Camera Issue - myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I just recently bought a used black myTouch 3G Slide, and it is in excellent condition. I only have 1 problem though...... My camera isn't working correctly. I have done some searching online, but I have found no solutions. Everyone seems to replace their phone by T-Mobile. Unfortunately I can't do that since I didn't get the warrant from the guy I bought it from. : / In an attempt to fix this problem I loaded a custom ROM. Cyanogen Mod 6 is amazing, but it didn't fix my problem. I even tried downloading FXCamera from the market, but still nothing. Looking around the net it seems XDA is one of the best forums for android users. Can anyone please assist me, or possibly link something that will help me fix this annoying problem?
Btw, hello everyone at XDA! I'm looking forward to learning a lot from this forum!

I myself probably cannot help, but I can be helpful!
From looking around, I think it might help others here if you describe what exactly is going on with the camera.
Is the screen blank? Does it force close? Can you take pictures, but they don't save or maybe they save as black image? What happens?
I hope that there's some sort of fix for you, since I can't help... but I can try to get more insight into the issue from you... and bump the thread so people can see and maybe help out!

When I take a picture it doesn't focus. Pictures up close are really good quality, but anything that is not right in front of the camera is blurry. I have auto focus on, and tried manually focusin but no luck. I hold my hand still, and I hold down the picture button to focus. It still takes crap pictures.

d1ey0u said:
When I take a picture it doesn't focus. Pictures up close are really good quality, but anything that is not right in front of the camera is blurry. I have auto focus on, and tried manually focusin but no luck. I hold my hand still, and I hold down the picture button to focus. It still takes crap pictures.
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Sounds like a hardware issue to me, your focus is stuck/broken. Warranty replacement maybe?
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide

MusicMan374 said:
Sounds like a hardware issue to me, your focus is stuck/broken. Warranty replacement maybe?
Sent from my T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide
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Not to be an ass, but did you read my post? I said I bought it from someone on craigslist, and I don't have a warranty.

d1ey0u said:
Not to be an ass, but did you read my post? I said I bought it from someone on craigslist, and I don't have a warranty.
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Yeah I didn't see that at first, sorry. Then aside from buying a broken slide off ebay and salvaging the camera from it and manually installing it into your phone, or paying tmobile to repair it, you're out of luck.

I agree with MusicMan374, it sounds like a hardware issue if you have auto focus on or it doesn't respond when you select what item to focus on using the screen (stock rom)

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[Q] Camera Issue Split screen and Pink /Magenta

Ever since a few roms ago my camera started acting funny..
I have checked to make sure there is no crack i the lense.. and to see if it is the ROM.. but it is not..
My camera preview on MIUI and CM7 and KINGS all show the same.. its like the screen is split and changes to pink, magenta.. and then when i take a pic the phone locks up..
anyone have this problem? know how to fix it?
lancevs said:
Ever since a few roms ago my camera started acting funny..
I have checked to make sure there is no crack i the lense.. and to see if it is the ROM.. but it is not..
My camera preview on MIUI and CM7 and KINGS all show the same.. its like the screen is split and changes to pink, magenta.. and then when i take a pic the phone locks up..
anyone have this problem? know how to fix it?
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hmmm...actually sounds like it is hardware related...im no expert tho...and im not one to correct people but you posted this in the development section...shouldve posted in the Q&A section...not a big deal tho
thebeast614 said:
hmmm...actually sounds like it is hardware related...im no expert tho...and im not one to correct people but you posted this in the development section...shouldve posted in the Q&A section...not a big deal tho
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Yea ^^^^ he is right that has happened to me before is not a software problem but a hardware issue... you should unroot your phone and take to Sprint and if you have insurance they will replace it but if they ask you if you dropped it tell them no.. just say that you were taking piks or something and you started to get random reboots and your camera started to fail.. I don't knw if their new policy would cover that since people be saying that it has changed but hey it doesn't hurt to try.
Good luck
Push Lightly On The camera
My camera lens fell off and I didn't worry about it for awhile. I noticed the similar thing on mine, and i pushed the camera and the color went away. I did unroot take it to sprint, with the lens and they swapped it out. Now of course my replacement has a bum speaker and dust under the digitizer. ugg....
Hardware... But not camera....
I had the same issue (pink screen/pink pictures). The repair center put in another camera. I watched them do it. They even tried two cameras and the pictures still were pink. So, its hardware related, but its something other than the camer that needs replaces. They gave me a brand new EVO on the spot.
It is a known issue.

