So I got my ffc yesterday which is a rev2. I installed it and it is looking sweet. However when I try to use it I just get a black screen and the camera app crashes. Searched the forums and the internet and couldn't find the answer. Do I need to download a driver or something?
Thanks guys!
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Its working for me on cm9 right now and used to when I was on passion Shouldn't have to flash anything since the rooms based on i9000 build which has ffc.
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The FFC is working for me on Passion V11.
So I have tested the camera. The rear camera works wonderful but as soon as I switch it to the front it goes black and it shows scn in the top corner. Does anyone else have this issue with their FFC mod? I have tried it on Passion and CM9.
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So I have tested the camera. The rear camera works wonderful but as soon as I switch it to the front it goes black and it shows scn in the top corner. Does anyone else have this issue with their FFC mod? I have tried it on Passion and CM9.
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I don't think its a software issue. Open up phone and try again I guess.
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trailblazerz11 said:
I don't think its a software issue. Open up phone and try again I guess.
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So I tried it again and I agree with you. I looked at the camera again and they had soldered a copper wire from one little circle to one of the connector pins where the camera connects to the phone. And during the process it goes over 4 or so other of the little circles. I wrote into the company I bought the camera from and sent them pictures of it and I will ask them to send me a new one.
Thanks guys for helping me out!
Where is the best site to purchase an FFC for Vibrant?
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Where is the best site to purchase an FFC for Vibrant?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1464103
Quick search in the thread! Hope this helps
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So I tried it again and I agree with you. I looked at the camera again and they had soldered a copper wire from one little circle to one of the connector pins where the camera connects to the phone. And during the process it goes over 4 or so other of the little circles. I wrote into the company I bought the camera from and sent them pictures of it and I will ask them to send me a new one.
Thanks guys for helping me out!
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I am having the same problems, did it end up being a faulty camera?
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everyone shake your photon and let me know if u hear any internal rattles. im hearin on in mine, and i thought maybe it was the tab for the SIM but i pulled the cover off and held it and its not that.
anyone know where its coming from if yall have the same noise? its gonna drive me insane!
I think it has to do with the camera lens. The lens makes a noise too when you open the camera app.
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laraiza said:
I think it has to do with the camera lens. The lens makes a noise too when you open the camera app.
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ahh... i think you are onto something. when i open the camera app up, the noise gets less, it must be something with the zoom and such. guess ill be able to sleep. for a while there i thought the dang thing was falling apart in my hands
Mines the same also....clicky camera
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That's the only thing I don't like about the Photon, and mainly because it inflames my OCD.
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there has been threads on this before lol. its the lense cover inside the camera, its loose when its closed. soon as you turn the camera on it you hear the click when it opens and it gets locked snugly in place.
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there has been threads on this before lol. its the lense cover inside the camera, its loose when its closed. soon as you turn the camera on it you hear the click when it opens and it gets locked snugly in place.
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This! They all do it, nothing to be worried about really.
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it's volume buttons or camera lenses.
Upon reading this, i gave my phone a thourough shake and found that i was hearing something rattle around in there. I switched on my camera - shook - and the rattle was still there. Listening closely, i heard it coming from the bottom of my phone, any ideas on what this is? Its not a big deal because i hardly shake my phone. i just want to make sure that it isn't going to be a problem in the long run.
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there has been threads on this before lol. its the lense cover inside the camera, its loose when its closed. soon as you turn the camera on it you hear the click when it opens and it gets locked snugly in place.
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i searched "noise in phone" and such, but now i see i needed to search "rattle"
question answered anyways, thats what the forums are for.
My camera button is loose and rattles. It does not bother me enough to take the phone back but I do wish it was in there solid like my friends photon.
I hear the rattle...not from the buttons thou..sounds like the camera lense
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I believe that rattle is from the shaky micro sd card if you have one. For some reason it doesn't make the noise when the battery is off. Or maybe it is the camera...but i highly doubt its the camera.
It is most likely the position sensor that lets the phone know it's orientation.
Folks, this has been covered. The camera lens cover hangs loose and when the camera starts it's pulled aside and fixed into place. Can be verified easily by starting the camera application or a flashlight application and noting that the rattle stops.
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wynand32 said:
Folks, this has been covered. The camera lens cover hangs loose and when the camera starts it's pulled aside and fixed into place. Can be verified easily by starting the camera application or a flashlight application and noting that the rattle stops.
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Yes, many posts here.
just took it apart and on my mopho, its the vibrator piece. makes sense i guess. maybe it's different on each phone haha
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That's the only thing I don't like about the Photon, and mainly because it inflames my OCD.
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I feel the same way, it drives me absolutely insane.
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After I shook my phone I was gonna guess at the vibrator, lol I said vibrator
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So I bought the ffc and installed it but I'm getting multi colored lines across the screen for the back camera and the front is way fuzzy. Any tips/ideas for this? I'm running passion v11, let me know, thanks!
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Lol, yeah you got a 1st generation camera and that's going to happen with the lines unless you get a gen 2 camera. As far as the fuzziness, I'm gonna guess you didn't focus the super tiny ring on the outside of it? Not laughing at you, just the sutuation.
