Hi,
Recently I'm having a problem with the LED flash, whenever I try to use it either to take a photo or on the flashlight app, it makes a short flicker and then shuts down. In case I want to take a picture at night it is particularly annoying because the flash terminates before the picture is actually taken so everything comes out darkened.
I'm wondering if anyone else ever experienced this problem as well. I'm not sure this is a hardware problem like a busted flash, or maybe there some software bug making this happen.
Uri
uri.patish said:
Hi,
Recently I'm having a problem with the LED flash, whenever I try to use it either to take a photo or on the flashlight app, it makes a short flicker and then shuts down. In case I want to take a picture at night it is particularly annoying because the flash terminates before the picture is actually taken so everything comes out darkened.
I'm wondering if anyone else ever experienced this problem as well. I'm not sure this is a hardware problem like a busted flash, or maybe there some software bug making this happen.
Uri
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I never had this issue.
Have you already tried to install the S2 Camera Update from Samsung Apps?
It tests if you need the firmware update for the S2 camera and installs it if needed.
Additionally you can test the flash "hardware" by using any of the flashlight apps from the Market. Just to check, if the LED works fine.
Good luck !
Thanks for the reply!
I will check Samsung camera app, though I think my firmware is up to date.
As for the torch app, I have tried using it and it shows the same kind of behavior.
The only thing that makes me think this is a software issue is that the ffash does turn on for fraction of a second.
Uri
i know, eh?
I am having the exact same problem.
the flash goes on for the metering, then flashes a few times quickly but never in sync with the shutter, it seems..
sometimes torch applications work but never for very long (if i turn it off, sometimes i can't turn it back on, i mean... rarely problems with it not staying on)
i've had a few pictures showing up with vertical bars (almost like multiple exposure times) when i've forced the flash on when it wasn't really needed.
Also being driven insane by this problem.
im having the same problem with my s3. Did you fix it?
any solutions?
mine is exactly the same. has anybody found the solution? would be glad to know. thanks
My Xperia Go has recently developed a strange issue that I'm trying to figure out how to fix.
Periodically the screen will not turn on. When pressing the power button nothing happens except the Home, Menu and Back buttons flash for a split second. It can stay like this for hours and then start working again. I have tried performing hard resets when the issue happens. The phone vibrates like you would expect, but the screen still stays off.
Has anyone else seen this issue and know if it is a software issue or hardware?
Johneboy said:
My Xperia Go has recently developed a strange issue that I'm trying to figure out how to fix.
Periodically the screen will not turn on. When pressing the power button nothing happens except the Home, Menu and Back buttons flash for a split second. It can stay like this for hours and then start working again. I have tried performing hard resets when the issue happens. The phone vibrates like you would expect, but the screen still stays off.
Has anyone else seen this issue and know if it is a software issue or hardware?
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Happened to me more than once flashing all kind of strange ROMs and apps, and messing with my phone.
Backup your phone and do factory data reest and see if the problem persists.
It could be hardware related but more likely it's just software.
ChikeD said:
Happened to me more than once flashing all kind of strange ROMs and apps, and messing with my phone.
Backup your phone and do factory data reest and see if the problem persists.
It could be hardware related but more likely it's just software.
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Had a go at this at the weekend. Did a full backup and a full restore using Sony PC Companion. The phone worked perfectly until last night then it displayed the same problem.
Possibly unrelated, but I did notice that after the restore none of the photo thumbnails are showing in the Album app even though the pics are there. You can tap in the empty space in the app and pics will load. Secondly, it restored my Outlook.com account, but not the entry for it under Accounts in the Settings menu. Consequently I can't cange any settings for that account. So I've managed to introduce another couple of issues for my trouble!
I'm leaning to this more being a hardware fault now, unless anyone else can suggest otherwise?
Johneboy said:
Had a go at this at the weekend. Did a full backup and a full restore using Sony PC Companion. The phone worked perfectly until last night then it displayed the same problem.
Possibly unrelated, but I did notice that after the restore none of the photo thumbnails are showing in the Album app even though the pics are there. You can tap in the empty space in the app and pics will load. Secondly, it restored my Outlook.com account, but not the entry for it under Accounts in the Settings menu. Consequently I can't cange any settings for that account. So I've managed to introduce another couple of issues for my trouble!
I'm leaning to this more being a hardware fault now, unless anyone else can suggest otherwise?
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For album the temp solution: settings>apps>all>album>clear data
Try to reinstall outlook.com?
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Johneboy said:
Had a go at this at the weekend. Did a full backup and a full restore using Sony PC Companion. The phone worked perfectly until last night then it displayed the same problem.
