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Apple released the slimmed-down, buffed up iPad Air on November 1, 2013 in a choice of Space Gray or Silver. It packs the custom A7 processor and ships in 16, 32, 64, and 128 GB configurations.

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Front facing camera has a yellow tint even after replacement

I am an experienced repair tech and yesterday, I changed the audio jack on an iPad air first gen. When I powered up the device to do the function test before returning it to the customer, I noticed the front facing camera was displaying in a yellow tint. Imagine a piece of kapton tape over the lens. (NO, there is not kapton tape anywhere near the lens or on the digitizer.) I have tried everything that comes to mind!! New front facing camera, cleaned ALL the connections with 91% alcohol, tried a different audio jack flex cable, reset all settings and still the problem remains! Only thing I havent tried is a full factory reset, but I'm calling the customer to ask if we can try that today. Can anyone help? Please, any ideas would be appreciated

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get a original ipad mini front camera as the replacements they sell online are for ipad air and that is why you are getting the yellow tint,the ipad air camera does fit the mini but does give you the yellow tint,i just changed a ipad mini 2 front faceing camera and ran into the same problem,i tried several camera's until I got frustrated with it then I looked closely at the original camera compared to the camera they they sent me and the flex is different so I went through all my ipad mini camera until I found the original type and that worked for me,hope it works for you as it can be incredibley frustrating,cheers Adam

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I did a Digi on an iPad Air & had to replace the FF camera & noticed the same yellow tint?

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