Hey guys, Im new to the forums and I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me with a issue I am having with a i9100.
Basically my sister had one, dropped it in a sink, she sent it off for repair and it was marked as water damaged. She got a new phone so I claimed the water damaged s2 and decided to fix it myself.
I purchased a 2nd hand Mobo of ebay from a Israel seller, when I recieved it it was rooted with 4.0.3 on it, but both the front and the rear camera didnt work, it just freezed the phone. I just taught possible bad flash and decided to try a CM10.1 on to see, camera still didnt work, (I tried the whole wiple cache/ wipe delvik cache/ restore factory settings).
So then i decided to try a Stock 4.1.2, same problems. I have also tried using 3rd party camera apps, and testing using *#0*# (Megacam, front cam) and the same error messages "Warning - Camera failure".
I then decided to try firmwares, by dialling *#34971539# and updating from the root, now This time I got a little bit further. when using the firmwares beginning with "T" the camera app would fully open and I would be able to access menus and settings but the shutter doesnt open. The camera app is slow to respond and when I click to take a photo, it makes the shutter sound and then i get ther error "unknown error by ErrorCallback". This has completely stumped me. When using the *#0*# menu on this firmware, i get the error "Data Line fail"
I have also tried all the above with a different camera, the one from the old mobo, is it possible that BOTH are damaged and worth purchasing a new one?
There has also been a problem with battery discharging very fast, disconnect messages, not turning on, so I assumed the battery was shot and got a new one. Its doing better than the last but still have some of the same problems such as disconnect and just restarting. So im assuming the USB dock ribbon is shot and I have ordered one and should receive it on Monday, is there ANY chance that this could be causing the camera problem?
Also, if I dial *#1234# it says CSC: Unknown, could this be a problem? Basically Im pretty much out of ideas, or just lacking knowledge on what to do next!
Any ideas/input would be very greatly appreciated and thanks for your patience!
(even though I'm new, please don't suggest factory reset, sending it to Samsung warranty for repair, turning it on and off, I believe I have tried the obvious!)
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I have had the Atrix for a week or so now, and my camera seems to act up on me a lot. I will open it up and just get a black screen. Or sometimes I get an error message saying "Oops the camera couldn't be found" or something like that. I'm just wondering if it's a software issue, or if I should go to AT&T and get another one.
Go to ATT and show it to them. That shouldn't be happening.
Haven't had any issues with my cam.
I keep thinking it's got to be software related because it keeps working, like right now it works, but if i shut the phone down and turn it back on, sometimes it won't work. i've already wiped all user data and factory reset.
Unfortunately the same thing started happening to me today.
This is seriously annoying.
Did either of you get this resolved?
Please say one of you have resolved this problem. I can get the camera app to start but it never displays anything on the screen. My phone is unlocked and I bought it third-party so I can't take it back. I pretty much have to remove the battery to get the phone back to normal.
Have you guys tried doing a fresh flash and factory reset?
Magnetox said:
Have you guys tried doing a fresh flash and factory reset?
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Yes. I've also formatted the memory, tried to switch to external storage when snapping photos. Nothing. Just going into the camera brings up a black screen and then trying to take a picture or going into settings will lock it solid.
hey folks,
I have just bought my razr from amazon.de /germany.
I powered up the phone, seems ok. i even did some phone calls.
However i just realized that the Camera is not working by clicking on the Camera icon in main screen. I didnot try it with 3rd. party programs.
I searched issues on the forum and even tried also.
(wipe clean and hard factory reset, etc.)
Unfortunately, nothings changed. still says: unable to initialize...
Please give me an advice?
What should I do?
I have the opportunity to send it back to Amazon.de within 14 days after purchasing.
I hope you decide to send it back - defective camera.
Hey folks again,
I have claimed to Amazon.de regarding above mentioned camera problem.
They pleased me firstly to force hard reset then install the latest software again.
