Unable to take pictures using selfie stick on Xiaomi Redmi phone?

Selfie stick are great fun to use and a handy tool to own. Using Selfie Sticks we can click better pictures than with our extended arm, whether alone or with a group of friends. The scene is much better than taking with extended arm, which often is quite close and we may not be able to fit all in the frame. Selfie Sticks are also handy when visiting places alone. Instead of asking someone around to click you, you can do it on your own. In this post, we will explore how to enable Selfie Stick operation on Xiaomi Redmi Android Phones. The settings described is almost similar to any smartphones in the market today, that is to enable the volume buttons to click pictures.

Unable to take pictures using selfie stick on Xiaomi Redmi Android phone?

Selfie sticks uses the volume button control to tell the phone to take pictures. So the phone should be able to take pictures with the volume buttons even without a selfie stick. This applies to any phone. If the phone is not taking pictures with the volume buttons, configure the phone's camera settings.

Watch this short video demo for the settings required for taking pictures using a selfie stick 

Settings on the mobile phone camera

 

1) open phone camera

2) navigate to phone camera settings 

3) find "volume button function "

4) set to "shutter" or "capture".

5) go back to the mobile phone camera and try to take pictures using the volume buttons,  up or down 

6) if successful, plug in the selfie stick aux cable and test.

If not successful, check the settings below.

For other mobile phones, if there is no option to change the volume button function to capture, the camera cannot be used to take pictures using a selfie stick. In this case, find an app which allows to change the volume button function to capture photos. Camera 360 is one such app that can be used.

Volume buttons set to shutter/capture but still not able to take pictures using selfie stick 

 

After the volume button is set to take pictures, if the selfie stick is still not taking pictures, there is one place to check.

Mobile phone headphone settings 

1) open phone settings 

2) navigate to "additional settings " > "headphones & audio settings "

3) find "headphone remote buttons" under "assign buttons"

4) select "control volume level "

5) test

The above steps are for Redmi phones. On other phone, find similar menu items and try.

The mobile phone camera should be able to take pictures using the selfie stick.

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If at all your Android Camera does not have camera settings to assign volume keys to take pictures, then you may download selfie camera apps from Google Play and try them out. Camera 360 app is one such app that will work. Download Camera 360 on Google Play here.

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