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[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
Native Android app isn't going to be "better" than LG stock camera app built for this phone.

The GCam port down in Development section can give better low light results than the stock camera. Which I know isn't your problem, but it's an app that in some cases can improve on the LG camera app.

https://xdaforums.com/lg-v30/themes/cstark27-google-camera-mod-wide-angle-t3747263

Of the dual back cameras, you're seeing distortion with BOTH the regular lens and the wide angle? If you said you were seeing slight distortion on the wide angle lens, while it's not normally evident (LG limited the wideness angle so you don't have the fish eye effect of the V20 wide angle lens) I wouldn't be as confused.

My opinion is you have to be doing something wrong, or somehow you have terrible luck and got two different V30 variants with bad cameras.

I hope you get it figured out.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] SHosp:
Switch the camera to manual mode and then select the settings icon. Noise Reduction should appear.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] SHosp:
Can you please post pictures so we can identify what you are seeing?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Valinorian:
What i dont like about the lg v30 camera is the motion blur when the subject is moving.

Like when I try to take a photo of my nephew who is playing around. The slightest movement causes a blur.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] koboltzz:
That's not a V30 specific problem. Every camera prioritize low ISO in contrast to fast shutterspeed. Solution1: Don't use HDR since it's stacking three images and motionblur will always be there. Solution2: Use manual mode and set shutterspeed to your own. Solution3: record 4K Video and extract good frames.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] One Twelve:
Interesting, is this denoise option something recent or was it there right from the start ?
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] SHosp:
As far as I remember it has always been there on the TMO variant.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] dannejanne:
I would be perfectly happy with my V30 camera if it wasn´t for the poor dynamic range. HDR doesn´t even help. The V10 had way better dynamic range in HDR. Comparison with my Mi Mix 2s below. Obviously the Mix does something but HDR was turned off for the shot.

Mi Mix 2s (no HDR)

V30 (HDR)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] koboltzz:
Hmm strange, for me HDR is working quite well:

V30 (noHDR)

V30(HDR)

Seems like it's more effective the darker it gets.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] JesseAaronSafir:
So the problem was that I was using 16:9 aspect ratio and that resulted in distorted photos. When I set it back to 4:3 the photos look mostly fine.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ayaskant12:
Try Google camera broView attachment 4580645
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wotta:
OP, great comparisons. As some of the follow-on posts demonstrate, understanding your camera (or phone) is crucial. I've used the LG V30 for photos in some amazingly hard conditions, and it's done great, but... I know what I'm doing and go into manual mode.

My SO has a G6, and it can take pretty decent photos too, if you adjust the settings manually. Not nearly as good as the V30, but now that she knows how, she can easily spank the automatic settings of pretty much anything her friends have in low-light, high-motion, etc. conditions. That's the key... much like a good car, the driver matters more than the difference between reasonably good cars as to which one wins the race.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] JesseAaronSafir:
So I figured out that horrible camera lens distortion was happening on my V30 when I had the main cameras set to 16:9 (12MP) 4656x2620 and once I set the main cameras to 4:3 (16MP) 4656x3492, I get a LOT less lens distortion. That being said, I'm still super disappointed in the LG V30 camera vs my old Note 4 camera. The front camera on this V30 is horrible. Images are super grainy and washed out, even in good lighting. The default resolution is 18:9 (3.3MP) 2560x1280 and I still struggle to get everyone in the frame. These images also show lens distortion though not nearly as bad as the rear cameras do in widescreen. I'm going to switch to 4:3 (5.0MP) 2560x1920 to see if the images are any clearer but then it'll be even harder to get everyone in the frame. I also notice that by default images from the front camera are saving as mirror-image flipped. I just toggled the "Save as flipped" setting so I hope that removes that annoyance. I have HDR set as "Auto" but I see no HDR balancing of the exposures on any of my images. Someone said you can turn off "skin toning" or something but I don't see that anywhere in the settings. The rear cameras, even when set to 4:3, continue to create noisy, blurry and distorted images. I find myself cropping out at least the outer 1/3 of the images on my computer regularly. For example, I took my kids to an aquarium on Saturday and most of the images are very grainy and blurry and show distorted fish. They're mostly unusable. This never happened with my Note 4. And the front camera on my Note 4 was almost always clear and crisp with great color. I'm going to start shooting everything on the V30 in manual mode to see if I can get any improvement.

