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Camera Doesnt Load (tried upgrading the rom)

For some reason my camera wont load. It goes to open the camera, does that funky thing with the backlight and then goes black. No picture, no controls.
It freezes and the only way to get it back is to soft reset it.
Ive tried a hard reset, same thing, tried updating the rom and its still the same.
Is there any hope for my poor little mda, just paid out for a brand new cover too

after some playing its loaded the controls. Still dont get any view from the camera.
Ive taken it apart and checked the ribbon cable is fitted properly and it is.
Somebody please help

camera has now fixed itself. For how long i dont know, very very strange!

HTC Polaris 200 (Orbit 2) camera not working

Hello all,
I've been reading this forum for a while but only now decided to ask for help.
I am one of those unfortunate htc users who got the "camera problem".
I've bought my Oribit2 of ebay and first it was working fine with all the functions etc. Then i started upgrading it, flashed hardspl, new ROMs, radios... at some point camera stopped working. Not sure exactly when, cause i have tried several different ROMs and radios before even noticing that something was wrong. At that point i had c_shekhar's ROM installed.
I started reading more on the problem and tried to flash original ROM/radio or other ROMS and radios but nothing helped. Camera was still not working with error "Unable to capture photo. Unable to get frame data from camera device." or something like that and VERY slow response in camera.exe.
I've seen same problem in many different threads on different forums, mostly it's been an issue with incompatible Radios and was fixed by reflashing but also, in many cases ppl had the same as i do - camera not working and flashing doesn't help.
So, some solutions appeared:
- taking out battery for 15 mins, fixed camera for some ppl.
- installing Nadavi camera fix and/or uninstalling afterwards
- deleting all camera.* files from windows and installing Nadavi camera etc...
Well, i've tried them all. Nothing worked. The trick with taking out battery partially worked once: i've flashed original O2 WM 6.0 and took out battery for about 30-40 mins. After putting it back - voila camera working as it should be, no lag, no error. I'm happy! NOT.
Of course i immediately decided to flash some better ROM cause original is crap. After flashing - camera dead again and this time even taking out batter for more then an hour didn't do anything.
Trying trick with nadavi camera fix proved to be partially working or at least a good step in right direction:
lag went away, i could operate the camera program, switch from back to front camera(which was working fine btw) and even capture videos...
well... kind of. In preview the image is all fuzzy, just coloured line and noise, impossible to see the image, only some parts of it.
But it was clear that somehow, when using back camera, the image was a mix of a rear and front cameras! I mean i can't see clear picture,
but if i move my hand near one of the cameras i see changes in image(it's still mostly coloured noise).
All this is weird isn't it?
After evaluating everything, it makes me think that it's not a hardware problem, but really a configuration problem.
Looks like there is small flash memory in camera device, or some another way to keep camera initialization and it does not depends on radio or ROM.
Now, seeing that some ppl were able to fix the problem while installing original rom, or installing Nadavi camera fix or both, makes me think that under some
specific conditions these internal camera settings can be reinitialized.
While browsing net, looking for answer, i have found this :
Some of us had problems with Htc devices recognizing the on board camera after installing new ROM's.
It has been my technical opinion and observance that this problem can accrue when you manually put the devices into bootloader mode and don't press the camera and power buttons together along with the reset button correctly.
Once this damage is done you will have to reinstall the ROM radio files via uploading a manufacturer ROM to your device that has the radio ROM packaged along with it e.g. "HTC sprint beta ROM".
To avoid this I suggest always letting your PC force your device into bootloader mode. Because even the best of us might not mash the keys just right causing your ppc to forget all of it's configured camera associations.
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HERE
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=1396410
Well, this guy seems to agree with me that it's camera settings problem and there must be the way to fix this.
Well, again, i have tried installing original ROM and radio again, with no luck(even tried different combinations of nadavi fix , taking out battery etc...)
So, now, i believe, what we need is someone who knows a great deal about programming mobile devices and drivers for camera in particular to try and
produce some kind of a software that can reinitialize these camera settings(this is if this theory is correct).
Since my phone was bought off ebay, i have no guarantee and cannot send it back for repairs.
Does anyone know the right person who can do this? Or maybe some other solution to fix the camera?

