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Phone is taking pics only when the wifi is on.
If wifi is not on, the pic is not saved, camera app closes and it says camera failure.
i am on froyo jpf
any suggestions?
sahilrana said:
Phone is taking pics only when the wifi is on.
If wifi is not on, the pic is not saved, camera app closes and it says camera failure.
i am on froyo jpf
any suggestions?
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Go to Settings> Location and Security and Uncheck Use Wireless Connection. It will work fine then
jaskiratsingh said:
Go to Settings> Location and Security and Uncheck Use Wireless Connection. It will work fine then
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Same issue on JPM, if wifi is on, all pictures are correctly taken. If wifi is off mostly the first picture succeeds but second cause the camera failure.
Does somebody know of another type of fix, patched Camera.apk or something? Wireless location is extremely handy for google maps etc.
I have been having this problem since JPF and I was hoping JPM fixed it..but no. And these were the updates the KIES gave me. Now I can't even connect to KIES anymore. Samsung has really messed up this whole thing... man...
JPM fixed this problem for me (flashed with Odin), you guys should try a factory reset.
Factory Reset did not fix that problem for me...
Going to reflash JPM with factory reset and wipe cache (both from recovery), will report back....
Ok, somehow the following steps at first seemed to fix my problem with the camera:
1. Before reflashing JPM firmware I did the following from recovery:
1a. wipe data/factory reset (scroll down to Yes -- delete all user)
1b. wipe cache
1c. reboot system now
2. Turn off phone
3. Turn on phone in download mode (volume down+home+power)
4. Flash JPM with odin
5. After flash and reboot again back into recovery (thru adb reboot recovery or volume up+volume down+home+power)
6. Again wiped data/factory reset & wipe cache & reboot (exact same steps as 1a-1c)
After these steps no camera failures...but after manually setting the apn of my provider ..... camera failures even with 3g turned off
Deleted the apn and no camera failures anymore :S So I think my choice is: mobile 3g internet OR fully functioning camera.
3g settings: mmc 204, mnc 16, verification pap, apn type internet (T-Mobile NL)
I too cant connect with Kies with JPM rom and the same camera problem...
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I don't know exactly what I did but after a few hours of playing around with settings and APN widgets the camera is now working correctly, no camera failures to date.
First I downloaded an apns-conf.xml from cyanogen firmware where the APN settings for my provider were available (since I had to manually enter them and that was the moment the camer failure started to occur). I copied the apns-conf.xml from my phone (/etc) to my computer and added the lines for my provider and pushed them back to my phone. Onfortunately this did not fix the problem.
Then I tried numerous APN widgets to disable the apn (with prefix) or switch to an empty APN, both also unsuccesfull. Uninstalled these apps and widgets again.
After all these tries, I dove into the application settings and for some reason I thought it was a good idea to clean the data of the, in dutch "Netwerklocatie" app (in english i guess "Networklocation"). After that no more problems.....could be some corrupted data in this application...
Hopefully this works for all of you!
Trying this fix now... (cleaning the networklocation data).
Nope..did not help at all. Still the same old camera failure. This sucks.
my camera fails too but this is not related to wifi...
usually an app using camera causes this..!!!
i hav camscanner and taking one or two pics from camscanner fails the camera...
i usually wait for sometime and then camera works as normal....
hope the problem doesn't gets worse for me.!!!!!
Damn,problem keeps reocurring:-( cleaning networklocation application data only helps for a small amount of time...
Only option now is disabeling networklocation service or using different camera application,does anybody recommend a good basic camera app?(stocklike and fast startup)
Sent from my GT-I5800 using XDA App
Try Sleek camera or lg camera just like the stock one..
Sent from my GT-I5800 using XDA App
Beasy30 said:
I had this problem...I think is JPF FW that can't allow you to take pictures...
When I used JPF...the first time i tried to take a photo,Camera didn't work and crashed...Second time it was ok
Try to flash JPM or an other FW
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I have JPM and the problem is still there...
