Hey guys,
To start off I know this is MY fault, as I was trying the FFC MOD on my Vibrant.. I didn't go through with it, (just as far as taking off the paint with the Goo-Gone), I did not apply the FFC nor do I have one available, but when taking pictures and videos with my default Vibrant camera, It looks UBER-blurry especially around the edges. Obviously I messed it up, may have been the Goo-Gone slip into the camera itself, idk.
I have no insurance on my phone
My phone ALSO does NOT vibrate for some weird reason... I remember it almost never used to.. When I first bought it I did but months after i never really paid attention to so I really don't know what the cause of that would or could be.
ANY FIX's?
RoZm X said:
Hey guys,
To start off I know this is MY fault, as I was trying the FFC MOD on my Vibrant.. I didn't go through with it, (just as far as taking off the paint with the Goo-Gone), I did not apply the FFC nor do I have one available, but when taking pictures and videos with my default Vibrant camera, It looks UBER-blurry especially around the edges. Obviously I messed it up, may have been the Goo-Gone slip into the camera itself, idk.
I have no insurance on my phone
My phone ALSO does NOT vibrate for some weird reason... I remember it almost never used to.. When I first bought it I did but months after i never really paid attention to so I really don't know what the cause of that would or could be.
ANY FIX's?
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Make sure that your camera lense has nothing in it, no gook no left over garbage and make sure you clean that area really well. Also try reflashing your firmware, and also post in the main thread for FFC, you'll get better help there.
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Make sure that your camera lense has nothing in it, no gook no left over garbage and make sure you clean that area really well. Also try reflashing your firmware, and also post in the main thread for FFC, you'll get better help there.
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I've tried
But I will repost in the FFC thread. Thank you though.
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Long story short, new company doesn't allow cameras in their facilities and I'm having serious Thunderbolt withdrawals.
I was wondering if anybody had ever removed the cameras from their Thunderbolt and the phone still worked after the "surgery."
If you did, is there a specific procedure you would follow? I found this online: http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/...=47&tag=siu-container;photopaging#photopaging
But that guy is actually just tearing the phone apart. Is there a way to get to just the cameras without pulling the whole phone apart?
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Go take a look at the FCC approval photos Adrynalyn posted... Not only will you be taking the phone apart, you'll be taking it apart to the BONE. I'm also pretty confident you'd destroy the phone in the process.
Curious... why would you even tell someone you've got the thing or show that it's got cameras on it, knowing the policy?
Jmc: I guarantee you're absolutely incorrect. There are many people who work in high security companies. There has to be at least one person who has done this.
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Go take a look at the FCC approval photos Adrynalyn posted... Not only will you be taking the phone apart, you'll be taking it apart to the BONE. I'm also pretty confident you'd destroy the phone in the process.
Curious... why would you even tell someone you've got the thing or show that it's got cameras on it, knowing the policy?
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Why do you think I would destroy the phone?
As for your other question, sometimes security will sweep the entire building/staff, just in case. In those instances, if you're caught with a cameraphone, you're getting fired.
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infinite012 said:
Why do you think I would destroy the phone?
As for your other question, sometimes security will sweep the entire building/staff, just in case. In those instances, if you're caught with a cameraphone, you're getting fired.
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I think you'd destroy the phone because that camera isn't just a simple surface mount device like the power or volume micro-switches. It's an entire 8MP camera in a VERY tiny box. To kinda give you an idea how those things are mass produced, a solder paste is applied sort of like one might silk screen a shirt. Then the individual components are placed in their correct locations. Finally, the entire thing is baked in an oven to melt the soldier paste and adhere the components. If you want to see what I'm talking about, go to Qualcomm's website and look at the physical interface for the Snapdragon chip. Assuming the cameras is mounted in a remotely similar way, you're going to destroy the device removing them. Additionally, the FFC also functions as both a brightness and proximity sensor. Removing it would have consequences that would be difficult to predict.
infinite012 said:
Long story short, new company doesn't allow cameras in their facilities and I'm having serious Thunderbolt withdrawals.
