I flashed the factory image of KitKat 4.4 on my Nexus 4 after wiping it clean (my phone was getting laggy so thought a fresh set up would be good). All is fine except for the camera which at times, just remains blank on launching - I see the camera type, shutter and the settings button but the screen is black and clicking any of the buttons doesn't do anything (see attached screenshot).
Only way to fix this is to reboot the phone. Anyone else facing this? Note that this does not happen all the time.
ALSO: This happens with both Dalvik & ART runtime.
Any suggestions appreciated!
Just to be safe first copy all ur pictures to a computer. Then go to settings > apps > gallery > clear data + cache. How did you flash stock image? I mean did you do it via toolkit or flashall.bat? Stay away from ART if possible. Its a very early build.
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badboy47 said:
Just to be safe first copy all ur pictures to a computer. Then go to settings > apps > gallery > clear data + cache. How did you flash stock image? I mean did you do it via toolkit or flashall.bat? Stay away from ART if possible. Its a very early build.
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Thanks for your reply. I'll try clearing the cache and data of the gallery.
I flashed the stock image using flashall.bat with a full wipe of the phone (option -w).
I had another problem with Camera
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2532755
Well this is also a camera issue.
I followed Efrant's guide (http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=2010312) for flashing Android 4.4 stock image(I was previously on 4.3 rooted stock).
After the upgrade, when i tested the new stock camera app, I noticed that the Flash option is disabled(Flash symbol with strike-grayed out). I'm not able to change it to Flash or Auto-Flash mode. Then i downloaded another camera app(Focal cam), and there the Camera flash was working properly.So, I guess the problem is with Stock camera app(It seems to think that my N4 doesn't have an LED Flash).
Am I the only one facing this issue or are ppl out there with same issue ? I tried googling and searching here, but could not find this being mentioned before. Any work arounds (other than a 3rd party camera app) for this problem? If yes, then please let me know.
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Hi guys,
I had this same "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped" problem when I first got my phone early this year and after a modified the buildprop it worked (a long with pushing some lib files replacing the Gallery.apk)
Since I updated to 4.2.2 yesterday, this problem returned. I tried doing the same steps I took above to get it to work with no avail. I would like to get the build.prop for 4.2.2 to see if it matches what I have (as last time I had a couple of lines missing and once added, the camera worked).
Cheers!
EDIT: I am attaching the bug report
I tried, pushing lib files, clearing cache and dalvik and nothing seems to work.... Every time I reboot the phone I get the "unfortunately, gallery has stopped working" message.
I cannot open camera or gallery without that message popping up.
Some details would help to sort out the problem.
Are you using custom ROM or stock?
If custom, did you upgrade or baseband and bootloader before upgrading to 4.2.2?
Are you using official gapps or custom?
Also have u tried going to settings > apps > all > gallery > clear data, clear cache.
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badboy47 said:
Some details would help to sort out the problem.
Are you using custom ROM or stock?
If custom, did you upgrade or baseband and bootloader before upgrading to 4.2.2?
Are you using official gapps or custom?
Also have u tried going to settings > apps > all > gallery > clear data, clear cache.
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My bad, I was so frustrated I completely forgot to include this info.
I am stock and rooted. I have already tried clearing the data, cache and dalvik with no avail. I did a factory reset given that after updating it was only giving me 8gb instead of 16. When I booted I started getting the error message. I've included my error report a couple of posts up.
In order to install the 4.2.2 OTA I followed efran's guide. Prior to that, I have attached image of what I had.
I've tried installing the 4.2Camera_t04.zip file to see if it solved the issue but no luck.
I hope someone can help me with this issue, being cameraless is so not fun lol
I have attached an image of the files that seem to appear at the end of my system folder , is that normal?
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I applied a patch (attached) and it did the trick. Camera now working
texaslittleangel said:
I applied a patch (attached) and it did the trick. Camera now working
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I have the same issue, gallery and camera sometimes stops working, after a reboot it will work again.
I will also try this patch and see if it works.
teddan said:
I have the same issue, gallery and camera sometimes stops working, after a reboot it will work again.