I can handle the hard reset but where is the latest Software?
How can I find it?
pls help me...
Hey metin,
Returning the defective unit and getting a new one would the wisest decision.
Hey Guys,
So I just received my prime and I updated it to ICS. I opened up the camera app to play with it and both cameras work. But about 20 minutes later I open up the camera app and I see a bunch of green lines in the "viewfinder". It then forceclosed.... I now am unable to open the camera app. I have tried to video chat and only the frontfacing camera works. I have also tried to use "Retro Camera" and it does not work either. I did a factory reset and nothing changed...
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Any ideas?
Thanks,
Michael
www.TeensTech.com
rear camera not working after firmware update???
I'm having the same issue. I received my 32gb Gold prime from amazon yesterday and immediately update to ICS and camera update and now experiencing the same issue as your. I did not test the camera before the update and so i'm not sure if the update cause it or if the camera was bad right out of the box. I did factory reset twice but the problem still remains
Looks like you guys both need to send them back in for replacement.
That sucks. The sooner we get bootloader unlocked the better.
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Hey Guys,
So I just received my prime and I updated it to ICS. I opened up the camera app to play with it and both cameras work. But about 20 minutes later I open up the camera app and I see a bunch of green lines in the "viewfinder". It then forceclosed.... I now am unable to open the camera app. I have tried to video chat and only the frontfacing camera works. I have also tried to use "Retro Camera" and it does not work either. I did a factory reset and nothing changed...
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Any ideas?
Thanks,
Michael
www.TeensTech.com
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ASUS response: Um...yeah...some update screw up the camera...we are sorry, we know the problem. We are going to update our spec to say that the cameras does not exist. Please ignore the 2 lens sticking out from your tablet. Thank you for buying our product.
Same problem
Anyone found a fix? I have the exact same issue. I will try to restore it to factory default settings tonight and let you know if it helps.
Just to test, has anyone with this issue tried to clear the data from the camera app... settings > apps > camera
OR, try and download a different camera app and test and see and if it works. I use Camera Zoom personally and not the stock camera.
Guys......there is a firmware update specifically for the camera. Go into settings and check for updates. If nothing shows up you will have to wait until Asus posts direct links on the site. I'm surprised I'm the only one that knows us.
Your not the only one who knows this. I have received 2, maybe 3 in total.
But, I assumed they already got their updates as the moment you turn on your device, these are shown to you so you cannot miss them when they come around. If they went to ICS, they should have gotten a notice for the camera at the same time. There was another under HC as well.
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Your not the only one who knows this. I have received 2, maybe 3 in total.
But, I assumed they already got their updates as the moment you turn on your device, these are shown to you so you cannot miss them when they come around. If they went to ICS, they should have gotten a notice for the camera at the same time. There was another under HC as well.
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Good point. Now the question is if you guys have gotten the camera update as well?
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I just did a factory reset and it doesn't work. Its weird that I cannot find many cases of this happening from forums online, so here are a few details that might help clarify things:
First, yes I have upgraded to the latest firmware and tried clearing the data for the camera and anything that could even remotely be related (media processes etc). And yes I have tried using other apps that use the camera, and it still doesnt work.
Second, the camera worked before. It worked prior to and after the ICS upgrade, and prior to/after the firmware upgrade for the camera. It just stopped one day for no reason.
Lastly, its only the rear facing camera. Most of the time it is just a blank black screen, but every once in a while it comes up with a green screen with what looks like the ghost of some of my desktop icons. Ill post a screen shot.
I would really rather not have to send in my TFP but im starting to come to the realization I may have to. Its frustrating because I know it worked after the most recent update, so it must be a software issue and not an issue with the camera itself. 2 weeks is a long time to live without my baby...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Android version: 4.0.3
Camera Version:TF201-0x9900
If you cleared data, reset, tried other cams, updated firmware, what more can one do? Sorry man it sounds like some sort of defect.
firmware
Does doing a factory reset re-install my camera firmware? Is there anyway I can reset to prior to the ICS or camera firmware update and reinstall it?
