The first few months was great, the camera was working so good like its quality was actually a digital camera.

But now whenever I take a picture there would be a yellow smudge on the side corners as if someone has put it's finger there but no one did.
I checked the lens if it was clean and it is but it's still getting the yellow old vintage smudge thing, now I can't use my camera anymore.


Please, please help me find a solution to fix this problem because I would really really love to use the camera on my phone again so that I can take picture without even having to carry a real digital camera and also I can upload it to my Facebook & DailyBooth right on the spot.

I have attached a picture to show you what I mean.


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That looks like classic lens-scratching.

Where there's a little scratch in the lens the Flash is bleeding into the picture, you can try and carefully clean the lens but really the only way to fix it is to go to a repair center.

This is a well documented problem with the N97 and is a result of shoddy design on the sliding camera lens cover, have a little google around the web or even look in these forums, plenty of people are seeing it (mine's slightly affected but it's just about bearable...)

Nokia should repair this for free as it's a known design flaw.

Ah, I wish we have a Nokia repair center here.
Unfortunately, we don't have and I don't think our telecommunication provider would have parts of the phone to fix it.