yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NightOrchid:
Agreed here. That photo is briliant, however, yes I agree, LGs processing is very aggressive as is the OIS, so you get over-sharpening, One of the pit falls In photography is to digitally zoom into your images on your PC to check the sharpness, but this is a very bad habit to start and very hard to break.. try to avoid doing this.

In truth... no-body looks at an image 20 or 30x digitally zoomed.. Pictures are to be enjoyed and the camera is only as good as the photographer, so get the light right, frame your subject as big as you can in the view finder, by walking upto your subject and framing it.. not digitally zooming and get creative ... Its so easy to get caught up in the technology that we forget why we take photographs.. which is to either save our memories or create our art. To me, youtube reviewers started this crazy trend of digitally zooming everywhere, so some folk think that a good photograph is one that after a digital zoom you can read the text on a road sign 500 yards away and missing all the image round about.. this is not photography, its zooming.

If your just taking pictures for the technically sharp image, then.. go and buy a DSLR, because no phone camera will ever do it.

Hand on heart, some of the best images Ive ever taken were with an HTC One M8s 4UPX camera.. zoomed n they look like my nephews cra*py MineCraft game, but the image itself.. looks stunning.

Bottom Line, Enjoy your images and the love of photography.. the G4 is one of the best cameras on a phone Ive ever used..

However, if your not happy with the G4s camera.. either return it or buy a nice compact or bridge camera..

Enjoy Photo fans..
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TOMER628:
but the my quality camera (what i captured here before) is good ?

i mean this not bad sensor or something, right ?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RedOCtobyr:
I thought they looked ok, personally. Can you post comparison pics from the G3 (the same pics taken on each, preferably), to demonstrate the issue you are referring to?
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enzo ferraro:
Yes, I agree with the subsequent comments. Many years ago I ran motorized Nikons, and did my own color processing and printing, and I like to think I still have an eye for a decent print. I looked at two of the pictures, and while I might have suggested one click higher on the ISO (and that's just personal preference, really) I don't see anything wrong with the pictures.

Enzo
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NightOrchid:
Speaking personnally, I think your pictures look great and their really nice, I know youve mentioned this in your OP, but take another look at them and can you tell us what is it about your images that you think is wrong?

Yep, Post some G3 pics,,, a good thing to do here is take exactly the same images with the G3 and G4 then compare them and post them here.

My dad used tr be a wedding photographer before he retired, but he still owns one of the original Rolliflex cameras. These days though I own a Canon SX700. Do you still have any of your Nikons

Another aspect of photography is that whenever you change your camera, youll always get differences thats why Photographers have multiple cameras... such as My canon has a minimum focal distance of 1cm and a 30x Optical zoom, so Ide use it for Macro ( small close up), yet my Olympus stylus 1 has quite nice sharpening and a wide angle Aperture of f3.2 so ide use it for landscapes.

Again, I have to say Tomer, I think your images are great, Heres an experiment you can try which might help.. take your camera out.. and take a few images of things that make you happy and what you want... completely forget about images that show off the camera tech, maybe your kids or friends or something like that,... download them to your PC and look at them.. dont zoom.. then see how you feel about your G4.

Heres the Image I took with a 4 Mpx HTC M8..

Its not technically brilliant, but it was a fun day and thats all that matters.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enzo ferraro:
No, the Nikons and a trillion dollars worth of glass went long ago. I very much miss the film, but just wearied of carrying around a backbreaking load of gear. The digital image is not as good as film, and I don't care what anybody claims to the contrary on that, but I do agree completely that the best camera is the one you have at hand when the picture opportunity arises, and clearly the phone camera wins by a mile on that score.

Enzo
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KingFatty:
OP, I think a very easy test here would be to take the same photo using JPG, and again using RAW. Then, look at each zoomed in. You should see that the JPG has compression artifacts, but the RAW does not. Then, you will see the camera quality capabilities in the RAW to verify the camera is fine, and perhaps you are just seeing software compression artifacts in JPG.