Dam you gotta be kidding. So I'm screwed here or what?
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Dam you gotta be kidding. So I'm screwed here or what?
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The lines should only occur in dark settings. I have a rev 1 from awhile ago I'm OK with it. Not like i Skype in the dark.
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The lines should only occur in dark settings. I have a rev 1 from awhile ago I'm OK with it. Not like i Skype in the dark.
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Well the lines only seam to occur in the viewfinder. When I take the picture, they're either gone or nearly completely invisible. So for 20 bucks this turned out to be a good deal
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Yeah the lines are harder to see in the actual picture but it can be annoying when taking pictures in darker settings. As for the focus on the front cam, it's a little hard cause you need to have the camera plugged in to see when it is actually in focus. I just used some tweesers and angled the camera towards me a little so I could still see on the screen what the cam was pointing at and focused it that way. It's still a good setup for the average user, so $20 isn't a loss.
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Yeah the lines are harder to see in the actual picture but it can be annoying when taking pictures in darker settings. As for the focus on the front cam, it's a little hard cause you need to have the camera plugged in to see when it is actually in focus. I just used some tweesers and angled the camera towards me a little so I could still see on the screen what the cam was pointing at and focused it that way. It's still a good setup for the average user, so $20 isn't a loss.
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Yeah the tweezers is what I used! It looks decently focused for the most part, I used it for Skype last night and it seemed to be better quality video than my Toshiba net book!
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My front camera hasn't worked since I switched to ICS. At first I just thought it probably want working yet so I didn't think anything about it. But I've tried quite a few roms now and none of them work. When I try to use the front camera it just switches to the other back 3d camera, this includes face unlock and the camera app.
I'm currently running devils toast .7, everything else works flawlessly. Could this be a kernel issue? I was under the impression roms came with kernel so I've never even tried loading a new one. I rooted and s-offed when it was first available for the 3d.
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My front camera hasn't worked since I switched to ICS. At first I just thought it probably want working yet so I didn't think anything about it. But I've tried quite a few roms now and none of them work. When I try to use the front camera it just switches to the other back 3d camera, this includes face unlock and the camera app.
I'm currently running devils toast .7, everything else works flawlessly. Could this be a kernel issue? I was under the impression roms came with kernel so I've never even tried loading a new one. I rooted and s-offed when it was first available for the 3d.
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I'm guessing you're CDMA?
But, I haven't had a problem with the front camera with ICS.
What does the mirror app do for you?
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I'm guessing you're CDMA?
But, I haven't had a problem with the front camera with ICS.
What does the mirror app do for you?
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Yea I'm on Sprint, CDMA. Every app that tries to access the front camera just uses the other rear camera. It's like the second rear camera thinks it's the front.
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Yea I'm on Sprint, CDMA. Every app that tries to access the front camera just uses the other rear camera. It's like the second rear camera thinks it's the front.
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Everybody I've seen here that had that issue says it is a hardware issue that was fixed by taking the phone in to Sprint. I've never had that issue myself, but just to make sure it is the ICS ROMs, can you flash back to a GB ROM?
Yea unroot and bring into.sprint
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Yea unroot and bring into.sprint
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That's what I was worried about, I've got Bestbuy insurance and I've heard it's really not as good as they made it seem at purchase. :crying:
I think my evo ltes camera might be broken. Does anybody else have trouble getting pics to come out clear. Mine seems out of focus. Im waiting to replace it due to my otterbox screen protector. I dont want to dail in settings everytime i take a picture either. Ive read hundreds of reviews and its suppose to be a very good camera.
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This is how almost all of my pics come out. Not just a one time deal.
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Are you tapping the sceen to focus?Mine come out clear..
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Yes and no. I have taken hundreds of pics. Sometimes i hold the button down and take 20 bad pics in a row. Im leaning towards a hardware problem.
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I've got this too, after flashing a jelly bean ROM. I'm going to try flashing a different jb ROM and see if the camera improves. And probably go back to ics if it doesn't.
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Camera is now clear, just flashed a different jelly bean rom.
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Are you running stock Rom or a port?
Ports such as cm10, miui, skip, etc do not take good pictures due to pack of proper drivers
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Edit: nvm
Im unrooted stock...
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Im unrooted stock...
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I you power off your phone then remove the plastic back cover and clean the camera glass lense. It might have dirt, finger prints/ smudge on to it which causes your phone not to auto-focus when taking pictures.
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I took it to sprint and they cleaned it. I also hard reset it 2x. I think it might be back to normal now.
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I seem to only have an issue if I zoom in on something. If I don't zoom, they look fine.
Thats because zooming a digital camera does nothing, you're better off just taking a full picture.
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Camera is now clear, just flashed a different jelly bean rom.
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If I have just regular stock, I've only had it a week, and I don't know how to root or flash a rom or any of that stuff to a phone. So am I just out of luck, or Is there any way to fix these issues? I see that one person said they did a hardreset x2, but if I haven't done anything to the phone I'm guessing a reset wouldn't help me either?
