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What should I do? The camera is filming blurry. Cloudy camera on iPhone. Programs that improve captured video

Quite a large number of direct owners of Samsung smartphones, after one week of using the phone of this model, encountered a problem in the form of camera failure. When you enable it, an error occurs. Camera failure on Samsung is quite common, so this factor must be taken into account. Problems with the camera on the mentioned devices will be discussed in more detail below.

In order to prevent camera failure on Samsung, you are given 4 ways to fix this error yourself.

Method number 1: data cleaning

This method, like its other analogues, is simple and does not require anything supernatural. It consists of clearing data, as well as freeing up the internal storage of this camera. The camera failure on the Samsung Grand may be due to its overflow.

The first step in this situation is to restart your smartphone. First of all, you need to turn it off and then turn it on. This procedure is simple, and the user can solve it independently.

Next, you need to go to settings, and there you will find the application manager. As you remember, you need to find a camera. Open this application and clean up garbage, uninteresting photos and other material.

Next, you need to restart the gadget again and see if the problem with the camera is resolved. If you have decided, then we congratulate you, and if not, then see the next way to solve this problem.

Method No. 2: Cleaning the internal storage

A camera failure on a Samsung is bad, so it’s better to fix this problem as soon as possible. The second method is to clear the internal storage of information in the Camera application using the Recovery method. Just like the previous method, let's look at all the details step by step.

First of all, you need to turn off your device. Next, you need to press and hold three buttons on your phone for a certain time. These buttons are:

  • A button that is responsible for turning it on and off.
  • A button called Home.
  • And the phone volume up button.

When you press these buttons for a few seconds, the phone will present the Android system parameters to your attention.

In order to clean your device, you need to scroll through the lines using the volume buttons. To go down, use the volume down button.

You need to find a line called Wipe cache partition. Next, your task is to restart the device.

If the camera failure on the Samsung Grand Prime has stopped, this is good, but if not, then you should turn to the next method.

Method number 3: file manager

This method also involves cleaning the material, but in a different way. In this case, this method aims to eliminate the camera failure on the Samsung Galaxy and is as follows. We resort to using a file manager.

  • The first step is to connect the device to your computer using a USB cable.
  • You need to find and open the memory folder of this smartphone, and then go to the “Android” folder. There will be another folder with dates. This is exactly what you need.
  • There you can find the archive folder, where your smartphone’s cache will be stored. You will need to remove it.
  • Experts in this matter advise deleting all files from this folder, since they are completely useless on your device and only cause memory problems.
  • After you complete your action, you need to restart the device. We hope this method helped you troubleshoot, if not, then move on to the last method.

Method number 4: removing an alternative camera

This is the last way that can help you prevent camera failure on Samsung.

This method also involves removing it, but this time the so-called alternative camera is removed.

Your task is to find all the applications that use the camera services, and once you find them, your task will be to remove them. After this action, be sure to restart the smartphone.

One of the above methods will certainly fix the problem with the camera, and it will continue to perform its job efficiently. If nothing helps, you must definitely contact a service center - this means the problem is much more serious.

A professional answer to a pressing question.

At some point, iPhones, due to their compactness and mobility, replaced cameras for many. With each new generation of iPhone, the quality of shooting on Apple smartphones is constantly growing, approaching SLR cameras. However, it often happens that iPhone photos suddenly become insufficiently clear or blurry. Even setting the focus manually, it is not possible to achieve the same clarity. What to do?

Why does the iPhone camera become cloudy and stop focusing and what to do about it

1. The first and simplest reason is a dirty camera lens. In this case, everything is elementary - clean the camera lens. A dirty or dirty camera glass can interfere with focusing! We do this with a special cloth for wiping the lens.

2. True, in most cases, rags remain powerless. Dust and dirt can get into the iPhone body and accumulate between the lens and the protective glass of the camera. In this case, you cannot do without disassembling the phone. Note that most often the problem occurs on the iPhone 5, iPhone 5s and iPhone SE - the most popular iPhone models in Russia. Conclusion - we turn to specialists, or we disassemble the iPhone ourselves with the help of ours and carry out cleaning.

3. Scratches on the camera glass also rarely interfere with focusing. Scratches also greatly scatter and blur the focus and the picture as a whole. The lens glass needs to be replaced at a service center! The problem often appears on iPhone 6/6 Plus and newer ones, since on these models the camera protrudes from the body, often coming into contact with various, including sharp, objects.

4. The saddest reason why pictures on an iPhone turn out blurry is that dust gets on the lens matrix or the zoom of the camera itself is damaged. There is only one solution to these problems - replacing the camera in the service!

As you can see, only people familiar with repairing equipment can solve the problem of lack of focus when shooting on an iPhone. Fortunately, service centers charge very little money for both cleaning the lens and replacing the camera in general. The main thing is to find an honest service. In Moscow, one of the best such services (tested from personal experience) is Apple-Labs. The average time to clean a lens or replace a camera at Apple-Labs is only 30 minutes!

This material contains the most interesting tricks, thanks to which you can realize the hidden potential of the camera on your smartphone.

Yes, yes, exactly superzoom on a smartphone. Not only long-lens DSLRs and ultrasonic point-and-shoot cameras are capable of photographing objects located at long distances. If you have binoculars, or better yet, a telescope, place the camera's eye on the eyepiece lens, adjust the position of the equipment to achieve maximum image sharpness, and start shooting photos or videos.

Of course, it is better to use wide-angle optics: then the viewing angle will be larger, and the frames around the lenses will not be visible through the lens. If you use a telescope on a tripod, it would be a good idea to fix your smartphone for convenience.

Macro lens using a magnifying glass

You don't need expensive equipment to take detailed macro photography. Using any available method, we attach a regular magnifying glass to the body of the smartphone within the radius of the lens, and the device for macro photography is ready. The greater the magnification lens magnification, the stronger the approximation, and the higher the detail of the resulting image.

Shooting “almost underwater”

You've probably seen more than once spectacular photographs taken with a camera half submerged in water. If your smartphone does not have waterproof properties, a similar effect can be achieved by placing the mobile device with the camera facing down in a glass or any other transparent, moisture-proof container. All that's left to do is to carefully and partially immerse the container with the smartphone in the pond, and press the shutter button.

Looking at infrared radiation

We won’t go into technical details, we’ll just state a fact: infrared light, invisible to the human eye, can be seen on a smartphone display using a camera. Point the lens at the remote control where the IR diode is located and press its buttons. The small luminous point is IR radiation.

Shooting using the volume key

Did you know that the vast majority of smartphones have the ability to take a photo by pressing the volume key? Try it yourself, you don’t have to press the touch “shutter button” at all. If it doesn’t work, go to the settings, this function may need to be activated. It is especially convenient to use the hardware key when taking selfies.

Digitization of film photos

If you have old films and you are curious to view their contents, all you have to do is select the “Negative” color effect in the camera settings and photograph the frame on the film. For the same purpose, you can use a special application, Helmut, for example. This method will not replace professional digitization, however, it is quite suitable for informational purposes.

Panoramic tricks

Fans of panoramic shots will definitely love these tricks. Making several virtual “clones” of yourself in a photo, without using graphic editors, is as easy as shelling pears. Panoramas on mobile devices are created using automatic stitching of consecutive frames. It is enough to move after each frame to a new location, running around behind the operator, in the opposite direction from the moving lens. It is necessary to move the camera slowly enough so that the person has time to take the place of the next “clone”.


An interesting effect can be achieved during fast movement. While on a train or car, activate panoramic photography. This way you can significantly increase the photographic area.

Jelly effect

Smartphones use different types of matrices: CCD or CMOS. The CMOS matrix has such a feature - during shooting, with sudden and rapid movements of the subject being photographed, the image may be distorted, resulting in the so-called “jelly effect”. This is a rather unpleasant phenomenon, however, enthusiasts perceive this effect as a special feature. This video clearly demonstrates the difference between CMOS and CCD matrices. Guitar strings create vibrations, although in fact this is just an illusion. If your smartphone has a CMOS sensor, you can achieve a similar effect, or experiment with something different.

Pulse measurement

In order to measure your heart rate, you need to install and open a special application (Cardiograph and the like), which will launch the camera. Next, you need to place your finger on the lens and point it towards a sufficiently strong light source (for example, a lamp, or use the built-in flash).

Surely, the reader thinks that this is science fiction, or just a useless thing, invented for fun. But that's not true. If all conditions are met, the camera detects fluctuations in the form of changes in skin color due to blood pulsation, and the application produces, although not ideal, a result close to the exact figure.

Demonstration of the heart rate scanner

Find out what's in front of you

Have you seen a painting, but can’t remember which artist is the author? The Google Goggles application, which can perform visual search, can help with this. Go to the app, take a photo of the piece of art. The application recognizes the object using a search engine that digs into its database and gives you the result on the smartphone display. The program can also recognize barcodes and QR codes, product packaging, landmarks, and even text in several languages! True, this “trick” is more due to the software, but everything happens with the direct participation of the camera. For now, this opportunity is more of an entertaining nature, because not everything is recognized, and not always the first time. However, the program “learns”, new objects are added to its database, and recognition algorithms are gradually refined and improved. Perhaps in the future this application will help aliens settle down on our planet.

Google Goggles example

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Based on Android, it does not take photos or videos well / distorts, darkens, or takes blurry photos or videos. What to do and how to treat.

Many users encounter a problem when phone or The Android tablet starts acting up. It seems that nothing happened that could cause a malfunction, but it does not work as it should.

For example, the device has problems with because defects appeared when taking photos or videos. The reason for this may be:

1st: Software glitch- i.e. the problem is a software glitch

2nd: Hardware failure- i.e. the problem is in the hardware (i.e., replacement or restoration of spare parts for the gadget is required)

However, do not rush to get upset - in 90% of cases there are problems camera operation smartphone a or Android tablet is to blame software glitch which you can easily fix on your own.

Fixing a software glitch:

Method 1. Quite simple - go to "settings", find there "backup and reset", in which you choose full reset settings with deletion of all data. Be careful, using this method is often effective, but it entails deleting all photos, contacts, passwords, music, games, videos and, in general, all information stored on your smartphone e or tablet e. Therefore, first save everything you need by connecting the gadget to your computer. If this method does not suit you, or if even after this the problem is not resolved, see Method 2.

Method 2.

Based on solving problems with communication and network reception phone number and tablets based on Android by introducing additional software. Utilities that control all processes inside gadgets. Today, there are quite a lot of them, however, the fewer functions an application contains, the more effective it is, as a rule. The best way to monitor system functions, corrects, and correct all possible settings and synchronization errors is a small, easy-to-use, free utility for Android-based devices. You can download the application from Google Play and see its additional options in the description. After installing the application, all that remains is to launch it. Further, in principle, nothing more is required from you. The application will take full control of the device's functions. (By the way, among other things, the gadget will begin to charge 20% faster, and its performance will also increase significantly, which will affect the loading speed and operation of all applications, games, and the system as a whole. On average, after scanning, the system runs at 50% faster.)

Method 3.

Changing the device software, or as it is also called "re firmware ". This method, as a rule, requires certain skills and can be solved by contacting the Service Center. To carry out this task yourself, you need to contact the website of the manufacturer of your device, download the utilities necessary for flashing the firmware and the firmware itself, and then reinstall it on your gadget.

If none of the methods brings results, unfortunately, you will have to contact the Service Center for repairing your tablet a or smartphone a.

An Android phone or tablet does not take photos or videos well/distorts, darkens, or takes blurry photos or videos. What to do and how to treat.

02.09.2017 Frank 12 comments

Is it possible to improve the front or rear camera in a Samsung Galaxy, Lenovo, meizu m3 note 3 pro, xiaomi redmi 4x, lg k10 2017 phone running on Android 6.0.

These are the questions I get asked most often. If your smartphone or tablet has a bad camera, then there are some things you can improve.

Overall, the camera feature is now being added to many devices ranging from mobile phones.

Just to get good image quality, you need a DSLR camera, although you can achieve really good results easily if you apply the right settings.

