Can't read QR codes?

[Midgetsc]

;-; I've tried everything I can think of, still can't read QR codes.

My brightness is 4.
I do my best to get the 3DS perfectly positioned, but for some reason, the QR reader and the QR code have different box sizes in the corners. (What I mean are those 3 little boxes in the bottom left, top left, and top right.)

I'm getting pretty upset, because I'm horrible at designs and I just want some nice paths, but of course, I can't get any. It's really annoying. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

 

[Campy]

In my experience, it actually works better if I don't align them perfectly. This might be a silly question, but have you tried moving closer and further away to see if that works?

 

[Midgetsc]

The furthest I've gone is maybe like 3 or so feet from the screen, because I was leaning back to look at my cat. Closest is about maybe 1 inch, because I was raging and was almost slamming it against the screen. XD

I'll try making it a little lopsided and see what happens.

 

[Campy]

I'd definitely give it a couple more tries without trying to get the reader perfectly cover the code! Good luck!

 

[Chris]

Have you tried with multiple codes uploaded by different people?

I find that when people resize their images (to make them much smaller) the QR reader sometimes can't pick it up.

 

[Wolfy]

Can you post a link to the codes?
Sometimes people upload their path codes, but plaster them all in one image so they're really low-res. or the image could be too small to scan.

 

[beffa]

The QR code is either too small or too low quality. I tried to scan a flower crown for 2 hours before I realized how shocking the quality was when I zoomed in 500 times (because the original image was tiny)

Also, I find not making it perfect sometimes helps. I had it perfect for like 5 minutes on a dress, and when I moved it to the side (and it was literally completely out of focus) it scanned. Weird.

 

[Midgetsc]

I've tried it from all sorts of people. No luck.

Part of it may be that I have a laptop, though. I think IE automatically resizes most of the images I look at because my screen is so small it can't fit in the width of the forum posts. >.<

One of the ones I tried scanning earlier was the Rainbow Dash QR code that's in Re-Tail atm, but it didn't work. Another was something on dA that was Ezio's robes, but that didn't work, either. I've also tried scanning a bunch of random clothes on Tumblr, but no luck. >.<

If I had links to everything, I'd give them, but sadly I don't.

- - - Post Merge - - -

AMG FINALLY FOR DA FIRST TIME EVER I GOT A QR CODE TO WORK!

XD Now I just need to get one that I actually want, since I literally just found a random one and started tilting the camera around until it worked.

 

[GreenLeaf]

I have the same problem
and I was thinking to print the qr codes on paper perhaps this could help a bit their identification?

 

[Wolfy]

when you're on an image of a qr code, press Ctrl and + at the same time to zoom in on the pic. It works for me when I scan from my PC. I usually use my ipod to display QR codes

 

[nellpond]

Your laptop shouldn't be a problem, the only problem could be low quality. also move it around a bit.