Hi,i rooted my cell two months ago, nothing ever was wrong with my vibrant, yesterday my camera fails to activate and a window appears and says "warning, camera failed", is there anything I can do to get it working? I'm a tattoo artist and need my camera, does anyone know how to fix it?
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Power off the phone and remove the battery for about 15 seconds and then give it a try...
Nah, its still not working, thanks though, does anyone else know what to do?
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Flash a new rom and try again. If that doesn't work then it may be a hardware problem.
If its a hardware problem, how do I fix it
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TatuGrim said:
If its a hardware problem, how do I fix it
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If your phone is under warranty then you'd do a warranty exchange. If it's not then you could buy a new camera assembly for it but that wouldn't guarantee to fix the problem as the hardware error could be on the main board somewhere. It's most likely a software problem. Since you're rooted you can just reflash the camera firmware.
Have you tried a 3rd party camera app?
Its been a few months since I rooted my cell, the camera was always working unroll the other day, and which apps are you talking about, and where would I get the drivers for my camera? And would a rom fix it?
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TatuGrim said:
Its been a few months since I rooted my cell, the camera was always working unroll the other day, and which apps are you talking about, and where would I get the drivers for my camera? And would a rom fix it?
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Goto the market and download Retro Camera, it's free and while I don't personally care for it, if it can take pictures then you can prove that your camera hardware still works.
As for camera firmware you can try this, it's clockwork flashable and should work on 2.2 and 2.2.1 altho it is pulled from an older 2.2 build. Some people have had luck with it, other have not http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10952849/Camera-Stock-signed.zip Use at your own risk, I am not responsible if you phone slips into null space.
Assuming that your camera is not working because of a software glitch then yes, a new rom should fix the problem.
Thanks for the assistance, but retro camera won't work, said something about unable to set up and report my cell and model number to etc......ok, now that it has to be a hardware malfunction, how do I unroot and get the bloatware back on for the warranty?
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TatuGrim said:
Thanks for the assistance, but retro camera won't work, said something about unable to set up and report my cell and model number to etc......ok, now that it has to be a hardware malfunction, how do I unroot and get the bloatware back on for the warranty?
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Just ODIN back to stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848737
TatuGrim said:
Thanks for the assistance, but retro camera won't work, said something about unable to set up and report my cell and model number to etc......ok, now that it has to be a hardware malfunction, how do I unroot and get the bloatware back on for the warranty?
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I would try flashing that camera firmware zip first to just be sure. If that doesn't work, then ODIN back to stock as mentioned above and do a full wipe.
How do I flash?
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I clicked that link you gave me, it downloaded a file, androzip said it unzipped it, is that flashing?
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I clicked that link you gave me, it downloaded a file, androzip said it unzipped it, is that flashing?
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NOOOO
What does it mean to Flash?
My version: It means you are going to replace your current system image/OS with one that you have downloaded from one of our wonderful developers.... you flash a rom by installing the .zip file you download from XDA or the developers site. You flash them using Clockwork Recovery (which is part of Rom Manager in the market)
XDA wiki: Term meaning to write something (usually a ROM image) to a non-volatile chip. The term originates from original chip writers (EPROM blowers) which used to write to a chip by fusing tiny areas in the chip making individual links either short circuit or open circuit.
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Proceed to reading this thread.
Now it won't connect to my computer
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My S4's camera app gets stuck at 10-15cm focus and won't focus.
Ending processes does not help, restart does not help, but powering off and starting up resolves it.
Everything is standard with the latest updates.
The problem is that it occurred frequently, I could recreate it within 5 minutes.
But then I did a reset to factory defaults because this is what will happen when I return the phone for testing?
Then after installing a few (non-camera) apps, it happened twice over a weekend.
So currently I am trying to recreate the problem after uninstalling a talking tom cat app... if it does happen then I have to factory reset and try to recreate it.
If it takes days to recreate, how can i return it?
And if it is software-related, is that acceptable?