First, it’s worth explaining the relationship between matrix size and image quality and refuting the myth about the number of megapixels, which quite often is not a determining factor in quality when shooting.

It happens that a phone camera with 2 megapixels produces much higher quality than a matrix with 12 megapixels.

Firstly, the more megapixels, the larger the picture you will get and the better the lens, the better the image quality.

Another issue is the camera control software that comes from the manufacturer and manages it all.

You can "boost" the software to get better image quality. Get acquainted with programs that improve the quality of the built-in camera.

Settings to improve the webcam in a smartphone or tablet

In order to improve the quality of photos taken with your cell phone, there are a few important issues to keep in mind.

Lighting – try to keep things well lit – the weaker the lighting, the more “noise” will be visible in the picture, and if your phone is equipped with an LED flash, then it’s good to turn it on.

Although the built-in flash can't illuminate the entire subject, it can always help a little (LED flashes are more of a marketing ploy than a powerful flash tube).

Contrast - this parameter should be considered when photographing indoors, where there is artificial lighting - thanks to it you can preserve natural colors.

Digital Zoom – Definitely avoid using this option as nothing ruins image quality more than digital zoom.

Image stabilization - Some phones offer digital image stabilization, which you shouldn't trust entirely.

Auto focus - should be used when there is a problem with sharpness when trying to capture objects.

ISO - Noise in images is often the result of overusing ISO settings that add artificial light from low light - higher ISO settings can produce clearer photos in low light.

Improve the camera using the engineering menu

I am often asked how to improve the camera using the engineering menu? I’ll tell you how to enter it, but don’t count on super improvements, and not every smartphone will be able to run it.

NOTE: if your smartphone or tablet runs on a Qualcomm chipset, then there may not be an engineering menu, but for those that use a MediaTek processor there will certainly be one.

To open the engineering menu, enter the command: *#*#3646633#*#*. If this code does not work, try another one: *#*#4636#*#* or *#15963#*.

NOTE: On a Xiaomi smartphone, you need to click on the “Kernel Version” option several times in a row.

Using the engineering menu you can make some changes and check the sensors and perform component testing.

If the code does not work, you can try using the MobileUncle Tools or MTK Engineering applications - you can download them from the play market.

After logging in, you should be interested in the “Camera” option - setting various parameters.

After the transition, the settings will open.

The engineering menu is preferable for experienced users and should be used very carefully so as not to create tragic “miracles”.

Programs that improve captured video

If you already have a video shot, but of poor quality, then you can also improve it using computer programs.

Movavi Video Editor is a powerful yet simple video editor. When using it, the following tools will be available to you: trimming video edges, rotating, adding audio, effects, filters and others

vReveal is a great assistant if you like to shoot videos using your phone. Then, most likely, you get a video that is far from ideal.

vReveal has quality enhancement technology to improve the quality of video files and clips.

Video Enhancer - this program can increase video resolutions. You can significantly improve the quality of photos or videos using Video Super Resolution technology.

Using frame detailing technology, you can increase the resolution to the HD standard.

NOTE: all programs have a drawback - they are paid, and I could not find worthy free analogues. Good luck.

12 thoughts on “How to improve the camera quality on a smartphone or tablet”

    Thanks for the information maybe about Chinese planets on Android 6.7

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    On my UleFone Gemini pro there is no “camera” item in the engineering menu
    Where can I get it? What should I do?

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    • What do you want to do?

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    There is also no Camera item.

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    • Whether there is a camera item depends on the smartphone manufacturer. If he doesn’t provide for this option, it means it doesn’t exist or maybe he introduced his own code for the camera.

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    Thank you, dear Yaroslav! I haven’t yet shot a video especially on my phone for myself, but I want to shoot it in New York. So to say, if I click on the video camera, I will know and then I want to marvel, because I know that it will be in the gallery: I will go to the Camera, there I have a camera daubing on the photographs that I took, and in the VIDEO camera will Is the video camera painted over? It’s just that if I captured a video from the Internet, it went to Zavantazhenie, but where would the video go that I captured on my phone?