[Q] Camera Black Screen | Cyanogenmod 11 | Full wipe - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I do not have enough posts to post in the cyanogenmod nightlies thread to get a definitive answer, hence why this subforum. I guess my question may be rom independent anyway.
I 'upgraded' from an M release of cyanogenmod to a nightly and buggered my phone. I was forced to flash the stock firmware and then reflash the nightly to fix everything. Except my camera shows a black screen (behind the onscreen focus and options) and force closes nearly all the time. I thought it was just the nightly, but 2 months and 20+ new nightlies later, I still have the issue. In the nightles dev thread, people say the camera is fine. I know the hardware is fine, because 1 in 40 tries the camera randomly works.
I tried a factory wipe, which I now know just wipes user data. So In CWM, under 'mounts and storage' I formatted everything I could and did another factory reset, cache etc. No fix.
I guess this issue is with the rom itself, if the camera is force closing? So I'll have to use Odin or such to flash a stock rom again and flash another cyanogenmod version? But I want to check this is correct before continuing, and how I can completely wipe any trace of the current rom before flashing the stock and another nightly - so I don't get this issue again.
Thanks

So I finally found the issue, after battling with heimdall on ubuntu 14.04 for hours. Its a hardware problem.
I'm just going to leave my experience here in case someone else has the same issue, since anything to do with all the issue I am about to describe don't seem to be documented anywhere on the web clearly.
Firstly, I battled with heimdall 1.3.2 to recognise my phone on ubuntu. I kept getting;
Code:
ERROR: Failed to receive response!
After a number of threads talking about installing usblibx drivers I found one about which libs to install from terminal;
Code:
sudo apt-get install libXXXX
Code:
libusb-ocaml
libdevice-usb-perl
libhpmud0 (not sure if it's essential)
libusb-0.1-4
libusb-1.0-0
libusb-1.0-0-dev
libusb-dev
libusbprog-dev
libusb++-0.1-4c2
libusb++-dev
libusbtc08-1
libusbmuxd-dev
libusbprog0
libusbmuxd1
I installed all but couldn't find libusbmuxd1, restarted anyway, to the same error. I purged heimdall 1.3.2 and instead installed it from the Ubuntu software centre, which using
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sudo apt-cache policy heimdall
showed that I had version 1.4 installed. Then I managed to find
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libusbx-1.0.14_1.0.14-1_amd64.deb
floating somewhere on the internet, which finally installed the proper libusb stuff and allowed heimdall to continue without the error message.
I made a .pit file from my phone. I recommend this first. After hours searching for a stock rom (samsung has removed most of its firmware downloads? and asked links to be removed on other sites!?) came across this site
(I can't post links as a new user) - google [TUTORIAL] Flashing i9000, i9100 or i9300 with Heimdall
Which explains how to flash using heimdall. After a successful flash, my phone didn't get farther than the boot animation. I booted into stock recovery with vol up-home-power to factory reset, but noticed a dead droid and red writting. Rather than continue, I wanted to fix this, so I followed the tutorial again, but this time checked repartition under the pit path, and hoped for the best. The phone stalled at the boot anim again, but this time in recovery, all was good.
I did a data wipe / factory reset, cache wipe etc, but nothing. So I stuck the stock rom zip onto the micro sd and installed it from recovery, factory reset, and rebooted. (which is odd, having to install the rom from recovery - because doesn't that kinda defeat the point of using the same image on heimdall in the first place?!?)
The phone booted! So after all that, (Having data/factory reset, wiped the cache, (wiped the dalvik cache when i had CWM before and formatted all I could in mounts and storage) flashed the stock ROM AND repartitioned the phone) i thought that would eliminate any software issues. I thought the camera would work.
Nope.
As usual, the front camera worked, but the back, now, after a pause would give the samsung error:
Code:
unknown error by errorcallback
Now, after googling this (Cyanogenmod gave a different error with no related answers on google) and being annoyed at my time lost, I took the tongue and cheek advice from some random forum commenter, to tap the camera hard.
It worked.
Apparently, the entire time the camera was suffering from a hardware issue. Something about a 'sticky shutter'. Anyways, i'm going to leave the stock ROM and take it into a shop to get it fixed. Just leaving this trail of breadcrumbs in the hope it helps someone else.
Perhaps this could be marked as 'solved'.

