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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

[HELP] Photos and Videos Thingy

Hi Guys
I got 2 problems related to the Album.
1. My photos appear extremly blurry on the main screen (the part where you flick through them). It's not a huge deal, but I wouldnt mind some focus.
2. When I make my way to a video album the videos are only displayed as windows media icons. No text and no thumbnail video preview. As a result I have to guess which one of the 50 videos is the one I want to show a friend.
Please help me.

Unbelievable
I just can't believe absolutely no-one has a solution, or some advice at the least.
If I can't get help here, I am doomed.
I thought this forum was over-run by brainiacs.
Guess not.

MaD-CoW said:
Hi Guys
I got 2 problems related to the Album.
1. My photos appear extremly blurry on the main screen (the part where you flick through them). It's not a huge deal, but I wouldnt mind some focus.
2. When I make my way to a video album the videos are only displayed as windows media icons. No text and no thumbnail video preview. As a result I have to guess which one of the 50 videos is the one I want to show a friend.
Please help me.
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Hey!
To be honest....it's not a solution I can offer you...because I think everybody has the same issue with the blurry pictures and no preview video, but I think I can explain why....The main reason I guess it's blurry, is because it will take too much time for the device to pre-load the images on the sceen ie...especially if you have many high resolution pictures, it takes forever to load for every picture...the same with the music...that can also takes some time to load when you slide to the music tab.....
for the video the same reason I guess..
Please anybody...correct me if i'm wrong....
BTW...If you see the amount of views for this topic, you'll see that a lot of people see your problem, but don't have a solution for it....so please newby...don't complain allright??? we all try to help each other......

I had the same problem very blurry photos. But I solved it on mine.
Copy the original photos onto your diamond into the internal storage. I put mine in my pictures for while I did this.
Then on the diamond go onto your people tab and on each of your favourite people click on the menu bottom (bottom left).
Select change picture.
Then select the photo from the location you copied them too earlier..
That's it.
Do that for each of your favourite people.
It seems outlook contacts get saved with much lower resolution photo's but if you add the photo's on the phone it's a much higher res.
Carl
BTW I deleted the folder I'd copied into internal storage once i'd completed this and the photo's all stayed so there's no need to have the copied photo's permanently on the phone

capt_carl said:
I had the same problem very blurry photos. But I solved it on mine.
Copy the original photos onto your diamond into the internal storage. I put mine in my pictures for while I did this.
Then on the diamond go onto your people tab and on each of your favourite people click on the menu bottom (bottom left).
Select change picture.
Then select the photo from the location you copied them too earlier..
That's it.
Do that for each of your favourite people.
It seems outlook contacts get saved with much lower resolution photo's but if you add the photo's on the phone it's a much higher res.
Carl
BTW I deleted the folder I'd copied into internal storage once i'd completed this and the photo's all stayed so there's no need to have the copied photo's permanently on the phone
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That's a good answer nice man! I knew the problem was also on the Favorites Contacts tab, where the photo's were blurry as well, but I didn't know you could also fix it on the Photo/Video Tab...!
Nice tip!

me confused
Capt_Carl, I think you are confusing "blurry pictures in Photo & Video Tab" (my problem) with "blurry contact pictures in the Favorite People Tab" (solved this a while ago).
Am I just misunderstanding Capt_Carl.
What do you think Pietje_1985?

MaD-CoW said:
Capt_Carl, I think you are confusing "blurry pictures in Photo & Video Tab" (my problem) with "blurry contact pictures in the Favorite People Tab" (solved this a while ago).
Am I just misunderstanding Capt_Carl.
What do you think Pietje_1985?
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Yes....to be honest...i'm confused as well.. because of the fact that I knew there was a problem with the Favorite People tab and the pictures, but for the Photo/Video tab, I still think you can't solve that problem....... I thought Capt_Carl had the answer, but I think not after I read your post MaD-CoW
Ne ways...I hope maybe somebody else is familiar with the problems and somebody has got a solution to it.....
Cheers

Bump
Has anyone solved the blurry photos in the photo & video tab?

I have the same problem. 700 views and still no luck. I'll wait.

I'll join in the wait as well.

Update?
Maybe an update to the new official ROM 2.03 could help?

With the 2.03 ROM the problem started for me. On 1.93 it was fine.

Make the pictures 240x320

Camera Pictures not showing up in gallery...

... problem exactly as stated above. Sometimes I will take a picture with the camera and it doesn't show up in the photo gallery until I restart the phone.
Anyone else have a problem with this? Has anyone figured out a way to fix it without restarting?

Yeah I'm having these issue as well and also happens with picture downloads. they wont show in the gallery until after a few reboots at times as well. or sure what's going on with that.

a quick fix, so you dont have to reboot your phone is to kill gallery with a task manager, and open it up again.

ok guys i'm had that same issue now my gallery is gone altogether....my gallery will load but it says loading images...then it says there is no content to be read...i down load an app from the market and it not seeing my sd card either...but if i go in file explore i can see everything on my card....i done a hard reset like three time no luck please help....htc said may have to send the phone back...i think its to small of an issue to lose my phone for a week or more...it maybe a simple fix so i will try this first before...ty for any help someone can offer

oh yeah if i take a new pic it will show up in the gallery but when i reboot its gone....

ok guys i fixed....what i did was took everything off my sd card....re formated...turn the phone off for like 5 min....then back on....put every thing back on the card check the music player and gallery to see if they worked and everything was there....then i rebooted to see if everything would disappear so far i'm good to go i have all my pics and files back....only thing on the first gallery load up be patient it take a min to load the sd card it will flash loading...but after that im good to go...i'm by a new sd card i think that may have been the issue....