No, once firmware is onboard it is onboard, it is not undone via a reset.
One last update
One last update on my problems. Got off the phone with ASUS a while ago and they had me do a full data wipe. Volume down/power and everything. Didn't fix the issue. Gave me an RMA and a sad heart for two weeks.
Looks like Ive joined the ranks of those who had a problem with my TFP. Shucks, things were going so well...
Best buy
I have spoken with Best Buy, and they are willing to send me a new one when they are in stock.... I didn't want to mess with Asus and this way, I won't need to send mine in.
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I have spoken with Best Buy, and they are willing to send me a new one when they are in stock.... I didn't want to mess with Asus and this way, I won't need to send mine in.
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Maybe if we both return ours to bestbuy at the same time they will just swap them . I have a skinomi on mine, Im going to call ASUS and see if I can avoid removing my bubble free masterpiece.
Hey guys did anyone find a fix for this ? I just got this problem.. or do i really have to contract asus..
Same prob. Here and I just try to correct it with rom manager and reset permisions. A downgrade to honeycomb doesen't helped 'cause the camera firmware dosen't go down, so there is no way to correct it, so i wolud say that the driver's a broken...
Not sure how I missed this thread before.
The exact same thing happened to me. Called ASUS, they had be send it to them (at my expense, of course). Sent it in late January, sat in TX "waiting for repair/testing" according to the RMA status site. After a month of nothing being done I sent an upset but not irate email, and they "fixed" it and sent it out the next day. Got my tablet back a few days later (roughly March 1st), everything was working fine. Now, not even three weeks later, the problem is happening again. I called, they want to fix it again. At least they're paying for shipping this time, supposedly.
when iturn the camera on its a black screen and says warning camera failed when i try to switch camera to see myself
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when iturn the camera on its a black screen and says warning camera failed when i try to switch camera to see myself
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Some custom kernels have a problem with the highest resolution for the front camera due to memory allocation. Go to settings / applications / all and clear data for camera.
Load up the camera switch to the front one and check its working.
If it is don't select the highest resolution for the front camera use the middle one.
If that doesn't work maybe another problem.
Please state what rom and kernel versions you are running, more info the better.
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Appears to be a S3 problem specificically, camera failure problems. Google ' galaxy s3 camera failed ' and there are numerous reports ranging.
from only a day old out of the box to a couple of weeks. Some reports of total failure, some hardware restart temporarily fixed, some app sharing hardware such as skype hogging the camera.
I think Verizon in the US are saying return for replacement..
Hope this helps.
Having the same problem. I thought it might have been an app I installed - I uninstalled all apps that used the camera. Still no dice. Did a factory reset. Still no dice.
Called Verizon and explained that I'd already tried a factory reset to no avail. The service rep didn't ask me to do anything else. Because I've full device insurance coverage I'm getting a new phone overnighted and should have it no later than 3pm tomorrow.
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Having the same problem. I thought it might have been an app I installed - I uninstalled all apps that used the camera. Still no dice. Did a factory reset. Still no dice.
Called Verizon and explained that I'd already tried a factory reset to no avail. The service rep didn't ask me to do anything else. Because I've full device insurance coverage I'm getting a new phone overnighted and should have it no later than 3pm tomorrow.
