The reason why the Nexus 5X has a photo sensor mounted upside down

Pictures are displayed in reverse on some applications.

The scandals never end with the new Google Nexus. While the Nexus 6P is easily foldable  (a fault #Bendgate) and that the rear window of it would be a bit too fragile, the Nexus 5X has a problem with his camera.

As long as you use the application Camera Default terminal, the problem is not one. However, if you capture photos with some third-party applications, the pictures will be upside down.

And also, in a publication on community site Reddit, a Google employee acknowledged that the Nexus 5X, the photo sensor is actually mounted upside down. Indeed, if the sensor was installed at the location, it would not have enough space for the connectors on it.

But he also explained that if the photos are reversed on some third-party applications, it is because developers are still using an old API to the camera, now deprecated, calling the application "to explicitly clarify the rotation of the preview. "

As long as the NPC is mounted normally, there is no problem. But where, as on the Nexus 5X, it is not mounted like any other smartphone camera, the problem appears on apps that use deprecated API. Therefore, the only way to really solve this problem is that the creators of apps concerned update their software and use the new API (camera2 API) that "automatically manages the rotation for developers."

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