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Galaxy S camera problems

Just as the thread title says, my camera is full of bugs, unable to change iso/exposure properly and hangs when I try to focus or take a picture. Had the same problem when using jf4 and jm2 as well as third party camera apps. Is this a software or hardware problem? And any solutions?

you are the very first person to complain about this.
just about every body else loves the camera, including me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731846

AllGamer said:
you are the very first person to complain about this.
just about every body else loves the camera, including me
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=731846
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I had problems testing the panorama shot, but I never complained, mostly because I don't take pictures and I was just testing it. Also, in the camera's defense, I was talking pictures in a room, where perhaps there was an issue due to corners while the shot is intended to be of landscape....any thoughts?

Not exactly complaining but I think that it could be a hardware problem as half of the time I press the camera app, the app starts shows a black screen and says 'camera failed' and force closes...

Qazz~; said:
Not exactly complaining but I think that it could be a hardware problem as half of the time I press the camera app, the app starts shows a black screen and says 'camera failed' and force closes...
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Is this lag ?

Not much lag, but like I said its real buggy, can't even focus.when I tap on an area the box shifts to wheretapped but it does not focus, the box will now get stuck there and the iso/exposure will not change then usually the camera will stop working

Qazz~ said:
Not exactly complaining but I think that it could be a hardware problem as half of the time I press the camera app, the app starts shows a black screen and says 'camera failed' and force closes...
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now, that is an actual problem.
did you try rebooting the phone?
if you can't take even a normal picture, you might have an defective camera

Taking a picture is a hit and miss affair, takes pics 2 out of 10 times i try, it should be a camera problem, going to send it in for warranty now. will report back when its fixed

Have you tried a hard reset to see if the problem goes away?
Whenever things start to go wierd, I alway 1)Soft reset 2)If it does not work do a hard reset 3)If still doesn't work, find out if everyone else with the same firmware has the problem 4) Finally, go to the shop for a replacement, it's likely then to be a hardware issue.

If you have 'fring' installed uninstall it and camera will stop failing

Just updated to JM2, I have fring installed, never had such problem even with stock...

Sorry my bad, fring was recently fixed for sgs
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Soft reset, hard reset, flashed firmware again. All did not work. Was sent in for repair a few hours ago, they said it would take 2-3 days, had jm2 on it though and where I live the latest firmware is jf4. Hope they don't bother about that. Hoping for the best

Update!
Just got phone back from Samsung after waiting for 4 torturous days, everything seems to be in working order now, the auto focus is still pretty slow though but other than that its great.
So after all it should have just been a hardware problem as the customer service lady told me that they changed the pcb of the camera

Qazz~ said:
Not exactly complaining but I think that it could be a hardware problem as half of the time I press the camera app, the app starts shows a black screen and says 'camera failed' and force closes...
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I had the same problem get voodoo lag fix if you have any other lag fix un do them before running the voodoo it works rember after you do the lag fix it takes a long time to boot

here is the fix to camera problem!!!!!!!
I had the same problem get voodoo lag fix if you have any other lag fix un do them before running the voodoo it works rember after you do the lag fix it takes a long time to boot

HELP PLEASE.... I bought a new Galaxy S Captivate about 3 weeks ago and i think alrealy had the new Android 2.1 with the GPS Fixed. The Camera was working until a few days ago. Every time I start the Camera app, after just 2 or 3 seconds I am getting the Warning message "Camera Failed". I can only press okay and the Camera app closes. I tried many times and it is always the same.
I tried soft reset, and hard reset which errased all my data, and nothing. Today I decided to upgrade to the new Leaked version of the Froyo 2.2 to see if it would help. Nothing helped. I AM STUCK....
I called Samsung 3rd level support and they said that I should send my phone to them for them to REFLASH my phone. If that would not fix they would replace and send another phone to me.
My problem is that I am out of the USA (I am in Brazil now) for the next 3 months, so I would like to find a way to fi via software now.
Since Samsung said that the best way to fix this Camera problem is the FLASH the phone, and only SAMSUNG has this special flashing software, my question is:
1- DOES ANY ONE KNOWS WHER I COULD DOWNLOAD THIS SAMSUNG FLASHING SOFTWARE ? ANY WHAT WHERE I COULD GET THE ROM ORIGINAL CAPTIVATE 2.1 VERSION?
2- I only know this 2 ways to flash or upgrade my phone,
I897UCJF6-final-OCD-REV0.rar (for Android 2.1)
I897UCJI6-OCD-REV02-Low-designgears.exe (for Android 2.2 leaked version)
But I am not sure that this is the SAMSUNG FLASH version that they are talking about , is it?
Where can I find the real Samsung Flash software ? PLEASE HELP

