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Soooo.... I've never had this issue on any other phone before. Is it normal to get condensation inside the camera lense (wide angle and telephoto)?

it's dried out now, but I can see spots on the inside of the lense now that the water is gone, I can only imagine this getting worse over time, affecting quality. is this worth an RMA?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's water and dust resistance, not air

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wdym? Water has surface tension and dust is solid, air doesn't have such limitations. My own phone (note 20 ultra) has an opening under the camera bump to allow air in to relive pressure despite having an ip68 rating.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Are you sure that's not a microphone for videos? It'd be really weird to have a hole like that. Water should easily push itself through that hole. I honestly don't know what you're talking about when it comes to air pressure. I'm pretty sure your eardrums can survive close to a 1 atmosphere difference in pressure, and those are way more fragile than your phone. I'm not sure why your phone would need to normalize air pressure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Ever pop your ears when going up a mountain or during flight? This is air pressure changes. Either way, water tight does not mean air tight, while air tight does mean water tight assuming the material is not water soluble.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Now that I think about it it is a third microphone. When they came out there were many posts of S20Us' and note20Us' camera glasses spontaneously shattering and the consensus from what I read was sudden pressure change. The same thing happened to my previous phone while in my locker (galaxy c9 pro with a single small camera and no hole), so it sounded plausible. And it's also believable that water doesn't go in from surface tension alone since the hole is really small

Regardless I forgot that that it was supposed to be a microphone while posting my comments so nevermind

Edit: also phones do normalise air pressure, just get a barometer app and squeeze the phone

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lenses for full size-cameras are made airtight. It's not a problem.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was wrong about the hole, but I'd like to point out that full size camera lenses don't need to be as thin as possible to keep the camera bump in check.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Earth's atmospheric pressure just doesn't change as much as you seem to think it does.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It should still exclude water. Like, there are ways to equalize pressure that don't allow for water to condense in the phone like OP's photo. This is a Bad Thingβ„’.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't defending the photo? Of course water is a bad thing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Sorry, I was having a shit day yesterday and made many grumpy comments on the Internet. I could have worded that better.