This is to improve the sharpness and color quality of your photos taken by the 2mp camera on the phone.
Doing this mod will void your warranty, but poses nearly no risk to your phone. It's very simple.
WHAT THIS MOD DOES :
You'll be removing the transparent plastic piece that is in front of the camera lens for protection. That plastic piece is ... well, it's cheap plastic. Everytime you take a picture, the lens sees through this crappy plastic and obviously, that diminishes a lot the quality of what the lens can actually do. On real digital cameras, the lens is never protected when taking pictures. It's only protected when the camera is turned off.
This link shows you how to disassemble the TyTN,
http://inuchanbt.blog54.fc2.com/blog-entry-100.html
but you will not need to go past the third picture in this guide.
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So, on the right side of this picture is the plastic back panel of the phone, which includes the transparent plastic camera lens protector.
From the "INSIDE" side of the back panel, try to break the clear plastic with a pointy metal screw driver. Press hard, but gently, until it cracks. The clear plastic piece is a circle, held into place with double-sided tape. I didnt try to remove it without breaking it, but you can give it a try if you wish.
Figure it out for yourselves, it's not rocket science.
Once it's removed, you'll only have the gray circle plastic with the focus switch on it.
The pictures will be sharper and the colors sharper. Here are BEFORE/AFTER pictures I took. Notice the edges and texts on the objects are much sharper. The colors come out much clearer. Those pictures were taken in the same lighting conditions.
PS : Im sure some of you will joke about the tissues on my desk. The reason I took the time today to try this mod was because Im home sick with the flue. Hence the tissues, ok?
Just in case it's not clear
Left side : BEFORE mod
Right side: AFTER mod
And remove the transparent plastic will expose the lens to dust, water, etc. It is too deep in the casing to get scratched though.
I'd suggest finding a way to put a removable cover for when you dont take pictures, just like real cameras.
I have another advice...
I totally removed both cameras:
That forces you to use your real, standalone camera and take high quality photos subsequently.
haha! yeah..... However I dont carry my digital camera 24/7 like I do with my phone
Lol, why would you waste your time removing a camera you paid for. Thanks for the tip alkizmo.
Thanks for this. It would have been good if you could have placed the phone on a stable surface so to totally eliminate and camera shake from the equation.
Wam7 said:
Thanks for this. It would have been good if you could have placed the phone on a stable surface so to totally eliminate and camera shake from the equation.
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I did... sort of.
I put the phone on top of a wardrobe, but obviously, the phone sides arent perfectly flat, so there was still minimal shaking involved.
However I tried my best for both pictures (took multiple from before/after and selected the best candidates).
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Alright, I'm brand new here so go easy on me
I just got my Wizard used about two days ago. It's in good shape, except the camera is very very scratched (the plastic in front of the lens)
When I go to take a picture, it looks very blurry and fuzzy, even up close.
Is there any way I can remove or replace the plastic camera cover for a low cost?
see if the lens cover from your old phone works. also I believe it is glass.
also type in "speckle fix" in the search forum box. it works for some roms that does not already have that built in.
thanks for the reply
Is there a way for me to pop the camera cover off and replace it?
It looks like someone took a nail file to it
Here is a test picture I took with my Wizard. It's just a picture of my TV (obviously)
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Is it supposed to look this bad?
I'm sorry for bumping my topic over and over
I took off the back plastic camera lens and tried it
The quality is much improved than before. Is it safe to leave the clear lens cover off? If not, am I able to replace it?
i guess you can leave the cover off but i'd think you'd wanna cover it with a piece of tape or something when not in use so lint and stuff can't get in the hole
WOW what a difference. try finding another phone with a similar lens cover (there are plenty old phones in a trift store. if anything, I plan to use a motorola V3 and cut it the size that it needs to be and use E-6000 to glue it back in place.
Now that I have a faceplate that keeps the lens from getting rubbed out it might be worth it
I hope someone finds this useful.
I have just restored the lens of my HTC Wizard to a nearly new state using this method:
I took a cotton bud and secured it in the chuck of a cordless drill. Applied a little T-Cut (car scratch remover) to the lens and spent about 15-20 minutes whizzing the cotton bud round over the lens in different directions. I then wiped off the excess T-Cut and did the same thing with toothpaste, (the white stuff, not blue gel) which is an even gentler abrasive. Again I wiped this off afterwards. Finally I finished off with a clean, dry cotton bud.