Possibly unrelated, but I did notice that after the restore none of the photo thumbnails are showing in the Album app even though the pics are there. You can tap in the empty space in the app and pics will load. Secondly, it restored my Outlook.com account, but not the entry for it under Accounts in the Settings menu. Consequently I can't cange any settings for that account. So I've managed to introduce another couple of issues for my trouble!
I'm leaning to this more being a hardware fault now, unless anyone else can suggest otherwise?
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If flash fixed it, it can't be hardware. Any new apps/mods installed?
Restore only the assentials (contacts/call log) the rest set manually and see how it goes.
Take a logcat next time it happen maybe you'll see something there.
I have same problem on sola and reflashing roms really helped me toi, but only for 1 day. I guess it's digitizer issue.
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.
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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
I bought this phone monday. I live in Italy, so i have europe version.
Yesterday i noticed that sometimes, after i taken a photo, Camera app goes into force close immediately, but luckily photo are saved in Gallery and i can restart Camera app speedily, but after 2 or 3 photo... force close again.
This issue happened with every type of configuration (auto or night mode, IA on or off, with or without zoom, etc. etc.).
The only way to solve is to restart the phone, but after many hours it happen again.
Apart from hard reset, what i can try to do? Previously i deleted data and cache file from Fotocamera app, but i not solve the issue.
Is this also happened to you?
Leggenda said:
I bought this phone monday. I live in Italy, so i have europe version.
Yesterday i noticed that sometimes, after i taken a photo, Camera app goes into force close immediately, but luckily photo are saved in Gallery and i can restart Camera app speedily, but after 2 or 3 photo... force close again.
This issue happened with every type of configuration (auto or night mode, IA on or off, with or without zoom, etc. etc.).
The only way to solve is to restart the phone, but after many hours it happen again.
Apart from hard reset, what i can try to do? Previously i deleted data and cache file from Fotocamera app, but i not solve the issue.
Is this also happened to you?
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Report this issue to app developer.
Wazzup.
Over at the Pixel 6 Pro fair, we have quite the number of people having problems with random reboots. We are trying to narrow it in - Android12? Pixel 6? Software? Hardware?
So - anyone here with the same set of problems? Or does the Pixel 6 not have that kind of issue?
For reference: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/random-reboots.4353231/
I have gotten several random reboots as well. 256gb seafoam pixel 6. In particular, I was using "Frep" automation app (unrooted, used pc to start server) to do repetitive image searches in a game. Also the phone was sitting on a wireless charger while doing this. I noticed my phone felt pretty warm, wonder if it could be overheating?
Could be a naughty 3rd party app. Have you tried safe mode?
I posted this here:
P6 Bluetooth Problems
My p6 will see most some of my Bluetooth devices (laptop, tablet, TV, earbuds) . It pairs with the earbuds, but everything else it will try and pair, usually does not. If and when hen it does pair, that pairing is dropped dropped within 5 secs...
forum.xda-developers.com
My random reboots (or crashes that forced me to reboot) almost entirely stem from the wifi+bluetooth implementation. I found a sure-fire way to crash it during setup. Without word vomiting here, connecting the P6 with and to other devices has proved more difficult than any previous Pixel (for me).
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Could be a naughty 3rd party app. Have you tried safe mode?
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Not yet. It's also hard to "force" it (the reboots, I am not able to replicate it manually). Yesterday it just randomly happened whilst the phone laid idle next to me, thrice at the morning, about one time through late afternoon, then one time evening. I just notice the screen lighting up, then the Google logo comes, meaning the phone restarted.
I'm also pretty sure that Bluetooth/Wifi settings differed when the reboots happened, ergo at some times bluetooth was on, then when it rebooted, bluetooth was off. At no time when the reboots happened had I a bluetooth device connected. WiFi was online though, all the time.
What all the reboots have in commong though (at least the ones where I am concerned), is that the phone is just laying next to me, or somewhere, being in idle - doing as far as I know, nothing. It never happened when I used the phone or put it under load, so my P6 never "crapped" out under me. That's why I am not that concerned about this as of now, but it's certainly a nuisance to unlock the phone every time with my darn pin.
(Concerning 3rd party app) - I'd say that's unlikely. I copied my files over from my Pixel 4 XL and have not yet added one singular other app to my P6 Pro, so it should have gone naughty before my transfer over.
Hi! I experienced a big crash on the pixel 6. When I was configuring telegram, the app crashed and then the screen got black. After a minute it rebooted to the Google logo with a loading bar underneath. It was blocked in that state, but I could reboot it with volume up + power button.
I was pretty scared as the usual button down + power button didn't do anything lol
12 (SD1A.210817.036) on my pixel 6, occurred randomly when opening camera app. Happend 7-10 times.
dirtyissa62 said:
12 (SD1A.210817.036) on my pixel 6, occurred randomly when opening camera app. Happend 7-10 times.
