Switch to front camera gives me a camera FC - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Here's the story, bought an used S2, both back camera and front camera were working, but the back camera lens was a bit bad (the one on the case, it had scratches everywhere) so I replaced the back part of the case. My front camera had a little, small piece of dust inside it, so I disconnected the ribbon cable and lifted it up, my surprise was that when I kinda lifted it a bit up..
THESE TWO THINGS WERE SEPARATED.
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The black thing (which I think it's called the lens) stayed on the hole.
In this hole:
it was not like the picture above, the black thing stayed down there and just the cable with some mirror-ish thing came out..
and the little piece of ribbon cable came apart without it. I gave it no importance and lifted the black thing by myself, cleaned both and when I did the reassembly and turned the phone on, the front facing camera gives me a force close as soon as I switch to it.
Any thoughts? did I damage the front camera by touching accidentally that part that looks like a mirror between the black thing and the ribbon piece? help! Back camera worked okay after some pushes, it wasn't working either but now it is..

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Bump for justice.. I miss my front facing camera ;_;

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Looks like my camera will remain dead.. seriously no one knows about hardware here?

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I think you have accidentally removed the connection of front cam install antutu and check if it detects your front cam in specs

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Just open it once more and see if its connected properly,check for any damage as well...see maybe there's a small "metal" parts that need to be matched together ("on top" and "bottom")
if everything looks fine,you will need to replace that cam

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bhavstech said:
I think you have accidentally removed the connection of front cam install antutu and check if it detects your front cam in specs
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You mean here?
It looks pretty detected to me..
elixir. said:
Just open it once more and see if its connected properly,check for any damage as well...see maybe there's a small "metal" parts that need to be matched together ("on top" and "bottom")
if everything looks fine,you will need to replace that cam
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Yeah everything is as it should be, ribbon cables are connected properly.. I know it kinda looks like it's a hardware issue, it's so weird.. I would take some pics of how it looks now but I'm so afraid of damaging the rear camera(again) lol.. won't even touch the inner part..

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Try to start it without SD card in the phone if that didn't help,fix permissions...
(I think you have already tried to force close the camera app and clear data?)

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If this issue persists in different roms with different kernel's(considering you already tried different troubleshooting methods like a different cam app) it will probably be a hardware issue,
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elixir. said:
Try to start it without SD card in the phone if that didn't help,fix permissions...
(I think you have already tried to force close the camera app and clear data?)
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I don't own an SDcard.. and fixing permissions didn't help either. Yeah. every time I switched to front camera it would FC when I tried to open camera, so yeah I have wiped camera's data a lot of times.
king_below_my_lord said:
If this issue persists in different roms with different kernel's(considering you already tried different troubleshooting methods like a different cam app) it will probably be a hardware issue,
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Umm.. I have to download some new ROMs then, will download, try and report. And yeah I have tried another camera apps with the same FC result..

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Phenomzye said:
I don't own an SDcard.. and fixing permissions didn't help either. Yeah. every time I switched to front camera it would FC when I tried to open camera, so yeah I have wiped camera's data a lot of times.
Umm.. I have to download some new ROMs then, will download, try and report. And yeah I have tried another camera apps with the same FC result..
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Good trying out a different ROM with a different kernel will verify whether it was a camera driver issue, and also might bypass any other kind of application conflicts.
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