I think the important thing is to go in as many different directions as possible across the lens. I had a hunch this might work as the same combination of T-Cut/toothpaste works well on CDs that skip but I was amazed at the clarity of the photos I can now take. Beforehand they really were as bad as the first photo.
Of course this doesn't alter the fact that HTC put the lens cover in a stupid place but I will try to keep my phone in a pocket on its own and not with tools or on the dashboard of my van.
Like I said, I hope this helps someone.
I took an idea out of Lifehacker and ripped out the lens from a DVD player to make a ghetto macro lens. I taped this to my HD2 and took a couple of these shots. They were grains of rice about 1mm in diameter. (Rice grains can come in huge sizes too, but these were tiny )
Photos were then touched up in Resco Photo Manager and sharpened a little in Pocket Artist. I used Photoshop on my laptop to resize the shots to exactly 604 pixels on the longest end. This ensures maximum sharpness when uploaded to Facebook... however, that step was not entirely necessary of course and I could have just sent it straight from my phone to FB or Flicker using Resco Photo Manager 7.03 (an AWESOME program!)
DOF was tiny and there was no additional lighting used apart from the camera's LED. It wasn't easy. The lens was almost touching the rice. In post processing, I had to reduce gamma and brightness and boost contrast. However, in keeping with the main goal of the project, I did all such modifications to the photo on the HD2 itself
What do you think?
Here is a link to that Lifehacker site;
http://lifehacker.com/5345067/turn-a-dvd-lens-into-a-cellphone-macro-lens
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Thats actually fairly impressive! Is the colour balance your choosing, or a side-effect of the HD2s camera in such proximity?
All we need now is a way to turn this macro lens into a flip-on flip-off attachment to a phone
When I say "fairly", I mean "very", btw
They look pretty damn impressive!
Can you get a close-up of your fingertip? It's always a good judge of a lens as to how clearly they can get a fingerprint.
johncmolyneux said:
They look pretty damn impressive!
Can you get a close-up of your fingertip? It's always a good judge of a lens as to how clearly they can get a fingerprint.
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I will try that later tonight I did have a go yesterday but didn't keep the shot... The magnification was so great though I think I could only have 5 -6 lines of my fingerprint show up....
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Thats actually fairly impressive! Is the colour balance your choosing, or a side-effect of the HD2s camera in such proximity?
All we need now is a way to turn this macro lens into a flip-on flip-off attachment to a phone
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That was the HD2... after adjusting gamma and contrast... before, there was a blueish glow to it. The rice was sitting on my black HD2 case which came with the phone
Ah I see. Still, I will have to dig out an old PC and see if I can get the lens from it and do this myself. I think with a few people working on it and sharing settings/ideas we can get a good thing going!
That's pretty damn trick. I like it!!
Simply awesome
I looked into this problem as my wife started complaining about hazy pictures on her Trophy. Binged a few things and was soon on my way solving it.
First off: YMMV; this might or might not solve your picture problem. If you mess something up, realize that you did it yourself; I did not make you do it.
Problem: a lot of “haziness” or “cloudiness” in photos; I think this illustrates it quite well:
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My diagnosis: tons of small scratches on the phone lens, when looked at through the magnifying glass.
What to do: polish the lens; yes, this might take off some sort of coating that is on there now but really – I don’t think it can be worse than it is now, so – I’m going in!
How to do it:
Tools used:
A few Q-tips
Some toothpaste. Note that I used the Tom’s baking soda toothpaste but I believe that anything would do. I would just NOT use a toothpaste that is obviously coarse, like some of Colgate pastes are (if you get that crunchy feeling when brushing, I think it is too coarse).
A piece of masking tape over the speaker holes in the back of the phone as I don’t want toothpaste in there by mistake
Process:
Wipe any grease off the lens as best as you can
Squeeze a small dab of toothpaste on a small plate; put a small amount of water on another (just a few drops will do I think)
Dip the end of the Q-tip into the toothpaste so there is just a little bit on it
Apply the toothpaste to the lens in circular motion; use pressure, but not enough to drive the Q-tip through the phone. J
Turn the Q-tip around and pick up any excess of paste
Dip another Q-tip into a drop of water and wipe off the residue; if you are leaving water and it is running into the phone, you are using too much.
Finally dry the lens with the dry end of second Q-tip
Check the result under magnifying glass/take a test photo. Repeat if necessary.
Result:
Yey! That'll help the 'ole Trophy serve me until a WP8 device is here! The minty fresh smell is just a bonus!
I got two Trophy's to try this on... I am so doing this sometime after payday (yes, I'm that broke atm).
