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Just noticed when outside (It's winter here) if I am using the camera the lens fogs on the inside. However if I am not using the camera it stays fog free!.
Anyone know what this could be?
EDIT: Could the auto focus be causing some sort of air to move between the camera and the glass? Causing the difference in temp to fog up? Or maybe the heat inside the phone when the camera is on vs the cold winter weather is causing it.
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Amrut223 said:
Just noticed when outside (It's winter here) if I am using the camera the lens fogs on the inside. However if I am not using the camera it stays fog free!.
Anyone know what this could be?
EDIT: Could the auto focus be causing some sort of air to move between the camera and the glass? Causing the difference in temp to fog up? Or maybe the heat inside the phone when the camera is on vs the cold winter weather is causing it.
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Does anyone have this issue. Seems like the backside of the camera glass fogs up and makes all photos blurry.
Amrut223 said:
Just noticed when outside (It's winter here) if I am using the camera the lens fogs on the inside. However if I am not using the camera it stays fog free!.
Anyone know what this could be?
EDIT: Could the auto focus be causing some sort of air to move between the camera and the glass? Causing the difference in temp to fog up? Or maybe the heat inside the phone when the camera is on vs the cold winter weather is causing it.
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Hi, moisture from the warmer air inside the lens is condensing against the cold glass to cause the 'fog'. I am not sure how to prevent this though, in very cold weather.
MacHackz said:
Hi, moisture from the warmer air inside the lens is condensing against the cold glass to cause the 'fog'. I am not sure how to prevent this though, in very cold weather.
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Yeah the thing is I have an S2,S3 and S4 in the house and non of them do the same. This only happens when the camera is in use. Faulty?
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Yeah the thing is I have an S2,S3 and S4 in the house and non of them do the same. This only happens when the camera is in use. Faulty?
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Yeah I'd say it's faulty
Could it be because the Galaxy models have a plastic lens cover where the HTC One is glass?
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Could it be because the Galaxy models have a plastic lens cover where the HTC One is glass?
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Good point, that would be the issue because plastic doesn't get as cold as glass. Still not good though, doesn't solve the issue.
Could you test yours. Open the freezer with the camera on and let some of the cool air pass over the lens (not for long maybe 10 seconds) Do not stick it in the freezer . Does the lens fog?
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Could you test yours. Open the freezer with the camera on and let some of the cool air pass over the lens (not for long maybe 10 seconds) Do not stick it in the freezer . Does the lens fog?
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It didn't fog, and I've put phones in the freezer before to combat thermal throttling on benchmarks ;D
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Hi, moisture from the warmer air inside the lens is condensing against the cold glass to cause the 'fog'. I am not sure how to prevent this though, in very cold weather.
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It didn't fog, and I've put phones in the freezer before to combat thermal throttling on benchmarks ;D
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Did you make sure to have the camera app open. For me I am recording video for it to fog up. Try while recording video and report back
Cheers.
Confirmed fogginess in cold temps, design flaw?
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Confirmed fogginess in cold temps, design flaw?
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Would you expect the cover to come with a little screen wiper or perhaps an integrated heater?
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Would you expect the cover to come with a little screen wiper or perhaps an integrated heater?
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Possibly, I was more thinking it should be plastic not glass. Would surely be cheaper than integrating a 'wiper' into the design? Maybe a heater direct from the CPU would work.
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Would you expect the cover to come with a little screen wiper or perhaps an integrated heater?
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Fog inside the Camera = condensation. Pretty sure camera optics don't like that.
Hi,
Same problem here.
Yesterday I brought my new HTC One to a restaurant to test the camera. When I launch the camera app and snapped one or two pictures I found it looked as if there was some white mist in front of the object. I first thought it was some auto exposure issue and didn't take it seriously. But then the same "mist" appeared when I attempted to take some more pictures. And now the screen becomes whiter and whiter! I realized something wrong, so I looked at the back of the phone and observed some white fog on the camera cover. I tried to wipe it off but didn't work - the fog is INSIDE the camera cover!
It's around 20-23°C in the restaurant. And I suspect this is caused by the heat produced by the camera module inside the phone.
