My flash is keep on or sometimes flashing. I don't know how to turn it off..when I take the battery out, it will off, but once I put the battery back, the light is on..
Anyone can help me? Thanks
Camera Flash on all time
I am facing the same problem... the flash keeps flickering n does not switch off.
It only switches off when turned on/off using the camera. Still after some time it switches on again...
I was told on on forum that it is a hardware problem. I am considering opening it and breaking the flash LED so it is gone
In any case the flash is quite useless as it does not make much difference to the quality of the picture :|
I had this problem as well. I called warranty service and they replaced my device
same here flashlight flashing like a disco
even when the device is off, and this is lame, any solutions?? seems only 1 of the 3 leds does that. please anyone can guide us on this? its a wizard
I too had this problem on one of my wizards. It is the camera flash board itself that is bad, not the main motherboard. I simply removed my flash, it was useless anyways. But now I know if I want to fix it I need to find a broken wizard and harvest its flash board. I was able to test this by putting a known working flash into the phone that was previously giving me problems and it work flawlessly.
To remove the flash:
1. Take off back battery cover.
2. Using a small flathead screwdriver carefully pry off the camera cover, it just clips into place.
3. Carefully pry up black housing around camera flash and camera lens.
4. Remove flash board from black housing.
5. Put it all back together.
Jeff
Of course, I am not responsible for whatever you do to your phone.
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all was ok till yesterday.. sudendly... the camera mode is showing green bars.. vertical or horizontal.. what can be the problem.. i tried softreset..
Sounds like faulty hardware but backup your data and try a hard reset first of all.
I had the same problem. Turning the phone off (although not intentionally -- I was switching SIMs so that I had to remove the battery) and back on solved the problem.
i had the same problem
I still have the same problem... I took the phone to be fixed under warranty for 4 times... they changed the camera modules twice.. and the last time they changed the whole board.. still..same problem!
now it turns out that if I give the camera a couple of hits on the table when it is showing green bars, it goes back to normal... but that's no solution...
any ideas ?!?!
I Have the same problem with my JasJam, did get hold of a Dopod main board and fixed the problem. The Camera inside the JasJam, ( had it replaced 3 times too, ) doesn't have any padding on the connector like the Dopod does. However i suspect the Camera ROM may be corrup if anyone has a copy of a new ROM for the camera i would be more than happy to change the JASJAM board back in and give it a go as i cannot access Teltras Buisness Portal and Foxtell with the Dopod IMEI. The required software wont install without the linked Imate IMEI
Sounds like the camera needs to be plugged back in to the mainboard. It may not be pushed in properly causing your problems.
Use the HTC Service Manual to take apart what you need, You will need to remove the battery and back cover, and then fix it. You can test by fixing the battery in place and testing before you replace the back cover (I use a hair band to hold the battery in place).
Cheers...
ultramag69 said:
Sounds like the camera needs to be plugged back in to the mainboard. It may not be pushed in properly causing your problems.
Use the HTC Service Manual to take apart what you need, You will need to remove the battery and back cover, and then fix it. You can test by fixing the battery in place and testing before you replace the back cover (I use a hair band to hold the battery in place).
Cheers...
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Yeah, definatly the cause in the Imate, the Dopod camera has a small amount of padding so it can't Knock out, but with frequent fiddling i think i allso corrupted my ROM...I'm a silly bugger the camera seems to operat off a CMOS oh well... will have to find a workaround for the Dopod board then
Corrupted ROM shouldn't matter if you have Hard SPL installed. Use sd card method to reflash a rom you like.
Cheers...
Hi,
My phone suddenly developed a strange problem, the flash light always stays on, even if the camera is off, even if the phone is shut down using the power button. only if i remove the battery it lights off.
I think it looks like an electronics issue, but for safe side i have flashed another ROM but the problem continues.
Any Ideas?
Cheers
nidash said:
Hi,
My phone suddenly developed a strange problem, the flash light always stays on, even if the camera is off, even if the phone is shut down using the power button. only if i remove the battery it lights off.
I think it looks like an electronics issue, but for safe side i have flashed another ROM but the problem continues.
Any Ideas?
Cheers
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Sounds like a real battery drainer... Have you ever gotten the phone wet or dropped pretty hard?
Have you tried a hard reset? Nevermind... You flashed another rom, pretty much the same thing.
Hmmm. Try flashing back to your carriers latest rom and then back to the custom one you are using and see if that helps.
I too had this problem on one of my wizards. It is the camera flash board itself that is bad, not the main motherboard. I simply removed my flash, it was useless anyways. But now I know if I want to fix it I need to find a broken wizard and harvest its flash board. I was able to test this by putting a known working flash into the phone that was previously giving me problems and it work flawlessly.
