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Okay, so, I just noticed today that my camera no longer works. It was working a few days ago, but, no... death. Did some skulking around XDA and other forums. I thought it MIGHT be caused by something going wrong when I flashed Passion v6.5... so, I reflashed Passion v4 (it used to work fine), nothing. ODIN back to stock... nothing. Are there any other tips out there besides the obvious, and fatal, hardware issue? It would be a ton of help. Thanks.
Try using a differnt camera. There is one in the market today for .10cents
Camera ZOOM FX
For a dime it might provide a solution to your needs or an enlightenment that it may in fact be a hardware issue.
Exactly how is the camera not working? F/c? Doesn't open..etc.? When you flashed did you factory reset, clear cache and data? Have you tried using a camera app?
Same thing happened to me a while back, tried replacing the camera, still didn't work. I:
/notaproblemwithicspassion.
Stuff I've tried;
- I had two Vibrants, tried replacing it. (Worked for a little, then same error.)
- Mounting and unmounting it.
- Flash back to stock, update camera.
- Different camera apps.
- CM7/MIUI/ICS/FROYO
Unfortunately there is not a lot of options. If you can find someonw with a bricked vibrant you could offer to buy the camera. If you get o replacement camera off ebay then more then likely your going to have some banding issues( lines thru your pictures). There is a website (mobiletechvideos.com) that sells replacement cameras that arent supposed to have banding issues. Ive never dealt with them, so I cant say for sure. Mine stopped workin a while back, kept saying "camera fail". I replaced it with one off ebay. It works but i have terrible banding in anything but bright light. There are some videos on you tube on how to replace the camera. Good luck!
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Unfortunately there is not a lot of options. If you can find someonw with a bricked vibrant you could offer to buy the camera. If you get o replacement camera off ebay then more then likely your going to have some banding issues( lines thru your pictures). There is a website (mobiletechvideos.com) that sells replacement cameras that arent supposed to have banding issues. Ive never dealt with them, so I cant say for sure. Mine stopped workin a while back, kept saying "camera fail". I replaced it with one off ebay. It works but i have terrible banding in anything but bright light. There are some videos on you tube on how to replace the camera. Good luck!
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So you bought one off ebay and it's working. (Sort of?)
Mind linking me to where you bought it?
I'll link later when I get to my pc. I just typed samsung vibrant replacement camera into ebay. After I replaced it it worked for a day then it's got the camera fail message. Then about 2weeks went by and it started working again. I have no idea why.
GreggoryD502 said:
I'll link later when I get to my pc. I just typed samsung vibrant replacement camera into ebay. After I replaced it it worked for a day then it's got the camera fail message. Then about 2weeks went by and it started working again. I have no idea why.
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Ah, well I just bought he i9000 FFC camera, hopefully it works.
Mine is having the exact same problem yours was having before you replaced it.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...20774903766&view=all&tid=795744528011&guest=1
Here is the link to the one I bought.
GreggoryD502 said:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...20774903766&view=all&tid=795744528011&guest=1
Here is the link to the one I bought.
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This purchased item information is no longer available.
There are a number of reasons why this information isn't available. The most common reason is that item details for purchases are not kept for more than 90 days.
Hm.. heh.
For those asking, when the camera is opened, all it says is 'Warning: Camera Failed'. I've come to the conclusion that it's a software issue somewhere. After starting this thread, the camera came back to life a few hours later. After flashing a new ROM, same thing. I'm going to see if I can isolate a fix.
I have to bang my camera on a hard surface like furniture or a rock and it works. Could be both.
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Lolz, please stopping abusing your servant.
Maybe you guys should try to use titanium backup to clear the data and uninstall the camera apk. Then, odin back to stock. Be sure to wipe both caches and factory reset before flashing another rom.
Good luck
Alex530 said:
I have to bang my camera on a hard surface like furniture or a rock and it works. Could be both.
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Just out of no where, I can't use my camera anymore. I even did a factory reset and it still doesn't work. I did the firmware upgrade and it was fine so I am not sure what could have caused this since doing a search, it seemed most was due to the firmware update. I was just taking pictures Wednesday of last week and yesterday, it just puked.
It takes forever to get it working and when it does, it looks like the homescreen all blurry. self facing camera works though. If I do (or can before it pukes), it just takes a green picture. ???
anyone else have their camera not working out of the blue?
I may have to send this unit back to ASUS to have them look it over as I don't think it's a software issue anymore.
