Nexus 6P Rear Camera Glass Cracks Spontaneously, Users Report - According to user reports, the glass covering the rear camera of the Huawei-made Google Nexus 6P can crack suddenly without applying any stress. Some Nexus 5X users are claiming that the handset captures inverted images when clicking via a third-party camera app.

Some Nexus 6P users revealed on Reddit over the weekend that the smartphone's glass panel that covers the rear camera, flash, and laser autofocus setup can crack without any particular reason.

One of the reasons for the cracking of the glass panel is said to be the rapid expansion and contraction of glass when in heat or in cold environment. One of the users on Reddit described, "This could be caused by the method they use to temper the glass. I'm by no means an expert, but the method used to temper Gorilla glass involves giving the glass ion baths to strengthen it. The strength comes at a cost though - due to the strong attraction of the glass particles to one another and compression of the whole, the glass develops lines of internal torque and stress, leading to explosive results if the glass is impacted or pressed from the wrong angle."

On the other hand, the Nexus 5X's rear camera is said to be capturing upside down images when capturing from a third-party camera app.

A Reddit user named etalvala claiming to be the tech lead for Android's camera framework described how the rear camera was fixed on the smartphone. "Because of manufacturing reasons, we needed to mount the Nexus 5X main sensor in the less-common (reverse landscape) orientation - the wires from the sensor chip wouldn't have fit otherwise."