When the fog appears, you can do nothing. The fog won't go away unless you quit the camera app (theoretically it may go away when the environment gets warmer, or the humidity suddenly decreases).
But I am still confused -
1) This didn't happen to my previous phones. OK I didn't use a lot of smartphones, but I didn't experience this issue when I was using my HTC Desire and Galaxy Nexus.
2) Shouldn't there be some measure taken in the manufacturing process to prevent this from happening? For example -- take a wild guess -- shouldn't there be some anti-fog coating that can be applied to the cover?
Hi
I am into hill walking and mountaineering. I am finding that my note 8 will shutdown if the temperature is below about -5C and I start the camera to take some pics. Once it's shutdown, it will refuse to start until warmed up, and needs a soft reset. It also comes back with 5% showing in the battery but had 80% at the time of shutdown.
It's rather a pain in the neck. My old Xperia Z5, Z3C and Z1 would do -20C without ever having issues.
I am assuming this is just an annoying 'feature' of Samsung devices rather than a fault.
I am thinking of running a background number crunching app to prevent deep sleep! Samsung is not interested, wondered if others had the same issue. If I stick my old Z5 and the Note 8 in my freezer at -15 for an hour the note 8 shuts down, but the Z5 carries on as normal. Prob down to cheap/nasty battery tech in the note 8.
Nigel
That is interesting. I'm going to northern Japan this Sunday for 3 weeks. It will be snow and freezing cold. I'll report back how my Note 8 works there. I really hope mine won't shutdown when i really need to use it.
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Hi
I am into hill walking and mountaineering. I am finding that my note 8 will shutdown if the temperature is below about -5C and I start the camera to take some pics. Once it's shutdown, it will refuse to start until warmed up, and needs a soft reset. It also comes back with 5% showing in the battery but had 80% at the time of shutdown.
It's rather a pain in the neck. My old Xperia Z5, Z3C and Z1 would do -20C without ever having issues.
I am assuming this is just an annoying 'feature' of Samsung devices rather than a fault.
I am thinking of running a background number crunching app to prevent deep sleep! Samsung is not interested, wondered if others had the same issue. If I stick my old Z5 and the Note 8 in my freezer at -15 for an hour the note 8 shuts down, but the Z5 carries on as normal. Prob down to cheap/nasty battery tech in the note 8.
Nigel
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That's a lil concerning -5C = +23F. Last week it was negative -10F here. I was shoveling snow for about an hour, big driveway/sidewalk path aka snowblower needs fixed. I took a few pics and took some calls/text. No shutdowns here. Now at the same time shoveling snow takes a lot of work so maybe my body heat was keeping it warm in pocket.
But at the same time the same could be said about what your doing and body heat idk. We need more people to chime in.
Oh bonus people in hot climates don't be afraid to chime in. Curious how this phone handles the heat. Gets cold here in winter, but really hot and mushy in the summer.
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Mine is not in a pocket, but rather mounted to a chest strap on rucksack so it gets full force of cold and wind - exactly the same as my old Z5 - reason: it is also my GPS for walking and ski-touring. Maybe you can leave yours out in the cold exposed for an hour, then try taking a photo and see if it shuts down?
Nigel
veletron said:
Hi
Mine is not in a pocket, but rather mounted to a chest strap on rucksack so it gets full force of cold and wind - exactly the same as my old Z5 - reason: it is also my GPS for walking and ski-touring. Maybe you can leave yours out in the cold exposed for an hour, then try taking a photo and see if it shuts down?
Nigel
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You could put it in a crown royal bag with a handwarmer. Would probably keep it warm enough. I live just 80 miles south of Canada in the PNW. It was 7 degrees last week. I left my phone in my car for a while and it was fine. It was really cold, but still working.
it's a glass phone. there is nothing under the glass but the components. that's the difference between it and your sony phone. glass is not a great insulator
Aye, might offer a work-around but not a particularly convenient one. I'll be back with Xperia end 2018 when I am due an upgrade. The phone only appears to actually shutdown when the camera is started while its cold. Must be high current draw, causing a voltage drop that gets detected and the device gets shutdown. Love the screen and pen, and camera, moved from Xperia after three separate devices as they looked old fashioned with their HUGE bezels, and refusal to adopt wireless charging.
