HTC Hero :: The Worst Camera Ever Seen
Jan 3, 2010
I now own the Hero for two weeks, but this is the Phone with one of the worst cameras i have seen.I also own a Nokia N95, this one is 100x better.or a phone that claims all in one and one of the latest models, without a flash, cannot claim this.Then they said it is 5MP, i think it is even 1.5mp.My wife has a old Samsung with 1MP, this thing makes even better Photo's then the Hero.It is a crap that i have to buy a program like FX to make better photo's.And yes i know, a phone is to make calls.Then there is the lack of very bad Bluetooth.I hope HTC will fix this soon, or i return the phone.Are there any positives, Yes i like the model and the layout.The touch screen is very good, also the touch keyboard.The phone presumes to be a business one, but at the moment i would not recommend it to my colleagues.
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Sep 9, 2009
Just the same here not receiving messages on vodafone, but worst of all i cannot send them either! Once i have composed the message and click send it just says loading, the message never gets sent I sent a message from my iphone to my Hero and the Hero beep to say i had a message but there was nothing there. Anyone else having these problems?
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Jun 5, 2010
Just dropped mine for the FIRST time since I purchased it in February. Dropped it from about average arms height onto a hard-wood floor, and it had a silicone case on it. Not really worried, but I am just curious how bad you have dropped your Hero at one time or another? Also, what kind of testing do these phones go through? Are they designed to take a bit of a drop? I have always been curious about that.
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May 24, 2010
Merely turning your phone on may be enough to prevent it from sleeping. What I'm about to tell you is 100% repeatable. I've done it about ten times now; it has happened every time. I'm running the stock Android 2.1 ROM from Sprint. <Background> When Android boots, it preloads a huge number of apps into RAM. Essentially, it's starting JVM processes and loading the classes of applications without actually executing any of their code. Android does this to reduce the lag you would feel when activating one of these apps. These preloaded apps are said to be EMPTY. There's no real penalty for preloading these apps since they're loaded in the background in otherwise idle CPU cycles and their processes will be terminated as needed to free up RAM for applications you begin using. </Background>
Although it should be impossible, one of those preloaded apps is preventing the Hero from sleeping. By process of elimination, I have found which one it is: Footprints.............
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Dec 6, 2009
My camera stopped working. When I click my camera application I get the message "The application camera (process com.android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again". It's just a blank screen?
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Jun 20, 2010
just an opinion thing but do you think your home works better or worst on wifi? Because I think I see dramatic improvement on my phone just a thought
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Nov 18, 2009
This is driving me nuts! Ive had my phone for a week and all of a sudden today it makes the worst clicking sounds when I type anything. It literally sounds like a typewriter.
I have Settings>Sound & Display>Audible selection "unchecked" and I still get this.
Can anyone help me figure out how to turn this off?
Ok I found it and boy did I have to do some digging. settings>applications>running services>android keyboard>Sound on Keypress = Uncheck.
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Apr 19, 2010
I'd say the worst bar none is Gizmodo. They could have just farmed the review out to any mac site and got the same result. Best so far goes to First look review: HTC DROID Incredible from Verizon Wireless | Smartphones and Cell Phones | ZDNet.com where he compares it to the Nexus one and even talks about custom ROMs.
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Nov 6, 2009
If you take a look at this post on gizmodo: Sprint Hero Review: Faster, Stronger, Uglier - Sprint htc hero review - Gizmodo.it claims that the sprint hero works better in low light than the GSM hero. Why is the GSM hero so much worse in low light?
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Oct 17, 2009
Been using the Hero and love it, its great. Unfortunately the camera is a big let down for me, most of the pictures come out blurry. Is this an issue for others? Any solutions? EDIT - just saw on another topic that iso 800 reduces blur. Will have to try this out.
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Feb 21, 2010
There are several camera apps because the default is not the greatest.
However after playing with a couple of others I still go back to the HTC app because when all is said and done it allows me to easily vary white brightness and seems to take best pictures (as long as everything remains still).
I've also used camera magic - don't like this much, just not happy with ease of use
FxCamera - I like this and do use the normal mode for this as the exposure time is much quicker. If I could have a short cut for this camera on my home screen I would. It just takes too long to open the app, when you want to catch a moment.
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Oct 19, 2009
Where the photos are stored once they have been taken, etc.. I'm attempting to upload a picture on Sketch Online.
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Oct 2, 2010
I've been running CM6 for awhile now and I love it. My only problem so far is that I absolutely hate the camera application. I much, much preferred the Sense take on it; so, I'm sitting here, wondering if there's a good camera application to replace the crap stock one.
