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How to make the kaiser take better pictures.

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Jeff

thanks but its been posted allready

Should have known.
Jeff

I still don't think it's worth ruining the camera lens.

kareem9nba said:
I still don't think it's worth ruining the camera lens.
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The camera lens is bellow the cover, so you are not ruining it, just exposing it. Also the cover comes out without permanent damage, so you can always glue it back in again.
It makes a dramatic difference to picture quality - no more blurry pictures.
Here's an example picture with the lens cover off.
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this is a very stupid idea..to remove the lens glass that not onlyprotects your camera lens, but also helps avoid dust accumulating inside your camera...why do this for a very miniscul improvement....not only do u void ur manufacturer one year warrenty but also any chance of getting a warrenty/insurance with att or tmobile which do give insurance on their phones(even though they dont carry the phone u could trick them into thinking its a wing...possibley then making them replace your tilt with a tytn iV or touch pro if they get it...POSSIBLEY)
seriously..just stick to the fixes like nadavis camera fix, the resoluton and shutteroff tricks and whatever else fixes people have come out with cuz they dont void your warrenty...and trust me the drivers will come sooner or later. If not from HTC it will be developed by another brilliant soul from the touch pros drivers or another new devices drivers some how or some other way...just be patient fella.

It's not really anything to do with driver of software fixes, there is a real problem with the hardware design in that interior dust and exterior smears accumulate on that little window and ruin perfectly good pictures. I'm not convinced that removing the window is the best answer, but it does at least bring a clear improvement that no amount of software tweaking ever will.
What's really needed is a bit of foam or something inside to at least keep the dust out. I might look into that.

Just take the battery cover off when you want to take a picture. Seems a lot easier to me.

Macgyvec3 said:
Just take the battery cover off when you want to take a picture. Seems a lot easier to me.
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Really? I always find it's really difficult to actually get that cover off, and that's probably for the best too - I wouldn't want to make it loose and rattly.

Macgyvec3 said:
Just take the battery cover off when you want to take a picture. Seems a lot easier to me.
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Ive tried taking the battery cover off for a while. It has the same effect, but of course:
a) you look pretty weird taking pictures with your battery cover off.
b) it takes some time to do, meaning you cant take spontaneous pictures.
c) I feel the battery may fall out when doing doing this.
I think it may be a good idea to put a small foam ring around the hole to keep dust out, but so far its not been a gigantic issue. Remember the dust cant possibly get under the screen, as its a separate assembly to the base where the camera is, so a bit of dust is not necessarily a big deal.
Surur

Clean the cover
Why not just clean the cover? I got some Meguiar's PlastX clear plastic cleaner and spent 5 minutes cleaning the cover. I then wiped the cover down with a lens cleaning wipe. The whole process took about 7 minutes. I took a picture with the cover off (the whole back cover) and with the cover on after cleaning. They look exactly the same.

Problem with camera lens

My problem is in the camera lens, the special treatment fades...
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I don't know if SE can't fix it in guarantee.
My pictures quality is affect, juste see the pictures :
2 exemple before :
2 exemple after :
My pictures are fuzzy and too "grey".
I have send a e-mail toi SE, no answer.
I call in this week...
If you have the same probleme, and if the quality is affect... Thanks
So I'm sure now that's impossible to take again this type of pictures... :

Pardon me but I don't see any problem with the "after" pictures.
Half of my coating was off just after 4 days (or less, I noticed it only on the forth day), so I did not get a chance to take "before" shots.
Still, do you remember doing anything to your phone to cause it to be like it. Was it always like this?

i have your same problem, also i take much care on it!
sry i m italian..

What do you use to clean your phone? Or do you not clean it at all?

My lens is also so...But i must say i dont know how it get so...Maybe it come so in purchase...Very bad lens i must say...

williamn said:
What do you use to clean your phone? Or do you not clean it at all?
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I use the same product to clean glasses...
ANd my x1 are always protected....
:/

Got exactly the same problem. It has annoyed me for a long time and makes my camera useless. I have been thinking of sending the phone in, but I dont like to be without my phone for several weeks, besides, how many days will it tike before the problem reappears? unless they are aware of the problem, and have a fix for it. And as everybody else, I take very good care of the phone

clecle69000 said:
My problem is in the camera lens, the special treatment fades...
I don't know if SE can't fix it in guarantee.
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i noticed the same thing yesterday on my xperia,
however i believed its sort of moisture left behind the lens,after my little son pee on my x1,i rubbed it instantly,just after that i realised camera was not upto the mark,i still strongly believe its the reason,
else u notice one thing,
only the circle has those scratch like look,and not that whole hexagon shape,only the cirle
so if it scrathed why doesnt the rest..!
hopefully its just moisture and goes away with time,..