It was 2 degrees F here in Nashville TN last week, but I stayed indoors and didn't go outside for any length of time to see how my phone would have been affected. Had some friends who went to the Jacksonville/Tennessee football game a couple of weeks ago.........16 degrees; they left early because they couldn't feel their limbs even with multiple hand/foot warmers...............I wonder how they kept their phones warm.
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it's a glass phone. there is nothing under the glass but the components. that's the difference between it and your sony phone. glass is not a great insulator
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Its a glass phone in a heavy duty rubber case that I stuck it in! Both phones have a glass front! The wee bit of alu on the rear of the Z5 vs the glass on the Note 8 should not equate to a 15C difference in the temperature the device can withstand while continuing to function. I suspect the real reason is inferior battery tech vs Sony, and over-zealous low voltage detection and device shutdown.
I note that my Samsung 360cam also shutdown due to the cold this weekend gone, but my GoPro kept working.
Nigel
veletron said:
Its a glass phone in a heavy duty rubber case that I stuck it in! Both phones have a glass front! The wee bit of alu on the rear of the Z5 vs the glass on the Note 8 should not equate to a 15C difference in the temperature the device can withstand while continuing to function. I suspect the real reason is inferior battery tech vs Sony, and over-zealous low voltage detection and device shutdown.
I note that my Samsung 360cam also shutdown due to the cold this weekend gone, but my GoPro kept working.
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this could be a result of sammy overcompensating for their note7 debacle last year. the fact that root limits my battery at 80% says a lot.
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this could be a result of sammy overcompensating for their note7 debacle last year. the fact that root limits my battery at 80% says a lot.
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Isn't that 80% thing due to locked bootloader on Snapdragon? Root on Exynos doesn't have 80% issue, so not sure it's related to those Note 7 problems. The camera issue itself might still be though.
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Isn't that 80% thing due to locked bootloader on Snapdragon? Root on Exynos doesn't have 80% issue, so not sure it's related to those Note 7 problems. The camera issue itself might still be though.
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you're right, it is due to locked bootloader and the detection of root. it is no mistake that 80% is the cap when rooted. samsung did that on purpose. it started on models released after the note7, which is why i suspect they are weary of battery troubles, and if you root and begin to alter the system, the chances of an incident go up.
what camera issue are you referring to?
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Hi
Mine is not in a pocket, but rather mounted to a chest strap on rucksack so it gets full force of cold and wind - exactly the same as my old Z5 - reason: it is also my GPS for walking and ski-touring. Maybe you can leave yours out in the cold exposed for an hour, then try taking a photo and see if it shuts down?
Nigel
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I will do that for you. I have a porch on my 2nd floor room. We're supposed to get 6-9 inches again this weekend with below temps close to 0 F maybe below. I will leave it out for an hour then try to use it. Probably will have same problem as you I am guessing.
Especially when phone is exposed like you pointed out and no body heat to keep it warm. Like others pointed out which forgot glass sucks for insulation. But at the same time I thought the note had a few layers of glass? The best house windows are double and tripled layers sumtimes more. They offer good insulation.
WaxysDargle said:
you're right, it is due to locked bootloader and the detection of root. it is no mistake that 80% is the cap when rooted. samsung did that on purpose. it started on models released after the note7, which is why i suspect they are weary of battery troubles, and if you root and begin to alter the system, the chances of an incident go up.
what camera issue are you referring to?
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Great, thank you for confirming. The camera issue was the one mentioned by OP regarding trouble in colder temperatures. I just meant that while the 80% battery limit wasn't related to battery concerns or safety measures, I can't say with the same certainty that the camera issue described by OP isn't somehow related to that.
Nick216ohio said:
I will do that for you. I have a porch on my 2nd floor room. We're supposed to get 6-9 inches again this weekend with below temps close to 0 F maybe below. I will leave it out for an hour then try to use it. Probably will have same problem as you I am guessing.
Especially when phone is exposed like you pointed out and no body heat to keep it warm. Like others pointed out which forgot glass sucks for installation. But at the same time I thought the note had a few layers of glass? The best house windows are double and tripled layers sumtimes more. They offer good installation.