I will also try this patch and see if it works.
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My camera wasn't working AT ALL. Tried a bunch of things and nothing. Tried this patch and I my camera is working flawlessly since then
Hope it works for you as well
1. The camera has many additional functions such as hands free, ISO mode, etc. But I really had no idea how to toggle these functions to use as I all see is seemingly a stock camera app. (Same happened across build 6 and 7, I wiped cache and dalvik, flashed the rom, and AIO addons)
2. Google search FC in every attempt to use.
Refresh the zips is not helpful and this is the only place I know of to voice out the issues I had...
update: problem 2 solved by uninstalling, reboot, and resinstalling the app from play store, but I really don't get how to use advance features brought by the rom. I can't search nowhere to find the way and the Q&A on the official page saying to look for the timer option from the circle menu doesn't apply to my case.. why?
After updating to Lollipop 5.0 and later on 5.0.1, below are the issues that I am frequently facing:
Reboot problem
I have observed my Nexus 4 to reboot itself while using Camera app for taking pictures, Skype app -Hangouts app for Audio/Video calling, etc. No particular steps. (I suspect this has something to do with Camera)
Has anybody face similar issues?
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After updating to Lollipop 5.0 and later on 5.0.1, below are the issues that I am frequently facing:
Reboot problem
I have observed my Nexus 4 to reboot itself while using Camera app for taking pictures, Skype app -Hangouts app for Audio/Video calling, etc. No particular steps. (I suspect this has something to do with Camera)
Has anybody face similar issues?
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mine randomly does the same ! not often, but rarely ! stock lollipop, not even rooted !
Did you Factory Wipe before flashing? I have not had a single reboot on 5.0.0 or 5.0.1. Factory wiping might fix your issue, as old data in the cache from the legacy OS can cause issues. You might want to grab a logcat and folks can help you sort out the problem. Hard to guess.
The OTA had issues download a fresh image from Google developers.. And so a clean flash
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Did you Factory Wipe before flashing? I have not had a single reboot on 5.0.0 or 5.0.1. Factory wiping might fix your issue, as old data in the cache from the legacy OS can cause issues. You might want to grab a logcat and folks can help you sort out the problem. Hard to guess.
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I had not done a factory wipe.
Will it be okay if I take full backup - then do a factory wipe - then restore the backup... ?
Yes
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I'm a root user, Titanium Backup installed and that's the second time i flash Android 5.0 and after a while i got this error. Tried factory reset, wipe data, wipe cache/dalvik and didn't worked out.
Tried entering in Safe Mode and the error is persistent.
Is there something i can do?
I'm using GalaxyS4 Settings for Froyo~JB (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ion.setting) and with it i'm able to got into some of my settings, but the stock app doesn't work by itself.
Is there some way of flashing the stock Settings app again?
Another weird thing is that my SPen does not take screenshots anymore and that only happens with Android L (5.0).
After latest Nougat 7.1.2 update Google camera app keep stopping. I've booted phone in safe mode to check out whether some new app is the causing app to crash and didn't find any problem. Does anyone else have similar problem and how to solve it?
Tnx in advance.
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sandar1980 said:
After latest Nougat 7.1.2 update Google camera app keep stopping. I've booted phone in safe mode to check out whether some new app is the causing app to crash and didn't find any problem. Does anyone else have similar problem and how to solve it?
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In Settings>>Apps>>Camera force stop the app, and then under "storage" clear data. If that doesn't work uninstall the app reboot and then reinstall the app. If that doesn't work boot to recovery and wipe the cache partition if stock recovery, dalvik cache too if you have TWRP.
Tried with restart, with safe mode, wipe the cache. I haven't cleaned dalvik because I haven't rooted the phone. It seems that front camera is not working. After 7.1.2 update I managed to take one selfie with Google app and afterwards app crashed. I presume that app must stayed on front camera which keeps app crashing. Front camera is also not working on Skype and Snapchat, because I realised that switch camera option vanished on both apps. Any other suggestions?
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