"Failed to set up the camera device." This has been happening on my TMO-US HD2 after a few hours of operation in the short time I've had it. Only a soft reset will fix it. Running the stock ROM with no real modifications so far. Anyone experiencing this problem?
Do a hard reset. This will wipe the phone back to the way it came from T-Mobile. You will loose anything you put on the phone.
http://www.hardreset.eu/htc_hd2_leo_hard_reset_soft_reset_en.html
Just found another thread suggesting that leaving Opera open in the background might cause this error. Closed Opera and, to my surprise, the camera worked again! So, my immediate problem is solved ... though why Opera should cause this error remains a mystery.
I had the same issue. Turn the phone off and turn it back on. No need to hard reset
Out of memory i think, ofter happen with heavy ram program, like opera, windows media player.. shame to have 448 mb of ram
it is because of Opera...I had the same problem a couple of time when the camera or camcorder could not start so I just searched the forum and found this thread. I just tried opening opera and leaving it in the background while i start the camera. Voala! It did not work. As soon as I closed Opera, the camera was back to normal.! They should add this thread to the tweaks or something so people know... Thank you guys! Tha helped me a lot!
Opera10 does something weird with virtual memory (or pagepool) where it allocates TOO much. Opera10 also blocks iGo8 and a number of other apps also.
is there any fix for this? its a bit wearysome to have to restart the fone everytime i want to take a foto when i have been using opera.... as simply shutting opera does not work for ne... surely htc should have fixwd this by now....
Its definately Opera 10. The memory allocation is too high for some reason.
well, im jst running stock opera 9.7 and i still get the problem...
Sounds like you are out of system memory. Try uninstalling some apps or move them over to the storage card. I had the same problem as Opera10's epic cache was eating up my system memory. Cleaning out the YouTube folder also gave me another 100MB.
Got this problem with palringo, when i tried to share a picture, then my camera had this issue. Restart the phone and it should be alright...
ive sorted it out now by moving some apps (installed thru market place!) to the storage card uskng sktools now all ok!
I am having the same issue now..
its is showing the main memory details like this
STORAGE PROGRAM
total:312 mb 173 mb
in use:31mb 85 mb
free:283 mb 89 mb
Any clue why is it happening ??
pls help me guys
nalab1 said:
is there any fix for this? its a bit wearysome to have to restart the fone everytime i want to take a foto when i have been using opera.... as simply shutting opera does not work for ne... surely htc should have fixwd this by now....
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By the sounds of it, it isn't HTC at fault, but Opera's developers.
Have you tried cleanRAM? That should blitz the RAM and stop you needing to reboot.
have been getting the same problem. need to reset everyday! I have closed Opera and always clean up. but, not working. anyone ?
somebody also said it has something to do with the extra camera formats turned on in bsb tweaks guys, i have turned them off and opened opera 10 and camera works
Installing fennec browser (firefox mobile) caused my camera to quit working - only fix for it is hard reset - tried it several times with the same result.
mine happens upon installation of swype
Finally I managed to take my phone to customer service center,they reinstalled the OS but the result was same. So thy confirmed it as a motherboard problem and thy took a couple of days to replace it with new motherboard. Luckly I was under warrenty, now my camera is workking fine
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After a soft reset I have about 29-30MB of free ram, but after a few days I have 2 or 3MB of free ram left? Where all earth has it gone? I always close all active programs after use. Does anyone have this problem? I hate resetting after a few days of usage this is very annoying, my XDAIIi never had this problem.
Are you clearing your cache after using IE ? Deleting received and sent emails you don't want ?
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You have no choice with the Universal
You'll need to soft reset now and then in order to regain the free memory despite closing all active programs
Seems like a WM5 problem to me, on my Wizard I experience the same. After soft reset: 22 MB free, after a day or so falling to 19 MB, later to 18 MB etc etc. Nothing I tried (removing progs that might drain memory etc) helps.
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Are you clearing your cache after using IE ? Deleting received and sent emails you don't want ?
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Use MemMaid or PHM to set the IE cache to be on your SD card.
Thats HTC's most famous magic trick.
