Camera is unbelievebly better Now
 

I can't believe I have been messing with this thing for this long and one simple cab changes the whole experience now. The device is faster, changing camera modes is now instantaneous, and you don't have to wait 10 minutes for the auto focus any more. Install to internal memory and soft reset before camera use. Close the camera from task manager before installation.

This is a must have boys.

Hit thanks for the find if it works.

As always back up your registry. I am not responsible to anything that happens to your device.

The post can be found here.

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Yeah saw this over at XDA-Devs and it definitely works better and faster. WTG HTC.

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sweet I gotta give it a shot.. !! will report a bit later.. good find.. thanks comin your way!

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much improved.

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Camera focus is a lot quicker now. Can't really comment on the other things, because they weren't noticeably slow for me last time.

But OP, I don't know if its fair that we can't blame you if its bricked... either take ALL the responsibility for this cab (thanks and blame), or none of it. ;)

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Backing up your registry is like wearing a condom...**** it.

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You cant say **** on here??? **** **** ****ity ****

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thread jackin

i dont agree i can go without backin up my reg, but i by so many condoms i need a endorsment! cant compaire my phone to my meat!! thats a no go!!

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I treat my phone like my fun stuff...always takin it out and showin people...playin games with it...and I always handle it with care.

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This is awesome! It definitely improved speed for me. Quality is about the same in low-light situations though, I haven't had the chance to test it outside yet.

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ha ha lls

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Great post! Thanks again. I wonder what else can we take from the Leo?

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What would make the phone really unbelievebly better is a flash! Why have a 5MP camera without a flash????

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Remeber: The imagio is a pocket pc with camera and phone capabilities. Not a camera or a phone with pocket pc capabilities. 5mp is very generous on on any mobile device. Could be worse like the droid, which has a flash but takes over corrected photos that make colors and shapes appear strange. And even in low lighting my imagio takes better pictures than my droid, unless its completely dark, then at the droid is the only one that will take a picture of anything. I am very happy with the imagio's camera.

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So is the HTC PPC6800, but it has a flash.

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Great find! Thanks (and thanks given) for posting the cab.

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to be honest the camera is probably more useful with better results/photos without the crummy flash (which would butcher exposure on each and every shot really).

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I don't really see the point of your post...

Before I buy a phone I take a look at the specs. If it is missing something that is important to me I move on to another phone. A flash is not important to me in the least and the Imagio met or exceeded everything else I required so I bought it.

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The point was that this "upgrade" doesn't really make the camera all that better. Sigh.

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I'm not seeing a HUGE AMAZING MASSIVE improvement really.

Just sort of slightly snappier(ALL PUNS INTENDED)

I wonder if saving to the phone instead of the storage card(micro SD) wouldn't improve things as well.


Thanks for this find!

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I find the small LED flashes on camera phones to be crap. If I expect to be taking flash photography I use a real camera. This camera is GREAT in natural light conditions though.

BTW, my Q9C flash made an awesome flashlight. We were on an airplane that lost power after taxiing to the gate for arrival. It was middle of the night. That LED lit everything up.

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The amazing thing with flashes is that they can be turned off, if you don't like them. Cameras without a flash can't be used as a flashlight...

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I'm just at a loss as to why you bought something that did not suit your needs. If I wanted a dirt bike I would not buy a street bike. The bottom line is that this is not the appropriate venue, or at least not the appropriate thread, to ask about hardware changes, or even banter about what you consider to be a shortcoming. Start a thread discussing the lack of a flash(light) and you will probably find some people who agree with you. There is no reason to hijack a thread that has nothing to do with your perceived issue with the Imagio.

The thread is discussing a cab that increases the functionality of the phone's camera, which it does quite well.

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Thank you. Get a two dollar led flash light to hold on top of it if you are taking pics at night, point being the imagio, believe it or not does not have a built in led flash.
I am guilty of contaminating with my opinion too, lets keep this thread dealing with the cab and camera functions at hand please. I would like to hear more about results. Does the cab help? Is it causing any other bugs or issues? Is it worth the time?

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My limited review:

Performance: Improved (Much faster AF/snap time from pressing the button. I'd say time cut in half now) Also the view finder framerate seems a little better as well.

Functionality: Pretty much the same as before, just an upgrade.

Quality: No worse than before, I'd say slightly better in decent to full light situations, but it's subjective and not dramatically noticeable.

Issues: None that I have found. It works flawless as before with the above mentioned differences.

Bottom Line: Worthwhile upgrade, improves the biggest issue (IMO) with the stock camera, and that is the very long snap time from pressing the button to take the pic and the actual pic being taken. May also have improved the quality ever so slightly which I can't complain about. I have seen no issues or bugs with it thus far so there is no real down side.

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As far as I noticed, there wasn't any significant improvement, so claiming the "!!!Camera is unbelievebly better Now!!!!" is a bit grandiose. What I meant to say was if you really wanted a "!!!Camera [that] is unbelievebly better Now!!!!" a better improvement than adding this thing would be to add a flash.

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I am with nsa sailor, I did not see any improvement, what does this actually do?

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First off, it's virtually impossible to add a hardware flash to a phone short of some DIY mod, that most likely would be crude at best so that's not exactly a practical expectation. And second, I'd say a 50+% improvement in the speed of taking a pic from the time you press the button is very significant. The normal time to snap the pic before the upgrade was 4-5 seconds, which is now less than 2 or so. That was the bigges issue with the Imagio camera (Flash excluded as you knew going into buying it that it didn't have one.)

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You didn't notice it taking 2 seconds to snap a pic vs. 4-5 before? Time them and you'll notice. If you didn't then it apparently wasn't a big deal to you or you barely took any pictures. That's pretty significant when you have any kind of movement in the shot.

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The only thing I've noticed so far is faster Auto-Focus (decreased it almost in half I'd say). Aside from that it's still got the same image quality (which was fine) and I've yet to come across any issues or problems after having installed this .cab file

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yup. it focus locks much, much faster.

previously i missed several shots where it focused 4-5 seconds after the subjects left the viewfinder thinking it took the shot! LOL.

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Faster focus lock is an improvement and worth the cab. The title of the thread may be a tad overdone but I'm grateful for the generosity and community spirit. Thanked!

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Mine only takes a count of not even "1-2" before the picture is taken.
Perhaps my phone came with the upgrade? (Version 6.28 build 1918.3024).

But of course, I bought this camera (oops, I mean phone) expressly because it didn't have a flash (snide comment here!)

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Interesting that you indeed seem to have this version already on your device. That's the version I show after upgrading. I wonder when they started shipping that. Can anyone confirm the version before upgrading it that has the 4-5 second AF time?

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My device has this version already as well, no upgrades have been done.

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I hard reset today because of some issues (playing around too much) and the camera by default has this same version but it does take 4-5 seconds to AF and take the pic, so perhaps the version in the about screen does not get changed with this update. It clearly improves the AF/pic time as stated by many so I'm not sure why the version numbers are identical. Interesting.

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Thanked, nice find!

Simple solution for missing flash
 

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Also noticed great improvements -- well worth the time to install. Thx.

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AF seems quicker and app seems a little more responsive, thought that could always be mem load at the time. Won't have a good test until I am home and try to get a pic of the kids, then I'll know if there is any real improvement in AF. Typically objects not in motion AF in 1-2 anyway and only things moving cause a problem.
Thanks for the link.