I was wondering if anybody had ever removed the cameras from their Thunderbolt and the phone still worked after the "surgery."
If you did, is there a specific procedure you would follow? I found this online: http://www.techrepublic.com/photos/...=47&tag=siu-container;photopaging#photopaging
But that guy is actually just tearing the phone apart. Is there a way to get to just the cameras without pulling the whole phone apart?
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Would filling over it with some sort of hard/opaque/sticky/permanent adhesive substance suffice? Something like putting epoxy or something over the lens so it renders it no longer useful.
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Would filling over it with some sort of hard/opaque/sticky/permanent adhesive substance suffice? Something like putting epoxy or something over the lens so it renders it no longer useful.
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That might work for the rear camera, but the FFC needs to function correctly to control screen brightness and proximity.
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That might work for the rear camera, but the FFC needs to function correctly to control screen brightness and proximity.
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I dont know about that. Very few android phones have a front facing camera and they function just fine. Besides you can manually adjust brightness. The proximity sensor also has nothing to do with the camera. It's located under the speaker for receiving calls near the LED.
yareally said:
I dont know about that. Very few android phones have a front facing camera and they function just fine. Besides you can manually adjust brightness. The proximity sensor also has nothing to do with the camera. It's located under the speaker for receiving calls near the LED.
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I was wrong. You're right about the prox sensor. Still, the devices that lack the FFC use a light sensor instead. I'd go nuts trying to adjust the screen all the time. If it were completely removed, there's still no promise the screen would even light up.
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I was wrong. You're right about the prox sensor. Still, the devices that lack the FFC use a light sensor instead. I'd go nuts trying to adjust the screen all the time. If it were completely removed, there's still no promise the screen would even light up.
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Yeah that would be a pain, lol, but maybe he's desperate enough he doesn't care. He would obviously be addicted to his phone way more than I would be if so
yareally said:
Yeah that would be a pain, lol, but maybe he's desperate enough he doesn't care. He would obviously be addicted to his phone way more than I would be if so
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Well, it's stuff like this that's the reason RIM still builds their top tier BlackBerrys with and without cameras.
Maybe this is too simple but how about just leave your phone in your car?
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Just a suggestion to the OP, there's been others that have asked the same question before. Might try looking through those http://www.google.com/search?client...ndroid+phone&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 for different solutions.
Yeah, I've been doing that (leaving phone in car), but I'm getting bored of the playlists on my ipod and would like to spice it up with Pandora.
Also, I would like to be able to receive emergency calls/texts from my family.
I have searched Google, which is how I got that first link with the teardown. If you guys think it's unwise to take out the cameras after looking at that, please say so. If you're making assumptions about the necessity of the cameras, take a look at the link.
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Yeah, I've been doing that (leaving phone in car), but I'm getting bored of the playlists on my ipod and would like to spice it up with Pandora.
Also, I would like to be able to receive emergency calls/texts from my family.
I have searched Google, which is how I got that first link with the teardown. If you guys think it's unwise to take out the cameras after looking at that, please say so. If you're making assumptions about the necessity of the cameras, take a look at the link.
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Functionality aside, simply how that big one on the rear is mounted would dissuade me.
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Yeah, I've been doing that (leaving phone in car), but I'm getting bored of the playlists on my ipod and would like to spice it up with Pandora.
Also, I would like to be able to receive emergency calls/texts from my family.
I have searched Google, which is how I got that first link with the teardown. If you guys think it's unwise to take out the cameras after looking at that, please say so. If you're making assumptions about the necessity of the cameras, take a look at the link.
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It's your phone, but I wouldn't mess with it unless I knew what I were doing with it.
Remove the camera apps, you can't take a picture with it if the application to take it has been removed. (i'm sure the company won't believe it, but it is a solution)
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Remove the camera apps, you can't take a picture with it if the application to take it has been removed. (i'm sure the company won't believe it, but it is a solution)
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If only it were that simple. I didn't believe it at first, but people get fired for having camera capable phones even if they don't have a battery in or near the phone. They're really strict on security.
Go to Wal-Mart & get a cheap Go Phone and some mins . If it has a camera , destroy that one .
