http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/ Engadget Comments for Motorola Droid camera autofocus fixed in secrecy? (Update: it's a date-related self-correction) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/

no actually....

sorry that's not true]]>Nov 17th 2009 12:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
1. The Nano Video can't take pictures
2. The camera is VGA 0.3mp http://www.macmall.com/p/Apple-MP3-Players-&-Accessories/product~dpno~7921671~pdp.fhffbba
http://www.yugatech.com/blog/anything-apple/5g-ipod-nano-video-in-the-flesh/

Have fun comparing something that shoots low resolution 640x480 to a high res flash/autofocus D1 (720x480) @ 24fps.]]>Nov 17th 2009 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
"What if there was no silent fix pushed out, but rather the autofocus code was broken because specific states of the clock was interfering with the operation of the autofocus code? So when a certain time/date passed, the issue no longer exists and the code became functional by itself."

"Yes, this is exactly what is happening.
There's a rounding-error bug in the camera driver's autofocus routine (which uses a timestamp) that causes autofocus to behave poorly on a 24.5-day cycle. That is, it'll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again.
The 17th is the start of a new "works correctly" cycle, so the devices will be fine for a while. A permanent fix is in the works."

Crazy huh? All you conspiracy theorists dont have to worry about your phone being "silently" crippled. I'm just happy its fixed.]]>Nov 17th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/]]>Nov 17th 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
Again, just another guess, but I bet the time stamp is being pulled to tell the camera how to adjust the image it's taking. For example, this one pixel of the image is, in real life, half red, and half green. Which color should I make it when I digitize it? We'll randomly pick a number between 0 and 1 (ie: 0.675489). If it rounds up to 1, well make it green. If it rounds down to 0, well make it red.

Just random guessing in the dark here... ]]>Nov 17th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
Again, thanks for the pointer there.
]]>Nov 17th 2009 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
Hmm. Okay.]]>Nov 17th 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
24.5 days is approximately the number of milliseconds it takes to get to max int. So it's probably not a rounding error but a signed/unsigned int error in 2 different routines.]]>Nov 17th 2009 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
Damn ... you mathematician programmers know your shit.]]>Nov 17th 2009 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
Customer: I've been having some issues with my droid's camera
Verizon Rep: [with a small wave of his hand] These aren't the droids you're looking for.
Customer: Wtf are you talking about...that makes no sense
Verizon Rep: [with another small wave of his hand] AT&T has inferior 3G coverage.
Customer: Dude, are you going to help me with my camera issue or no?
Verizon Rep: [with another small wave of his hand] You have no camera problem.
Customer: I have....no....camera...problem
Verizon Rep: You can leave now. Move along.
]]>Nov 17th 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
That glowing red eye in the Ads... wasn't an eye D:]]>Nov 17th 2009 11:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
Droid does]]>Nov 18th 2009 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
How about a new catch phrase like, "Droid, it's one b*tchin phone" ... No? No.

=/ I got nothin. (wtb humor and originality)]]>Nov 18th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 18th 2009 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
I posted a YouTube video about this problem about 5 days ago with most people having the same problem. Last night at about 2am I got a video response for approval in my inbox on YouTube.

The guy claimed to "solve the non-auto-focusing issue" by simply breathing some hot air on it and then buffing it with a cloth. I thought it was too good to be true! Sounds much more plausible that Motorola silently pushed this update out.

And if you are still having problems with this, don't go to Verizon, they are clueless. Call Motorola customer support. They are actually pretty good at handling this problem.]]>Nov 17th 2009 7:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
D.]]>Nov 17th 2009 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
This is as uncomfortable as accidentally walking into a stranger's room.

*awkward silence*


....nice curtains.]]>Nov 17th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/]]>Nov 17th 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
perhaps i should invest in unlimited data plans....

]]>Nov 17th 2009 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
Documentation, please. Verizon says unlimited for smartphones, 5GB for tethering. they say that in the fine print. Unless you've got hard evidence otherwise, I'll go with what's written down.]]>Nov 17th 2009 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Actually you just need to get better at reading fine print.
"Anyone using more than 5 GB per line in a given month is presumed to be using the service in a manner prohibited above, and we reserve the right to immediately terminate the service of any such person without notice."
It's in the Calling Plan information under Data Plans and Features when you click on a plan.]]>Nov 17th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 18th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/
I'm happy that my camera is now usable, but I'm a little worried that something like this can happen. Who's to say it won't be used to take something away at some point, or what if they push out a silent update and it actually breaks something?]]>Nov 17th 2009 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/17/motorola-droid-camera-autofocus-fixed-in-secrecy/Nov 17th 2009 11:00AM