Official Sony Background Defocus app

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honglong

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Looks interesting, not compatible with my device from the google play store. Even though it's an Xperia L and 4.2.2 ?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.backgrounddefocus

 

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StillBrilliant

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• Apr 24, 2014

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honglong said:

Looks interesting, not compatible with my device from the google play store. Even though it's an Xperia L and 4.2.2 ?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.backgrounddefocus

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Here is another thread about it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2728482

It doesn't install on our stock firmware, because we didn't get it with Sony's Smart Social Camera. Maybe this will work when you flash that to your phone first.

 

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honglong

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StillBrilliant said:

Here is another thread about it: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2728482

It doesn't install on our stock firmware, because we didn't get it with Sony's Smart Social Camera. Maybe this will work when you flash that to your phone first.

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Bizzare Sony quoted this for the Xperia L

The camera experts’ camera phone
If camera engineers made a smartphone, what smartphone would they make? The answer is Xperia L, the Android mobile designed with Sony’s leading camera expertise.

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Yet we don't get this app or an update to 4.3. Just the social camera would be fine.

 

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honglong said:

Bizzare Sony quoted this for the Xperia L



Yet we don't get this app or an update to 4.3. Just the social camera would be fine.

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Well SONY is like an a****le to its own phones... they made apps and updates to some particular phones and let other phones, as good as others and better, fall behind, for what? Thes did dissapoint me...

 

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Bolonjez said:

Well SONY is like an a****le to its own phones... they made apps and updates to some particular phones and let other phones, as good as others and better, fall behind, for what? Thes did dissapoint me...

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Same here Getting piss of Xperia M getting 4.3 and all the GOODIES while us STOCK on 4.2

 

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Rparalejas123 said:

Same here Getting piss of Xperia M getting 4.3 and all the GOODIES while us STOCK on 4.2

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Sony should update the info for Xperia M

"If camera engineers made a smartphone, what smartphone would they make? The answer is not the Xperia M, the Android mobile designed without Sony’s leading camera expertise."

Sony say, Let's update it to 4.3 and give it a social camera!

Whereas the actual Xperia with a camera designed by Sony’s leading camera expertise gets 4.2 and no social camera. Honestly the focus and lag is rubbish. My iPhone 4 is better and that's years older.

Thanks Sony!

 

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The focus is much better in Xperia L but Sony camera software is really bad. GO TO Facebook page of xperia l, a person merged libraries of xperia m in L and he have got amazing results

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a.moiz0322 said:

The focus is much better in Xperia L but Sony camera software is really bad. GO TO Facebook page of xperia l, a person merged libraries of xperia m in L and he have got amazing results

Sent from my C2105 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

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Have you used an iPhone 4? Basically it focuses and when you press the shutter, the photo is taken, no blur.

The Xperia L, focuses, looks great, you press the shutter and the phone refocuses, so really great if you take photos of something that is stationary (building, landscape) but useless for anything which moves slightly.

I have a 17 month old boy and it's nearly impossible to take photos blur free, with the iPhone, nearly every photo is perfect. I will post one from each so you can compare. I got the xperia L to replace the iPhone 4. Unless Sony do something with the software, it's going on eBay.

 

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a.moiz0322 said:

The focus is much better in Xperia L but Sony camera software is really bad. GO TO Facebook page of xperia l, a person merged libraries of xperia m in L and he have got amazing results

Sent from my C2105 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

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Can you give link to that page? I can't find it.

 

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a.moiz0322 said:

The focus is much better in Xperia L but Sony camera software is really bad. GO TO Facebook page of xperia l, a person merged libraries of xperia m in L and he have got amazing results

Sent from my C2105 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

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The focus of the XL is a problem. Touch to focus works, but press the shutter and it refocuses. It takes me several tries to get the actual focus I want. This is more apparent when trying to shoot on macro or close moving objects.

I really don't know what's wrong with Sony's software team.

 

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Honestly it's useless as it is.

The annoying this is, Exmor-R, Exmor-RS sensors are in iPhone, Samsung phones and they take amazing photos but the actually Sony phones suck. Definitely a software issue as using the google camera app the camera focuses and take a photo (rather than refocusing).

 

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Well said my brother

 

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The sharper ones are taken after copying libraries and vendors

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Bolonjez

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Is it true that we can instal it to with 4.2.2 and ROOT-ed devices? Has anyone tried?

 

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its so good

honglong said:

Looks interesting, not compatible with my device from the google play store. Even though it's an Xperia L and 4.2.2 ?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sonymobile.backgrounddefocus

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its so good

 

Bolonjez

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its so good

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Have you instaled it? How, if you did?

It won't instal on my xperia L, I have rooted my phone but it won't instal.

 

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Bolonjez said:

Have you instaled it? How, if you did?

It won't instal on my xperia L, I have rooted my phone but it won't instal.

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It won't install on our XL. Its an addon for sony smart camera and will be available for those mobiles which got the smart camera app. Thank you sony for leaving us and fooling us. I think this might be my last sony smartphone. You are worst at customer support. Even XM has got 4.3 and smart camera app but we with 8mp camera are left alone and no sign of update.
Really annoying sony.