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WHen I first got the Slide it was awesome! The pictures it took looked great... but now my phone won't auto focus right... there is no manual focus... now it just takes awesome blurry out of focus pictures!
Is this happening to anyone elses phone? From the looks of the intertubez this will become a "known" issue with TMO
Are there any files the camera accesses for settings or the like that may be damaged? I have tried other ROMS and they all seem to have the same problem....
yup, happened to me too, i just got a warranty replacement and it's clear again. you have to call and get a new phone.
My camara was blurry the other day and I noticed it had condensation under the lens. It ended up drying out but the pics still arent as clear as they have been. Weird.
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yea this same thing happened to mine and i just called them and got a replacement. i even tried resetting my phone before i sent it in and that didnt fix the problem so idk what causes it. Hopefully it doesnt happen again with my new one.
It started happening after this rave I played at.... the humidity inside was probably 100%
Yes, this happened to me as well. It would only focus on things literally about an inch from the lens. When wiping didnt fix the problem, T-mobile sent me a new Slide.
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I just bought the MTslide about a week ago on craigslist and I too have the blurry focus issue, ive cleaned it, messed with settings all to no success. It only takes clear pictures if the object is an inch away. I of course do not have insurance cuz I bought on craigslist, is there anything I can do I'm desperate? I love this phone it's amazing but I dont want to have to go back to my CliqXT because of the camera (especially since its still on 1.5 till Motorola's "fairytale" update which they keep pushing aside)
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Black MyTouch Slide
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So I just got my new Slide and it still has 2e
What is the best program to use to backup all the programs and crap before I unroot this one and send it back...
Yep.... Same deal with mine. Sending it into HTC for repair. It is stuck in Macro focus... Go up to something close and it will be fine.
Fine if you only want to take macro photos..... otherwise useless!
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I had the same problem with out of focus but it came down to condensation. I live in Florida and it has been hot and it is the same over the US right now. Everyone is using AC but going from cool and low humidity to hot and very high humidity well you build up condensation. I left my phone in the sun for about 45 minutes and then took some pics and it worked fine A few days later it was back to being blurry and tried the same thing. If I leave the phone in the house without going outside and take pics it is fine as well. Just going from on extreme to another it takes its toll. I do photopgraphy and when I go out to do a shoot I leave my camera in the trunk of my car to get rid of the condensation on the lens and mirros inside the camera.
I think i figured the problem out why everyone camera goes blurry.
I have the mytouch slide and the pictures were perfect and crystal clear. Then when the firmware 2.1 update came, that messed up the camera big time and made it barely unusable.
Please fix the issue!!!!
I just had mine replaced via warranty exchange. Just call, tell them you're having trouble, there's nothing on the lens, the water damage indicator is white, and it's still not working. You'll get a new one and if you don't have insurance they'll charge you ten bucks to deliver it to you.
I actually don't think it has anything to do with condensation or heat or humidity. Yes, all of those things can affect ANY lens on ANY phone, and the update may have even adversely affected certain handsets but this is a handset by handset issue. My father's mytouch slide got the update and still works better than my old camera did. It's a hardware problem with a certain batch of these phones. My wife's is still fine and she got it early on like me. The lens tries to focus and snaps back to its original position. It's a defect. You can play with the settings all you want, but other than minor adjustments and a lot of placebo effect, you're not gonna fix it.
tinpanalley said:
I just had mine replaced via warranty exchange. Just call, tell them you're having trouble, there's nothing on the lens, the water damage indicator is white, and it's still not working. You'll get a new one and if you don't have insurance they'll charge you ten bucks to deliver it to you.
I actually don't think it has anything to do with condensation or heat or humidity. Yes, all of those things can affect ANY lens on ANY phone, and the update may have even adversely affected certain handsets but this is a handset by handset issue. My father's mytouch slide got the update and still works better than my old camera did. It's a hardware problem with a certain batch of these phones. My wife's is still fine and she got it early on like me. The lens tries to focus and snaps back to its original position. It's a defect. You can play with the settings all you want, but other than minor adjustments and a lot of placebo effect, you're not gonna fix it.