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Maybe triple pane windows are made from a special type of glass? Or perhaps the spacing between those layers provides insulation not present on our phones? Not sure, just speculating here...
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Great, thank you for confirming. The camera issue was the one mentioned by OP regarding trouble in colder temperatures. I just meant that while the 80% battery limit wasn't related to battery concerns or safety measures, I can't say with the same certainty that the camera issue described by OP isn't somehow related to that.Maybe triple pane windows are made from a special type of glass? Or perhaps the spacing between those layers provides insulation not present on our phones? Not sure, just speculating here...
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Yeah idk crap a bout house windows lol. You're right they're made out of special glass I believe and spacing exists. Would think even few layers of glass would make some difference in phone? But I am no expert on glass and insulation. So I will just shut up lol.
glass,plastic,metal or whatever material wont do any difference in cold weather with prolonged exposer.( case or no case)
if it takes 10 minutes to get to minus 5 or if it take 30 minutes, you still will get there. the question at hand is at what temp does the phone stop( if it acctualy does).
i think this is the data we are looking for.
Little more insight
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/860460001
It happed recently two times with my S9 Plus at around 0C temperature both time battery was above 50% and after restart it was at 2 percent. i don't know why the this happened at this "happy to work" temprature.
So i just used my s10 Exynos in rains and i came home, cleaned it properly and noticed that there’s fog under the camera lens now. What should i do?
Honestly, nothing you can do except taking it to service center.
Must be some steamy photos. Dump it in a bag of rice
Water damage
Player04 said:
Must be some steamy photos. Dump it in a bag of rice
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I’m visiting the service centre today, it so happened that keeping it overnight in the rice bag managed to clear all the fogg under the camera, however as soon as I switch on the phone/charge it, the fog returns
This is due residual water in the phone, when you open camera the CPU heats up pretty quickly, evaporating the leftover water, do not listen to rice, open it and dump it in IPA to displace water as quickly as possible, the main board will be corroded pretty badly by now so...
IPA can corrode copper conections. Just to on the safe side, dump it in rice
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IPA can corrode copper conections. Just to on the safe side, dump it in rice
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I did visit the official service centre yesterday and they dried the camera lens using some sort of heat gun, however the guy there told me that my phone motherboard is damaged (a single capacitor has got shorted) and suggested me a full motherboard replacement (which is like 350 usd here ) and the phone is working well since yesterday, calling, camera , wired charging, location, gaming, display and touch inputs as well as always on display and the ultrasonic scanner everything is fine, should I really spend so much to replace the motherboard?
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I did visit the official service centre yesterday and they dried the camera lens using some sort of heat gun, however the guy there told me that my phone motherboard is damaged (a single capacitor has got shorted) and suggested me a full motherboard replacement (which is like 350 usd here ) and the phone is working well since yesterday, calling, camera , wired charging, location, gaming, display and touch inputs as well as always on display and the ultrasonic scanner everything is fine, should I really spend so much to replace the motherboard?
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There should be some damage on your mainboard. That's like 95% probability. However it's working quite well now, I would use it till it breaks. Make sure you do the back up and syncs regularly.
hi guys
I have huawei p30 pro when i use camera to shoot something in daylight the camera shows an overexposure soo lightly but when i use another camera app it works normal i did everything possible to solve this problem can u guys help me
huawei p30 pro overexposes erratically outdoors
cenailyass said:
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I have huawei p30 pro when i use camera to shoot something in daylight the camera shows an overexposure soo lightly but when i use another camera app it works normal i did everything possible to solve this problem can u guys help me
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I've got the same problem. The p30 pro overexposes erratically when shooting outdoors. Even when forcing the app to focus and measure on a specific part of the image (by tapping on the screen on specific spots of the image), the exposure is too bright. Even when a temporary improvement can be noticed the image will return to an overall overexposure after a few seconds.
Switching to the PRO settings in the camera app, and making adjustments by hand, gives no solution since the overexposure persists.
This behavior started approx a month ago. I'm currently on build 10.1.0.161.
I would appreciate your feedback.
