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Galaxy S6 Camera Randomly Makes Loud Buzzing Sounds?

Hi all,
I wasn't able to find any threads related to this in the S6 forums but I wanted to see if anyone else has this. When I open my camera app, sometimes the camera takes 1-2 seconds to initially focus and during that time it makes a loud buzzing sound. It sounds like a focus motor or something in the camera and the camera output on screen flutters while it focuses. Once it focuses, everything is normal and it doesn't make any more noise to refocus. This also doesn't happen every time I open the camera app, seems mostly random. Has anyone else experienced this? I am already on my 2nd S6 since the first was defective for different reasons and I'm starting to get very disappointed with Samsung quality control.

I have the dame problem.
I don't know if this is normal.
I don't think so
Waiting for some explanations
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going to bumps this too because after having the phone for a month this problem has just started to show its face.

I've first noticed a small buzzing just after a boot for 3/4 times and than I had a long one opening the camera. After that it's gone...

I have it also! Started a couple of days ago. I have dropped my phone a couple of times. What about you?

Had this happen for the first time today also. Had hdr off, switched back on and it went away. Coincidence? Phone never dropped.

rakh1 said:
Had this happen for the first time today also. Had hdr off, switched back on and it went away. Coincidence? Phone never dropped.
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Relax...is the mechanism of optical stabilization.

Mine is doing that too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1svaTxBY6o&feature=youtu.be

I have the same problem. It is also sometimes accompanied by the picture wiggling in wave patterns.

flu13 said:
I have the same problem. It is also sometimes accompanied by the picture wiggling in wave patterns.
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Yup...exactly.

poweroutlet said:
Hi all,
I wasn't able to find any threads related to this in the S6 forums but I wanted to see if anyone else has this. When I open my camera app, sometimes the camera takes 1-2 seconds to initially focus and during that time it makes a loud buzzing sound. It sounds like a focus motor or something in the camera and the camera output on screen flutters while it focuses. Once it focuses, everything is normal and it doesn't make any more noise to refocus. This also doesn't happen every time I open the camera app, seems mostly random. Has anyone else experienced this? I am already on my 2nd S6 since the first was defective for different reasons and I'm starting to get very disappointed with Samsung quality control.
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Try to clean up your camera lens.
Did your device take some damage in the past?
Did you take it underwater? (The S6 isn't waterproof anymore...)
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Relax...is the mechanism of optical stabilization.
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But it's not that loud.
Otherways, you can't record videos properly, because the microphone records those sounds.

AfroCreame said:
Mine is doing that too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1svaTxBY6o&feature=youtu.be
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Same problem here since last week.[emoji26]
I tried hard reset and another camera app (Google photo), nothing work.
I think it's a hardware problem, it occurs after shaking the phone and launching the camera.
I feel that the OIS makes more noise when app is off.

flu13 said:
I have the same problem. It is also sometimes accompanied by the picture wiggling in wave patterns.
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This started happening with my S6 today. I think it's the OIS that poops out. I can make this happen with a light tap with my finger on the backside of the phone with the camera open and using the rear camera. And this happens with all camera apps: Samsung's bundled camera, Snap Camera and Camera FV-5.
Update: ..and just as sudden this started happening, it went away again. I hope it's a bug - with a fix in 5.1.1.
Update 2: No, it didn't go away. It comes and goes. I may need to take the phone to the service centre.

Mine has gotten worse. Almost every time I open the camera now, I have the buzzing.

Just checking in to say that mine started doing this, too, about four weeks after getting it. It does it randomly when I open Snapchat, too.

I am having this problem too on the Sprint version sometimes it is pretty loud. I'm planning on taking to service center I think.
I also get the waves before it focuses. I read on another forum that someone said they went to a Samsung service center and Samsung replaced their OIS sensor so I'm guessing this may not be something that is simply part of the design.
*Update #1*
I just got off the phone with Samsung customer service. The representative actually heard the buzzing from my phone over the phone while I was talking to her. Since the phone is still under factory warranty they are emailing me a shipping label to send the phone back for repair.
I also have Asurion insurance through Sprint but do not want a refurb for a phone that is less than a month old with no damage caused by me.
Unfortunately the turn around time from Samsung is about a 5 business days and that was after they told me 9-11 days in which I said I couldn't be without a phone that long.
So, I plan on going to Sprint to see if they will swap out my phone for a brand new one. I think if it is a manufacturer defect they will replace the phone without going through insurance for a refurb but I am not positive. It they won't swap it out for a new one I will go through Samsung.
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what about focus struggle and a buzzing , it's a hard ware issue also ? or what ?