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Jan 14, 2010
Recently got a Hero and loving it so far. The 'Tips, Tricks and Useful Apps' thread on here was especially helpful in setting the phone up. However the Camera Zoom FX barcode was not recognized? I've also tried to manually search for this in the Android Market and although there are lots of add ons to the app in there I cant find the original app where you have to pay $1.29 or something. I would really like to get this app as the only slightly disappointing thing for me on this phone is the camera and any way of me improving it would be great.
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Sep 15, 2009
I find the camera is a lot more responsive. You can now touch-focus exactly where you want. How is the quality of the pics coming? I only tried in bad light conditions so far...
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Apr 10, 2010
What is the best settings to have the camera on so when i take pictures it comes out great.
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Oct 4, 2009
I would like to buy a HTC Hero. But my office is located in a security area, where all kind of cameras are prohibited.Is it possible to remove the camera and the camera software from the HTC Hero? Has anybody seen a back cover without a camera hole?
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Oct 19, 2010
I dropped my phone in the toilet and it was completely water damaged. Its working fine now only problem is the camera is not working now. It keeps forcing close.....
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Jan 27, 2010
I finally rooted and installed fresh 1.1 and now my camera is not working? tried rebooting still camera, video camera, and even barcose scanner?
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Oct 29, 2010
On the rear of my Hero, there's the camera, and next to it a small vertical slot, about 6mm by 2mm.
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Jul 5, 2010
I've noticed a few people have had the same problem. Notice to charge your phone, check battery usage and it says "camera a million percent." Best advice so far is to turn your phone off then back on and it goes away. But this happens every time I use my camera. Am I gonna have to turn off my phone every time I'm done with the camera or is there a way to make this stop happening? It's only a recent problem too. When I got the phone a few weeks ago, I had no problems. If the battery was low and I checked why it'd show display and cell standby and phone idle. It's just been the last few days that it started showing the camera.
BTW when I press on it (where it says "camera a million percent") for more details it says "turn off GPS" why do I need to turn of GPS to make my camera stop draining the battery or is that totaly unrelated advice?
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Jul 31, 2010
Anyone run into this problem? My wife's phone camera was fine until after the recent update. Now the image appears very yellow and it will not focus. I've tinkered with the settings to no avail. Currently I have it set to the default settings. Any advice?
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Nov 19, 2009
Unfortunately I thought of this after I updated but if anybody could post before and after of the camera quality in reference to the recent update.
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Apr 13, 2010
I just want to know if i root my phone can i use my camera still. And whats the best rom to get?
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Sep 19, 2010
Started with EXTBlue 09sept, had the phone freeze up a couple times when exiting sleep mode. Flashed a nightly over that, problem persisted. Also had it randomly restart a few times. From there, started over by wiping everything, and flashing a nightly (091710 I think). Still had the problem, found the so-called "6.1" update, wiped again and went with that. I still have the original problems, and now it's also freezing up on the camera screen. Otherwise happy with the performance and such, any suggestions?
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May 15, 2010
I have a trendnet TV-IP422W Internet camera. Its all set up with an IP and I can view it from any PC.I use it for security.How to I view the camera with my hero? I do the same thing I do on my laptop. Just type in the web address and it ask for a password, and then the picture pops up. On my phone the picture will not pop up! I see that I'm logged in and can see my control panel. But the picture/video does not show its blank.Is there a special app for this?
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Sep 26, 2009
I got my HTC Hero today on Orange. I previously had an iPhone 3G but I do prefer my Hero!
I have a question though. Is there an app or a way to make the camera focus for longer? Or perhaps when it has focused enough, take the picture without it messing up?
The camera is good for me, I'm just wondering if there's a way to put the focus to better use!
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Sep 9, 2009
I've updated the to the latest roms and was hoping the camera would be better, does anyone know how to improve the camera on the Hero?
Also while I'm at it, I've been watching movies on the hero, is there anyway to increase the volume of the media playing through the phone? I had a samsung i8910 for a while and by a series of key presses we could up the gain and Head phone volume.
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Jun 15, 2010
I was wondering if anyone has a cure for this. The phone is rooted and on Villain 5.x. I've recently started using the camera and noticed that it will abruptly close on me - no force close message or anything - just back to the Home screen. A reboot seems to fix it for a few snaps, then the same again.
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Jun 5, 2010
Ever since I installed the Android 2.1 update I have noticed a significant increase in my battery depletion when I am using the camera app. This is even if I am using the camera app for a very short period of time. For example, I might take three or four shots in the course of two minutes and my battery drain would be on the order of 7% - 8%. This is way more battery drain from the camera app than I ever witnessed when I was using it with Android 1.5.
I also noticed on the battery status screen, where you can see how much percentage of your total battery life that various apps and system processes are using, that the camera app skyrockets up to over 90% of the total usage every time I use it for a few minutes.
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