a tale of two Epic cameras

bls · Apr 7, 2011

So my wife and I both have Epics, both updated recently via OTA to 2.2. But for some reason my camera is incredibly laggy: you snap a photo, the screen goes black for a second and half at least, then the photo pops up. And my wife's is much much faster.

We're both using the stock camera, and I checked all the in-camera settings -- completely the same.

Are there any known issues that might cause this lag? I do have a ton more apps, media, photos, etc on my phone compared to hers. Could the SD card getting full have anything to do with it? I have ~ 2GB left, which should be plenty. If anyone has any tips for speeding up camera response I'd be glad to hear them. TIA.

PS Anyone know why the GPS setting within the camera app was removed? Looks like it's always looking for a satellite lock while trying to take a picture, even if I don't want it to.

TheEngineer · Apr 8, 2011

Hard reset using the hardware keys to rebuild the Dalvik cache.

droid newb · Apr 8, 2011

bls said:
PS Anyone know why the GPS setting within the camera app was removed? Looks like it's always looking for a satellite lock while trying to take a picture, even if I don't want it to.

It's always there. No way to disable it.

There is a free Geo Tag Eraser app that you can run pics through to strip the Geo info though.

_Epic · Apr 9, 2011

Make sure your camera is updated also, yes you have to update your camera software. Go to your camera, then click menu, then settings, then click the little wrench, then scroll down to page 2 then click firmware check, then click Check Version, if an update is avaliable then click Firmware Update.

Inspekt · Apr 12, 2011

I tried this and when I go to update its says
You will incur additional fees

Did anyone else have this happen when updating the camera? What's the fee and why is there a fee to update? Any info would be appreciated.

BubZX · Apr 12, 2011

Inspekt said:
I tried this and when I go to update its says
You will incur additional fees

Did anyone else have this happen when updating the camera? What's the fee and why is there a fee to update? Any info would be appreciated.

thats what happens when i try to update also.

pablo.station · Apr 12, 2011

bls said:
Are there any known issues that might cause this lag? I do have a ton more apps, media, photos, etc on my phone compared to hers. Could the SD card getting full have anything to do with it? I have ~ 2GB left, which should be plenty. If anyone has any tips for speeding up camera response I'd be glad to hear them. TIA.

I had the same issue after doing the update. I posted a fix here that I got from xda developers website:

http://androidforums.com/samsung-epic-4g/283584-list-quirks-bugs-3.html

You dont need to be rooted for this to work.

Droid_Rage · Apr 13, 2011

Inspekt said:
I tried this and when I go to update its says
You will incur additional fees

Did anyone else have this happen when updating the camera? What's the fee and why is there a fee to update? Any info would be appreciated.

I'm curious about the same thing. Why would i need to pay to upgrade my camera firmware? Anyone have confirmation that they do/don't charge you for this??

bls · Apr 20, 2011

Here's the weird thing. All I needed to do was to switch the camera's review-time setting and this problem disappeared!

If you're having this problem, try this first. Go to Camera, Settings, Wrench, and change Review from "On" to "2 seconds". Instead of a second of black screen after taking a photo, it goes quickly to the photo you just took, which lasts 2 seconds and then disappears. I'm embarrassed I didn't just try messing around with the in-camera-app settings before I posted!

o0Syn · Apr 25, 2011

TheEngineer said:
Hard reset using the hardware keys to rebuild the Dalvik cache.

I see you post something similar almost every time you post! lol you should change your name to HardResetFanboy

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