I have dust in the front camera, I may be wrong but should there be a gasket? Can I give it back on guarantee?
You can disassemble the speaker grill and the Glass from the camera and remove the du
Disassemble the speaker grill and the glasses from the Cam, it's only glued. Clean with qtip. It is simple and you can do that in 10 minutes. When you destroy the glue buy 5mm double sided 3m band.
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There is any way to avoid dust on camera lens ?
I was getting blurry and foggy picture and I found out that the camera lens was covered of dust.
Only cleanup
take a cotton bud and clean it
just clean it up
Yes, they're right, make sure you carry a cotton bud with you everywhere you go.......................
this is a funny question.
Does anybody have a protecting glass in front of the camera lens?
The question is not so funny. Because it is very disturbing always having dust on the lens when you need it! In my HD Mini there is only a hole and behind the hole is the lens 5mm deep inside. Is that normal? I think there is a protecting glass missing to prevent dust going into the hole. Does anybody have a protecting glass in front of the camera lens? Maybe, that it is a production failure in some HD Minis?
travelmateBS said:
In my HD Mini there is only a hole and behind the hole is the lens 5mm deep inside. Is that normal? I
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Yes, it's normal - by design.
So cotton bud is the best option by now
One way to improve the horrible camera performance on this device is to remove the plastic lens embedded in the battery cover. I thought it might be hampering the camera sensor so I tested my camera with the battery cover on and off and it definitely improves the camera without the cheap plastic lens. To remove it, take off the battery cover, flip it over, peel off the black sticker around the lens on the cover, then use an exacto knife or small screwdriver and gently work around the edges of the square plastic piece until it pops out. The only downside is that the little chrome ring is held in by the plastic lens so you won't have that nice metal accent anymore.
Any risk of damaging the lense without the cover?
So recently I cracked the rear glass on my Pixel 2 XL. After searching around, I found the "official"repair places wanted around $80 to replace this. Then I found eBay had replacement glass for $13 (in the US, cheaper from China), and decided to give it a try. Figured worse case scenario I end up at the repair place getting the glass replaced anyway, and I'm out $13 extra.
This was not a difficult process necessarily, what I will say is that the glass used is extremely thin (stock and aftermarket), and the process of removing the old glass is likely to produce many tiny glass fragments.
Here's how I did it, if anyone is interested in giving this a try:
1. Mis en place. I used a couple plastic and nylon spudgers, guitar picks, one metal spudger, a hair dryer, and packing tape. I did this repair in the bathroom near the sink so I could easily brush small glass pieces into the sink and wash them down the drain.
2. Start off by heating up the rear glass with the hair dryer, but not too hot. You need to be able to hold the phone afterall. Take a piece of packing tape and place it over the rear glass to somewhat keep it together.
3. I used the thin metal spudger to get started on one side of the glass. I started on the broken side as I already had a gap there to work with. Slowly go around and remove the glass and double sided tape from the rear frame.
3. Remove the camera lens cover from the glass. It's attached to the glass with double sided tape. Most likely going to be small chunks of glass stuck to the front of the lens assembly.
4. Clean up any leftover glue/double sided tape and chunks of glass, so you have a nice clean surface to stick the new glass to.
5. Install the lens cover on the replacement glass, and clean the inside and outside of the lens cover and inspect the camera assembly itself for chunks of glass/dust/etc.
6. Install the new glass (with lens cover now attached) to the back of your Pixel 2 XL. Be very careful to line it up exactly where you want it to sit before dropping it onto the frame of the phone (you likely will not be able to peel it off and reapply it if you mess up, as the glass is very thin and would probably shatter if you try to remove it).
7. Profit.
That's about it. All in all this took me about 30 minutes from start to finish, and saved me just over $60. Worth it for a cheapskate like me ?
Hope this helps someone.
Excellent write up, and the great photos!
Thanks for posting
Superusefull!! Thank so much!
do you feel like this compromised the water resistance part of the phone?
im pretty sure the waterproof feature is gone
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im pretty sure the waterproof feature is gone
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It has never been waterproof.
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Hello everyone,
I've broken lil bit the glass and considering replacement. But don't want to lose waterprofness. What do you think about this statement:
"The glass back of the Pixel 2 is purely decorative, and the Pixel 2 will still be waterproof with a broken glass back.
Why? As can be seen in the teardown video at https://youtu.be/Zq7nyzldgr4 at 4:14, the back cover of the Pixel 2 goes underneath the glass. Also, it looks like replacing the glass back would not require a teardown, since there seem to be no screws holding the glass in place from the inside. I suspect the glass back is merely glued on or clipped in."
For me it sounds reasonable that waterprofness might still be there after replacement. Attaching screenshot of mentioned back cover which is going under the glass.
Thanks for your opinion!
Pixel 2 is waterproof
Pixel 2 is IP67 rated meaning it's good for up to a metre depth of water, hence it being waterproof but if anyone was wondering even if you do break the back glass as I have it's purely cosmetic as there is some pretty strong plastic and glue behind it keeping the waterproof feature in place
How do you fix it to be waterproof like factory?
|Use waterproof glue around camera lens and LED lens or is there a adhesive to buy?
Hi,
My camera glass is broken. One linear crack on cam. The camera is working well, but in some cases light is on photos. I found these lenses:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32813980145.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.0.0.561b514b56kXVI
My question:
1. These lenses are all what I need to repair? Or additional camera glass I need?
2. How to replace it? Should I heat the camera module, remove the old one and insert the new one? Or I have to remove the screen/backplate/MB/battery etc to do it?
If someone else is looking for the answer; I bought the lens from AliExpress (not sure about store). I received 4 elements:
-2 glass + back cover elements - it's outer glass and inner hidding color layer inside. If it's glossy, the camera will be tech-looking element.
-2 3m double side tape for inner circle - i think, the tape is too thin, like linear tape with LCD screen. My suggestion is to use glue like B-7000 if the tape is not enough.
As some youtubers suggest, I cracked down my cam lens and throw out with the smallest 1mm screwdriver. I had full covered lens, but corner-to-corner scratch did linear breaks of light. Hitting and forcing the glass makes some more holes that makes the glass disasembly possible. Cleaned up the glass and glue - watch out , don't touch inner element or you can damage the camera module. Reassembly the glue and reassembly the glass element (make sure that the glass inside is clean). Works great for me.
If you can disasembly LCD-side phone, then you can disasembly upper motherboard and try to threw out glass from inside.
Btw - I have black LCD and black camera lens with gold phone
I've bought a replacement lens cover for the rear camera on my V20. It came with self-adhesive, but the adhesive isn't good enough and it keeps falling off. I really don't want to use superglue to secure it. Can anyone recommend a good alternative which will keep it in place, but which won't be a pain in the neck if the lens cover gets smashed again and needs to be replaced?