Hi everyone. I have been actively following this forum for the last year, and would like to thank upfront for every guide and helpful members that helped me make the most of my whyred. I'm posting this here because I can't find any relevant information regarding this matter.
I accidentally cracked the camera glass, and proceeded to replace it. However, after the repair and thorough cleaning, the camera is snapping very blurry pictures, making me assume the camera actually got damaged.
I know it is possible to use the pro camera on the global version and vice-versa. However, I would like to know if it is possible to install the note 6 camera instead as it is the only replacement I found nearby. They are both exactly the same size and connectors, only the sensor being different. As the hardware on both is greatly the same, i figure it could work, maybe with the right drivers, but i don't know for sure.
Should I risk it? BTW I'm on AOSP Extended Rom, don't know if that makes any difference.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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I heard that Siemens SX66 sold by Cingluar has built-in camera but it is covered by the case. Is that true or not?
Please if you know, advice me. I am willing to open my Siemens SX66 and make small hole for the camera.
Sounds like BS to me. If they got a custom case from HTC that covers that area, you can be damned sure they can get the cameras custom ripped out .
want your answer? load the 1.40 rom and use the camera apps, it locks up the device on my SX66
Sherko
I have internal memos that show there is a secret camera inside the case of the Cingular SX66. It is squeezed in right next to the iraqi weapons of mass destruction!
Joe_PDA said:
Sherko
I have internal memos that show there is a secret camera inside the case of the Cingular SX66. It is squeezed in right next to the iraqi weapons of mass destruction!
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Hahahahahahahahaah =))))))))
Very good one, i really liked this one =)))))))
Hope Bush does not have an aide that surfs, next thing you know we will have a war in asia
wstahlhut said:
want your answer? load the 1.40 rom and use the camera apps, it locks up the device on my SX66
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wstahlhut,
i upgraded my sx66 to 1.40 and 1.12 radio without touching the ExtRom and 1 problem, my up/down scroll doesnt work. care to help?
Holy cow!!! hes right there is a lens type thingy
lazzy said:
wstahlhut said:
want your answer? load the 1.40 rom and use the camera apps, it locks up the device on my SX66
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wstahlhut,
i upgraded my sx66 to 1.40 and 1.12 radio without touching the ExtRom and 1 problem, my up/down scroll doesnt work. care to help?
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I dumped the 1.40 rom do to oddness like that, went back to the 1.10 radio and the stock CE rom, and my custom Exted...
Hidden camera??!!!
It just would not make good money sense for any of the cell carriers to leave the camera attached to the motherboard and cover them up with a fully covered back shell. I would assumed that maybe the carriers could order their very own Blue Angel hardware from HTC without the some of the bells and whistles for their custom branding, UNLESS.....HTC did make them all of the BA hardware one set way and left it up to the carriers to use all or some of the functions. Some of the U.S.A. cell carriers were already worried about marketing a high dollar device to corperate consumers. In order to scale down the high price, they shaved off the wifi or the bluetooth. But their main concern for leaving out the camera was a matter of the big corperate buyers who work for strict employers with the "No camera" and (camera phone) policy. Which is why I'm glad I got a MDA III from overseas. ..... Who knows? :wink: it was probably cheaper to mold a new different back shell than to pay someone to remove the camera. To all the ones who might have a camera, I hope you get them working Good luck with "hidden surprise inside".
if someone could activate the hardware we sx66 people would have a camera
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vbguru613 said:
if someone could activate the hardware we sx66 people would have a camera
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On the WIKI there are the camera patches. But you won't know if there is a camera working until the lens is uncovered from the plastic backing.
There is also the possibiltiy of making some registy changes?? Where is MDAIIIuser ?? He would know. :?:
Looks Like I have been forced to make a comment here.
The issue is whether the device has a camera built in and if this is the case how can XDA-Developers get it to work.
First, I personally think that this will be a conceptual discussion for based on my own experience taking the BA apart which is a pain, I don’t think that many or even anybody is going to spend the time drilling a hole in the their BA in order to get a ****ty VGA camera to work. However as I don’t have that problem it is really not fair to make that statement.
