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Im running Artemis 65.0 WWE, and for the last few months the camera seems to only take blurred pics. Like soft focus all the time, regardless of light settings / conditions etc.
It was working fine months back. Is it likely a hardware prob, or something maybe could be fixed with a hard restore? Have to own up to probably dropping the device countless times over the years.
Havent seen any similar thread for HD2.
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I was almost about to upgrade my camera, due to the rubbish photos, then i thought it was perhaps due to the glass cover over the lens being scratched. looking closely, it had a lot of very fine scratches and these must have been interfering in focusing the image.
quickly googled how to clean and remove glass scratches and someone had mentioned they use toothpaste as a cleaning and buffing compound.
so i got a cotton earbud, snapped it in half. dipped it into a bit of toothpaste, and then fixed it to my cordless drill. about 5 minutes of polishing and i could see many of the scratches had been completley removed.
placed everything back together and voila! my camera is utterly fixed! perfect images once again!
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i thought i would post an interesting probelem i have just fixed,
seemingly between text messaging, my screen started displaying what looked like all the colours in negative, after having many years of use out of my device, i though it had finally packed up for good,
everything worked as normal aside from the display of colours, and there was a strange lack of pixels displaying vertically which made certain screens impossible to read,
having pulled the hermes apart on past occasions, i decided that before writing it off i would pull it apart one last time for a squiz
i found some interesting things, i have photographed these things so that if someone else is having a similar problem, it may help them out and save them the cost of a new phone/screen
what i found was a carbon deposit running across some of the connectors which run from the screen to the circuit board, after carefully running a fine grade of emery paper (800grit) over this to clean it up, this had to be done carefully, as the gold layer is microns thin, and the copper layer is revealed within seconds, much more rubbing would probably strip away the copper as well, so it might even be a good idea to try 1200grit
(making sure the carbon bridged circuit was gone) i put it back together and everything works fine)
not sure what cased it, the only thing i can think of might be moisture (it was raining the night before, and a drop might have worked its way just under the screen)
image links:
http://img231.imageshack.us/i/imbroken.jpg/ (photo of working tytn next to broken tytn)
http://img22.imageshack.us/i/fileexplorer.jpg/ (closeup of screen displaying graphical glitch)
http://img19.imageshack.us/i/problemja.jpg/ (closeup of burnt circuit)
http://img19.imageshack.us/i/afteremery.jpg/ (closeup of cleaned up circuit)
If it happens again, instead of an emery cloth, try a cottonbud soaked in isopropyl alcohol. DON'T use metho as this will cause corrosion...
Cheers...
I was wondering about the viewing angle on my gtablet and did a quick search on gtablet and teardown. I noticed some people playing with it last november for other reasons.
A bit ago, when I was building a multi touch laser table a bit ago, I started playing with the different layers of a standard LCD monitor. I ended up killing on monitor so I have some extra parts... One of the layers I found out really helped the viewing angles (diffused layer between the light source and the lcd).
Has anyone looked to see if you can seperate the lcd layers and if there was room for a thin sheet of plastic?
Has anyone taken their gtablet apart and been able to put it back together without major problems?
I'm not sure if I have the to take mine apart and do this yet... but I'm getting close. But if others have taken theirs apart and reassembled it... I would at least take it to that level and see how my confindence is.
(also would be nice if I could add a led behind the buttons... wonder how doable that would be..
I have taking my a part a few times but never getting into take out the LCD ... it was pretty easy to take out and put it back ... i have changed the LCD of various laptop and recently one on the Archos 70IT and yes, the LCD can be separated with a fews tapes and metal clips to remove ... next time if i have to take out my Gtab, i will take note of the LCD to see if can de separated with Clips or tape or both
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I was wondering about the viewing angle on my gtablet and did a quick search on gtablet and teardown. I noticed some people playing with it last november for other reasons.
A bit ago, when I was building a multi touch laser table a bit ago, I started playing with the different layers of a standard LCD monitor. I ended up killing on monitor so I have some extra parts... One of the layers I found out really helped the viewing angles (diffused layer between the light source and the lcd).
Has anyone looked to see if you can seperate the lcd layers and if there was room for a thin sheet of plastic?