An example: i.postimg.cc/fbfhZXD9/IMG-20201104-103830.jpg
And even worse: i.postimg.cc/G2PPXLPr/IMG-20201104-102341.jpg
The last picture on the same moment with an Huawei Mate 20: i.postimg.cc/8zFhqBdZ/IMG-20201104-102415.jpg
The same here
Have the same problem with 2 devices, 1 device was tried several times to repair but does not work at Huawei service, I got a new device at the end. Other device here with me is and I've tried everything, but does not work normally. Tried downgrade from 10.1 to 10.0 no success, then downgrade to 9.1 no success, if TOF sensor shut then no overexposure, I suspect the TOF sensor is broken.
Here a Video link
https://youtu.be/8vv-QcQkCCk
Anyone managed to solve this issue? Have sent my phone into Huawei Service centre and they replaced the mainboard and camera setup but the issue still persists.
looks like a hardware problem
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Anyone managed to solve this issue? Have sent my phone into Huawei Service centre and they replaced the mainboard and camera setup but the issue still persists.
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I did a full reset of the phone but the problem persists. The overexposure makes me think of a charge building up on a sensor. Hence the erratic behaviour and the preference for overexposure when outdoors.
My device started overexposing after the backplane was replaced. Seems to me these things are hard to disassemble and even harder to put together again without wrecking something.
Anyway I sent it in for repair. We'll see what becomes of it.
I've noted this problem on my p30 pro... I did rest camera app and delete cash files but the problem still... Do you find a solution
I also encounter this ob my p30 pro. Isnt there any official statement on this? If the problem is the TOF sensor xan we turn it off
any uddates, same problme here after screen replacement...
Focus on the wall or another area if you want focus on sky?
I don't have this issue on my P30 Pro - VOG-L29 - 11.0.0.138
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looks like a hardware problem
I did a full reset of the phone but the problem persists. The overexposure makes me think of a charge building up on a sensor. Hence the erratic behaviour and the preference for overexposure when outdoors.
My device started overexposing after the backplane was replaced. Seems to me these things are hard to disassemble and even harder to put together again without wrecking something.
Anyway I sent it in for repair. We'll see what becomes of it.
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wha happened?
Having same issue here
ift is the tof sensor, put some tape over and the problem is gonnne. something is missing in the back cover, some kind of rubber or plastic cover , missing piece making tof sensor sense bad
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ift is the tof sensor, put some tape over and the problem is gonnne. something is missing in the back cover, some kind of rubber or plastic cover , missing piece making tof sensor sense bad
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This works. i covered the tof sensor with duct tape and the overexposure doesnt happen anymore. My question now is...what am I missing out now that I covered the TOF sensor. Would i ve getting worse portrait shots?
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This works. i covered the tof sensor with duct tape and the overexposure doesnt happen anymore. My question now is...what am I missing out now that I covered the TOF sensor. Would i ve getting worse portrait shots?
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this happens because inside, there must be a rubber grommet around the sensor. I opnened my phone and is missing, because huawei replaced the screen and didnt put it back again. Im going to have to go again to the store and make them realize, luckyly i have 2 p30 pro and i can show them the missing piece. But to solver ur phone must be oppened
I have the same problem, pls can you show me with pictures how can i cover the tof sensor. I covered the tof sensor (this eye under the flash) with duct tape but no fix. The problem appeared after screen and back cover replacement. When i don't put the back cover i dont have the problem, its working good so im little bit confused.
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I have the same problem, pls can you show me with pictures how can i cover the tof sensor. I covered the tof sensor (this eye under the flash) with duct tape but no fix. The problem appeared after screen and back cover replacement. When i don't put the back cover i dont have the problem, its working good so im little bit confused.
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The problem is the rubber grommet that is written above. I accidentally lost this part but thank god i have similar spare parts from other phone and i managed to install it to this phone. And voila the problem gone.
also encountered this issue, i thought the reason its just after i upgrade the emui 11. But its not. I remember after i brick my lcd and replaced it, in the back camera in TOF sensor there is a rubber surrounding the tof and the "Flood illuminator aperture", they forgot to return back the rubber surrounding it.
The purpose of this rubber cover surrounding it is to protect the too much light ambient that reflects it to the flash and asl aperture reflection glass. But since the technician lost its rubber that surround the tof sensor, we put a small black tape between the als aperture reflexion glass and the flood illuminator aperture.
