Google engineer explains why your Nexus 5X is taking upside down photos
If you’ve been playing with a Nexus 5X and third-party camera apps, you may have noticed some of them are shooting photos upside down. Weird, right? Well, it turns out it’s a pretty rare issue caused by how Google had to mount the camera sensor in the Nexus 5X to make everything fit.
The Nexus 5X has a camera sensor that’s mounted in reverse landscape, instead of the typical portrait orientation that everyone expects. To compensate for that weird orientation, Google’s new camera APIs account for that and keep things displaying the right way. Unfortunately, there are still many apps that use Android’s older API, and that’s where users are seeing problems.
The Nexus 6 actually saw some of these same problems at launch, but only with the front-facing camera. Since the front cam is less frequently used than the rear camera, it was less widespread than what we’re dealing with now.
The good news here is that your Nexus isn’t broken. You’ll just have to wait for app developers to update their applications to use Android’s newer API.
source: reddit
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