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Camera woe...

Hi folks
Has anyone had any issues with the camera crashing? This is what I get quite often trying to use the camera.... :
Press camera button on side of TyTN
turn camera on side and use screen to line up the shot.
Press camera button to take the shot... (or the centre joystick)
Camera pauses for a while then goes directly to the Today screen.
I press the camera button again and I get a message like " unable to start camera app. Camera already in use ".
the picture wasn't taken.
I can't remember the exact message... today it's working so I can't see it!
other info:
I am using a 1Gb storage card and the camera saves straight to it.
if I soft reset the device, I can go into the camera function again, but then it is likely to do the same thing.
It seems to happen at extremes of temperature - possibly hardware fault?
incidentally, I have tried this with no other apps etc. running
many thanks for any thoughts
best regards

I'm afraid this is a known fault with some handsets. You could set the quality to fine instead of superfine (I know, what's the point of having the superfine option if all it does is crash the app?!).
I now use Arktek's coolcamera app without the same problems.
Give it a try.

Thanks for your reply.
Hmm... a known fault. If this is a known fault - is this a S/W or H/W fault? I'm going to try your camera app - thanks for that !
Cheers
Rich

I just tried the coolcamera software.... that is superb. I guess I'll soon find out if this is HW or SW.. thanks AGAIN for that - brilliant app heheh

I used to have a cam problem. Usually after the i take the pics, the preview shows black screen. I have to soft-reset. Then later i found out it was the RSS reader, prss reader, that was doing this. I uninstalled and now it all fine.

My camera does not crash, but after I take a picture (the preview shows a fine picture) I go to the directory where the photo should be saved (storage card/my documents/ my pictures) but the picture does not apear!! in fact now that directory seems to be empty...
If I choose to save the picture to main memory this does not happend, just when I save to sd card...
Does anyone have an idea about what could be happening??
I'm afraid i've lost all mi pictures from SD card because even usinf file explorer o activesync the my picture folder is empty
thanks for the coments...
Im using XDA Live ROM but camera used to work fine with this rom
edit: If I rename the My documents folder in order to force camera to create a new My Documents folder, then the pics are saved to this new folder an they apear in... the same happens if I only rename the My pictures folder... the weird thing is that after picture is saved in the new folder, if I make changes to go back to save them to the old folder pictures are not saved again...

hi have this problem too.
but somitimes with my pda, before exiting to today where i make a photo, it make it , but completly black.....
other times , it exit to the today directy ...
there's not difference between memory card or internal storage, but I notice the problem is the resolution and the subject: if i shot with 640 or 1mp there isn't the problem ... and if i shot a mountain landscape the problem is more present.
maybe there's a software bug to manage "big" photo.
now i'm trying coolcamera.

Hi,
I had this problem last week while I was taking some photos with the 2M setiing for the quality. I save the photos on the microSD card. When the problem has repeated itself after one SR, I have thought that the problem could come from the SD card. I have verified the card using the FlashFormat maintenance program and since then I have not met again this "Camera software is already launched" problem, even using the 2M quality. Maybe this could also help you.
Regards,
Murat

Wow - it seems that this is a common one. There are several issues regarding the standard camera app, it seems:
1) The camera takes a black (or dark grey) picture and saves it in the correct place as a black (or dark grey) image.
2) The camera takes a picture, then crashes... like I described in the initial post
3) Image files being stored anywhere other than in the correct place.
I have experienced the first two issues, but not the last one.
The only thing I can really say about this is that the coolcamera application has been working fine since I installed it the other day. I have been using the camera quite frequently in different environments (for work, honest) ans it has yet to crash.
I notice that with Coolcamera, when you exit it, you exit it... so it's not left running in the background somewhere. this isn't the case with the standard camera app.
I'm going to try it out for a week and see if I get any of the above issues.

About cool camera...
I'm not quite sure but 2 other people has confirmed that they had the same issue that I post ... and both of them star having this problem after instaling coolcam (like me) ...
Really I don't know if this problem was caused by installing and uninstalling coolcam ...it seems this app has been working very good for other people here.
What the other 2 guys did was a hard resent then a restore from all the programs and they said it solve everything...I just haven't do it yet; just change the directory to which pictures are saved...

