So I updated to 4.4 kitkat, after the update the phone was operating normally. Then after a few days the device seemed to be missing the camera. The apk file and gallery apk are still on the phone, its just you cant access the camera through the app tray because it doesnt show up. When I installed a third party camera app the camera would only activate the front facing and not the back camera. After you install third party camera apps if you reboot the device it deletes the app from the app tray. Ive tried flashing random camera and gallery apks and ive tried flashing to stock, ive tried putting a apk in system/apps file and then fixing the permissions. I have no idea how to fix this at this point, Is their any way to completely factory rest this and undo what google has done to it.
Settings > apps > Launcher > clear cache and clear data. Reboot. If the camera is still not showing up. Download and install stock 4.4 camera apk. Check themes and apps section for the apk.
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badboy47 said:
Settings > apps > Launcher > clear cache and clear data. Reboot. If the camera is still not showing up. Download and install stock 4.4 camera apk. Check themes and apps section for the apk.
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Alright ill try that. Google has told me that they have no idea whats wrong and that i should send it in for repair when the camera was working fine before the update. I'm currently using the toolkit for this nexus because adb got tiring.
technet1339 said:
Alright ill try that. Google has told me that they have no idea whats wrong and that i should send it in for repair when the camera was working fine before the update. I'm currently using the toolkit for this nexus because adb got tiring.
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Just tried that and it doesnt work it rejects the install.
Try downloading and installing the apk manually from PA photosphere, just use something like es file explorer to view inside the .zip file and install gallery and camera.
http://www.androidfilehost.com/?a=show&w=files&flid=7994.
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Try downloading and installing the apk manually from PA photosphere, just use something like es file explorer to view inside the .zip file and install gallery and camera.
I did just that and rebooted it and still no camera or back camera support.
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Does it say that the apps installed successfully after you install using the APK's? You shouldn't need a reboot to use them or see them installed.
Maybe this is why?
badboy47 said:
Settings > apps > Launcher > clear cache and clear data. Reboot. If the camera is still not showing up. Download and install stock 4.4 camera apk. Check themes and apps section for the apk.
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thank you
It could be that your Camera Connector has somehow disconnected itself from your Phones motherboard.
Last month I had the same exact problem as you. After days of rooting, and flashing new roms, I decided to take a look inside my Nexus.
And I found that my problem was that the Camera Connector somehow came loose, so I reconnected it and my camera and the camera application came back.
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Hi, could someone worth an epic provide the Camera.apk and Camera-Firmware.apk from their Epic? Thanks.
Here ya go
Hope you get some use out of them!
Thank You! Cheers.
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That was quite possibly the shortest, easiest, and most direct topic that I have ever seen.
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And that, is a good thing, in my opinion
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where do you put the camera firmware and apk once you have it...i am a noob..
rdozier52 said:
where do you put the camera firmware and apk once you have it...i am a noob..
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They are system apps and need to be either a) pushed to /system/app via adb, or b) copied to /system/app using a root-enabled file explorer on the phone (i.e. Root Explorer).
You dont need it he's using a different device I think but if you really need it it goes in system app
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RE: Camera.apk
Hi all, I came across this thread because my camera on my epic 4g is broken. It's not a hardware issue, or a rom issue (broken on stock and on CM7), so I thought i would reinstall the camera firmware and app to try to fix it. I have a rooted device running CM7 and copied this to the system/app folder, changing the files to .apk. However, when I try to install either app using ES File Explorer, it gives me an error that just says app not installed. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Usually you push system apps to the phone and reboot and they are installed.
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These apk's won't work on cm7. This is for the touchwiz camera, and probably for EC05.
I am Z.
Thanks, that explains it. In that case, any suggestions on how I can get my camera to work on CM7? I've dl'd some 3rd party camera apps, the only one that seems to work is retro camera (and that breaks after taking one photo). The rest say someone about com.android.camera failing or just failing to load the camera application. Thanks again.
Generalzhou said:
Thanks, that explains it. In that case, any suggestions on how I can get my camera to work on CM7? I've dl'd some 3rd party camera apps, the only one that seems to work is retro camera (and that breaks after taking one photo). The rest say someone about com.android.camera failing or just failing to load the camera application. Thanks again.
