I've done a few google and XDA searches on this, and it appears that a few others have had a similar problem. Here is a YouTube video of someone with the same issue.
The phone is currently running ISCrewed 2.01 with Siyah 2.6.7. I am in the process of downloading the return to stock image from creepycrawl's thread to see if the issue is related to firmware/software. I just wanted to see if anyone else has run into this problem, and if so what solution, if any, worked for you.
A little bit about the problem, when the Camera app is opened - depending on the ambient lighting (I discovered the problem occurs more often in daylight or when the camera is pointed at a light source) - a vibration/humming starts from the rear facing camera. Depending on how I hold the phone or the strength of the ambient light, the humming gets worse or better. When I tap to focus the buzzing stops and will not return until the app is reopened, or the camera is switch to video and back or FFC and back. Additionally, when holding the camera up to a light source (I used a 60w bulb), there is banding in the light or the image rolls/vibrates.
Looks like a camera module can be purchased for $12-16 online, but then the question I have is whether there are different cameras for different revisions of the phone/firmware... and whether it is something I safely swap out myself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know if I can provide more information and I will update the thread after I return the phone to stock.
ps, where can I find the diag codes to locate the firmware versions of the hardware in the phone? The i9100 codes don't work, only found *#9090# and *#1234# so far which don't give me the camera version.
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I returned to stock using CreepyCrawl's method and the problem with camera still exists. So I am thinking that it is a hardware issue.
Here is a picture showing the light banding:
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Still interested in finding out if anyone else had this problem, or found a solution.... but I will most likely be getting a warranty replacement.
The only time my camera makes a sound is when it can't focus on a near object. It kinda buzzes or clicks, but only for about a second or so.
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I've occasionally had the buzzing issue. Also with the led.
Images Are fine though.
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Just an update, this problem was resolved through att warranty. They gave me a new reconditioned phone body. They said it was definitely mechanical, butt they personally had never seen it. Luckily it was bright enough outside to duplicate the issue.
I occasionally get that buzzing sound also. It only happens when I initially open the camera app until i touch the screen to focus. Then the buzzing stops. If I reopen the camera app it buzzes again. For me, it seems to occur more often in darker settings.
Is this a common problem or just a couple bad phones?
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I occasionally get that buzzing sound also. It only happens when I initially open the camera app until i touch the screen to focus. Then the buzzing stops. If I reopen the camera app it buzzes again. For me, it seems to occur more often in darker settings.
Is this a common problem or just a couple bad phones?
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I get it randomly as well
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I am not 100% sure, but I do know that the lens moves around in the "barrel" or "eye" if you will. This is how it maintains focus. The mechanical part that forces the lens to move I believe is stuck... sometimes if you tap the camera the buzz will stop.
And I am no developer so take this with a grain of salt, but i remember that some flashlight mods or apps actually activate the camera and though it's not recording the camera will still attempt to maintain focus (due to being "on"). This would explain the buzzing when using the LED light outside of the camera app.
I don’t claim to know anything really... someone with more expertise feel free to lynch me
I can tell you that your problem might actually be the speaker. I only know because I had this EXACT issue, and I sent my phone to a samsung service center for warranty repair. They ended up replacing the speaker, and no more buzzing.
I am having the exact same problem.......... Just started today out in the bright light... The moment I tap the screen, it stops. I'm rooted and running a custom kernal but have played around with the phone for a year without problem. So this is mechanical??? Time to call AT&T???
Same Problem
I've had the same problem & i've found that if you shake the phone before you're about to take a photo/video it stops vibrating
Same problem here
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I am having problems with my new S2, the camera just wont focus. It just bleeps and a green square appears but nothing is in focus.
Any ideas? I am running the KE2 firmware
What focus setting is it on? Auto focus, macro or face detection?
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Well I tried all three and nothing helps. It just bleeps but I dont see the camera trying to focus at all.
Can this be a hardware issue? or merely software? Should I try to update to the latest firmware in the hopes this might get fixed?