I confirm that this thing works perfectly. I clear the lens today and the results are great. Thanks for sharing this mate.
The first picture is before cleaning and the other two after!!!
Sweet! Glad it is working!
Apparently, HTC made Trophy camera lens out of butter. Because - both of our phones are in Incipio SILICRYLIC cases (which gives extra space between lens and anything that would rub against it) and yet - they were both messed up. I carry my phone in a pocket, never with keys but still...
I don't know who you are or where you are from. But this worked for me! I've a OnePlus 3T!
I just got a S4 in Vietnam and currently having 2 hardware issues that I'm getting very annoyed once I know it's there:
1. The battery cover's camera hole is not fully matching with the camera module, I can see the space around the camera hole when the battery cover is put on is not even, there is more space on the above side of the hole and I believe after long usage, dusts can easily get into inside of the phone.
2. The camera module itself is not hard fixed, I can put my thumb on the surface of the camera module and try moving it around, I can feel and hear the "click-clack" sound and the module actually moving a bit around!
So I want to confirm if anyone having the same issues? Currently there are several other cases in Vietnam that having this same issue!
Together with the screen issue that mentioned by other people, I'm really disappointed with Samsung build quality with S4!
UPDATE: some images to illustrate my issues:
This is taken on my Black S4
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This one is taken from a Tinhte review website
kennytung said:
I just got a S4 in Vietnam and currently having 2 hardware issues that I'm getting very annoyed once I know it's there:
1. The battery cover's camera hole is not fully matching with the camera module, I can see the space around the camera hole when the battery cover is put on is not even, there is more space on the above side of the hole and I believe after long usage, dusts can easily get into inside of the phone.
2. The camera module itself is not hard fixed, I can put my thumb on the surface of the camera module and try moving it around, I can feel and hear the "click-clack" sound and the module actually moving a bit around!
So I want to confirm if anyone having the same issues? Currently there are several other cases in Vietnam that having this same issue!
Together with the screen issue that mentioned by other people, I'm really disappointed with Samsung build quality with S4!
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The lens has a piece of plastic over it which on mine when pressed made a noise. I removed it by prying along the edge of the lens with my figernail, Others have done the same.
dacbeth said:
The lens has a piece of plastic over it which on mine when pressed made a noise. I removed it by prying along the edge of the lens with my figernail, Others have done the same.
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I know that piece of plastic and I took it out myself already, but that is not the issue that I'm having, you can try using your thumb and put it on the camera, then try playing/moving with it, if you can't feel it moving then good for you.
So I went to a service center today and the guy said the camera module is supposed to be like this lol
I have had this phone for three months, and have taken care of the phone very carefully. Now this random dark spot appears on the none wide angle camera in photos and videos. I haven't done anything that I can think of that would cause this other than accepting this big update on my phone a week or so ago. Anyone know if it's defective, or something else like software? This is the Canadian Rogers LG G6 version. I love this phone and just got it no long ago... I have no idea what I should do, because it ruins certain videos or pictures now. Here's a video to show what I mean, https://youtu.be/31gP0E3hmwo
Weird - did you take an extended video of the sun? Also, I'm sure you already have cleaned the camera glass many times, but when you clean it, did you look closely for anything out of the ordinary, maybe trapped between the outer glass and the inner lens?
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Weird - did you take an extended video of the sun? Also, I'm sure you already have cleaned the camera glass many times, but when you clean it, did you look closely for anything out of the ordinary, maybe trapped between the outer glass and the inner lens?
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No, I always avoid getting the sun into my camera for the fear burning the lens. Only thing I can think of my lens getting a lot of light is when taking extreme zoom in pictures of leaves that were in the sun one of those zoom in clip on lenses. Though the camera was facing down on leaves and not towards the sun.
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I will have to look at the lens again when cleaning, because I didn't notice anything before.
I just did another test while looking for dust on the lens with a soft flashlight and this spot turned into something else. So confused, because I don't see anything when I look at it. Here I recorded it https://youtu.be/ujwJEvfcQ44
I think there is something between the lens and the sensor. I would send it to repair.
I've the same problem few month ago, I just shake the phone because I thought it was a dust and the dark spot disappeared
Silver Wx said:
I've the same problem few month ago, I just shake the phone because I thought it was a dust and the dark spot disappeared
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Android Orange said:
I think there is something between the lens and the sensor. I would send it to repair.
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I'll trying shaking it before sending it to repair, hopefully shaking works, thanks for the ideas.