I just applied a back protector from imak. It's a wet applied protector so I've spent more time looking closely at the back of my phone than previously.
Specifically the camera area and I noticed my camera module doesn't sit in the center of the glass circle. There is actually a void at the top of the black around the lens itself.
I'm going to try to get some pics but curious if anyone else sees this on their device. I haven't noticed any issues with photos but I'm not sure if it's always been like this or if this has slowly progressed to this location and will become a problem in the future.
Just curious.
Thanks.
Edit:
After reviewing it further, laying it flat on a surface so the phone is in the horizontal position centers it in the glass.
When phone is in vertical position, any orientation the lens is moved. I assume it's related to camera hardware (gyroscope or something I think I read about?) But it is still concerning how off center it is. Just hope it's always been like that and isn't slowly deteriorating.
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Nope, mine is dead centre and does not move at all.
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It's the Optical image stabilization module that makes the lens move when you tilt the phone in certain positions, nothing wrong mate.
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Sometimes in low indoor lighting I noticed some dark blobs that appear on the camera. They look like rather large particles scattered throughout the frame. I was suspecting maybe dust in the lens but I've seen a similar thing with my friend's Nexus 4 when is directly cast in sunlight - similar to when you look under a microscope and your hair eyelashes are in the way. Another thing I suspect it could be is some interference from the shiny black plastic ring within the camera lens (not the silver ring outside), as it appears to be made of a rough plastic-like material.
Sample (there are many more depending what angle the light is shining): https://www.dropbox.com/s/zm8h9jp3jhdy726/DSC_0476.JPG?dl=0
Has anyone experienced this as well?
Note that the lens/camera module that was replaced by Sony in Taiwan due to the left blur problem. They assured me that the phone was still waterproof. Unfortunately I am no longer in Taiwan so I can't get it repaired. In most situations the blobs are not visible but I do notice them when I'm filming in my room and the camera appears to be trying to pick up more light.
hmm, now that i look at my lens, i it appears there is a spot on the actual camera lens behind the main lens cover. Either dust got in during the lens replacement process, or it somehow got in later. So much for IP68 =/
Can you send it back and get a new device?
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Can you send it back and get a new device?
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Nope, I bought it in Taiwan, and am studying overseas now. Perhaps next time I go to Taiwan I will turn it in. It's not a huge problem as none of my outdoor photos seem to have this problem - I only noticed it in videos I filmed in my room indoors with a certain lighting or flare (if you cover the light a bit it's gone, like you have a lens hood). It's not as obvious as previous reports of dust in the Xperia Z lens etc.
I looked into it with a magnifying glass and it does seem like there is at least one speck behind the lens cover.
Maybe there was some dust or paper in my pocket that somehow got in, but I had the phone in a case, and there's a rear protector film I applied that goes around the lens
I think there's too much pressure being applied somewhere but I can't seem to find the spot. It's very light and doesn't really show in pictures, but to help give you guys an idea as to where it is, it's about mid to a quarter of the way up from the bottom of the phone. Any tips on how to alleviate this stress area?
Edit: I forgot to mention that touching around the area somewhat distorts the screen (ripple-like effect when you press down hard on an LCD/LED monitor). Even the lightest tap causes this.
Have you tried disassembling and re-assembling the phone? The distortion happens when you touch the front or rear? Does the glass/LCD look perfectly uniform in colour when the screen is off?
Distortion happens when touching the front and I have disassembled it. I'm starting to think it's a manufacturing imperfection. Seller on eBay claims it's OEM but I highly doubt it, considering the tight fit for the sim and back casing. Ah well. I think I'll just chalk this up to buyers remorse and move on.
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Probably a silly question. But I want to know whether the lens's position cause any effect on OIS when it's being completely off-centered as signified by the red circle in the image attached.
Thanks
I don't think it is a problem. If there is no black edges on screen when taking pictures, everything is fine.
And to see if OIS is turning on, just shake your phone (with camera off) and you can hear camera moving . Go to the camera app and shake again, you will not hear the camera moving. It means OIS is on.
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I don't think it is a problem. If there is no black edges on screen when taking pictures, everything is fine.
