[Q] SGS2 Camera DEAD...Pls HELP! - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi all,
Well...i bought phone 3 days ago and everything was working perfectly on stock rom.Then like most of us I wanted to root phone and install custom in this case Litening rom....after that my camera is not working anymore,when I start camera its stays black and after few sec i got camera error.
I have try to install few other roms like villianrom,miui darkys etc but none help,I even try to put some diferent kernels and modems but same.
Ive noticed in some other threads that can be issue with camera firmware,in my case I dont have it in samsung apps for update.
My curently camera firmware is SCE009 and if somebody has some other like the latest one SCE002 or at least tell me where I can download I will be more than thankfull cause i think this is my only and last chance to fix camera and its little frustrating when you buy phone like this and then something is not working properly.
Thank you,Mat

Oh, really sad to hear that. That's why I hate flashing this and that.

matijaxxx0403 said:
Hi all,
Well...i bought phone 3 days ago and everything was working perfectly on stock rom.Then like most of us I wanted to root phone and install custom in this case Litening rom....after that my camera is not working anymore,when I start camera its stays black and after few sec i got camera error.
I have try to install few other roms like villianrom,miui darkys etc but none help,I even try to put some diferent kernels and modems but same.
Ive noticed in some other threads that can be issue with camera firmware,in my case I dont have it in samsung apps for update.
My curently camera firmware is SCE009 and if somebody has some other like the latest one SCE002 or at least tell me where I can download I will be more than thankfull cause i think this is my only and last chance to fix camera and its little frustrating when you buy phone like this and then something is not working properly.
Thank you,Mat
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Hey, Why don't you flash back to a stock kernel and firmware. See if that fixes it.

camera working but pictures burly and upto standard
my camera pic is of very poor quality .pls anyone can help to get good quality pic

sx4 said:
my camera pic is of very poor quality .pls anyone can help to get good quality pic
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Why bump an old thread? To answer your question, try flashing the hacked camera. Or take pictures in better light.
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[Q] Camera Help

Ive tried about 5 different roms and cant get the camera to work on any of them. Is there a trick? Can someone please recommend a rom with a confirmed working camera? I dont care about the camcorder. Thanks in advance.
What ROM are you looking for 2.1, 2.2, 2.3?
For 2.1
Camera works on all 2.1 Roms
For 2.2
Camera works on Freex10 Beta 4 and CM versions
For 2.3
Camera is not implemented yet
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evolutionizer said:
What ROM are you looking for 2.1, 2.2, 2.3?
For 2.1
Camera works on all 2.1 Roms
For 2.2
Camera works on Freex10 Beta 4 and CM versions
For 2.3
Camera is not implemented yet
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E
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Ive tried several 2.1's and 2.2's with no avail. Im currently running the freex10 beta 4 and the camera doesnt work. Please help. I dont care about the rom anymore I just want my camera back.
maybe your camera is screwed
why don't you try flashing it with stock rom???
if it doesn't work then is your camera
alankstiyo said:
maybe your camera is screwed
why don't you try flashing it with stock rom???
if it doesn't work then is your camera
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Finally got it flashed with stock rom and no camera. What gives. Can you break your camera by changing roms? It worked fine before.
Am sorry to say this, may be u should call se and say ur cam stopped working all of a sudden ;-) and get it serviced, may get a new phone replacement. Act a real dumb customer.
Make sure to do a official seus reinstall before u even call them.
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try this with 2.2
yvaditya said:
Am sorry to say this, may be u should call se and say ur cam stopped working all of a sudden ;-) and get it serviced, may get a new phone replacement. Act a real dumb customer.
Make sure to do a official seus reinstall before u even call them.
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Thats just crazy I would never do something like that!
But I did just find out that the warranty department doesnt open for another 2 hours. At least I got to try out almost every rom on here and gained alot of knowledge along the way
Ok so I got my replacement phone in the mail today and the first thing I did was flash it to 2.1 so I could then install freex10. After flashing it to 2.1 and powering it on, and right after the se logo went away a small flashing picture of a camera appeared with a blue arrow underneath it pointing down to a phone. I had seen this before on my previous phone right before the camera stopped working. So I freaked and took the battery out and flashed it back with stock 1.6 rom. After powering the phone on I tried the camera and it didnt work So I turned the phone off and did some searching. I found where someone said when you see this image to just leave it alone and the phone do its thing and it will power on. So I flashed it back to 2.1, powered it on and the image appeared, and then finally the phone powered on. Afterwards I tried the camera and presto it worked! So If any of you see this image do nothing!! lol
Yeah its a picture play... get it? Its flashing your phone.
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[Q] Just installed FFC, but no cameras are working even though it's connected.