Beasy30 said:
Mmmmmm it's inusual...With JPM (and Kyrillo's ROM and Indroid ROM) I haven't had this problem
Try to make a wipe
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Im running the stock JPM I got via KIES. I've done several wipes/hard resets lately cuz Im currenly having problems with installing a theme. Or at the moment, installing the Contacts.apk correctly... Yet the camera fails. I just tried.
Maybe it is the ROM, I don't know. Am not yet brave enough to flash... Want to fix this theme issue first.
I'm on JPM too, flashed twice thru Odin and wiped everything. It has something to do with APN/Networklocation but I don't know how to fix it permanently
@devilgod18: thanks for the suggestion, now using Sleek Camera!
Download SGSTools and install Hacked Camera.apk.
After I install this, my camera working good.
Sent from my Kyrillos v3.3 Galaxy 3
Blame Geo-Tagging
The reason why our phone can't (normally) take phtos is because of geo-tagging.
Note that when you use the camera.apk, there's a live notification at the top, a sattelite getting sinal. The camera is trying to associate your photo (it happens with any app that uses camera) with the place where you took it.
When I flashed the Apollo 1.0 rom (deodexed custom rom), this problem was solved. The camera.apk don't even show this notification, and I was able to take as many photos as I wanted to with no crashes. I tryed to use his apk in others roms... but no success. I don't know if are some dependencies, libraries... But I know that it worked!
What I do is to turn off networks (fligth mode), and take photos. Works perfect!
Hi ..
I had updated defy to the latest cnmod nighty version. ( 110410 ). Eveerything was working fine. i played with the phone for the entire day. video acceleration was awesome and played gt racing.
Suddenly there was problem with wifi connection. I decided to restart the phone. Choose the reboot menu . and now the phone is stuck with the moto logo on startup. Nothing happens after that.
When the bluelight blinks after the android menu , when I press the down button , I get android bootmenu v1.0.5 (By cynongen defy team and galaxy) ,
i was not able to do anything from here. It has these menus :
1)Boot : boot is set to 2nd init
2)cpu settings
3)recovery : in the recovery menu , If i choose latest recovery or stable recovery , I get error in /system/bootmenu/script/recovery.sh (Result: no such file or directory) , and when I choose stock recovery , the phone restarts and is stuck with an exclamation mark )
4)tools: I could understand what to do here.
When nothing did work , I pressed both up and down button after changing boot to normal. there i cleared some cache or something , cleared everything that I could.
After all this my phone is in the same place. A moto logo on startup.
Please can someone help me . This is my first android phone and also the first costly phone I bought and I did something nasty on the first day itself.
i am a normal end user who knows nothing more than gui.
thanks in anticipation
hey
flash a stock 2.2.2 with RDS from bootloader
you gonna need latest defy drivers for windows plus a stable froyo i guess
google this "how to unblick a bricked defy"
let us know what you do and what changes
are you sure this is a case of bricked defy. I had read in many places it is very difficult to brick defy.
its not bricked
but that is what you need to search for to get the solution
i did so too
What "Natsikap" said.
Clear Data/Cache.
Flash Official Froyo 2.2.2 using RSDLite, Use your region correct Froyo (If you are from India use SEA15 Stock ROM -Get it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Motorola_Defy). Everything will be Stock normal. Read everything in the wiki before you flash anything, esp read the "How to get back to Normal in case things go awry" part you will save yourself the High BP!
thanks all for your support.
i have installed the orginal manufactuer android froyo
and flashed it later with cynogenmod 7.1 for defy. The latest stable one that was released yesterday
One more question:
Should I unroot this cynogenmod .. so that I don't mess something.
congratulations
you sorta came from behind and am sorta left behind
question: does the 7.1 have any wifi issues? working properly?
tell me so i can make the jump too
thanks bro
sorry for the late reply..
no it does not have any issues.. at least i could'nt find any.
wifi was working like a charm. used it for around 2 hours ..
Couple of questions..
1) i don't lke the menus flying into the screen. How can i change this animation to the normal fade animation that came with original os.
2)should i unroot my cynogenmod should that i don't cripple it while playing with settings or someother way.
