Recently I noticed that there is dust under the camera glass in front of the camera. It initially appeared as a dark dot when taking pictures. Well now it got worse and there are two dots! I checked and it looks like there is more dust. I don't know how it's getting in there, but I already tried blowing compressed air on and around the camera to clear it, but it didn't work. Any ideas what to do? Here is what it looks like, it is the two dots on the bottom:
http://i.imgur.com/AuJ0Y.jpg
Brick it and get a new phone
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ArcticWolf91 said:
Recently I noticed that there is dust under the camera glass in front of the camera. It initially appeared as a dark dot when taking pictures. Well now it got worse and there are two dots! I checked and it looks like there is more dust. I don't know how it's getting in there, but I already tried blowing compressed air on and around the camera to clear it, but it didn't work. Any ideas what to do? Here is what it looks like, it is the two dots on the bottom:
http://i.imgur.com/AuJ0Y.jpg
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i wouldnt brick it. i would send it back to tmobile. tell them there is dust underneath the lens of ur camera and all the pics have dots in them. im sure they will replace it no problem since it cant be fixed.
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I just got a HTC Touch Pro 2 (Sprint) and really love it, but one thing that bothers me is the camera.
When I try to take pictures, the picture is VERY blurry and grainy, am I doing something wrong? I tried all of the resolutions and they are all the same. Not to mention, the camera kind of lags when I'm trying to take a picture...
Any suggestions?
Gotta have good lighting ...
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alphad0g said:
I just got a HTC Touch Pro 2 (Sprint) and really love it, but one thing that bothers me is the camera.
When I try to take pictures, the picture is VERY blurry and grainy, am I doing something wrong? I tried all of the resolutions and they are all the same. Not to mention, the camera kind of lags when I'm trying to take a picture...
Any suggestions?
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Ive noticed sometimes if you take off the back cover and clean the lens on both the back piece and the acctual camera it can make a huge difference. I dont know how long youve had it but if its been awhile, that might help...
The camera is not too good. However it does take decent picuteres if you makesure the lens cover is clean on the outside and inside. some people have suggested removing the plastic piece altogether. there are a whole bunch of threads about it.
What you describe is bad background light. You have some light profiles, so try them. The camera doesnt have much resolution, flash light is absent, but still its more sensible than a nokia from that era.
The lens cover on the back will get scratched and it really makes for some bad pix.
I have a post about this a long while back.
But anyways, take battery cover off and try to take a pic and see how it looks. If you see a improvement buy a new battery cover. Or just the lens cover out of the battery cover. That's what I usually end up doing on all my phones. Sure the real camera lens may gets dust but its glass and its reccessed enough to not get scratched.
Try this and report back
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i removed the plastic over the lens and i did notice a slight improvement
wateverweber said:
i removed the plastic over the lens and i did notice a slight improvement
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You guys got me scratching my head My plastic cover has a hole where the lens looks through so taking it off provides no improvement at all!
i think it takes bad pictures.
Sprint HTC Touch Pro2 Camera
I agree.. My phone used to take pretty decent pictures.. It seems like the more
I have tweeked my .reg files the worse it has gotten over time. I tell the hubby
this all the time. Taking the back off doent help.. my pictures look out of focus
and oblong. I think it is from one of the tweeks.
Tammy
jesus, no wonder my pictures stink. i took the back cover off, looked through the plastic peice covering the lense and it is a fog. anyone know if i can get a new back cover? or somehow remove the plastic covering? htc tp2 tmobile.
This camera is a shame for this kind of phone!
But I love Rhodium so..........................I bought a real camera
Hey, guys recently I dropped my phone from about waist hight onto a tile floor. It landed on the backside and everything seemed fine until I went to use the rear camera again. Now there are about four blue dots that appear on the screen when in the camera veiw and they appear in pictures unless it is very bright outside when the picture is being taken.
Im not really sure what the problem is or how to fix it so any help would be greatly appreciated.
thejamiemonster said:
Hey, guys recently I dropped my phone from about waist hight onto a tile floor. It landed on the backside and everything seemed fine until I went to use the rear camera again. Now there are about four blue dots that appear on the screen when in the camera veiw and they appear in pictures unless it is very bright outside when the picture is being taken.
Im not really sure what the problem is or how to fix it so any help would be greatly appreciated.
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try flashing another rom. If its still there on different roms then its a hardware issue and you will probably have to send it in for repair.
Can you take a picture of it first? I wanna see how it looks
me too
My phone just started to do that ...I called Verizon and they are going to replace my phone. .. good luck
I've only had my Note 3 for a week and already it looks like there are tons of scratches on the camera lens. I already had an Otter Box for the Note 3 when it arrived, so it's been in that it's whole life. I say they are scratches, but they look like some kinda disease on the lens, like spiderwebs or something. I've tried to clean with professional lens cleaner and cloth for my DSLR, and it's just weird. They fade and come back.
The pictures it is taking seem OK, but I don't want to wait too long to do a swap as I bought my phone outright to keep my monthly bill low.
