Problems using my S5 as a video camera on the bike

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DBM, I experienced something similar several months back. This was with an iPhone, but turned out to be a hardware issue that might still affect other brands.

First, I was playing around with an app that claims to turn your smart phone video camera into a dash cam. Without going into all the details, it was a fine app but I determined it wasn’t going to work on my bike because the video feed would show a wavy image like you describe and it seemed rpm sensitive. Higher revs would increase the distortion. I tried different mounting positions but nothing helped. Long story short...not useful.

Days later I was out on a ride and stopped to take a photo with my phone. I couldn’t get the camera to focus and I could actually hear the camera mechanism whining and grinding like it wasn't sure what to do next. I went ahead and snapped a picture and got this:




The distortion is similar to what the video feed was producing. From that point forward I could rarely get my camera to focus on anything unless is was a closeup shot. Neat effect, though.