After i dropped my phone from pocket height onto the floor, i noticed the photos had a "black" smudge, i am not sure if the glass on top of the camera module is scratched as i can't visibly see it, but after trying to clean the camera with some rubbing alcohol, i took a photo of it with some alcohol droplets still on the glass (it looks like a blurry drakish spot on the photo when in normal conditions, the alcohol droplets allowed the camera to focus on the spot). Now how can i fix this, do i have to change the glass on top of the camera or the entire camera module as if the actual lens might be damaged. (It's the main shooter, not the tele.)
Looks like it damaged the sensor.
Buy another cam module
It looks like some dust got dislodged and got on your camera lens. Maybe you can check it by shining a bright flashlight on the lens and checking for any small debris that is on the lens (Lens I am refering to is the one that's under the back glass/lens, on the camera module for focus, not the one you can touch)
If there is debris, the only way is to remove the back glass and remove the debris with a air can, or a temporary measure is to hit your phone at an angle to dislodge it to another location (it may get stuck deeper inside the OIS mechanism so beware of that)
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It looks like some dust got dislodged and got on your camera lens. Maybe you can check it by shining a bright flashlight on the lens and checking for any small debris that is on the lens (Lens I am refering to is the one that's under the back glass/lens, on the camera module for focus, not the one you can touch)
If there is debris, the only way is to remove the back glass and remove the debris with a air can, or a temporary measure is to hit your phone at an angle to dislodge it to another location (it may get stuck deeper inside the OIS mechanism so beware of that)
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oddly enough i left my phone charging over a "wooly" surface and i can't seem to reproduce it (the smudge is like gone), what's bothering me is that i kept cleaning the outer part of the lens (the one i can touch without dismantling the phone) but it was still there, after i left it charging for like 20mins it was like magically gone, anyways thanks for trying to help me!!
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After of using my HOX for more than a year, without any protection case, camera start to have focus issues and took blur photos because of micro scratches on lens.
There is no need to replace whole case.
All what you need is:
- sheet of water sand paper at least 1500
- piece of soft cloth
- car abrasive paste
- 20 minutes (using drill) to 1 hour free time (hand job).
Additional but not necessary, but very helpful:
- drill with felt polishing wheel - will speed up full process
Instructions:
1. Clean camera lens with soft cloth
2. Apply 1 drop of water to lens
3. take little sheet of water paper (1x1cm was enough for me) and start to rub your lens in circular motion.
After 20 seconds it will became milky mat - don't worry it's necessary to smooth full lens surface from scratches.
4. When no holes/scratches will left on surface (after 1-2 minutes) clean slurry water from sand paper using soft cloth.
5. Put a drop of car abrasive paste and start to polish using soft cloth in circular motion.
To speed up process use drill with felt polishing wheel at low speed.
If you don't have one it can be easy to made using double side tape, ordinary polishing wheel and piece of felt.
Lens should be wet from paste and stay in neutral room temperature all the time, so apply paste often and don't let lens became hot.
WARNING: pushing too hard and using high speed will produce overheating and can deform your lens.
If lens became too warm let it cool down, and continue polishing.
6. Clean lens using dry cloth and see effect. If surface will be crystal clear, see your lens at different angles under bright light to see if any defects left. If still there's something repeat #5 and #6.
I repeated #5 and #6 something about 30 times until lens look as they should; it took no more than 15 minutes.
Right now lens look like new and HOX camera took photos without any blur images.
After that it's harder to took a photo of a perfect clear lens without scratches than polish that lens
I tried this also on watch glass and motorcycle headlight - results as above, full success.
Disclaimer: I'm not responsible for any damage caused by using this tutorial.
Proper removing scratches it's not difficult, but if you have booth left hands something can go wrong.
The images from my front facing camera have gotten more and more washed out over the past few months. Apparently there is a small bulge in the aluminum right below the camera (where is connects to the black glass). The bulge is so slight that i can't even slip a piece of paper into it, but apparently it is enough to allow the occasional piece of dust in, so now the lens is coated with some debris (washing out the pictures).