Did you do the firmware upgrade from samsung apps?
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Yeah I did and it was updated to KE2 but I do believe there is an KE4/KE7 out right now? Still doesnt appear in my Kies however.
Nah the camera firmware was from the samsung app on the phone which installs an apk which yhen updates the camera. Is that the one you did?
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Same here, a lot of times the camera doesnt focus
for example if I want to do a macro photo I select the macro, then the camera focus nice, but if I move it and I try to focus another thing the camera doesnt do it.
In auto mode with some barcode programs it doesnt work either if I try to focus close.
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Nah the camera firmware was from the samsung app on the phone which installs an apk which yhen updates the camera. Is that the one you did?
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Hmn... I dont think so mate, but how can I make sure? I cant really remember getting any update from samsung on my phone.
kersh said:
Same here, a lot of times the camera doesnt focus
for example if I want to do a macro photo I select the macro, then the camera focus nice, but if I move it and I try to focus another thing the camera doesnt do it.
In auto mode with some barcode programs it doesnt work either if I try to focus close.
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Hmn... but I never seen mine focus or even try. You know when the camera goes blur and then back sharp? Mine just stays static lol Not sure if it is normal but it does seem like a problem.
Checking the Firmware for the camera, it says
Cam FW Ver: OCED10
Phone FW Ver: TBEC28
Hmn... now should I claim warranty for this? or this can be fixed lol ? I hate for it to be sent to warranty claims
I know this sounds silly, but have you tried cleaning your lense?
Sometimes if the lense is a bit dirty (even invisible oil), it tries to focus on the oil. The distortion could trick the camera into thinking it's in focus (the closest to being focus) and just pop the green square.
Haha I hope it was that simple. Tried that actually, and it doesnt help
if doesnt focus anything or at least try it, probably the camera is broken.
Use warranty dont doubt it
I have the same problem, but only sometimes.
Check and see if you actually get out of focus shots after you have snapped a pic. I'm still on the phone's very first firmware and I am having trouble updating it for some reason...
kersh said:
if doesnt focus anything or at least try it, probably the camera is broken.
Use warranty dont doubt it
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Solidswede said:
I have the same problem, but only sometimes.
Check and see if you actually get out of focus shots after you have snapped a pic. I'm still on the phone's very first firmware and I am having trouble updating it for some reason...
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Taking pictures of far objects are ok. Seems to just be a static focus but when I try to take pictures of anything near or of someone close that I need to focus, The camera does nothing, there is no attempt at focus even when there is the green focus box.
Guess the camera might be broken , will call up for warranty.
Harvin Dhillon said:
Taking pictures of far objects are ok. Seems to just be a static focus but when I try to take pictures of anything near or of someone close that I need to focus, The camera does nothing, there is no attempt at focus even when there is the green focus box.
Guess the camera might be broken , will call up for warranty.
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I have similar problem. The camera is a disappointment. The pictures are blur. I hope it can be fixed somehow. Any thought on this?
No issues here. Focuses perfectly almost every time.
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I have similar problem. The camera is a disappointment. The pictures are blur. I hope it can be fixed somehow. Any thought on this?
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Your phone is most likely broken, you should send it back. Here is a 100% crop of a picture directly from the SGS2 and looks plenty sharp to me.
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Your phone is most likely broken, you should send it back. Here is a 100% crop of a picture directly from the SGS2 and looks plenty sharp to me.
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Thanks! But I hope there might be another solution. I have tried different kernel versions, but I did not succeed. The barcode scanner works perfectly, but normal pictures remain blur.
I have sent it back to repair. Hopefully, It wont last for ages.
I do have the same issue on mine (no auto focus).
Did you get any feedback?
Ok so one of the cool features I was excited about was the eyetracker feature. But I've haven't noticed it once work for me. They icon will flash on the status bar but it will still keep going black. doesn't matter how close the phone is or what kind of lighting is in the background. Anyone else?
