I’ve noticed that when I’m in camera mode and tilt my camera to take a photo during a sunny day, the entire screen blacks out. But when I tilt it to portrait , the camera screen reappears.
Is anyone else having this issue? Is it a setting issue?
Thank you.
2 Options although both do not seem to match, as either its not completly black and only dimmed or crashes irrespective of camera used
After updating to Android 12, the rightness of the display of my #fp4 randomly decreases, but eventually temporarily reverts to correct brightness, repetitively. The period of time during which its brightness is less than it should be is always greater than the period of time during which its brightness is correct.
This has solely started to occur after the Android 12 update, and occurred approximately immediately subsequently, so I have cause to believe that it was caused solely by it.
I did notice a similar problem when I use the camera a lot: When I was on holidays and often took out my phone to take pictures, I had to restart it 2 or 3 times in a single day for this issue.
At some point the camera app (stock FP OS camera as well as GCam) only shows a black screen. Trying to switch to selfie camera crashes the app. I also found no other way except for a restart of the phone. It looks to me like some related software/driver component crashes at some point, but have not inve…
So could you elaborate a bit on OS Version installed, camera App used…
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Just being curious here: Did you use any sunglasses at this particular moment when tilting the Fairphone?
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100% this. Thank you very much. Someone linked to a post from last year on this. Doh! Sunglasses polarisation and screen in landscape mode.
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Thank you for linking to this post. Exactly this! Sunnies
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