I recently posted that my friend and I have the same phone with the same carrier, the same firmware (2.3.4) etc. I asked why his camera was better, and never got a answer which solved it. I now think this was my folley as it appears that it is actually his screen which is better.
We bluetoothed some pictures we both had aken ourselves to see if it was in fact the camera and although it is not as big a difference when we take pictures on each device his pictures (the same pictures) look slightly beter.
Any ideas why this may be, if i got a botched phone or something? there is a couple of slight scrathes over my camera if tht could make the difference but i doubt it since it's more the fact my pictures are blurry.
Thanks in advance, Harry
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I recently posted that my friend and I have the same phone with the same carrier, the same firmware (2.3.4) etc. I asked why his camera was better, and never got a answer which solved it. I now think this was my folley as it appears that it is actually his screen which is better.
We bluetoothed some pictures we both had aken ourselves to see if it was in fact the camera and although it is not as big a difference when we take pictures on each device his pictures (the same pictures) look slightly beter.
Any ideas why this may be, if i got a botched phone or something? there is a couple of slight scrathes over my camera if tht could make the difference but i doubt it since it's more the fact my pictures are blurry.
Thanks in advance, Harry
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Did you check the screen settings? There's one besides 'Brightness'. The screen can be set to something, Dynamic, or something else. This could be it... have a look around and make sure you're on the same settings.
FWIW I read your first post a week or 2 ago, and didn't answer cause it sounds like a really strange problem...and without both phones in my hand I couldn't begin to speculate. I doubt that you got a sub-par phone. Try making photos without holding the device, set it on a level surface. The blur could be from your hand shaking very very slightly, and maybe your buddy has steadier hands than you do. Really, no way to tell without having the phones in front of me. Sorry if this doesn't help. Keep us posted on your findings and good luck!
I saw that some i9100 got a different Camara Firmware possibly he got a better Firmware...
if thats not right someone can still blame me
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Did you check the screen settings? There's one besides 'Brightness'. The screen can be set to something, Dynamic, or something else. This could be it... have a look around and make sure you're on the same settings.
FWIW I read your first post a week or 2 ago, and didn't answer cause it sounds like a really strange problem...and without both phones in my hand I couldn't begin to speculate. I doubt that you got a sub-par phone. Try making photos without holding the device, set it on a level surface. The blur could be from your hand shaking very very slightly, and maybe your buddy has steadier hands than you do. Really, no way to tell without having the phones in front of me. Sorry if this doesn't help. Keep us posted on your findings and good luck!
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I know it's hard without seeing both, we're struggling with both. I have a more recent camera firmware i think as i updated through samsung apps not long ago. I'm not entirely sure about the shake but we have done a lot of photos and we almost always had him take both pictues. Also we both use 'standard' screen mode (we checked).
check to make sure that the camera lense is clean as well, often a smudgy/dirty lense will make bad photos.
I'm actually having the same problem (and have been having it for months). I only noticed it when I was a concert late last year and I was recording on my phone and watching other people's SGS2s record. Theirs was obviously much clearer and did not distort like my camera/footage did (when lights would flash, mines would blur, 'blob' together lights that were close to one another etc. while theirs captured it with clarity). Then I started to notice that when I zoom in, my camera gets extremely blurry, too. I started comparing to a few other people and, yes, on the same settings my camera is much worse. I've tried resetting the camera settings which has proved to do nothing for it.
I was starting to think I was crazy but I've finally found someone else with the same/a similar problem (was extremely hard to Google).
I also updated my firmware via Samsung Apps. It seems to be great in natural light but otherwise, it's really quite poor.
Camera firmware is TBEF04.
Any ideas?
guys it would be better if we can attach our sample pictures. i had similar problem. this is mine.
Can someone tell me if this is normal.
