im not sure wat is his model
mine is 1100d
just bought for my langkawi trip

n tis is a s3 thread right

true
just bought it for the trip
n below 1k
tat is why i ask u the shutter count lolz

Thanks!! Great info

Opps, my mistake. Is 3.3 fps indeed. Normally i will have normal shooting with sammy.

Heavy shooting, i will bring my giant DSLR.

Based on the current trending, tonight I go home and map out all the features and functions of the S3 camera. Then maybe hold a small gathering to show others the powah of S3 cam.

I wan join, noob on camera @@
please let us know the time and location

but 1 thing, the noise lvl very high in S3.

Maybe they are using Sony sensor??? with higher noise?

errr.. ever visited my blog for S3 camera in the signature below?

I am right, s3 using sony sensor...

They should improve the noise lvl, maybe a firmware to filter that...

Company that does great job in this area is Nikon. Hope Samsung hire nikon expert to tune the camera

This post has been edited by Ree73: Sep 3 2012, 05:15 PM

noise is very high when ISO is >800... this is bcz.. most of the phones wont go higher than ISO 800. S3 has a max ISO of 1600 in Auto settings.. when things get really dark, then it will pump the ISO above 800 and that's where the noise comes out.

in Auto settings, the maximum shutter speed is only 1/17 to avoid handshake i guess. Hence, if u wanna take a less noise low light camera, u can either try HDR, or u can use night mode.

in night mode, max ISO is 800 while the max shutter speed is 0.5sec.. which is 3 stops of light in advantage at the same ISO. 3 stops of lights means a lot of difference. but be careful of handshake.

Hey guys, I just had a very strange problem with my S3 today.

For some reason, the battery was going down really really fast even though I wasn't even using it.
I checked the apps that were running, but there was nothing that was running.
Even in the battery stats, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

I left for school at 6am and left my phone in my room fully charged at 100%.

Then around 2.30pm i came home and my phone was left with 28%.

I checked the battery stats at this point but nothing seemed weird.

I rebooted the phone but the battery was still draining at a rate of 1% every 4 minutes.

I'm very sure that I did not leave mobile data, bluetooth, NFC, or wifi on while i was away.

I'm also very sure that i did not leave any apps running in the background.



After getting worried, I decided to turn the phone off and reinsert the battery. This seemed to solve the problem.

This has never happened to me before.

I was just wondering if anyone had experienced this before or has any idea what went wrong

This post has been edited by YouDontKnowMyName: Sep 3 2012, 05:17 PM

No no. sony sensor is very bad at low light noise. Even sony SLR have this prob.

why my s3 with criskelo v8 rom keep on reboot itself?

no.. S3 has two batch for camera sensor.. one using sony, another using Samsung.

and, did u know that Nikon's D7000 is using Sony's sensor?

and the ISO performance of Sony NEX camera is very good.

bit off topic, but just trying to give a comparison.

haha most phones out there using sony sensor hehe

maybe some apps hang and drain all the power?

don't know what you all talking about camera, lol

btw sony or samsung sensor better ?

Show off some photos pls.

according to the peeps in xda doing the comparisons.. only in certain situation that the Sony is slightly better than Samsung. Sth like the type of noise introduced.

in daylight, no difference.

Ya, a lot of manufacture using sony sensor such as Nikon (but they do a great job on FW to filter out the limitaion).

And i think most of the HP manufacture use Sony sensor too

good tips.

so is it correct to say in dark/night situations, it's better to disable auto mode ?

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Added on September 3, 2012, 5:22 pmuse betterbatterystats to find out whats happening. It's free to download on XDA (XDA members edition)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1179809

charge your phone to 99, then unplug it from the usb. then don't touch your phone. just leave it be for 4-8 hours.

Then come back turn on phone and immediately check the betterbatterystats and see what it shows since unplugged in terms of

- wakelocks
- partial wake locks
- cpu state (how long was the deep sleep duration ? and was there lots of cpu usage going on or not ?)

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Sep 3 2012, 05:25 PM