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Was the front facing camera directly facing you when the icon appears? It needs to be looking right at your face and not angled slightly in any direction.
Doesn't seem to work at all for me. I dont believe it's because I wear contacts...
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Works fine for me as long as i'm directly looking at the screen.
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it failed for me a few times at dark lighting conditions. but thats expected. have you installed any apps that makes use of the camera?
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it failed for me a few times at dark lighting conditions. but thats expected. have you installed any apps that makes use of the camera?
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You say that, however the advertising in the UK shows a guy reading to his daughter from the phone in the dark, when his eyes close it shuts off the phone and states the phone only sleeps when you do.
I would call that false advertising if it in fact doesn't work in low or no light...
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Tested properly today, multiple times, on my way through London whilst my girl drove. Bright sunny day, and it failed everytime. I tried opening my eyes WIDE, moving the phone nearer, farther... nothing.
It works randomly for me, in dark or light conditions.
This needs an update, period.
My one fails every timr. It just dosnt work even very bright days. Shame on you samsung.
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Dont like hearing this at all, this was the feature I was looking to the most i think.
It works fine for me. Not 100% of the time but at least 80%. Most of the time I don't even notice the icon flashing because it's so quick.
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Tested properly today, multiple times, on my way through London whilst my girl drove. Bright sunny day, and it failed everytime. I tried opening my eyes WIDE, moving the phone nearer, farther... nothing.
It works randomly for me, in dark or light conditions.
This needs an update, period.
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did you try to put your phone around 20 - 30cm as mentioned in smartstay function? reading with the phone to close to our face also prevents it to capture whole face and follow our eyes movement.
surprised you're all complaining about this. It works almost everytime for me, even if im looking at the screen from a slight skew
I too have been disappointed in this feature. Doesn't seem to work at all.
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Does not work for me either.
I know most people already know this, but smart stay has to be turned on in settings-display. May be just double check if it's on?
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Did any of you try it in landscape mode? when i'm reading pdfs in landscape, most of the times smart stay fails.
I find this very weird to hear everyone having so much trouble with this, me and my friend have not had one drama and it's been awesome. All i did was juts make sure it was turned on in the motion settings and it works a treat!
It doesn't work on me as well
I've tested and seems to work about 70pc of time. It has definitely failed too..... But the little eye icon has shown too and it has kept the screen on.... I'd say failures have been a mix of bad/odd angle held and lighting...
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Works flawlessly for me. But I've got eyes like this:
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If this seems familiar, it’s because this was posted in the pictures thread, but got completely buried. In hindsight, this was out-of-place there.
Macro issue:
I set my phone at a fixed distance from an object – just close enough so that it couldn’t completely focus in “Auto” mode – then switched to “Close up” mode. “Close up” mode could not make it any more focused, nor did anything else in the background change. Is this supposed to be the case? The minimum focus distance seems to be about 2.2 inches, FYI.
Tap-to-focus issue:
I’m finding that I need to place the close-up object in the center of my viewfinder. This camera does not seem to want to focus on anything that is off-center if it is too close to the camera, even if you use tap-to-focus. The only time that tap-to-focus works is if you place the close-up object in the center of the viewfinder, then tap on a distant object. Below are my examples:
I placed the water bottle in the center of the viewfinder and tapped on the label to focus on it-
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Then, keeping the water bottle in the center of the viewfinder, I tapped on the Coke bottle in the background which brought that into focus-
Finally, moving the water bottle off-center, I again tried tapping on its label to focus on it, but with no luck. The only way to focus on the bottle with it in the foreground was to bring it to the center of the viewfinder-
The only work-around that I have found is by focusing on the close-up object while it is in the center of the viewfinder, then use the shutter button to lock the focus while I move it off-center. This is not the case on my friend’s iPhone 4S, nor do I think this was a problem on my OG EVO.
I actually found that tapping in the lower-left of the screen allowed me to focus in off-center objects (as long as they were on the left side of the frame). Anyone else have these issues?