Solved Thanks to Voodoo
Had practically the same problem, Camera failed yet it worked for Video and even in Panorama mode, I didn't install anything new other than some themes from the Market, I tried factory set, removing the battery ... nothing worked, so I disabled OCLF, uninstalled it, and installed Voodoo lag fix instead, that made the trick !! Don't understand why though , but anyways it's working now

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alovell83 said:
I had problems testing the panorama shot, but I never complained, mostly because I don't take pictures and I was just testing it. Also, in the camera's defense, I was talking pictures in a room, where perhaps there was an issue due to corners while the shot is intended to be of landscape....any thoughts?
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the camera is definitely broken. I'm running kernel 2.6.32.9, twingerbread 3.3 on sgh-i897; and the video option is no-fugu. force-close EVERY time I try to use it.

When i try to camera it says "camera failed".Soft reset, hard reset, flashed firmware again. All did not work

ICS Camera Issues

After upgrading to ICS, the build in Camera App has problems and also the QRC-Reader App even shows a error.
In Google Googles and Camera FX, the Camera works perfect.
Does anybody experience the same issues.
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anatmavada said:
After upgrading to ICS, the build in Camera App has problems and also the QRC-Reader App even shows a error.
In Google Googles and Camera FX, the Camera works perfect.
Does anybody experience the same issues.
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Nope, all working perfectly here. I tested video, still, and panorama with the front and rear cameras, including all options (white balance, face effects, etc.), as well as panorama with the rear camera (it can't be used with the front one), and scanning a dozen different 2D and 3D barcodes with the ZXing app and rear camera as well.
Not a single error or crash on a stock US-market just-wiped TF101. Well, other than that the camera quality sucks, but that's a hardware issue.

every camera app including the stock one work perfectly.

Mine also works perfectly now... fornt and rear...
But one question though: in the stock camera app, what's the button in the lower right corner for? my camera app freezes when I click on it...

Hi,
Also for me not working camera; I try more applications, none of them working.
This is very strange: I have between the applications that are included in ROM also "Superuser". This suppose to came with ICS?
My TF was rooted previously, but when I did upgrade to latest version of HC (8_6_5_21), I did lost the root.
So this application was installed in my TF before the upgrade to ICS; but now I cannot uninstall: seems that is included in ROM.
The error I receive when I try camera is : "Can't connect to the camera".
I believe that something went wrong in my upgrade. I did also factory reset after upgrade to ICS, no change.
Now I hope some update from asus will help me.
Gabi

camera not working
My camera is not working as well, done people have started their cameras up while holding their finger in front of it to activated their auto focus, and have had success. Just place your finger in front of the camera for 5 seconds then remove it. No success for me, but you can tell it's doing something different when you do that

Same problem here "Can't connect to camera". This error comes up for front facing camera but the back camera works perfectly. Thing is this error came up when I installed the prime rom.
PS. The front facing camera was working when I bought the tab.

yioti said:
Same problem here "Can't connect to camera". This error comes up for front facing camera but the back camera works perfectly. Thing is this error came up when I installed the prime rom.
PS. The front facing camera was working when I bought the tab.
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Ah, the front sensor strikes again...
That's almost like my own experience with the front camera: worked like a charm on Honeycomb, since 9.2.1.17 it goes berserk in low-light conditions until the unit is rebooted (but instead of an error message the Camera application showed a garbled image with previous contents of the framebuffer).
IIRC, the first batch of logs I sent to Asus North America was related to this problem

Are you guys stock and unrooted? If not give it a shot just to see.