After we done it, my camera exposure back to normal. Hope this helps. Thank you.
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this happens because inside, there must be a rubber grommet around the sensor. I opnened my phone and is missing, because huawei replaced the screen and didnt put it back again. Im going to have to go again to the store and make them realize, luckyly i have 2 p30 pro and i can show them the missing piece. But to solver ur phone must be oppened
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Hi, but in this case all looks that phone has been opened by someone - I have just bought now one - Believe is new - but form the description and solution you are giving, looks that has been only sold as a new, not refurbished.
I have new emui 11.0.0.159.
Phone is still with warranty - I think will have to go to the Huawei Service to manage it, because opening phone by myself will crash the warranty.
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also encountered this issue, i thought the reason its just after i upgrade the emui 11. But its not. I remember after i brick my lcd and replaced it, in the back camera in TOF sensor there is a rubber surrounding the tof and the "Flood illuminator aperture", they forgot to return back the rubber surrounding it.
The purpose of this rubber cover surrounding it is to protect the too much light ambient that reflects it to the flash and asl aperture reflection glass. But since the technician lost its rubber that surround the tof sensor, we put a small black tape between the als aperture reflexion glass and the flood illuminator aperture.
After we done it, my camera exposure back to normal. Hope this helps. Thank you.
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I am currently traveling through Asia and I thought it would be a good idea to visit the official Huawei Service on my last day in Kuala Lumpur for a battery replacement. Well, the battery is great again but all my pictures are overexposed now so I bet they lost that rubber part. Problem is that I already traveled to Indonesia so I can't bring the phone back to the store.
Taping the TOF lens with black electrical tape didn't do the trick for me although it seemed to work when I was covering the sensor with my finger. Now I'm wondering if it is really a problem with light leaking and not heat?
PS: after going to Huawei in Malaysia, my German Huawei warranty is void. This sucks!
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also encountered this issue, i thought the reason its just after i upgrade the emui 11. But its not. I remember after i brick my lcd and replaced it, in the back camera in TOF sensor there is a rubber surrounding the tof and the "Flood illuminator aperture", they forgot to return back the rubber surrounding it.
The purpose of this rubber cover surrounding it is to protect the too much light ambient that reflects it to the flash and asl aperture reflection glass. But since the technician lost its rubber that surround the tof sensor, we put a small black tape between the als aperture reflexion glass and the flood illuminator aperture.
After we done it, my camera exposure back to normal. Hope this helps. Thank you.View attachment 5311919View attachment 5311921View attachment 5311923
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Woo.. amazing.. old thread.. but it works... now my photos look normal even in bright white sky... i canceled sell my phone.
Thx mate
Hi techies,
My pixel 4XL has recently had a water accident, everything works perfectly now except the rear camera is cloudy and cant focus properly. I opened the phone and wiped the lens with a good amount of robbing alcohol, its even worse now. So what should i do? Do i have to open the entire camera module and wash the tiny lenses and the sensor or what? I really wanna repair it myself instead of buying a new sensor because it takes so long for me to arrive.
Thank you,
Pixel 4 XL is IP68 water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 mins).
Has it been opened before?
If you used isopropyl alcohol, then there should be no problem, but it should be dried for a long time after such an operation.
Well, I am not an expert on cameras but the cause of your blurry photos may be caused by:
-The motor of the camera don't work, so the lens can't move and as a consequence don't focus
-there is water inside the lens or in the sensor (which can't be seen unless the camera is disassembled.
If you have water inside, as it manage to get in it may be a way for get it out. I would suggest you to take the camera module and heat it up with a hairdryer so water can evaporate and get out. But don't heat it up too much do, it could damage the sensor.
However as you said you used alcohol, it leaves some residues which if is the case, with this method it won't be fixed.
If this doesn't help you would then I think you would need to disassemble the camera. Iwill leave a link to a video off a guy who disassemble an Iphone camera. It isn't the same, but it's similar Here
Also are you sure there isn't any software related causes?
Good luck
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Well, I am not an expert on cameras but the cause of your blurry photos may be caused by:
-The motor of the camera don't work, so the lens can't move and as a consequence don't focus
-there is water inside the lens or in the sensor (which can't be seen unless the camera is disassembled.