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Odd. I never had a problem whilst using the phone, my phone only rebooted when laying idle (even though today I had no reboots at all, alas I didn't use the phone much, maybe 2h SoT without any heavy lifting).
Something in android 12 is bugging around, maybe we have to open support tickets.
dirtyissa62 said:
Something in android 12 is bugging around, maybe we have to open support tickets.
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I just talked for a while with a Google rep and he said that they are not aware of any reboot problems, no people over at Google Forums have reported such a thing. "We do not monitor Reddit or XDA" - so he said he opened a support ticket to the responsible team and they would look into it, he also asked that I / we report/feedback this under -> Settings -> Tips & Support -> Feedback.
We also talked about a lens flare problem, that at least the Pixel 6 Pro has. If you shot some photos where the sun is directly shining into the camera, you might want to re-check them. Most of mine have either some sort of big circular green dot in them, or a big beam of light like in a phone with a very bad HDR processing. It seems to be some sort of software glitch, he also reported that.
So hopefully those things can get fixed.
This was the follow-up email:
Thank you for contacting Google support.
This email is regarding the chat conversation we had earlier today, I'm sorry we weren't able to complete it. Hence I wanted to follow up via email to ensure all your queries have been answered.
Please re-launch the camera app and check if the issue is fixed.
Please be assured our developer team is working on this to fix it as soon as possible. We would really appreciate your kind understanding as we work on this to fix it for you.
If there is anything apart from this that needs clarification, please feel free to reply back to this email. I'll be more than happy to assist you.
Thanks!
Nova
The Google Support Team
I'm having similar restarts while phone is sitting on a table doing nothing. Tried a factory reset and was fine until overnight on charge and it happened again.
Also have had a few times where wifi has stopped working for some reason. Not sure if related.
Not had any reboots but quiet a few app crashes in especially FB will be scrolling away and bang just closes also Amazon app ,
Well that was interesting.. When it rebooted that time, it gave me an error screen saying it could not load and may be corrupt. I had two options, try again and factory reset. Try again got me back running, but I'm wondering do I got as defective device now.. or if it's software related.
So after a lot of messing around, I think I have narrowed down what may be causing my reboots. It only seems to happen when I am using "Frep" to play macros on a game while charging my phone.. the phone gets pretty hot, and reboots when I tap the screen or try to swipe home or recent apps. Maybe its overheating, or maybe its "Frep" playing naughty.. but Frep did work perfectly fine on my old $200 used Nord N10 5g. Will update if it reboots while not doing this.
no reboots or crashes so far, not doing any gaming - but using phone for email, surfing, whatsapp etc and also a work profile for MS outlook and teams.
I have/had similar issues with my Pixel 6 (128GB - europe unlocked).
I was transferring old data via cable from my old (Xiaomi Mi A1) to the Pixel 6. This resulted in sluggish performance, crashes every 15 minutes. The crashes would randomly occur and behave mostly like this:
Try to unlock phone with fingerprint sensor
Fingerprint sensor lights up, nothing happens, no haptic response
Swiping up to the PIN entry. Enter PIN and hit enter. Nothing happens. Now freeze.
Screen turns black and it takes phone to reboot on average ~7minutes
Factory Reset; Installed apps manually (standard messaging apps, no games etc), better performance, problem persists
Factory reset; boot into safemode. It now took way longer to provoke the issue. But it still happened.
After this I contacted the customer service and they will provide me with a replacement. But now after a night of idle, the phone was working for 3-4 hours without any issue at all with most of my apps installed. It just now went into a random reboot (could only notice because it asked for PIN because of the reboot). But not the 8 minute blank black screen type of reboot.
I am really unsure what is the issue at hand here. But have to say that experience is less than ideal.
Mine just happened last night, not charging or running anything 3rd party apps (all from App Store). I tried to use the camera after eating dinner and noticed that double clicking power button doesn't open the camera anymore. After unlocking the phone it appears that the phone has restarted.
Is anyone running Private DNS on their system like Adguard DNS or NextDNS? I did some searching and people reported some private DNS were causing Android to crash. It was suppose to be fixed in previous Android versions but it could be back again.
I haven't noticed any random reboots (and the lock screen will require a pin to be entered after reboot and says this on the screen, so you should know the phone rebooted). I've had the P6 since the official release date. In fact, I haven't restarted the phone in days.
I run a wide variety of apps. Some from the Play store and some sideloaded. I think that any reboot issues are probably app related. Remember that A12 is very new and the are surely still some compatibility issues that app developers haven't found/fixed yet.