And to see if OIS is turning on, just shake your phone (with camera off) and you can hear camera moving . Go to the camera app and shake again, you will not hear the camera moving. It means OIS is on.
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I didn't mean whether the OIS will work or not, what I meant was whether the off-center will have any effect on OIS's working resulting in a bit more shaky video relatively?
Turn your phone around and it's centered.
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Turn your phone around and it's centered.
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I don't think so. I say this based upon my examination of the eight S7's I've possessed so far. Turning any one of them upside down appeared to merely cause an optical illusion. The illusion was that, if the back camera lens seemed off-center when right side up, flipping the device 180 degrees simply made it appear that the relative lens position had changed, often then seeming more centered.
If you look carefully at your S7's back lens (a magnifier helps), you can easily see that the lens itself is considerably recessed beneath the surface. That is, it is set back below the protective surface glass and the surrounding circular port opening. This means that when you look at the lens straight on, a crescent shadow is cast around a portion of the lens. And that makes it only appear to become more centered or more off-centered. The crescent shadow will change position depending upon the direction of your back lighting. You can hold your S7 facing its back panel, look at the lens, and pivot around in a circle to change the direction of the back lighting. You should notice the illusion of the lens moving from one side to the other as the back lighting becomes oblique from the opposite direction. A similar thing will occur when you turn the phone upside down.
Out of the eight S7's I've possessed, only one of them had a near perfectly centered back camera lens. As long as no portion of the lens is overlapped by the circular port opening, there should be no performance loss with the camera function. As stated, an off-centered back camera lens is actually only the position of the internally mounted camera module as relative to the external circular port opening. And the movement illusion is the shadow crescent moving around. The OIS movement should be so minimal that it will be undetectable in terms of how centered the lens appears to be.
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Probably a silly question. But I want to know whether the lens's position cause any effect on OIS when it's being completely off-centered as signified by the red circle in the image attached.
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Hi there.
I just got my S7 Edge today which seems to have the same misaligned camera and circular cover.
Did you notice any effect this has?
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Hello, I've got an issue, that is not SW related, but rather HW related.
Well, here's the story. I went to beach, took a photo, sent it via whatsapp to my friend. Everything was fine.
Then I put my phone in bag. 30 mins later, I took it out and wanted to take a picture. But the picture was blurry, it's like all the time blurry. Tried to reboot, did even a factory reset. The issue still persists. It looks like some dirt got behind my camera lens and that's why it's not focusing anymore on objects that are more than 30cm away.
In this picture(DSC_00002) you can see how the focus works, if the phone is like 30 cm away from the glass.
And this(DSC_00003) is a close up shot, a lot better. You can get clear photos, with excellent detail.
Another detail I can add, that when I try to focus objects that are more far away, the camera somehow focuses on the middle only. Like a circle in the middle, just like a bubble effect. I can't even show how weird it is. 0_o
Updated. I added a picture of the lens. You can see at the bottom on the lens, inside, there's a little white dot right next to the reflection of light. I think that may be the cause? How can something like that get even behind the lens cover?
Anyone could tell me, if my lens are damaged or it could be a tiny piece of dirt behind my camera lens? Because when you look at the lens in sunlight, you can see a little particle over the lens. And that may be the problem, why the focus is broken. I just don't get it... The phone was supposed to be dust proof. And it was supposed to be sealed in all ways. It was once taken to a repair shop, to change the LCD, because it had USB burn marks and so on. And there it might be not sealed tightly enough. But that's the front screen, which got replaced, not the back of my phone. The phone even doesn't qualify for the waterproof test. It just shows that it's not waterproof. Even if I tested the pressure levels in my phone. Should I take it back to repair shop.
Thank you in advance.
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Hi guys,
Can you do a quick check with your devices?
How does it feel the main camera glass? How does it fits? (Is it uniform and leveled all the way? Or is some a part slightly higher than the rest?)
I mean, I can see that mine isn't all uniformly placed on is notch. And if I press the glass I can see that isn't properly solid, since it goes down with the pressure of my finger.
Is this normal? I'm still in time of sending it back, but I would like to know if someone else has a similar experience.
Thank you
Ois causes the movement
And there is layers of glass on the camera which can explain why
Well, I would expect the layer of glass to not move when pressured. But maybe it's a normal thing after all