Look how disproportionate the legs and shoes are here:

The color is aweful in these rose pictures. You can't see any details.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] d1ofmany:
I think the problem might be that you are using wide angle lens for close-up shots. Try switching to regular lens (icon with one tree).
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] koboltzz:
As [MENTION=2635874]d1ofmany[/MENTION] wrote.

I don't want to come across as arrogant or know-it-all, but you should deal with your purchased smartphone before you judge.

First, the wide angle camera has a viewing angle of 120°, it is physically not possible other than the near objects at the edge of the image are stretched wide. That's

physics

.

Furthermore, the only

well-known

hardware shortcoming of the V30 is the front camera. It's bad, and if you're very focused on selfies, then it's the

wrong smartphone

.

Second, the wide angle camera has an

infinite

fixed focus, no auto focus. This camera is exclusively intended for landscape panoramas, which is also indicated by the three trees as a button in the camera ui. It doesn't make sense to take makros with a wide angle infinite fixed focus camera.

Tldr: You have two rear cameras in the V30 and you use the wrong one.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] JesseAaronSafir:
Hi! So it sounds like you're thinking the problem is that I've selected the wide angle camera on the rear of my V30. This is not what I've been doing. I've specifically selected the icon with one tree instead of 3 for the regular close-up camera and I've also set the resolution to the 4:3 aspect ratio instead of 16:9. If I understand correctly, you're saying that IF you use the wide-angle camera, then you should expect lens distortion for items that are near to the camera at the edge of the frame. I'm saying that I'm seeing this lens distortion on the regular camera as well.

Thanks for confirming that the front camera on the V30 sucks. It's not that I'm particularly focused on selfies but I do like to get pictures of myself with my kids when we're on daytrips and such and it's been disappointing how crappy those images come out compared to my old Note 4.

I wasn't aware that the wide-angle rear camera had a fixed-focus on infinity. That interesting. It makes sense, I guess, but it's news to me. Again, that's NOT the camera I'm using to take pictures of my kids and flowers and food and stuff. The one of my daughter on the swing shows EXIF information that tells me it was shot with f/1.9 on ISO 50 with shutter speed 1/740 and a focal length of 1.78mm. I don't understand that focal length though. Interestingly the resolution is 4160x3120, which says 13.0MP. If I did 4:3 (16MP), then it should have been 4656x3492. I'm going to go do another test.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] d1ofmany:
f/1.9 aperture is wide angle lens. Regular lens is f/1.6. If you zoom out in camera UI it will switch from reglar to wide angle.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] JesseAaronSafir:
Ah hah! Yes, so I've been going through all my captured images since I got the camera mid-July and indeed I think almost all the ones that show major lens distortion show up as 4160x3120 13.0MP and f/1.9! So though I set the camera app for the 1-tree regular camera, I must have zoomed out in each case and the V30 switched to the wide-angle camera. That's annoying. I wish there were a way to disable that auto-switching.

All the selfies read as 2560x1280 3.3MP and they show some distortion as well though not as bad as the ones that are 4160x3120. And as noted they have other problems (grainy/noisy and blurry).

I see a number of images from an aquarium we visited this weekend that are 4656x3492 16.3MP at f/1.6 that are blurry but I think that's because unfortunately inside the aquarium it's pretty dim so the V30 selected shutter speed of 1/15 s and the subjects were moving too quickly.

