After the Note 7 debacle, users expected Samsung to be more serious about their phones. Although both the flagship devices from Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8 haven’t caught fire yet, they come with certain issues.
Of course, not all units suffer from these issues but there are few unlucky ones that have one issue or the other. Many users have reported that Samsung Galaxy S8 has a problem where the camera doesn’t focus when you open the camera app. This doesn’t happen always, but it often does.
Samsung Galaxy S8 flaunts a 12MP Dual Pixel sensor, with F1.7 and 4K video recording on the rear camera, while on the front side you get CMOS 8.0 MP sensor with F1.7. The cameras on Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ are one of the best mobile phone cameras that are available out there.
Having an issue with the camera on Galaxy S8 or for that matter, any issue on Galaxy S8 can be quite frustrating considering the price tag attached to Galaxy S8. Coming back to the focus issue, the camera doesn’t focus properly on Galaxy S8. Anything that is closer (within an inch difference) to the camera is fine but trying to focus on far away objects (which we normally do) is difficult. The detail on the close up is brilliant but on far away objects the camera refuses to focus and hence looks very blurry and unclear.
If it makes you feel better, the issue is not limited to Galaxy S8 handsets, other old handsets from Samsung such as Galaxy Note 4, Note 5, S7 etc. also face camera focus issue at times.
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Although we don’t have a permanent solution yet, and even Samsung hasn’t spoken about it, there is a nice and easy temporary fix that can resolve the camera focus issue on your Galaxy S8 or any other device.
The fix
The solution might sound a bit weird, but trust us, the camera focus issue will be gone in a second when you follow the tip. So, brace yourselves! The solution is to shake your phone while the camera app is on. Wait! What? Yes, you read that right. Open the camera app and if there is an issue with camera focus, just shake your phone and boom! The focus will start working again.
However, if shaking does not help, just tap the camera lens or the area around it to fix the issue. We know, we know, it seems we are back in 90’s where we had to hit the TV or other entertainment devices to make them work. But, yes it does work and something is better than nothing.
