Upgrading android regrets
September 27, 2013 5:29 AM Subscribe
In a previous version of the android operating system there was a function to be able to take a picture of a moving object and have its motion captured in one image. Like this. The most recent andoid OS (Jelly Bean) doesn't have this function any more (that I can find). Help me find something that can do the same thing!
I have tried finding a secondary camera app that would allow for it but no dice. I do not want to go back to Ice Cream Sandwich.
I know there is supposed to be a new version (KitKat) coming out in October (alledgedly). Any idea if it will be on that new version?
I have tried finding a secondary camera app that would allow for it but no dice. I do not want to go back to Ice Cream Sandwich.
I know there is supposed to be a new version (KitKat) coming out in October (alledgedly). Any idea if it will be on that new version?
Response by poster: Samsung Galaxy S2. My carrier is Rogers in Canada, in case that matters though I doubt that it does.
posted by PuppetMcSockerson at 6:16 AM on September 27, 2013
posted by PuppetMcSockerson at 6:16 AM on September 27, 2013
It's a Galaxy thing, not an Android thing. My S3 has it.
posted by blue_wardrobe at 6:21 AM on September 27, 2013
posted by blue_wardrobe at 6:21 AM on September 27, 2013
Response by poster: What version of android are you running, blue_wardrobe? My S2 had it too, until I upgraded the OS to JellyBean, so it isn't that my phone is incapable of doing it. It used to do it. I just need an app/patch/whatever to let me do it again.
I found a wikipedia article about the function, and it even references the S2 as being capable of doing it.
posted by PuppetMcSockerson at 6:24 AM on September 27, 2013
I found a wikipedia article about the function, and it even references the S2 as being capable of doing it.
posted by PuppetMcSockerson at 6:24 AM on September 27, 2013
The S4 has this feature and it looks like you can download the S4 camera app and install it on a Jellybean phone.
posted by merocet at 6:38 AM on September 27, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by merocet at 6:38 AM on September 27, 2013 [1 favorite]
How weird! I have an S4 (running Jellybean 4.2.2) and just glanced through my camera's options, only to discover that I'd lost the Drama function as well (along with the Eraser function and a few others). Following advice I found on this forum thread, I went into my Application Manager and cleared the data and cache for the Camera app - and now all of those camera functions are back in place.
Hopefully that'll work for you, too (and, uh, thanks for alerting me to a problem I hadn't realized I had!).
posted by DingoMutt at 7:23 AM on September 27, 2013 [1 favorite]
Hopefully that'll work for you, too (and, uh, thanks for alerting me to a problem I hadn't realized I had!).
posted by DingoMutt at 7:23 AM on September 27, 2013 [1 favorite]
I'm currently running the Hyperdrive ROM, RLS 13. It retains the Samsung Galaxy features. I don't know if there is an S2 compatible Hyperdrive ROM.
posted by blue_wardrobe at 10:28 AM on October 3, 2013
posted by blue_wardrobe at 10:28 AM on October 3, 2013
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I've been using pretty-much-stock Android since "Eclair" (from an original Droid to the Galaxy Nexus) and I don't remember any feature like that in the stock camera app. (That being said, I haven't really gone too far in-depth with camera features, so it may have been there and I missed it)
posted by jozxyqk at 6:10 AM on September 27, 2013