So let’s brake this done into a few logical steps where I will try to add what I have learnt over the last 4 months.
1) Hardware
We have yet to see a picture of the back plate of an opened BA with camera and a SX66 without, so visually at least we don’t know what we are talking about.
For the fun of it let us say that there is camera inside.
That its been covered over with a different back casing in order to open up the market of the BA to Business users that don’t want to have (due to security) a phone with a built in camera and/or also don’t want to spend the extra money.
This I feel is a valid point and HTC choice would be to build a different device (different plate without a camera) or just ship the same plate with a camera or even leave certain components out of that plate (the lens) in the manufacturing process.
Here again, thinking positive, let’s say that it’s all there and they just covered it over with a different back case.
So we have the problem of the back casing and the maybe the fact that the camera button is missing on the left side of the device. (this you will have to tell me).
Anyway the solution to this is to obtain a display model of BA with camera, a task that I have tried in vain to achieve over the last 3 weeks as my BA is very badly dented.
Here again, thinking positive, let’s say we can get a display model and swap the casing out.
Thus you have the insides of the SX66 which has the hardware (well we think it does) and the casing that will support a camera.
2) Software
What do we know about rom’s ?
Many months ago there was a SX66 1.3x rom (device with out camera) that was repacked by Manich and put on XDA.
This was a rom dump and the camera application was not in that image.
This rom was loaded be owners of the BA with camera and it worked but did not have the camera application.
(well it was a buggy Rom and in the long run and most went back to the I-mate 1.31 Arabic)
However on Wiki we placed a post install cab that added the needed files for the camera and these worked for that 1.3x Rom that is.
So we know for a fact that it can be done and we have proved it based on the past.
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_Post
However Today we all taking about the 1.40 Type I Rom’s (I-mate or Qtec) which are built and shipped for the model PH20B (with camera).
I have loaded this rom and I find the camera application (Camera.exe) and many other files with camera in them under \windows
If you have loaded this rom and don’t find the Camera.exe then this must be due to the BaUpgradeUt.exe which checks to see what the Model number is and thus does not load all the files (in this case the Camera and in the case of the Harrier rom the WIFI).
This could also explain the file \Windows\Startup\Camera_Detect.exe which is found on my device (which has a camera) and may not be found on yours.
What we have also been able to work out is by using the MaUpgradeUt_noID we can bypass the Country Code error in the Type II roms, Seen in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=117645#117645
Files and instructions :
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=BA_FAQ_Upgrade_Errors
However we have not been able to test if we can by pass the device ID check (the one that checks if your device has a camera and thus loads those files).
The new tool that I have been Beta testing gives me the possibility to change the header of the rom to read that it is a non camera version.
However we have no tools that lets us tell the device that it is in fact a PH20B (With camera) and not a PH20B1 (without).
This would be the reverse of getdevciedata and a really interesting tool.
(putdevicedata.exe > devicedata.txt or write the device data out of my devicedata.txt onto my device thus getting the device to think it is a different device vs getting the rom to think it was built for a different device).
So MAYBE, just maybe flashing a non camera BA with the device ID PH20B by using the MA_upgrade will result in the device thinking that it has a camera and wifi and we could then test if this components are around (as in part of the hardware) or not by using them since the software has been loaded (you can find the files in windows).
So How do we move forward from here?
1) I think we need to see the backplate of both devices
2) We need to flash a non camera device with the MA_upgrade as a PH20B and see if we can find the files
3) We need to play with the wifi and the camera of a device (that was PH20B1 but has been told its a PH20B) which has the back plate removed and the 1.40 as a rom on it
Given this we can prove or disprove the theory and who knows you might even find that wifi is around but the camera not.
Warning taking you device apart can revoke the warranty
Warning flashing your device has been know to turn it into a brick, do this at your own risk.
Hope that helps
hidden camera
Thank you MDAIIIuser for your deep insight on our BA's . You really did point out some pros and cons on the camera or no camera issue. I will have to ask around some of my celluar dealer buddies in my area to see if I can score you a dummy BA for you to use for shell parts. You are the BA guru!
shane, Nice of you but won't do me much good, I have a camera (PH20B) and your dummy won't or am I missing something?