The otter is moving too quickly in too low light here, I think: (this is actually 4160x3120 13.0MP wide anyway)

The shark's tail is stretched too much (4656x3492 16.3MP f/1.6 ISO 850 1/17 s):

The edges of the image here are grainy and blurry (this is actually 4160x3120 13.0MP wide though):

The fish's fail is way too large compared to the body (this is actually 4160x3120 13.0MP wide though)

Okay so my next testing I MUST make sure to NOT zoom out when selecting the regular camera so as to avoid switching to the widescreen camera.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] One Twelve:
Using the wide angle is going to do that

You had a film filter (accidently?) applied on both, going by the image data

These were also taken with the wide angle camera

---------- Post added at 02:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:24 AM ----------

You will find that auto switching very smooth with video compared to earlier V series and it got commended for that. With photos its something to watch out for.

Three things worked against you here

- 2x zoom, will degrade image quality. Primary camera would be better

- Not using the primary camera in low light. There is a half stop difference between the two. Meaning the primary lets in a half stop more light than the wide angle. This means it can get away with a lower ISO which means better image quality.

- Not using the primary means you have no OIS. It's tricky to pull off a a tack sharp photo at 1/15 handheld without OIS. And some times even that might be too slow depending on your hand hold.

If the otter was moving fast you'd need to set shutter speed higher in manual. To get sharper images even with the primary, a faster shutter speed helps a lot. !/50 or 1/100

See above

In addition night shot got triggered. This does not help when there is any movement. Manual also has night shot applied with the V30. YMMV, earlier LG's disabled night shot in manual.

The tail is fairly close to the centre. These images show that portraits can be tricky with the wide angle.

Right
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] JesseAaronSafir:
Okay so I'm definitely going to take more flower test shots with the primary f/1.6 camera in auto. For those flower test shots I set it to "Food" because I thought that was macro. Is there a better mode to use for flowers?

I know that Manual mode has that "Graphy" thing but I haven't messed with that much. What's that about? You pick a photo similar to what you're trying to shoot to tell the camera how to set itself?

I have "Noise reduction" turned on. "Bright mode" is greyed-out as is "HDR". "Tracking focus" is turned on. Do I want each of these turned on? Why is "Bright mode" greyed-out?

What's the point of the "FullVision" button? It just switches the resolution to 18:9 (11MP) 4656x2328, right? But that can be done with the camera button too, right?

What's the point of the "AI CAM"? Does it do anything useful other than try to guess what the camera is looking at?

How can you tell that "night shot" was triggered? I don't see that anywhere in settings. Is it something that can be turned off and on? Other than high ISO and slow shutter-speed, what is it?

I suspect I'm taking my kids on another daytrip this weekend so I'm intending to use ONLY the f/1.6 primary camera (will watch out for the zoom auto-switching!) and will experiment with setting ISO and shutter speed in manual. Any other settings I should try?

Any other camera apps I should try? I had Google Camera, Snap Camera, Open Camera and "A Better Camera" installed previously. I can't recall how each went but some crashed and some wouldn't let me pick which lens I was using. I've also messed with "SKEW & CORNERS" and "SWRWT" to fix distorted images but that's tricky and I'd rather not have my photos distorted in the first place.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] JesseAaronSafir:
I was messing with "Cine Video" and "Manual Video" modes last night. You can only select the color adjustment filters in "Cine Video", right? I made a 4K video (UHD 16:9 3840x2160) and noted that it maxed out at 30FPS and a 5 minute video ended up over 2GB! I also toggled "Hi-Fi" audio and I'm guessing that records audio at 48kHz instead of 44.1kHz? I doubt I'd notice the difference there. I do want stereo audio though and I know there's a mic on both the top and bottom of the V30. Also my wife regularly takes videos I created from our Dropbox and exports them back to her iPhone 6 and she tried and was unable to save this 4k video to her phone for editing. I looked into it and her iPhone can do H.264 videos up to 1080p @ 60fps with High Profile Level 4.3 in .m4v, .mp4 and .mov and AAC audiot up to 320kbps. From what I can tell what her phone actually generates is 1080p at 29.970fps High@L4. I figured out that I could open the 4k video on my phone and save a copy in 1080p and that uploaded to Dropbox too so she should be able to edit that. I also figured out how to convert the 4k video to 1080p in VLC on Windows so I suspect that would also work.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Alibaba0101:
OP,

