I have a stock rooted G3 running ZV8. One day last week, my rear facing camera stopped working. No warnings or anything like that beforehand, just no longer working. I get a black screen with only a back button and the last pic taken icon, but nothing else. When I try to access the camera from another camera app I get the message that the camera can't be started or is in use by another application.
The front facing camera seems to still be functional, but can only be accessed by a camera app that goes directly to it, like Camera360. I'm at a complete loss as to ideas about whether this is a software issue, or a hardware issue. If anyone else has had issues with their camera no longer working, any info you can give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
I am having the same problem, and it just appeared out of nowhere as well... I have tried clearing the camera apps cache and data and have wiped davlick from twrp but to no avail. Going to try wiping and reinstalling the rom and will get back to you if it works.
I am running the stock rooted rom :S
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Got the tab a week ago. The front facing camera was working fine, tried it again today and the color was all screwed up. Is this a hardware or software problem? The back camera still works fine. The picture attached was taken from the front camera.
I would think it is a software issue. Did you install any rom or photo software?
Nope. Havent installed any camera apps or messed with any settings.
If you have root, and you can try flashing a fresh rom.
I have exactly the same issue on my Nexus S. Back camera also works fine. I have stock 4.1.2. Never flashed anything else. Phone version is I9023XXKI1. I know it worked flawlessly for months in skype. Then it changed to this weird color mode for some calls and back without any apparent reason. Now it doesn't change anymore. It just stays this way. I tried to change many settings, nothing helps. I'm also attaching image.
This is the only post I found that seems to be the same as my problem. The hardware is different (well, they are both from Samsung) but result is the same.
My camera all of the sudden stopped working the other day. Whenever I try to use it, the screen goes black then force closes after a few minutes. I tried to download a few other camera apps and nothing happened. Currently running with no root and I don't want to root it until the camera is fixed, unless that would help fix it.
MSK01 said:
My camera all of the sudden stopped working the other day. Whenever I try to use it, the screen goes black then force closes after a few minutes. I tried to download a few other camera apps and nothing happened. Currently running with no root and I don't want to root it until the camera is fixed, unless that would help fix it.
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If you're on a 100% stock ROM with no changes and no root access with a camera that stopped working, there are very few things which can be done.
The only real solution would be to clear out the specific stock camera application's data directory. Not sure if this is possible w/o having to clear all the data.
I'd suggest the following steps in this order:
1) Manage applications under settings is where to look to clear out the specific Camera application data in hopes that only something was corrupted. Reboot and test.
2) Wipe all data on the device. Reboot and test.
3) If none of these worked, personally, I would return/exchange the stock device for another one as at this point, it would definitely seem to be hardware related.
An alternative route would be to gain root access and look into switch kernels/ROMs, but this could end up being a dead end if the issue is hardware related.
The only good/not so bad news is I've never seen the camera completely stop working on any of these devices .. at least not yet. So hopefully this issue is not hardware related! Good luck!
I cleared out the camera information and it worked the second I restarted my phone. Thank you!
That happened to me to, nothing I tried worked. Was good that I had ESRP. The Sprint store replacement the phone in lieu of just fixing the camera
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That happened to me to, nothing I tried worked. Was good that I had ESRP. The Sprint store replacement the phone in lieu of just fixing the camera
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Sometimes it's nice for them to just fix your phone and not give you a refurb. My sprint store seems to screw ur phone up when they fix it lol.
In the past when I was on the evo they swapped my screen out and broke my volume buttons. Then they just gave me a refurb.
Same thing happened to me. Suddenly, it doesn't work. Oddly enough, the Front Face camera does work by using the Mirror app. But the Rear camera does not respond when launching the Camera app.
I already tried switching ROMs, switching kernels, factory defaults, and nothing worked. Might be a hardware issue. I just hope it can be fixed without replacing my phone. It would suck having a replacement phone with HBOOT v1.50...
Hey there,
Everytime I try to activate the front camera I either get a 'cannot open camera' error or just a black screen (even though I can change the settings), sometimes I just get a FC after few seconds.
I tried using different camera application and all I get is a black screen, some application allow me to take a picture but the result is just a completely black image.
I don't know what triggered the problem, it was pretty sudden. I was on CM7. Even after a complete wipe and flashing olympus rom, nothing has changed.
I tried cleaning the cache, rebooting, everything I can think of.
Looking for older threads in the forums didn't result any useful information.
Help would be very much appreciated.
bump?