Same problem
FINALLY; first time I see the problem I have (I'm not feeling good about you having the problem, btw). I've had this problem for a lot of time and I haven't had found it elsewhere.
I have the same issue, but without the error that says "unknown error by errorcallback". Mine just says "Unfortunately, Camera has stopped working". I didn't really understand if it had appeared to you after you did all that, or if it was from the beginning... anyways, just "tapping hard" the camera will make it work? And, did it fix it permanently?
Sorry for any typo.
Edit: I've "tapped" the camera really hard, and no signs of anything. Any advice? (I've done practically everything you have done but flashing the stock rom)

JCNouel said:
FINALLY; first time I see the problem I have (I'm not feeling good about you having the problem, btw). I've had this problem for a lot of time and I haven't had found it elsewhere.
I have the same issue, but without the error that says "unknown error by errorcallback". Mine just says "Unfortunately, Camera has stopped working". I didn't really understand if it had appeared to you after you did all that, or if it was from the beginning... anyways, just "tapping hard" the camera will make it work? And, did it fix it permanently?
Sorry for any typo.
Edit: I've "tapped" the camera really hard, and no signs of anything. Any advice? (I've done practically everything you have done but flashing the stock rom)
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Try flashing stock rom and see if this fixes your problem.

gsstudios said:
Try flashing stock rom and see if this fixes your problem.
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It fixed it, but then I flashed back the AICP ROM, which is KK, and it malfunctioned again. I'm going to try with a JB Custom ROM.

Update: I flashed a JB Custom Rom (Fusion Rom) and it's working good so far.

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Random freezing

So I have had some weird issues. I was running on Slimbean when this started. Out of nowhere my device started freezing from time to times, like if I was writing a text message or something. Everything would just stop and then I had to reboot the system to get it functional again. This started to get annoying so I did a clean reinstall of Slimbean, formatted system and cache etc. That didn't help so I decided to change the rom. I installed another AOSP rom, Carbonrom but that did't help (of course I did a clean install). After that I decided to try if changing the rom to Sammy based would help. I was wrong.
At this point I taught that something with my hardware would be broken. So I installed triangleaway, formatted system and then installed samsung's official firmware with odin. Then I did a factory reset from system settings. My plans were to send the phone to warranty but strangely after running the stock rom for about a week, the freezing problems were gone, when earlier it was a daily thing.
So now I'm wondering what could have it been and why? If I reroot and install a custom rom now, will the freezing start again?
Hi there,
There's a big thread on this, with a solution(I can confirm that it worked for me):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2133401
GL
eytan123 said:
Hi there,
There's a big thread on this, with a solution(I can confirm that it worked for me):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2133401
GL
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Oops sorry I used search but somehow missed that thread
that's cool, for the next time.
hope you'll end this cause it really is very annoying

[Q] "Systemui has stopped" - Carbon rom

I just rooted my HOX+ and installed CWM and flashed 23/06 Carbon nightly on it. For a couple of days everything was fine
until today when it said "Unfortunately.. blah blah.. systemui has stopped working". Every time I boot up the phone it gives me
this message and I can't do anything. Rebooting doesn't help, I tried wiping everything and reflashing, still nothing. I did some
research and found a thread about face unlock might causing this. I disabled the face unlock but didn't work. I don't know if it's
caused by some google app cuz when I reflashed everything, including gapps, first there was no problem, but I think when it was
installing google search the error message came again. Have anyone else experienced this error? Any solutions?
AveEagle said:
I just rooted my HOX+ and installed CWM and flashed 23/06 Carbon nightly on it. For a couple of days everything was fine
until today when it said "Unfortunately.. blah blah.. systemui has stopped working". Every time I boot up the phone it gives me
this message and I can't do anything. Rebooting doesn't help, I tried wiping everything and reflashing, still nothing. I did some
research and found a thread about face unlock might causing this. I disabled the face unlock but didn't work. I don't know if it's
caused by some google app cuz when I reflashed everything, including gapps, first there was no problem, but I think when it was
installing google search the error message came again. Have anyone else experienced this error? Any solutions?
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Same here. It started yesterday. Tried to flash older and newer ones with full wipe including cache and dalvik cache, but it still does not help.
I flashed a sense rom (ARHD) and wiped nearly everything on the phone before I installed the new rom. I did multiple factory resets, multiple dalvik wipes, multiple cache wipes and I formatted the whole system a few times (=format system). Afterwards I flashed ARHD and my phone works brilliant now. Try this I hope it works on your devices!
I made a fresh install of Carbon on my HOX+ last week (CARBON-KK-NIGHTLY-20140802-1713-enrc2b, fwiw), and it worked just fine up until last night when I encountered this exact problem. The official enrc2b Carbon thread contains a post that would seem to indicate that the problem is with Google Plus (though there isn't much in the way of evidence).
In any case, completely wiping and re-installing the phone appears to be a solution, but I would submit that it's temporary - if the problem is some sort of incompatibility with one or more Google Apps, then the issue will simply return at some point.
Hopefully the root cause will be determined and a fix will be forthcoming. Until then, I suspect we're all just sitting on time-bombs.
i think the problem comes really from the google+ app.
i did a clean install after the crash with the small pa gapps, wich didn't contains the google+ app.
Then i reinstall al my apps one by one except g+ and now everything works perfect again.
It's a little bit more work, but the only way i know to fix..
Hope it helps
I had the same problem with Carbon. I've installed Carbon a view days ago (comming from Mokee) and after the latest G+ Update my SystemUI stopped. A dirty flash didn't solve the problem.
So I restored my Mokee Backup and here everythink is great (with the latest G+ update)