I'm in the same situation. I was using udk 4 or possibly 5. One day I noticed the camera didn't work. I still had an icon for in under programs and the default button turned it on. Since then I have tried newer roms and several radio roms. I have no icon for camera under programs and the camera button on the phone just loads the camera album.
Can anybody help us?
Many Thanks
Dan

The same thing happen to me as for you guys.
The only thing helped as I tried new radio roms and still was not working.
So I tried radio Murata - 1.58.21.23. And now camera works perfectly again!!
You can search here and you will find this radio on this forum.
cheers
Andrew

I have tried that radio.

the same story. radio is murata
will try to go this hell route - nadavi camera and stuff

Ive been on this all day now. Nothing I have tried has made it work. I'm on the original rom from o2 now and it's going back to the shop tomorrow.
Can they tell if i've put 3rd party roms on the phone? If so is there anything I can do to "re lock" it?
Cheers
Dan

Maniakaz said:
The same thing happen to me as for you guys.
The only thing helped as I tried new radio roms and still was not working.
So I tried radio Murata - 1.58.21.23. And now camera works perfectly again!!
You can search here and you will find this radio on this forum.
cheers
Andrew
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not in all cases

i have a camera problem too...what is the answer?

Same problem for me, Camera not working any more
I was using M-Amine 2 ROM and camera started malfunctioning, (the first days was alleatory, and I arrived to fix it restarting camera or taking pictures two or three times, until finally the problem becomes definitif...)
I tested other roms (c_shekar, 3VLIT, Nadavi fix, and other radios...even original ROM....come back to c_shekar....with some small changes, but finally retour the same problem "unable to capture frame...".
Today I have reinstaled again Original latest French ROM, at the begining camera doesn´t worked, but suddenly It has come back again. Up to now still working after many resets and tests. I will keep you informed, I plan to come back to c_shekar, after some days of testing with original ROM.

it can be fixed with original rom
find my other post how to get ROM's with needed language.
b.r.
Alexandar

I have an O2 Orbit 2 as well.
I recently noticed that my camera isn't working anymore.
About 1 month ago I installed Core Player 1.2.4 and since then I had a lot of issues with the card. Folders starting disappearing, corrupted SD etc. Sometimes only some recent folders disappear.
However, most recently I discovered that the camera does not work anymore. Pressing the snapshot button doesn't start the camera. While the buttons do light up when the camera button is pressed (suggesting a software issue) the camera does not start. If I go into the Programs folder and start Camera, it starts. But when I press the camera button to take a picture, it goes upto the point that it makes the focus sound, the two framing aids (that look like a split square) turn green but that's it. No photo is taken. Camera however seem to work, everything looks ok through the camera but it just doesn't take photos/movies anymore.
I haven't installed/upgraded anything, I have the original rom.
I have tried to take out the battery for 30+ mins but the same issue happens.
It definitely looks like a software issue, either by a software that corrupted files (I suspect Core Player) and/or flash corruption issue (however I haven't got any software to tinker with the flash and haven't tried boot mode or whatever, just normal on/off).
Small update: I just noticed that altering the camera settings to "Half press" instead the "Full press" makes the camera take pictures.
However, returning again to "Full press" the camera doesn't take pictures again.
So a temporary fix is to set to "Half press" but even so, the camera application does not start when I press the camera button.
Can anyone please help?

hi, I have an old Polaris and 3 days ago upgrading from WM 6 to WM 6.1, causing the both cameras (front and back) to not respond although the screen still shows the numbers and stuff on touch screen that shows cameras are working fine, BUT pointing both cameras anywhere doesn't change the black view that's been displayed since the camera is turned on. weird. but when pressing the camera button, the picture taken is properly shown. I tried both camera (front and back), both produces normal photograph, but why the black screen?!
on top of that after the upgrade, touch screen has turn rigid that it's very hard to type. I have to play with the angle of touching the pen to the screen or else, the screen will just get stuck with whatever it was doing before.
any solution? please advise thanks.

