If your camera switch has become dysfunctional, ie: the camera turns off as soon as you turn it on, or if your camera comes on accidently, even with the shutter closed, all is not lost.

You can bypass the problem by removing the switch and soldering the terminals into the closed position. This means the shutter cover will no longer operate the camera, but it can still be activated by holding down the camera button until the camera starts, or using the Camera option in the menu.

This is als a good mod for K750/W800's with W810 backs, like this example here. It saves shaving the inside of the W810 cover to make room for the switch, and also is ideal since their is no active lense cover on the W810.

For this mod, I have used my experimental K750. This K has the lense removed from the cmos sensor - so in the pics you will see the shiny surface of the cmos sensor. Please note, the lense removal shown in the photos is not part of the camera switch mod, it's part of my lense mod (in progress, click here to view).

PLEASE do not try and dismantle your camera module for this mod!

To start, use an existing thread to learn how to remove the back from your K750/W800, here or here being a couple.. and check here if interested in W810 back or chasis mod.

Here we have the original K750 with camera switch in place.
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The switch needs to be removed, to expose the contacts. Use a knife to gently cut the four terminal legs of the switch from the ribbon cable, and remove the switch. You will see four terminals:
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Next, the bottom two contacts need to be bridged to set the camera into permanent "POWER" position. (note, when running, camera can be turned off by holding the "back" button.) Bridging can be most reliably achieved by soldering a short length of wire between the two contacts:
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And that's it! Reasemble and test, but if you have been careful, you should now be able to use your camera again

just for interests sake, here's the inside of the camera switch:
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Nice guide wedge, needs to be stickyed and put in the wiki. What I did when I snapped my camera switch level off is use a pin down the side where the lever comes from to flick the contacts into place so now my phone has a permenatly on camera switch.

WOWOWOWOWOW thanks alot man bout 3 hours before i read ur guide i bought a new bloody flex cable cause i broke my switch and it came up on the screen"open lens cover" when i tried to go on the camera bout now its in good working peice.


i reccomend this tutorial works 100% u cant go rong i burnt my circuit and it still worked

thanks again

Well at least someone has used your guide withing 12 hours of it being written!1

Have you seen this max?
http://www.se-nse.net/wiki/index.php/How-To_Guides
You can post guides there if you'd like

I was going to post it in the wiki for him (of course saying he made it) but I am not sure on how to put images on, I just get a weird link come up saying image instead of the image going there.

There is actually a patch to do this. I dont have it installed myself but I have posted it in another thread.

A patch for the wiki right...?

yeah, same here, I did go to add it but couldn't work that out ....?

I think that its been sorted now, the other day I put thatbastards paintshop your w800 case on there (all credits to him of course) and the pictures went up fine, its a bit confusing but once you figure out how to do it it's really easy.

Here is the photoshop file just for proof http://www.se-nse.net/wiki/index.php/Photo...own_w800_colour

does having it always on affect battery life? or does it only drain the battery when the camera software is loaded?

I just switched to a w810 chassis and modified w810 back plate and during the change I messed up my camera switch some more so now it thinks it is permanently closed and has no lever so I think I'll have a go at this in school tomorrow @ break as the tech teachers don't bother about people using them for leisure and they have nicer nibs there then my one does

. i have k750 modded to w800. i changed plate and when i opened the camera it said "open the lens cover" i tried to reset that and i broke it is it possible to do something now to make camera work again whithout giving phone to service?? for example any patch or something?? ;( ;(

. i have k750 modded to w800. i changed plate and when i opened the camera it said "open the lens cover" i tried to reset that and i broke it is it possible to do something now to make camera work again whithout giving phone to service?? for example any patch or something?? ;( ;(

I just did this "mod" today because my camera has been broken for a while. It was simple to do, you jsut have to be careful conecting the two points. I used a Razor to scuff the pionts so it would stick better. The whole thing took 3 minutes!

Thanks!

Eric

Thanks for the mod, it works a treat. Saved me £35 quoted for a repair

i was changing the housing on my gf's brand new K750i and decided to try my w810 back housing on it and broke the switch of too
within five minutes i done exactly what you did, this was before i saw this thread
just niver thought it would of helped any1
well done, Good minds think alike
just glad she niver knew the lens cover activated camera

For me, just cutting off the little lever on the switch worked fine. (With a nail clipper FTW ; ) No solding whatsoever. Off course, this only works if the switch is faulty, not if it's completely disfunctional.

cheers max_wedge my camera had been randomly coming on but this cured it!!

cheers again!

I just changed housings and I'm getting an error that says "open camera lens" I didn't break the switch, I was very careful about removing it...so I'm wondering if I'm just not putting the back on correctly or I should be doing something with the switch when I put it back on? Thanks, all.

If I connect those 2 contacts, the camera will bei "always on", right? But I read in another thread, that this was just the problem, meaning you can't really use the phone for anything else but taking pictures O.o

Do I have to get a patch first, or something like that?

P.S.: New here, so don't shoot me, should the question be ... stupid ^^

thx works for me fine

hey everybody..can you help me..i accidentaly cut off the switch of my camera and i cant use it..can anyone help me to permanently turn on my camera..my phone is k750i..please help..asap..

Woo Hooo ...

My camera is working again after about 2 months.......
Awesome Guide.....
Instead of soldering i just stuck some wires between the 2 connectors and added a tape on them so they could stick in one place...

Thanks for the guide. I got a second hand phone with a faulty camera, turns out switch was broken off. So I soldered a wire to the 2 points.
Now that the camera works, another big problem arises, when I am in the main page, or go into the menu, (or not even touching anything, in standby) it starts jumping around like crazy, it would just go into camera page back and forth continously?
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Can someone tell me if there's something wrong with the phone, has anyone else experienced this problem?


EDIT: BTW, i found the problem. Hopefully people reading this in the future will know to, when soldering the wire over the two points, do not make the soldered "balls" around the wire too large, if too big, the case with its internal cavities will touch the chip, any contact would disturb it, causing it to go out of control, so after soldering, file down the solder to as thin as possible. (obviously no one knew what my type of problem was -_-)

Thanks so much, I was going to send it in because of this error, now i didn't need to do that, very ease "mod".

Thankyou so much - this took me about 5 mins to do and saved me £££££££££

guys pleese help me ...my W810 is dead yesterday, the first symptom is shown by the phone was, it will hang when works with SIM, but without sim all the functions are available,,after three days the phone is completely dead and it shows the RED low charge indicator when connecting the charger..And the Pc also not recognizing it....Somebody help me what happen

So I came upon this guide searching in Google. I snapped off the freaking lever, and using your mod fixed it in a minute.

I felt I should register and give you a huge thanks.

Thanks a lot from spain, mate.

Worked for me. Thanks for this!

Yikes, isn't there someway to override this switch from software?

Yes, by patching

lame design.

Oh well, guess I have to save up for a new one.