White frost on the front camera

[arrivance]

I know this is outside of the usual Q/A the forum presents, but I'm hoping you guys have some answers?

Recently, my phone suffered some water damage when a bottle leaked in my bag, and it failed to boot for 18 hours, but works successfully now (after putting the battery and phone in rice).

However, now, my front-facing camera has a sort of "white frost", or a white covering on it. It means photos are now of a bad quality, and it's basically unusable.

Image showing this: http://i.imgur.com/NnaLpfB.jpg

Any ideas on how to fix it? Would I have to remove the back cover, and manually remove the front-facing camera like on the S4? I'd rather not do that, but if needed.

(This is also the International LTE GT-19195 version of the phone)

EDIT: If you encounter this problem, wait at least a week, it could go away naturally!

 

[IronRoo]

I know this is outside of the usual Q/A the forum presents, but I'm hoping you guys have some answers?

Recently, my phone suffered some water damage when a bottle leaked in my bag, and it failed to boot for 18 hours, but works successfully now (after putting the battery and phone in rice).

However, now, my front-facing camera has a sort of "white frost", or a white covering on it. It means photos are now of a bad quality, and it's basically unusable.

Image showing this: http://i.imgur.com/NnaLpfB.jpg

Any ideas on how to fix it? Would I have to remove the back cover, and manually remove the front-facing camera like on the S4? I'd rather not do that, but if needed.

(This is also the International LTE GT-19195 version of the phone)

Must be the calcium etc that was dissolved in the water that is left when it evaporated, I can't think of any other way of getting rid of it other than taking the phone apart, I'm sorry to say. Though I've not taken the S4 apart it shouldn't be too hard as camera should be quite accessible. Though the sub assembly is a sealed unit (quite likely) that may be a whole different story .......

PS. Could it be related to this?
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...6-plastic-covering-galaxy-s4-camera-lens.html

 

[arrivance]

Must be the calcium etc that was dissolved in the water that is left when it evaporated, I can't think of any other way of getting rid of it other than taking the phone apart, I'm sorry to say. Though I've not taken the S4 apart it shouldn't be too hard as camera should be quite accessible. Though the sub assembly is a sealed unit (quite likely) that may be a whole different story .......

PS. Could it be related to this?
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...6-plastic-covering-galaxy-s4-camera-lens.html

Thanks for replying, but no worries! After about 3 days it started going away naturally. I was going to delete/redact this post, but I felt it'd just look weird.

 

[IronRoo]

Thanks for replying, but no worries! After about 3 days it started going away naturally. I was going to delete/redact this post, but I felt it'd just look weird.

No worries. Must just have been condensation then I guess.