Would it be too much to ask for an updated review with ai camera and gcam included? :D
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sergykm:
It will be good. Gcam vs Samsung S8 or S9 (also interesting).
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] jamiee6610:
Cine video is designed for post processing primarily, so filters etc are usually added after.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] koboltzz:
Well, I am still taking maaany pics every day and compare them with my old S8. Let me tell you that the AI cam was already available at the time of the review. However, the effects of the AI cam are marginal. Sometimes more sharpening is done (at 100% magnification it looks worse), sometimes the color balance is changed. The overall quality is slightly better than without AI cam, but in the meantime I have completely switched to the gcam as far as photos are concerned.

This one, with ZSL, produces the most natural photos ever seen on this device. With the gcam, Google has created a solution where even bad cameras still take good pictures (due to photo stacking). On the flagships 16MP (except P20 pro) are very rare at the moment, most use 12MP and so you can be happy with the V30 to capture even more details than a pixel 2 XL (12MP). I am of course aware that more pixels doesn't mean better quality, but the V30 hardware is good and can fill 16MP with useful information.

Not to mention how enormously the wide-angle camera benefits from the gcam, so photos (on the PC!) don't look as muddy as with the LG camera.

For videos, of course, the LG camera software is unrivaled with the cine-log and 24bit flac audio recording :good:
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] tw9:
That issue of yours seems very strange to me.

Would it be possible to post a photo where it occurs?

I'm very curious.

EDIT: Alright, I commented before I have read the rest of the thread, consider my post irelevant.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] kbuss:
any info on below problems, especially compared to S8 video quality?

sorry if you ve seen my post elsewhere too, but im on a return policy which expires in 2 days and gotta decide if I keep the V30 or not...

https://xdaforums.com/lg-v30/help/weird-audio-stutter-video-quality-sound-t3919793
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] koboltzz:
Never had any audio recording problems. In the meantime I've switched to ProShot for video recording (allows raw video recording which I denoise myself) and to gcam for photos.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] kbuss:
would you mind checking this out?

from 0:10 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdD44Y4vZSM&t=10

preferably with headphones but its very apparent even with normal speakers.

sraight from phone.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] koboltzz:
You already have linked your other thread and I already saw your example. Like I said, I don't have that problem ;)
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] kbuss:
yea okay. it was just much more apparent on this.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] galr:
Funny thread. Use gcam, solved.

And yes, as opposed to what someone here says, it will make a big difference in daylight as well.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] kbuss:
why are you delusional? trollin?

no, not solved

gcam for this phone is buggy AF,

apart from slightly better still image, everything is worse on it.

give features that does not work properly for this phone and in the same time it restricts resolution options,

give fake info about FPS (says it records in 60 but in reality its only 30 etc)

lacks manual mode and lossless audio

gallery not working.

vid quality same or worse.

but the main thing is it exhibits the above said audio problem just as well.

dude, this is not the point and shoot thread. why troll if you cannot contribute any meaningful.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] galr:
I apologise. Didn't mean to be disrespectful. I was only referring to stills.

BTW , gcam has very stable versions for a while now. No real issues to be honest.

Photos are not slightly better, they are much better. Better dynamic range, better low light, better post processing and no watercolor effect.

Regarding manual mode , using RAW is fine if you need manual. I basically only use the LG stock camera for macro and rarely for RAW .

Regarding videos, you're probably right, I just don't use it much.
[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] kbuss:
no prob man. i was just uptight bcos nobody here put up an example vid that is similar to mine in more than a week while, for a phone that supposed to be for videography and vlogging...

gcam was very bad for me, constant freezes etc. i put up the one from the official thread.

probably the area, idk

but its al the same now, i returned the phone.
[Nokia 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] dbpm1:
All credits for a dude who doesn't gives a pluck to scratching, burning and removing the guts of a brand new device and here are his words:

Nokia 8 Durability Test - Scratch, BURN and Bend Tested!

