I don’t think it’s an software problem since my friend’s fairphone does not have this issue and when my camera did work for a few hours that was not a thing.
As I wrote before I think it is worth first sending a descriptive email and then calling the support. When calling support you get help right away. I thought it was worth every penny since I don’t live in Netherlands. No regrets calling.
Hello,
my flashlight is also working.
I’ve contacted the support by Mail three days ago but no response until now. Maybe I call them tomorrow.
Did you send your whole phone back to Fairphone? As I understand you right, you didn’t get your phone back until today, right? What about the shipping costs?
Did they give a feedback to you how long the repair will go?
Yes I did send my whole phone back at no cost (fairphone pays shipping). I have not received anything back. It got to fairphone yesterday. Before shipping they said I’d get a new.
Well, you’re lucky… I still have no response from the support - 6 days now…
I’ll keep this up -Still no reply from supprot yet, Although I like my phone Iam thinking of returning it, because it seems that noone really cares…
Support is just… busy (but they’re also drafting in more staff).
Sure, but I was pretty clear in my topic that I have a DOA issue, and as this affects warranty/returning which is bound to a 14day deadline I think they need to prioritise such cases - now I am thinking of retruning my phone, because I do not know what is happening next.
Furthermore, the automatic email I received says that answer may take up to 8 days, but If they are unable to meet these deadlines they should communicate that. It’s the same with the delivery - to my view the perople were rather annoyed by false promises and bad communication of delays than by waiting for their phones.
Hey Markus, just asked a colleague to get in touch with you. Sorry for the late reply…!
True, and I’m not trying defend the problems that there currently are. My comment above was more that I can’t judge on whether ‘noone really cares’ (as operational difficulties don’t always arise from not caring), and providing the most recent statement about the support issues you raise.
Again I agree. It’s my bad english - “it feels like noone cares” would have been better, I didn’t mean that the people at fairphone personally do not care 
However, moaning helped, they contacted me 
Thanks!
On Wednesday, the 17th of February (9 days after my request) I called Fairphone. The guy was very friendly, I could speak german with him and he explained me the next steps.
As Trufflemuffin already told, you’ll normally get a new phone (at the moment it will take around 14 days for the change). Fairphone told me, that for the future, it is mentioned to change only the module and not the whole phone, but the individual spare modules are not on storage yet.
The steps for the returning process are;
Create an account in the Fairphone Return Portal (return.fairphone.com), or log in if you already have an account there;Create your return request by following the instructions on the portal;After your request was registered, fairphone will check and approve it within 48 hours (during working days);Once your request is approved you will receive further instructions by e-mail.
Because of my call to fairphone just before, the request was known already and fairphone approved my request immediately.
After approval by fairphone you’ll receive the details for the shipping process.
Yesterday the guy from DHL came and took the parcel. So I will see, when I’ll get my phone back!
Hello,
I Have se same problem to.
in french “impossible d’établir une connexion avec la camera”.
Perhaps is it a bad contact.
j’ai essayé de démonter et remonter la camera (c’est vraiment facile, bravo)
Nothing to do.
I want realy to be constructive. But I wrote 3 weeks ago (Request #89874). until today, I have not received a reply.
What did I do ?
Thank you for your help.
Jean-Marc Sutterlet
I would suggest to call them. They’re very busy at the moment, so a call might speed things up…
Hello again,
short update from my side: 2 weeks after sending my defect phone to fairphone I received a new phone back. Everythings allright now and all fairphone kept their promise to send the new phone within two weeks. So I can assume, that the fairphone support did a really good job after I called them. The thing that they should improve immediate is the time for a response after a request by mail. More than one week without a response is quite bad. So when Fairphone get this thing under control, everything is allright. The product is already a good one!
I’m having this issue with the replacement I’ve been sent. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to send it back again as this will be my 4th phone and it costs me.£27 pounds to courier it to Fairphone.
If I push hard on the camera it sems to work, but the screws are as tight as they can be. Did anyone try and disassemble the camera module?
I have the same problem ,I tried to disassemble the camera and tighten the screws but it didn’t work.
A technician who tried to solve the problem told me in his opinion the problem isn’t in the camera module but in the pogo pins that connect the camera to the display.
I contacted the support but they haven’t replied yet
Hi guys,
I’m overall very happy with my fairphone and am quite a fan of the whole idea. However, over the last few weeks my camera has not been working.It started with phases where it didn’t used to and I got a notification saying ‘can’t connect to camera.’ I firstly assumed it’s the software, but at one point when it did work the screen became weirdly pixelated in all sorts of colours and the camera immediately stopped working. It hasn’t worked since, I get the error message every time now. I’m quite disappointed because I only received the phone in January. I’ve contacted Fairphone twice about this but haven’t received an answer yet. Do you think I’m right in thinking that the problem will still fall under the warranty? I know a camera module doesn’t cost the world, but I read somewhere (sorry, can’t remember where…) that other people have had similar problems and were told to send the phone back to Fairphone. I would like to do that, but am not sure if it’s worth it as I haven’t yet received a confirmation that they will fix this for me under warranty.
I’d be really greatful for any tips and information - has anybody else had a similar problem?
Sarah
I’ve moved your post to a topic where people have reported similar problems, I hope there’s some useful info for you here.
I would think so that is a warranty case if the camera module is broken, though since it worked at some point, I’d suggest to try disassembling and reassembling the phone/camera module, as maybe just the contacts aren’t working properly.
As for the support: It seems they are overloaded with work, so that may just take its time until you get a response.
I have the same problem with the main camera. He said that he can’t connect to the camera.I I Turned the phone on and off, taken out the battery but it doesn’t work. No even with other app. Just complete black. Do I have to out the camera out its content?