Note 3 rear camera not focusing

[Twisted Shadow]

Hi,

My camera was working great for the past few weeks. Since couple of days, for no reason the rear camera is not focusing on objects correctly except for close up shots. The front camera is fine. Irrespective of the lighting conditions, the camera does not focus and is extremely blurry. Its like the camera is on perpetual "macro" mode. All my software are up to date and I have tried rebooting the phone many times. Nothing works..

I even tried searching this forum (albeit went only 20 pages). I am not sure if this is a software or hardware problem. Please help

Thanks

 

[zmann]

Try tapping the screen and see if it focuses. You may have turned off auto focus

THE BEAST,,NOTE 3. SIZE IS EVERYTHING!!!

 

[Twisted Shadow]

Try tapping the screen and see if it focuses. You may have turned off auto focus

THE BEAST,,NOTE 3. SIZE IS EVERYTHING!!!

I have tried that as well as resetting the camera settings. Nothing seems to work. Or rather when I had taken to service center it worked!! And the back to square one. The close up shots works fine.. Nothing else.

 

[TheOnlyRick]

Is the issue resolved? I have the same problem...

Richard

 

[zmann]

I'm thinking if you took it to service center and it worked fine and when you left it did not work again it must be user error.. Could be wrong but to me that's a viable deduction.. Go back and see if they make it work again and If it does ask them to show you what your doing wrong.

THE BEAST,,NOTE 3. SIZE IS EVERYTHING!!!

 

[Kevin Johnson-Bade]

Hi, same here. Camera is as if set to macro. Will not focus.

 

[o4liberty]

Have you tried restarting your note?

 

[anon8126715]

I have the same issue from time to time, it's quite frustrating. I've shut off all special features in an attempt to get the camera to work properly. What irritates me is that sometimes it works flawlessly, and then other times it's just extremely buggy and won't focus to save its own life.

 

[z06mike]

Have you made sure the glass on the lens is clean????

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[TheOnlyRick]

I took my camera to a Samsung repair shop in New Eltham, SE London. They were brilliant, less than half an hour later I had my camera returned to me, now focusing properly. (I was told by the repair place in Islington that it would take 'weeks'.)

I'm very pleased I held off rooting my phone for so long. (A day after the repair, I thought I would take the risk, so I've since rooted.)

 

[Darthjon]

So....what did they tell you the problem was?

 

[beakerbob]

Hi,

My camera was working great for the past few weeks. Since couple of days, for no reason the rear camera is not focusing on objects correctly except for close up shots. The front camera is fine. Irrespective of the lighting conditions, the camera does not focus and is extremely blurry. Its like the camera is on perpetual "macro" mode. All my software are up to date and I have tried rebooting the phone many times. Nothing works..

I even tried searching this forum (albeit went only 20 pages). I am not sure if this is a software or hardware problem. Please help

Thanks

so, it seems it is an issue with the focus mechanism. once, it corrected for me with zooming in and out violently... sorry for the imagery... but most recently, just a light whack aganst something hard near the camera made it focus immediately(while i had the camera app open)