority)you only control shutter and iso, and M you control everything. If you can't change the aperture then you can't use these modes.

Any app that says it gives you control of these things are just simulated.

Every photographers favorite word.... Bokeh!

The blur in the background, how to get it on a phone.

First we have to look at two things the 28mm lens and the tiny sensor. The smaller the sensor does not help at all in this case and nether does the focal length. To get Bokeh with your phone you have to get really really close to your subject almost as if your taking a macro shot.

One more trick for you guys if your still reading this, the camera phone is not ideal for taking portraits.

The reason why is at 28mm you get barrel distortion that pulls the center of the image towards the viewer. You can give people longer than usual noses and get strangeness going on. If your going to take a portrait of a person, instead of taking a close up on the face back up a bit. It will help hide this distortion.

Wow didn't mean for this to come out this long but I am at work, and bored.... lol
[Samsung Galaxy Gio GT-S5660] aveq8:
Is it possible to make a flashable zip that deletes all the scripts in /init.d? if yes,how?I need one because I have installed some scripts that makes my phone bootloop...
[Nexus 5 Accessories] FrostyKnight:
Hello everyone. This is my first post so please be reasonable with me.I just bought a 6000 amh portable solar charger from amazon.ca .I have done a lot of reaserch on this and found that a lot of peopel online suggest using ground zero solar panels. Has anyone tried this with the Nexus 5?

I could use any feedback on this if possible. Please see attached.I will also post a update as well as nothing really mentioned any were .
[Nexus 5 Accessories] secretasianman:
Ground Zero or Goal Zero?

I have the Goal Zero kit from Costco and it works fine when charging from the battery pack (which is charged by the solar panel).

I wasn't patient enough to sit there and charge my phone directly from the panel.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] FrostyKnight:
Solar chargers

I ment to say Goal Zero.Sorry about that. I have been playing with my new solar charger and I must say that it is vary effective. I can charge my Nexus 5 in a hour and can charge it up to 3 to 4 times if needed. I would recommend this product if you need a extra power supply for small devices like 7 inch tablets or cell phones but nothing bigger(Referring to the EZO power charger from amazon.ca).If you want to do anything more then that the Goal Zero is what alot of people all over the internet recommend.(Goal Zero 12301 Nomad 7M Solar Panel ).Which is 55 dollars on amazon.ca.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] xVehemencityx:
I think the idea of a solar powered charger is cool, but, emergency situations aside, I can't really think of when I'd need this. I have an Anker 13Ah external charger, which would charge a Nexus 5 5.6 times from completely dead. That's almost a week of battery for the phone. I can't think of any situation where I'd be without a charger for an entire week (except, as i said, extreme emergencies, but in that case, the cell towers will probably be down and my phone would be useless)
[Nexus 5 Accessories] FuMMoD:
But how else would you be able to play angry birds in the zombie apocalypse lol.
[Nexus 5 Accessories] secretasianman:
Multi-day back country hiking?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] delphimon:
I am downloading the 722 MB update over OTA right now. Check for software updates in system settings.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] jla2024:
root

did you have your phone rooted? I can´t get the update, I get "There is no updates available for your device at the moment".
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] delphimon:
No, the phone has never been rooted. Running stock MF3 with no changes. Checked for update and it was there (still downloading).
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] treystegall:
My phone is rooted and it showed up!!!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] delphimon:
Finished installing. 4.3 I537UCUBML2 confirmed
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] xtc218:
how i can install this rom on mi s4 active carrier Telcel

someone who can upload some zip to flash or créate .tar file :(:(:(
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] htcman724:
ok so i got the update to download then went to intall and it came up that the update was interrupted could that be because of having rooted my phone?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
Can somebody pull the update file off their phone for the rest of the community? You have to do this before you install update. Basically what the phone does is download the update to a temporary directory on your phone and then installs the update. Once updated the phone then deletes the update file.

Your phone will download the update file.

It will ask you to install the update, DON'T press Cancel and DON'T press Update, instead hit the home button (don't worry it will ask you again later).

Open your root file manager, go up to the root directory and go to /cache/fota/ and copy the zip file from your phone to your computer. This zip file is the update file.

Upload the file and post the link for the community

Wallow in all the "Thanks" you will receive

IMPORTANT: You must grab the update file before your phone updates or the file will be deleted.

EDIT: Information about copying the update file can be found in this post by [MENTION=4434032]thatbigmoose[/MENTION]
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] treystegall:
Had the same problem. Do I have to return to stock and un-root to install the update?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] htcman724:
im redownloading it now as soon as its done i'll upload it
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] daleyt2002:
I had the same problem, as well. Went through download, then restarted. Seemed to restart overly quickly, then saw that I was still on 4.2.2. Is there a log file somewhere that I can look at?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Deleted member 4407297:
I will try and pull it off my wife's phone tonight!
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Devo7v:
Has anybody on MI2 been notified of an update? I'm guessing not since MI2 was a pre-release so it would be interesting to see if someone has.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] gatoraid84:
I am on the MI2 leak rooted no OTA notification . Says up to date
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] xAjCx:
I'm guessing I won't see OTA if I am on Tmo's network??
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] aaronkemp172460:
We are not left behind!

