For those who don't know yet.. The desire's backcover has a camera lens protector made by very cheap plastic, that scratches very easily. When this happens, the pictures will have a "glowing", blurry, unsharp look. What I did was removing the piece of transparent plastic "lens protector" on the backcover and then used a small piece of screen protector and sticked it on the lenses. Even without it the chances you actually scratch the lens is virtually none. So now I have a hole in my back cover, but I dramatically improved my picture and video quality. Don't worry about the looks, there is still a black ring and I think it looks better now. I hate shiny plastics. Here a pic. And a video. YouTube - ‪HTC Desire cover on/off camera comparison‬‎
It'll only be that big a difference if your cover is scratched to hell. And you can buff out the scratches as mentioned earlier with a bit of toothpaste.
toothpaste you say? how do i do this?.. pictures used to be great when i first got the phone but now im plagued with blurry pictures..
Holy crap dude, I didn't realize the difference was so big. Took a picture, the took another one with my back cover off... WOW. It's literally like 10x better. I'm actually in shock just how good it is..
With back cover on: Bad with back cover off: Good Nothing else changed, literally just took the cover off.
Wow that is amazing just checked it out myself, my only concern would be damaging the lens itself if I recmove the plastic as I don't have case for my desire and generally carry it in my pocket
HTC need to release a tweaked design back cover with a higher quality lens protector for those of us who don't have the surgical skills for this
That's just mind blowing! If someone can think of a good idea to replace the plastic cover with please let me know
The lens protector is held by a double side contact tape, just punch it with a pen from the inside out. I shattered mine by doing that but what the heck, i dont need it anyways. Plus you can stick a small piece of screen protector to prevent scratching the camera lens, and foam around the hole to block the dust. $5 ebay case, more pictures here http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/53943-htc-desire-cases-20.html
Hm I'll try this later. Another 'issue' may be the compression rate the desire does when it actually saves the file. For pictures it's not bad but video quality seems to be compressed quite a bit.
What does that matter? We're talking about how much better the quality is with the piece of plastic gone !!!!! I'll be punching out that plastic as soon as my Desire arrives!!
For those that see a vast difference, have you had your desires for a long time? My Desire's kept in the HTC case and I can't really see a difference whether it's photo or video .
