The video recording on the Fairphone 2 is atrocious.

Opolork

@domubpkm Hi. I rarely record videos, so will stick with the FP2 for a while longer. The camera photos function works fine. I'm not a big user of smartphones - much prefer a Desktop PC with a keyboard & mouse.

arubislander

@opolork said in The video recording on the Fairphone 2 is atrocious.:

@domubpkm Hi. I rarely record videos, so will stick with the FP2 for a while longer. The camera photos function works fine. I'm not a big user of smartphones - much prefer a Desktop PC with a keyboard & mouse.

Why the strong words in the post title then?

Opolork

@arubislander Strong words? The video recording is indeed atrocious. I'm just telling the truth.

Aloys

Hello @opolork
For info on my FP2 (with OTA-22), the video recording is working well, quality is good.

Opolork

@aloys Hi. You may have the better camera module. There's 2 types. BTW, does the torch/flash work on your FP2?

Aloys

@opolork, yes I have the last camera module (the one with 12MPix). And the torch/flash does not work.

Opolork

@aloys Hmm. That's the same module as mine. I recall that the video recording was not as bad years ago.

RedXXIII

@aloys same for me and don't remember problems with video recording.

Opolork

@redxxiii said in The video recording on the Fairphone 2 is atrocious.:

don't remember problems with video recording

Hi. I wonder why my video recording is so hit and miss then.

RedXXIII

@opolork not an expert but maybe an hardware problem? Or... did you tried to re-install UT doing "wipe-data"? (don't forget to backup before!

Opolork

@redxxiii said in The video recording on the Fairphone 2 is atrocious.:

@opolork not an expert but maybe an hardware problem? Or... did you tried to re-install UT doing "wipe-data"? (don't forget to backup before!

Hi.

I did a reinstall. See here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6897/issue-installing-ut-stable-over-old-ut-dev-installation-solved

Yes, perhaps that's the cause.

RedXXIII

@opolork OK great. That was not easy but you succeeded How is your video recording now?

Opolork

@redxxiii said in The video recording on the Fairphone 2 is atrocious.:

@opolork OK great. That was not easy but you succeeded How is your video recording now?

Hi. No, I meant I did a reinstall a while back. I've not changed anything. I will just use the video recording feature rarely. I don't want to reinstall everything just to fix that.

RedXXIII

@opolork OK, I understand… But maybe there is nothing more that could help. Maybe the next time the reinstallation should be easier

Opolork

@redxxiii said in The video recording on the Fairphone 2 is atrocious.:

Maybe the next time the reinstallation should be easier

Possibly. But I don't fancy having to reinstall loads of apps and tweak settings again.

RedXXIII

@opolork Sure You should have a look at these scripts, they are very promising. I already use them when needed, and they are very useful. I hope that could be useful to you also.

https://github.com/Intrinsically-Sublime/UT-Backup-Restore-Scripts

Opolork

@redxxiii Thank you.