Unfortunately, settings has stopped; even after clear data.

I know there are many forums addressing this problem but mines is a bit different, I know the common solution is App Info > Clear Data but this doesn't help. Neither does a force stop, reset or a clearing of settings cache.
I resolved to needing to do a data wipe, however I received this message, "failed to stat /data/date/com.android.defcontainer/cache" and nothing wiped. I started the phone to the exact same home screen and apps, but I had lost wifi settings and such, and can't open settings to set up wifi yet again.
I contemplated reflashing CM through the installer but wasn't sure if the failed to stat problem would interfere and potentially brick.
Any help would be much appreciated, cheers.
Flash the latest stock firmware for your country with Odin, factory reset in recovery before first boot.
boomboomer said:
Flash the latest stock firmware for your country with Odin, factory reset in recovery before first boot.
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I read online that downgrading from 4.4 (CM) to Stock 4.3 would hard brick the device, is there any merit to this?
No, if you use the right firmware and do it properly there is no more risk than with a normal flash.
Problems with all roms SM-T210
Hi!
This problem is driving me crazy!
I have a similar problem!
I have Samsung Galaxy Tab SM-T210
For a long time I used RocketTab rom. I decided to try out new Android 4.4.2 Rom.
I started to get an error "Unfortunately settings has stopped" when I tried to open settings. I also got another application errors.
Now, it does not matter what rom I install, i get application has stopped error.
Even the RocketTab rom.
I flashed original stock rom via Odin, same problem.
I tried CWM and TWRP recovery.
I wiped dalvik cache, system, cache, Data, internal storage.
After flashing a new rom via odin or recovery, same problem.
I don't understand how it's possible that after deleting everything, I still get the same error.
Sometimes when I open settings, instead of getting an error, tablet restarts.
Tablet was 100% working before flashing Android 4.2.2
Any ideas?
Thanks guys
Why are you asking in the i9300 forum?
boomboomer said:
Why are you asking in the i9300 forum?
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Because the problem seems to be very similar.
Point taken!