[Q] Galaxy Note 3 Camera Problem

So I bought a used Galaxy Note 3 and am having a massive issue with the camera.
I've rooted this device and have tried every rom in the book
Everything else works 100% however when I try to start the camera app:
1) The camera UI displays but the viewfinder is black.
2) The controls either don't respond at all, or the controls just light up and do nothing.
Any ideas how to remedy this?

Really? 62 views and not a single idea what's happening??

shorteh said:
Really? 62 views and not a single idea what's happening??
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well you don't say which model you have for a start?
have you flashed back to stock to see if it has probs still?

I have the N900W8 model.
I've restored it to stock 4.4.2 and still nothing.
When I use *#0*# and try the camera tests they both just crash the device.

shorteh said:
I have the N900W8 model.
I've restored it to stock 4.4.2 and still nothing.
When I use *#0*# and try the camera tests they both just crash the device.
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don't sound good
how did you flash back to 442?

MystaMagoo said:
don't sound good
how did you flash back to 442?
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I just used Odin.

shorteh said:
I just used Odin.
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then essentially it should have propper camera drivers.
I suppose it's knox is tripped?
Should not really matter legally in europe if still in warranty period.
did it just suddenly stop?
does it take pictures?

I bought this second hand.
That being said since I've had it, the camera hasn't worked.

Have you ever tried a third party camera app from the play store?

kwayteow said:
Have you ever tried a third party camera app from the play store?
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Yep I've tried several.

I should note after restoring 4.4.2 Knox is at 0x0

So managed to get the camera working by taking the phone apart and reseating the camera module.
Now my issue is the camera won't focus properly... lol!

sounds like a hardware issue then ?

Seems that way.

Looks like it is a software issue.
Moved the camera module from my Note 3 into another note 3 and works just fine.
Has something to do with software or the board.

Might help you pin down the cause, or not:
Mine does this after I use a flashlight app for a while (i.e. 2-3 hours.) At some point, the flash LED turns off and won't light up again until I reboot the phone. At this point, all the camera apps (I have 6) do exactly what you experience.
Maybe try a flashlight app, turn it on, off and then try the camera?

[small tip] when the stock camera hangs while taking a pic....

Hi,
Sometimes while taking a pic the stock camera would hang without even saving the pic to album.This generally happens when i open the camera from lockscreen. Another common error is "camera not available".
On encountering this , most ppl restart the phone. However, i have seen on all occasions, opening the multitasking pane and swiping the camera app away will fix this (atleast temporarily)
Hope this helps and u dont miss ur shots [emoji4]
Sent from my C6902

sruba209 said:
Hi,
Sometimes while taking a pic the stock camera would hang without even saving the pic to album.This generally happens when i open the camera from lockscreen. Another common error is "camera not available".
On encountering this , most ppl restart the phone. However, i have seen on all occasions, opening the multitasking pane and swiping the camera app away will fix this (atleast temporarily)
Hope this helps and u dont miss ur shots [emoji4]
Sent from my C6902
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i have the same bug in my phone, but the sweeping camera task not always work, sometime thats has work for me i clean cache from camera and cameras then restart the phone so it take more time for next camera freeze. hope sony fix this soon.
i'm LB stock rom 108ver2 stock camera

True...most times it occurs when camera is launched from lockscreen
Sent from my C6902

I had this issue while on holidays... even clearing cache for Camera app did not fix it, then I restarted and discovered that fixed it.

It never froze to me and I use black Z1, C6903 and I have firends who have white Z1 and Z1 compact and their cameras freeze most of the times, but I use it or open it from anywhere and nothing.