To remove the flash:
1. Take off back battery cover.
2. Using a small flathead screwdriver carefully pry off the camera cover, it just clips into place.
3. Carefully pry up black housing around camera flash and camera lens.
4. Remove flash board from black housing.
5. Put it all back together.
Jeff
Of course, I am not responsible for whatever you do to your phone.
Received the phone with the moisture indicator red. Phone wouldn't turn on, but the camera light stayed on as long as the battery was installed. I dissasembled the unit and scrubbed the motherboard with alcohol, dried it and reassembled it. Still would not turn on, but the camera light came on. I tried to turn it on in Bootloader mode and Viola it turned on in Bootloader. I then flashed T-Mobile ROM and now everything works fine, except the camera light is still on. The camera works fine. All functions of the phone work fine, except the camera light won't turn off. Must be a hardware problem. Phone is a G3 MDA. Any suggestions?
The flash module is bad. As far as I know you can't fix that module, just replace it. What I did to one of my wizards was to just remove the flash module as the flash is more than just worthless. I did swap in a working flash and all was working again. If you were able to dismantle the phone, just pay attention and removing the flash module is very simply. You only need to take the camera cover off I believe and then gently pry it out.
Jeff
jeffla said:
The flash module is bad. As far as I know you can't fix that module, just replace it. What I did to one of my wizards was to just remove the flash module as the flash is more than just worthless. I did swap in a working flash and all was working again. If you were able to dismantle the phone, just pay attention and removing the flash module is very simply. You only need to take the camera cover off I believe and then gently pry it out.
Jeff
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I guess I don't understand how the flash module works. Seems to me the light will be on as long as it getting power from the motherboard. I swapped out the flash module with another MDA. Light is still on all the time. I have either got two bad flash modules or the motherboard is putting power to the flash module continuously. I would think the power to the flash module would come from a capacitance discharge circuit that is triggered by the camera switch. I'm guessing that that capaciter has gone bad, allowing power to flow continuously to the flash module. Just a guess. I'll leave the flash module out, insulate the power connectors.
Well it looks like your problem is different than mine. I don't know why swapping modules out worked for me. I assumed the phone supplies power and the light turns on. But in my case, I had three flash modules and three wizards. And only 1 of them when put in the phone would always be on when the phone had power. The other two worked perfectly. If I put the bad flash module in the other two wizards and it would stay on. So I concluded that the module was bad and the cause of the problem and not the phone/motherboard. But again, our problems must be different.
Jeff
Does anyone make a back cover that covers up the camera? Some searching didn't turn up anything.
Electrical tape is your friend. (remove cover, and put a strip of electical tape over the camera port, [top hole], replace cover, and your camera will be covered.) Why would you want to disable the camera anyhow?
I was looking for this too because I rarely use the camera and the phone would look nice if it was simply black on the back.
Unfortunately I didn't find anything and not a big fan of "taping" my phone
Work reasons. Need it to look like it's not a camera.
They make a Fuze that comes without a cameraZ (found out the hard way by accidentally buying one).. Go to AT&T and see if they can get you a back for one of those.. Or do some googling
Googling didn't turn up anything useful, hence the post. Thanks for letting me know about the version without the camera though, I'll stop by a store and see what they can do.
Hi,
I have a problem with both Cameras, both are not working and all camera apps show the Camera Busy note. I did the usual (restart, factory reset) nothing solved the problem. Any advice....,.
What does the it say when you open the camera app?
Camera busy please restart the phone.
When factory reset doesn't solve the problem, most probably hardware related issues
I'm having similar problems, including flash light not working as well, I've seen some disassemble videos and noticed that the flash is part of the back frame, so if you remove the back cover and push down, next to the word "camera", on top of the metallic antenna strip, the flashlight will start working and camera sometimes as well, so I've ordered a T4 and T3 screw driver and I'll see if any pins are not connected properly, maybe raise a bit of the pins of the motherboard, that touch the flash contacts on the back frame and see if it fixes it
Let me know if you are still having these issues, if not, how did you fix it.
So I got the phone open and it's very weird, without the back frame removed, the camera works always and when I put it on, it stops working, so I thought that something was shorting some circuit, tried to isolate all contacts from the back frame, antennas and everything just to see it would still happen and it does, so it does not seem to be shorting anything, just the pressure of the cover seems to disable the camera, so what I did for now was add some plastic (old SIM card cut into peaces ), put it between the SIM tray and back frame and all working fine now. It's a temp fix, but it's a fix =D
Hope this can help someone with the same issue.
One more update, what I did on the above post, was only temporary, after a day, it started happening again, no camera, so went back in again, turns out this issue was being cause by the front facing camera, when I removed it, the main camera started working straight away. Now all is good, just no front facing camera which I don't really care for =P but if anyone knows where I can get one, there is a guy on eBay selling one, but £16 seems a bit much, if anyone knows where I can get a front facing camera for the Moto X Play, please let me know.
you solved it?