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???
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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
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...
I was using the camera app and the front camera and I was moving around the phone and noticed these vertical streaks on the screen, only in front facing camera mode. It also does this in snapchat.
I have restarted my phone, reset the app data and cleared the cache.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Just noticed this happens to me too. Especially when the front camera facing bright sky
Hey so I actually returned my phone showed it to them and they gave me a new one. It is not software related (my issue) and was a loose connection it seemed. Try to return it and get a new one. Check in the store to see if it does the same thing.
Anyone got the same issue "camera failed to connect" . And sometimes on night shot it just keeps saying like in the picture but it doesn't stop or captures the photo..
pogi.paul0119 said:
Anyone got the same issue "camera failed to connect" . And sometimes on night shot it just keeps saying like in the picture but it doesn't stop or captures the photo..
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Had the same issue a couple of times. Try clearing data/cache and see if it helps.
Was happening to me almost once a day. Reboot would fix it temporarily but it would come back.
Contacted support. They told me to go to settings, system, reset, reset all settings (doesn't delete any data or app).
I thought it was silly and just their usual first step... But I tried it and so far haven't had the issue in 4 days.. Crossing fingers!
Maybe some glitch in between firmware updates that got cleaned by the reset? I'm on .127 (Telus, Canada)
Issue with camera app
Hi,
I am seeing the same issue. Sometimes when I open camera app it says 'Camera failed to connect'. Then this lasts sometimes for seconds, sometimes reopening app multiple times solves this and one time I had to restart phone. Also sometimes the camera app opens up but with no camera shutter button or any settings option. This is very annoying. I am using lawnchair launcher. Phone has also frozen in other apps couple of times like in WhatsApp which is not acceptable with this processor.
The in display fingerprint scanner is also not reliable I hardly use it now as it doesn't work many times.
My software version is .126
Can the camera app issue be a manufacturing defect or a software issue as very few people have posted this issue? If manufacturing defect then I will have to head to service centre immediately.
Thanks
I haven't had this happen again after I swapped back to the stock launcher... Which is admittedly an absolute ridiculous solution