One X Dead

hey guys,
so my friend got a One X, that's Dead...pretty cheap...and we're trying to revive it.
up till now, the phone only vibrates when pressing the power button, screen doesn't wake up. how to access the bootloader "if it's even accessible"?
any way to know if it's fixable?
Uhh, it doesn't sound too easily fixable. If the screen isn't even turning on, you're off to a bad start. Sounds like some kind of hardware fault, not something you'll be able to flash to fix.
AJerman said:
Uhh, it doesn't sound too easily fixable. If the screen isn't even turning on, you're off to a bad start. Sounds like some kind of hardware fault, not something you'll be able to flash to fix.
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okay, after tinkering with it, the screen has glitches and lights up then turns on.....what's the sign of this? i can't decide if it's hardware or software yet..
how to enter bootloader? sorry never used one x before.
okay so, i'll attach an photo of the screen. and a video of a similar issue.
video link
please anyone that can help, let me know
That's a hardware fault maybe faulty flex cable
jutley said:
That's a hardware fault maybe faulty flex cable
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if you look at the phone, it's very clean, i can tell it never had a smudge or any fall...also the screen is clean, no scratches. quite a catch! what could have made the flex cable go bad?!
in the boot animation the screen is quite good!
You say in the boot animation the screen is good, does it ever clear up entirely? You COULD get a display like that from software, but it's more than likely hardware. For example, running Gingerbread ROMs on the Infuse with Froyo bootloaders cause similar rainbow effects due to a change in coding, so you can POSSIBLY have a scrambled display without a hardware failure.
It may have just been a faulty phone and that's why it looks like it's in good shape. It's not necessarily something that someone broke. It could be a bad GPU chip, it could be a flex cable as mentioned, it could be a lot of things. If you (or rather your friend) got it for cheap, and you want to try opening it up to inspect the cables, you can find disassembly threads and videos to tell you how. You could be going on a wild goose chase though.
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You say in the boot animation the screen is good, does it ever clear up entirely? You COULD get a display like that from software, but it's more than likely hardware. For example, running Gingerbread ROMs on the Infuse with Froyo bootloaders cause similar rainbow effects due to a change in coding, so you can POSSIBLY have a scrambled display without a hardware failure.
It may have just been a faulty phone and that's why it looks like it's in good shape. It's not necessarily something that someone broke. It could be a bad GPU chip, it could be a flex cable as mentioned, it could be a lot of things. If you (or rather your friend) got it for cheap, and you want to try opening it up to inspect the cables, you can find disassembly threads and videos to tell you how. You could be going on a wild goose chase though.
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sometimes it boots up with that white messed up screen, sometimes it boots with the sense 4 lockscreen. lags a lot while trying to unlock the lockscreen, after that all hell breaks loose and screen becomes messed up pretty bad.
thanks for the tips man, i will try opening it up and having a look inside.
it could be a bad factory outlet as a friend suggested...
arabology said:
sometimes it boots up with that white messed up screen, sometimes it boots with the sense 4 lockscreen. lags a lot while trying to unlock the lockscreen, after that all hell breaks loose and screen becomes messed up pretty bad.
thanks for the tips man, i will try opening it up and having a look inside.
it could be a bad factory outlet as a friend suggested...
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Well, hell, you can try reflashing the software if you can see enough in recovery mode (vol down and power at the same time). I can't see how it would hurt it any more. From the sound of it, you either have VERY messed up software, or more than likely, faulty hardware. Does it seem like the display works any better when it's been off for a while (cold)? If it gets worse the longer it's on, or if it had been on and you just rebooted, it would point more towards a faulty gpu chip to me and the heat causing the problem to come out.
Not sure about how warranties transfer or if they do at all (might depend country to country too), but you could see if it's still under warranty and can be sent in before you open it up.
AJerman said:
Well, hell, you can try reflashing the software if you can see enough in recovery mode (vol down and power at the same time). I can't see how it would hurt it any more. From the sound of it, you either have VERY messed up software, or more than likely, faulty hardware. Does it seem like the display works any better when it's been off for a while (cold)? If it gets worse the longer it's on, or if it had been on and you just rebooted, it would point more towards a faulty gpu chip to me and the heat causing the problem to come out.
Not sure about how warranties transfer or if they do at all (might depend country to country too), but you could see if it's still under warranty and can be sent in before you open it up.
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alright then
i'll post later if it worked out either ways. thanks for your time bro, unfortunetly i'm out of thanks to thank your last post
actually, the screen gets better when used more to be honest. first we got it, the screen never turned on, then after many tries, it finally came up...first time it was like in the pic, second boot it was sense 4 lockscreen, but messed up later on.
arabology said:
alright then
i'll post later if it worked out either ways. thanks for your time bro, unfortunetly i'm out of thanks to thank your last post
actually, the screen gets better when used more to be honest. first we got it, the screen never turned on, then after many tries, it finally came up...first time it was like in the pic, second boot it was sense 4 lockscreen, but messed up later on.
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Hmm... weird. Not sure what to say. Well, good luck. I hope it works out!
What honestly it looks like to me is that they tried to flash a american version of a rom on to the phone so you have the improper bootloaders and such. hopefully this works for you.
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If the screen turns on then you didnt kill it. here are the stock ruu's for the HTC One X International. Make sure to choose the one proprietary to your phone and country.
(clickme) for a list of downloads
Good luck and please post your findings.
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thanks guys!
I know I don't own an one x, but I do have a HTC Rezound, and I cracked the screen in it, and mine did the something while watching YouTube videos, but then it just went back to normal, this happened twice to me. I thought my screen was going out, but if yours is doing it and there's no physical damage, had to be something in the phone, or maybe software is that even possible? Lol.
Just thought I'd share what happened to me..
ICS Rezound.
skater95 said:
I know I don't own an one x, but I do have a HTC Rezound, and I cracked the screen in it, and mine did the something while watching YouTube videos, but then it just went back to normal, this happened twice to me. I thought my screen was going out, but if yours is doing it and there's no physical damage, had to be something in the phone, or maybe software is that even possible? Lol.
Just thought I'd share what happened to me..
ICS Rezound.
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yes it could be a software issue. so your phone had that issue after changing your digitizer/screen? and then became normally by itself later on...?
thanks for the insight
just an additional reference for you, if ever that you want to re-flash a new rom, but can't access SD card, just follow the link, MIGHT help you out... good luck..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1692681
hello
i have the same issue but here in syria we didn't have Agency htc to repair my phone screen sooooo pleassssssssssse if any one live in lebanon can you please tell me were i can go to repair my phone if u knows an a good htc shop or Agency of the HTC (((( for more information i have no scratch on my phone or water inside it )))))) tnxxxxx alot
It's a hardware issue for sure. Doubt it's the cable connection but in need of a bga rework to try and fix it
Sent from my HTC One X using xda premium
mikey0105 said:
just an additional reference for you, if ever that you want to re-flash a new rom, but can't access SD card, just follow the link, MIGHT help you out... good luck..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1692681
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thanks a lot i'll definitely be need to knowing this, even if not needed now...till i get my own One X
mohanned said:
i have the same issue but here in syria we didn't have Agency htc to repair my phone screen sooooo pleassssssssssse if any one live in lebanon can you please tell me were i can go to repair my phone if u knows an a good htc shop or Agency of the HTC (((( for more information i have no scratch on my phone or water inside it )))))) tnxxxxx alot
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yes, check your PM.