sonasteel said:
what about focus struggle and a buzzing , it's a hard ware issue also ? or what ?
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Yes it appears to be hardware related.
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any one try to set another mega pixel like 12 , 8.9 ,8 ... etc ., and the focus struggle and buzzing still there ?

sona4steel said:
any one try to set another mega pixel like 12 , 8.9 ,8 ... etc ., and the focus struggle and buzzing still there ?
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I tried and initially it doesn't seem to happen when the mega pixels are lowered but I haven't tested extensively.
I went to Sprint today and the technician concluded that he was ordering me another phone so definitely seems hardware related.
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Camera issue

Hey guys,*
I asked this in the main S6 Edge forum but no one has responded. Sometimes when I launch my camera, it makes a loud buzzing noise and has trouble focusing. It seems like something is getting in the way of the lens not allowing it to move freely. If I shake really quickly it usually stops and works like it should. I don't know if it's a lens issue or an issue with the OIS. Has anyone else had this issue and if so have you found a solution? This is my second S6 Edge. The first one succumbed to the auto rotate bug. Thanks for your time.

Might be a bad phone how long you had it. If its between the 15 days warranty take it back. Or contact samsung.
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I've had it since launch. I'll try to see if it's too late to add the warranty first, then go from there. Bummer to have 2 phones that we're faulty in less than 2 months.

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Mine also does this sometimes after it stops making the noise it seems fine and it only does it very randomly

franky_402 said:
Mine also does this sometimes after it stops making the noise it seems fine and it only does it very randomly
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It's becoming more frequent for me, I'm afraid what ever is happening will totally mess up the lens. So far no impact to image quality either, but we shall see.

Faulty camera

Hi my s6 is 5 days old and it got a fault, sometimes focus refuses to lock annd camera makes loud clicking sound .New phone arrives tomorrow has anybody else had this??

Camera rattling noise

I now had the Galaxy S6 for several months and I found this phone totally awesome, but a few days earlier it started a rattling noise from the camera. Most of the time I open the camera app, it makes a strange sound (like it is trying to move the lens and the motor fails it to do so). When the camera is open and I try to refocus anything from very near to very far at once, it sometimes make that awful sound too. I am bothered, because I rooted my device some months ago, installed custom kernel and so on. Can I take this to the warranty or am I screwed? Should I bother about this sound? Will it get worse maybe?
Thanks for any help.

Fusseldieb said:
I now had the Galaxy S6 for several months and I found this phone totally awesome, but a few days earlier it started a rattling noise from the camera. Most of the time I open the camera app, it makes a strange sound (like it is trying to move the lens and the motor fails it to do so). When the camera is open and I try to refocus anything from very near to very far at once, it sometimes make that awful sound too. I am bothered, because I rooted my device some months ago, installed custom kernel and so on. Can I take this to the warranty or am I screwed? Should I bother about this sound? Will it get worse maybe?
Thanks for any help.
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I own a galaxy S6E+ and I also experienced this same strange camera behaviour, but I haven't figured it out yet...
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zizon65 said:
I own a galaxy S6E+ and I also experienced this same strange camera behaviour, but I haven't figured it out yet...
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i had that issue, you can't do anything, you have to get it to the carrier to fix it, it's a hardware issue...i hope i don't get it again...because in 3 weeks my waranty ends

All this time i thought it was camera getting ready, opening lens and stuff like on digital cameras which make the same sound when started. Is this not the case?

archzz said:
All this time i thought it was camera getting ready, opening lens and stuff like on digital cameras which make the same sound when started. Is this not the case?
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I really don't know if there is a camera focusing problem or a hardware issue, but for to get rid of this, I decided from now to use the Pro manual focus mode rather than the Autofocus mode, and will let you know if this helps...
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It's the OIS being slightly broken. Need to take to repair. I have same issue on s6 edge and need to get mine fixed.

Fusseldieb said:
I now had the Galaxy S6 for several months and I found this phone totally awesome, but a few days earlier it started a rattling noise from the camera. Most of the time I open the camera app, it makes a strange sound (like it is trying to move the lens and the motor fails it to do so). When the camera is open and I try to refocus anything from very near to very far at once, it sometimes make that awful sound too. I am bothered, because I rooted my device some months ago, installed custom kernel and so on. Can I take this to the warranty or am I screwed? Should I bother about this sound? Will it get worse maybe?
Thanks for any help.
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I had exactly the same issue... It got progressively worse, to the point where sometimes I'd have to shake the phone to get the camera to focus when the camera was open. Initially they told me nothing seemed wrong with it... But second time round, I filmed it using the Mobizen app (often used to record gameplay - no root required). I found trying to get the phone to focus on text from a book exaggerated the problem.
I showed them the video at the Samsung Express Repair store and they couldn't really deny it (or attempt to). They swapped the camera out in a couple of hours whilst I waited with a newspaper and coffee. Oh, and they didn't even check KNOX (I asked out of curiosity... Mine wasn't tripped anyway)
*But some amount of rattling is normal. I tried it on two of my friends' S6 phones, and even mine now rattles... Not when opening the camera, but when you physically shake it next to your ear