Hi all. I just got the FFC for the Vibrant in the mail after 3 weeks (awesome!) and I just opened up the phone, installed it according to all the instructions, made sure that it snapped in, but now my phone is not detecting either a rear or front camera! I'll try a new ROM, but I'm sure it's not that and I'm POSITIVE that I did not harm the new camera assembly. I took great care of it. I'll also try flashing the FFC_Mod.zip via CwM and see if it works. Will update once I've tried all of this. Anyone have any other ideas as to what's wrong?
even if the rom dosent support it should at least detect the rear camera.....
yalkowni said:
even if the rom dosent support it should at least detect the rear camera.....
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That's what's freaking me out!!!
Ok the FFC_Mod.zip didn't work. Let's see what re-flashing the ROM does.
Hmm well what rom are you on?
Nowaysout said:
Hmm well what rom are you on?
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I was on Revolution ROM 2.0 (2.3.4 JVP) when I first tried it out. No luck, even after flashing FFC_Mod.zip. So, I swapped the new camera out with the old one just to see what would happen. The stock camera works, but the new GT-I9000 camera wont work in either case, whether it's the rear cam or the FFC. I checked all over the new camera. Except for the FFC attachment (obviously), EVERY little detail of that camera is the same as the old one, so I agree with you, the problem is most likely a software issue, but I'll still do one last test of it. I'll go and try a ROM and kernel that's proven to work, and if it doesn't, then I know that it's the camera itself and not something software based. I'll update this post once I'm done.

[Q] can stock 2.1 "camcorder" work in custom ROMS??

i have tried most of the custom ROMS and one thing is common - the camera nd camcorder DO NOT produce good pictures as the stock 2.1 update1 camera.
moreover, the stock camcorder has "continuous auto-focus" feature which none of the customs ROM have.
the camera works in most roms but there is a FC issue in the stock 2.1 camcorder...can anyone of you get a grip of that???
am on Froyobread 023d and am looking forward for a positive reply from you all.
I face the same issue.
Wait for ages bro, but I don't think anyone would care about this, i posted the very same problem about 4 month ago... a noone replied, but who knows, maybe this time...
This is the ONLY reason I don't use custom roms... maybe everyone else is happy with a half-working cam-_-
feyce said:
I face the same issue.
Wait for ages bro, but I don't think anyone would care about this, i posted the very same problem about 4 month ago... a noone replied, but who knows, maybe this time...
This is the ONLY reason I don't use custom roms... maybe everyone else is happy with a half-working cam-_-
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hey...i got a workaround
grab LgcamPro v 5.95 from net and use it "only" as a camcorder (set the focus mode as "semi - continuous") and voila!! u get "continuous auto-focus" back during recording videos.....use the stock 2.1update1 camera as ur photo cam and LGCamPRo5.95 as ur videocam