I can confirm, from Indiana, that the 4.3 update has come to the S4Active OTA.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] xAjCx:
Just gave it a try and I got the update downloading even though I'm on Tmo's network! Yes!! Wasn't working before cause I remember I removed KnoxAgent.apk and wssyncmldm.apk but I put those back and it's all good :cool:
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] htcman724:
ok so i went there and there was no zip file. tryed to reinstall it and it failed again. has anyone gotten it to install?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] moppegaard:
I looked for the file as well and there was no zip located in cache\fota

---------- Post added at 10:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:17 PM ----------

nevermind, I'm not rooted so I can't access the file
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] xAjCx:
I'll have it uploaded within the hour to Dropbox unless someone beats me to it. I'm at 50% right now.

Upload took a little longer than I thought. Also file is .cfg and not a .zip from the OTA. But it will still run on phone through update. I'll post link and screenshots as soon as the file uploads.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] winter.k:
Thanks AjC - I checked for the update on stock MF3 (Tmo) and have nothing yet... waiting for your update.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
If someone running MI2 or MF1 has a successful install please post it here. I'm on MI2 and I'm hoping it works. I am stuck at work for another six hours and I'm not able to try it out. MF1 probably won't work but MI2 might.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] roperband:
When I click on software update nothing happens. I'm on rooted 4.2?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] daleyt2002:
I think I solved my own problem. After rooting the phone, I renamed the KnoxAgent.apk and KnoxAgent.odex files. When I changed them back and rebooted the phone, the update completed successfully.

Android version 4.3

Baseband i537UCUBML2
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Miami_Son:
Did you keep root?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] wam2882:
I tried on clean version of MF1 and MI2 neither worked
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] gatoraid84:
Same here
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] crpntr:
tried to find update on mf3 but says 4.2 is up to date and try again in 24 hours. Rooted but renamed knox and others back to original. does it matter where you are in the country?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
That sucks. I guess that I'll have to try my local best buy and see if Samsung can do it. That or when I get home I might try and edit my build prop to mf3 and see what comes of that. I know that won't work on mf1 but ill give it a try on mi2.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
/data/fota/2400258.cfg

721 MB 756,253,552 bytes

MD5

F43D00ABDC4FE4D5BFB305CC6598FEB3
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] daleyt2002:
No, I did not.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] winter.k:
Jaky - were you able to pull the update from your wife's phone as mentioned?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
Yep :victory:

---------- Post added at 08:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:57 PM ----------

Here is the download link:

http://goo.gl/IP02Iz

I hope it is okay I used Google URL Shortener, the link was really long.

The link takes you to Google Dive.

The MD5 is:

F43D00ABDC4FE4D5BFB305CC6598FEB3

I am uploading it to DropBox as well now.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4mjjw48wmj3q2k/2400258.cfg
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] sdisla:
I'm downloading. It but comes out as. A text file
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] xAjCx:
late post

here guys if you want it from dropbox

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=49444889
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
Thanks for updating this. For us that are stuck on the pre release will we be able to download this file, put it on our sd card, boot into stock recovery and flash this as a update?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Keystone:
Thank you!

I renamed the Google Drive anomaly of changing the original *.cfg to a text *.txt file and have a successful hashtag match.

Unfortunately I'm on MF2 and beyond that possible speed bump, I'd rather not update to 4.3 until a confirmed root is available.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] :
As stated in xAjCx's post:

"

1) Download the .cfg file

2) Copy it over to your phone's internal storage

3) Using a root manager app like 'ES File Manager' or 'Root Browser', copy the .cfg file from internal storage to /data/fota

4) Go to Settings>More>About Device>Software Updates>Continue Update

"
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] lanwarrior:
What new things are available after this update? If there nothing significant, I am hesitate to update, lose root and have to wait until another root is possible.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] djsdumesh:
I don't have root, used to, but restored to original settings a while ago, but it's telling me I am up to date.

Is it being pushed out in waves? / Am I not getting it yet due to the fact that I am in Canada on the FIDO network?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] StonerGomer:
just curious, seeing as you can open/extract the update file in 7-zip...could we just rename it to a zip and flash it through the recovery? or would that just be a big fail?

Or is there any way this could be converted into an ODIN file?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] adachen89:
Dont think so.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] StonerGomer:
ah well thought it could work.