Do not unroot CM7. Make site you make a backup in recovery, that way if you mess something up you can just restore it. As for animations, go to settings> cyanogen settings> display, you should be able to change the animations. If not try spare parts app.
Swyped from my MIUI Defy
i have defy plus.....i havnt rooted it ...its working on original 2.3.6
my phone is starting but power button not working.....when i put it on charing lock screen comes to life but touch not working..
sometimes it remains on moto logo
please help
Hi, I'm currently using Aurora ICS from dzo.
Every time I do a fresh install the camera works fine, however, after a while it simply stops working.
I've tried the 3 wipes and clearing the camera's data, and it still doesn't work.
It happens every time I do a fresh install of ICS, it produces this exact behavior every time.
Is there any way to fix this?
EDIT: I have found the cause of this. This was cause by trying to change the ID of the phone to trick the market. Revert back to the u88oo fixed it. (but now I can't play asphalt 6 anymore T_T)
The Official OTA 4.0.3 ICS update broke auto rotation. The rest of the thing is running smooth as butter, but no auto rotation and the switch isn't doing anything.
Anyone know of a fix to this? I had this prob with the leak but after rooting and reinstall leak from scratch it cured itself. This one isn't doing that.
Is there an app to set the orientation of the screen manually that i can use in the interim??
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400+ Views later, i think quite a few people have this issue and are trying to find a solution to this.
So far, thank you networkdawg for your app suggestion for manually rotating the screen, however that is a paid for app with a few too many options for my need. I'm currently using Mantano Reader Free to rotate my screen.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
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Before i accidentally upgraded to the ICS leak, i had my old HC bootloader and was running Lightspeed flawlessly.
Does anyone know of a way to downgrade the bootloader back to HC so i can run a custom bootloader?
OR
a custom bootloader for ICS?
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Ok so in the end i used jazzyjames' tutorial and blasted HC + HC Bootloader back onto my tab (accelerometer now working once more), rooted, ran Acer Recovery Installer and loaded Light Speed ICS once more.
Everything is working swimmingly. No issues and i got ICS running like a champ.
When the hardworking devs in the dev section have streamlined the ICS bootloader unlocker and installing of a custom recovery a little further, i may try the ICS bootloader once more. But for now, to just have a functional tab, im sticking with the old stuff a little longer.
Thanks Civato, Blackthund3r and jazzyjames for their excellent tools and tutorials. I could not have done it without their help.
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Update May 08 2012
Did something new, reverted back to stock 3.2.1 (the Gen 2 that was used in Jazzy's revert tutorial), did an OTA upgrade to ICS Official. On first run everything worked.
The minute i rebooted, the accelerometer stopped working.
Followed Civato's tutorial down to the letter, got the custom ICS bootloader working with recovery. Ran like a charm.
Installed a custom ROM (Lightspeed), accelerometer was still not working.
MY TAKEAWAY ---- The accelerometer issues is not a problem with ICS itself, but related to the new chipset firmware and bootloader included with the ICS update. I could be wrong here.
Anyone have any other insights into this?
Back to HC bootloader once more (accelerometer working again) no dice with ICS bootloader :S
I'm not aware of any apps that will switch orientations, only lock it.
Have you tried switching the lock to off then rebooting to see if that resets it?
I have noticed the orientation check isn't as sensitive as it used to be so sometimes I have to wait a few extra seconds or orient the tablet a little more [than usual] to get it to switch over. But it does work.
I have the rotation problem also. As a workaround, I installed this and it works great, although manually.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.fameit.rotate
veer01_42 I'd be interested in your review of that app if you use it and/or pay for it.
I have the same issue. I have a couple apps that are orientation locked and I can use them to rotate but it's very annoying. Hope this gets fixed soon
anyone try a factory reset to see if that fixed it
A factory reset fixed it for me
Sent from my PC36100 using XDA
Been factory resetting this thing all night, no beans at all.
With the 4.0.3 leak, after one reset it worked for me, but i never got it to repeat again. So don't go factory resetting your tab in a hurry if you know whats good for you, especially if your rotation is working.
Good app, lots of options, but for what i want, this app is too much and it puts an icon next to the clock for quick access, but you cant preset the orientations there. There are only three, locked, auto and whatever you have it in now.