It happens to me too. I unmount and remount the sdcard, and the Gallery finds everything.

I find if i go into the camera app, the latest photo is there in the preview box. if i open it, and then go back to the gallery app, it (usually) appears. but yes, annoying bug really.

turael said:
I find if i go into the camera app, the latest photo is there in the preview box. if i open it, and then go back to the gallery app, it (usually) appears. but yes, annoying bug really.
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oddly, i never had this problem until just a second ago, but what this guy said is exactly how i got around it too. i took a photo, task killed camera, went to gallery, no photo, reopened camera, photo was in preview, clicked on it, went to gallery from there, and there it was, ready to share.
it's gotta be a bug of some kind. perhaps the most recent photo isn't loaded to gallery until another photo is taken, or you click preview box. stupid, but possible.

Problem Solved
Hi friends, I encountered the problem as well today and found the solution: Go to the sdcard and search folders for a file named .nomedia and delete it should solve the problem. No need to format or things like that worked fine for me. seems some kind of bug

.nomedia is a file designed to hide directories from being searched by Android Media Scan (which includes Gallery). There is absolutely no reason to delete it, and it's not a bug.
However, there is a bug in Media Scan, which sometimes causes Gallery to "miss" pictures. Executing Media Rescan (from "Development") solves it, or as stated above, just unmounting and mounting the SD card.

There's no Media Rescan in Development on my gb 2.3.3.

I've experienced something similar. I've been running the various CM7 builds and whenever I'd take a pic and immediately share it on Facebook, the pic will never be seen again.
Since then, I've gotten in the habit of hitting up Sugarsync first to sync the new pics, the send it up to Facebook via the gallery.
Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

stock 2.3.3 and i had the problem today.
force quit gallery and it was back to normal.
why is 2.3.3 so buggy!?

Gallery just plain does not work.

9 out of 10 times, nothing loads in the gallery. Sometimes the folder shows up but no pictures, and sometimes just the yellow/black background. I can reboot my phone but the problem will persist again after leaving it on for awhile.
Anyone else having this problem?

I am with Virtuous 9.0 and 9.5 which uses the HTC Gallery. Only folder it displays is the camera shots folders. There are a couple of other folders on my phone that won't shot up (like my DroCap folder).

the 3d gallery is total garbage.
Believe it or not, the stock gallery that came with the espresso sense on the Mytouch slide was better than the 3d gallery. At least all the pictures showed up and it wasn't dog crap slow.

Do you guys have tons of pictures on your phones?
I may have 100 seperated into folders on my sd card. Just wondering if the amount of pics may be the problem.

Have over 300 pictures in my gallery and MOST of the time it works just fine. Sometimes it will open up and not display anything. A force close and a cache clear typically fixes that though.

I've also noticed mine sometimes does not load any pictures and I have to close it and try again. It's been working pretty good the past few days though.

Any chance at getting the old-school gallery version on these G2s? I tried QuickPic and really liked it, but the only downfall is that it took a while to generate thumbnail images when you launched it. Worse of all, it seemed to do that every time I started that application, but it is better than the 3-D gallery.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/quickpic/com.alensw.PicFolder

Here is a thread for the old 2d gallery.
I tried it but I was too lazy to let it make thumbnails of all my pictures and I nandroided back. I may try it again if there are good results.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=891201&highlight=gallery

You could try clearing cache for the gallery. Settings - manage applications - all - gallery then clear cache.
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

Gigamaster89 said:
9 out of 10 times, nothing loads in the gallery. Sometimes the folder shows up but no pictures, and sometimes just the yellow/black background. I can reboot my phone but the problem will persist again after leaving it on for awhile.
Anyone else having this problem?
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When it happens, use Rescan Media. It will scan your phone and show up all of your pictures and videos.
Mog said:
Do you guys have tons of pictures on your phones?
I may have 100 seperated into folders on my sd card. Just wondering if the amount of pics may be the problem.
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I don't think it has something to do with the quantity. The 1st time it occured to me it was 10 days after I got my phone and I had something like 50 pics in it.
From what I've read since this is a well-known bug.

Not all of my pictures are not showing up in Gallery

I've had my phone for a few weeks. It's rooted with a Rom. I've had no problems viewing all of my pictures that are located on my SD Card.
Then yesterday (I'm unsure if I did something while messing with the phone but don't think so) I noticed that I wasn't able to view my camera pictures.
So I took a couple of pictures to see if those one showed up. It did. The pictures are in the right spot as well. Again I'm unable to view all of my pictures.
Before I noticed anything I was taking a lot of screen shots and placing them in folders on my SD Card. I can view those pictures.
Today, I did a clean flash with a different rom. Assuming that would help (I was already planning to change roms).
Still the same issue.
Can Someone maybe help me with this situation?

Do you see the pictures if you put the SD card on your computer?