...i have the same problem too...
picture in daylight have a kind of "dreamy filter"!!!
By nigth have no big problem!

...sorry double post

lol dreamy fliter

it is actually moisture,i'm 99% sure atm,
it must have gone like that,when we cleaned lens with some fluids,
for me as i said my 4 month son pee on it
as my camera view & shots are much better now,however not as it was yet,
i gave it direct sunlight for 2-3mins 5-6 times in patches and kept rubbing it with soft cotton to give it some warmth,
i assume in 2-3 days it will be all better

To me it looks like it is some kind of filter that is getting worn down. My lense has become less resistant to direct light giving the picture an halo/dreamy look with lots of lens flares

Parano!d said:
i noticed the same thing yesterday on my xperia,
however i believed its sort of moisture left behind the lens,after my little son pee on my x1,i rubbed it instantly,just after that i realised camera was not upto the mark,i still strongly believe its the reason,
else u notice one thing,
only the circle has those scratch like look,and not that whole hexagon shape,only the cirle
so if it scrathed why doesnt the rest..!
hopefully its just moisture and goes away with time,..
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He pee'd on your x1
Haha

U know what? i had mine for about 2 or 3 months now, and im very watchful of it. I notice my lens is starting to have those little marks too. Before it gets worse, i quickly bought a screen guard and just put it over the lens.
Problem solved

My lens instead has a sort of scratch... But I can't imagine I'm responsible for that, I took good care of my X1... Anyone has this problem too? Fortunately I can't make it out on pictures (yet).

But the those scratches are inside, not outside...for me is a construction problem of the lens! I don't like so much that false "dreamy filter" but, now i have and i have no money to change...hurra!!!!!

I've got the same kind of "foggy scratches" on the lens. The pictures seems to be out of focus and like using a soft filter. I compare the pictures taken in the beginnig and there is a big difference...

Hello, I´ve "had" the same problem. ( Im German, sorry about my english ).
As is noticed that Problem, I send my X1 back to Sony to repair. Then i got it back and the lens was okay.
Then after 2 Weeks i´ve got the same Problem again. I made Pictures from the lens, an pictures with the X1.
BUT : i have rub with the fingernail over the lens very hard. And wow : the lens is now 99% clear again. I don´t know where the dirt came from, and what it was ..... but now it´s gone....confused case.....
Here my pictures :
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Got exactly the same problem as in the first post and picture. I like to ride my bike and yeah I swet a lot during that LOL And I noticed recently that the pictures are "foggy". So I asked in our repair centre and they said it's actualy my problem. The same will hapen to your ordinary camera lens, if it comes to contact with sweat or saltwater. Also fingerprints are chemicaly agressive. If you leave it like this for a week or so, it'll gets more difficult to remove.
How did I fix this:
Basicaly, there are two ways. One is to get smooth finger file. Really smooth one. But if you don't take enough smooth one, you'll damage the lens.
So the other way is to take a tissue or old t-shirt and just clean the lens for few minutes. I tried and after 15 minutes it was gone and pictures are same as before - crappy but not foggy LOL
It's because the lens has same special layer as on digicams. Try to touch the digicam lens, leave it like that for a week or so, and you'll see
edit: it has nothing to do with scratches on your lens. I do have scratches as well, but it'll look different in the picture. The problem described here is simply what I wrote above - sweat and/or fingerprints

Home Made capacitive screen stylus

I was really struggling to spend around 15 euros on HTC stylus, so I tried and made my own. All you need is a long stylus - shaped piece of plastic, I used a long lego piece. Next thing you need is a piece of antistatic film you from your eg computer equipment ( around 7 by 7 centimeters) and some scotch tape. Next thing you need is around five minutes free time and you got a stylus.
1. Wrap antistatic film around eg. lego piece and stick it with scotch tape.
2. Optional - you can cut the end of film to give it some more regular shape and to get some more accuracy. It's done
It's crucial to remember to be touching the antistatic film itself while using stylu, otherwise it won't work.
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Good idea, but a photo would be nice.
i've tried a stylus and was less than impressed, but if it works for you that great

I used a old bic pen, wrapped aluminum foil around it, added #0000 steel wool to the tip, put on some tape, etc until it felt "right" and then it worked. You have to be touching the foil though.

