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Iphone 4s white - pictures hazed with flash

Is it just me or can anyone experience the same issue with their white iphones.


I was taking pics with my iphone 4s WHITE the other night(with the FLASH ON) with my friends and noticed that the pics have a disturbing white haze on them.


we took the same pics on my friend Iphone 4 BLACK(with the FLASH ON) and the pictures came out to be good.


Please let me know if this is a common problem with the iphone 4s or with the iphone 4/4s WHITE model.


is there a fix for the issue.



Thanks

iPhone 4S, iOS 5

Posted on Nov 29, 2011 9:34 AM

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Sep 26, 2013 7:00 AM in response to Kalyan K

After the ios7 update, my wife's phone began having these same issues and we assumed it was a flaw with the update.


But after some trial and error, we concluded it was the illumination of the white plastic backing of the iPhone 4. We tried a different protective case, we blackened the apeture of the black case with a black sharpie, none of those things worked.


It was noted that the white and blurry photos only occurred with a case installed. Without a case, the photos were perfect. It is a *** issue.


Since we were using a case and appearance was not that big of an issue, I decided to apply a strip of black electrical tape with holes punched out for the camera and flash mechanisms and reapplied the protective case. This tacky fix solved 95% of the white blurry look to the flash photos.


So a work-around is to apply a non-transparent piece of tape, or sticker with appropiate sized holes for the camera lens and flash LED on the back of the white plastic phone case. It's tacky, it's a poor design from apple, but it works.

Feb 9, 2014 4:57 AM in response to Kalyan K

Hi all this is the design fault in the iphone 4s. Basically the problem is that, the flash light of the iphone 4s changes its position in the iphone casing, it goes up a little bit, bacause of some empty space in the casing due to some jerk or if it fells down, to correct this problem , simply open the back cover of iphone by removing 2 screws new the speaker and mic. take off the back cover, and slightly push down the cameraflash light so it can face straightly to the flash mirror on the back cover. and its Done.

Iphone 4s white - pictures hazed with flash

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