hi all!
after updating to 4.4.2 (n9005xxunea2) noticed a very strange phenomena when using camera.
if the sound is on, taking photo makes margins blink and shutter go off.
picture is taken WHEN THE SHUTTER GOES OFF which is ca. 0.5-0.8 sec later then the margins flashing. overal pause of nearly 0.8s is killing me! (yes, my reflexes are that slow, normally 250ms would already piss me off alot)
when the sound is off (no way to switch off in the camera, just put phone into vibration) pic is taken nearly instantaneously. which is the way it's supposed to happen.
...drumroll....
is it me alone?
are there any fixes? ways to circumvent this without switching to vibration every time i wanna take a picture?
i do not have root, neither i wanna trip my knox by rooting right now. to my knowledge there is no safe root for fw>mj4.
i tried couple of 3rd party apps like camera_mx or camera_360. same deal generally. so i guess its a kitkat problem.
i did not try to factory reset the phone because:
1. i am lazy to install back everything even though i have helium backup
2. this is NOT the way proper OS update suppose to happen (imho).
Got the same problem ..... I'm quite pissed off
resets or anything else I did while flashing some ROMs dindn't change anything
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I updated my Nexus 4 to Kitkat recently and now I am facing problem while taking pictures.
As soon as an image is captured the camera makes a cracking noise from the backside. Sound is like some switch going on and off "tik tik tik tik"
and then if I minimize the camera app phone can used and camera app can be closed and reopened again.
But if I keep it cracking then within 2 secs the phone freezes and restarts itself.
I tried using other apps like Cymera and I am able to take pictures without any problem.
This problem occurs 50% of the times I use stock camera app. Sometime works fine sometimes hangs up.
How do I get rid of this?
Google support suggested factory reset. I have not rooted my phone. Is there any way I can backup few important apps with their data on PC before I try factory reset?
Thanks in advance!!
sachinthakur82 said:
I updated my Nexus 4 to Kitkat recently and now I am facing problem while taking pictures.
As soon as an image is captured the camera makes a cracking noise from the backside. Sound is like some switch going on and off "tik tik tik tik"
and then if I minimize the camera app phone can used and camera app can be closed and reopened again.
But if I keep it cracking then within 2 secs the phone freezes and restarts itself.
I tried using other apps like Cymera and I am able to take pictures without any problem.
This problem occurs 50% of the times I use stock camera app. Sometime works fine sometimes hangs up.
How do I get rid of this?
Google support suggested factory reset. I have not rooted my phone. Is there any way I can backup few important apps with their data on PC before I try factory reset?
Thanks in advance!!
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I think its caused by camera's focus mechanism and it is just a little click noise but yes sometimes it makes very audible noise, especially with HDR function(which does not focus when you press to focus it just seems green. It only focuses when you move phone or it is just me). Can you check and listen closely if other camera apps doing that click noise when you focus ? I dont think factory reset solve this because I do several factory resets and flashing 4.4 it does not change a thing.
I get that ticking sound as well but only sometimes when I open or close anything that uses the camera, never during focusing. I can't imagine factory reset would help but if you're gonna give it a shot I'd recommend Helium to backup apps https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koushikdutta.backup though I think you'd need root to backup any system app data.
Problem Solved
Thanks Scrye & AlderCass,
I did factory reset and tried camera it was working fine. Then google started installing my apps and after that was complete I started getting the problem again. So I got skeptical about some app making the stock camera malfunction. I removed an app called cymera and rebooted the phone.
and to my relief it started behaving awesome like before
Feeling happy
Hi!
I'm absolutely new here (and to Android and everything about it) and i've only made a couple of posts in the noob thread. I felt like this should be a thread of its own due to its abnormality.
I've only very recently rooted my phone (i9505, 4.4.2) a couple of hours ago using the towelroot method. I have not flashed any custom ROM yet however I do have some Xposed Modules installed.
i've only run across some problems like repetitive rebooting (fixed) and faster battery drain (hopefully fixed by tomorrow).
However, I have one problem that doesn't seem to have any solution whatsoever anywhere in the internet; it wasn't even mentioned once.
Whenever I open the stock camera app, the touch screen becomes completely useless. I cannot touch anything; the settings, shutter, view finder to focus, absolutely nothing. The camera itself is not broken, I can still take pictures with the volume rockers. Also, I know not the entire screen is broken because one of the modules I have installed is SwipeBack, which lets me swipe from a corner and it goes back and it still works perfectly fine.
I've tried rebooting the phone and force stopping the camera but nothing has worked.
The only suspicious thing I've done is backup and uninstall all the KNOX apps, which should be no surprise.
Now I'm not particularly bothered by this as I barely use the stock camera app anyway, or any camera app besides Snapchat. I don't use my phone for taking pictures much, but it still is quite annoying.