To get to the other options, tap the notification and it brings up a menu with all the other orientations (over 10 of them) its too much for me. But its an extremely powerful app.
Not worth the money as a workaround to a stupid accelerometer.
Encountered the same issue. I was in Portrait mode, playing Draw Something, and suddenly it just rebooted and went into Landscape mode. After a factory reset, it is not fixed. Not sure where to go, but this is highly disappointing for a tablet I paid close to $500 for...
Try wipe cache, it works for me. All said methods in the forum doesn't work for my tablet though.
qpmzal said:
Try wipe cache, it works for me. All said methods in the forum doesn't work for my tablet though.
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What cache?
Do you mean Pwr Button + Volume Up while toggling screen lock switch?
Or is it something else?
On some a500 that were rooted and accepted the ics ota, a few things got broken during the upgrade. Flash a stock rooted ice rom, but before you do go into recovery and and select backup an restore,click on toggle backup of internal storage. Then you should see enabled on the screen. Then do full reset in mounts and storage plus your normal wipe. This will fully format everything on your tab but sd . When you reflash the new ics rom everything should work fine.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take....... ..Wayne Gretzky.......
Flash a stock rooted ice rom
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You mean the 4.0.3 Leak, install that and then use the one click root tool available in the forum?
but before you do go into recovery and and select backup an restore,click on toggle backup of internal storage.
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Are you talking about Installing the V3 ICS recovery or the original honeycomb?
Then you should see enabled on the screen. Then do full reset in mounts and storage plus your normal wipe. This will fully format everything on your tab but sd . When you reflash the new ics rom everything should work fine.
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This is in the ICS V3 custom bootloader/recovery right?
variations on problem for different versions
More pieces to the puzzle.
I just downloaded and installed Acer_AV041_A500_1.041.00_WW_CUS1 (very close to stock OTA, but rooted) from XDA and applied it over the stock OTA I had received from Acer directly, Acer_AV041_A500_RV05RC01_PA_CUS1.
Under Acer_AV041_A500_1.041.00_WW_CUS1 screen rotation (and the error 26's) would not clear. I could not get the rotation to work at all, even with multiple reboots, and hard (pinhole) resets.
I restored to Acer_AV041_A500_RV05RC01_PA_CUS1 and rotation is back to it's unstable self, but at least a pinhole reset will clear it.
Hi everyone.
I have encountered a problem on my phone's rear camera with the latest ROM upgrade, which upgraded my android version fom 4.2.2 to 4.3:
I9505XXUEMJ7_I9505BTUEMJ8_BTU
The problem is that I get a dark display (black screen, see the attached screenshot) and the whole phone gets stucked and its performance is slowed down due to that. After about a minute or to of freezing phone I Finally get a warning - Camera Failed.
I tried to wipe twice (both cache partition and user data), prior to and after flashing, and also tried to reflash the same rom again. Didn't work out for me, or at least works once right after wiping and then fails again. Seems like a heavy bug in 4.3, unstables the camera due to the new firmware.
Has anyone had that same problem or reported on it or it's just me? What should I do now?
Thanks.
When you open the camera, did you get a camera firmware update?
Crauze said:
When you open the camera, did you get a camera firmware update?
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Yes, that was in the first time that opened the built-in camera app after flashing the newest firmware. I proceeded with the update and then all that mess started. But since then I have reflashed and didn't get that message once more to confirm/approve.
Is there a way to downgrade the camera's firmware to the one used in 4.2.2? It really worked really well for me prior to that so called "upgrade"...
Another question: When (roughly) should I9505 models recieve the 4.3.1 update? Is it scheduled to be soon?
Having the same issue (also with other Camera apps like Barcode Scanner, Paper Camera & Optical Reader). If I wait I end up with a "camera fail" message.
UPDATE: Just upgraded to MK8 version using Kies - and the problem persists!
This month's (november) update implies that Samsung are yet to resolve this bug. Does someone know how should I report them about the problem? Is there a website or a social network page that they actually check up on a regular basis?
Thank you.