I've tried canned air to no avail. I'm wondering if it makes sense to try and pry the bulge bigger to provide a better opportunity to clean the lens. I definitely don't want to take the whole screen off just for the front camera lens, but if there were a less involved disassembly to get the upper grill off or something, I'd be willing to try that.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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The images from my front facing camera have gotten more and more washed out over the past few months. Apparently there is a small bulge in the aluminum right below the camera (where is connects to the black glass). The bulge is so slight that i can't even slip a piece of paper into it, but apparently it is enough to allow the occasional piece of dust in, so now the lens is coated with some debris (washing out the pictures).
I've tried canned air to no avail. I'm wondering if it makes sense to try and pry the bulge bigger to provide a better opportunity to clean the lens. I definitely don't want to take the whole screen off just for the front camera lens, but if there were a less involved disassembly to get the upper grill off or something, I'd be willing to try that.
Anyone have any suggestions?
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Try to contact either HTC for a free repair (telling them your front camera is not working) or try to do the same thing with Verizon for them to get you a Like-New replacement (it is very easy to get them to do that, they ship one out for almost any problem). You are for sure within the 1 year standard warranty that comes with every phone since this phone only came out on August 28, 2013.
I think its got a lot of dust and dirt in it. I had a small lift on my speaker grill from day 1 of my purchase and didnt really care, but I think its been accumulating a lot of dust on my front facing camera. Its made it really blurry.
Does anyone know a way to clean the camera? I'm guessing the grill has to come off and then it'd be easy. But I don't know how to open to grill without damaging the phone or putting the grill back without making it even more loose than it should...
It's been found that our cameras have a thin film across them that becomes dirty and scratched and makes it blurry. I had this on both front and back. Solution I found is to put a drop of water very carefully on the camera lense and rub it with the corner of a credit card, just a little pressure will do it. I'll pull that film off and your camera will be as clear as the day you bought it. I haven't had any blurry issues since I did it about 8 months ago.
i had the same issue with the rear camera so i just used some glass cleaner and now the pictures come out nice and clear
When I bought my LG G4 (818) over a year ago,I could take night shots just point and click.
I had the circuit board replaced (bootloader problem) and for the last few weeks I get flare on the whites.So much that it's not worth taking a photo.
Even in manual the results are the same.
As you can see in the pics the white and the lights flare,(please don't say its normal as this result has just appeared)like I say a few months ago I could take night shot and no problems
Maybe your glass is scratched or dirty
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As you can see in the pics the white and the lights flare,(please don't say its normal as this result has just appeared)like I say a few months ago I could take night shot and no problems
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Hello madjester67, what you are seeing has been one of 2 problems WHICH I both experienced myself:
1. Easiest to solve: clean the lense.
How to diagnose: take your finger and wipe over the camera glas. The glowing stripes will be 90 degree to the direction of whiping.
When on the go I sometimes take just whatever clothes I am wearing, some work just fine. Or get a proper microfiber clothe
2. It might be scratches on the camera cover glas. They will stay independent of whiping. And they will always have the same angle towards the photos x an y axis. My scratched lense cover had certain markings, say 2 thin long rays to the button left corner and a thick shorter ray to the right corner.
How to diagnose: most reliable but a bit difficult and dangerous to the camera module: remove the current Cover (which means to remove the buttons too). If these artifacts remain, it wasn't the lense cover.
Why dangerous? Losing warranty (if support figures out), you might cause scratches or even break parts or WORSE you could damage the camera which is unprotected from the outer world without the cover. Even if it is just a small dust particle... how will you get that out of the actual lense without damage?
How to solve: buy a new camera glas or the whole glas+buttons part where you need only screw driver and not fiddle around with adhesive tapes. I got mine for about 15€ at rounded.com. It didn't have the proper color (grey instead of gold) but hey, Who cares?
Nive to hear from you soon how it went!
I noticed there are small dust particles under the glass of the front camera. I have no idea how that got there. But I wonder if there's anyway I could remove them without taking the phone apart.
I have got some small dusts on the back camera but thank god it doesn't effect the quality.
I think you need to remove the front screen to remove the dust.