I will try to upload photos so that can be visible in my post, but dunno how yet .
Stylus works great and is very accurate, but the fact is you have to touch the film while using it. But it's not a very big drawback I guess

Done with a bit more care that would look very acceptable - ghetto is fine for me, but if I left that on my desk the wife would "tidy it up" direct to the bin lol

I'm still trying to understand how capacitive screens works, but could you possibly make a stylus out of solid metal?
In which case, I have an idea for a design
some antistatic film, 1"x1" is enough
a little bit of sponge
a copper tube about 4" long and with an internal diameter slightly bigger than the following bolt
a bolt slightly longer than the tube
a nut for the bolt
tape
place the spongy material on the head of the bolt and drape the antistatic fil over top it.
tape it down to the sides of the bolt
insert the bolt inside the tube and use the nut to hold everything together. use lock-tight if needed, as you do not wish to damage the film.
optionally you could rig some sort of clip and put that on before the nut.
you can tweak the design as desired.

Capacitive screen works basically by detecting electrostatic load that human body produces.
I think only rule in making non-battery stylus for that kind of screen is to provide a load-conductive material and adjust it to connect directly the finger and the surface of the screen.
So basing on that konwledge I don't think that a solid metal stylus would work due to the lack of connection of antistatic film and a source of a static load. You can check it by just touching the screen with any bolt, or anything metalish at all.

I made my own in the beginning
Like many of us, I too tried making my own stylus to use on my iPod, but they always looked like junk and never worked much better. So like everyone else looking for the best, I bought and tried 90% of them and spent a ton of money dong so. Then I tried the STYLUS-R-US ones and wow! They make all other ones look pathetic, seriously. I bought their Terminator and it is awesome to the bone. No pressure a all to make it work. Not foam either. I'm not sure of their url but they have like a dozen so you can just search for stylusrusDOT anything and you'll find them.

Interesting direction in ads for casio's android phone.

is it just me, or is the phone main selling point the ruggedized case? because the ads don't mention the fact at all that it's running on an 800mhz proc, 2.2 froyo.
i don't own the phone, just feel like the ads make it out like a....they focus mainly on the ruggedized of it. not that it's bad, it's just a different advertising campaign for a phone, and verizon probably isn't funding the ads. (because it's a mid-range device)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XejMy7DYacc
anyway, just a random blurb from me.
aside from that, didn't think casio could pull off a phone, don't they mainly make wrist watches?

Can't say I even know them for that,
I only know them for calculators :/
Anyway, this phone of thiers doesn't look particularly interesting.
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I used to have their calculator wrist watch. I was so cutting edge back then.

mrrick said:
I used to have their calculator wrist watch. I was so cutting edge back then.
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lol
no, there's another one where they strapped it to the back axel of a rally car and went around with it, came back at the end of the ad, thing was covered in mud, miracoiusly it still worked, yeah, who would want to do that to a phone?
i know it's meant for working in a tough field, but, the ad campaign is a little over the top, no?
and ias i said mid-range, highest it captures in video is crappy 360p
and as far as ruggedness, buy a freaking otterbox case, because that's pretty much what this phone's shell is.

Casio Commando is fun.
I was watching a Ken Block, insane Gymkhana video, under water with my Casio Commando, in a creek at Brevard College, in Brevard North Carolina. The water temperature was ice cold on July 4th, 2011. You have to make sure all doors on the phone are closed so you will not damage the phone. The screen is very sensitive to the temperature of the water. The water will actually control the phone because the phone thinks the water is your fingers. So is takes practice to enter the phone into the water without stopping the video.
Check out my video on YouTube at Casio Commando Underwater.
To record videos underwater with the Casio Commando, you have to
1) call someone and stay on the call
2) start the camcorder recording
3) tap the power button to turn off the screen. The phone thinks the water is your fingers and
the water will control your phone to do weird things such as stop recording. The sound of the speakers on the phone gets clogged with water so it does not sound good until the water drains out of the speakers. I blow on the different doors and holes on the phone to clear the water so I can hear the speakers. I wait on the phone to dry
completely before charging again or opening the doors for any reason.
I would like for someone to create a new rom for the Casio Commando.

