Turns out, smartphones are not as smart as I thought they were. Sometimes, to get an app to work, you need to give the phone a good old-fashioned beating.
While video-chatting with
Desiree, I dropped my phone. Dropping my
phone is not unusual. I would estimate I
either drop or knock my phone to the floor a half dozen times a month.
Anyhoo…when I picked up my
phone again after it smacked face down on the floor, the front (selfie) camera
was wildly out of focus. To fix the
focus issue, I surfed through an array of smartphone settings and poked at all
kinds of stuff.
I found nothing to fix the
problem.
Frustrated, I fired up my Google
machine to seek possible solutions. When
I clicked on the first link with answers and began reading, I was immediately
skeptical. The first solution suggested I
turn the phone away from me with the camera on and tap on the back of it. The second was to pick up the smartphone and
shake it.
Doubtful or not. I brought the front camera to life, turned
the phone away from me, and tapped briskly at the back with the end of my TV
remote.
I’ll be damned if that didn’t
work. The camera came
into perfect focus. Finally, after all
my years of trying, I found something I can fix by beating on it.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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