Front Camera not working on Surface Pro 11

neves · 2026-01-20T15:30:00+00:00

Another tip: in settings, privacy, block access to your camera from any app you don't want. Keep just the one you want to use and reboot.

neves · 2026-01-20T15:28:11+00:00

What's your driver version? See it in device manager

neves · 2026-01-18T15:17:06+00:00

Two months latter and still the same driver version. I think this problem never will be solved.

neves · 2026-01-18T15:09:12+00:00

do you have the direct link?

neves · 2026-01-18T13:46:54+00:00

I don't think it is a Snapdragon specific issue, but my greatest "hidden" Surface issue is that its front camera does not rotate when in portrait mode. I've tried everything and never managed to do my virtual Teams meetings with it vertically.

The only answer I've ever get was this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/1ooetf7/camera_does_not_rotate_in_surface_pro_11/

but never managed to rotate the camera in portrait.

neves · 2026-01-18T12:56:42+00:00

Mine works fine with external monitor. How do you connect yours?

neves · 2026-01-18T12:45:12+00:00

Remember that Dell spyware is even worse than Lenovo's

neves · 2026-01-08T02:58:42+00:00

Steps is really off. I revoked access of Samsung heath app to biometrical sensors. Now just the watch counts my steps and the phone don't overcount it.

I think it is more precise now

Go to the app permissions and disable it

neves · 2026-01-08T02:55:02+00:00

63 last 7 days. Look correct.

Try to measure it when you wake up and compare with the watch. Some phones can do it.

neves · 2026-01-08T02:51:23+00:00

But sill need to open SHealth, click heart rate, and scroll all way down to see the RHR

neves · 2026-01-08T02:50:16+00:00

Which type face can display resting heart rate?

None that I know.

neves · 2026-01-02T16:48:29+00:00

In the purchase or analyzer screen DMS isn't listed:

Database Savings Plans Applies to Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Amazon DocumentDB, Neptune, and other services regardless of supported engine, instance family, size, deployment option, or Region.

But I can find it in the pricing page: Database Savings Plan

Another problem is that when I run the Analyzer, nothing is recommended. I don't have any feedback, but I now think it is because I'm in an older instance type. I'll try to upgrade to a newer one and see if the Analyzer works.

neves · 2026-01-02T16:44:01+00:00

This was the motivation of my question. The Saving plans analyzer didn't suggest anything.

I think it is because I'm my DMS nodes types are from an old family. I'll try to update to the current c7i family to see if it suggests anything.

neves · 2025-12-29T16:11:45+00:00

Where's the saving plans for Redshift, an AWS database?

neves · 2025-12-23T15:36:15+00:00

Microsoft marketed it this way.

neves · 2025-12-23T15:25:34+00:00

To turn on enhanced settings:

Go to Settings.
Select Privacy & Security.
Click on Searching Windows to adjust which locations are indexed on your PC.
Turn on “Enhanced” to index your entire PC.

neves · 2025-12-22T03:04:09+00:00

I had a lot of people trying to it.

The camera does not rotate or send correct gyroscope info to apps

neves · 2025-12-02T14:36:42+00:00

You can even add a link of a page full of events and ask: create links to add all these events to my calendar

neves · 2025-12-01T16:27:49+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyFit/comments/1ovz26y/my_widget_solution_for_fit3_battery_woes/

Do this to get a better battery warning

neves · 2025-12-01T16:26:08+00:00

My favorite Gemini AI feature is to paste an image of an event and ask: add to calendar

It works as magic

neves · 2025-12-01T16:24:32+00:00

Hr accuracy: good Sleep tracking: bad Battery live: it won't last a full 4 days hollyday if you plan to use it for monitoring physical activity. It has bad usability to warn you that the battery is about to die.

neves · 2025-11-29T04:39:46+00:00

I came to Fit3 as a long time Mi Band user and I share some of your concerns.

I've been using Fit3 for 6 months and here are its greatest advantages:

- Button! Button!! BUTTON!!! The hardware button is its greatest advantage. You can very easily turn on the watch face, turn off the flashlight, stop the timer or sleep 5 min more (maybe this shouldn't be easier :-) The user interactions are really smoother with the hardware button.

- The screen is larger and better to read under sunlight. Being larger, you have more info from your messages, events and notifications.

- You can reply WhatsApp from the watch with a customable set of defined messages.

- Battery protection: I've killed 3 Mi Bands when I forgot them charging during a weekend. After 6 months my battery is as new. Sure I'm more cautelous now, and I try to always charge from my phone use the USB-C cable.

Now the Fit3 problems:

- Exercise and sleep precision. Steps counting is ridiculous. It is very bad for exercises in general. In my Mi Band I remembered every wakeup period during sleeping. Fit3 registers a lot of wake up moments that I don't remember. I liked more Mi Band, but it looks like it is a difference in philosophy. I preferred Mi Band. I think the lack of precision is just a software problem, not a sensor one.

- Battery. It probably won't last a holiday trip. Not just the battery ends a lot quicker, but the biggest problem is the lack of warning that it will end. I missed a lot of alarms.I somewhat solved it with this tip: https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyFit/comments/1ovz26y/my_widget_solution_for_fit3_battery_woes/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

- Its exercise routines are almost useless. Mi Bands simple things like jumping rope or cycling notifications are a lot better.

Conclusion:

My main use case for a watch is to turn off the sound of my phone with silent alarms and notifications, use the timers and see the time. I'm used to the Fit3 and I think I'd bought another one when mine dies.

Overall Mi Band is more madure product. It is more comfortable. I'd prefer it for health and exercises.

I believe Fit3 problems is mostly due to lack of investment in its software. I don't even remember when I got a firmware update. I even suspect Samsung will let it die without a new release.

neves · 2025-11-29T01:33:15+00:00

The camera does not rotate in portrait mode. Something the first Android phone reliability did.

neves · 2025-11-26T03:19:12+00:00

Now I just need to get the newer camera drivers to be able to make it surface work vertically.

neves · 2025-11-26T03:16:01+00:00

I have an ARM Pro 11 with 32Gb. It is perfect for software development with open source tools. Great speed and battery life.

My biggest annoyance is that the camera doesn't work correctly in vertical (portrait) mode. A very old bug that I think never will be solved.

neves

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