In fact, it would be interesting to see those two pictures if you could post them here. Choose a subject that has a pattern that will give the JPG compression algorithm trouble, like the cat fur or many leaves/blades of grass at a distance, to make the difference more pronounced.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TOMER628:
here couple of pictures ftom today...

this the result :

http://imageshack.com/a/img673/2597/P4I5q9.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img537/7629/n4t0aA.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img538/9131/AySMqD.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img908/1512/3YRk1w.jpg
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NightOrchid:
Ok, I see whats happened here... the G3 has an F2.4 aperture lens.. The G4 has an f1.8 aperture lens, meaning the f1.8 lets in more light.. Theres actually nothing wrong with your camera, its perfectly fine.. its a wider aperture, so what you need to do is go into Manual mode and increase your shutter speed to about 1/125 to 1/250s (youll have to experiment here) or decrease your exposure value "-/+" symbol by half a stop.. from 0.0 to -0.5 or even a full stop -1.0 then check your images.

But trust me, its perfectly fine.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TOMER628:
Oh..

Thanks God...

Thank you so much for your help..

It was very important to me..

Thank for all of you..
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NightOrchid:
No worries, glad you got it sorted.

One thing to be aware of... In Manual mode.. you will see a toggle button in the bottom coner of manual contrrols "AE-L" this is Auto Exposure-Lock.. make sure its OFF (not highlighted) when you set up your controls. It locks the Exposure and settings between shots, Kind of like a "Save Settiings Mode" so it may appear Blown out or too dark.. On my G4 it keeps randomly setting to ON, which I think is a bug.

Can I suggest you look up some photography Basics, how Aperture, Shutter speed and ISO work together.

Enjoy your G4 :)
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TOMER628:
I will glad to hear that..

and YES i want to learn some skills form you...:D
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shanon15:
Hi,

Did you found a Solution for your phone?

Brought mine also last december and i am having the same problem.

Can you help if you found a solution.

Thanks

Shanon
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TOMER628:
Solution :

I got Galaxy s6 edge 32gb

And it awesome also camera speed etc..

And I say that words from people that not like Samsung so much...
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ramsey:
Lol. Nice solution I suppose.

I also find the G4's camera results weird. Sometimes it is awesome and other times not so good. Light captured is great thanks to aperture.

I'm waiting to see how G5 and Galaxy S7 are this year and I'll probably go for one of them, or the next Nexus phone.

Samsung always has reliable and consistent results in their cameras. LG not so much.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harsini:
After a year of having G4 and satisfied with its high quality in almost every aspect.Recently I noticed a degrade in taken photos.After sending my taken photos to an expert photographer friend he claims that surely unclean lens make such a degrade in photos.As I get no special improvement in quality after cleaning the glassy cover which protect the camera lens I take a look under the phone cover and try to open the bolt of glassy cover and removing it completely .After removing and taking photos without that the photos were much more clearer than before.I think the problem is the bad design of glassy cover which it completely in contact with any surface you put the phone on it so it become full of scratches.

Unfortunately forum doesn't let me to send the uploaded photos I took because I am a new user.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StankFiss:
Hey about to purchase the google play version. Just curious, is there a extended power menu with power off, airplane mode and reboot? I see the one with out the reboot. Also see the Xposed version but don't see that it has reboot included. Any links would be appreciated.
[Nexus 6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeathBoT:
You could install Xposed and there is an APM option there: http://repo.xposed.info/module/hk.kennethso168.xposed.apmplus

I personally use GravityBox and it has APM built in.
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StevenAS:
Just installed the new nightly which I found out after the fact was to version 12.1 (Android 5.1) from version 12.0. This of course means installing a new version of gapps for this version. I found and downloaded the new gapps, then went to reboot into recovery (it had been working prior to this). This time when I hit the volume down button on reboot, it just continued to boot normally. I even tried booting with the up button: same result. I can't access the play store because the gapps has to be updated first. Is there another way to get into recovery mode to install gapps? or alternatively another way to install it without recovery mode?
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] StevenAS:
Found part of the answer

OK, found out how to reboot recovery with ADB. For anybody else who wants to know:

Install ADB on your computer if you haven't already

Run command shell (cmd)

Go to the platform-tools directory under where you installed ADB

If you're using ADB over network, type: adb connect {ip address of tablet}

type : adb reboot recovery

And that should get you into recovery mode

Now I just gotta get the correct version of gapps, the first one I got isn't working.
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] israelisraeli:
I've used CM12.1 based ROMs for a while now, and with my talent have managed to brick my bacon (oneplus one global 64GB), and unbrick it (using this guide)

