[St3ph3n]

OMG are you serious, the video recorder on the N97 sometimes freezes and its not focused...Everything is blurred!!! and theres no point zooming in because you can bearly see anything!!!!

[illinjah]

Honestly it is hard to tell if you´re expecting too much or if there is a problem with your camera...

Why don´t you make a small clip and upload it somewhere, so that other can tell you if this performance is normal? 

[sockatume]

The N97's video camera does focus at infinity, like most Nokias. Only a few (such as the N86) are set to focus nearby.

[St3ph3n]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1munMd1rNxA

[illinjah]

Hm it would have been better if you´d pointed at something that is sharp like the back of the books you had there on the shelve. This way it is difficult to judge if the camera is broken or if it is supposed to be that way. You either wait for another opinion or you make a second video.

[St3ph3n]

OK i'll make another video now

[St3ph3n]

If you study this one, it has some orange specks everywhere. specks? anyway, and it jumps abit.

Do you mind checking your N97 if this happens to you please

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWrv4tNb-Sg

[angelrico101]

Hi,

Orange specs you are referring to usually comes out if you take a video and the lighting condition is not enough for the camera sensor. Even if you try using a regular digicam you might get the same result. You might get rid of those orange specs by adjusting the camera settings but still it depends if the Nokia Settings is really that good to adjust the camera sensitivity so that it would remove the orange specs. 

About your other complaint, I need to check those.

Hope this helps.

[sockatume]

I don't think you're going to get rid of the blotchy colours, that's just sensor noise which you'll get on any modest digital video camera in low light. It shouldn't lock up like that, though.

[cjdelphi]

The video quality looks perfectly fine including when it zooms in, same for all models (exceptions to the few models like the N86, as pointed out already here)... the /only/ thing wrong is the fact is freezes.

I think the freezing might be down to the fact your memory is quite fragmented, connect the USB cable into Mass Storage mode so a drive letter shows up, then in Windows >  start > programs > accessories > system tools > disk defragmenter, select the  mass storage drive letter, and let it completely defrag...

I think that might possibly fix the freezing.

[tehrules]

I don't see how a Windows Defrag will solve the problem as:

1. its not a hard drive. flash doesn't have this issue as there are no moving heads.

2. the phone its self does not use a windows os so it wouldn't make any odds to it if it was fragmented from a windows point of view

3. symbian manages files differently. 

[cjdelphi]

I don't see how a Windows Defrag will solve the problem as:

1. its not a hard drive. flash doesn't have this issue as there are no moving heads.

 [Wrong, even though there's no moving heads, it still has to butterfly seek to get the data off if heavily fragmented slowing it down]

2. the phone its self does not use a windows os so it wouldn't make any odds to it if it was fragmented from a windows point of view

[what's windows got to do with it?  it's a FAT 32 drive, your harddrive can use FAT32/NTFS or any other kind of partition]

3. symbian manages files differently.

[It still has to read/write, the more jumps and seeks it has to do the slower it's going to read data due to the slow CPU in the N97, more seeks more work slower things become]

I never said it would fix it, i said it's worth a try as it MIGHT fix it if it's heavily fragmented, constantly adding, deleting

files, music, videos.... 

[el_loco]

The memory card may also be slow. Not all memory cards are built equally.

Try mass memory or Phone memory if that solves the issue you may have a slow card.

[St3ph3n]

Ok thanks guys but what if i do have a slow  mass memory

[illinjah]

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St3ph3n wrote:
Ok thanks guys but what if i do have a slow  mass memory

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Why should your mass memory be slower than others? It is incorporated in the phone´s hardware and is the ame within every N97... 

[St3ph3n]

I have no idea does anyone have a solution??

OK

I have to record one bad jumpy video and keep it, then when i record another video its smooth and perfect.....

[illinjah]

To me that sounds more like some part of your mass memory may be corrupt. Consider taking it to a Nokia Care Point maybe they have a method to check if the mass memory is ok.

[St3ph3n]

I had the same problem with my n95 8gb and i had to swap my phone four times...