Android market stop working if camera is removed?

[ruriimasu]

Hi,

Anyone can verify this? I am thinking of buying an android phone but will have to have the camera removed in order to bring it into my workplace. i fell in love with android so dont ask me to get other non camera phone

if the above myth is true, how abt destroying the camera? will that cause android market to fail in my phone?

 

[Deleted User]

hi there,

i cant say i've heard of the myth myself, but i guess it would depend on how you intend on removing the camera as you put it. in theory it should be fine, the camera is obviously independent of the market in terms of software, so unless you start fiddling about with the software on the phone to disable the camera and accidently do something unbenown there should be no problem.

 

[ruriimasu]

hi there,

i cant say i've heard of the myth myself, but i guess it would depend on how you intend on removing the camera as you put it. in theory it should be fine, the camera is obviously independent of the market in terms of software, so unless you start fiddling about with the software on the phone to disable the camera and accidently do something unbenown there should be no problem.

hi.. i was thinking of pulling out the camera module. but i'd heard elsewhere in this forum that market will check for camera presence and if it isnt detected then it will fail. i wont be doing anything to the software though.

 

[AndroidSPCS]

The rumor is Android requires camera to work. But there are rumors of Droid Pro being made without camera which have yet to be released, so who knows? You can probably only try it and then let us know if it still works or not.

 

[ruriimasu]

hmm.. will the guys at google answer my question if i ask them?

 

[AndroidSPCS]

You can try, but keep in mind there are probably no guarantees with their answers either, as they don't make the hardware.

 

[sitlet]

Do you have to physically remove the camera? Or can you put a piece of black tape over it? Or a case that covers the camera?

 

[ruriimasu]

covering it wont do.. but if there is a cover to replace the original back cover with a hole, im willing to try that. nowhere on the phone actually wrote it has camera so i may get pass the guard who isnt so tech savvy. if not, i will have to break or remove the camera.