See my included pic taken from my evo main camera.
Any thoughts? I really don't want to potentially lose my root but is return the only option?
The defect is a line ~1/3 from the left side and a little less then half way down.
It is not a scratch in the lens and remains regardless of resolution/video/image etc and if you zoom in you can see that it looks like the sensor is has 'dead pixels'
Definitely looks like a physical defect, I would return it
Just back everything up and copy to your PC, since 2.2 is able to be rooted now you should be up and running again fairly quickly.
I was able to get sprint to replace just the camera. Took 5 minutes and now my phone is back to where it should be.
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i have attached a picture i just took... it looks kinda infared,.. kinda with the colors blurried... front works perfectly. running baked snack but this also did the same thing on fresh rom.
i dont see the picture!!! lol
lol just fixed it
hmmm, I was trying to recreate the problem on my phone. It almost looks like a low light shot? Have you tried in other areas of the house with different lighting?
By the way, is that spatula part of your tools or cooking utensils
Edit, also have you made sure your lens is clean and all that?
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hmmm, I was trying to recreate the problem on my phone. It almost looks like a low light shot? Have you tried in other areas of the house with different lighting?
By the way, is that spatula part of your tools or cooking utensils
Edit, also have you made sure your lens is clean and all that?
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yeah it's all clean, if you could see the picture on the phone... it looks like 1 of those weak heat showing cameras... where theres red,yellow,orange and then coolest is blue. i dunno wtf it is. i did just get the invisible shield put on it yesterday... but its not covering the lens
lol, you dont have one of the camera effects on do you? while in camera press menu and select the paint pallet thing
there is a clear difference from the front camera to the back camera is the problem. no effects. normal.
hmmm, I said that because when I was messing with mine, the solarize option made it look like the photo you took, different colors depending on light intensity. Maybe try toggling it on and off just to see. Other than that though, I have no clue so I am sorry I could not help!!!
i'm thinking about taking it into best buy and having it checked out, should i flash it back to stock with the RUU before i do so? i can just see one of the geeksquad retards saying "oh it's because you've rooted it" or some BS like that
To be safe I would. Most people say, and I believe, that hardly anyone would notice but I'm paranoid like that. Plus doing an ruu will ensure it wasn't something during the rooting or flashing process.
i have wiped cache,delvic etc.. etc... reset to default settings. still doesn't matter, doesn't matter what rom i use etc.. i am going to flash back to stock and see... i never looked at the camera on stock heh
im thinking the problem is with the invisible shield u installed, it looks like the solvent that comes for the shield might have sipped through the glass covering the lens and gotten directly on the lens itself.
Any recommendations if indeed this could be a culprit? i am assuming the glass on top of the camera just doesn't come off...
i cant think of any solution off the top of my head..i'll try poking around my phone to see if i can find any way around it for you
That picture looks creepy though. Like something from Saw, perhaps.
No you just got the only thermal imaging HTC evo made.... ill buy it.,jk
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sorry for bumpin an old thread. but this happened to me tonight. would sprint give me new phone under warranty?
I'd just unroot if rooted, being it to your local corporate store, and they should replace it under HTC warranty
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I'm having problems with my camera on MIUI too. It either isn't recognized or just force closes. sucks real bad.
The camera is broken, you'll have to unroot, and take it to sprint, or live with it.
Does anyone know if it can be replaced? I found a good deal on a new on, but I am wondering how hard it would be to replace.
I figured I am going to hold on to the EVO until the 3D gets rooted and a few roms, so I'm replacing the screen and the camera (only two things wrong with it)
Are you going to be replacing the entire camera or just like the glass?
The whole camera. I got the phone used and it must have been dropped because the camera takes fuzzy picture, almost like its stuck in macro zoom. It can take really clear close pictures, but anything further than a foot or two is blurry. I have tried every camera, every setting, cleaning the lenses, flicking it, and even dropping it, nothing
So I want to replace the whole camera, I don't know how hard it is.
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The whole camera. I got the phone used and it must have been dropped because the camera takes fuzzy picture, almost like its stuck in macro zoom. It can take really clear close pictures, but anything further than a foot or two is blurry. I have tried every camera, every setting, cleaning the lenses, flicking it, and even dropping it, nothing
So I want to replace the whole camera, I don't know how hard it is.
