Camera Hardware Problem: Vertical Pixel Line

[mtf1979]

Hi everybody.

My Pre camera seems to be broken. There's a large vertical line of stuck pixels on the camera preview screen and in the pictures that it takes. Oddly, the camera was working perfectly on Day 1 and 2, but all of the photos that I've taken since then have this large ugly line of bad pixels.

See attached image. This photo was taken of a dark surface, without the flash, to really show the problem -- but it exists in all of the photos that I take, with or without flash.

I've been super careful with the phone; haven't dropped it, bumped it, gotten it wet, or handled it with anything other than extreme care.

Anyone else having this problem? This really sucks. I'm already on my 2nd Pre -- the first one had a large spot of dust/dirt inside of the screen that was distorting a 2x2 grid of pixels -- and now this one has a camera issue. I want to love this phone, but, wow, Palm needs to work on their hardware QA.

[mahebert]

Same thing for me .... :S

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By the lack of replies with similar issues I'm guessing this isn't a chronic or QA issue. Hope you took it back to Sprint and got a replacement. Regards..