Has anyone taken their gtablet apart and been able to put it back together without major problems?
I'm not sure if I have the to take mine apart and do this yet... but I'm getting close. But if others have taken theirs apart and reassembled it... I would at least take it to that level and see how my confindence is.
(also would be nice if I could add a led behind the buttons... wonder how doable that would be..
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There is a post with pictures of a guy who backlit his buttons. Seemed pretty simple for someone of his ability, but far beyond mine. Ghetto button (drops of reflective paint on the side) for me. Search for LED buttons or something similar. Never mind, found it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=899132&highlight=LEDs
Hi,
I recently installed ffc on my vibrant but the picture is blurry. According to various posts I tried adjusting the focussing ring of the ffc to focus the image but I am unable to rotate the ring. The ring looks like very thin piece of plastic to me and I tried rotating it with tweezers but it wont budge. Any help would be appreciated.
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I know this is going to sound dumb, but are you SURE you got that camera hole completely clear? I know some people were able to do it quite easily...but mine looked visibly blurry (after the black came off) for about another hour kept using more goo gone, more q-tips, more scrubbing with fiberglass brush thingy - went through stages...I thought I'd scratched it at one point, it looked like a tiny grease smear for awhile, looked a tiny bit hazy...or foggy...for awhile.
ANYWAY, eventually it became CRYSTAL CLEAR - I mean absolutely no question - CRYSTAL CLEAR.
I know at least a few others shared this sort of experience - but some had the damn thing clear in minutes. Maybe they are simply "better" human beings than I am. Whatever the case - it's worth checking I think.
N_B said:
I know this is going to sound dumb, but are you SURE you got that camera hole completely clear? I know some people were able to do it quite easily...but mine looked visibly blurry (after the black came off) for about another hour kept using more goo gone, more q-tips, more scrubbing with fiberglass brush thingy - went through stages...I thought I'd scratched it at one point, it looked like a tiny grease smear for awhile, looked a tiny bit hazy...or foggy...for awhile.
ANYWAY, eventually it became CRYSTAL CLEAR - I mean absolutely no question - CRYSTAL CLEAR.
I know at least a few others shared this sort of experience - but some had the damn thing clear in minutes. Maybe they are simply "better" human beings than I am. Whatever the case - it's worth checking I think.
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My ffc hole is not clear but I also tested by taking the picture directly bypassing the hole but still it was blurry. Are you able to rotate the focusing ring.
I've had my phone for about 6 months now, and never taken a photo with the flash in a very dark room - until now that is. See attached - it's a photo taken in my house's attic. Do others have this problem? Or is it just me? If my phone is defective, unfortunately I bought the one from Amazon with no warranty: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Compact-...TF8&qid=1461862592&sr=1-4&keywords=z5+compact
Luckily, I have almost no need for taking flash pictures in dark rooms, but it's irritating none the less.
camaro322hp said:
I've had my phone for about 6 months now, and never taken a photo with the flash in a very dark room - until now that is. See attached - it's a photo taken in my house's attic. Do others have this problem? Or is it just me? If my phone is defective, unfortunately I bought the one from Amazon with no warranty: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-Compact-...TF8&qid=1461862592&sr=1-4&keywords=z5+compact
Luckily, I have almost no need for taking flash pictures in dark rooms, but it's irritating none the less.
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It's common and not only to the z5c, it has been like that in a few of the z phones. Any case you throw on will amplify the problem as well. The camera sucks in almost every situation, but in low light you see obviously it's useless, it's a shame. You could try a new battery back, they're only a couple bucks.
civicsr2cool said:
It's common and not only to the z5c, it has been like that in a few of the z phones. Any case you throw on will amplify the problem as well. The camera sucks in almost every situation, but in low light you see obviously it's useless, it's a shame. You could try a new battery back, they're only a couple bucks.
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Yeah I have a z1c and I remember this being a huge topic of discussion right after it was released. The z1c was never this bad though. This photo was taken without case.
what colour is your z5c?
Hi, i have exactly the same problem, dark room with flash just blows green shadows on the picture...i rarely take photos with flash, but just want to understand if this is common for all z5c phones, or just to few defect batches only. Otherwise i will ask the seller to do exchange.