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Could be some bad data causing it. I recommend downloading CM7 beta1 again, gapps again, and flashing them. If that doesn't fix it, then wipe data and flash again. You'll lose all of your data yes, but that could erase the culprit behind your camera. If it still doesn't work on a clean CM7 flash, then it is most likely a hardware issue of some kind.
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So I backed up my phone, then cleared the cached and formatted the phone. Then I reinstalled CM7 and it didnt work. I restored my original CM7 and the camera still didnt work.
However, it seems like the camerafirmware.apk is working (at least it seems so). 3rd party camera apps are working now, though it doesnt seem like camera.apk installed the stock camera app. Thanks all for the help and the apk files!
Since upgrading to 4.3, snapchat has not been able to load videos. it just keeps refreshing at "tap to load" i also noticed that when attempting to record video, the screen freezes until you lift your finger, then snapchat treats it like a picture.. so i cannot record or send videos either.
anyone else encounter this? fyi, i also installed the moto x camera and am using the banks gapps with photosphere add on. this problem is persistent in two different jss 4.3 aosp roms. i tried clearing app data, uninstalling, reinstall, no change.
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im going to bump this issue because i have some thoughts on what might be the issue..
titanium restore.. there was an incompatibility with 4.3 when 4.3 was released. of course i had flashed 4.3 prior to titanium app update and used it to restore snapchat. this is when the no video problem started.
my hypothesis is this.. snapchat needs to store your videos locally on the phone before viewing, then deletes it after viewing. do you think that when titanium restored the app, it restored it with incorrect internal storage mapping? if snapchat can't access internal storage, that would explain why it cant load or record videos.
now, ive uninstalled and reinstalled snapchat before with no luck.. might that be because snapchat leaves bits and pieces of itself in the phone therefore never really has a fresh install?
if this is the case, how can i go about hunting down every last bit of snapchat?
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im going to bump this issue because i have some thoughts on what might be the issue..
titanium restore.. there was an incompatibility with 4.3 when 4.3 was released. of course i had flashed 4.3 prior to titanium app update and used it to restore snapchat. this is when the no video problem started.
my hypothesis is this.. snapchat needs to store your videos locally on the phone before viewing, then deletes it after viewing. do you think that when titanium restored the app, it restored it with incorrect internal storage mapping? if snapchat can't access internal storage, that would explain why it cant load or record videos.
now, ive uninstalled and reinstalled snapchat before with no luck.. might that be because snapchat leaves bits and pieces of itself in the phone therefore never really has a fresh install?
if this is the case, how can i go about hunting down every last bit of snapchat?
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I'm able to view videos fine, but I'm having the same problem recording videos. One thing I've noticed, if I flash a new rom [complete wipe] I can record videos fine for a few hours, but after that it starts acting up again [recording, but then only saving the first frame and sending only a picture.]
Also, I should note I'm on a Galaxy S3, noticed this issue on Cyanogenmod [4.2+] and ParanoidAndroid [4.2+], haven't tried stock. I'll reply here if I figure it out, let me know if you have any results too!
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I'm able to view videos fine, but I'm having the same problem recording videos. One thing I've noticed, if I flash a new rom [complete wipe] I can record videos fine for a few hours, but after that it starts acting up again [recording, but then only saving the first frame and sending only a picture.]
Also, I should note I'm on a Galaxy S3, noticed this issue on Cyanogenmod [4.2+] and ParanoidAndroid [4.2+], haven't tried stock. I'll reply here if I figure it out, let me know if you have any results too!
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I did find a solution. I uninstalled Snapchat then went into twrp recovery and deleted the folder associated with it located at data/media/android/data/*snapchat*
Reboot and reinstall Snapchat. That folder will be recreated... Correctly.. With what I believe to be the right permissions.
If you want to try something else first try the app "fix permissions" and run it on Snapchat. Maybe that will fix the permissions of the folder.
Lastly there is a zip you can flash that fixes all permissions on your internal storage to proactively fix this issue for any other app. Search for fix internal storage permissions. The thread should come up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239421
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.dan said:
I did find a solution. I uninstalled Snapchat then went into twrp recovery and deleted the folder associated with it located at data/media/android/data/*snapchat*
Reboot and reinstall Snapchat. That folder will be recreated... Correctly.. With what I believe to be the right permissions.
If you want to try something else first try the app "fix permissions" and run it on Snapchat. Maybe that will fix the permissions of the folder.