I've restored it to stock with no problem using this tool.

my problem begins when i try to update to any LP ROM - flashing such ROMs' zip files in TWRP returned "E: error executing updater binary in zip". i found two solutions to this error:

1. first one is described in this thread. i ditched this method after it got me stuck in bootloop every time after flashing a ROM

2. second one (probably the way it should be done) is to update device firmware like described in this oneplus forums thread. flashing this zip indeed allowed me to successfully install my ROM but with one big problem - the SIM card is detected for a few seconds (even then the device wont find any networks) and then drops to "no SIM card detected - emergency calls only" then it gets detected again and so on...

I've also tried flashing some different modems like described here but it didn't change anything

have anyone encountered any network related problem after upgrading to a CM12.1 based ROM or have any idea how to solve my problem (mobile network connections won't function after upgrading to cm12 firmware)?

help would be very appreciated!

edit: if it helps, i also found that OTA updating to the latest build XNPH44S also breaks the phone's ability to connect to a mobile network
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yashshan:
Get the oneplus one build which was released as a fix to ghost touch.. It is nothing but oxygenOS!! Backup ur data and follow the instructions and flash the oxygen rom then wait for the first boot after first boot just update ur recovery to latest twrp and get the bacon firmware update zip file from any of the major rom threads like blisspop or exodus then flash that then flash the latest cm12.1 nightly and AK kernel(optional) then boot it up!!!

Transmitted via Bacon
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] israelisraeli:
1. TWRP must be installed before installing OxygenOS as it comes as a flashable zip and not an OTA/Cyanodgen update...

2. installing OxygenOS was no problem without the firmware, however after it booted i noticed it broke my mobile communications in a very similar way, so no luck with that one.

3.even after installing oxygen the firmware update is required to install anything like a CM nightly or a CM based LP ROM, and my problem was that this firmware upgrade broke my network connection, so i don't see how that could help me in any way

3.1 after flashing OxygenOS not even the firmware update would allow me to install a different ROM...

4. i linked the forum thread my firmware update came from (also found a similar suggestion in a YouTube video) and couldn't find any reference to it in any of the main ROMs' threads like you suggested, they all just say to install TWRP wipe everything and flash their zip (some say to flash a nightly before)

any other ideas? I'm starting to get desperate around my suddenly not-so-functional bacon :crying:
[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] israelisraeli:
!!SOLVED!!

steps:

1. flash the latest CM12S fastboot image

2 .delete line 2 "aassert(oppo.verify_trustzone("TZ.BF.2.0-2.0.0109") == "1");" from the updater-script file in the custom ROM's ZIP installation file

3. flash the "hacked" zip file with no problem

4. enjoy your custom ROM installed bacon, WITH your mobile connection.

thanks for the help anyway! :)
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] MoreYummy:
Who knows how this works, is it purely software limitation from sony or hardware? It seems QCD doesnt work on dual sim version.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] asking:
For Quick charge to work on your phone you need to get compatible Quick Charge 2.0 (TM) Charger. But if you don't wanna put your money in extra stuff simplest way is put your phone into flight mode and get your mobile charged 25-30% Faster. I have tested it and it works...
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] romeokk:
Z3+ Dual (E6533) doesn't have Quick Charge 2.0. I think the thread owner just wan to know what makes Sony disable this feature on dual sim variant. Snapdragon 810 SoC absolutely has this feature but it is only enabled on single sim variant of Z3+.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] MoreYummy:
yea, i want to know if on this E6533 version, can we do something on the software side to make Quick charging possible. since it has same hardware as the single sim card version.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] angvil:
Anyone can confirm this?
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] MoreYummy:
Confirm what?
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] ztxgeol:
actually....

Actually,the QC is working for both e6553 and e6533.

The only reason sony "disabled" e6533's QC is that this model does not charge as fast as e6553 with QC.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] MoreYummy:
Ok, If that's the case, it can be enable, just misssing the right person, which is hard to get. :)

BTW, how do you know, or you know someone knows it? Which goes back to my original question.

Even it is slower than single sim, it still better than normal speed.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] ztxgeol:
Yes,i have read someone else's post which teated the problem you said.