What I really need then is a copy of the /system/app folder from stock MF3 then haha. I modded a few of the system apps and I believe thats why my update keeps failing. The updater script checks all the fils in system before begining the actual update and with my modded files i of course fail the check. At least I believe thats what my problem is after reading through the updater script in the OTA file.

Edit:

Actually, can anyone on stock MF3 (AT&T) upload a few files from their /system/app folder for me?

Files I need, and corresponding odex if possible: (a full copy of the /system/app folder would be awesome if possible)

Blurb.apk

Chrome.apk

Flipboard.apk

Peel.apk

Phonesky.apk

PlusOne.apk

SamsungWatchON.apk

SecLauncher3.apk

I may also need "/system/media/shutdown.qmg" because I know at one time I had changed it, but I cant for the life of me remember if I put the original back
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] ewa12321:
Is KNOX Warranty Bit present in download mode after update?

from S4 Active Blue Ocean
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] altabu:
Failed to update after restart

I have no root and was able to see receive the update OTA but after I restarted the phone, it says that the update failed. When I try to check the update again, it is saying that I am up to date but am still on 4.2.2 when I check the device settings. Any one else with this issue? Thanks.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Miami_Son:
Same here. I'd rather keep root as I'm happy with how my phone is running right now. Also, I have frozen a bunch of stock apps with TiBU. I suspect I would have to unfreeze them before attempting the update? Guess I'll wait until someone figures out a way to root this latest update or just wait for 4.4.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] DJ_smooth:
I really want to know if the s4 Active got ANT+ support like the regular S4. I am willing to trade root for ANT+ (but want both ideally)
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] LukeLeBron:
Okay, so I took the update file, renamed to update.zip and put it on my SD card. Attempted to install via recovery, started to work, but gave me an error about blurb.apk

(I deleted blurb and all the at&t bloat.) I then reinstalled via the play store, and converted to a system app with titanium backup. I tried to reinstall it again, but it still gave me the same error with the blurb.apk

=(
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] StonerGomer:
Im still having problems myself. Uninstalled busybox, back to stock build.prop, unrooted, done everything I can think of to get this update working.

I still really believe its the fact that the updater script checks a majority of the /system/ files SHA1 checksums before it will do the update. if its not the ORIGINAL STOCK FILE the checksums wont match up and therefore errors out the update.

I would absolutely LOVE it if someone would do me a huge favor and upload their STOCK UNMODDED(no modded or updated APKs) MF3 /system/apps folder so I can replace my missing/modded apk/odex files and test my theory.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] chronicaust:
Hey guys just an FYI I can confirm the following root methods didn't work.

VRoot

KIngo Root (acts like it wants to work but device just reboots over and over, gave it probably 5 reboots before I gave up)

Activeroot Geohot

Framaroot apk

ODIN CF-Auto-Root (found here: http://download.chainfire.eu/316/CF-...xx-gti9505.zip)

Any other ideas?
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] androitri:
You could try this :D

Saferoot >> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2565758

Cydia Impactor >> http://www.cydiaimpactor.com/
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] chronicaust:
Edit: No deal on Cydia. Looks like the MasterKey bug was fixed in this version.

Oh sorry I did try saferoot no deal. I'll try cydia = )
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Shep FC3:
This is such a good update. I'm not sure what they did with the graphics and text, but it looks so much cleaner and clearer. Stability has been great and device is snappy.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] Avail211:
x2. At least you froze your apps instead of uninstalling them, it seems to be the current theme with people who can't update that they deleted apps/renamed them/heavily modified them and are now unable to update.

I don't think anything major changed with the update. Galaxy Gear maybe? That's about it. More Knox crap? That's what I want... :eek: Until we have a solid root (or someone cracks the bootloader :rolleyes:) I'll be perfectly content on MF3. I couldn't care less about an incremental update. Even KitKat isn't all that world-changing on my Nexus 7.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] wenyi189:
After updating to 4.3, how do you root the phone again? I just bought this phone for my gf and updated to 4.3 right after receiving the phone, but I would like to flash CM.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] MechaBouncer:
I just updated last night. Had to replace shortcuts for apps moved to SD and there's more bloatware, but it feels pretty good so far. I just need to get root back for a lot of my apps.

EDIT:

For the record, I had frozen apps before doing the update. However I had done so by "Disabling" them through the built in App Manager. They showed up as frozen in TiBU. I didn't unfreeze them before doing the update. The update just re-enabled them all as far as I can tell. I've had to disable them again.
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] crispy1805:
I am not sure what they did in this build, but I am getting fantastic battery life from this build. It wasn't bad before, but it is better now. I do hate that KNOX agent is back :-\
[Galaxy S 4 Active General] MechaBouncer:
What's this SE for Android security policy? I don't recall seeing this before. Is this part of KNOX? And will it interfere with rooting the phone?