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My S4's camera app gets stuck at 10-15cm focus and won't focus.
Ending processes does not help, restart does not help, but powering off and starting up resolves it.
Everything is standard with the latest updates.
The problem is that it occurred frequently, I could recreate it within 5 minutes.
But then I did a reset to factory defaults because this is what will happen when I return the phone for testing?
Then after installing a few (non-camera) apps, it happened twice over a weekend.
So currently I am trying to recreate the problem after uninstalling a talking tom cat app... if it does happen then I have to factory reset and try to recreate it.
If it takes days to recreate, how can i return it?
And if it is software-related, is that acceptable?
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Did you find a solution for this? Mine is doing the same thing. It focuses about a foot from the phone and nothing I do will change it. I don't even get it temporarily working with a reboot.
Hm actually I stopped using the Samsung vanilla cam app the first week I've got the phone for pretty much the same reason. I'm using camera FV5 instead and that allows me to even take very nice macros.
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beanfield said:
Did you find a solution for this? Mine is doing the same thing. It focuses about a foot from the phone and nothing I do will change it. I don't even get it temporarily working with a reboot.
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Are you on latest firmware?
fuser1337 said:
are you on latest firmware?
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beanfield said:
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I recommend to update to the latest MG1 as there are many camera fixes. I'm on MG1 and camera focus is perfectly working
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MDK firmware you have is buggy so move as said fuser 1337 to a recent release!
vibraloop said:
Hm actually I stopped using the Samsung vanilla cam app the first week I've got the phone for pretty much the same reason. I'm using camera FV5 instead and that allows me to even take very nice macros.
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Hi vibraloop,
could you pls tell me how i can get this FV5 camera ?
I´m using the galaxy s4 I9505 with stock firmware MH5 and this camera is scrap.
I want to set this camera to macro, but i don´t find this option in the camera app.
cheers
Xcalibur00
Camera FV5 on Google market
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Hey
Does anyone else have this problem? I open up the camera app no problem but when I switch to the front facing camera and get horizontal lines
Let me know
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Hey
Does anyone else have this problem? I open up the camera app no problem but when I switch to the front facing camera and get horizontal lines
Let me know
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Have you downloaded any app or updated your phone before the problem occurred?
Try to back up your data then remove Cache memory.
LotoTutu said:
Have you downloaded any app or updated your phone before the problem occurred?
Try to back up your data then remove Cache memory.
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Just tried it for the first time and nope, just a picture of some tired ugly looking dude?
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Hey
Does anyone else have this problem? I open up the camera app no problem but when I switch to the front facing camera and get horizontal lines
Let me know
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The first time using the camera and saw this. Sent it out for repair, gotta wait 2 weeks now....
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Lol
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Ok i know a lot of you guys bought an S5 and it either came with the camera bug, or it came out of nowhere (like mine).
Well i sort of have a solution for this.
Just download the app Snapchat, for some reason this app doesn't make the camera force close since it uses it's own.
It's not the best but in order to do this:
1.Go to the camera on there
2.Just screenshot the screen.
That simple!!
Until there is an OTA update or you plan on getting a replacement, this is the only solution i have figured out so far.
If i helped any please press thanks. ?
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So I just got a replacement phone due to my old one breaking and it has qh4 stock on it. Power it up and camera open opens to a black screen then a camera had stopped working error pops up and it closes. Any help?
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Does any camera app work? How bout Open Camera? I say if both don't work it's hardware and if Open Camera works it's probably an app issue?
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Does any camera app work? How bout Open Camera? I say if both don't work it's hardware and if Open Camera works it's probably an app issue?
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Just tried open Camera and it says failed to open camera. May be in use by other program. So I guess it's a hardware issue huh?
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My guess the camera is bad.
Force stop on the stock camera to make sure it isn't interfering with open camera.
You could try Factory Reset via Recovery.
Already tried both and even did the repair function on Verizon upgrade assistant where it reinstall the firmware
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