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I have same issue after replacing a broken backdoor.
The cheap backdoor bought on ebay was missing a gasket around the camera lens.
So the light from the led was "running" on the inside on the backdoor.
I have fitted a thin adhesive tape around the led so the light only gets out trough the led opening.
Try pressing the back cover several times before taking a picture.
Its work on my phone, flash bleed gone.
I do this every time i want to take photos with flash
Or you can open the back cover then replace the adhesive with strong adshive (I recommend b7000)
The problem may be due to the back cover glue that has been weakened by overheating issue.
irfannmaruf said:
Try pressing the back cover several times before taking a picture.
Its work on my phone, flash bleed gone.
I do this every time i want to take photos with flash
Or you can open the back cover then replace the adhesive with strong adshive (I recommend b7000)
The problem may be due to the back cover glue that has been weakened by overheating issue.
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also you should attach thick duct tape beside the flash glass (between flash and camera)
That only happened to me after I replaced the rear cover. It's missing an additional layer
YamiYukiSenpai said:
That only happened to me after I replaced the rear cover. It's missing an additional layer
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The missing one is the camera gasket that prevent dust and light bleed from the camera flash
irfannmaruf said:
Try pressing the back cover several times before taking a picture.
Its work on my phone, flash bleed gone.
I do this every time i want to take photos with flash
Or you can open the back cover then replace the adhesive with strong adshive (I recommend b7000)
The problem may be due to the back cover glue that has been weakened by overheating issue.
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Oh man, this solves completely this issue. Many thanks
My rear camera isn't working properly anymore so I was just wondering if anyone else has had a similar problem so if I can confirm the likely culprit. Whenever I use the rear camera the screen is mainly purple and pixelated and I can only just about see the background through it all.
The front (selfie) camera is fine so I'm just thinking about replacing the camera at the back but thought I'd ask around in case anyone knew of any other common problem it could be in case I was barking up the wrong tree.
I tried to upload a picture of what it looked like but couldn't manage it.
I've watched a couple of YouTube videos on how to replace it and I'm happy to have a go but if anyone's got any experience/advice on that too it would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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hi,
I had same problem two weeks ago. Suddently the rear camera gone to pink the frontal was good. After the initial panic, I've tried to search internet, on some forums was said to gently push around the rear lens and the camera will show something. Some one says that use this method pushed firmly around the ring and the camera was fixed, some others no.
In my case, pushing around the camera, initially worked for a couple of seconds, then the image was flickering with vertical green lines, noises, and interlaced "grid" grey scan lines like old videogames. then was hardly usable only pushing around the rim for about one minute for take a normal photo. here is the attachments of panic:silly:
I think the camera was damaged by too much overheat that unglued the backplate, and consequentially the use or some hit or light fall may had damaged the flex sensor or the placement lens on the motherboard. In fact in the previous months i had noticed the backplate was moving if poked with fingers on the edges. I mean gently pressed and the back plate was moving. Doing the pressure factory test, it was around 1020,3-1001Millibar on static and changed when pressed on screen or on the back. I had a dbrand skin on the back and due to the heat shrinked and became smaller. I think the overheat was caused by the firmware updates and some app that sucked away the battery in years. Upgrading from Lollipop, twice to MM, to Nougat, in years and then in the last time some flash to MM and then to Nougat again give it the final hit, especially the first time power up after flashing when you have to set everything from scratch.
I sent it in warranty repair, for camera damaged, added the request to swap battery due to duration (because on June the warranty ends ) and to check and fix the IP68 requirements, also noticing very overheat issues.
Now the pressure test is a solid fixed 999,01-999,03Millibar and the feel is more solid in general when handled. If you have luck when Sony repair it, the screen protector on the front if you have applied, won't be touched, only the back.
good luck
So did they just replace the camera module that is plugged in to the top at the back? (obviously apart from battery too).
Your post seems to suggest overheat which caused motherboard damage too.
Unless I've read it wrong you're suggesting swapping the camera will fix the problem.
I know I'd obviously need a new back cover too.
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