Lumia 1020 Camera Won't Hold Focus

Any fix for this yet camera is the only good feature of the phone and main selling point... The phone is pointless without the camera

I am having the same problem as in the original post.   When I take long distance images the autofocus cannot hold a focus.  When I manually try to focus, the distance becomes clearer, as it should, until I reach the infinity focus setting, where everything goes blurry.  When taking long distance photos, it takes 20-50 tries before the image becomes focused with autofocus.  This makes it nearly impossible to take pictures with the Lumia 1020.

I followed the instructions on Nokia's website and tried software updates and a factory reset.  As nothing worked, and my phone is still under warranty, I sent it in for repair.  After a week and a half my phone was returned to me and the fix Nokia listed was that the repair center did the factory reset and software update that I did before I sent it in.  This did nothing for my camera and it remained broken.

I then called Nokia and told them what happened.  They said to send my phone back in to the repair center and that this would tell the engineers that their solution did not fix my problem.  I did this, and was without my phone for another week and a half.  I got this phone back yesterday, and once again the repair center did the same factory reset/software update that I originally did.  This was the same software update that they claimed was a fix the first time I sent my phone in.  My phone has been sent to Nokia's repair center twice and my camera has yet to be looked at, let alone fixed.

Please help me figure out a way to fix this before my warranty ends.  I no longer want this phone, and plan to avoid Nokia in the future.  However, I would like to get this phone fixed so that I can at least sell it before I buy a phone from a different company.

I too seem to be having intermittent focus issues. Love the phone and camera, but at this point the only reason to have this phone is the camera. Not being able to focus is severely annoying. Sometimes it dies, sometimes it does not. Took 6 pictures of my daughter. All about the same distance. 3 were pretty good, the others blurry. Tried manual focus, not sure the lens is even moving. TELUS no longer carries this phone, would have to take it to a MS store I think. Maybe a Cyan update would help? I am on Dev preview and would have to reset the phone to upgrade (not fond of that idea). I did find that the camera app went a little downhill after MS took over. Have tried other camera apps, sometimes they focus, other times not. :(

when i bought the nokia 1020 was the best mobile because of the camera.

10 days ago the mobile start making problems, the camera won't focus.

honestly the nokia lumia 1020 without his camera is just a normal mobile

is it a hardware or software problem?

any one can help me?

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Craig_Mitchell wrote:

The closest the phone will focus is about 15cm. If you find that the object (or QR code) is at least 15cm and you're not able to focus either manually or automatically onto the object, then I would get the phone to be checked by a Nokia Care point.

related FAQ: http://www.nokia.com/gb-en/support/product/lumia1020/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA138473

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I have the same problem.

The funny thing is. even up close, like 3cm i can see the phone focus on the object for half a second, and right after loose focus.. so it is possible for the phone to focus on an object that close, But i still have this problem.

(very old post i know)