[Q] Camera issue, white line just appeared on screen and photos.

I just went to take a picture and noticed this white line across the screen. It appears on the screen and in the photo. It appears in portrait and landscape, camera or camcorder. It only appears when using rear camera, front is fine. I tried changing the camera settings, rebooting, all the basic stuff I could think of. I tried using a camera app from the market and ended up with the same result. I am rooted, but still stock. I did update to MA7 using something I found here at XDA, but I don't recall what it was. The camera was fine after I did it, I did it around a month or so ago.
Has anyone else encountered this issue or know of a fix?
I also would like some advice on what I should do regarding Sprint if I can't fix it. I've had Sprint for 10 years and never took a phone to be repaired or replaced in that time. I was wondering if it would be okay to take the phone to a Sprint store to have it looked at while it is still rooted? If taking it in rooted isn't a good idea, would this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2086769 be a viable option to unroot it to take it in? Lastly, rooted or not, any clue to how much it would cost? I don't have the TEP stuff.
Just found out it is still under warranty with Samsung, so I guess the same questions regarding Sprint I would like to find out about Samsung.

[Q] nedd advice from the WARRANTY PROS!!!

Hey everyone first post so plz be gentle lol but i bought my AT&T note 4 out right and didnt realize until after the 15 warranty from walmart went out that my camera was messed up and my phone is really slow sluggish and just not performing like i hoped it would . So i was wondering is there any Warranty loop holes or do the Pros no what i can do about getting my camera fixed? Is there a Samsung warranty or something?
What is the camera doing that makes you think it's messed up? What android version are you running?
We need more answers before we can tell you what to do.
jimjam14 said:
Hey everyone first post so plz be gentle lol but i bought my AT&T note 4 out right and didnt realize until after the 15 warranty from walmart went out that my camera was messed up and my phone is really slow sluggish and just not performing like i hoped it would . So i was wondering is there any Warranty loop holes or do the Pros no what i can do about getting my camera fixed? Is there a Samsung warranty or something?
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One year manufactures warranty....Call samsung
camera doesn't focus instantly
​i read that the phone is the first to have moving parts and it should fous as soon as it opens but mine doesnt. I have to bump the side and my phon3 lags quite a bit when switching between apps
Where did you read that about the camera? (link please) I have never seen such a statement, in fact just the opposite nothing innovative except perhaps the "selfie" feature. (good camera, good stabilization)
http://www.techradar.com/reviews/phones/mobile-phones/samsung-galaxy-note-4-1263301/review/6
If it is lagging I would have thought you would see that before 15 days return? Perhaps it isn't lagging and is working as it is designed?
Best bet is what already has been posted, go through Samsung.
I have the same problem with my camera trying to focus. Takes up to a minute sometimes. I've read in forums to have samsung replace it. I'm gonna try to go to att first and see what they say. It is a known issue.

Camera not focusing

Hey,
Anyone had or got issues with the rear camera not focusing?
It takes ages to focus and I mean 3+ minutes.
It won't do it when I tap on the screen either.
Using OOS or a custom rom?
I have the same issue also. Apparently it's a known hardware issue Contact OP for RMA
I'm using FreedomOS
i have the same issue OOS latest Beta.
Install the latest OOS stable and if it doesn't work, contact Oneplus and explain the problem. If it's a hardware problem they have to fix it (if you still have warranty).
****, I just noticed my camera has problems to start focusing. The whole picture strangely waves durning focusing. But it will focus after a couple of seconds.
I had this problem, and it nearly drove me to getting a new phone. It followed me through OS updates and many different ROMs. Not much help on the threads here, either.
My problem was that the camera would constantly try to refocus, and would never focus on the foreground...things in the background were clear, but nothing in the foreground. Videos were horrible, constant refocusing and blurring. Didn't work in 3rd party apps like check deposit on my bank app, Snapchat, etc.
I found a YouTube video of a hardware repair that seemed ridiculous, but it actually fixed the issue for me. It's not too hard to do if you don't want to wait for an RMA from OnePlus...but it literally involved sticking a staple between a magnet in the phone and the camera module. If you don't feel comfortable opening your phone up, I wouldn't attempt it, but my camera has been working perfect since I did this redneck fix.
here's a link to the video. Watch it first before trying, and if it seems like it's too much, you may have to do an RMA.
I didn't want to believe it was a hardware issues either, but this honestly did fix it for me.
Good luck!
Has anyone else tried @Redjax workaround. I'm going crazy. My camera focus problems are getting worse.
Also, has anyone of you tried a camera replacement. If so, which one, share the link.
I'm thinking on trying the staple mod first before ordering a replacement.
Vaizen said:
Has anyone else tried @Redjax workaround. I'm going crazy. My camera focus problems are getting worse.
Also, has anyone of you tried a camera replacement. If so, which one, share the link.
I'm thinking on trying the staple mod first before ordering a replacement.
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This problem drove me crazy. I replaced the camera 2 days ago and now camera focuses perfectly, I did try the staple mod before this but I would sometimes focus, but not all the time.
CoronaDabs said:
This problem drove me crazy. I replaced the camera 2 days ago and now camera focuses perfectly, I did try the staple mod before this but I would sometimes focus, but not all the time.
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Yeah, I thought so. The staple mod is just a temporary solution. Guess I'll order a replacement. Could you share the one you purchased?
Vaizen said:
Yeah, I thought so. The staple mod is just a temporary solution. Guess I'll order a replacement. Could you share the one you purchased?
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I got you bud
http://www.ebay.com/itm/172403054111
CoronaDabs said:
I got you bud
http://www.ebay.com/itm/172403054111
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Thanks mate. Finally got my replacement module and just installed it. Although it took forever to arrive and tearing down the phone wasn't as easy as YouTube makes it look, my camera is perfect again and I'm on love of my OP3 once again :good:
Vaizen said:
Thanks mate. Finally got my replacement module and just installed it. Although it took forever to arrive and tearing down the phone wasn't as easy as YouTube makes it look, my camera is perfect again and I'm on love of my OP3 once again :good:
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Glad I could help
Got it fixed for free from service center
Jaymie1989 said:
Hey,
Anyone had or got issues with the rear camera not focusing?
It takes ages to focus and I mean 3+ minutes.
It won't do it when I tap on the screen either.
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I was facing the same issue from couple of months. It started after a system update, don't remember the version tough.
So visited the service center today, the people there already had info about this issue. They replaced the camera module free of cost, even after my phone warranty is over! OnePlus knew the problem and they are fixing it for free.
I got my OP3 serviced at Pune, India.

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