Why is my camera taking foggy pics

[Android Central Question]

I have a galaxy M20 and broke the screen, i replaced it and after that i noticed the rear cameras (mostly the ultrawide) are taking very foggy pictures out of nowhere, i cleaned the lens and all it's still foggy. Basically if i am in a dark spot and there is a strong light somewhere it will just get bright all around it like it's dirty

 

[belodion]

Condensation inside the lens?

 

[mustang7757]

I have a galaxy M20 and broke the screen, i replaced it and after that i noticed the rear cameras (mostly the ultrawide) are taking very foggy pictures out of nowhere, i cleaned the lens and all it's still foggy. Basically if i am in a dark spot and there is a strong light somewhere it will just get bright all around it like it's dirty

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[ManiacJoe]

Can you link us to an unedited, not-resized example picture?

Foggy could indicate condensation as already mentioned, or a broken lens. How did you break the screen?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Does it make any attempt at all to auto-focus? If not, I'd suspect that the auto-focus mechanism also got damaged.

 

[Rukbat]

Basically if i am in a dark spot and there is a strong light somewhere it will just get bright all around it like it's dirty

That's called flare, and it's usually due to a lens defect. When you dropped the phone, breaking the lens, you could have introduced the tiniest crack, bubble or other defect in a lens (and by tiny, I mean something of the order of 2.3622 X 10^-5 inch [6000 Angstrom units]). That would mean taking pictures with all possible combinations of lenses, until you figure out which lens it is - then having that camera module replaced.