I bought a new Samsung S25. I tried to take some photos at night but I noticed some strange light reflection on the camera lens that shows up in the photo.
I don’t know what it is called; Camera glare? flare? ghosting? ...
I noticed that this strange light reflection doesn’t show up when I switch to the Ultra-Wide camera or the Telephoto camera... which makes me think that this is a hardware problem in the main camera itself(the main Wide lens camera - which switches between 12MP and 50MP). It looks like that lens is broken or something because the light reflection ONLY shows up when I switch to that main Wide camera.
The phone is brand new, I didn’t drop it and I’m not using any case or lens protector.
Please see the attached photos ... Can you see the light reflection on the bottom left? I was standing beside a street light pole ... the light from the light pole caused the white reflection/glare you see in the photo.
I tried restarting the device, changing the aperture, cleaning the lens.... etc. Nothing helped ... the only thing that helped is when I switch to the Ultra-Wide camera or the Telephoto camera --> the white reflection will disappear... which again makes me think it is a hardware problem in the main Wide lens itself.
You can reproduce it by yourself:
Try standing under any source of direct light -- like under your kitchen light or under any ceiling light in your house - or beside any street light pole ......... It will show the same reflection as in the attached photos.
I thought that my phone is the only S25 that had that problem, so I bought another one and it had the same camera issue. I bought a third one from a different supplier, the third phone also has the same camera issues.
I posted on Reddit to ask about it, no one knows how to fix it.
