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obentou
Joined: Sep 19, 2005
Posts: 364
From: Toronto
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Mm, the previous build date of my first phone was Week 37. The new one I have is Week 48. Had no problems with both in terms of the camera... but the first phone had a 2nd LED faulty as I pointed out earlier in the thread  , and this Week 48 phone seems to have its PCB leds uneven.
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Paco
Joined: Jan 11, 2002
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I'm with you on this. So much talk about the camera, guess not enough people using the media player. So slow. And forget multi-tasking while listening to music. Just trying to send a text while listening to music is painful! This kind of thing seems unacceptable. Did no one at SE notice how horribly slow gets?
On 2007-12-27 04:12:46, vbayma wrote:
Now folks forgetting the camera issue a bit...
What about the media center of the phone??? I use and M2 4GB with 2,5GB full of music and the media center looks like an old Pentium III runing on a Windows Vista... What about you folks??
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obentou
Joined: Sep 19, 2005
Posts: 364
From: Toronto
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I did notice it and it is slow.
But the fact that I use my dedicated MP3 player to play music and hi-fi earphones I cannot stand using SE as a music player, simply because the quality of the music isn't up to par (I'm an audiophile, I admit  )
So yes, I just use the camera on the phone as well as its other features. I do notice the media player lags like hell when I'm browsing through the list of a couple of MP3's I just put on for the heck of it (say, around 12-13 songs?). Hopefully this will be addressed. |
se_dude
Joined: Nov 07, 2007
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hey ude..the audio quality at 320 kbps is not bad..i may go on to say that its great for a phone...i have an ipod...and when coupled with good headphones..the k850 beats it easily |
obentou
Joined: Sep 19, 2005
Posts: 364
From: Toronto
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Haha I would agree with you perhaps 2 years back, but now that my earphones are more expensive than my iPod Nano, I guess you get the point |
heara
Joined: Jul 18, 2006
Posts: 135
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i hope in a few months we can mod our acoustics, little bit louder |
gordonowusu
Joined: Mar 12, 2007
Posts: 111
From: Ghana West Africa
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It seems MEGA BASS is not working on my K850. I don't feel any diference between Base and mega bass. My K750i is clearly noticable when megabase is on. Also i get distorted sound when stereo widening is on. I hope it is not hardware related. Should I reflash? Any advice? My is week 41 build. |
1889
Joined: Dec 09, 2007
Posts: 118
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Just to add to the mixer, my phone is week 45, the only problem I've discovered is the flash one. Not tried taking any outdoor pictures yet.
Also, whats this about holding the phone properly when taking a camera. I've got nothing with mine that tells me how to hold it. I'm assuming you hold it by the edge of the phone and not let any of your fingers get on the back of the phone? |
vortigern
Joined: Dec 10, 2007
Posts: 60
From: London
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On 2007-12-27 19:49:42, obentou wrote:
Haha I would agree with you perhaps 2 years back, but now that my earphones are more expensive than my iPod Nano, I guess you get the point
Please tell me you don't plug those earphones into your ipod and just have the ipod to get dirt out of your shoes!
I just use the w880 earphones with my k850 - it's not as good as my w800 tho, but acceptable. I guess they had to put smaller components in to fit all the camera stuff too.
That said... it could be the music I listen to or my weird ears but I only tend to notice bad reproduction and not compression/bitrate as long as it's 128kbps mp3 or above.
@gordonowusu ... you probably need different headphones to notice the difference, but I agree that it's not as much of a difference than it made on my w800 - I was guessing that as I thought they hadn't put as good components in (like I mentionned above) that megabass would make it distort too much.