I have a problem with mine as well, but it's a bit different. My camera works, but it acts like it is stuck in 16 color mode. Very strange looking. After going through all the soft-reset, hard-reset, take the battery out and hard-reset steps of support, they decided it is a hardware problem and they are sending me a new phone (it's only 2 weeks old). I have yet to hear anyone else with this problem anywhere.

yildi said:
Hi,
I had this problem last week while I was taking some photos with the 2M setiing for the quality. I save the photos on the microSD card. When the problem has repeated itself after one SR, I have thought that the problem could come from the SD card. I have verified the card using the FlashFormat maintenance program and since then I have not met again this "Camera software is already launched" problem, even using the 2M quality. Maybe this could also help you.
Regards,
Murat
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Hi there,
I have the similar problem "Camera software is already launched" as well as lost video and photos. Really pity to loose vacation memories
I have 2 questions:
1. You mension FlashFormat maintenance program. Where can I get this?
2. I installed coolcamera and wonder if I can uninstall the default camera application in some way? This question is probably for all users regarding this post.
KR

Hi Roqin,
I have bought this soft from CNETX. You can check it at :
http://www.cnetx.com/format/
If you have SKTools, it also has a function for checking the flash card. You can also check the card using a card reader connected to your PC (not very convenient if you have the problem on the road, of course ;-) ).
I hope this helps.
Murat

Thanks Murat
I will check it. Wonder if anybody has answer on my Q2?
KR

Problem saving photos

I just noticed that I can't save any photos, but videos recorded with camera works just fine.
I copied all my photos to my computer and deleted all photos from storage card but still no luck. In camera settings storage card is selected and same thing in advanced config. I also uninstalled advanced config to see if there was some conflict but that didn't help either.
I also tried to search photos that i took with Resco Explorer but it seems that photos just aren't saved in anywhere.
Camera program works just fine to the point when picture is taken but after that there is this "multicolor waiting circle" which tells you that WinMo is doing something and the phone freezes about 30 second until it comes back to camera application, but nothing has actually been saved.
I know that Hard reset might fix the problem, but that's the last solution I wanna try.

photo's should be saved where the default Album location is set to, try changing that to the Device\My docs folder..?

rhtizzy said:
photo's should be saved where the default Album location is set to, try changing that to the Device\My docs folder..?
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Tried That also, but no luck

did u play with the Advanced Config settings? I did the same and changed Capture keys. leave all those at default and try it again.

kaluzu said:
did u play with the Advanced Config settings? I did the same and changed Capture keys. leave all those at default and try it again.
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They're all in default settings:
Save Location: DCIM
Encode Photos in portrait mode: Yes
Capture Key Delay: Enabled
Key Delay : Enabled
Capture Key Delay Time: 1500

Help anybody?

Just noticed that every other picturemode works just fine, but normal photo mode freezes the device

Well, i had the same problem an i thought it was a problem with the rom update or something like that. But the problem was: i had a DCIM map on my storage card. Strange, because this is the good location but no photo's was saved in here (only on the device self if i had select it). I deleted the map and tried it again to make a picture. And that was the solution. The camera made a new DCIM map and now the pictures are saved on the storage card again.

Camera save problem solved
to avoid problems in saving new photo you have to have this directory structure:
soragecard/DCIM/100MEDIA
open the card with a PC
delete the album file (it is like the thumb db on windows) to see the file you have to set show hidden file
insert the card in the phone and you are ok
byez

unable to save photos
In my case I'm not able to save at all, regardless of what resolution I'm using! Any idea on how to solve it?

sorry to push this old thread,
but now that my touch hd finally arrived i had the same problem, saving the image is not possible, the wait cursor appears, after some minutes disappears and the image wasn't saved.
now i found the malefactor: in schaps advanced config under camera you should change the "encode pictures in landscape (90°)" option. default was set to "NO", so leave it or change it back to it.
i hope this is useful!