Glad I found this thread. I hadn't fooled with the camera on this phone to use macros until today when trying to shoot flowers. I was shooting flowers in the sun and the camera was useless for macro shots. If the background is bright, it always focuses on the background and not what you are tapping on. In fact, even when the flower was dead center, it focused on the background. I can tell it is a software/firmware issue because in lower light, it works OK and it works fine if the entire subject is up close, like a concrete wall. Going to search for a solution... Surprised more people haven't noticed this.
Mike
mikeyxda said:
Glad I found this thread. I hadn't fooled with the camera on this phone to use macros until today when trying to shoot flowers. I was shooting flowers in the sun and the camera was useless for macro shots. If the background is bright, it always focuses on the background and not what you are tapping on. In fact, even when the flower was dead center, it focused on the background. I can tell it is a software/firmware issue because in lower light, it works OK and it works fine if the entire subject is up close, like a concrete wall. Going to search for a solution... Surprised more people haven't noticed this.
Mike
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Well you have to be careful around here. A lot of fanboy'ism when it comes to devices, so as soon as you say any negative thing about a phone in its forum people will be quick to blame you and call you a noob, lol.
With that being said, this phone has an excellent camera, but the camera software itself is very very subpar. I'm hoping an OTA launches sometime in the future addressing issues like this one.
For those of you having issues with your phones.
Try Macro (Close-Up) + Zooming in on the target.*
It should come out ok.
*For a temp work-around
Noiro said:
For those of you having issues with your phones.
Try Macro (Close-Up) + Zooming in on the target.*
It should come out ok.
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I actually just found the same thing. If you touch the + magnifying glass to zoom in all the way, half press to focus on that, and then zoom out with the half press held, you can sometimes get a good focus. Seems like the focus just isn't working when in macro situations and zooming in like that gets rid of "clutter" around the subject that seems to confuse the focus algorithm.
Mike
I returned my first LTEvo because of issues it was having with autofocus. Half the time it would autofocus the other time it would sit there blurry and not focus or refocus on anything at all. Not sure if it was a hardware or software issue but it's no longer a problem on the new one I received.
Hello!
I recently purchased an Honor 10 and noticed that it had a weird screen-issue that was only noticable while displaying certain pictures. The screen would turn a bright shade of pink and green while swiping between images in the gallery before rendering them in their correct colours. I also noticed that when I took screenshots they would come out with really washed out colours. I sent the phone back and ordered a new one from the same retailer since they're the only ones who stock the 128gb model in my country, and when the new unit arrived earlier today I found out it has the exact same issue. I called support to make sure that they didn't just send me back the same unit and they're adamant that it isn't and that the IMEI numbers are different. Has anyone else encountered this issue or am I really unlucky to get it twice in a row? I tried doing factory resets on both phones but the issue remains.
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In display, color mode should be set standard..
Can you see if itz set Correct?
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In display, color mode should be set standard..
Can you see if itz set Correct?
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Hello! Thank you for replying! Mine was set to vivid, so I changed it. Really odd thing though is that I sent the second phone I had issues with back yesterday and settled for another retailer with the 64gb model, and today when it arrived I find that it has the exact same issue! Really not sure whether I'm doing something wrong or if I'm astronomically unlucky since that's 3 in a row now. At first I thought the images that get the discolouration issues might be corrupted or something like that, but I've downloaded others from google and gotten the same result anyway. Every time I take a screenshot the result comes out with less colours as well, so if I do it multiple times I get multiple copies of the same image with a gradient effect. I really love the phone other than these issues, so it's a bit distressing.
Seems impossible.
You get this problem since before you install any app?
Maybe the lighting in your house gives a weird effect on the materials used in this phone.
3rd one same problem is crazy.
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Seems impossible.
You get this problem since before you install any app?
Maybe the lighting in your house gives a weird effect on the materials used in this phone.
3rd one same problem is crazy.
