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The vertical (portrait) photos I take with my new S3 have suddenly begun to automatically rotate as if taken horizontally (landscape).

The vertical photos appear correctly in the phone's gallery. But when I upload them to either Facebook or my computer the photos are rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise, as if I took them horizontally. The photos also appear horizontal if send them through a text message.

This is a new problem. For the first three weeks the phone oriented the photos correctly regardless of how I held it (vertical photos showed as vertical, horizontal showed as horizontal).

The Exif data for vertical photos shows the photos have been rotated 90 CW. Yet the photo displays on my PC, Facebook or text messages as if it were taken horizontally.

Has anybody experienced this and/or found a solution?
 
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That is indeed a decent workaround that I'll probably have to use until the problem is fixed.

However, the bigger issue is that the phone did not have this problem initially. So either I've committed some boneheaded blunder that changed the camera's settings, or the phone changed the settings on its own.

Either way it's frustrating to know that the problem is fixable; just don't know how to fix it yet.
 
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Well, I have no idea how it happened, but the camera is back to functioning like it should. Photos taken vertically (portrait) are again appearing vertically on FB, text messages, my PC, etc. But I can't think of anything I did to "fix" the problem. I wasn't even trying to fix anything; camera just reverted back on its own.

snilloconator, I didn't get a chance to clear the cache, but I will keep that in mind if the problem arises again.
 
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I too am having this issue. When taking pictures in portrait (vertical) they take correctly. When I view them in the gallery, they appear as I took them. When I click to share to any app, mms, or online, the images rotate 90 degrees left. I tested the same thing with the front camera, and those images do the same thing yet they rotate 90 degrees right. I'm not sure what has caused this, as it wasn't originally doing it. I have cleared the camera settings and to no avail. This appeared to be the only location I could find in searches that someone else had had the same issue. Hoping perhaps someone has had this issue and knows of a means to correct it without having to crop every photo.

Thanks
 
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Okay, I had this issue as well within less than a week of owning it. Tried pulling the battery, cleared cache, reset to factory and every other fix I could find online. The problem was intermittent. When I went to Verizon to show them, it magically was working again. The next time (2 days later and after a reset) I took it in and they ordered a new one for me. By then, the phone would flip to landscape upside down whenever I used dolphin or facebook. It was crazy. Perhaps unrelated, but iHeart radio would randomly start back up and play the last channel I listened to. Anyway, it wouldn't act right for more than a day. Got my new phone 5 days ago and it is working perfectly. Perhaps a bad batch with accelerometer issues.
 
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I was surfing these forums and found a workaround: http://androidforums.com/droid-x-su...9788-uploading-pictures-facebook-rotated.html

basically, you have to crop the photo. But of course, you can just set the crop margins to the size of the photo...it does something ti the image then you can upload it in the orientation that you took the photo in.

It takes time, but it works...


thanks this actually works, funny a few portrait pictures work without this work around but i guess if it screws up delete the tweet and edit the picture than re-tweet, ignoying but thanks for the workaround


doing some more tests it looks to work normal if you add it to twitter from the Gallery app (ie share via twitter) but if you are already in the twitter app and hit the upload picture icon it does the sideways thing

so i guess a good rule if you changing your profile picture or replying to a tweet with a picture crop it first, if you just sharing a photo to your own tweet just use the share via twitter option in the Gallery app
 
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Think of your phone as a HD TV screen. That would be in landscape mode. This is how the camera thinks it should be. If you snap a portrait mode photo it's like you've turned your camera on the side and the image will end up rotated. I've learned to shoot everything now in landscape, using two hands and every single photo is oriented properly.
 
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