I have noticed a few small issues with my phone and was curious if anyone else was experiencing the same issues or not.
First off it appears dust has settled behind the glass on the front facing camera, doesn't seem to effect the picture, but still annoying.
And as for my second issue, it involves the main camera. Some of the pictures I take, probably every 4th or 5th image, ends up as a broken file, unreadable by the phone or my computer. They show up in the phones image library, but I am unable to view them, and when I attempt to view them on the computer, i get this message "Windows Photo Viewer can't display this picture because the file is empty."
Is anyone else experiencing either of these issues?
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Hey, new member here.
I recently aquired a HTC Aria, this is my first Android phone and It's great, only issue I found is with the camera, when I try to take pictures, the screen appears with a lot of noise color (pink areas), as per the pictures, is this related to the set up or is it a camera malfunction? The pictures taken have the same effect.
The pictures were taken a month ago- righ now the screen looks completely pink!
I'm using HTC Aria/ Android version 2.3.7/ Cyanogenmod-7.1.0.
I noticed this malfunction after downloading the Camera 360 app, tried to use it and suddenly this issue appeared.
Any support is appreciated.
Regards and thanks.
First I'd just try clearing application data for the "Camera" app to see if that makes any difference. If not, I'm not sure what else to try except doing a 100% clean install to see if the problem is with your current installation or actually a hardware issue. (Make a backup first so you can revert.)
I have a couple of GS3 and I've noticed that one of them has a problem with black color. It seems to interpret some of it as purple. I've been digging into all sorts of forums but found nothing about this issue. Here's what I mean:
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These apps I used for these tests are Lcd Tester (by Bora SAYINER) and Display Tester (by gombosdev) both free in Google Play
So far I know for a fact that it's not the camera. This issue is noticeable in darker pictures on the phone with the issue. When I copy the pictures on my computer and on my other phone they look fine.
The problem is also visible at other times - like playing a game or even when I'm logging into an account in the "Accounts and Sync" menu in Settings.
The phone is running Android 4.0.4. It did get one update so far which didn't fix the problem. I'm guessing the 4.1.1 update is not gonna do the job either.
I'm trying to find out whether this is a software problem and if so is there a way to fix it myself rather than having to send it back and get it fixed which means a lot of waiting...
Android 4.3 Camera Security Bug - Samsung Galaxy Nexus upgraded from 4.2.2 to 4.3 via OTA.
Anyone who recently upgraded can try and replicate this issue.
After upgrade launch the camera, try to set as default settings as you can (not sure if this matters, but try turning off the camera flash).
Use the rear facing camera, press the shutter button as fast as you can, look in the gallery. You might find that photos you previously took and deleted have resurfaced.
Try the same thing with the front facing camera.
I was able to "recover" photos taken and deleted a couple weeks ago using this method. I'm guessing that something in the software can't keep up so it finds old photos and uses them for some reason. After a few rounds of doing this, the problem went away, so maybe it cleared out some kind of cache or used up whatever leftover deleted photos there were.
Anyone else able to replicate?
Whole photos or just the thumbnail? I've had a similar thing on an archos tablet where the thumbnail is an old, deleted photo, but when you select it to display full size, it's the one that was just taken.
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It was the whole photo viewed in the gallery. Swipe left from the camera app and the previously deleted photos were viewable. Tap once, they fill the screen, pinch to zoom they enlarge. I didn't try downloading them to my computer through USB. The problem went away after a few rounds of doing this and deleting all available photos, it was quite disconcerting in terms of privacy. The front camera and rear camera seemed to have their own separate caches of deleted photos as the issue happened with each independently. I ended up doing a factory reset which hopefully will be good enough. Nothing special about my device, Galaxy Nexus GSM, purchased from the play store, always upgraded through OTA, never unlocked, never custom ROMs, never rooted, etc...
Hello,
I have not found anybody posting about these problems. The first problem is very odd, but sometimes I can take a picture and it will be fine. It will show up in the little preview window of the camera and in the Gallery. Then at some time the picture displays as just a black picture. If I try to view the picture after mounting it to my laptop. I get an error, "Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x00 0x00). I attached a screen shot of my Gallery. There is 3 black pictures where there where perfectly good picture.
To me one of the funniest issues is that I can see the image just fine for a few minites sometimes. Other times it will be a day or a week that the picture works just fine. Then I will have just a black picture there. This was not happening until after I have been running th3Bill AOKP 4.1.2 for about a month. Before this the pictures and camera where working just fine.
I don't know if it is related but shortly after this started I would sometimes try to take a picture and the phone will say to please insert a memory card. I know that the SD memory card is still in there. I can access files off of it. This can happen after I have taken some pictures and the camera worked fine, or after waking it up after sleeping for a long time. Most of the times rebooting the phone will fix that problem.
Is there anyway to fix this so that my photos don't become a picture that is nothing but blackness?
Thanks
What rom are you using? Anything above 2.3.6 IS broken, camera doesn't behave normally
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Android Open Kang Project (AOPK) 4.1.2.
I just find it odd that this seems to be a problem with something going wrong with the data after it is writen to the SD card. That it is only something that happens some of the time. That I could have a picture and use it for months in some cases and then it turns black, or I could have it for 1 minute before the same thing happens.
Yup, reverting back to 2.3.6 or 2.3.7 should get back to normal
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Hi all,
I have an issue with the camera/thumbnail generator on my Le Max 2 which I flashed first to Lineage OS and then to Resurrection Remix, and the bug persisted on both roms. Here's a link to the screenshots that show the problem imgur.com/a/Eay0C . The first image is the corrupted thumbnail, the second is what it should be and the last is what occasionally happens when I try to play any video (regardless of whether it was downloaded or taken from the camera, although it seems to occur a great deal more to videos taken by the camera). When I take a video, regardless of what camera app I use, it always has this corrupted thumbnail in exactly the same way. Theres always the green line on the right, the half of the thumbnail that should be at the top is on the bottom side and what should be on the bottom is at the top, along with some weird discolouration. On top of all this, sometimes the camera just refuses to work at all - it takes about 3 seconds of video then says something along the lines of media can't be recorded.
Thank you very much!
Update: I've tried using VLC and the thumbnails appear to be fine so I'm wondering if it's an issue with the gallery's way of generating thumbnails? Does anyone know how I might be able to reinstall the default gallery app?
Update 2: Having cleared the data and the cache for the Gallery, the thumbnail issue still stays