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Yep, no apps installed. I skipped the sync and wifi-connection and everything when I first started it so I could see if it worked properly. I don't think it has anything to do with the lightning in my house, I did a screen recording to show the issue so I could send it to Huawei support and ask about it, and you can tell even on my PC screen that the discoloration is very evident and the screenshot issue as well. That would indicate that it's a software issue, wouldn't it? I tried to attach the recording to my OP but I can't post links yet since my account is new. Not sure if I want to risk ordering another one, I will wait for their support to reply to me and see what they say!
Probably hardware problem.
I would return it and buy another one from a different source.
Probably a lot of bad batches got sent out?
Just get my S10 U1 updated to Android 10 - OneUI 2.0 a few hours ago. Playing around with it and I start to notice something really weird, and annoying.
Everytime I turn on the camera app, and switch between modes in the Camera apps. I hear the "click click" sounds. And after paying close attention I found out that was a aperture shutter. It keeps changing from 2.4 to 1.5 and reset itself.
And if you swiping around the modes in the camera app you will continuously hear the main camera keeps doing this.
Am I the only one having this?
And if it was done by purpose, I'm afraid the the camera will break in a near future. AND why the hell they did this?
Pretty sure this is normal.
I have always heard the faint clicking, it's faint but it's always been there. I doubt they did anything software wise that's going to break the camera.
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Just get my S10 U1 updated to Android 10 - OneUI 2.0 a few hours ago. Playing around with it and I start to notice something really weird, and annoying.
Everytime I turn on the camera app, and switch between modes in the Camera apps. I hear the "click click" sounds. And after paying close attention I found out that was a aperture shutter. It keeps changing from 2.4 to 1.5 and reset itself.
And if you swiping around the modes in the camera app you will continuously hear the main camera keeps doing this.
Am I the only one having this?
And if it was done by purpose, I'm afraid the the camera will break in a near future. AND why the hell they did this?
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My U1 is still on Android 9 and it does this too. You didn't notice this behavior before?
I pretty sure it normal.
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My U1 is still on Android 9 and it does this too. You didn't notice this behavior before?
I pretty sure it normal.
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Did it behave the same with android 9?
OMG, I really didn't notice it. But last night, I was in a very quiet room and tried to play around with camera night mode, and I noticed this.
And since I notice this clicky sound, I start to hear it every time now, even in the normal and louder environment.... I guess once you notice this, it will become clearer ....
thank you!
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Did it behave the same with android 9?
OMG, I really didn't notice it. But last night, I was in a very quiet room and tried to play around with camera night mode, and I noticed this.
And since I notice this clicky sound, I start to hear it every time now, even in the normal and louder environment.... I guess once you notice this, it will become clearer ....
thank you!
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I never noticed it until I read about it while running Pie. After that I started noticing it all the time. I was almost to the point of being able to ignore it until you brought it up again..... Thanks a lot. ?
I've always heard it. On an S9 too. It's very loud and noticeable, day one.
Thank you Samsung for creating a group of paranoid users =]
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I've always heard it. On an S9 too. It's very loud and noticeable, day one.
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It's much louder on the S10+.
I don't notice it on my S9 unless it's too close to my ear, but on my cousin's S10+, I can hear it even if I'm holding it normally.
Anyways, it's a normal behaviour and I don't think it will break the camera.
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It's much louder on the S10+.
I don't notice it on my S9 unless it's too close to my ear, but on my cousin's S10+, I can hear it even if I'm holding it normally.
Anyways, it's a normal behaviour and I don't think it will break the camera.
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Yeah I think it's the aperture changing.
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Please my camera app keeps telling me warning camera failed. And I've tried everything possible thing on the internet to fix it. But it's still the same. It doesn't work even on safe mode. Link to screenshot above.
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Please my camera app keeps telling me warning camera failed. And I've tried everything possible thing on the internet to fix it. But it's still the same. It doesn't work even on safe mode. Link to screenshot above.
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Hardware failure..