Recent content by kmitchell

Just returned phone #2. Would-be phone #3 had focus issues (just like phone #1). Phone #4 seems fine. We'll see if it makes it more than a week. Serial #s between all of the phones were very close, so maybe there was just a bad batch...

stock. Very odd. Every once in a while, it seems to sort of capture an image, but looks like a crazy instagram overexposed split-screen thing.

Well, I got a week of working camera... focused and everything... Today I tried take a picture, and the camera app results in a black screen. Only button that works is the gallery button. Occasionally the phone notices that the app is hung and offers to send a bug report. I tried a...

I definitely appreciate your explanation of the focus lock from holding the button halfway. A bit of a change from my Evo 3D and one that will take a little getting used to. That said, I most certainly did have a broken focus mechanism in my first phone. The replacement does not get stuck as...

Got a replacement phone (identical hw & sw versions as the original) and the problem is gone; focuses as expected. Still makes the popping/clicking sound when focusing sometimes, but as long as it DOES focus, I'm okay with that.

The problem I'm having is if something (like say my hand) passes too close to the lens the phone focuses on it and can't recover (focus stays fixed at about 3" and everything else is blurry) All camera setting are set to default and the only camera app I'd had installed was a panorama app which...

If the camera focuses on something VERY close (~3" away), it seems to lock the focus on this and only stopping/restarting the camera app will allow the camera to re-focus (pushing the hardware shutter/tapping on the screen doesn't help) There is also a definite clicking/popping sound when...