I'm having a big problem with the camera app.
It appears that when I open, the camera automatically starts and tries to take pictures (by focusing) and then going black, and then coming back up to the camera viewfinder screen, then black, then viewfinder, then black, etc forever. It's as if the camera app opens, closes, opens, closes, again and again.
Both the rear and front camera have this problem...
The camera app used to work just fine.
When I try to use Google Goggles, it lags the camera terribly, and that's when it started (after using Goggles today). I uninstalled Goggles, but the camera is still messed up.
I use the camera in other apps just fine, like the Yelp Monocle, Camcorder and Qik, and they are still working fine, even if the camera app is broken.
I have tried Clear Data from the camera app, rebooting, battery pulling. I'm on my last resort, factory reset!
can we get some info about your phone... rooted? rom? ect...
Bone stock.
well with that note i dont have a clue... the first time i turned my phone on i rooted it and never looked back!
i would power off, and volume down and power to get to h boot and factory reset...
So apparently the problem has to do with Geo-tagging, or anytime the GPS is in use with the camera in a picture taking capability.
I have turned geo-tagging off and the camera app is seeming to work...
i am glad you figured it out bro! sorry i wasnt any more help though...
just flashed the gingersense rom and omfg this is NICE, just sayin... maybe you might want to come to the DARK SIDE and root, lol
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So i got this beautiful machine today and ive had a few problems on it. So far the camera has messed up on me twice. I was taking a picture of someone with the rear camera and it just froze. I clicked home and then force stopped the camera application from settings and then tried to go to the camera and it said camerancouldnt connect. Had to restart. Then i took some pics and videos front facing and rear. Now when I go to the camera app it stuck on the front facing camera, no matter which camera I try to use. Also i work at Bestbuy and when. We were trying to set up the demo device we connected it to an HD screen via hdmi obviously and i tried playing a youtube video in HD. Kept saying tap to refresh so I tapped and then all of a sudden it just hard crashed. I had to just turn it back on. Also right now just trying to watch HD youtube keeps telling me to tap to refresh. Not sureif thats just me and my internet cnnnection but yeah. Just wanted to put these out there. Remember still an early version but I do not think google should have removed the beta tag on this OS
Hello, guys,
My rear camera is completely out of focus on the Skype app, so it's unusable. It is focusing ok (I suppose, I read the circle should turn green but mine is always white, but it seems focused) on the camera app and other apps (it struggled a bit once on genius scan but then it worked fine). I really dont know if its a software bug or if I should try to return my phone (you know, its a hassle).
Thanks a lot
For some reason, the front camera gets all weird when taking a video. Back camera works fine, just not front. All the colors become muted and blue tinted, everything goes dark, and the quality drops signifgantly. Here's what I mean: imgur.com/a/t1XOc (I can't post links yet :/ so just copy paste)
First picture is what selfie (front) camera sees, 2nd is what happens when I try to take a video using the front camera, 3rd picture is what the selfie camera looks like afterwards. It gets "fixed' after i switch to front camera and back. I think it's a hardware defect, since I haven't found anyone else having problems with this on the internet.
I want to factory reset to be sure (is there a way to turn on safe mode? I can't figure out how on this phone) unfortunately I already put a bunch of games on my phone that don't have cloud save, and I don't want to loose all that progress. Is there a way I can back up all the app data without rooting? (I haven't rooted in case I needed to send it back for repairs). If I do restore the apps, will they still be able to receive updates and will I still be able to make inapp purchases?
Phone comes with weshare... Have not tried it myself.
Anyone else having issues getting Camera unavailable? I can use third party camera apps and access both rear cameras.
But if I use the stock one and switch to the rear camera I get "Camera Error" Camera Unavailable.
I also had that today for the stock video but trying a second time it worked.
Yea mine just keeps doing it over and over, OpenCamera runs both cameras just fine, but doesn't see the front camera lol, front camera works fine and non-wide rear works fine on stock app.
I tried to run a full KDZ reset, but it doesn't let me refurbish, only upgrade, so if there is something wrong with the files in there, I fear they may not have been fixed.
Have you tried uninstalling OpenCamera and see if it goes away? I had this happen on an older phone, after a reboot it would work, come to find out, another app was holding the camera open
Yea I've tried using a fully reset phone, after digging more it looks like if the camera is in "Selfie Mode" the rear cameras work, but it's like if the selfie camera is no longer being detected by anything.
So, I'm going to assume the front camera is bad which is why it's not working. Oh well to it.. but the issue is, I can't use my main camera at all via camera apps. Other apps like messenger and discord can use it just fine, but I can't switch off of my broken wide angle camera to my main after the front camera went out. And I really don't feel like wasting money on the front camera I rarely use AGAIN... Is there any way I can force the phone to only use my main camera? I don't care for the wide angle or the front camera since neither work..
Thanks
Not sure if you have tried this. But when the camera acts up for me and won't open, I go to settings then Application Manager. Find Camera in the list. Force Stop it first, and then clear out Cache and Data both. Doing this usually resets any problems it has often caused by other apps accessing it. It should resort back to the main rear camera. Also try restarting your phone after this. Some problems won't even go away without a reboot.