Alot of times, when I take a photo with low light, the flash causes the left and mostly the right of the picture to have the light of the flash on the sides. Keep in mind I have the phone sideways, but even if I hold it upright, it still sometimes has it on the bottom of the screen mostly. I dont know if its normal because I have seen much better low light pictures on here. I have that haze in ALOT of the pictures I take with low light. Kinda kills it for me. The thing is, I get the most ghost light on the side of the phone opposite where the flash and lens is, as you can see from the second photo. Most of the photos I take only have it on that side when the flash is used. The lens is on the left side, so I dont understand that. The phone is a week old and trying to see if I wanna return it for a new one due to these kinda problems. Ill also add one I took there with no flash on since there was more light for the hell of it cuz this one came out nice.
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Can someone tell me if this is normal.
Alot of times, when I take a photo with low light, the flash causes the left and mostly the right of the picture to have the light of the flash on the sides. Keep in mind I have the phone sideways, but even if I hold it upright, it still sometimes has it on the bottom of the screen mostly. I dont know if its normal because I have seen much better low light pictures on here. I have that haze in ALOT of the pictures I take with low light. Kinda kills it for me. The thing is, I get the most ghost light on the side of the phone opposite where the flash and lens is, as you can see from the second photo. Most of the photos I take only have it on that side when the flash is used. The lens is on the left side, so I dont understand that. The phone is a week old and trying to see if I wanna return it for a new one due to these kinda problems. Ill also add one I took there with no flash on since there was more light for the hell of it cuz this one came out nice.
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try cleaning off your lense and turn off auto fix in the camera settings
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try cleaning off your lense and turn off auto fix in the camera settings
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My lens is completely clean.
ITALIANNYC said:
My lens is completely clean.
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did you try the camera setting?
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did you try the camera setting?
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I dont understand, where is auto fix in the settings?
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I dont understand, where is auto fix in the settings?
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sorry its actually called "auto enhance"
open camera, press menu soft key, scroll down on menu that pops up, then uncheck "auto enhance"
then take another picture and see if its still like that
ziggy46 said:
sorry its actually called "auto enhance"
open camera, press menu soft key, scroll down on menu that pops up, then uncheck "auto enhance"
then take another picture and see if its still like that
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lol ... Yes its still there. I dont know if its normal. Attached the pic I just took. See its on the right side. I do know the 2 flash lens are on that side
ITALIANNYC said:
lol ... Yes its still there. I dont know if its normal. Attached the pic I just took. See its on the right side. I do know the 2 flash lens are on that side
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the flash may be causing the problem... try without it
A lot of Amazes do this for some reason. Mine don't, but there are quite a few threads posted about it. One guy actually took a marker by the lens and did something to help block out the flash and worked great for him. Try doing some searching under the general amaze sub-forum and see if you can find it. Will be an easy fix for ya.
That or get a replacement and hopefully it don't do it again assuming you have insurance.
Good luck!
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A lot of Amazes do this for some reason. Mine don't, but there are quite a few threads posted about it. One guy actually took a marker by the lens and did something to help block out the flash and worked great for him. Try doing some searching under the general amaze sub-forum and see if you can find it. Will be an easy fix for ya.
That or get a replacement and hopefully it don't do it again assuming you have insurance.
Good luck!
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Yeah I am still in the buyers remorse period of the phone for another 11 days. I believe I am just going to tell them to send me a new one. Being that I am still in that period, they actually will send a new phone and not a refurb. Thanks, I just found that thread. I dont know if I wanna do that with a new phone though lol. Should be working perfect
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the flash may be causing the problem... try without it
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lol yeah man I said it only happens when flash is used =]
Did you ever figure this out? The same thing is happening to all of my pictures.
Thanks.
The amaze camera isn't that great at night.
I had this happen to me over the weekend, I took a number of pics and only one had the flash bleed like that, and nothing was physically changed on the phone. I thought it would possibly be my fingers, the flash reflected off them for the one shot, because I can't think of anything else. I have a small bit of electrical tape on my flash though to keep the flash bleed down, that was a slight issue I had at first. Not a big deal, pics come out great now.. Annoying though, because it is a new phone.
Attached pic of where I put the electrical tape, you can't see anything once the cover is on and there's zero flash bleed. Don't mind the crappy picture quality, it was taken with a samsung good thing it focused on the reflection off the lens
So I was an idiot and tried to capture a few quick pics of the Sun tonight at the beginning of the solar eclipse. I knew pointing the Note's camera directly into the sun was risky, but thought I'd see if it would work, and only took 4 super-quick photos.