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I hear you. But i just got this two weeks ago in the store and the camera was perfect till after the update. I would hate to get a replacement for a silly camera. So debating to not care and keep the phone or just risk it and get a Warranty one
You have nothing to lose by getting a new one via warranty exchange. You don't even have to be without your phone. It comes to you in the mail, you backup your contacts, you hard reset the old one, you're done.
The camera won't get better, it will not improve, you'll have the new phone before you know it. And the slide is relatively new which means the longer you wait, the higher the likelihood that you get a manufacturer refurb. instead of the new one I got 2 days ago.
Just do it. Someone in your life will do something, you'll want the silly camera, and you'll go, "damn, I shoulda listened to that dude on the forum".
tinpanalley said:
You have nothing to lose by getting a new one via warranty exchange. You don't even have to be without your phone. It comes to you in the mail, you backup your contacts, you hard reset the old one, you're done.
The camera won't get better, it will not improve, you'll have the new phone before you know it. And the slide is relatively new which means the longer you wait, the higher the likelihood that you get a manufacturer refurb. instead of the new one I got 2 days ago.
Just do it. Someone in your life will do something, you'll want the silly camera, and you'll go, "damn, I shoulda listened to that dude on the forum".
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Hahhahahahahaha
Thanks bro
snuggpugg said:
I just bought the MTslide about a week ago on craigslist and I too have the blurry focus issue, ive cleaned it, messed with settings all to no success. It only takes clear pictures if the object is an inch away. I of course do not have insurance cuz I bought on craigslist, is there anything I can do I'm desperate? I love this phone it's amazing but I dont want to have to go back to my CliqXT because of the camera (especially since its still on 1.5 till Motorola's "fairytale" update which they keep pushing aside)
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I'm practically in the same boat. I called a few repair places up here in Seattle and since it's such a new phone, none of them were able to order parts. Does anyone know if HTC will repair it. Or even repair it if it's rooted?
I just had this problem with my wife's slide and having read similar threads on different forums including tmobile's, I called customer care and lied a little about doing all kinds of things to make sure it's hardware, like doing a factory reset. Never mention that it's rooted! Just play dumb and they'll send you a new phone under warranty. We got the new one yesterday and I rooted it while my wife was still at work, following the new root method as it came with the 1.35.x update.and flashed chiefz 1.35.x rooted ROM (she likes espresso). When she came home I took the old phone and installed the 1.27.x esprimg.img and then flashed the 1.35.x OTA (non root). Put it in the return box and gonna drop it at a UPS drop box today.
It sounds like a lot of steps, but it goes relatively quick.
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i'm currently experiencing the camera issue as well as my wifi not working (running CM6) ...it simply cannot see any networks. I tried even loading the latest nightly build to no avail. As my phone has a slight crack on one of the buttons I'm going to try and get a refurb and then possibly sell it for a G2
I'll reply how it goes
I honestly do not notice the blurry pictures issue that you guys are having. The pictures are awesome in light but gets a little grainy in low light conditions, other than that my pictures and videos are great. Are you guys complaining about low light pictures?
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My wife and I both have Epic 4G's. Mine is rooted and has run a bunch of different ROM's in the last month, but her's is stock. Bone stock. Not even rooted.
New problem developed yesterday: Her Epic has a "black hole" in the photos. It's like a bug is on the lens. Just to the upper of center of the photo. It's on every photo now. Couldn't believe it, considering we're now at 31 days of ownership and the camera worked fine up until then. I'd show you a picture, but the phone is literally attached to her head right now and won't come off for another hour or two.
Yes, the lens is clean, there is no visible obstruction on the lense or case that one can see. Not even a fingerprint.
Anyone else have this problem? If so find a free solution? (other than not using the rear-facing camera?
There any solution other than paying the $35 repair fee to get a refurbished unit from the Sprint Repair center? Will Samsung back the hardware up past the 30 day mark?
I can't see them turning you away if you go there on the 31st day with a major problem like that.
Hello, I have Galaxy S4 I9500, and recently my phone was sent for a repair in a lab.
This guy at the lab tried to fix the problem, wiped the phone and changed the rom, and after he didn't managed to fix the problem he sent me the phone back.
The problem is that now the phone's back camera is blurry, and the front camera is fine.
How to fix this problem?
help
where is the lab?
Bring your S4 to official service center. Hope the warranty didnt void yet.
h6x said:
where is the lab?
