Front Camera/Self Portrait photos flipping - NO option to reverse

[RS Aurelius]

I know this has been discussed before and "answers" to this question are readily available via a google search, but here's the issue.

Sprint Galaxy S3 obviously. Latest update. Stock rooted.

When I access the camera and change it to the front camera/self-portait and take a photo, it flips it. Suggestions online insinuate there is an option on the 'cogwheel' to disable or reverse "Auto Flip Picture" or something similar.

When I select the cogwheel and the front camera is enabled, the options are as follows:

- Edit Shortcuts
- Burst shot (grayed out)
- GPS tag
- Self-portrait (on obviously)
- Flash (grayed out)
- Shooting mode (single shot)
- Effects (no effect)
- Scene Mode (grayed out)
- Exposure Value (0)
- Focus Mode (grayed out)
- Timer (off)
- Resolution
- White Balance
- ISO (grayed)
- Metering (grayed)
- Auto contrast (grayed)
- Guidelines
- Auto share shot
- Anti-shake
- Contextual Filename
- Image Quality
- Storage
- Reset


How exactly do I obtain this 'option' to reverse the 'auto flip picture'? It is extremely annoying to have to save the picture, upload it to a PC or other image editing app and manually flip it that way.

PS: Yes, the phone is rooted (same procedure used as described on this forum) - but it is STOCK rooted. This is my only question on whether or not this may 'disable' or 'remove' that as an option...but that wouldn't make sense, why would rooting a phone eliminate a setting from a camera app? Problem has persisted from the older version to the newest version 4.1.2

 

[RS Aurelius]

does anyone know?!

 

[RS Aurelius]

The internet has failed me!

 

[meyerweb#CB]

There doesn't appear to be any way to do it in the camera app. Many photo editing programs, though, offer the ability to flip an image. I haven't looked at any of the Android ones, but I suspect some of them provide this ability.

 

[nicholad]

This happened to me a few weeks ago and I could not fix it until a few minutes ago. I read your post then decided to power down and pull the battery. Left it out for a few minutes, put it back together and presto! It all works again. Photos don't rotate to horizontal anymore unless I want them to.

Hope that helps