topic Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance in C Series

Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Write2Sameh — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:20:45 GMT

Why does the camera take forever to load and snap photos on the Xperia C5 Ultra? Everything else is pretty much great and quite fast to open up but the camera and it's different modes seem to take a toll on the phone's performance. Eventually it works well and takes good photos but for a phone that was sold to me simply because it has the best selfie camera in the market... the one feature which I use the most is annoyingly slow. Will Sony fix this in the next update or is this something I just need to live with?

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Uliwooly — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 01:00:08 GMT

@Write2Sameh

Do you experience the same lag while on safe mode?

settings > apps > all > camera > clear data > boot on safe mode again > check again.

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Write2Sameh — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 06:55:55 GMT

I tried it per your recommendation and it is much faster to load with no lag.

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Uliwooly — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 07:06:49 GMT

@Write2Sameh

Keep us updated.

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Write2Sameh — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 07:16:33 GMT

I'm not too sure what you mean? Shall I keep the phone on safe mode to have a better camera experience? When I switched back to normal mode the Camera lag and performance went back to slow mode. I don't also have many other apps running in the background. Anyone else in the forum facing this grievance?

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Uliwooly — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 07:18:15 GMT

@Write2Sameh

You have to find the app that its causing this, its not a preloaded app, it's an app that you've downloaded, it could be a taskiller, antivirus, ram app, battery app, etc.

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Write2Sameh — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 07:23:27 GMT

Sure thing. Will try my luck. Any tips you can recommend? Also, I never said thanks for your help thus far 🙂 Thank you.

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Uliwooly — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 21:37:52 GMT

@Write2Sameh

What I do is this

open the app drawer > swipe left to right > installed > swipe left to right > uninstall > uninstall app by app until you find the culprit

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Write2Sameh — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:22:13 GMT

I uninstalled the apps one by one and the culprit was the Google now launcher.

Thanks a ton for your help

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

bounsir — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:30:00 GMT

Sometimes when I start recording video it freezes, then when I try to open it again after closing it in the task list it comes up with an error and only way to get it to work again is to restart it but the same problem happens before it can work again.

Even after the error I tried to use my other video recording app and it said camera is unable to be accessed, used by another application, though I have closed the camera app before.

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Write2Sameh — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 10:57:35 GMT

This problem is because of google now. There was a post about this in the forum.

Disable the Google Now voice command and that should fix things for you. The post I am referring to has a step by step explanation.

Good luck.

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

bounsir — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:33:15 GMT

Even withouth the Google now voice it still is slow

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

Write2Sameh — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 19:49:27 GMT

I completely agree. I used to have a xperia Z2 and that phone had the same ram and comparable processing power. The camera was fast to load and the phone's performance was overall great. The C5 Ultra has some serious performance issues and I am hating the amount of time the camera loads and especially the time it takes for a picture to load after I take a snap. Uninstalling the google now launcher and disabilling the voice command helped but was not the solution to this issue. I tried everything to fix this but the only thing I can say is we probably just need to wait for the upgrade to Anroid M. Hopefully that will fix things up.

Re: Xperia C5 Ultra Camera Loading Time & Performance

kyu_44 — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:34:33 GMT

I had already updated my OS to marshmallow but still, the photo is so slow to load....any solutions to this vintage problem?