So looks like you will have to score the dummy and answer the the question of the "meaning of life" which I always thought was 21 but seems to be "is there a camera or not and if so can XDA get it to work?"
Why don't you just install the .cab with the camera app on a siemens and check if you get a black image?
good idea! where can i get it? ill install it
good idea! where can i get it? ill install it
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Well you could.... oh forget it
I have Installed the camera and it says i have to reset the hardware.
Anyways nothing should be tried until we open the back of the phone. I tried but my tools only opened 2 screws. the others lost its corners from trying to hard.
Thank you all
I really appreciate your interaction and specially XDAiiiuser.
the humor part was healthy too
I will try to open my BA and check if there is a cam or take a pic and find out.
If anyone has discovered that there is a camera in siemens XS66, then, we might be able to use it. I understand it might be difficult..
help I have me problems with the camera of the elf!
Don't work me anymore! must I replace her it, would someone know me to say where to find her it?
And possible to replace the camera with one who has more pixelses? If him where I find her it?
excused to my English not and my fort…. Thanks to all beforetime!
What is the problem first of all?
And no, you can't put in a higher res camera.
ebay may have a replacement part.
the main problem and that the camera does not work me, and I have tried to inform to me in a center of assistance in my city (Trieste - Italy) and they have answered to me that the camera of reciprocation does not have to us and very difficult to reperire. And so me meeting without camera and this gives much annoyance to me being that drawn my Elf with much cure.
and on ebay they aren't successful to find it and for this I wondered if by chance it were possible to mount a camera of an other compatible model HTC with l Elf.?
Was it the HTC service centre that said the camera is broken? Did they mention if it was the detachable camera board, or something more?
All I can really suggest is backup, hard reset, does it work?
If not, well, then I would suggest maybe opening your device and checking how the camera board is seating into the mainboard. If it is all fine, you may need to find a new one. Either a new phone, or a new camera board from a dead elf.
Hi guys,
Does anybody know exactly what rear camera module I need for my HTC One X ?
My serienumber is: HT24MW11511......
Because my camera died on me, it just returns a black screen when opening the camera-app and the app freezes then.
Hard-reset (factory reset) didn't help.
Opening the hardware from the case didn't show any damage, but there could be a loose wire or so. Couldn't get that deep inside the camera module.
I have read threads about different type of modules for different type of One X models.
I wonder if the G23 S720e module is the right one for my model.
I also couldn't find any differences between modelnumbers like HT24, HT25 etc....
Maybe someone could post the differences other than only the manufacturing date.
So, anybody know if these camera-modules are correct for replacement with my broken rear camera?
- http://www.nicermarket.com/htc-one-g23-s720e-camera-module-back-rear-camera-module-megapixels-camera-free-shipping-p-650.html
- http://rounded.com/htc-one-x-g23-s720e-camera-module-back-rear-camera-module-spare-part-23fp.html
- http://www.gultek.eu/htc-spare-parts/camera-module/one-x.html
PS: Is there also a difference in EU htc one x's and US one x's ?
Mine is a non-rooted original dutch EU htc one x.
Kind regards!
P
There is a thread here discussing this, there does seem to be different camera modules.
yeah i know about that thread and have read it, but I couldn't get any wiser from that. That thread also talks about a mistake about cleaning the lens with alcohol or something, It doesn't explain in detail anything about the differences in models and differences in camera-modules or any tips/tricks to get a broken camera working again.
Detailed info would be something like part-numbers etc.
Or tutorials on how to replace the camera etc.
But cheers for the quick reply
rear camera not working
same problem here.....no problem with changing the camera but i just want to be sure that will solve my problem. i was wondering if there is some test i can do to be 100% sure the camera is dead and not the motherboard or something else.....
any insight would be very much appreciated.
