869726 - Portrait photos taken with camera appear with wrong rotation in gallery

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Gallery, defect)

Description

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

When I take photo's with the camera app on the Nexus S running FxOS the resulting picture displays incorrectly in the Gallery app.

Problem:

1) Take photo with camera held in portait
2) Photo appears in gallery rotated 90 degrees as if it had been a landscape photo.

This happens whether the front or back camera is used. Landscape photo's appear fine. If I copy the image onto my computer it appears fine so I assume the gallery app is mishandling the rotation information.

Comment 1

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

Attachment: Portrait photo 1

This photo was taken with in "Portrait" on the phone but appears landscape in the gallery. It appears portrait in apps on my PC that handle rotation data correctly.

Comment 2

[cajbir (:cajbir)]

Attachment: Landscape photo

This is a photo taken in landscape which appears in the gallery correctly.

Comment 3

[:gerard-majax]

We already worked a lot on this in the past with mikeh, I think we identified the root cause as a difference between devices for the rotation reference.

Comment 4

[:gerard-majax]

I used to work this around by changing rotation in gaia, something like -270.

Comment 5

[:gerard-majax]

I think it's not valid anymore. Anyway, I'm stopping dogfooding Nexus S.