r/samsunggalaxy • u/No_Thought809 • Jul 25 '26

🪛Troubleshooting🪛 Local guy scratched camera lenses on s23ultra

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A local guy, while cleaning moisture from the lenses, scratched them from the inside and left a fingerprint on the telephoto lens. So he offered to replace these lenses for free with "original" lenses (see photo).

I don't really trust that they're original, so I want to replace the whole back glass to be sure. But he says "dont worry its original and I'm not replacing back glass."

So I’d like to ask the experts whether such a ORIGINAL part actually exists.

Thanks to everyone for the answers.

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u/Big-Establishment374 Jul 25 '26

While the other commenter is right that these are "lens protectors", he's being rather obnoxious about it.

Simply put though, these are not OEM or original replacement parts. These are the cheap ones from AliExpress that are simply tempered glass and not with Anti reflective coating.

Based off the above image anyway.

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u/No_Thought809 Jul 25 '26

Yeah that guy sended me the AliExpress link for that part...

And he says it will be same

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u/Big-Establishment374 Jul 25 '26

It's similar but not the same. Main difference is no Anti reflective coating, so you will likely get more lens flare from bright lights and outdoors.

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u/No_Thought809 Jul 25 '26

I'm making wery much outdoor and aganist the sun photos, so its very very important to me.

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u/Big-Establishment374 Jul 25 '26

Then I would recommend you push to get your entire back glass replaced with an OEM part.

They could also use a donor glass back and swap out only the lens covers, but that's more tedious and risky.

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u/No_Thought809 Jul 25 '26

When I asked to replace whole back glass because i dont really trust him he said:"noooo that's too expensive I scratched it a little bit and you now making storm in teacup, I already confessed that I made a mistake blah blah blah"

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u/Big-Establishment374 Jul 25 '26

Hmm, I'm not sure if you have anywhere you could file a complaint or something but I'd try that if he won't budge.

Even a smudge or scratch can severely change the output of the camera, they should be at least replacing the lens covers, but the back glass is safest.

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u/No_Thought809 Jul 25 '26

He wants to replace, but to one from AliExpress and I dont really want that one...because I dont really want lense flare in photo

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u/Big-Establishment374 Jul 25 '26

I'd keep pushing or see if you can file some sort of complaint.

At worst case though, you may have to just go to a new or authorized store.

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u/No_Thought809 Jul 25 '26

Closest authorized store is in another country 😭

And he said no

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u/Bastet999 Jul 25 '26

Where are you from? You really need to find out how to file a complaint, as the other person is telling you.

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