Moze666 said:
It never froze to me and I use black Z1, C6903 and I have firends who have white Z1 and Z1 compact and their cameras freeze most of the times, but I use it or open it from anywhere and nothing.
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Are you LB or UB? any rom or kernel?

Demon_360x said:
Are you LB or UB? any rom or kernel?
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I'm on stock phone 4.4.4 LB no Roms or moded stuff

I've noticed one thing - when I launch camera from lock screen and it freezes when I half-press camera button to focus, all you have to do is touch the icon with cameras (the one that allows you to switch to automatic/panorama/etc) and select Auto again. Camera works then with no issues.

jontr said:
I've noticed one thing - when I launch camera from lock screen and it freezes when I half-press camera button to focus, all you have to do is touch the icon with cameras (the one that allows you to switch to automatic/panorama/etc) and select Auto again. Camera works then with no issues.
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@jontr : will try it out !!!

A minor update : the problem doesn't arise if i am in manual mode...i just switched from superior auto to manual mode after launching from lock screen....manual mode takes better pics in my opinion
Sent from my C6902

there's the ultimate fix for the op problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52696903#post52696903

did you test it?
did solve the camera hang?? 0.0
anyone just try this?

I tested the fix in my previous post. It works
Never had the camera hang using that fix

guybrush2099 said:
I tested the fix in my previous post. It works
Never had the camera hang using that fix
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can you tell me what rom are you using?
LB or UB?
i really wanna try using ur configuration
thanks in advance

last Nut's stock 4.4.4
LB
deodex
superuser mod (by xperia xposed)
..and the fix in the link
I installed 120fps e 4k mod too
I had the problem of the camera hang before to apply the fix

well unfortunately this fix did not work.
i have a xperia z1 c6906 LB.
i tested with ihackers ROM v5.1 the first day i was able to take like 300 pictures without any failure, next day after taking the 12th picture i get camera hang somehow i change between auto and manual and 'fix' for a moment so i decide reboot the cellphone, second day i take about 100 pictures only hang 2 times in auto. today i keep testing and when i taking the second pictures got camera hang u.u i tried to do the same trick changing from auto to manual but it only got worst i lost preview (black screen) from camera. :c.. i make a quick reboot but did not fix the camera preview so i did a full reboot and its working again...
i think i gonna get back to android 4.3 :/
it is really disappointed because both versions android 4.4.4 and 4.3 have bugs
maye its time to change phone and brand

remember, the reboot is required after you have installed the fix

The fix works fine for me. Thanks.

Guys I'll be now testing for a few days since I have this problem too.. I'm on UB, I have chocolatetrain mod installed (pretty nice but this issue hasn't been solved there too..), trinity kernel (dunno if that mathers hahah). I'll tell you more
Edit - ok totally not working here.. Camera still has its annoying problem

Thanx for ur excellent suggestions bros..but my phone is on stock rom and unrooted.....guess thrs nothing i can do abt it for completely getting rid of it
Sent from my C6902

Camera crashing when using slow motion

Hi all,
I wondered if anyone is having the same issue as me. The camera app occasionally crashes but it's consistent when I switch to video mode from photo, then from 120FPS to 240FPS. I've found 9/10 the Camera app crashes and closes down. The error message is "Camera Error: can't connect to the camera".
When you re-launch the camera, it just shows a blank screen with a white camera icon and does nothing. The only way to fix it is by rebooting the phone. I've tried a couple of things, removed any other camera apps on the phone and cleared the data / cache from the camera app under installed applications. I'm trying to avoid a factory reset if I'm honest...but I'll do that as a final troubleshooting step, if it still happens I'll get it sent away as a hardware problem.
Feels more like a software issue to me, anyone else? My phone is UK branded 64GB model in Silver.
Thanks,
Danny