I'm soooo disappointed, the camera is about 80% of the reason I upgraded to this pone. But my regular evo took better pictures very easily. I really wish I knew how to do all the stuff people talk about on these sites, but I'm just clueless when it comes to that.
If anyone has a suggestions I would be really grateful.
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I can tell you guys that, unfortunately, I am 99% sure its a hardware issue...I've researched this relentlessly after I purchased my basically brand spanking new EvoLTE (less than 20 calls on it, but it already had a bad esn, relationship gone bad lol I guess)..I got it off craigslist..guy had the receipt..box, everything and when I ##786#'d it I confirmed everything he was telling me. I checked everything, one by one..speaker, mic, outside speaker, ports, bootloader, powered on off, finally the camera..pics and vids...everything worked perfectly.....I thought, I never thought to check the auto focus. Once I got home with it(I often take pics of text on the computer screen while working) I went to do this and to my shock the camera wouldn't focus in on text..Or anything that was within 4inches of the camera..I did four or five hard resets, searched endlessly for a reason or fix..tried every non stock app camera in the market..Nothing fixed it, and It still does it to this day.
I worked with at least ten EvoLTE's since then, I always check the auto focus on them (lol glutton for punishment I guess) because every one of them works perfectly. Yet you can find lots of people with auto focus issues on the web. I also have updated Roms, on mine (I'm currently back on ICS) nothing effected it, and the ones Ive seen that have worked perfectly were on ICS, JB, custom roms..no rhyme or reason, which is why I have to believe it's some kind of hardware issue with the auto focus on these cameras. Luckily, for me it only effects super up close photos(completely blurred), while any other photo comes out perfectly. I would of all ready replaced it otherwise.
I got a i717 everything was working fine into 2 weeks ago...my cam stop working all i get is a black screen...but ovoo works gtalk works but i just can switch to the back cam..so i fig the cam went to ****..i went and order a rear cam and still does the same did i miss something do i got to reflash the Rom with the new cam
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You went as far as to replace hardware before trying a software fix first?
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You went as far as to replace hardware before trying a software fix first?
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I did download other cams app from market even instagram did the same thing they all blackscreen then fc i reflash the Rom that's why i order the cam...
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You reflashed the same Rom, did you try another,
Preferably with a different kernel?
Hardware oddities Luke that point right at either the kernel or the hardware itself.. you've replaced the hardware.
studacris said:
You reflashed the same Rom, did you try another,
Preferably with a different kernel?
Hardware oddities Luke that point right at either the kernel or the hardware itself.. you've replaced the hardware.
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The kernel might be the couse??
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The kernel is the bridge between the hardware and the operating system... if that gap isn't bridged the hardware won't function.
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The kernel is the bridge between the hardware and the operating system... if that gap isn't bridged the hardware won't function.
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So if i flash the 4aces kernel u think is good or should i go stock kernel?
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As long as it's different.. it's a variable.
Although if I personally swapped hardware I would flash to stock and test it out before going back to a custom set up.
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As long as it's different.. it's a variable.
Although if I personally swapped hardware I would flash to stock and test it out before going back to a custom set up.
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Okay Im going to odin back to stock everything with kernel
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Okay im fully stock and kernel stock flash tru odin.. And know i get this...
Edit 1 Im going to change cam again to see if anything happens
Edit 2 both cams do the same thing?
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Are the solder points to the camera connection on the board intact? Or did you notice anything weird while the device was apart?
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Are the solder points to the camera connection on the board intact? Or did you notice anything weird while the device was apart?
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Intact im just going to replace the whole phone i guess
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Are the solder points to the camera connection on the board intact? Or did you notice anything weird while the device was apart?
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i fig out what was wrong the cam i order was for the s2 i99something or the n7000 i cant find a replacemnt for the i717 anyone know a site i can get a oem ebay dont got any amazon dont anyhelp will be really greatfull
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i fig out what was wrong the cam i order was for the s2 i99something or the n7000 i cant find a replacemnt for the i717 anyone know a site i can get a oem ebay dont got any amazon dont anyhelp will be really greatfull
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Does your front facing camera work? Of that doesn't work either its a software issue.
I found this.
http://www.witrigs.com/replacement-parts-rear-facing-camera-for-samsung-galaxy-note-sgh-i717
Don't know how reliable the site is but good luck.
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dweeezy said:
Does your front facing camera work? Of that doesn't work either its a software issue.
I found this.
http://www.witrigs.com/replacement-parts-rear-facing-camera-for-samsung-galaxy-note-sgh-i717
Don't know how reliable the site is but good luck.
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Ffc works so I know,is,the,cam its,self
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Website is definitely legit
dweeezy said:
Does your front facing camera work? Of that doesn't work either its a software issue.
I found this.
witrigs. com /replacement-parts-rear-facing-camera-for-samsung-galaxy-note-sgh-i717
Don't know how reliable the site is but good luck.
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I ordered a replacement part for only $5.99 + shipping. You can find the part here: Witrigs. com Given the price, I suggest you order two. I don't recall the shipping, but it wasn't expensive. Delivery was around 7 days to Canada (from Hong Kong). Website is definitely legit. Maybe add some other parts to your order, if you feel so inclined.
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