No.
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I would like for someone to create a new rom for the Casio Commando.
I would like for someone to create a new rom for the Casio Commando.

dirty hands
Just think, how dirty is money?
What is the thing that is nearly as dirty as money?
A cellphone or smartphone.
If you have a waterproof or waterresistant phone, just wash it.

I had one of these once:
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I can't wait to see what Casio could do in the Android Market...!

I do own a Droid X activated, a BlackBerry activated, and a Casio Commando on Verizon/Vodafone. Need I say more. I am 48 years old.

Help! Water in my camera? :S

Hi guys, I think I have a serious problem with my Xperia Z...
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The glass is a little unglued from the upper left conner, I didn't noticed it until today when I wash my XZ (It had many finger print) so the device began to works a little weird, It unlocks and unlocks by itself and the down volume key starts to fail also.
The acelerometer is not working now and I am scared about if the warranty covers it. I didn't submerge I just wash out to clean it. Also, when I open the camera app i can see that the camera is working yet, but suddenly after a second the phone restart by itself.
In the past three days I went to the beach and used over the water to take pictures, I didn't submerge because I was concious about the seawater can cause problems in the devices, but my phone fell in the sand and I decided to washed it with potable water, It also the lens of the camera got tarnished but It returns to normality after a little minutes so I think that only was the glass that got a little tarnished in cause of the changes of temperature.
I am afraid about if the warranty covers this kind of issues, I am from Mexico and a friend bougth it for me in USA, what Can I do?
Sorry for my english, thanks.

It is condensation. Just let it be, it will be gone in a while.
What I did though, was to make the phone hot by playing games, it gets quite hot and it'll evaporate the water inside the lens.

DrKrFfXx said:
It is condensation. Just let it be, it will be gone in a while.
What I did though, was to make the phone hot by playing games, it gets quite hot and it'll evaporate the water inside the lens.
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But the acelorometer is not working yet

Chechare said:
But the acelorometer is not working yet
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Well, then, leave it on rice for the night, turned off with all flaps open.

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Well, then, leave it on rice for the night, turned off with all flaps open.
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It could works, but I need to repair the unglued glass

Happened to me 2 days back
Same cleaning from water and then power button went buzurk along with water condensation on camera lens within 2 hours I was at the service centre..
Are any of your water indicators red instead of white??!
If not then send it under warranty without taking a breath..because as someone specified on an another thread the power button and volume problem will remain even later.
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Denhot said:
Happened to me 2 days back
Same cleaning from water and then power button went buzurk along with water condensation on camera lens within 2 hours I was at the service centre..
Are any of your water indicators red instead of white??!
If not then send it under warranty without taking a breath..because as someone specified on an another thread the power button and volume problem will remain even later.
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Actually all my water indicator are in white, but until today the acelorometer and giroscoper are not working yet :/ That's mean I can't initialize the camera without the device reboot itself.
A problem is that here in my town there are no service centers. I don't know what to do :/

I think maybe you should go to a local mobile repair shop..I'm not sure if the device will be water proof after that.. But it will not be dead atleast
If even that's not viable.
Because the damage is continuing.
As someone said then you should try drying it..leave the flaps on keep it in rice..
Hope nothing big is damaged man.
Camera won't work if it doesn't get Reading from the gyro.. Hence it's rebooting..so the cam may still be fine.
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Denhot said:
I think maybe you should go to a local mobile repair shop..I'm not sure if the device will be water proof after that.. But it will not be dead atleast
If even that's not viable.
Because the damage is continuing.
As someone said then you should try drying it..leave the flaps on keep it in rice..
Hope nothing big is damaged man.
Camera won't work if it doesn't get Reading from the gyro.. Hence it's rebooting..so the cam may still be fine.
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I prefer that Sony take hands on the business, the model is not available in Mexico so I'm not sure about some technician can fixed it correctly, I will try to contact to Sony USA and Mexico.
I will try to put it in a bag of rice hoping it works for the moment :/
Thanks.
Just I have the doubt about if the back glass will unglue after Sony fixed.