Unfortunately, it was enough to fry the lens, and now whenever I use the camera on any type of light, solid-colored background, the center of the image has a light brown-ish hue. Taking pictures of normal day-to-day things, I'm sure I probably won't notice, but still...I'm anal about these types of things and knowing it's there is going to drive me crazy.
So, all of the "ZOMG - WTF were you thinking n00b!?" comments aside, what options are there? Are there repair shops out there that can replace these lenses? I'm assuming a replaced lens would fix it. Is this part something I can order and replace myself?
I bought it at Best Buy, and I'm beyond my 30 day warranty, so even if I wanted to be a weasel and try that route, I couldn't. Can Best Buy, or even ATT fix these? (I highly doubt it, but thought I'd ask).
Thanks in advance.
Wow. I didnt know this was possible. Good to know.
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Found this on Ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/Back-Rear-Camera-Module-Repair-Parts-Samsung-Galaxy-Note-N-7000-i9220-/170843572776
I checked a site I buy stuff from, in Hong Kong, but they didn't have one.
http://www.cnn.cn
As for burning out...just as with looking directly into the sun with your eye can cause damage to the retina, same holds true with a CCD or CMOS camera lens.
Without proper filtering, you can destroy the light sensing elements.
Every Note I've had and used has the same issue, without pointing it at the sun. But honestly mine was in the grass basically pointed directly at the sun for hours yesterday, and there's nothing wrong with it (other than the existing colored spot like yours has).
Are you absolutely sure this problem is new? Are you sure you're not just being over-sensitive all of a sudden and noticing it for the first time and attributing it to the sun because you did something out of the ordinary?
You still have a year warranty on the phone...call up ATT and have them send you out a new phone. Consider this a lesson learned.
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Thanks for the response guys, and for the links. That gives me something to think about. I'm hesitant to replace the phone, since I replaced it once already to try to resolve the Black Crush problem (which did fix 90% of it). I'd hate to get a replacement that has that bad problem again. I'd rather live with a bad camera, if you know what I mean.
And definitely lesson learned.
Johnus - I've used my camera quite a bit and not once noticed that problem. I can't say for 100% certain that it didn't exist before, but being anal with these types of things like I am, I'd have to say I'm at least 99% sure it wasn't there previously. I'll leave that 1% open because I'm a man, and according to women, men are always wrong.
I've searched for the answer to this and can't find it. Sorry if I missed it and this is a double post but I have to get this working. So when I make a call on the amaze the phone screen wont come on. I think it's because the front-facing camera is a bit blurry after a fun adventure where I accidentally threw it in the trash. Anyway, is there a way to just make the screen not shut off while talking? I'd buy a replacement for the camera (it's pretty cheap, maybe 12 bucks shipped), but I seriously don't want to take this thing apart ever again.
Any tips appreciated! Phone is running stock rom, but if needed I can root/flash anything anyone suggests.
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I've searched for the answer to this and can't find it. Sorry if I missed it and this is a double post but I have to get this working. So when I make a call on the amaze the phone screen wont come on. I think it's because the front-facing camera is a bit blurry after a fun adventure where I accidentally threw it in the trash. Anyway, is there a way to just make the screen not shut off while talking? I'd buy a replacement for the camera (it's pretty cheap, maybe 12 bucks shipped), but I seriously don't want to take this thing apart ever again.
Any tips appreciated! Phone is running stock rom, but if needed I can root/flash anything anyone suggests.
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the screen shuts off because the proximity sensor is covered. Its not the camera. See if you can find a way to disable it from an app or something, but that's what is wrong...not the camera...
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the screen shuts off because the proximity sensor is covered. Its not the camera. See if you can find a way to disable it from an app or something, but that's what is wrong...not the camera...
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Thanks for the tip, I thought it was the camera. I took the phone apart and took a look at the proximity sensor, I dont know what was wrong with it but i scraped some goop off the front of it with a sharp knife and now it's working