2ZE said:
when you physically shake it next to your ear
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When shaking it's normal, but when I let it alone and it make weird sound, then I'm bothered.

zizon65 said:
I really don't know if there is a camera focusing problem or a hardware issue
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This seem to appear only to people who updated Android 5.0 to 5.1.1 or newer. I think Samsung made a firmware update to the camera, which focusses faster, but that lead to this problem.

same issue here. happens rarely and goes away when I shake the phone.

Problem: Noise clacking/popping/static- in Photography Video, please help

Hello everyone.
I'm writing this message again, I'll try to be more clear.
I bought Galaxy s7 edge new lately, and yesterday, for the first time, I started to photograph video on the camera of the device.
Okay, I'm done recording a video, And I went to the gallery on the device, To watch what i photographed.
Then I saw that there is a problem, in the video i photographed.
The problem is: Noise in video.
I don't know how to set the noise, Maybe noise static? Maybe noise popping?
Or, actually, I know, Pretty sure this is the clacking noise!!
Because I noticed, When I move my fingers, while recording, then hear these noise :/
I think that microphone is very sensitive to Noise clicks...
By the way, These noise also hear every recording differently, Not only photography video.
Also here talking about the problem (But me it's not just at the beginning of the video) : https://us.community.samsung.com/t5...s-have-strange-static-noises-at-the/td-p/1993
Is anyone here having this problem? I would be happy If you Write a comment Please, I need your help :good:

FreedomLife said:
Hello everyone.
I'm writing this message again, I'll try to be more clear.
I bought Galaxy s7 edge new lately, and yesterday, for the first time, I started to photograph video on the camera of the device.
Okay, I'm done recording a video, And I went to the gallery on the device, To watch what i photographed.
Then I saw that there is a problem, in the video i photographed.
The problem is: Noise in video.
I don't know how to set the noise, Maybe noise static? Maybe noise popping?
Or, actually, I know, Pretty sure this is the clacking noise!!
Because I noticed, When I move my fingers, while recording, then hear these noise :/
I think that microphone is very sensitive to Noise clicks...
By the way, These noise also hear every recording differently, Not only photography video.
Also here talking about the problem (But me it's not just at the beginning of the video) : https://us.community.samsung.com/t5...s-have-strange-static-noises-at-the/td-p/1993
Is anyone here having this problem? I would be happy If you Write a comment Please, I need your help :good:
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I'm new to the S7 but had an S4 a few years back and had a very similar issues. Even back then the camera was fantastic and took really clear HD video, but it would feature the same type of popping or crackling noise which could be heard during the first few seconds of video. What I used to do was make a vid recording of 1-2 secs and stop it, then start a new one, the 2nd video clip didn't have the crackling issue.
I must try more videos on my S7, as one of them did have some muffled pop noise at the start but I thought it was just me handling the phone.
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gsmyth said:
I'm new to the S7 but had an S4 a few years back and had a very similar issues. Even back then the camera was fantastic and took really clear HD video, but it would feature the same type of popping or crackling noise which could be heard during the first few seconds of video. What I used to do was make a vid recording of 1-2 secs and stop it, then start a new one, the 2nd video clip didn't have the crackling issue.
I must try more videos on my S7, as one of them did have some muffled pop noise at the start but I thought it was just me handling the phone.
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Any video footage it happening :/
Every recording actually, no only photograph video
Also Voice recording, there's a problem and Already not sure if problem is software or hardware

Someone?

i Request again your help

Trying one last time

hello Freedomlife ! i've the same issue on my S7 edge , the same in my old S4
the same problems in two different device, very strange !!
do you solved it ?
in voice recorder it seems only in stereo mode ( no mono )...i tried anothe camera apps and the problem is the same
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gsmyth said:
I'm new to the S7 but had an S4 a few years back and had a very similar issues. Even back then the camera was fantastic and took really clear HD video, but it would feature the same type of popping or crackling noise which could be heard during the first few seconds of video. What I used to do was make a vid recording of 1-2 secs and stop it, then start a new one, the 2nd video clip didn't have the crackling issue.
I must try more videos on my S7, as one of them did have some muffled pop noise at the start but I thought it was just me handling the phone.
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the same for me !
S4 and S7 edge have the same issues and rules ( the first video , like yours )

Hello,
Same issue for me.
Maybe changing the rom could solve it?
Txs
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