Camera autofocus noise

Hi im so sorry for making yet another thread for the camera autofocus noise but it seems devs keep ignoring this.
the camera auto focus on different roms will be worse. sometimes doing it when you turn the phone on when you use flashlight and even sometimes when the card is being read. and im sick of hearing devs blame it on the camera model or that its always been there. my camera never made any noise till i installed miui and ever since it makes noise even when i revert to stock roms. the best its been is on villian rom.
this is obviously a problem with the firmware being used or something else that devs are doing or not doing. can someone please devote some time to get this fixed please. im not the only one who feels this way and i think its wrong for devs to lead us to believe its normal when its clearly not if it effects different on different roms and that obviously the noise wasnt there before. i think its a serious fix needed.
so please please please someone get to the bottom of this
PLEASE NO ONE POST INLESS YOUR HERE TO WORK TOWARDS A FIX
mikeinessex said:
PLEASE NO ONE POST INLESS YOUR HERE TO WORK TOWARDS A FIX
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Actually i posted to let you know that if you have an OC camera, it's normal. All OC cameras make that noise, no matter what rom you are using
Sp1tfire said:
Actually i posted to let you know that if you have an OC camera, it's normal. All OC cameras make that noise, no matter what rom you are using
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and like i said before if thats so then mine wouldnt of not made noise then now makes it. so please no comments like that on here please its not getting this problem sorted
mikeinessex said:
and like i said before if thats so then mine wouldnt of not made noise then now makes it. so please no comments like that on here please its not getting this problem sorted
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Ok, sorry for stating the obvious. Please find somebody with an OC camera that doesn't act like that, be it on stock or custom rom and then we can talk about fixing things. If that's default behavior for OC cameras and looks like it is, no dev can fix it. But i have a fix for you: replace your phone with another SII that doesn't have an OC camera. Easiest fix in the world and you can do it yourself.
Sp1tfire said:
Ok, sorry for stating the obvious. Please find somebody with an OC camera that doesn't act like that, be it on stock or custom rom and then we can talk about fixing things. If that's default behavior for OC cameras and looks like it is, no dev can fix it. But i have a fix for you: replace your phone with another SII that doesn't have an OC camera. Easiest fix in the world and you can do it yourself.
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i seen people who have had se firmwares and the update gave them oc and visa versa. so obviously the firmware code has no relavence to the camera. if what you say was right then the above wouldnt be possible. check out the camera firmware upgrade thread and see for yourself
I'm checking that thread often, cause i'm interested in a fix myself, but i still don't buy that firmware change, since no one else succeeded in changing an OC camera to a SC one. There's only 1 report of it. Can't really compare 1 report to all the owners with an OC camera that confirmed the clicking noises regardless of roms, firmware updates and everything else. I got no quarrel with you and i really wish you could find someone with an OC camera that doesn't behave like that. I couldn't find any and i investigated both on several forums and in real life with friends who own SII.
P.S. And i'm pretty sure if that guy uploads his apk your phone will say camera already has the latest update and can't install it.
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I'm checking that thread often, cause i'm interested in a fix myself, but i still don't buy that firmware change, since no one else succeeded in changing an OC camera to a SC one. There's only 1 report of it. Can't really compare 1 report to all the owners with an OC camera that confirmed the clicking noises regardless of roms, firmware updates and everything else. I got no quarrel with you and i really wish you could find someone with an OC camera that doesn't behave like that. I couldn't find any and i investigated both on several forums and in real life with friends who own SII.
P.S. And i'm pretty sure if that guy uploads his apk your phone will say camera already has the latest update and can't install it.
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the apk doesnt work. you cant do it like that i tried. u have to have a firmware upgrade apk or be compiled from scratch. just taking the apk out through root explorer wont make any difference.
Tested all the firmware update apks posted in that thread. None could be applied and my cam remained OC002, even though people reported that they had 002 and it turned to 009, which i highly doubt it can be done just by updating camera, cause 009 is an older version and camera wouldn't let you downgrade to a previous version. My phone has no root, so i don't have any other options than wait for another firmware update from Samsung.
Sp1tfire said:
Tested all the firmware update apks posted in that thread. None could be applied and my cam remained OC002, even though people reported that they had 002 and it turned to 009, which i highly doubt it can be done just by updating camera, cause 009 is an older version and camera wouldn't let you downgrade to a previous version. My phone has no root, so i don't have any other options than wait for another firmware update from Samsung.
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been speaking to codework. would have to be pushed in through system/ect/firmware and it seems that the roms only come with oc type firmwares. so the roms have never been giving the phone the options for the se type firmwares. things are started to prove my point now. think codework is looking into it more now cause my theory is started to maybe be true
I have OCED11 ver of camera and today I heard that sound when entering camera, and when switching from photo to video mode. I don't remember hearing it before, but if others have it also, then it's nothing abnormal. I bought phone 1 month ago, and didn't install any custom apps and etc.

