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dervari

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When I connect my phone to my PC as a camera, all the portrait pictures that I have taken show up on the PC as Landscape and require me to manually rotate every one of them. On the phone, they show correct.

Has anyone else had this issue?
 
iPhones have similar issues. As with the iPhone, it's probably Windows misreading (or not reading) all of the EXIF information, and doesn't know the proper orientation. If you import them into Picasa, they'll probably be oriented correctly.
 
Strange that my Atrix never had this problem.

Also, when I uploaded photos to Meetup.com, a portrait photo showed up as landscape.

I thought the phones were supposed to know internally which orientation the phone was in when the picture was taken and save the picture in the appropriate format without relying on EXIF data.
 
That's all fine and good if I'm at a PC, but if I upload a picture via sharing from my phone I don't have that luxury.
 
Can you figure out whether the problem is consistent? If so can you rotate it prior to sending it? I'd test it for you but, well, you have your phone...:)
 
I have the same problem when uploading to fb. Stinks that I have to tell my friends to hold their heads sideways. :p
 
cmybliss said:
I have the same problem when uploading to fb. Stinks that I have to tell my friends to hold their heads sideways. :p
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I discovered the cause on my s2 prior to purchase of my s3. If you have the phone set to automatically rotate the display, and take a picture vertically, it will remain vertical in all displays (assuming you didn't slightly tilt the camera during the shot). If you do not have orientation set to automatically set to rotate the screen, all pictures will be in landscape format (initially). You will see the camera controls display vertically of horizontally likewise.

This was my experience. If may not be relevant to all.
 
Same problem here. Uploading on Tapatalk, this is happening sometimes. I have tried to edit the pic before uploading, but it doesn't help.
 
johnBS said:
I discovered the cause on my s2 prior to purchase of my s3. If you have the phone set to automatically rotate the display, and take a picture vertically, it will remain vertical in all displays (assuming you didn't slightly tilt the camera during the shot). If you do not have orientation set to automatically set to rotate the screen, all pictures will be in landscape format (initially). You will see the camera controls display vertically of horizontally likewise.
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This was the problem. I turned on auto rotation and it worked great!
 
johnBS said:
I discovered the cause on my s2 prior to purchase of my s3. If you have the phone set to automatically rotate the display, and take a picture vertically, it will remain vertical in all displays (assuming you didn't slightly tilt the camera during the shot). If you do not have orientation set to automatically set to rotate the screen, all pictures will be in landscape format (initially). You will see the camera controls display vertically of horizontally likewise.

This was my experience. If may not be relevant to all.
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Thanks! I discovered yesterday that auto-rotate was off. I turned it on and problem is fixed! :D
 
I set up a Tasker profile so that when I start the Camera app Auto-Rotate gets turned on. When I exit the Camera, Auto-Rotate gets turned off. Works pretty good!

Samsung needs to make the camera ignore the Auto-Rotate setting, or at least give you an option to ignore it.
 
This must be related to the other bug i reported about auto rotate. On other phones if you have auto rotate off YouTube and quickpic can still read the orientation sensor and rotate anyhow. On this phone it doesn't.

Camera app is probably also unable to read the sensor when auto rotate is off.

This is definitely a system bug.
 
lexluthor said:
This must be related to the other bug i reported about auto rotate. On other phones if you have auto rotate off YouTube and quickpic can still read the orientation sensor and rotate anyhow. On this phone it doesn't.

Camera app is probably also unable to read the sensor when auto rotate is off.

This is definitely a system bug.
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A quick update to the Tasker profile fixed this, too. :)
 
dervari said:
I set up a Tasker profile so that when I start the Camera app Auto-Rotate gets turned on. When I exit the Camera, Auto-Rotate gets turned off. Works pretty good!

Samsung needs to make the camera ignore the Auto-Rotate setting, or at least give you an option to ignore it.
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Interesting. I never heard of a tasker profile. Could you give a step-by-step on how to do this?
 
dervari said:
Strange that my Atrix never had this problem.

Also, when I uploaded photos to Meetup.com, a portrait photo showed up as landscape.

I thought the phones were supposed to know internally which orientation the phone was in when the picture was taken and save the picture in the appropriate format without relying on EXIF data.
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I was of the impression that the orientation was stored *in* the EXIF data.
 
Actually, I take that back. Auto-Rotate on makes no difference. Apparently Dropbox auto-orients the picture based on the EXIF data. When I pull the pictures from my phone directly they still aren't showing up correctly.

What is interesting is that the Windows Live Photo View apparently doesn't honor the EXIF tag.
 
QuickPic seems to show the correctly, but still random orientation when I email, MMS, or upload to FB/Dropbox... ANNOYING!
 
I haven't had issues with anything other than Meetup and emailing when someone tries to view it with a non-EXIF compliant viewer.
 
aparis99 said:
QuickPic seems to show the correctly, but still random orientation when I email, MMS, or upload to FB/Dropbox... ANNOYING!
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I use QickPic.....On my phone, I do get the orietation issue with Dropbox, but email and mms give proper orientation for me.
 
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