"Now you see it....Now you dont!"
The memory leak issue has been talked about before too. I am quite sure they are aware of it and will fix it in the upcoming RU in Jan.
Cheers.
Hmmm, I'm definitely experiencing the memory leak quite severely, cause after reboot, my Exec's memory is about 24mb ... but after a few hours of doing some syncs to install new apps, try new games, stuff like that, it went all the way down to less than 4mb. Check using the memory applet shows no running apps. This problem is happening a lot lately as I am trying out new apps, which is pretty irritating
Does anyone have any idea at all what's causing the memory leak ?
P.S.- I don't think this problem is unique to HTC, cause I found another thread elsewhere where Dell Axim users also have this problem. A WM5 issue perhaps ?
I am using ipaq 6915 foe a 2 month and discover that program memory is decreasing from some reason.When I do soft reset it start like 32 mb free and after 4-5 day usage it going down until reach 25 mb free.At that point i can't start hp camera. bluetooth or other programs.Tested with no other program installed.I tried to discover with task manager to see what kind of proccess is running in program memory but task manager works only after soft reset when amount of memory going down it stack and only help a soft reset again.
Is there anyone who has a simillar problem?
Best regards
Experience the same issue of memory leak too, but thought it to be related to other installed software.
Will see to do a fresh install to see...
leak memory notwitstanding, with 25MB you should still be able to run camera, bluetooth and what not.
what software have you installed?
I found a explanation about not working hp camera,bluetooth etc it is problem when I change reginal settings.Those application works only under english US settings that is HP bug.But it still have leaking memory issue that hapend because again another bug.When I press "x" button or ok to close some window it is not really close it which cause process to stay hang out in memory.Another problem is that application phone multiple it self three time (unknown reason) which again cause memory leaking.No other application installed than HP default.I send all those info to HP but still no answer.
Thanks
That is the way m$ works on wm5. They think it's a good idea that hitting the X button only minimizes the software and doesn't close it.
Really stupid! and annoying...
There are free third party apps that allow you to fully close apps not just minimize. And I can see why you think this is "stupid" there's a perfectly good explanation for this: As apps open they use up a quantity of memory and when they close, this cache of mem doesn't always gets cleared out - this is most apparent with activesync, everytime that apps goes on it uses a small amount of mem that doesn't free up. So leaving some apps like contacts and whatnot running in background actually is better in some cases. But like I said it's an easy fix. Re: mem leak, I'd check what else you have running, some today plugins like the gauges and meters stuff really use up a lot of memory and also affects battery performance as it's always polling the device for status.
Hello,
I'm user of elf (MDA Touch) and I use Onyx 3.0 ROM. When I launch Opera it's ok, but when I use it for about 15 minutes it shows a warning message, that says „the phone is low in storage memory“ or something (i think it means low RAM?). How to solve this issue?
Thanks
I too have opera 9.5. I use both the opera browser, as well as the IE browser (interchangeably). From what I see, whenever you surf web pages that has a lot of content (especially alot of images), the phone stores the data, even after closing the web pages. What I have to constantly keep doing is, delete the history, cookies & cache to free up the space, which eliminates the low memory messages, until the memory gets full again. It seems like after 4 to 5 large web pages, then I get the message of low memory. I sometimes get a critical low message (LOL).
For me, this is a big pain in the butt, and unfortunatly, I don't know any ways around it. Maybe there is a software that can monitor, and maintain a certain amount of space, to prevent this problem from happening; maybe we can start there.
Also maybe someone else could chime in with a solution.
i've seen opera running on both Elf and Elfin... it works without a glitch on the Elfin
but problems appear when i use it on Elf... same memory problems :S
we just need a good application that can free up (a loooott) of RAM...
As far as I have understood it's mainly the cache that eats up your memory. I found a way to store Opera cache on the storage card (well, I found a guide on the internet). It worked great untill I had a couple of tabs open (I guess tabs are stored in phone memory). But it helped a lot storing the cache on the storage card.