Camera Picture Storage

is there any way to change the location of where the images are stored. i selected storage card and it stores them in the root (dumb) on my tilt i used advanced config and changed the location i tried on my expo but still stores on the root of the storage card.
thx

I don't think anyone's found a solution yet. I think it's doubly dumb... it stores it at the root, AND it names it in a way that all of my image viewers view out of sequence. I hope this is something they fix someday, because I happen to like the eXpo's camera.

lol you are right it is the first device i have had that has a useable camera.l

Agreed. Love the camera on this phone (especially compared to my Tilt's, shudder) but hate that it saves the pics to the storage card's root directory. Sure, I can move them into a subfolder myself in bulk later, but c'mon people, no one's found a way to change this?

I changed it on my first Expo. Gimme sec to root thru the registry and find the solution.

Ok it's \HKLM\System\Pictures\Camera\OEM\PictureLocation. Map external to wherever you want pictures stored.

ghostfaceg35 said:
Ok it's \HKLM\System\Pictures\Camera\OEM\PictureLocation. Map external to wherever you want pictures stored.
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excellent. now if we could only create a key that would let us store videos in a diff folder as well :/

I'll see if it's something Woodhole can incorporate into Tweaker

ghostfaceg35 said:
Ok it's \HKLM\System\Pictures\Camera\OEM\PictureLocation. Map external to wherever you want pictures stored.
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Thanks for the find, but it doesn't work. We did this on the Incite as well and the camera program overrides this key. I just tested it on the eXpo and the eXpo camera overrides it just like the Incite camera did.

i set mine as \storage card\my documents\my pictures\
but it still sticks them in the root. i've rebooted my phone and changed from external to internal and then back to external to see if it would take the change.
is this working for anyone else?

branedge said:
i set mine as \storage card\my documents\my pictures\
but it still sticks them in the root. i've rebooted my phone and changed from external to internal and then back to external to see if it would take the change.
is this working for anyone else?
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As the post I posted above yours says this doesn't work. The camera overrides this key and places it directly in the root of the SD card.

Sorry to get ya'lls hopes up... I had changed it on my first eXpo but never even took a picture to test it and just kinda assumed it worked.

Ya thanks alot!

Always have 2 of each in picture viewer.

Using the tab for pictures and video, then tapping on a picture to go to full screen in landscape. It's always showing 2 of each image one then another one, then the next image and so on and so on.
But using file explorer to view the pics on landscape everything is normal.

I had this problem as well. At first I thought it was resco photo manager causing it (maybe by creating another preview file or something) but I was wrong, so I removed it and randomly deleted one of them picture and the problem kinda solved itself.
I hope I've been of help.

MartinXDA said:
I had this problem as well. At first I thought it was resco photo manager causing it (maybe by creating another preview file or something) but I was wrong, so I removed it and randomly deleted one of them picture and the problem kinda solved itself.
I hope I've been of help.
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When I delete, say one of the double image. Both dis-appears and never to be seen again. There is only one file it's just that photo viewer is showing 2 of each.
Steps taken so far.
Task29 and reflash the same rom 3x and format card also 3x.
Soft & Hard reset as well.
I will try a different ROM and will update if the problem goes away.

zoth said:
When I delete, say one of the double image. Both dis-appears and never to be seen again. There is only one file it's just that photo viewer is showing 2 of each.
Steps taken so far.
Task29 and reflash the same rom 3x and format card also 3x.
Soft & Hard reset as well.
I will try a different ROM and will update if the problem goes away.
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It's the former ROM that's causing the problem.

It's not the other rom. I never changed roms and had that problem too. But I think its because of two things. One is u have it sshow all folders. Or you did what I did. Tried to tell the phone to save pictures from the main memory to the memory card. Mine fixed itself . but i forgot what i did. I know I did a soft reset, but I dont think that's what i did that fixed it.

starstreak said:
It's not the other rom. I never changed roms and had that problem too. But I think its because of two things. One is u have it sshow all folders. Or you did what I did. Tried to tell the phone to save pictures from the main memory to the memory card. Mine fixed itself . but i forgot what i did. I know I did a soft reset, but I dont think that's what i did that fixed it.
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Thanks, I'll keep it in mind. But for now I'm happy it's gone using a different ROM.