I've had my G3 for two years now, and decided I was happy enough with it to keep it past the contract period. My device is rooted, and for a time I'd just been using Xposed on the stock ROM. However, within the last month, I started using different ROMs - Fulmics 5.3 most recently. After some time, my rear-facing camera stopped working. It started as odd glitches, and then progressed (very quickly) to the camera app crashing immediately. I can only get the front facing camera to work now.
First, I tried flashing the backup of the factory ROM - no luck. I wiped the cache through recovery - no luck. Different camera apps either crashed upon trying to access the front camera, or simply showed a black screen. Thinking it was a hardware issue, I ordered a replacement camera and installed it. Nope. I still have the same issue, however now, whenever the camera decides to work for a matter of seconds, it's blurry, but that's another issue.
Here you can see the effects I am receiving.
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At this point, I'm not sure exactly what I should try aside from buy a new phone, however I'd really like to avoid that since this is the only issue I'm having with this device. I'd appreciate any input on this. Thanks!
Hey, I'm experiencing the same issue? Did you solve the problem? I have the same effects you show but on the back camera. Please help!!!
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Hey, I'm experiencing the same issue? Did you solve the problem? I have the same effects you show but on the back camera. Please help!!!
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Unfortunately, I still haven't found a resolution to this problem. I still can't find any info on this issue, and nothing I've tried has worked. I may just end up buying a new device. It really is unfortunate. I wanted to keep this device for much longer, and I am buying a new one simply due to a camera malfunction.
I've the same problem. I look for solutions in nets and nothing since two weeks. Will The maybe experienced user XDA help?
j959 said:
I've the same problem. I look for solutions in nets and nothing since two weeks. Will The maybe experienced user XDA help?
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It's surprising that no one here has experienced this and found a resolution to the problem. If anyone who has posted here finds a fix here or elsewhere, please post the fix or a link for the rest of us. It would be much appreciated.
Information for all which they want, can and be able to help.
Telephone LG G3 (D855, F400), system stock MM 6.0, not root.
They don't have the influence on introduced by the colleague above problems: hard, soft resets (after soft reset sometimes camera starts some once, but only once. Then as above), cleaning the memory, reinstalls the system, installing different camera applications, micro sdxc or sdhc: sams'g., adata, kinst., goodram, others. PLEASE HELP !!! Is this software or hardware problem? PLEASE HELP !!! LG G3 is the perfect telephone and the loss to throw out him. PLEASE HELP !!!
XDA ended. All experts, specialists went on the meadow, to sunbathe. Who does not have to help. That is why I will help myself. I will prompt all as the novice which they have the problem as was described higher. Above mentioned symptoms are lack of point of the contact on slat sticking the tape of the camera in main board LG G3 in version F400. The pin which unequatly clamps the point of the contact stands from the laser plate over the connector of the camera. Sticking on connector or the single board of the laser of foam about the thickness approx. 1,5 mm. It fixs the matter at me. The apparatus works as he should. I greet all with problems with the cameras. And also experts and willing helping. I greet the novices.
Hi all the community, first of all I apologize for my bad English, I wanted to share with you a problem on my redmi note 8 pro, since yesterday I have problems with focusing, it seems like stuck in one place and I cannot focus other, I have the phone for a year and it has never given me such problems, about 4 weeks ago I did a system update but I can assure that the problem was not there, and also the phone did not pick up falls that could explain this malfunction which at this point I think is of the hardware type. I am attaching 3 photos, the first taken with the main camera which is the one that does not focus, then one with the wide angle and a photo with the macro to make you better understand what I mean. If you have any solutions, please write them to me. Thank you in advance.
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Hi all the community, first of all I apologize for my bad English, I wanted to share with you a problem on my redmi note 8 pro, since yesterday I have problems with focusing, it seems like stuck in one place and I cannot focus other, I have the phone for a year and it has never given me such problems, about 4 weeks ago I did a system update but I can assure that the problem was not there, and also the phone did not pick up falls that could explain this malfunction which at this point I think is of the hardware type. I am attaching 3 photos, the first taken with the main camera which is the one that does not focus, then one with the wide angle and a photo with the macro to make you better understand what I mean. If you have any solutions, please write them to me. Thank you in advance.
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I also add that I also have the Google camera and the problem is still present.