Camera working but no Picture Monitor Screen
This may help you Bulukaki
I have a HTC P3650 allready with the WM6.1 upgrade
I downloaded today the factory update for picture quality, "Hot fix for Touch Cruise photo quality issue" from the HTC download site
After this upgrade , I was no longer able to monitor the picture of the camera on the screen. Just a black screen but with all the camera functions.
The camera was still able to take a picture, the picture showed up only after exposure on the screen. Similar to BULUKAKI`s problem
So my picture quality was not that bad prior to the photo quality upgrade and I removed the update from settings/system/remove programs and did a soft reset and the camera was again functioning as it should. Having said that, you may check wether or not the "Hot fix for Touch Cruise photo quality issue" was allready installed prior to your WM6.1 upgrade.
Maybe simply uninstall "Hot fix for Touch Cruise photo quality issue" will do the trick
Hope this helps

New user, some problems

Hey all, pretty new here. Just want to share some experience I am having with the new phone I got today.
I bought it from HK for around $575 AUD shipped, which is an awesome price for such a nice phone. Locally cost around $600-700.
When it came this morning, the camera was showing the common red spot issue. After doing some research I have upgraded from KG2 kernal to KE7 using Odin. However now it is a bit blue in the center. Doesnt seem like they fixed the problem completely.
Another issue I have is that the back button (right of home button) seems to make some "delay, lag, not responsive"? I may press it around 5 times and it will not work for 1 time. I test it by pressing the "application icon" and "back" several time and usually miss a few "backs to home screen".
Last, while typing using the stock Samsung keyboard. I also noticed that the "back delete" button not responsive as well. It will miss maybe 1 in 5 presses. I did fix this problem by installing another keyboard (I liked the HTC one as I was using the Desire HD before dropping it and completely smashing the phone )
Anyone else experiencing similar or same problem as me? I really like the design, speed of this phone. But there are just some things that are not so perfect and I want to see if I should go back to the dealer and exchange a phone or something. I dont want to ship it all the way back to HK thou, I might get a replacement with the same problem.
Thanks
Tony

Regarding Home Screen Lag,
1- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1084388
2- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068792&highlight=Home+button+lag
Regarding Camera issue, update your Camera firmware, I don't have any Red/blue spot issues on my KF3 though,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098834
Can't say about keyboard.
Regards.

ithehappy said:
Regarding Home Screen Lag,
1- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1084388
2- http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1068792&highlight=Home+button+lag
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Not sure if my back button issue the same thing with the above. I dont have much lag going to the home screen, maybe 0.5sec max. It just that I use the same pressure pressing the back button, sometime it works sometime it doesnt.
ithehappy said:
Regarding Camera issue, update your Camera firmware, I don't have any Red/blue spot issues on my KF3 though,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098834
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Followed the thread and the phone say my camera firmware is already the latest and no need for any updates. in the morning is light red, night time is light blue.

I noticed that when i was on the KG3 firmware the camera red spot was gone. Don't know if this is the same for everyone. Although I never transferred the pictures to my computer to really check if the red spot exists on actual pictures.

TonyxTony said:
Another issue I have is that the back button (right of home button) seems to make some "delay, lag, not responsive"? I may press it around 5 times and it will not work for 1 time. I test it by pressing the "application icon" and "back" several time and usually miss a few "backs to home screen".
Tony
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This seems to be an emerging issue, first unit had a very unresponsive back button when I updated it to XXKF3 it became a bit more responsive but still far from what it was compared to the S1, the 2nd phone I got had a responsiveness exactly like the main touch screen (which is great) the 3rd phone I have now is not as bad as the first one but not as responsive as the last one either.. 3 of my friends also reported the same issue.

