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[Q] QIK app reboots my phone... WTF?

I have an annoying problem with QIK - whenever I try to start a video chat or record a video, my phone reboots. Video camera and photo camera work fine outside of QIK. Has anyone else had this issue before? I searched the forums but no one has described this specific issue before.
Hardware v3
ROM: Fresh 3.4.0.1
Radio: 2.15.00.09.01
PRI: 1.77_003
Thanks.

Unfortunately it's starting to look more and more like there was a bug in the last Qik update. If you installed the upate and now have version 0.04.60.2 then maybe you need to uninstall it for now. It's working fine on my EVO, but when I look at the comments in the Market alot of folks are complaining about the reboot issue. In fact, Qik for HTC EVO 4G isn't even showing up in the Market anymore. So hopefully the company is aware of the issue and working on another update that will fix it.

Thanks. I thought that maybe with all this rooting/flashing I had done I damaged the system somehow. My GF has exactly the same setup, but her QIK works just fine... Oh well. I'll just have to wait for the new version.

It's a well known issue

glad i'm not the only one! haven't even gotten to try qik out yet.

[Q] Froyo camera portrait bug

I don't think this has been posted yet, but I am seeing a weird bug with the camera that is different than all the other camera/camcorder bugs I've seen, most of which have fixes.
If I am in landscape mode of the home screen on Launcherpro or Go Launcher and open camera app, everything is fine. If I am in portrait mode of the home screen and open camera app, more often than not, I get a camera failed message.
I have tried this with both Launcherpro and Go Launcher. I have reinstalled camera. Wiped cache, wiped data, formatted sf card. Happens with both stock camera and the camera in the EB13 GB theme.
Anyone else experiencing this?

just tested this and my phone doesn't show this bug.
I'm on stock EB13 with camera bug fix kernel over it.

Im actually getting the same problem and im using go launcher idk about LP. Im running the midnight 4.1 eb13 rom.
sometimes the camera will start and be completely black and just sit there and I restart and then get "camera failed" it takes a few restarts to get it going which is annoying because most photo ops are come and go :/
Anyways nice to know im not the only one with the problem. Any help would be much appreciated

cconwing said:
Im actually getting the same problem and im using go launcher idk about LP. Im running the midnight 4.1 eb13 rom.
sometimes the camera will start and be completely black and just sit there and I restart and then get "camera failed" it takes a few restarts to get it going which is annoying because most photo ops are come and go :/
Anyways nice to know im not the only one with the problem. Any help would be much appreciated
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Yes, that is exactly my issue. Workaround I figured out is to be in landscape mode before launching the app, but this is not really a solution. I found this bug on midnight 4.0 and syndicate frozen rom. Surprised more people haven't seen it.
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Camera works fine for me.
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Camera works fine for me
EB13 Bonsai ROM with Bonsai 3.0.0 Kernel OC'ed to 1.2GHz

No problem with the camera for me either
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Also no problems with the camera here in this regard. Using a stock RFS kernel with no lag fix.

I have no problems either - I have a stock EB13 that has been rooted via oneclickroot cwm 2.5.5 - no roms or kernels except stock, the only that I have done is install the camera/video lag and the slow rotation fix.

Camera works fine for me. Running the Syndicate Frozen rom.

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.

Phone Process closing immediately after opening on ShenduOS

Hey guys, I recently installed [7.18.13][4.1.2][v1.0] ShenDu OS,
and everything works fine aside from getting the message "video recording failed" on snapchat.
But the real issue that I care about is the phone process immediately closes after launching.
So I can't or even receive a call at the moment. Anyone else having this problem?
I've reinstalled a couple of times now. I really like the look of this rom, and
it runs smoothly. It's just, you know, I'd like to call people sometimes.
Thanks

That's a bug with ShenduOS rom port.
I know that ROM is amazing but 2 others have also reported phone fc
It might be because the kernel is missing a few files in the ramdisk since i remember coderzs saying that the .61 cannot be used with cyanogenmod .
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CM 12.1 Nightlies discussion

So i finally gave cm 12.1 a chance because it's been rolling for a while now... and i was actually pretty impressed. The one issue i couldn't deal with is the bluetooth audio playback in my car. Basically it was playing too fast, then pausing every 10-20 seconds and then continuing to play too fast again (also at a slightly higher pitch). I was able to temporarily fix the problem by turning bluetooth off and on but it came back. other than this i didn't see many issues and thought it was pretty good, but for no i'm going to go back to stock until this issue is fixed, i did find that it was already reported to the cyanogenmod team and they are already working on a fix so i'm waiting impatiently until it's fixed and i'll probably be moving from stock kitkat as my main rom to cm 12.1. How has everyone elses experience been with cm 12.1 nightlies so far?
What doesn't work. (if i missed something here post so i can update)
- saving 4k video (1080p works tho)
Battery life ?
- used to be terrible but it's almost as good as stock now but with better performance.

hey
i would like to use CM as i was doing that on my Moto G. the questions I have to users of the newest CM version:
- does quickcircle, google text-to-speech, intelligent screen (LG app) features work?
- what is the quality of videos and pictures taken by the phone running CM opposite to android v20i?
thank you.