Getting "com.android.phone has stopped working error" cm11 official vs985

I have just recently tried to install the official cm11 images for my g3. They worked fine. Then, when I installed gel x-posed settings and activated it, I would get said error. It would pop up again and again. This would lead me to reflash my ROM. Then, I do not know what happened, when I would flash a ROM, I would get the error from the start. I eventually fixed this error. But then, when I tried to upgrade the nightly, I got the error again. So I flashed the ROM again, and let it sit. After a little while of perfection, the error came back up!
Here's what I have tried:
-reflashing the boot.IMG (unzipped)
-clearing cache (recovery)
-clearing Sim tool cache/data (said they were non existent when trying)
-reflashing stock, then reflashing cm11
I really want cm11 on my g3, but with these issues, I don't know whether I can now.
Any help would be appreciated!
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CM Nightlies are working perfect for me with no errors. Here is the process I went through:
I am still using TWRP 2.8.0 which is the version I installed when I originally Bumped! my phone.
I downloaded CM and Gapps to root of my internal SD storage
I chose to Wipe in TWRP
I chose Advance Wipe
I picked every option except for Internal Storage and External SD Card/Storage
I then Wiped
Out of habit, I do this 3 times (don't ask why, I just do it from when I had older android devices)
I then go back to wipe main screen and slide to do the standard wipe, 3 times
Yes, this is probably overkill!
I then go to install in TWRP
I install CM, then I install gapps (using the gapps that are on this list: https://itvends.com/gapps/
Yes, the date of those gapps are a little older, but that is what worked for me per OP'S instructions
I went through setup of my phone, fixing APN, Setting WIFI to USA, signing into Google after first loading into Rom instead of signing into Google on first bootup. Did a reboot
Installed Xposed, and the modules needed, reboot
I never received any error
I have done 3 nightly updates so far, as of 11/30. I am sure 12/1 will be ready in an hour or so.
I always click on about phone, download said update and let the process do its thing automatically, walk away and the phone is ready to use
Still no errors whatsoever. In fact, this has been the first version of AOSP I have used for the G3 with 0 errors. It is perfect, for me - No issues.
Hope that helps.
mwest316 said:
CM Nightlies are working perfect for me with no errors. Here is the process I went through:
I am still using TWRP 2.8.0 which is the version I installed when I originally Bumped! my phone.
I downloaded CM and Gapps to root of my internal SD storage
I chose to Wipe in TWRP
I chose Advance Wipe
I picked every option except for Internal Storage and External SD Card/Storage
I then Wiped
Out of habit, I do this 3 times (don't ask why, I just do it from when I had older android devices)
I then go back to wipe main screen and slide to do the standard wipe, 3 times
Yes, this is probably overkill!
I then go to install in TWRP
I install CM, then I install gapps (using the gapps that are on this list:
Yes, the date of those gapps are a little older, but that is what worked for me per OP'S instructions
I went through setup of my phone, fixing APN, Setting WIFI to USA, signing into Google after first loading into Rom instead of signing into Google on first bootup. Did a reboot
Installed Xposed, and the modules needed, reboot
I never received any error
I have done 3 nightly updates so far, as of 11/30. I am sure 12/1 will be ready in an hour or so.
I always click on about phone, download said update and let the process do its thing automatically, walk away and the phone is ready to use
Still no errors whatsoever. In fact, this has been the first version of AOSP I have used for the G3 with 0 errors. It is perfect, for me - No issues.
Hope that helps.
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I did everything exactly as you did, including the 3 wipes, also out of habit. I too however, get the same error with the latest nightly. It starts popping up as I try to add my Gmail account at the initial setup. Previously, the 'unofficial' builds did not do this to me. This is the only rom that does this, I have tried them all out. I have yet to try to flash a different gapps package to see if that makes a difference. Apparently I dont get the data issues with cm12, but get phone issues with cm11.
I'm a bit relieved to see I'm not the only one having this problem. Been updating every night to see if maybe it's fixed, but I still get the same error. Didn't happen on the first nightly I flashed, though. It lol seems to be happening at random for me. Sometimes I'll set my phone down for a couple hours, working perfectly fine. Then I pick it up to check something and I suddenly start getting that error. I've tried every "solution" I find and none of them work for me. Even thought it was an issue with reading my sim card because when I get the error, it shows that my sim card isn't being read. But I still get it when I take it out. A normal factory reset doesn't fix it either. I have to do a complete data format to remove the error.
I found a quick little fix where i make a backup earlier in the day and just restore it whenever I start getting the error, but it's still very annoying.
Same issue
Hey bros,
Same thing here. It's a baseband radio issue. Notice in settings under About Phone it says 'Baseband Version: Unknown'. Either TWRP is flashing over our baseband (not likely, calls and texts can be made before the error message attacks come), or CM11 has some issue on certain builds with reading our SIM cards. I think having an official 10B or 11C flashable baseband radio to install at the time of the ROM install will fix this problem. Waiting on CM to patch the code will take too long. Let me know if you find one of these basebands or can find out how to extract it (from file manager or somewhere?) as I have not been able to find this info on XDA or anywhere.
EDIT: I FIXED IT
I'm a new member, and XDA won't allow me to post links..... look in the OP for JasmineROM (all credit to author for posting this 11C modem and fabulous stock LG debloated ROM) under downloads, you'll find the 11C modem. Download it.
1. Place 11C modem.zip on external or internal, whichever you want. I prefer external.
In TWRP:
2. Backup, unless youre livin' life on the edge.
3. Wipe it all except for external (or internal, if you prefer to flash from your internal storage)
4. Add to Install zip que in order:
a) latest CM11 nightly
b) 11C modem found in JasmineROM OP of main thread
c) GAPPs of your choice (I like nano PA GAPPs, and just install whatever else i want after)
5. FLASH
6. profit
7. PHAP
I have heard the 10B radio works great too. holler back and post results between the 2 stock radios for VS985.
Please hit thanks, as I am new and want to be helpful, where possible. Please share this so others know that we can overcome this nonsense.
CM11!!! Phappin' so hard right now!
Got it again.... totally blowed right now. maybe reconfig APN to match VZW and it will work?
Thanks for all the responses, it currently seems that the problem is cm11. I will probably wait for a stable build. For now, I'm using an unofficial cm12 ROM. Thanks for all the help!
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8pscott said:
Thanks for all the responses, it currently seems that the problem is cm11. I will probably wait for a stable build. For now, I'm using an unofficial cm12 ROM. Thanks for all the help!
Sent from my LG-VS985 using XDA Free mobile app
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Are you using that PA GAPPs package that's in alpha? I think i'm going to give up and go to 12 too... I do know that the first official nightly of CM11 doesn't give me any errors, but Trebuchet is so buggy it won't take widgets. Had to download Nova
It makes me cry. My phone lasted through the night. Woke up at around 7 and it was fine. Went back to sleep and woke up at around 8:30 and I was crushed to see the problem happening again. There doesn't seem to actually be anything thy triggers it. :/
Yeah I think I'm gonna just try out cm12 and see how that goes.
Double check to make sure the phone isn't running in art. That fixed my problems! Xposed and art do not work together!![emoji2]
Im getting the same error on my phone usually a few says after using any of the nightlies. When i go to make a phone call it gives me the force close and doesnt stop. Ive since moved back to stock hoping someone had more info on the issue. My phone was not using Art but I did have xposed installed.

