Problem with selctive focus and live focus modes

Doron.ili

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Am I the only one who has problems with selective focus mode on the front camera?
No metter what i'm doing and wher i tap on the screen, it just not recognize objects and when it (finally) does, it happens after a lot of tries.
Solution anyone??? :(
 
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dottat

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Am I the only one who has problems with selective focus mode on the front camera?
No metter what i'm doing and wher i tap on the screen, it just not recognize objects and when it (finally) does, it happens after a lot of tries.
Solution anyone??? :(
I ended up finding a test object in focus and forcing it to lock focus by long pressing and then aiming at the intended object.

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Doron.ili

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I ended up finding a test object in focus and forcing it to lock focus by long pressing and then aiming at the intended object.

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Got it.. so now it works- not perfect (as i like ;) ) and not always..
i'm assuming its a... bug (??)
At the s8 this mode working perfectly with one simple (and short) tap... :rolleyes:
 

brholt6

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So now its not working at al... again. no metter how and where i tap
Help :crying:
If it makes you feel any better, I haven't gotten it to work either. I talked to a buddy and he was having issues as well.

My wife will be devistated...she loves selfies haha. I don't take many but it is a bummer that it's not working.

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Doron.ili

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If it makes you feel any better, I haven't gotten it to work either. I talked to a buddy and he was having issues as well.

My wife will be devistated...she loves selfies haha. I don't take many but it is a bummer that it's not working.

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Nice to know that i'm not alone.. haha
I'm not even talking about the live focus mode that doesn't work well aither..
1000$ phone that his main feature is not working. Good for you samsung....
 

brholt6

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Nice to know that i'm not alone.. haha
I'm not even talking about the live focus mode that doesn't work well aither..
1000$ phone that his main feature is not working. Good for you samsung....
Yea, for the selective focus to not work at all on selfies is odd. I'd imagine we start seeing more people complain of the issue before too long.

I haven't tested the live focus mode much. I came back to Android from the 7 Plus and it took quite a few updates before portrait mode worked very well. I'd imagine Samsung can dial it in with some updates too.

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Doron.ili

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Yea, for the selective focus to not work at all on selfies is odd. I'd imagine we start seeing more people complain of the issue before too long.

I haven't tested the live focus mode much. I came back to Android from the 7 Plus and it took quite a few updates before portrait mode worked very well. I'd imagine Samsung can dial it in with some updates too.

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The problem is that samsung and updates are not good friends.. :(
Thats way o hope to get any sulution here.. pleasssssse
 
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brholt6

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Maybe your unit might be defective? I'm not seeing any problems using selective focus or live focus on my end.
Sounds like a pretty common defect then. I now have 2 friends with the same issue. Is there a trick to getting selective focus to work? Lighting maybe?

Edit:. Has to be the lighting...just gave it another shot with no issues.

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roaduardo

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Sounds like a pretty common defect then. I now have 2 friends with the same issue. Is there a trick to getting selective focus to work? Lighting maybe?

Edit:. Has to be the lighting...just gave it another shot with no issues.

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Yeah, usually there's a warning message that pops up saying there's not enough light in the shot. I was messing around with live focus in my bedroom under some tv lighting only and saw the alert. Makes sense.
 

langdoy

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Any updates to this? Anyone do more research? I have the same with the front camera when I gave more than 1 person in the photo. It will not focus and selective focus doesn't work either.
 

Limeybastard

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Nice to know that i'm not alone.. haha
I'm not even talking about the live focus mode that doesn't work well aither..
1000$ phone that his main feature is not working. Good for you samsung....
My old Huewei Honor 8 camera was simple to use. I could even easily blur the background after image was taken.
I'm also finding the same issues as you guys said with the note 8 camera.

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swiguno

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Any solutions to this problem?

I haven't been able to use selective focus on the front camera since I bought the phone. It keeps saying there is no subject detected. Please help.
 

shockngage

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I'll be joining the list of "front camera bug on selective focus mode". Unable to use it since I bought the phone too. I'm using the latest build for my country (N950FXXU2BQKG)