Suggestions? Thanks!
chivas228 said:
Just out of no where, I can't use my camera anymore. I even did a factory reset and it still doesn't work. I did the firmware upgrade and it was fine so I am not sure what could have caused this since doing a search, it seemed most was due to the firmware update. I was just taking pictures Wednesday of last week and yesterday, it just puked.
It takes forever to get it working and when it does, it looks like the homescreen all blurry. self facing camera works though. If I do (or can before it pukes), it just takes a green picture. ???
anyone else have their camera not working out of the blue?
I may have to send this unit back to ASUS to have them look it over as I don't think it's a software issue anymore.
Suggestions? Thanks!
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There was another thread with a few posters who had a similar/the same issue. Pretty sure their camera wasn't even showing a good preview though, they were getting green and static even on the screen of the Camera app itself.
Too lazy to find it, but so you know there are some out there.
chivas228 said:
Just out of no where, I can't use my camera anymore. I even did a factory reset and it still doesn't work. I did the firmware upgrade and it was fine so I am not sure what could have caused this since doing a search, it seemed most was due to the firmware update. I was just taking pictures Wednesday of last week and yesterday, it just puked.
It takes forever to get it working and when it does, it looks like the homescreen all blurry. self facing camera works though. If I do (or can before it pukes), it just takes a green picture. ???
anyone else have their camera not working out of the blue?
I may have to send this unit back to ASUS to have them look it over as I don't think it's a software issue anymore.
Suggestions? Thanks!
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That happened to mine. It was working yesterday just fine and all of a sudden this morning, the rear camera only show corrupted green lines. Have you got a fix for that or you have RMAed it?
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That happened to mine. It was working yesterday just fine and all of a sudden this morning, the rear camera only show corrupted green lines. Have you got a fix for that or you have RMAed it?
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Mine suddenly stopped last week. I sent it in to the Texas Asus service center for repair.
One thing I can say with mine that specified hw issue is the if you pinched the top of the screen, gently, by the camera it would come back into focus.....but the minute it was closed and reopened, or handled in any way it would go back to a green screen.
GreginNH said:
Mine suddenly stopped last week. I sent it in to the Texas Asus service center for repair.
One thing I can say with mine that specified hw issue is the if you pinched the top of the screen, gently, by the camera it would come back into focus.....but the minute it was closed and reopened, or handled in any way it would go back to a green screen.
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oh wow!! i just pinched mine and it did the same! worked until i let go.
I guess this is going back to get repaired. thanks for the find.
Oh wow, how strange. Of course I don't have the issue, but good to know for the future that it is h/w. Suppose there's just a faulty connection somewhere? I'm going to disassemble later and see if it isn't something I could notice.
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GreginNH said:
Mine suddenly stopped last week. I sent it in to the Texas Asus service center for repair.
One thing I can say with mine that specified hw issue is the if you pinched the top of the screen, gently, by the camera it would come back into focus.....but the minute it was closed and reopened, or handled in any way it would go back to a green screen.
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Thank you for this info. I pinched mine at about 1 thumb space left of the camera, and yes, it did come back, but it does not stay long.
What a piece of ****ty workmanship Asus has with this Prime? sigh...
myeepad said:
Thank you for this info. I pinched mine at about 1 thumb space left of the camera, and yes, it did come back, but it does not stay long.
What a piece of ****ty workmanship Asus has with this Prime? sigh...
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Yeah, its unfortunate. It was an accident that I found that as I was just taking out of the case to make sure nothing was obstructing or maybe the lense came loose and when I grabbed the ATP to pull it out the camera became clearer and so thats when I started gently sqeezing around that area, lol
I was like WTF!!????
I am also experiencing this problem... I believe I was the first to post about this. Unfortunately I am unlocked so I have no hope RMA'ing it
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I am also experiencing this problem... I believe I was the first to post about this. Unfortunately I am unlocked so I have no hope RMA'ing it
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You should be able to get something because that's completely hardware related no way a ROM can cause that! I would get your case escalated... Best way to do that would be PM Gary key be sure to include your name contact info ect... Along with serial number and your email address...
Make sure the subject is descriptive like...
New hardware defect: green camera.....
Wait a day and if that doesn't work I can give you an email of my contact...
Again another flaw on asus's part that's why I returned it while I had a chance! It's there crappy quality control! I am telling you they need to inspect those things paying a Chinese worker the whole 10 minutes it would take to examine it is nothing compared to fixing it after the fact!
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Wordlywisewiz, thanks for the suggestion. I did end up PM'img Gary Key last night. Will update when I here back.