Poco F1 in a dead end after hours of trial and errors.

As tittle says, I have been in XDA for a while, never created an account cause I have always encountered responses to all my problems there. But not this time. I have created an account just to ask you people if someone knows (or had) this problem.
I have been getting touchscreen problems since a while (I dont know if it was caused by a custom kernel I changed months ago, or by touchscreen needing a replacement). Then the problem with WebView happend, but after trying to fix it by OTA, reinstalling WebView, clearing cache of google apps and few other things, apps kept closing randomly, and with the touchscreen failing, it was a real pain, so I downloaded a few roms and saved all my data, then went to TWRP. I updated it to 3.5.2_10-0-beryllium before anything, and flashed vendor, firmware and ROM GLOBAL_V12.0.3.0.QEJMIXM_cf3fccffce_10.0. Here begins the brick. I cannot pass the first boot, in any of the roms I tried. In MIUI, the logo of starting stay indefinitly (not the poco one, the MIUI one). I tried pa-quartz-5-beryllium-20200924, also stays infinitly in the green ball logo moving. After that, I tried lineage-18.1-20210410-nightly-beryllium-signed, with the same result, Infinite starting moving blue logo (more than 8h and still didnt boot). I tried clean installs and dirty installs. The worst part is that my PC only recognizes my F1 on recovery, Fastboot don't seems to be working (I was going to try flashing via fastboot). And here I am, after 6h of trying different installs, flashing the Disable Force Encryptation, flashing stock firmware and stock rom, stock firmware and custom roms, flashing vendor, not flashing vendor, etc... Im sick.
Thanks in advance to anyone who try to help me.
EDIT: I missed that i was having random reboots too, not only touchscreen fails.
iJaviXR said:
As tittle says, I have been in XDA for a while, never created an account cause I have always encountered responses to all my problems there. But not this time. I have created an account just to ask you people if someone knows (or had) this problem.
I have been getting touchscreen problems since a while (I dont know if it was caused by a custom kernel I changed months ago, or by touchscreen needing a replacement). Then the problem with WebView happend, but after trying to fix it by OTA, reinstalling WebView, clearing cache of google apps and few other things, apps kept closing randomly, and with the touchscreen failing, it was a real pain, so I downloaded a few roms and saved all my data, then went to TWRP. I updated it to 3.5.2_10-0-beryllium before anything, and flashed vendor, firmware and ROM GLOBAL_V12.0.3.0.QEJMIXM_cf3fccffce_10.0. Here begins the brick. I cannot pass the first boot, in any of the roms I tried. In MIUI, the logo of starting stay indefinitly (not the poco one, the MIUI one). I tried pa-quartz-5-beryllium-20200924, also stays infinitly in the green ball logo moving. After that, I tried lineage-18.1-20210410-nightly-beryllium-signed, with the same result, Infinite starting moving blue logo (more than 8h and still didnt boot). I tried clean installs and dirty installs. The worst part is that my PC only recognizes my F1 on recovery, Fastboot don't seems to be working (I was going to try flashing via fastboot). And here I am, after 6h of trying different installs, flashing the Disable Force Encryptation, flashing stock firmware and stock rom, stock firmware and custom roms, flashing vendor, not flashing vendor, etc... Im sick.
Thanks in advance to anyone who try to help me.
EDIT: I missed that i was having random reboots too, not only touchscreen fails.
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Check my POCO F1 Ultimate Collection & Guides. Try to Clean Install Pixel Experience for example, according my guide (u need to format data also). Let me know how it goes.
Tried Android 10 and 11 Pixel Experience, tried with stock and NG Kernels. Still stays forever in the first load of the SO.
Just got the properties file from XiaomiADBFastbootTools. Maybe someone can see something wrong on it.

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