Bring your S4 to official service center. Hope the warranty didnt void yet.
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I don't have warranty.
Kildz said:
Hello, I have Galaxy S4 I9500, and recently my phone was sent for a repair in a lab.
This guy at the lab tried to fix the problem, wiped the phone and changed the rom, and after he didn't managed to fix the problem he sent me the phone back.
The problem is that now the phone's back camera is blurry, and the front camera is fine.
How to fix this problem?
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I too have this problem. As soon as I bought this phone last May 2013, I phoned up Samsung's service centre and after pestering them daily for 6 days straight, I was able to get through to a real samsung executive, not the voice call centre handling people.
This guy told me that the hardware for the camera can be replaced and that this will fix my problems.
Believing this person, I took it to the Samsung authorized service centre where The existing camera hardware was diassembled and a brand new camera unit was then affixed on to my phone's motherboard. - I saw this process.
Unfortunately, the pictures came out the same even after the replacement. I called up the samsung executive again and asked for a full phone replacement or refund. He explained to me that is impossible. and that I had to live with the camera quality provided.
I have now started accepting the poor quality photos - I too feel that the front cam is 500% better than the rear cam, and wish that I didnt fall for samsung's 13MP camera advert bullsh*t.
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I too have this problem. As soon as I bought this phone last May 2013, I phoned up Samsung's service centre and after pestering them daily for 6 days straight, I was able to get through to a real samsung executive, not the voice call centre handling people.
This guy told me that the hardware for the camera can be replaced and that this will fix my problems.
Believing this person, I took it to the Samsung authorized service centre where The existing camera hardware was diassembled and a brand new camera unit was then affixed on to my phone's motherboard. - I saw this process.
Unfortunately, the pictures came out the same even after the replacement. I called up the samsung executive again and asked for a full phone replacement or refund. He explained to me that is impossible. and that I had to live with the camera quality provided.
I have now started accepting the poor quality photos - I too feel that the front cam is 500% better than the rear cam, and wish that I didnt fall for samsung's 13MP camera advert bullsh*t.
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The point is the camera was fine, and suddenly it just became blurry while the guy tried to fix it.
You think it has to do with the hardware and not the software of the S4?
help?
Help :/ ?
I downloaded FV5 Camera and I managed to find out that the problem is with the focus, because sometimes I get good pictures but it happens in rare occasions.
How can I fix this focus problem in the camera? I think it's a software problem.
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The point is the camera was fine, and suddenly it just became blurry while the guy tried to fix it.
You think it has to do with the hardware and not the software of the S4?
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Hey sorry for the delay.
I feel that its a hardware issue, most probably with some precision component getting misaligned or something - not directly related to the camera unit, i suppose.
No amount of software tweaks can fix slow camera h/w - because of which blurs are too common...
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Hey sorry for the delay.
I feel that its a hardware issue, most probably with some precision component getting misaligned or something - not directly related to the camera unit, i suppose.
No amount of software tweaks can fix slow camera h/w - because of which blurs are too common...
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can't the kernel be the issue?
Given that I am not familiar with how android kernels work, I cannot include or exclude it from suspicion...
even if such a fix can be made available by the many geniuses in XDA(if you are reading this, thanks guys!) increasing the speed at which the kernel performs precision control on the h/w components will increase the battery drain, wont it?
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Given that I am not familiar with how android kernels work, I cannot include or exclude it from suspicion...
even if such a fix can be made available by the many geniuses in XDA(if you are reading this, thanks guys!) increasing the speed at which the kernel performs precision control on the h/w components will increase the battery drain, wont it?
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I found out that the only problem is the focus, the phone doesn't know how to focus properly.
Sometimes the images aren't blurry, because the phone focused right, but this happens in very rare occasions.
Help?
Help???
I found out that the camera focus works only in VERY bright pictures, only then the camera works.
When I look at light with the camera it suddenly focuses and works, but if I look at area which isn't very bright the focus starts to lose.
How can I fix it? Please.
Have you removed the protector sticker on your camera lens?
worktorest said:
Have you removed the protector sticker on your camera lens?
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Of course.
I have to clarify that this problem happens after I updated to KitKat.
Kildz said:
Of course.
I have to clarify that this problem happens after I updated to KitKat.
