A52 4G (A52q) - Camera photo files too large

/e/OS Devices Samsung
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Hello,

Until yesterday I was using /e/OS 3.04 T (android 13, lineage 20) and always has an issue with the camera files which are way too large, around 90 Mo for one picture. I read on post on this forum some years ago (unfortunately it seems to have disappeared, my link is broken) that this issue was fixed in Lineage 21.

So I was full of hope when I upgrade yesterday to e-4.0-a15-20260612634536-community-a52q but got disappointed to see that the problem remains the same. I tried to reset the camera settings, to change the file format (JPG, PGN) or the compression ratio of the JPG, but no change.

Anyone having a similar issue or any idea how to fix this ?

François

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I feel like I am the only one having this problem :sweat_smile: .

I tried to create a bug report to see if it can help.

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Bonjour, j’ai exactement le même problème que vous sur mon A52

intallation de mon os e avec odin 4 en mode graphique sur ubuntu

traduction en anglais:

Hello, I have exactly the same problem as you on my A52 Installing my OS with Odin 4 in graphical mode on ubuntu

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You have to change the image Typ of the camera to JPEG only. Not RAW

Best wishes

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@toto12 : thanks for confirming that I am not the only one with this issue. I would be curious to know if there anyone with an A52 who does not have this problem.

@jalmer : thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately I confirm that the setting for RAW is set to “No” and that the problem remains. More generally I have reset all the settings to the default values and I still get the large files.

François

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In light of your issue #9725 and

After downloading the files on a computer and exporting them to JPEG again, the size come back to normal

Regarding a logcat; redact personal info and submit via a pastebin like https://paste.tchncs.de/

I would suggest to experiment with a GCam Port

There are many A52 threads in Open Camera discussions.

Not A52 specific some idiosyncrasies for Samsung mentioned.

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Hi aidb,

Thanks for the pastebin information, this is new to me.

Following your suggestion I have tried an other camera app from the App Lounge GCam AI, and with this one I get normal size JPEG.

But I finally found an interesting point on the opencamera web site:

The “Image quality” setting has no effect for JPEGs on the Galaxy S10e (unless post-processing options such as auto-level or photo stamp are applied). This has also been reported for other Samsung devices;

I tried taking pictures using the date and time stamp, and then I get normal size JPEG too.

So it gave me an idea, I just add a customized text consisting of one space on the picture, we cannot see it on the picture and the file size problem seems fixed :slight_smile:. Still there is a bug but at least now like this I can use the Camera app almost normally !

François

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Bravo, nice fix :slight_smile: It is difficult to tell where the bug is and whether it can be overcome at /e/OS level but if the fix survives more testing I suggest you add your workaround to your Gitlab Work item for the benefit of devs and other users. Perhaps also inform https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencamera/.

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Great, it works for me too! Thanks.

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I have updated the work item in GitLab, but I also realized this issue and the workaround was mentionned in the following discussion in 2022: https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/discussion/general/thread/77492f4d/?limit=25#35b7

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