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I've seen a few different things written that touch on this, but nothing I can find directly answers this question. Is there a way in Android to see - and change - what app is the current default app for handling a file based on the file's extension? By handling, I'm referring in my case to...

Hi, If any of the S9 owners could do me a favor it would be greatly appreciated. What I'm looking for is for someone to take a couple of long-distance pics with their phone with the camera in Pro mode, and tell me what they see with regards to focus, compared to the same picture in auto mode...

OK well - I've messed around with every setting possible, and it's just not working. It's just not focusing well when in Pro mode, no matter what ISO, F-stop, or shutter speed I use. So the question is - is the general Samsung S9 issue, or is it a problem with my phone specifically. If...

The problem with tracking mode is that it doesn't stay constant focus - it "tracks" whatever is in the frame that you point to, and continues refocusing on that, so it suffers from the same low-light problem that auto-focus does - if it doesn't have enough contrast (due to the low light) it has...

Thanks for the help guys. I've been doing a bit of messing around but am in a class this week so haven't had a chance to post. Will post some within the next couple of days. One thing I need to do is learn a little more about how this kind of camera does its focusing with the CMOS. I...

When in auto mode - yes it will focus properly, but only in good-light conditions. In low light (e.g. late dusk) it has trouble auto-focusing*, which is why I want to use manual focus. *This is natural I believe - since cameras use contrast in their focusing algorithms, and there's less...

OK pardon my ignorance on this subject. I mistakenly thought "focal length" was literally the distance between the camera and the subject being focused on, but I see (as a bell rings) that it's the distance between the lens and the sensor. What I was really referring to was focal *distance*...

P.S. I'm guessing this is a low-level command thing in the camera's API, rather than an app thing, since it's broken both in the Samsumg Photo app as well as the LapseIt Pro timelapse app. Presumably they are both telling the camera controller "focus on infinity", but the camera controller...

Thanks - though unfortunately this won't work. It's not that the "infinity" setting (end of the range) goes too far - it's that it doesn't go far enough. So there isn't any setting in the range that works. I try looking at the pictures' metadata, but apparently Samsung doesn't store a lot...

Greetings - any help on this would be appreciated. I love doing time lapse videos on my S9, however am having a problem trying to sunrise and sunset, because the manual infinite focus in pro mode is not working right - it's blurry. Infinite focus works right in auto-focus, however this does...

I too am having this issue. "Delete apps", "move files" etc is fine, but I'm more concerned with the root cause - I want to find out what specific apps are being memory hogs before I start moving and deleting things. Unfortunately it appears to Android file manager doesn't show all the...

I'm trying to do this as well - however I have have a perhaps more basic problem. The flashlight icon has never appeared in my status bar. I've done searches and see how to bring up the flashlight icon in Lollipop - by "double-swiping" down the status bar. However my phone (S5) doesn't have...

That works. Thanks! (Seems like selecting the email app would prompt to set up a new account if it sees none there, but oh well)

Hi all, I just got a Droid X, and am trying to set it up to get email from my Verizon.net email account. The sales rep *said* it could be done, though it doesn't seem to work, and I'm wondering if it really can be done - it appears instead they try to push you to use gmail instead. I really...