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kit Kat had nothing to do with blurry images, at least in my case. the crap images came even when I was on 4.2.2...
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rdheepak said:
kit Kat had nothing to do with blurry images, at least in my case. the crap images came even when I was on 4.2.2...
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I found out that my friend updated his S4 to KitKat and he has the same problem.
As I said before, the images are perfectly fine when I take photos at VERY BRIGHT enviroment, where the source of light has to be nearby,
then the camera's focus works properly. But if it's not very bright, then the focus starts to fade, until it's blurry.
I just bought a second hand Note 4, but there seems to be an issue with the camera. Sometimes when i want to take pictures and i start the camera, there's a weird buzzing sound and the image shown on screen is a bit blurry and i have to leave it a few seconds or shake the phone to make the buzzing dissappear, and the camera to start showing images properly. This doesn't happen very often though, and no matter what it will still take good pictures afterwards. Should i be worried? I'm guessing it's the OIS, should i consider replacing the camera in the near future? Or the OIS is different hardware than the camera?
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I found this replacement camera on a canadian seller, do you think it's genuine samsung part? it also comes with necessary tools to replace it myself. if i want to buy it from uk directly it's around 60 quid, and i don't think it's worth it.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Authe...Back-Camera-/221817998306?hash=item33a5620be2
No one else with the same problem?
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I have the exact problem i bought the note on the first day of realese but this problem first occured maybe like 2-3 month ago and it happens like maybe 3x times a month i am not particually worried about it but i also think that the problem is in OIS, pictures are still great and all. I would probablly take the phone to the official service but problem for me is that i rooted my phone and i dont know if they would accept my phone beacuse i have a void knox counter.
You can find the camera on eBay or Amazon and how to replace it on YouTube
Using my stock camera app, I can only access the wide angle lens and I can't switch to front camera but when using gcam and open camera, i can switch from wide angle to front cam. Both stock and 3rd party cam app doesn't open the main rear cam. Is this a software problem, the module or the board? Thanks. This happened when I updated to oreo. I already tried downgrading but still the same
If no other app can open the normal rear câmera, could be a issue at the hardware level.
The fact that happend only after the upgrade could be just a bad timming...
I had the same problem with second hand lg g6 I bought. First owner claimed that front camera stopped working after oreo update. Other 2 cams was ok, but only when using third party apps, not the stock one. So i bought new front cam and replace it, and I saw that the screen was also replaced, but not by an lg authorized service. After the whole operation front cam didn't work and it also happend to main cam. Only wide angle was ok. Then i bought new main cam but it didn't helped at all. Problem's still not solved. Probably it's caused by motherboard, so buying new cams (like i did) is not a good idea I found one opinion on some forum, that it happends to phones with bad replaced screen... Anyway if you solve this problem, let us know! Good luck
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If no other app can open the normal rear câmera, could be a issue at the hardware level.
The fact that happend only after the upgrade could be just a bad timming...
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pawelo0808 said:
I had the same problem with second hand lg g6 I bought. First owner claimed that front camera stopped working after oreo update. Other 2 cams was ok, but only when using third party apps, not the stock one. So i bought new front cam and replace it, and I saw that the screen was also replaced, but not by an lg authorized service. After the whole operation front cam didn't work and it also happend to main cam. Only wide angle was ok. Then i bought new main cam but it didn't helped at all. Problem's still not solved. Probably it's caused by motherboard, so buying new cams (like i did) is not a good idea I found one opinion on some forum, that it happends to phones with bad replaced screen... Anyway if you solve this problem, let us know! Good luck
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I tried replacing the camera but still the same result. I think I'll just stick still to this phone until I buy a new one
I have similar situation. Just have updated from Fulmics 7.0 android to stock Oreo. Main camera focus was stuck, tried different camera apps didn't help. Bought and changed main camera, when disassembling the phone noticed that there was not warranty void stickers and no blue tag under the battery which helps to lift it, also no sticker on the phone vibrator (compared to the ifixit tutorial phone). Don't know if the LG decided to skip the few stickers there and there but I have bought it as a new. Anyway changing the camera didn't help, focus still stuck on the same position. Focuses only on items 20-25cm. I guess it comes from the motherboard. Will try to update to android 9.0, to check if OS have any influence.