dannysmith43 said:
Hi all,
I wondered if anyone is having the same issue as me. The camera app occasionally crashes but it's consistent when I switch to video mode from photo, then from 120FPS to 240FPS. I've found 9/10 the Camera app crashes and closes down. The error message is "Camera Error: can't connect to the camera".
When you re-launch the camera, it just shows a blank screen with a white camera icon and does nothing. The only way to fix it is by rebooting the phone. I've tried a couple of things, removed any other camera apps on the phone and cleared the data / cache from the camera app under installed applications. I'm trying to avoid a factory reset if I'm honest...but I'll do that as a final troubleshooting step, if it still happens I'll get it sent away as a hardware problem.
Feels more like a software issue to me, anyone else? My phone is UK branded 64GB model in Silver.
Thanks,
Danny
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Working as expected for me. U.S. silver 32gb

dannysmith43 said:
Hi all,
I wondered if anyone is having the same issue as me. The camera app occasionally crashes but it's consistent when I switch to video mode from photo, then from 120FPS to 240FPS. I've found 9/10 the Camera app crashes and closes down. The error message is "Camera Error: can't connect to the camera".
When you re-launch the camera, it just shows a blank screen with a white camera icon and does nothing. The only way to fix it is by rebooting the phone. I've tried a couple of things, removed any other camera apps on the phone and cleared the data / cache from the camera app under installed applications. I'm trying to avoid a factory reset if I'm honest...but I'll do that as a final troubleshooting step, if it still happens I'll get it sent away as a hardware problem.
Feels more like a software issue to me, anyone else? My phone is UK branded 64GB model in Silver.
Thanks,
Danny
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I had the same issue when i got my 6p in march, i had a 2015 build. I sent it back to o2 (uk) and my new one was a 2016 version and i have had no problems since. Check the bulld date

I'm running the latest July 9th build of PureNexus on my Rogers 6P. Latest vendor image and Camera APK from the store.
Systemless Root and Systemless XPosed, and 120/240 all work fine.

jsmith_00 said:
I had the same issue when i got my 6p in march, i had a 2015 build. I sent it back to o2 (uk) and my new one was a 2016 version and i have had no problems since. Check the bulld date
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Sent from my Nexus 6P using XDA Free mobile app
Thanks for looking, I went into the bootloader and selected barcodes, it shows a date of 2015. Am I in the right place?
Thanks

dannysmith43 said:
Sent from my Nexus 6P using XDA Free mobile app
Thanks for looking, I went into the bootloader and selected barcodes, it shows a date of 2015. Am I in the right place?
Thanks
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Yea you are correct place. It was a common issue on first release of the phone. The 2016 builds fix it.
See if you can RMA your device and get a 2016 build one.
is the device new or have you had it a long time

jsmith_00 said:
Yea you are correct place. It was a common issue on first release of the phone. The 2016 builds fix it.
See if you can RMA your device and get a 2016 build one.
is the device new or have you had it a long time
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It's not new, I bought it in January. Its from CPW on o2, I'll get it sent off for repair....hopefully they'll give me a new one :thumbup:
Thanks
Sent from my Nexus 6P using XDA Free mobile app

dannysmith43 said:
Hi all,
I wondered if anyone is having the same issue as me. The camera app occasionally crashes but it's consistent when I switch to video mode from photo, then from 120FPS to 240FPS. I've found 9/10 the Camera app crashes and closes down. The error message is "Camera Error: can't connect to the camera".
When you re-launch the camera, it just shows a blank screen with a white camera icon and does nothing. The only way to fix it is by rebooting the phone. I've tried a couple of things, removed any other camera apps on the phone and cleared the data / cache from the camera app under installed applications. I'm trying to avoid a factory reset if I'm honest...but I'll do that as a final troubleshooting step, if it still happens I'll get it sent away as a hardware problem.
Feels more like a software issue to me, anyone else? My phone is UK branded 64GB model in Silver.
Thanks,
Danny
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I'm facing the exact same issue. Got the phone this week and on latest version of android. This problem still exists. I see no solution other than returning this phone and getting it exchanged.