If you have water inside, as it manage to get in it may be a way for get it out. I would suggest you to take the camera module and heat it up with a hairdryer so water can evaporate and get out. But don't heat it up too much do, it could damage the sensor.
However as you said you used alcohol, it leaves some residues which if is the case, with this method it won't be fixed.
If this doesn't help you would then I think you would need to disassemble the camera. Iwill leave a link to a video off a guy who disassemble an Iphone camera. It isn't the same, but it's similar Here
Also are you sure there isn't any software related causes?
Good luck
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Thank you for the reply,
I'm sure the problem is the water+dirt or residue inside. Ik the water has been gone since then and alcohol is evaporated but there must be some dirt sitting in there. This phone has never had a force to get some component cracked inside.
As for the software thing, i'd say i dont think so, what software related issue it might be? Since the front facing cam works just fine, the cache has been deleted, i even downloaded open camera to take more control over the sensor manually. Its just foggy. Like some filter has been applied to it.
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Pixel 4 XL is IP68 water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 mins).
Has it been opened before?
If you used isopropyl alcohol, then there should be no problem, but it should be dried for a long time after such an operation.
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Idk if it was, since i bought it in mint condition second handed. The alcohol i used was 96% Ethanol, not the same as the isopropyl, but i dont think of a major difference, but probably some dust has gone there underneath the lens.
Pixel4life said:
Idk if it was, since i bought it in mint condition second handed. The alcohol i used was 96% Ethanol, not the same as the isopropyl, but i dont think of a major difference, but probably some dust has gone there underneath the lens.
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Do not use ethanol for electronics, because you can dissolve many components. Besides, ethanol contains water, which harms electronics. That's why isopropyl alcohol is used, because it has much lower dissolving properties, and if it is pure (99.99%) it absorbs water and causes it to evaporate faster from the cleaned items.
Show the picture you take with your camera.
ze7zez said:
Do not use ethanol for electronics, because you can dissolve many components. Besides, ethanol contains water, which harms electronics. That's why isopropyl alcohol is used, because it has much lower dissolving properties, and if it is pure (99.99%) it absorbs water and causes it to evaporate faster from the cleaned items.
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I have marked the centric area that diffuses the light. It could be a dried-up blob of whatever you washed the lens with. The liquid could easily penetrate the camera and get under the lens or even onto the matrix if the seals were not tight.
ze7zez said:
I have marked the centric area that diffuses the light. It could be a dried-up blob of whatever you washed the lens with. The liquid could easily penetrate the camera and get under the lens or even onto the matrix if the seals were not tight.
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Yes most probably that's the case. So wha's your suggestion for me? Tear the lens down, wash the components inside it with soap and water, dry it out and reassemble? Or what to do? Im kinda disappointed now. Been shaking and tapping the lens since yesterday with no success lol.
If you still want to use this model, I advise you to replace the camera with a new one, or recovered, so that they are original.
I do not ignore your self-denial and other talents, but I think that you will not fix the camera yourself.
ze7zez said:
If you still want to use this model, I advise you to replace the camera with a new one, or recovered, so that they are original.
I do not ignore your self-denial and other talents, but I think that you will not fix the camera yourself.
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Ok then i have to order a camera lens then, are those sub 10 buck lenses from Aliexpress oem parts? The reviews are excellent but the prices are syspicious. Plus, i almost forgot to mention something. There werw two sponge/rubber curcles (whatever the material) arround the camera lenses, which locate between the cameras and the outer glass. (i marked them) when cleaning, they chopped off. Any chances this be a reason the light doesnt diffuse the right way?
It is for this purpose that the cover glasses are blackened or coated with other coatings so that there is no side light. Gaskets also serve this purpose. The tube of cameras and scopes has been made of blackened material since the oldest times.
ze7zez said:
It is for this purpose that the cover glasses are blackened or coated with other coatings so that there is no side light. Gaskets also serve this purpose. The tube of cameras and scopes has been made of blackened material since the oldest times.
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So does it affect picture quality?
Plus, I managed to diassemble the camera module, soaked it in alcohol and dried it up, its even more blury now lol