Here's the original post (in Chinese):bbs.gfan.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=8040667&extra=page%3D3%26filter%3Dauthor%26orderby%3Ddateline%26orderby%3Ddateline

The result is: e6553(single sim) takes 1h 30min form 3% to 100%, e6533(dual sim) takes 2h 10min form 3% to 100%. :D
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] MoreYummy:
What's your normal charging time with normal Sony charger?
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] MoreYummy:
Isnt this single sim quick charging time is slow as well? It should be close to 1 hour
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] AndroPlus:
https://github.com/sonyxperiadev/ke.../boot/dts/qcom/msm8994-kitakami_ivy_dsds.dtsi

Sony is limiting ma to 1450 for dual sim...
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] MoreYummy:
Ok cool. Looks like what I assume earlier is correct, its the software side, rather than the hardware issue on the dual sim version. :) So that's possible to change, but need someone who knows what they are doing in the kernel just like other phone.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] ztxgeol:
I'm not sure, maybe it depends on firmware's build number.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] ra3ul:
I use an old ipad charger, haven't tried for more than 20 minutes, but from 5 to 50% it takes between 15 and 20 minutes.

My phone is not rooted, stock software.

I hope I'm not damaging the battery.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] silent_simmal:
Maybe you will shorten your batterie's lifecycle (a little), because on a long term track more current isn't healthy for any electrical component, but - as I'm pretty sure Sony uses current limitation - this won't happen immediately.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] lilloscar:
I personally didn't see any faster change using the Turbo Charger by Motorola, charging in airplane mode yes it charges faster.

Am still disappointed about the turbo discharge and heat on the Z3+ Dual, nothing can stop it, am a root user.
[Xperia Z4/Z3+ General] MoreYummy:
It seems there are different charging speed if different quick charger from different brand name.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] flyhigh:
hello!

Anyone knows how to extend duration of sms notification on today screen? i meen, how to extend sms display on today.

i've tryed this key in registry:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ControlPanel\Notifications\{A877D65B-239C-47a7-9304-0D347F580408}] "Duration"=dword:00000000

but didn't work :( it is always about 15 seconds :(
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Deosneos:
Also really interested in knowing this.

No one?
[Xperia SP Android Development] Tomoms:
http://xdaforums.com/xperia-sp/orig-development/recovery-twrp-3-0-0-touch-recovery-t3309938/

This is deprecated.

In this thread I'll share the .img files of the latest TWRP available for our device, so you can flash them with Rashr/PhilZ/Cyanogen recovery.

Disclaimer:

you are responsible for what you do. If your device stops working after you follow this guide, it's not my fault. However, as usual, if you do things in a correct way, you won't face any problems.

Requirements:

any ROM with any kernel

unlocked bootloader

Don't flash it if you have got a locked bootloader!

Features:

up-to-date source

flashable signed zip

f2fs support

Changelog:

TWRP 2.8.7.0_8

- other cleanups

- startup now is not slow! It just takes 3 - 4 seconds!

- Reboot bug is fixed - maybe

TWRP 2.8.7.0_7

- optimizations and cleanups

TWRP 2.8.7.0_6

- f2fs for /system is supported (this is for Temasek users)

TWRP 2.8.7.0_5

- f2fs support improved

- minor optimizations

- less overheating

TWRP 2.8.7.0_4

- attempt to fix issues with reboot option

TWRP 2.8.7.0_3

- signed flashable zip added

TWRP 2.8.7.0_2

- f2fs bugs fixed

- fixed overheating

How to install:

flash the zip through any recovery (even Cyanogen recovery!)

Download from Android File Host:

[url]https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347826443[/URL]

Stock FOTAKernel to remove any recovery (included this one): [url]http://xdaforums.com/xperia-sp/general/stock-components-flashable-zips-t3184111[/URL]

Be sure to select the right variant of your device!

Thanks to:

[MENTION=4904057][NUT][/MENTION]

[MENTION=4587546]antr34[/MENTION]

[MENTION=5765352]TechnoSparks[/MENTION]
[Xperia SP Android Development] Guizão BR:
This work in miui v6
[Xperia SP Android Development] SingularityHRT3:
Thanks a lot for this quick update :thumbup:
[Xperia SP Android Development] TheAvengingTITAN:
Working fine on AICP's official nightlies with stock kernel.