Brtnsk said:
hey
i would like to use CM as i was doing that on my Moto G. the questions I have to users of the newest CM version:
- does quickcircle, google text-to-speech, intelligent screen (LG app) features work?
- what is the quality of videos and pictures taken by the phone running CM opposite to android v20i?
thank you.
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1. Quickcircle won't work. To make it work again you have to install a special app. Google text-to-speech works ok for me (I haven't test it too much). LG features/apps won't work
2.For me the quality of pics and videos are the worst I have ever seen!!!! (Much better in the stock LG)
My experience with CM12.1 was average. I was waiting for something better. Camera is awful in the Custom roms. Battery life wasn't the best. In terms of performance the cm12.1 is better than the stock lg.

i've only been running cm 12.1 for a few days now so i don't have alot of substantive input, i did find a fix for the bad bluetooth car audio using a macro/tasker app but i think they have fixed it in the nightly released today, i'm downloading it now it says bluetooth stream parameters in the patch notes so i wont bother sharing my fix until i try this nightly to see if they already fixed it. i'll give a better review of whats working and the camera/video quality after i have a chance to play around with it more.
by the way anything running ART instead of DALVIK cache/runtime is going to perform better but it's at the price of xposed modules and such, i'm not expert on it but i know they switched to ART cache/runtime to be more competitive with the iphone. On Kitkat and lower an android device needs better hardware to output the same performance as an iphone with lesser hardware. ART should fix that problem. If you are curious google ART vs DALVIK
*edit* yeah bluetooth is fixed with the newest nightly update... atleast for my car which is a mazda 3. (yay)

Avrage camera and bugs like video not saving after recording is main culpit to not use CM 12.1. Otherwise it is good as clean android can be.

it's getting alot better every day now

netmaniack said:
Avrage camera and bugs like video not saving after recording is main culpit to not use CM 12.1. Otherwise it is good as clean android can be.
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Videos do save. It is a issue with 4K video ONLY. Switch to 1080p video and videos save just fine.

c_brown93 said:
Videos do save. It is a issue with 4K video ONLY. Switch to 1080p video and videos save just fine.
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I found that myselfe, tnx. But I believe that issue is fixed already. Maybe Im wrong, but I did see in changelog or other forum. Maybe someone can test it?

I switched to stock kitkat, I love CM, been running CM since it was 10.1, the problem is that it starts really really fast and after a while CM 12.1 becomes laggy it drives me crazy, other than that is the camera quality which doesn't bothers me as the performance issue,
I guess we'll need to wait for LG to release the G3 source file but who know's when that's gonna happend

good news the latest daily added some balancing between power and battery life. I went from losing a huge chunk of my battery during work when my phone is in my pocket to going 9.5 hours at work and coming home with 94% battery. (that is alot of standby but i use my phone at lunch and have bluetooth running for about 50 minutes of driving). Basically it got alot better, i'm not sure what they did but i did notice that there is a balanced setting in battery screen that i didn't notice before. Anyways I think those who were concerned about battery drain my have had their wishes answered over the last few nightlies.

netmaniack said:
I found that myselfe, tnx. But I believe that issue is fixed already. Maybe Im wrong, but I did see in changelog or other forum. Maybe someone can test it?
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i still can't get 4k video to save but 1080p did.

Do knock on and knock code work?

Lucenzo7 said:
Do knock on and knock code work?
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Knock on works but knock code doesn't, which is quite normal considered it's an LG feature.

Lucenzo7 said:
Do knock on and knock code work?
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Partly working. You can turn screen on by clicking anywhere, and turn it off by knocking at notification bar.

Phone encryption not working?
I've just flashed the 20150603 CM12.1 and I cannot seem to get the phone encrypted. On the reboot to start the encryption, the phone gets stuck in the CM boot animation and the encryption process never starts. Any ideas or suggestions? Many thanks in advance.

I'm on 06/05 nigthly. When I plug the phone in my computer, it's not being recognized. If I change from MTP to PTP, then it works.
I've tried going to Device Manager, and could see that my phone is being recognized as a Nexus device. I tried installing latest drivers from Google's website, but I got a message saying that I'm already on the latest version. So that didn't do anything. I've tried uninstalling that "nexus" driver and rebooting my PC, but it somehow came back when I plugged my phone in. Trying to update gave me the same message.
If I run "adb devices", I can see that there's no devices (it's enabled in developer settings). If I enable ADB over WiFi and try to connect -- it works, and I can do whatever I want. But only over WiFi and not via USB.
Tried different cable and different port as well.