Mmm...you did a task 29 and the problem is now gone. That makes me wonder about all the junk that stays in the phone's memory after flashing a new rom without doin' a t29 first...anyway I'm glad you solved it

This is a bug with Sense, usually happens when you change language.
The FIX is this:
1. Go to Albums
2. Select Album that you want to use.
3. Menu - Set Album as Favorite

CYDVicious said:
This is a bug with Sense, usually happens when you change language.
The FIX is this:
1. Go to Albums
2. Select Album that you want to use.
3. Menu - Set Album as Favorite
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WOW after all the work I did. Thats all I have to do. I will keep this tip in mind.

[Q] Gallery

I'm currently experiencing a very annoying problem with the gallery. When I press on Gallery, it takes a very long time before it loads the pictures. Same deal after taking a picture, if I want to view it, it takes me to a black screen, but if I wait for like 5 minutes, I can view all the pictures on my Camera folder. This is very annoying. Where in the SD am I supposed to place my pictures?

Bump, hope someone can help.

carazy1 said:
Bump, hope someone can help.
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

carazy1 said:
I'm currently experiencing a very annoying problem with the gallery. When I press on Gallery, it takes a very long time before it loads the pictures. Same deal after taking a picture, if I want to view it, it takes me to a black screen, but if I wait for like 5 minutes, I can view all the pictures on my Camera folder. This is very annoying. Where in the SD am I supposed to place my pictures?
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Try using SD Speed Increase to potentially increase the read/write speed of ur sd card...Works 4 me..

voncrane said:
Try using SD Speed Increase to potentially increase the read/write speed of ur sd card...Works 4 me..
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Installed it, doesn't help for me.

Hmmm...i tk it u tried all four possible changes while rebooting each time to see if it worked?...Unless u have a ton of pictures on ur card then maybe u should consider getting a higher class SD card then...

Try QuickPic from market, its for free.
Its better than the stock gallery:
- faster
- you can exclude or even hide folders beeing showed
- ...

Yes very true use QuickPic. Much better than stock.

ok, none of the answers listed above worked for me. nothing against the posters. I was having the same problem with my hd2 running android. I just read an article and it said to create a ".nomedia" file (in notepad on your pc) and transfer it into the folder you don't want shown. NOTE: if you do a search for ".nomedia" there might be one already created in another file. You can cut and paste it if you don't feel like making one).
My gallery ALWAYS crashed when I tried to add .gifs to an mms. I would be able to scroll once and then the gallery would get stuck and force close. Since I added the .nomedia file to the .thumbnails file in dcim (where there were 2,550 thumbnails) I can at least scroll through the full gallery WITHOUT a gallery force close. Again, it is not perfect or extremely fast, but it is now functional. Hope this helps someone else.

try a faster sd card
and OP please dont bump your posts after 1 hour or so of posting

I would also say: try a faster card - seems there is the problem - although the gallery appears quite often slow, when it is loaded for the first time and full with pictures from the pc.

steve austin said:
ok, none of the answers listed above worked for me. nothing against the posters. I was having the same problem with my hd2 running android. I just read an article and it said to create a ".nomedia" file (in notepad on your pc) and transfer it into the folder you don't want shown. NOTE: if you do a search for ".nomedia" there might be one already created in another file. You can cut and paste it if you don't feel like making one).
My gallery ALWAYS crashed when I tried to add .gifs to an mms. I would be able to scroll once and then the gallery would get stuck and force close. Since I added the .nomedia file to the .thumbnails file in dcim (where there were 2,550 thumbnails) I can at least scroll through the full gallery WITHOUT a gallery force close. Again, it is not perfect or extremely fast, but it is now functional. Hope this helps someone else.
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Everyone, my problem is fixed. Download this:
https://market.android.com/details?id=de.mrfloppycoding.galleryexcluder
It helped.