Lastly there is a zip you can flash that fixes all permissions on your internal storage to proactively fix this issue for any other app. Search for fix internal storage permissions. The thread should come up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239421
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Thanks. I boot to TWRP 2.6.x, File Manager, use chmod on snapchat folder and subfolders, reboot and the video record works. This was on Supernexus 4.3 on T-Mobile Galaxy S2 T989.
.dan said:
I did find a solution. I uninstalled Snapchat then went into twrp recovery and deleted the folder associated with it located at data/media/android/data/*snapchat*
Reboot and reinstall Snapchat. That folder will be recreated... Correctly.. With what I believe to be the right permissions.
If you want to try something else first try the app "fix permissions" and run it on Snapchat. Maybe that will fix the permissions of the folder.
Lastly there is a zip you can flash that fixes all permissions on your internal storage to proactively fix this issue for any other app. Search for fix internal storage permissions. The thread should come up.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239421
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when i go into the /data folder it says TWRP stopped working. any ideas?
bchi49 said:
Thanks. I boot to TWRP 2.6.x, File Manager, use chmod on snapchat folder and subfolders, reboot and the video record works. This was on Supernexus 4.3 on T-Mobile Galaxy S2 T989.
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I'm a little slow, what is chmod? I tried finding the snapchat folder to delete after unistall, but could not. I'm flashing a new rom now coincidentally so I'm hoping snapchat will just work after that... otherwise I might try this fix permissions app. I would really like to be able to send video snaps. Seems like it should be an easy enough thing....
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Also having this problem. I installed Cyanogenmod 10.2 on my GS3, used titanium backup. Ended up reverting to my nandroid backup a few hours later, and now my snapchat cannot record videos, look at videos, OR see "My Story" posts (if i click on them, it does a quick load, but doesn't open)
I read through this thread, but cannot figure out how to delete the SnapChat folder in recovery mode. I tried deleting it in the TWRP file manager, and it SAYS it deleted it, but it is still there. Any help please?
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From quite a few months none of my gallery app are working properly.I cant see the image previews..tried re-flashing ROM changing the ROM but nothing worked.But i can see the images on clicking them.i also tried deleting the thumbnails file and allowed the gallery app to recreate it but still no solution.....any help will be great.
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From quite a few months none of my gallery app are working properly.I cant see the image previews..tried re-flashing ROM changing the ROM but nothing worked.But i can see the images on clicking them.i also tried deleting the thumbnails file and allowed the gallery app to recreate it but still no solution.....any help will be great.
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Try alternative gallery app like QuickPic.
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Tried all gallery app none works all have the same problem
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From quite a few months none of my gallery app are working properly.I cant see the image previews..tried re-flashing ROM changing the ROM but nothing worked.But i can see the images on clicking them.i also tried deleting the thumbnails file and allowed the gallery app to recreate it but still no solution.....any help will be great.
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Try fish bowl gallery or u gallery
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You tried reflashing stock firmware via Odin?
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Yes, the best alternative is the QuickPic, in my opinion, is better than the default app.
Try rebuild the cached pics by opening the settings menu, going into Applications->Manage Apps->go under All Apps and look for the Gallery app.
Clear Cache and Clear Data and Force stop.
Flash stock rom via odin.. then do a clean install of your rom. And see if the problem still persist..
flash the stock rom by odin .... then wipe data and cache open phone wipe data and cache from gallery ... REBOOT!
It must be donE
I was installing the LG G3 Gallery apk. It didnt work out so i had a backup of the apk.
Now whatever i do, even flashing the zip file of the LGGallery.apk
The app wont appear at all. I tried everything setting permissions etc. Is there any way to do it without reflashing the ROM? Thanks!
gallery
go to settings . > apps.find gallery app>.uninstall updates that worked for me
Hi,
The new google camera app lags terribly on the nexus 4. Does anyone know how I can return to the asop camera app? I tried installing the apk but it just crashed. Any help would be very appreciated.
Thanks!
Are you rooted? If so, use Titanium Backup, ROM Toolbox, or similar app to covert it to a system app, and see if that solves your crashing problems.
I can't convert it to a system app if it doesn't let me install it. I am rooted and I placed the 4.4 camera apk in my system app folder and corrected the permissions, however, it still does not install.
Anyone have a solution?
Just restart the phone