Have you flashed a full blur ROM yet to make sure it isn't a hardware issue?
Sent from my Atrix with XDA Premium
Lets say I go back to motion blur rom and nothing changes, will it confirm that it is certainly a hardware issue? Thanks for the respond.
I haven't mentioned it but the LED doesn't work too.
Its possible that a cable was knocked loose. If you verify it is a hardware issue, you can void your warranty and take apart your phone to try and fix it following instructions here: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Motorola-Atrix-4G-Teardown/4964/1
I dropped my phone in some water, and the volume up button was acting like it was always being pressed (really annoying when rebooting as it kept kicking into RSD mode). I managed to disassemble it and clean the button, and now it works great again.
Is the only way to verify is to install motion blur rom? If so, is there any recommendation for a specific rom that might give me the most accurate indication that it's a hardware issue?
Thanks for the quick respond.
I would say that as soon as you have tried a ROM with a different kernel, you have verified a hardware issue.
Changed to motion blur based rom, still dead.
I guess it's a hardware issue.
Btw I dont know why I wrote it's the front camera but I meant the back camera so if it's BACK Camera+LED Light and switching roms/format/hardreset didn't help so it's a hardware problem.
I'll try and contact Motorola since I still have warranty.
My camera worked initially but after switching it to front cam and back I can't get it to display anything and it will force close after 5 seconds.
Face unlock works without a problem and I have tried clearing the camera's data.
3rd party camera apps also fail with the same problem.
Any ideas? I am unrooted and no modifications done yet. Just got the phone yesterday..
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My camera worked initially but after switching it to front cam and back I can't get it to display anything and it will force close after 5 seconds.
Face unlock works without a problem and I have tried clearing the camera's data.
3rd party camera apps also fail with the same problem.
Any ideas? I am unrooted and no modifications done yet. Just got the phone yesterday..
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Thats looks like a system failure... Unrooted...
Try switching phone on and off. Be sure the problem didn't come from a recent app instaltion. Factory reset with a reliable backup and if that didn't help ring samsung. If not you could try flashing a different ROM but chances of that fixing it aren't that great!
I had this yesterday when changing video resolution, not happened since.
behelit said:
My camera worked initially but after switching it to front cam and back I can't get it to display anything and it will force close after 5 seconds.
Face unlock works without a problem and I have tried clearing the camera's data.
3rd party camera apps also fail with the same problem.
Any ideas? I am unrooted and no modifications done yet. Just got the phone yesterday..
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Have you tried checking if there is a new firmware update for your camera? presuming its the rear camera.
Info on the firmware update here allaboutsamsung.de/2012/06/samsung-galaxy-s3-update-fur-die-kamera-verfugbar/
Ryan
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I recently put CM 11 on my Verizon S4. Everything was working fine. I decided to update to a more recent nightly (likely last weekend). After the update, my camera doesn't work any more. When I go in to the camera it shows a blank screen for the camera image, freezes for a while and then a popup says that the Camera Failed! After googling, I tried restoring the previous CM 11 image that worked previously. I tried wiping the cache, force closing the app and clearing cache and data, I re-flashed the original Samsung image, I did a factory reset. Nothing worked to restore the camera. I went in today to a phone repair shop and they replaced the camera module. That didn't help - it still didn't work. Thankfully they didn't charge me anything for their time which was really nice of them. I get home and restored the CM 11 backup of the working image. The camera still doesn't work and now the external speakers don't work for media files. I was afraid that it was something forgotten to be reconnected by the repair shop, but I can hear the phone ring when I make a call. (I haven't received a call yet so I don't know if it is only on outgoing calls).
Can anyone point me to help or resources for how I can diagnose and hopefully fix these problems? My phone is falling apart and I don't know what to do!
Peter
[Update] I solved the camera problem by restoring a backup of the original TW rom. This seems similar to a problem I had with dubbsy's rom where the GPS wouldn't work some times after a flash and required restoring the touchwiz rom to get it to work and then re-flashing the custom rom. Once the camera started working again with the original rom it continues to work with the OctOS rom. Strange but at least it works.
The external speaker was resolved by taking it back to the repair shop. He switched the external speaker module with one from another S4. Putting it back together it worked, but when he put back in all the screws and closed things up it didn't work again. Finally loosening a few screws, getting it to work and then retightening solved it. I don't think it was the original speaker module, but something about opening it up and closing it back up caused the speaker not to work at all. Now it does and I can hear the ringer and notifications agin.