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I am also experiencing this problem... I believe I was the first to post about this. Unfortunately I am unlocked so I have no hope RMA'ing it
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I was in the same situation, unlocked, rooted and running CWM.
I contacted Gary, he hooked me up with Tech support manager in Texas and they did the repair.
The only issue was when I got it back I was getting the CWM loop of death
It was soft bricked for sure, I couldnt get it to do anything.
I followed the guide by diamondback in the Dev section and was able to get it fixed, but I thought it was a lost cause there for a while.
I am guessing they made the physical repair, tested it and then did a factory restore which I believe will put it into that state so if you do send it off, make sure you have the ROM backed up and that you have adb running on a laptop so you can recover.
Camera seems to be fine now, hopefully I will not have to go through that again or for any other repairs.
good luck!
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I was in the same situation, unlocked, rooted and running CWM.
I contacted Gary, he hooked me up with Tech support manager in Texas and they did the repair.
The only issue was when I got it back I was getting the CWM loop of death
It was soft bricked for sure, I couldnt get it to do anything.
I followed the guide by diamondback in the Dev section and was able to get it fixed, but I thought it was a lost cause there for a while.
I am guessing they made the physical repair, tested it and then did a factory restore which I believe will put it into that state so if you do send it off, make sure you have the ROM backed up and that you have adb running on a laptop so you can recover.
Camera seems to be fine now, hopefully I will not have to go through that again or for any other repairs.
good luck!
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How long did the RMA take you? I keep on seeing threads about how it's almost been a month with no tablet in sight. I need my tab for school so I'm thinking of RMAing mine after my term, but that's still 1 month away.
Any suggestions guys?
hayos said:
How long did the RMA take you? I keep on seeing threads about how it's almost been a month with no tablet in sight. I need my tab for school so I'm thinking of RMAing mine after my term, but that's still 1 month away.
Any suggestions guys?
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Well Gary and a tech got back to me but I think when I did the pinch to see if its a hw issue, I think I screwed up my GPS connection since now it doesn't work anymore. But my Roma has stalled and I wonder if I should wait until the end of the month to see what this "new hardware" is. I mean, I can push the RMA but I did say my GPS was working until I tested the pinch camera "test" so I can wait. Pics would be great since my parents are in Taiwan right now and would like to send them some pics of their "grandson" (my dog) as he's growing (got him at 6 weeks and it's now 4 months).
Mine is a bit weird tho. When i turn off my screen from the camera app, i can hear my camera focusing. Sometimes after it would just reboot itself. Sometimes it would just crash the tablet.
Also, i tried the pinch method. It didnt work for mine.
I got the green screen last week. Called tech support and was told to send back for repair. It arrived yesterday in Texas and has been received and now in the pipeline.
So far, I have no complaints. Quite happy with the responsiveness of Asus.
I've always understood that, with electronics, if it's gonna fail, it usually happens within the first 90 days. If the item works past the initial 90 days, then should be good for life.
Well, my TP is less than 90 days old.
hayos said:
How long did the RMA take you? I keep on seeing threads about how it's almost been a month with no tablet in sight. I need my tab for school so I'm thinking of RMAing mine after my term, but that's still 1 month away.
Any suggestions guys?
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10 business day exactly.
I shipped it 3/12....got it back on 3/26
i had the same issue with my TFP
i gave it a good smack near the rear camera and now it works im pretty sure the problem is with the connection.
i also noticed that my TFP screen is barely pop out a bit. so my guess is that is there is some kind of "plug wires" that are not exactly well fit.
my guess is my fix"the smack" would be just a temporary fix that may or may not work with you and the problem will come back later
Mine died today, I can push on it for a second and when I let go it goes to the green screen. Have a bunch of dead pixels in one area as well, and my dock isn't sturdy anymore. Just about to RMA pretty soon here.
RMA it. Doesn't take too long for them to get ur tab back to you now
Hi Everyone
Im a young French Boy, so Sorry for my bad english...
i've made a short movie for Disassembly the TF201 .
http://youtu.be/wvEuG2i5BHY?hd=1
Thanks for posting the video. But, YouTube tells me that the current owner of the video doesn't allow viewing on mobiles so I couldn't enjoy it. Could you please change the permissions?
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iheath said:
Hi Everyone
Im a young French Boy, so Sorry for my bad english...
i've made a short movie for Disassembly the TF201 .
http://youtu.be/wvEuG2i5BHY?hd=1
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that's great. i wonder if you can repair camera (green issue)by opening the device?
skarfreak said:
that's great. i wonder if you can repair camera (green issue)by opening the device?
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+1 The green camera issue plagues alot of users and it's hardware all the way. You'd be bigger then, well, the big guy if you posted a fix for the camera..
Thanks for support.
I don't understand what the problem with the camera is. Do you have some details to give me ? or a video of the issue ?
iheath said:
Thanks for support.
I don't understand what the problem with the camera is. Do you have some details to give me ? or a video of the issue ?
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Something like this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1612230
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skarfreak said:
Something like this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1612230
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Ok i see, but i can't fix that because i don't have the issue on my tab...
if you want i can make a short movie how you can disassembly the camera...
Hi, great video and great timing, my screen cracked yesterday after a "screen first landing from my bed". I already ordered a replacement one and your video gave me great hints on how to dismantle it, however I'm still wondering if anything else is needed to put it back together with the new one. Does the screen comes with some kind of glue on the sides? Any tape that I need to take in consideration? or it should just snap back in place?
Thanks for doing this tutorial and I would appreciate anyone who can help me with these questions.
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Hi, great video and great timing, my screen cracked yesterday after a "screen first landing from my bed". I already ordered a replacement one and your video gave me great hints on how to dismantle it, however I'm still wondering if anything else is needed to put it back together with the new one. Does the screen comes with some kind of glue on the sides? Any tape that I need to take in consideration? or it should just snap back in place?
Thanks for doing this tutorial and I would appreciate anyone who can help me with these questions.
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Thanks guy !
glue does not require because the screen is only clipped !
Juste replace the old by the new with the same method !
if you are an other question, i'm Here
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Ok i see, but i can't fix that because i don't have the issue on my tab...
if you want i can make a short movie how you can disassembly the camera...
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Thats so kind of you, but i'd say no. Don't take risk if you didnt have that problem...maybe later... hehehe.. thanks anyway...
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The video says not available in my country. I am in germany. I would love a nice video on how to take this beast apart and try to fix the camera issue. I press on it and it seems to work but only if I press down hard so maybe something got dissconnected.
Or hell find a place that will fix it, I cant send it to ASUS because of the unlock thing and because I dropped it recentlly but no other damage was done to the tablet though
now just some scratches
Where are y'all finding replacement screens? I haven't had any luck finding just the screen
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Anyone find a working replacement digitizer screen? If so, from where? Details please
Digitizer screen for tf201
Nightpath said:
Anyone find a working replacement digitizer screen? If so, from where? Details please
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TRY ON EBAY I BOUGHT ALREADY AND WAITING FOR THE DIGITAL TOUCH SCREEN ALSO
search for "TF201 DIGITIZER" YOU WILL FIND A LOT
hope i help you
I'm aware that they have them on Ebay, dozens of them, but every one that I have seen bought has a screwed up X-axis.
When you install yours make sure to test it BEFORE you take it down.
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I'm aware that they have them on Ebay, dozens of them, but every one that I have seen bought has a screwed up X-axis.
When you install yours make sure to test it BEFORE you take it down.
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take it down?
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take it down?
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I think he means to test it before you permanently mount it.
There doesn't seem to be any way to remove a cracked digitizer from the mouning bezel without destroying it. Even though your glass may currently be cracked, I'm sure it still works at least. If you remove (and destoy) your digitizer glass, you won't want to discover that your replacement has the left and right axis reversed.
Disconnect the ribbon cable for existing (cracked) digizer glass. Connect the new digitizer glass. Boot your prime. Make certain that the new glass is the right model and the left/right is correct.
Even easier than that. Compare the rev numbers of the replacment digizier and the existing one. If they are different revs, you'll be hosed.
Once I updated my TF201 to Jellybean, I noticed my Backfacing Camera will not function properly. It will flicker multiple colors and sometimes just show green. My front facing camera is working flawlessly. Anyone having the same problem? If not, then I know it isn't a software issue...
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This is a hardware issue, just a coincidence you noticed it now. There is a thread here about the back green camera. I had to RMA mine to get it fixed. Nothing to do with JB, I think. Now, if only i could get mine updated. Initial update failed, and now it wont find it again
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Yea, as already stated it is hardware, I had the same freaking problem. Luckily the RMA only took 5 days though.
Happened to me the day I OTAed Jelly Bean, soit sure seems related. Any fixes posted other than RMA?
