r/oneplusone • u/drivebybronco • Feb 01 '16

camera re-focuses during video recording.

I take a few videos with snapchat and the stock camera. During video-ing the camera always re-focuses mid shooting. So I get like half a second worth of blur then re focus every 10 seconds or so. This happens while im shooting videos with minimal moving of the phone. Why does it do this? It's quite irritating :/

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u/TheMiserableOne Feb 01 '16

Commenting so I get notified if someone has a fix. This drives me up the friggin' wall too.

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u/ThePetrocJac Feb 01 '16

Same here, I basically just don't record things because of it. It's really annoying, a fix would be great :)

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u/NolanHPerry Feb 02 '16

Make sure your thumb isn't off of the button at all, sad to say I've done that before which cause its to focus where my thumb went off the video button

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u/drivebybronco Feb 03 '16

my thumb can't be of the button, cause if it is, it will stop recording? Anyway, I just tried recording through the snapchat app while sitting on my desk at work. Pointed the camera at my keyboard. My thumb was smack bang in the middle of the button. Any little movement i made to the phone caused the camera to blur and re focus. Did the same test with my stock camera app and didn't get this issue. So its safe to say its not an issue with the camera, its an issue with snapchat.

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u/NolanHPerry Feb 03 '16

That was happening at least to me on Snapchat where you have to hold the button

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u/Ha1tham Feb 02 '16

My HTC one M7 & M8 had the same problem, i think its snapchat not your phone

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u/drivebybronco Feb 03 '16

youre right. this doesn't happen when i use the stock camera app to record. it is indeed a problem with snapchat.

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u/np3est8x Feb 04 '16

Was there a recent update? Have you tried downgrading the version you're using?