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i am having the same issue, and also hve full insurance, however they will not replace my phone with a new one, only factory refurb. Who did you speak to about getting a new phone? this is really frustrating...
s3 camera fail fix
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I had the same issue and tried factory reset, 3rd party camera apps. nothing worked even updated camera firmware and phone firmware still black screen with camera fail. I took off the battery cover, removed the battery, removed the phillips screws in back. carefully popped off back housing and the camera flex cable is right there. i simply unclipped and reconnected it and made sure the camera was seated tight by pushing on it.(carefully as not to damage lcd). I will say i have no warranty because i bought second hand but the are no void stickers over screws so no way to tell its been opened. camera works perfect now. I repair phones as a hobby and remebered the galaxy one having a speaker issue just like it. anyway worth a shot or if you have a warranty just get a replacement but it took me about 3 minutes,
Camera fail
I would like to update the post with my findings:
Since my last post, I did a warranty exchange on the phone. Upon receiving the new one, I reverted the broken one back to stock through the tutorial on XDA (using a prev leak bootchain, ODIN flash, etc).
All went flawlessly, and after reverted to pure stock, the camera worked again. I re-rooted and re-flashed a variety of ROMs (ASOP & TW). camera worked fine through all of it. It wasn't until I did play store updates that things went bad. After the updates the camera stopped working again. So Once again I flashed back to stock. Camera worked again. I felt comfortable doing this as I could re-produce the problem and solution.
After fooling with app updates etc I determined that the Google Talk / Goog Hangouts update was the culprit. Once that was installled the camera was inaccessible. I have since not taken that update (been a few weeks now) and all is still fine.
moral of the story to folks out there, watch out for the Hangouts update. I dont have any more info than that. Just wanted to share.
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I had the same issue and tried factory reset, 3rd party camera apps. nothing worked even updated camera firmware and phone firmware still black screen with camera fail. I took off the battery cover, removed the battery, removed the phillips screws in back. carefully popped off back housing and the camera flex cable is right there. i simply unclipped and reconnected it and made sure the camera was seated tight by pushing on it.(carefully as not to damage lcd). I will say i have no warranty because i bought second hand but the are no void stickers over screws so no way to tell its been opened. camera works perfect now. I repair phones as a hobby and remebered the galaxy one having a speaker issue just like it. anyway worth a shot or if you have a warranty just get a replacement but it took me about 3 minutes,
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I would just like to share my experience, it may help someone... I also had this problem and fixed similar to desc. above... I had taken apart phone and cleaned out mostly all of my connectors because of water damage/corrosion issues.. I suppose I had bent the cam ribbons slightly out of place... this in turn, for some reason maybe somebody with more knowledge can answer, caused the phone to no longer power up or show any sign of life... I could not figure out and ended up paying my deductable for new phone... I knew it was specifically related to me removing the cam because I had already cleaned and got phone to a working state, but the cam didnt work so I took apart again cleaned cam port and voilà my phone stopped powering up completely... wtf! sooooo I just recently went back after reading above, and dramatically bent the cam ribbons to make sure contact was good... now everything works.. ya live and learn
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I would like to update the post with my findings:
Since my last post, I did a warranty exchange on the phone. Upon receiving the new one, I reverted the broken one back to stock through the tutorial on XDA (using a prev leak bootchain, ODIN flash, etc).
All went flawlessly, and after reverted to pure stock, the camera worked again. I re-rooted and re-flashed a variety of ROMs (ASOP & TW). camera worked fine through all of it. It wasn't until I did play store updates that things went bad. After the updates the camera stopped working again. So Once again I flashed back to stock. Camera worked again. I felt comfortable doing this as I could re-produce the problem and solution.
After fooling with app updates etc I determined that the Google Talk / Goog Hangouts update was the culprit. Once that was installled the camera was inaccessible. I have since not taken that update (been a few weeks now) and all is still fine.
moral of the story to folks out there, watch out for the Hangouts update. I dont have any more info than that. Just wanted to share.
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so you got 2 s3's out of it? nice
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so you got 2 s3's out of it? nice
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No no I sent the refurb one back to vzw. Had a lot of bad luck with factory refurbs.
i know this may be a necro thread, but I just had the same issue and I solved it by replacing the front facing camera/prox sensor assembly. tried new main cameras first but when those didn't fix it I replaced the front facing and everything worked fine.