Nokia 8 Teardown - Screen Repair and Battery Replacement

A bit old but who doesn't like some internal component porn heh
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] kundan jangir:
Android OS version: 8.1.0

For devices: Wingtech/wt88047

Source code: https://github.com/nitrogen-project

Gapps: OpenGapps

Recovery: TWRP

Based on AOSP

xyyx-main developer

Copy the ROM and Gapps in SD card.

*Reboot to recovery

*Flash the ROM (don't reboot)

*Flash TWRP installer

*Reboot to TWRP (not change your slot)

*Flash Magisk & Gapps

*Reboot

~1st boot takes around 5-10 minutes.

Enjoy

Stable build:

ROM

Translated to EN, RU, CS, SK

If you like my ROM, you can support me.

Nitrogen Project | Nitrogen Devices

Known Bugs: none yet!

Contributors

xyyx

Special Thanks To

SeekNdDestroy

shekawat2

Kunal shah

sooti

Abhisek

VenkatVV

sunny

ironhrt

Armando

& rest members !

XDA:DevDB Information

Nitrogen OS, ROM for the Xiaomi Redmi 2

Contributors

kundan jangir

ROM OS Version: 8.x Oreo

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x

Version Information

Status: Beta

Created 2018-07-23

Last Updated 2018-07-23
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[Xiaomi Redmi 2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] karthik km:
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[Xiaomi Redmi 2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] kundan jangir:
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[Xiaomi Redmi 2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] bronxies:
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[Xiaomi Redmi 2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] kundan jangir:
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[Xiaomi Redmi 2 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other ] balu1191:
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[Huawei P9 Lite Questions & Answers] yaco96:
I have the oportunity to change the p9 lite for a Motorola Moto M with 4gb ram and 32gb rom, is this better, Moto has a mediatek proccessor and i dont know if it better or not what Kirin, thx for the opinions and good day
[Huawei P9 Lite Questions & Answers] GuestK00449:
Mediatek is garbage.
[Huawei P9 Lite Questions & Answers] vidra:
Not since Helios series arrived, the moto M isn't a bad phone
[Huawei P9 Lite Questions & Answers] Bananabill0002:
I think that the change isn't very suitably
[Xiaomi Redmi 4 Prime Questions & Answers] BG0812:
Hello,

I am currently with the rom crDroid 3.8.6 from 4pda.ru

As soon as I put a custom rom (any 6.0, 7.1, 8.1, treble, no treble) my Microphone not working in call/recording (even with the speaker) but it works perfectly with an official Global miui ROM from miui website.

I tried everything: put an original Global miui ROM where it's works, unlock the phone, install twrp recovery, clean install any custom rom : Microphone still not working.

I have find the problem who probably come from the firmware :

Here https://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=fr&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2F4pda.ru%2Fforum%2Findex.php%3Fshowtopic%3D794653%26st%3D8320%23entry68320897

unfortunately the link for firmware 49 is dead (markw_firmware_49.zip) and I can not find it anywhere else.

And what I do not understand is when I clean install a new rom (any 6.0, 7.1, 8.1, treble, no treble), the firmware should not be changed with new one ?

an idea ? thank you in advance
[Xiaomi Redmi 4 Prime Questions & Answers] DemeeX:
I have the same problem. However it doesnt seem to be software related for me. I found some modems on the russian site 4pda.

cloud.mail. ru/public/Kn98/nHgzW1fqR/
[Android Stick & Console AMLogic based Computers] Daught:
I been messing with this Goobang doo A1 Max for a few days. I flashed a bad recovery and I lost my stock recovery. I was able to start a "Tanix 3 mini" stock recovery from the flash card then using that recovery I flashed the Tanix 3 mini stock recovery on the device. Now I have a functioning recovery on the device. I tried to install TWRP. I can start TWRP by either doing an "apply update" from android recovery, or even by using the update&backup app. It goes in TWRP, I can flash stuff like magisk, but Ican't get TWRP to install permanently. Any idea how I can get a permanent TWRP? The Tanix stock recovery that I was able to flash was an .img. TWRP is a .zip.

Also anyone have the stock recovery for the A1 Max? While the tanix one works, the original one had remote support.