Instructions can be found here: http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/howto/how_to_move_the_cache_in_opera.html
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Instructions can be found here: http://www.wmexperts.com/articles/howto/how_to_move_the_cache_in_opera.html
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naah... tried it... same Low memory problem...
Yes! We need something that could monitor, and delete (if selected) the cache files on the fly (automatically) to maintain a certain amount of memory.
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Yes! We need something that could monitor, and delete (if selected) the cache files on the fly (automatically) to maintain a certain amount of memory.
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Moving cache to SD won't help much. Main problem is that Opera keeps thumbnail of page and it's full view in RAM. Wait for release of Fennec (Firefox Mobile), maybe it will work better.
Your total solution
I just found this on a thread.
www.skyfire.com
This thing even plays youtube videos directly.
I can play flash games on this browser too
DubThroatflex said:
Hello,
I'm user of elf (MDA Touch) and I use Onyx 3.0 ROM. When I launch Opera it's ok, but when I use it for about 15 minutes it shows a warning message, that says „the phone is low in storage memory“ or something (i think it means low RAM?). How to solve this issue?
Thanks
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try the Onyx Jr. you will get more memory...
dun use opera 9, use Esmertec Java with Opera Mini....
you will never turn back....lol..
got the same problem
hi all.
i've searched the Leo forum for this question but could not find an answer.
Everytime i start up my Leo i've get an error with services.exe had to shut down due to an error.(in dutch)
The same thing happens for opera.exe too!
On some webpages it shutdowns, and it asks me to send a report microsoft.
When i press Send the report it just opens opera.exe again but it wont react to anything.
I am running 1.48 rom and have just 15mb phone storage left.
I first thought it shutdowns because of low memory but second thought it has nothing to do with the storage space.
Actually, when it shutdown my phone is just running normaly.
But if it shutdowns due to an error, its not good I guess?
Use to happen when you install some 3rd party apps (wmlonglife sometimes does that), try a hard reset if it.s not an issue reinstalling all the apps, and see which one causes this. Another thing that you could do is reset all your data services (twitter, facebook etc.) and se if it works. (Basically services.exe is still running although you get the error at startup)
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Use to happen when you install some 3rd party apps (wmlonglife sometimes does that), try a hard reset if it.s not an issue reinstalling all the apps, and see which one causes this. Another thing that you could do is reset all your data services (twitter, facebook etc.) and se if it works. (Basically services.exe is still running although you get the error at startup)
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When i updated the rom i used spb backup.
could this be it?
i didnt install all the apps seperate.
just used the recovery function.
I have the same issue, only started yesterday so I can narrow down which apps I installed and remove them to see which may have caused it
stratplayer said:
I have the same issue, only started yesterday so I can narrow down which apps I installed and remove them to see which may have caused it
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I just removed Pocket Mechanic and htcaddicts CleanRAM and no error anymore, my money is on Pocket Mechanic
hi
I'm recently having a new issue and dont know what to do! when I close the Opera my HD2 slows down in about 4 minutes and then everything goes normal. I have updated to 1.66 rom...
I did some of the tweaks listed in front page of Tips and Tweaks... thread.
And there is another issue when browsing pages with opera when I double tap too zoom in or double tap too zoom out or when go to landscape mode it goes to upper side of the page and I have to search again and find the specific part of page which I was reading.
any tweaks or tricks for this issue?
thanks
You're not the only one, me too. The only way i could rectify it was to do a hard reset, which is a pain.
yes, mine's too with 1.66 ROM ehh waiting for HTC updates
I have also only recently experienced this.
Ending all tasks via Task Manager ends the lag thus avoiding soft reset.
just set cleanram to level 1 and run it every time you exit opera. snappy in 5 seconds..m
I had opera.exe staying running and using resources on exit . I had moved the cache to my (stock) 2mb sd card. I reset back to internal memory fixed it.
im not saying its specifically the cache being on the sd card, it could simply be the cache folder being rebuilt.
(I now have the cache on a ram disk and opera 9.7 flies.)
I had this problem, i had moved the opera cache to the SD card as had been suggested in the Tips & Tricks.
Once i moved it back to the phone it was fine again