Yup,had my first phone replaced because of the back button issue and the yellow tint. It was only registering 80% of my presses. I thought I was the only one with the back button issue. Samsung and their quality issues again
Sent from my GT-I9100 using XDA App

Got a replacement, back button all good. Camera has no red spot but a little blue (fine for 80% of the time + outdoor)
Now I am just getting abit of lag in the home screen. I wonder if flashing the rom will help it? Can anyone suggest a really fast rom?
Thanks alot
Tony

I think that the home buttom lag is due to the applicattion that gets the voice recognition, that is launched when you press home twice. When you press home buttom the system waits a little bit for the second press. If you install a rom with this app without installing or you freeze the app with Titanium Backup you wont have that lag.

So many problems out of the box.
Just return the phone. You can send it back as a DOA under the first week.
Dont wait for any magic software updates. Usualy they dont solve anything.

Omnia 7 camera button issues

Hi all,
I've had an Omnia7 since launch and other than having issues with my headphone jack tripping the media controls on occasion, i've not had a problem.
Recently, however, when the camera button has become randomly unresponsive. That in itself is not too big a problem but last night it escalated from just being unresponsive to acting like the button was being pressed repeatedly when it wasn't being touched. In the middle of the night it woke itself up, went to the camera app from the lockscreen (as if the button had a long press) and started repeatedly taking very close up pictures of the surface it was sat on. Pressing the button all the way down stopped this happening, but the moment I let go it would start again. I eventually managed to stop it by repeatedly hitting the button with quite some force, though that isn't something I'd want to be doing regularly if it happens again.
It seems to be a hardware issue, but I thought I'd check if it was a known, fixable problem or is it a unique hardware failure?

I've had a similar issue with mine (sometimes would act like yours, other times to take a picture I had to put some strength on it). Solved it with electric contacts cleaning spray.

Ahh, fair enough, thanks for the info. Dirty contacts makes sense. I might get some spray and trying cleaning them.
I need to get the phone working again first though, as it decided to brick itself today. The battery ran out, I plugged it into my computer to charge and it booted to the screen with the nice diagram telling me to connect to a PC and Zune loaded on Windows saying it couldn't perform a restore. It just boots to that screen constantly now, which is a bit bizarre as I literally had done nothing with it for a couple of days. At least it had good timing dying 6 days after I bought a Lumia 920 rather than before.

Thanks for the information.

My Camera Button is not working anymore, it feels normal but does not do anything. I sprayed some CRC there but it did not do anything. I need to get to MAGLDR so I need the camera button.

Maybe internal contacts broken, try open the Phone is very simple just to reach the side buttons.

Help with broken camera

Hi!, I have been having problems with my phone camera for a whyle (2 years aprox). Since I started using lolipop and marshmallow roms the camera hasn't been working fine. Actually it doesn't even work. I would post some images but this is my first post and XDA doesn't let me, so i will describe it the best I can. When I open the camera app, all I see is white, after a while some pink dots start to appear. This dots multiply all over the screen and thats all I get. If I zoom in this pink dots gets bigger, and look like pixels, like it's some sort of digital filter, and not what the camera is capturing. If I wait long enough, and point the camera into a light, the image gets clearer and it starts to show something. I am now using Dirty Unicorns 10.6. It's a D806 model, but inside the phone, it says it's a D805. I have always used D802 roms.
It looks like is a hardware issue, but everytime I go back to KK stock, this problem stops and the camera works just fine, then when I flash a custom rom after some weeks, this problem starts again. Also I have searched a lot and it seems like no one has this problem. If i try to film a video, the app crashes and it saw "it couldn't conect to the camera" but in the normal mode if I touch the screen, I can see the lens moving, like it's adjusting it's focus
Do you have any idea of what could it be?. I dont know if this is important but I have bricked my phone several times, to the point where one time even the download mode was broken, and when I pluged the phone into the computer, windows detected like 60 particions. I fixed this via pushing some files into the phone using ubuntu, and then doing the same thing in windows with a tool I found here in XDA.
Thanks, and sorry if my english is not the best, is not my native language.

Images
Some screenshots.
After a while I have enter the camera app http://i.imgur.com/orEWP75.png
If I zoom in http://i.imgur.com/7Yf7jKY.png