@1889 .. there was a piece of paper in with my phone with a diagram to show that you should hold it by the edges only - with your fingertips
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gordonowusu
Joined: Mar 12, 2007
Posts: 111
From: Ghana West Africa
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I use HBH-DS970 bluetooth handsfree and still no difference. I was thinking this is due to a faulty handset. Thanks for your quick response. |
obentou
Joined: Sep 19, 2005
Posts: 364
From: Toronto
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I am not sure what you are referring to.... I don't get the joke
Hmm, well I just discovered a weird behaviour with the camera... I put my finger on the hole beside the AF light on the camera, and the flash goes off with very little power, meaning it gives off a near-black photo. However if I block the hole with an object, say a thin piece of opaque material, the flash operates normally. The reason for this, I have absolutely no idea...
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iwantin
Joined: Dec 05, 2007
Posts: 74
From: Mon't Kiara
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Just my 2cents,
The photos below show one with full auto flash settings (ie SE dark photo function  ) and one with flash off (ie good pic). Both taken one after the other on a bright sunny day.
IMHO camera aperture on auto flash mode too small, it's like SE reversed the aperture settings for day and night photos such that flashed photos are too dark and non-flash photos are too bright.
Was also reading the manual last night and it actually officially states that the phone SHOULD be restarted everyday to reset the memory, reducing chances of lack of memory errors. With new long lasting batteries, when was the last time you guys restarted your phones?
First love, N8110 Banana Phone!(1997), N3110, MOTO V3688, Ericsson R320, N8250, N8910, N6100 (First colour screen!), SE T630, MOTO RAZR, SE W800i, SE K610i, SE W850i, SE W880i, SE K850i, SE W890i |
capuera
Joined: Nov 24, 2003
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hello,
it seems to be a firmware issue, not a hardware one because with a little trick I managed to take good photos in dark environment with auto settings. What I did was to use the autofocus, so I pushed the camera button half way down and then the camera focused and the green frame appeared...the trick is to stay 2-3 seconds in this position because the sensor should observe the dark...with this trick the picture is good...I think that the sensor is obstructed by the 3 led light just before the autofocus and he feels that it is enough light and is adjusting the settings in a wrong way...with this trick he has enough time to "see" that it is not light.
try and share your opinions...I made some pictures with this trick and all are OK now |
vbayma
Joined: Mar 30, 2006
Posts: 142
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On 2007-12-27 22:32:35, negrescumari wrote:
hello,
it seems to be a firmware issue, not a hardware one because with a little trick I managed to take good photos in dark environment with auto settings. What I did was to use the autofocus, so I pushed the camera button half way down and then the camera focused and the green frame appeared...the trick is to stay 2-3 seconds in this position because the sensor should observe the dark...with this trick the picture is good...I think that the sensor is obstructed by the 3 led light just before the autofocus and he feels that it is enough light and is adjusting the settings in a wrong way...with this trick he has enough time to "see" that it is not light.
try and share your opinions...I made some pictures with this trick and all are OK now
Intersting... You have a point there.. gonna try and tell later... |
obentou
Joined: Sep 19, 2005
Posts: 364
From: Toronto
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On 2007-12-27 22:32:35, negrescumari wrote:
hello,
it seems to be a firmware issue, not a hardware one because with a little trick I managed to take good photos in dark environment with auto settings. What I did was to use the autofocus, so I pushed the camera button half way down and then the camera focused and the green frame appeared...the trick is to stay 2-3 seconds in this position because the sensor should observe the dark...with this trick the picture is good...I think that the sensor is obstructed by the 3 led light just before the autofocus and he feels that it is enough light and is adjusting the settings in a wrong way...with this trick he has enough time to "see" that it is not light.
try and share your opinions...I made some pictures with this trick and all are OK now
Hmm, if that is actually the problem, then that is perhaps why everyone is getting dark photos... I always have used this method to take pictures (ie. waiting for the green "OK" to take the picture by pressing half-shutter)... since this is what you do for digital cameras anyway... it's not like you just press the damn button to take the picture, might as well go back to your QCIF cell phone camera if you do that.
Hope you've actually identified the problem, so we can put this issue to rest
On the side note, if the update in Jan. doesn't solve everything or most issues by then, I will dump this phone for an N95... despite my hate for the S60 interface
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