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I don't know how hard it is... but the Sprint repair center changed mine out in less than 15 minutes. So I think it should be easy if you have the tools.
well this is to change the front facing camera but it will help you get to the camera itself
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-HTC-Evo-4G-Front-Facing-Camera/3087/1
It is very easy takes less than 5 minutes
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If someone can post up some instructions or a how to, that would be great. I saw ifixit opened the phone completely up, but they don't say if the camera is a simple take off and put a new one on.
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the camera just pops in and out. its just a matter of sliding it out and putting the new one in. I did see a howto, IM on my phone so can't really look for it now.
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Cool, if it's just a simple pop in and out I can do that.
I didn't know if it involved any soldering
No soldering required. I would recommend first seeing if you NEED a replacement. Many EVO's with camera issues come in to the service and repair location I'm at. If the lens looks good and clean, but the camera is behaving as you mentioned, my "diagnosis" is the camera just needs to be resat to motherboard. I have seen many cases such as this where I take off the back housing and just "click" the camera back down to the MB and this fixes the issue. This is probably due to impacts.
Thanks man, ill give that a shot when I change out my screen. Who knows maybe ill save 25 bucks.
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Recently I noticed my camera takes pictures like crap. I doesn’t want to focus further than 2 ft., everything after that looks horrible. Sprint replaced the camera but that didn’t fix the issue. No insurance on the phone and this is a refab also, and they will not replace with another EVO because according to them I have a partially ON moisture indicator. I know it wasn’t around the water or near the steam and can’t prove it so wasn’t like that when I got it. Is there any way to adjust the focus on the camera via pot or something, just curious?
Ps: I did contact HTC saying I had horrible experience with Sprint on all the exchanges I had there always was something wrong with the refabs, and they said they will take my phone an fix it. I don’t know how they will react when they will see that inside sticker little bit screw up.
if your phones rooted try looking in the development section for camera fixes.
Hi all - has anyone ever seen a small, distinct black spot in photos and videos coming from the main, rear camera? Pictures attached at various zoom levels - it becomes much more obvious at higher zoom levels, and it doesn't move from the spot it's in. The lens is perfectly clean and appears completely unmarked. This leads me to believe it's either sensor dust, or dust on the back side/ inside the lens. The spot wasn't there when I first got the camera.
Anyway, I'm planning on sending to Samsung to have them fix it under warranty, unless someone's got a better resolution.
Thanks!
Attached photos at 4x, 3x and 1x magnification, with the spot (bottom left) appearing most obvious at 4X.
Definitely looks like crud under your lens. Yeah get that fixed for sure. keep this updated I really would like to know what the hell that is and how it got there.
Either that, or there is damage or defect to the sensor itself. I'd take a good magnifying lens, and inspect it to try to see what's going on in there. Either way, I'd try for a warranty claim.
It looks like a physical object on top of the cmos sensor itself.
The dimensions are about 0.01 x 0.02 mm (about 1/10th of the human hair width).
Looks like it might need replaced, take it in to a service store if you can, we generally keep a good amount of harvested cameras on hand. It's an easy fix...
If for any reason they don't have any or you don't have any S&R stores nearby, and if you're feeling adventurous enough, we might be able to work something out getting you a camera...
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Thanks all. Samsung's got it, and I believe they're replacing it under warranty. I'll update when I know more.
Just got it back after an unnecessarily protracted time at Samsung in Texas. Looks like they swapped out the camera module. No word on what the exact problem was, but it was repaired under warranty. Also looks like they may have fixed two minor issues I had with the earpiece and speakerphone, though I can't be sure.
Thanks for the advice, all.
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Here are 2 pictures I've taken with the rear facing camera. As you can see, there's this weird smudgy thing in the photos towards the left side (the top of the lens). Would anyone have any idea what this could be? I tried wiping the lens window, removing the lens window and wiping the actual lens itself (carefully). Along with wiping both of these surfaces, I also shook the phone a bit and tapped around the lens to see if anything would be knocked loose. But no, it's still there. Something tells me it could be software related, as I cannot see any physical damage. But I guess it could also be some sort of connection problem.
I'm really hoping I don't have to send this away to be repaired, so does anyone know what causes this? I also really don't want to have to replace the whole lens or send it back to Taiwan for 4 weeks. I'd really like to just know what this is so I can fix it.
You need to go deeper (don't know if it's possible). To me it looks like dust on the image sensor itself. Had something like this on a Sony digital camera, was able to get to the sensor and clean it myself after seeing it done at the service the first time.
Don't know if it's possible to get there on G4's camera though.