Any ideas?
might it be that you still have the protective covering on the lens? you're supposed to take it off.
rlee008 said:
might it be that you still have the protective covering on the lens? you're supposed to take it off.
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I thought that as well. But I took it to the store and they called it some kind of fog on the lens that wasn't normal. They gave me a new phone.
Thx T-Mobile!
dokujaryu said:
I thought that as well. But I took it to the store and they called it some kind of fog on the lens that wasn't normal. They gave me a new phone.
Thx T-Mobile!
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excellent! glad you were able to get your issue resolved!
My M8 was working fine a week back. Then suddenly I started noticing that my camera capture images in a diffuse glow/angelic glow mode. Whites become bright and look grainy. I can see that on my phone screen itself. The sharpness seems to have gone. The ISO is set to Auto, in fact all the settings are in Auto. Did not happen before.
What's wrong with the camera? The camera lens is clean too.
There is an OTA update available too. I thought updating may solve the issue, but everytime i try to install it says "downloading unsuccessful" "the download package is corrupt"
All you pretty and genius people out there, a noob needs help.
My phone is completely stock. Did not root or anything.
Check your camera lenses if there are any scratches on it. It means the lenses coating is coming off.
Too many minute scratches/ hope it's the coating
scorror said:
Check your camera lenses if there are any scratches on it. It means the lenses coating is coming off.
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Now that you mention it, yes there is. Quite a whole lot. I use Dot view case, it has some height, I wonder how they still got scratched.
I read about the solution for this, it says the coating gets scratched quite easily, use of toothpaste or any other method mentioned will remove the coating and the camera will get to it's original state.
I am skeptical about doing that. If i remove the coating, won't it be really scary if the original lens also gets scratched?
What do I do?
Thank you in advance
Same is happening with me. Pictures started looking grainy. I tried the toothpaste method but it didn't help. Now I regret why the hell did I spend so much to get such a crapy phone. My phone is always covered in Unicorn beetle case. Still the camera lens seems to be hell lot scratched.
Worked
cardozclive said:
Same is happening with me. Pictures started looking grainy. I tried the toothpaste method but it didn't help. Now I regret why the hell did I spend so much to get such a crapy phone. My phone is always covered in Unicorn beetle case. Still the camera lens seems to be hell lot scratched.
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I think you should give it a try. The toothpaste method.
Take a Q tip and rub the toothpaste on it. Have patience, so it for good 5-8 minutes and make sure you are applying good amount of pressure.
Then you could do the same using Surgical Spirit instead of toothpaste for another good 5 minutes. That should do it.
I searched through 15 pages of topics, didn't find anything on this....But seems to be an issue when you Google it?
My s20 has been getting fuzzier and fuzzier with pics... I even get the dirty lens warning from time to time....Then today, I notices dark "blobs" on my pics of the snow.... Upon further examination, my lenses are really dirty under the back glass?!
I tried blowing air in the mic hole, but nothing changed.
Is there an easy fix for this? I'm taking it to UbreakIfix tomorrow to see what they can do, but figured I'd check here for an easier, non-evasive (cheaper) solution?
tele_jas said:
I searched through 15 pages of topics, didn't find anything on this....But seems to be an issue when you Google it?
My s20 has been getting fuzzier and fuzzier with pics... I even get the dirty lens warning from time to time....Then today, I notices dark "blobs" on my pics of the snow.... Upon further examination, my lenses are really dirty under the back glass?!
I tried blowing air in the mic hole, but nothing changed.
Is there an easy fix for this? I'm taking it to UbreakIfix tomorrow to see what they can do, but figured I'd check here for an easier, non-evasive (cheaper) solution?
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I had dust on my lens (ultra) and took it back. They replaced the back because there was no way to clean it. Pictures are still crap, but thats just the phone !
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I had dust on my lens (ultra) and took it back. They replaced the back because there was no way to clean it. Pictures are still crap, but thats just the phone !
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I know its been over a year but did find a fix for this I have the same issue on my s20 ultra on the telephoto camera
I took it to UbreakIfix, they ran the SN and it had 3 months left on the warranty, so that covered the fix.
The fix was to actually replace the entire back of the phone (which has the camera window in it).
I still have my S20, keep it as a back up to my new phone.... I pull it out to test apps I'm not sure I want to put on my new phone. It still holds it's own almost 3 years later!
tele_jas said:
I took it to UbreakIfix, they ran the SN and it had 3 months left on the warranty, so that covered the fix.
The fix was to actually replace the entire back of the phone (which has the camera window in it).
I still have my S20, keep it as a back up to my new phone.... I pull it out to test apps I'm not sure I want to put on my new phone. It still holds it's own almost 3 years later!
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Thank you for replying what I understand from this is only to clean the lens and change the camera glass not the full camera !
mohammadhaseb45 said:
Thank you for replying what I understand from this is only to clean the lens and change the camera glass not the full camera !
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Yes, this was just the glass that covers the camera array.....Which is part of the entire back part of the phone.