Helix front facing camera problems.

I recieved my frist batch of Helix's last week. We ordered 7
Out of the 7, 2 have bad front facing camera's. I noticed that Lenovo has a new camera driver as part of the Lenovo system update utility. This driver update doesn't correct the issue.
My vendor is swaping me out with new units but I wanted to post this.
When you get your helix check the front facing camera.
Maybe I'm just unlucky with 2 bad out of 7 or maybe Lenovo has a quality control issue?
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@dkNigs and mrlakeside,
This grey picture with the Crossed Camera is the privacy mode of the "Lenovo Settings App". You have to deactivate it in the Settings App under the "Camera" tab.

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