The TITAN has landed. Hide your works from this critic! The official maintainer of the XSP Lollipop and M Hub.
[Xperia SP Android Development] pilger:
Rashr was not working for me. I got it to work with this command on the terminal (with root):

su
dd if=/ext_card/twrp-2.8.7.0_huashan.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/FOTAKernel

Notice that you'd have to save the .img file on the proper directory prior to using the command.

You can find more details of my struggle here: http://xdaforums.com/xperia-sp/orig-development/kernel-tangerine-kernel-v1-t3073297/page28#1379

Hope this helps someone with the same issue.
[Xperia SP Android Development] Guizão BR:
I use it and i cant flash nothing
[Xperia SP Android Development] pilger:
What is the output of the command? Does it throw you an error or anything?
[Xperia SP Android Development] J73:
[MENTION=5942084]pilger[/MENTION] i'm here, what to do next?
[Xperia SP Android Development] pilger:
Here's a more detailed description of what I did in order for this to be flashed on my FOTAKernel:

Booted into default Cyanogen Recovery;

Wiped Dalvik and everything else I could in order to flash a new ROM;

Flashed the UNOFFICIAL CM from July 26th;

Flashed Pico Gapps (I guess it doesn't matter which Gapps you install, though);

Booted into system and set up everything (accounts, wi-fi, etc.);

DID NOT install Rashr;

Plugged my device to PC using USB;

Transfered the twrp-2.8.7.0_huashan.img to the root of the internal storage;

Unplugged the device from the computer;

Enabled Developer options on Settings (by tapping like crazy on the build number);

On the Developer options, I turned on Terminal Command, and root access to both ADB and apps;

Opened the terminal and entered "su" command to get root;

Allowed root and set it to remember its choice;

Entered up the command:

dd if=/ext_card/twrp-2.8.7.0_huashan.img of=/dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/FOTAKernel

Rebooted on recovery mode;

TWRP 2.8.7.0 was functioning as expected.
[Xperia SP Android Development] J73:
I've got TWRP now, one question though, if I flash the next CM nightly, it wouldn't be overwrote by the cyanogen recovery?
[Xperia SP Android Development] pilger:
Glad you got it to work, mate! :) Flashing CM shouldn't overwrite the recovery. I guess that's the purpose of having the recovery on FOTA.

I'm not an expert though. But I've tested a couple of times myself and TWRP is there after every flash.
[Xperia SP Android Development] J73:
Thanks to you! :D All's well now, I'm so glad to have TWRP again :D thank you! :D
[Xperia SP Android Development] Guizão BR:
Sorry i Forgot to edit the play, this have more time to flash
[Xperia SP Android Development] Tomoms:
There's a bug with f2fs, it will be fixed tomorrow. Thanks to [MENTION=2233641]Adrian DC[/MENTION] for pointing this out.
[Xperia SP Android Development] slim_guy:
Can you tell me about that bug cause I'm using f2fs for cache,data and media that's formatted through your recovery
[Xperia SP Android Development] Tomoms:
Are you using Tangerine? This bug is not present in Tangerine's TWRP.
[Xperia SP Android Development] slim_guy:
I'm using tangerine but I've flashed this TWRP first, and this recovery has fotakernel so i geuss it can't be overwritten
[Xperia SP Android Development] Tomoms:
Well, strange. f2fs volumes couldn't be mounted.
[Xperia SP Android Development] AdrianDC:
Tangerine probably fixed the issue, same as my CM-12.1 boot image fixed the TWRP image.

The goal of the fix is to have F2FS working without the boot image flashed over TWRP to make clean installs.
[Xperia SP Android Development] slim_guy:
just realized that I didn't had tangerine installed i was on first build of official cm and then before flashing radium i formated to f2fs

---------- Post added at 09:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:58 PM ----------

and i flashed tangerine after atleast 1 day use of stock kernel
[Xperia SP Android Development] SdtBarbarossa:
There can be 2 reasons for that:

1. kernel used to build doesnt support it

2. fstabs are faulty ( standard they are on ext4 ... You will need to declare a new mountpoint for f2fs with correct flags )
[Xperia SP Android Development] Tomoms:
I know. I fixed those things in the new release