Is there any sort of fix to this?
Thank you very much in advance!
For no reason my camera flash sometimes doesn't work. When it doesn't work neither will other camera app flashes nor apps to use flash as a flashlight. A phone restart fixes it but by then of course the scene you wanted to photograph is gone.
I am stock VZW 4.4.4 never rooted in a month old Asurian replacement phone. I seldom use flash so I don't know how often this issue occurs. I never happened on my original note 3 however again I seldom used flash. Also I have read this happens to many other people but no measure to cure or prevent it other than the slow restart process.
Anybody know a real fix? Thanks!
When taking pictures with the stock Motorola xamera app, I have a miserable time finding the shot. First I try to swipe to the left so the last image photographed comes onto the screen. THAT works, but then the screen freezes and I can't get out of it until I use the capacitive button to go back to the home screen. Then, when I go into the gallery to see the picture I just took, it is gone-like it was never there. However, occasionally some (not all) of these disappeared pix show up in the gallery hours later. I've tried deleting the app and then re-installing it, but it just doesnt seem to work correctly. Its the only thing about the Turbo which makes me want to throw it onto a nearby set of traintracks. Anyone else have the same issues or know what to do about it?
First off, I assume you mean camera (not xamera. correct me if I'm wrong). Second off, you shouldn't be able to uninstall it. If you installed updates for it via Google play then it might be a hardware problem. I would do a factory reset, and if it still doesn't work get it replaced. I don't know the details of the warranty, but from what I have heard it's quite extensive.
Thanks very much. And yes I meant camera....I guess I am mistaken-I didnt uninstall the entire camera app, just the updates to it. Still happening, but perhaps any bugs in the app might be fixed by the Lollipop update?
Lollipop isn't coming before February, and knowing Verizon I wouldn't bet on 2016 coming second
Hello everyone,
this is my first post here on XDA, so I hope I'm following standards here.
I got my second OnePlus phone, the OnePlus 6T (Mirrorblack 8GB+128GB) about two weeks ago and it has really been an upgrade from my previous OnePlus 3. However I have had some issues that make the overall impression a bit worse.
My first problem is with the camera. When taking pictures with the flash it turns the flash one for a while then turns if off for a moment before turning it back on and taking the picture. This super annoying when you are posing with a couple of friends! This doesn't happend when using the front facing flash feature. Also when you take picture with Snapchat the camera also is super slow. However it's the inverse as enabling the flash makes the camera much faster. I'm not sure if it's an OnePlus issue or an Snapchat one, I know snapchat has lots of problems so could be on their end. I also know that I didn't have the issue on my OnePlus 3.
My second problem is one that have happend very rarely, two or three times yet. It's that sometimes when I start an app, it just crashes. And I can restart it how many times I want without any difference. Force stopping it does work sometimes as with clearing cache. But sometimes doing that makes the device reboot itself. Sometimes it just keeps on rebooting itself. The solution for it as it seems is to reboot it manually, but it's extremely annoying to have it happen. It's difficult to know whats wrong since it doesn't say anything useful really.
Does anyone else have similar issues? Could it be some corruption issue or some bad app I have installed?
Do a factory reset. As for the camera that's called a slow sync with the flash as its getting the picture ready and focused, that short flash at the end is to light the picture. If it stayed on the whole time it would blind you subject as its brighter than the front camera and would most likely give red eye.
I don't have a suggestion for your second problem as I have not experienced it but also about the camera thing you mentioned, it doesn't happen when you take a picture with the front with the fake flash because the front camera has a fixed focus so it doesn't have to acquire focus like the back camera does when lighting in a dim environment.
globala said:
My first problem is with the camera. When taking pictures with the flash it turns the flash one for a while then turns if off for a moment before turning it back on and taking the picture.
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This happens for the following reason:
- first flash - phone usues auto focus to make you and your friends, dog, food or whatever you are shooting clear and the
- second flash - after it achieves the AF lock it flashes a little bit brighter to take the photo
If you use a digital camera, DSLR, or any other camera, you will notice that they have a led light that iluminates you in the dark, then uses the xenon flash to take the photo
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Also when you take picture with Snapchat the camera also is super slow.
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If you take the picture in the dark it might just try to achieve AF lock. Activating the flash does that a little faster.
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My second problem is one that have happend very rarely, two or three times yet. It's that sometimes when I start an app, it just crashes. And I can restart it how many times I want without any difference. Force stopping it does work sometimes as with clearing cache. But sometimes doing that makes the device reboot itself. Sometimes it just keeps on rebooting itself. The solution for it as it seems is to reboot it manually, but it's extremely annoying to have it happen.
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You can try reflashing Oxygen OS and see if this still happens. If it does sent it to warranty