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I fixed it on my SGH-T999L with Jedi Invasion 5 by flashing this kernel http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756776
Use the Touchwiz JELLYBEAN 4.1.2 VERSION
I'm brand new to this forum, but my uncle has been a member since 2008 and says you guys are the best when it comes to helping with problems for Android.
I'm having the camera issue, as well, and it spans across all camera apps, snapchat, Skype, etc. I just now discovered the front facing camera works when before it wouldn't even let me switch to it, making me think both cameras were dead. I've tried a different ROM, kernel, battery pulls, rebooting, everything in the list. I even dismantled my phone and pressed the connection in a bit, and still no luck. (Thankfully I didn't completely wreck my phone, though.) I'm trying switching from a different developer now, since I was using the only two TouchWiz ROMs I could find for my Cricket d2cri, both by the same guy. I'm hoping against hope it's an issue with the guy's programming and that it's not a sudden hardware failure after nearly a year of having the phone.
If anyone happens across this thread and has any ideas that haven't been said as to what I can do, please, throw me a message or respond to the thread. What good is a phone without a camera these days?
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I'm brand new to this forum, but my uncle has been a member since 2008 and says you guys are the best when it comes to helping with problems for Android.
I'm having the camera issue, as well, and it spans across all camera apps, snapchat, Skype, etc. I just now discovered the front facing camera works when before it wouldn't even let me switch to it, making me think both cameras were dead. I've tried a different ROM, kernel, battery pulls, rebooting, everything in the list. I even dismantled my phone and pressed the connection in a bit, and still no luck. (Thankfully I didn't completely wreck my phone, though.) I'm trying switching from a different developer now, since I was using the only two TouchWiz ROMs I could find for my Cricket d2cri, both by the same guy. I'm hoping against hope it's an issue with the guy's programming and that it's not a sudden hardware failure after nearly a year of having the phone.
If anyone happens across this thread and has any ideas that haven't been said as to what I can do, please, throw me a message or respond to the thread. What good is a phone without a camera these days?
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I am having the same issue, and I did try many things: revert to stock, changing kernel, try other camera apps, wiping camera app datas, Still nothing, if someone can help with other method please.
I got "camera fail" after i flashed ArchiDroid 1.7.2 coming from PAC nightly. Then flashed ArchiDroid 2.2.4 and camera got fixed. All flashes where clean
In my experience, custom ROMs and kernels can also cause this issue. I flashed a different custom ROM and voila, my camera was working again
s 3 camera failed
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hi I was having the same problem with my camera and I installed 3rd party camera software and the camera seem to work using this. I used camera mx
Camera faillled warning
I HAVE THE PROBLEM OF CAMERA FAIL WARNING IN S5 SENSATION ROM
I AM USING S3 Gt i9300 IS THERE ANY SOLUTION FOR THIS PROBLEM
THE CAMERA DOESNT WORK ONLY IN S5 SENSATION ROM
That is usually caused after flashing a custom kernel without having opened the camera app at least once with the stock kernel.
Go back to stock kernel, open the camera and it should work. Now flash the custom kernel and don't do a factory reset or you'll be in the same again
Which kernel you using? If you on 4.4.2 i recommended Archi Kernel.
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Hello guys!
I am having problems with my camera, On the stock ROM it gave the "Camera failed" error I flashed the last CM10.1 nightly and it gave the equal "Can't connect to camera" message. (Front cam has the same error)
What I have done so far is:
Tried other camera apps. Nothing
Tested the camera in my half-dead S3 and it worked there
Placed a new cam in the phone, no life.
Factory reset, etc. No life.
I am thinking of a board issue but it might as well be a weird software problem.
Also, warranty is gone so don't tell me to send it there.
I've included a logcat if that is of any help.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5-7BrPIW5gxRUxoa2p3bkhackU/edit?usp=docslist_api
Sounds like you've exhausted all the alternatives, sounds like motherboard or IC failure.
One last option
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34456721