Xiaomi Mi 9T: How to Fix Camera Problems

The Xiaomi Mi 9T is one of the best-selling mid-range, highlighting among its qualities the screen without a notch or hole, when making the leap to pop-up camera mechanisms. Both its front and rear cameras have left good results, but they have also caused several users to encounter problems that make it difficult to use.

The pop-up camera of the Xiaomi Mi 9T has already been able to verify that it is not easy to break, but nevertheless the problems more than in hardware, come from the software. This makes one way or another we can end them and we show you the steps you must follow for each of these failures , both in the front camera of 20 Mpx, as in the rear with its triple camera.

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Problems with the LED light in MIUI 11

When updating the Xiaomi Mi 9T to MIUI 11 with Android 10, many users saw how a new function came to this smartphone. Until now the front camera through its LED emitted a light when rising and hiding, but now this light also appears on the screen . Several users have thought that this is a software error, but the truth is that it is a new functionality that only reaches these models.

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Check the updates

For now it is not possible to deactivate the LED light on the screen and not outside it, but it is possible updates could be incorporated. This is why it is important to keep our system updated , since in addition to this, we could receive improvements in our rear and front cameras to improve the results.

We can manually check if we have updates under Settings> Phone information> System update.

The most common problems

In our Xiaomi Mi 9T the photographic section is very complete and this allows us to meet different errors. That is why we are going to show you below how you can solve the most common failures that can occur in your cameras, if you know or are suffering from any other fault you can leave it in the comments to find the solution.

The front camera of the Xiaomi Mi 9T does not come out or it costs

Although it may be difficult to break this camera module, if we have known of some situations in which the camera does not rise or otherwise it does so slowly or with some sound. This is because some element has entered the camera module and we will have to clean it carefully , it is likely that it is sand or even dust and dirt that over time may have been cast. We will have to be careful, following the steps we saw when cleaning the connectors of our mobile .

The photos are not clear

We are facing a smartphone that has everything necessary to offer us some of the best photographs of its range, taking advantage of the main lens, the telephoto lens or the wide angle. In case that with any of them the image is not clear to us, you can have an easy solution, clean the lenses with a soft cloth or even with a shirt.

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With the use it is normal that we stain the cameras with our fingers, it is an element that we must take care of, both the rear and the front lens even though it is hidden.

The mobile fails to focus

Another of the most repeated problems that we can find in the Xiaomi Mi 9T is the approach, despite having an autofocus system , it is likely that at certain times it will be confused and not focus as it should. This may be because we have blocked the autofocus, something we can do without realizing it by keeping your finger on the screen when taking a picture.

Solving it is very easy, we just have to close the camera app , close it from multitasking and reopen it. If the problem has not been resolved, we will have to touch on the screen to focus, at the expense of a specific failure that may come because the light situation is not the best.

How to improve the photos of the Xiaomi Mi 9T with the GCam

In spite of the great harware that our Xiaomi Mi 9T has, the camera application is not one of the ones that convinces at least in Europe, since it makes a very different treatment from what we are used to. To improve the results with the help of Google, we can install the well-known GCam on our Xiaomi Mi 9T.

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To do this we will have to follow the following steps and in a few seconds we will have in our mobile the possibility of using both applications to take photographs, making the decision of which one is better.

  • We activate unknown sources in Settings> Additional settings> Privacy> Activate unknown sources.
  • We download in our Xiaomi Mi 9T the files (GCam_7.3.018_Urnyx05-v1.0.apk) from this website , the rest may not work.
  • We install the files that we have downloaded and open it as any other application.