Hello,
My camera suddenly stopped working :[
I have cm11, and when I try to launch the app, it says "can't connect to the camera".
I tried rebooting, tried to factory restore, tried different apps, still nothing :|
Is there way to check that the camera is connected? maybe for some reason it disconnected
from the motherboard?
Flash stock firmware and factory reset, if still the same then reconnect/replace the camera module. I replaced mine recently, it took me 10 minutes and cost £5.
So after everything else didn't work,
decided to take apart the phone.
Turned out that the camera was disconnected as I thought,
Have no Idea how that happened, the phone did fall few days ago,
not that hard though...
Anyway works now, just the resolution settings for the back cam are the same
as for the front one... max resolution is 1.9mp :\
Will try to flash again...
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Hello All,
This is a problem that I faced with my HTC one. And was able to solve it too.
All of a sudden, when I start my camera, it is stuck with the first picture it captures. It does not update as I move the camera. But this works fine if I change it to video mode. When I opened the camera, It said "something went wrong" (don't remember exactly)
I had shut down and then switched on my HTC One. Still it was not working.
SOLUTION::
Finally restarting the mobile worked. Yes, RESTARTING is different from shutting down and then starting.
So guys, keep this in mind.
My Samsung Galaxy SII had been working fine, no issues at all until two days ago I went to take a picture and the camera won’t work, the camera screen is black and hanged up when I press to take a picture for a while then I just keep getting some error messages like force close, and media server not responding. I've tried to clear the cash and data for the camera application but nothing happened, I wiped the cash from the recovery mode without any success.
I tried other apps using camera some of the not working at all, and some recording some videos with the black screen on but after finishing recording it showed me what recorded but even this happened after long time of waiting for the app to do recording.
I tried to do the test for the camera using the code *#0*# for the back and front cam but get the error message of "activity factory test not responding (wait or Close)" then Camera failed. I searched over the web but most of those who had the same problem mentioned that they did factory reset with no luck.
On which Rom, Android version, Kernel are you? Recently installed gapps? Some day I had problems with the camera after flashing gapps.
pvlastarakos said:
My Samsung Galaxy SII had been working fine, no issues at all until two days ago I went to take a picture and the camera won’t work, the camera screen is black and hanged up when I press to take a picture for a while then I just keep getting some error messages like force close, and media server not responding. I've tried to clear the cash and data for the camera application but nothing happened, I wiped the cash from the recovery mode without any success.
I tried other apps using camera some of the not working at all, and some recording some videos with the black screen on but after finishing recording it showed me what recorded but even this happened after long time of waiting for the app to do recording.
I tried to do the test for the camera using the code *#0*# for the back and front cam but get the error message of "activity factory test not responding (wait or Close)" then Camera failed. I searched over the web but most of those who had the same problem mentioned that they did factory reset with no luck.
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go to settings-applications and force stop camera app also go to cached processes and stop camera
Reboot
Hope it helps mate
About 2 weeks ago my camera stopped working for 24 hours, when I tried opening the app and any app that used camera I got a message saying it stopped working. I tried all the tips to get it working again. Not sure what worked or what happened but after 24hrs the app would open up and allow me to take photos just fine, but then there were dots or something all over the lens. It's not dirt and I've tried all the tips again but nothing works. Camera won't focus past them and it's on all apps that use camera, front camera is fine. I'm don't know what happened. One day it was fine and the next it's stuffed. My phone wasn't dropped and I don't remember it overheating g. I did use Skype the day it went weird but I was using front camera, could that still be the cause
Help???
I tried adding a photo but couldn't. Maybe in comments.
Model Number: MT2L03
Build: MT2-L03C00B322
Android version: 5.1
EMUI 3.1
Not rooted.
Not sure exactly what the issue is. I think it needs a new battery. Because when it gets down to 10% left it will randomly go down to 2% all of the sudden, then I will get that message saying "phone powering off" then the phone is difficult to ever get back on... which is why I try to never let the battery go completely dead.
Anyways the other night it went completely dead..... I charged it for forever it seemed, I noticed it was a little warmer than usual.
I ignored it and left it plugged in.
The next day I took it apart (I have taken it apart before, and put it back together with everything working fine)
Reason I've taken it apart in the past is because I had to replace the lcd screen because the other one got sat on and it shattered.
So I have an originally white phone with a black lcd screen....
Anyways I took the phone apart again, looked at the battery to make sure it wasn't bloated or warm anymore. It was fine.
I turned it back on and I noticed when I open the stock camera app it kept saying "can't connect to camera" or something similar.
So I took it apart again, unplugged the camera and plugged it back in, tried rebooting the phone, and when I opened camera again the phone then rebooted itself a few times.
Now instead of getting the message of "unable to connect to camera" it's as if the phone doesn't see the rear camera at all anymore.
The flash for the rear camera doesn't work anymore either.
I got it to turn on for a while, when it couldn't connect to the rear camera, but then it didn't want to turn off, then the phone rebooted itself, and now I can't get the rear camera or the flash to work.
The front camera works fine. But as for the rear camera there are no options to switch to it like there used to be.
On the top of the camera app there used to be a sort of "refresh" icon that would switch between the two cameras, that's gone though.
I also tried downloading apps that tell you about android hardware... and they say for secondary camera something like "not detected"
I made sure though.... the rear camera is plugged in all the way.
I even tried the backup and reset thing....
I don't know how to boot this model of phone into safe mode. I tried holding the power button, but I'm not sure if you hold the physical button, or long press the power icon on the screen???
I opened the camera app and went to settings and restored defaults.
I also tried opening app info for camera and clicking clear data. Neither helped.
How do I get android to see that there is a camera there?
Would downgrading the phone to the original build it was on help?
I think it was originally android 4.3.
Edit: So my main questions are... how do I boot into safe mode?
Would rooting it and clearing the dalvik cache work maybe? Isn't that what causes android to say "optimizing app X of X" when booting up?
How do I root this phone? After I root it would there be anything I can do to troubleshoot the rear camera or flash?
It just seems weird to me that one minute it says it can't connect, but the flash was working. Then the phone rebooted itself, and now it doesn't even seem to realize that there is a rear camera plugged in. And now the flash for camera isn't working either. Even did a backup and reset.
My poco is fairly new, around 2 weeks. i recently noticed that whenever i turn to portrait mode via front camera, it the screen goes green and states that cant connect to camera, however if i use other options, it works fine. Please take note that sometimes portrait mode ( rear cam) work but often times it goes green. I tried restarting/ clear data it, sometimes solves the problem, sometimes it doesnt.
please Help
Johns problem said:
My poco is fairly new, around 2 weeks. i recently noticed that whenever i turn to portrait mode via front camera, it the screen goes green and states that cant connect to camera, however if i use other options, it works fine. Please take note that sometimes portrait mode ( rear cam) work but often times it goes green. I tried restarting/ clear data it, sometimes solves the problem, sometimes it doesnt.
please Help
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Same here. Is your phone manufactured in August batch. Look behind the box.
On what rom?stable or beta?same thing happened to me. But on rare occasion. Mine is from september batch.
I got solved my problem, can't connect to camera
I got same prob, but my case I downgrade my poco from miui 10 to miui 9...
Try to register/sign in mi cloud, then reset the phone to factory.. Setup again and login to mi cloud.. After that your camera will works again..
Hope this will help you guys :good: