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2.2 UPDATE Camera issues NON-Root

Rather the lack of camera or video after the update. Just opens then closes really fast. I suppose a reset of some kind is next. Anyone else have / had this issue?
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can someone tell me why when you take self photos the screen looks smaller than before

calicobasin said:
Rather the lack of camera or video after the update. Just opens then closes really fast. I suppose a reset of some kind is next. Anyone else have / had this issue?
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i do not have this problem it might just be you. try doing a reboot and see what happens
prettyboyrob2007 said:
can someone tell me why when you take self photos the screen looks smaller than before
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this is because your not taking a picture that supports high resolution. it is only a vga camera that is 1.3 megapixel

when you look at the screen before you snap a self picture its smaller looking than the 2.1 rom

I ran into this issue after updating my phone to the HTC FroYo beta. I rebooted my phone and it began working again. I've have not had an issue since then.
My GF's phone was updated to final HTC FroYo 2.2 and ran into the same problem as well. A Reboot also fixed it.

I ran into this issue right after updating to the 2.2 beta. I found that it was the LED Light app that was "breaking" the camera. Uninstalled the app, soft reset, good to go.

Camera Resolution
My Camera dropped to 3m anyone have that problem?

I did a soft reset and voila everything is fine now. I also unistalled the LED app I was using then reinstalled it. No issues so far.
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what LED app are you using, I am also having this issue. It was working fine, then i rebooted, and now it just closes right away when opened, will be deleting all my LED apps for now.

Yep the LED Light widget (the one that looks like the sense widget) killed that and its working again. hopefully the author of the app can fix this. as thats a useful little widget.

yep, its the LED Light, the one that looks like a sense widget on/off switch.. uninstalled it and camera works fine, i didnt even have to reboot

Camera Problems

Hey guys, none of my cameras are working. When i hit the camera button the camera app turns on but the screen is white. I've tried searching but everything comes up related to a discolored camera. Ive tried flashing many roms, fixing permissions, tapping on the camera. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Do you have an Evo 4g? You said you "hit the camera button" but the Evo doesn't have a hardware camera button.
If it's happening across multiple roms, including stock, it's probably a hardware problem.
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oxxomxxo said:
Hey guys, none of my cameras are working. When i hit the camera button the camera app turns on but the screen is white. I've tried searching but everything comes up related to a discolored camera. Ive tried flashing many roms, fixing permissions, tapping on the camera. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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You haven't flashed a Froyo kernel on a Gingerbread ROM, have you? The issue you describe is a well-documented side-effect of doing just that. If not, I would flash back to stock and see if it works. If it does, then you know it's a software issue. If it doesn't, then I would agree with plainjane.

Did you ever get a working answer to this? I'm having the same problem. My camera won't open, it force closes before going anywhere beyond a black screen. The night before, it would at least open. The front facing camera worked but the rear facing camera seemed stuck on solarize (which I had no options to change). Seems like a software problem so I updated to the latest deck rom, updated hboot, pri, nv, wimax - now fully updated and still no fix. Tried installing miui apk and still same.
If I don't get this camera fixed, I'll have to unroot. Not looking forward to doing that but if it's between having root or camera, I'm going to pick the camera.
Hope someone can help before I have to go to such drastic measures.

midian42 said:
Did you ever get a working answer to this? I'm having the same problem. My camera won't open, it force closes before going anywhere beyond a black screen. The night before, it would at least open. The front facing camera worked but the rear facing camera seemed stuck on solarize (which I had no options to change). Seems like a software problem so I updated to the latest deck rom, updated hboot, pri, nv, wimax - now fully updated and still no fix. Tried installing miui apk and still same.
If I don't get this camera fixed, I'll have to unroot. Not looking forward to doing that but if it's between having root or camera, I'm going to pick the camera.
Hope someone can help before I have to go to such drastic measures.
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Rooting won't break your camera.
I would flash back to a rooted stock ROM, and confirm whether camera works or not on it. If it does, then you know the issue is in fact software related (which it doesn't sound like it is). If it doesn't, then you have a hardware failure.

A corrupt sd cars gave me the same problem. Try re-formatting it.
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I took it to Best Buy and they told me it's a sensor issue. My phone gets replaced so it's all good.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I tried them all before deciding it must be a hardware issue and going to BB.

I know this is a few months late, but I recently had a similar problem. I would click the camera icon and the screen would just go black and then f/c on me. I was running ICS roms, so I flashed to Decks GB rom, Mik 3.1 rom and had the same problem. So I figured it was a hardware problem.
I decided to open up my evo and take a look inside and found the camera housing was not seated completely. Pushed it back down and it has been working for days now
I guess it probably jarred loose when I dropped it or bumped it or something.
Thought I would share, because it was very frustrating for me, so I figured it might be bothering someone else.

Camera failed to initialize

I can't use my back camera.. im not reaaly sure what happened. Before i was trying to get um frontcam and updating homebase rom after upgrade to 3.4 with 5.3a.. its gave me black lag screen and force close and it says camera failed to initialize after few try.. I did cam restore, full wipe, flashed stock rom it doesn't help.. I hope someone know what did I do wrong.. the front cam works ok.. its been a week I hope someone can help me fix this.. I can give donation for anyone fix this
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Double posting certainly isn't going to help. To me it sounds like a hardware failure.

I have the same problem as you if solve the problem or have any information I'll be gratefull if you share it with me. Thanks

@ the home screen. Hit the Menu button, go to Settings>Applications?Manage Applications... Select all and find "camera" Open it an hit the "Clear Data" button. If it does not resolve, try also clearing data in Gallery as well. IF that doesn't work, could be a hardware issue. Hope this helps!

No luck until now but im quite sure its not a hardware problem. Is there any way to test camera hardware failure?
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Are you on a stock ROM? The reason I am asking is I have had a similar issue, but mine stemmed from me taking a swim with my phone. After I took 7 days to dry it out etc.. the phone powered up with no problem. The only problems I was having was with both cameras.. I was recieving the FC's and/ro Initialization errors...
At the time I was stock... I flashed the Pudding SBF 4.5.91 via RSDLite and my back camera started working with no FC. I do however have what I feel i is a hardware problem with my Front camera, as when I select it I just get a black screen,lock up, then FC on Camera. I will also get the Initialization errors. The only way to get any camera to work again is to go into the stock camera app and clear data. Then I can open any camera app back up again using the rear camera.
Have you tried different camera apps? Such as MIUI Camera, LG Camera, or Camera360 to see if you get the same message?

Im on hombase... I tried all camera apparently but none of them works. My frontcam works just fine... I wonder how to reinstall the camera firmware or update it.. I guess this problem occurred since I mod the ymfrontcam...
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Maybe you f'ed up pds partition, it contains camera calibration data and other stuff. But you would be seeing other issues as well if you did.

I had the same issue, I went into titanium backup and wiped data for the camera app
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i9500 (Stock MG1) - Camera keeps closing (not crashing or rebooting)

Anybody experienced the camera randomly closing on stock MG1 firmware? It's behaving as if I'm pressing the back button. No error message, no reboot, just kicks me back to my launcher's home screen. Incidentally, it takes a few seconds to reload the launcher (Next Launcher 3D) every time this happens. I have tried using only the Touchwiz launcher, but the issue remains (although the launcher reload is not as apparent after it kicks you out).
The problem isn't limited to the stock camera app; it also happens in other camera apps, like Instagram.
Any ideas? I know the camera bug was fixed in MEA, and this phone isn't rooted. The phone had MDK out of the box, and I flashed stock MG1 via Odin.
Any help is appreciated.

prodigyX said:
Anybody experienced the camera randomly closing on stock MG1 firmware? It's behaving as if I'm pressing the back button. No error message, no reboot, just kicks me back to my launcher's home screen. Incidentally, it takes a few seconds to reload the launcher (Next Launcher 3D) every time this happens. I have tried using only the Touchwiz launcher, but the issue remains (although the launcher reload is not as apparent after it kicks you out).
The problem isn't limited to the stock camera app; it also happens in other camera apps, like Instagram.
Any ideas? I know the camera bug was fixed in MEA, and this phone isn't rooted. The phone had MDK out of the box, and I flashed stock MG1 via Odin.
Any help is appreciated.
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Hmm.. did your phone was updated to latest firmwares?
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Hmm.. did your phone was updated to latest firmwares?
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As I said, the phone has been updated to MG1, which is not supposed to have any camera issues at all. I will try MG5, but it's a bit of a mystery as to why this is happening. Maybe a factory reset will help

Try the MG9, i know it works. The MG5 has battery drain issuse
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Camera cannot connect...getting mad

Curious if anyone has a fix or reason why this is happening. I'm rooted and have run a few ROMs and the google camera almost constantly fc. I've run chroma, pure nexus, du, ect and sometimes I get it to work but it seems lately it will not connect. Not sure why or what's making it happen. Wondering if anyone has some ideas or whatever on what's going on ...thanks
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What ROM are you currently running? I'm on Chroma and whilst I haven't directly experienced that issue yet (fingers crossed I don't), i did see in the thread at some point, someone did experience the same 'camera cannot connect' issue. The solution was to:
1. Uninstall the camera app, and then
2. In recovery, Flash the new Google Camera zip (pulled from Stock N6P factory image) - available on the first post of the Chroma ROM page (http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...-chroma-11-08-2015-lockscreen-navbar-t3244444).
If you're not sure on how to uninstall system apps (your current offending camera app):
1. Get Titanium Backup (if you don't have it already) and
2. Go to Batch Actions and then "uninstall system apps" within Titanium Backup.
3. Deselect all (just to be safe).
4. Find the camera app, and run uninstall action.
Now you can Reboot into recovery and then flash that zip mentioned above.
If all else fails, you might need to restore factory image and start again... which blows if you have a tonne of apps.
Good luck!

^^^ I was running chroma a few hrs ago. Then tried candysix and du. All of which the camera app closes. Now I'm on aosip lololol. Ridiculous. I have camera fv5. For some reason that works but google camera doesn't. I have tried the chroma camera zip as well. No go. I'm at a loss. I've tried everything minus reflashing stock and starting over again. I had it working days ago although I would get a fc and found if I switched to front facing cam to rear cam it stopped the fc, but now I can't even do that
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jeff5347 said:
^^^ I was running chroma a few hrs ago. Then tried candysix and du. All of which the camera app closes. Now I'm on aosip lololol. Ridiculous. I have camera fv5. For some reason that works but google camera doesn't. I have tried the chroma camera zip as well. No go. I'm at a loss. I've tried everything minus reflashing stock and starting over again. I had it working days ago although I would get a fc and found if I switched to front facing cam to rear cam it stopped the fc, but now I can't even do that
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Was it after using slow motion?

No haven't tried slo mo. For some reason if I switch to the front camera and back its good. Camera so far is going good but flash another ROM....and bazinga..crap again
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