[Q] Galaxy S2 Front Camera Issues

Hi,
I bought a S2 a month ago. The phone is rooted and I currently have a CM Rom (the official one for the i9100 - 10.1.3.i9100 - Android 4.2.2).
The camera always worked fine but after a while the front camera ceased working.
I can the front camera with no problem whatsoever but as soon as I try to use the front camera it does work, the app freezes and says: "The gallexy has stopped bla bla bla..."
I went and searched the web, lots of guys get this fixed by clearing the data/cache or whatever, but nothing has been working for me...
I tried a different ROM, making a totally clean install - but still nothing - I also have already tried a bunch of updates im the original CM Rom (RC, Stable and nightly) and I never get the camera to work nor does it work a single time...
Can you guys help me?
Thanks.
Install another free camera application like camera 360 and see if it is working with that or not?
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Nope, only the custom app gives me that error. All other apps arent just able of providing an image - (Skype, Camera Zoom Fx etc..)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098834
May be this thread will help you.
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What a really old thread... but yeah, the apk provided there can be installed but when I open it forces close saying the app is crashed.
I've now went to 4.3.1 (latest version of CM) and updated the Gaaaps to the correct version... the problem is still there.
I see this problem on lots of different threads and lots of this people just seem to accept that they have no front camera anymore, lol...
...also been looking for a way to install Samsung Apps on my S2 but it seems to be impossible on a non-stock ROM.
Going all the way back to STOCK and them trying to do something about the camera firmware (trough Samsung Apps) and then going to CM again is something which I'm reticent to do, mostly because I don't even know if this is really a firmware problem...
Back to Stock...
mirchichamu said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098834
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So... I went all the way back to STOCK... I now can input the codes discussed on that thread
Cam FW Ver: SBEF02
Phone FW Ver: TBEC28
It looks like this module has a really bad reputation, still it bothers me... Most people on that post complain about pink dots, lag, shuttering etc... I'm only lacking on a front camera... The focus on the front camera was slow sometimes, yes. But most of the times I had no problem making a movie or taking a picture...
I had a front camera and now I dont...
WTF!?
Any insights and/or advise?
BTW I tested *#0*# (a so called LCD TEST appears) and went I try Front cam it says: "camera failed"...
I picked this phone over the front camera... I'm seriously mad.
When you go back to stock firmware did you wipe data after flashing using odin?
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jedzkiiii said:
When you go back to stock firmware did you wipe data after flashing using odin?
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Yeah I did. I had access to the front camera on all roms: since stock and then into Cyanogen... When I upgraded to the latest version I also had no problem using the front cam but one day it just went dead.
I've already changed ROM/Kernel a bunch of times so I can pretty much rule out software (?)
I'm really not in the mood to go to Samsung and have all the trouble of losing my phone for a month (in the best case scenario) and having to unroot it and re-stock it again...
The front camera module is a really cheap part and my next step would be to open the damned phone and just retry to reassemble the module it self...
From there I'll order a new one (if I find that my current one is properly assembled and just malfunctioning)...
Am I going too fast? Is there any way to completely rule out a software issue?
Thanks
PS. I need to point out that the camera didn't stopped working "after a ROM change"... It actually stopped working DURING a rom (CM official nightly).

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