I got my prime second hand from the old lady and when I went to use the camera I got the same green camera photo
I find if I pinch the case by the camera I can get it to work. Now I'm debating on the RMA. Will they ship me a new one or a refurb? I'm quite happy with my Prime and I'd hate to get a lemon that everyone else is complaining about. Not too excited about loosing all my customization either.
Okay so i was just reading the thread and got me wondering, if it was a loose connection on the camera , so i squeezed the screen with both finger and thump either side of the camera and low and behold it is working again.. give it a try could be down to more shoddy asus craftsmanship. give it a go be interested to see the findings, planning on a massive asus shout via trading standards on Monday for a full refund..
http://db.tt/IqcWbvqj
(hope the link works, not dropbox before)
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doddsie said:
Okay so i was just reading the thread and got me wondering, if it was a loose connection on the camera , so i squeezed the screen with both finger and thump either side of the camera and low and behold it is working again.. give it a try could be down to more shoddy asus craftsmanship. give it a go be interested to see the findings, planning on a massive asus shout via trading standards on Monday for a full refund..
http://db.tt/IqcWbvqj
(hope the link works, not dropbox before)
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Same happened to my tp and I thought it was a bad flash or something until last night I decided to squeeze the camera and it work, only for a few seconds before I had to do it again... Im really not surprise by the craftmanship since they sold us a device with poor wifi and GPS to begin with!
Son of a beach.. WOW - you guys are right. My Camera has been out for months. happened to read this and tried it. Boom - camera works.
I used to really like this Prime - I was such an advocate.. but now my hinge on the keyboard is so loose, GPS sucks, Wifi issue, camera green - well up till now... This thing is actually a great feature set in a pile of junk!
Thanks Guys for the tip.
I just encountered this problem today.... 2 weeks after my warranty has expired. Anyway I squeezed the camera area and it appears to have fixed itself. I have never dropped this tablet and treat it with kid gloves so not sure how the connectors could have come loose. Hope the fix holds.
I really wish Asus would have recalled this tablet. As much as i hate apple products you could be sure they would have recalled it if they had this many issues.
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This sounds a lot like the squeeze fix for bad wifi signal that was discussed a long time ago. I wounder if they used the same type of connector for the camera and the wifi antennas.
Well that fix didn't last long. Camera is now doing the green thing again and this time I can't get it to go back to normal. Piece of crap! This is honestly the first time I have every had a piece of electronics fail on me. I am tired of paying top dollar for cheap crap.
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I also have the same problem. Camera broke weeks after I had owned it for a year. In the UK we were all offered our money back or an extension of the warranty to 18 months. I thought I had the 18 month warranty. Asus are telling me they have no record of it and are currently refusing to fix this obvious manufacturing defect. I am the original owner of the tablet and registered it in their VIP website when I got it.
For some inexplicable reason I still like my tablet though. I just don't like Asus, in particular their (lack of) customer support. I think they should be a little kinder to their beta testers. i.e. anyone that bought a Prime from new.
Oh... and the temp fix doesn't work for long.
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same thing, green completely garbled screen, pushed on either side of the camera and it fixed itself... won't stay though
This is interesting. I just logged onto the asus site to check my registered products and my prime is not listed either. The only item listed is my Asus motherboard. I know 100% that I registered the tablet.... in fact you had to in order to receive the GPS Dongle. Looks like Asus really wants to forget the prime even existed by blowing away all the records.
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FIX!!!
Ladies and gentlemen,
I believe I have a fix for green screen camera. After trying many, many things, including flashing rom, I cleared cache and data for gallery app and voilà - camera is working like new. Give it a go.
I just tried clearing the data and cache for the gallery app but it did not fix my problem.
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its a hardware problem.. (loose pins or something). cannot be fixed through software..
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its a hardware problem.. (loose pins or something). cannot be fixed through software..
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Mine wasn't. The pressure method didn't work but clearing the gallery cache and data did. The TF camera must have multiple issues....
OK, so the camera issue had returned today. I tried what worked before (clearing gallery cache and data) with no success. Then I booted into recovery and ran "Fix Permissions". When my Prime booted up camera was working again. I'm thinking that in my case it may not be a hardware issue but a software one. I just wish I'd know exactly what causes it.
touching the connections on the camera PCB fixes mine, but it's rather impractical to crack open the prime every time I want to take a photo... Either an instability (oscillation), dry joint or broken connection of the flex-pcb is my guess.
Omg. So glad I found this post. I tried it and lo and behold it worked. Thank you for taking the time to post the solution.
Oi
Meu celular está com a camera verde quando vou filmar.
como resolvo ?