Camera Vibration - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

so about 2 months ago my note 3 started vibrating when using the camera. I first noticed it in snapchat, the camera wouldn't focus and I noticed the phone is vibrating. Basically every time an app uses the camera and it fails to focus the phone would start vibrating for a really long period of time, which then makes pics distort and the camera fails to focus again which extends the vibration. I thought it's a touchwiz rom error (I was using xnote when it happened for first time (4.4 btw, don't remember which version of x-note it was) but then I tried out some AOSP roms and the stock s5 port and then I came back to xnote v16 and it kept doing this vibration thing. Any ideas what causes it/how to fix it?

I have no idea. Mine started doing this just now. But I noticed it's not just in the camera app, it's anytime the phone is in landscape no matter what app is running.

same issue on N9005
I can't remember when it started but it's rendered the camera basically useless. Sometimes it finds focus and stops the vibration... what I found helps somewhat is shaking the phone rather violently, it stops vibration and then works as normal, untill I close the Camera app and go back into it, then same story. I can't think that this is a hardware issue as it is able to focus and take pictures just fine. This is a major annoyance but I don't think it's unsolveable. I'm no developer but may it be at all possible yo fix this with an xposed module or tweak that completely disables the vibration motor in the phone while in the camera app? Is this a possibility or is the problem deeper than that. I've tried loads of ROMs and it's present on all of them, the leaked Lollipop firmware as well. It's impossible to go back to Jelly Bean AFAIK but before I updated to Kit Kat I didn't have this issue.

I have this problem too
Vibrate when im in camera...not always somtimes
5.1.1

I guess this was never solved?

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[Q] Camera randomly not working

Hello,
Anyone having an issue with their camera suddenly not working? Specifically, the camera will suddenly stop responding to the shutter button. I see the button "glowing" when I press it, but the camera will not snap the picture. It does this no matter what setting I choose. Even if I force close the app, it will continue doing the same thing. The solution is to reboot the entire phone to get it working again.
I have another Nexus 4 which I bought for my gf and she had the same exact issue. This was happening all last night (Thanksgiving dinner) trying to take family photos. To make matters worse, the issue first appeared when I handed my phone to my friend who has an iPhone. He immediately laughed on how it could not even do a simple task. lol
I am wondering if it was due to a low light condition and somehow caused a bug as I have been unable to reproduce the issue since this morning on both phones. Even when the flash was manually set to on, you can tap the screen which turns on the flash momentarily; however, when this issue was occuring, the flash LED would remain lit until I manually closed the app.

[Q] Camera Locking Up An Issue?

So I was using my phone yesterday to take pictures of my computer. I tried on two occasions to touch and zoom in on an area (which worked fine) but as soon as I press the shutter button to take the picture, the phone would make a weird noise (seems to be coming from the lens?) then it just freezes. It eventually took the picture after the reset.
I have to hold my power button to get it to fully reset. Then this morning I noticed that my clock and date were all messed up.. set back to 1970 and time was reset.
Anyone else experienced this before? Nothing else is wrong with the phone but I'm not sure if this would be a software or hardware issue.
Thanks.
Yeah Ive had the camera app lock up a few times. Shutter button does nothing (didnt notice any sounds as I was outdoors), closing the camera app does not fix it, full restart is necesary but my clock worked fine at boot. Ive also had an issue where if you touch to focus and then swipe to see the gallery then the LED flash will stay lit indefinetly, forcing you to go back to the camera app and re-focus.
What rom / kernel are you guys using ?
Not sure if this is related but I've had the camera refuse to take pictures a lot, especially in low light - the camera cannot seem to focus so hitting the shutter button does nothing. I find switching to another mode (video for example) and then back again sometimes cures it. I've also had it lock up and leave the flash on. I'm surprised this got through testing as it seems quite a common issue from other N4 users I've spoken to.
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=40996
+1 same problems here.
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
Same issue here too - just received mine 2 days ago and I sometimes need to change the camera to video mode then back to picture mode for it to be able to take pictures again.
Pure vanilla phone here, no custom kernels or any roms of any kind.. hell my phone isn't even rooted.. lol.
I've just started to notice that since I've been trying to take more pics with my phone lately.
And yes I've been seeing issues with the camera not wanting to take shots or focus properly either.
Same issues yesterday i was taking pics of my x-mas tree and gifts, suddenly the camera wouldn't focus anymore, had to restart the camera app, also auto focus is really not functioning too well... It can't seem to lock when focused on a subject...
Sent from my Nexus 4
Same
Same issue....pain in the ASS. SOMEONE HAD TO HAND ME THEIR IPHONE TO TAKE THE PIC. F#CK THAT SH#T!!!!!!!! FIx ASAP!

[Q] N900T Vibrates on opening camera

I have this very weird problem where my phone vibrates every time I open the camera. Almost as if trying to focus. It vibrates the same way as when the phone is set on vibrate for notifications. I have the N900T and I am on 4.4.2 and rooted.
Any solutions?
I have same issue on N9005, when I open camera app (doesn't matter if Samsung's or snapchat or google's) it starts vibrating, it must be an isolated issue cuz this is the first time I see someone else to have same problem like me.
mitaka963 said:
I have same issue on N9005, when I open camera app (doesn't matter if Samsung's or snapchat or google's) it starts vibrating, it must be an isolated issue cuz this is the first time I see someone else to have same problem like me.
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I have the same problem I think that it is only when it is very hot.

Screen keep waking up with Touchwiz Rom

Hi All,
There is some hardware issue with my S4 that it will wake itself up randomly every few seconds. It has this issue with every touchwiz rom I put on, Kitkat or Lollipop (fresh install so that I know it's not caused by some apps installed later). I'm sure I have tried everything like disabling air gesture, every senor related function that I'm aware of.
I used wakelock trying to track which apps triggered the wake with no luck.
I also tried gravity screen, no luck.
The only fix so far is using a cm rom. I suppose it's because cm rom ignores some sensor info compared to touchwiz. I can stay with cm but I really like the stock camera.
Can anyone cast some light on how to fix this screen wake up issue on touchwiz?
Update: Finally got this fixed. The fix is very specific to this phone. As I mentioned this phone has some issue including home key not working and the random screen wake. After disable home key mapping in Generic.kl and gpio-keys.kl by adding # in front of key 172 Home, screen wont wake up by itself again.
shadowcliffs said:
Hi All,
There is some hardware issue with my S4 that it will wake itself up randomly every few seconds. It has this issue with every touchwiz rom I put on, Kitkat or Lollipop (fresh install so that I know it's not caused by some apps installed later). I'm sure I have tried everything like disabling air gesture, every senor related function that I'm aware of.
I used wakelock trying to track which apps triggered the wake with no luck.
I also tried gravity screen, no luck.
The only fix so far is using a cm rom. I suppose it's because cm rom ignores some sensor info compared to touchwiz. I can stay with cm but I really like the stock camera.
Can anyone cast some light on how to fix this screen wake up issue on touchwiz?
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Hi
I've been having the same problems with my phone, I think I've managed to fix the problem,
I went to settings, device, display, then at the bottom turn off 'ambient display'
Problem seems to be gone

Camera is Vibrating

I am using A2017U model. There is a new kind of issues in my axon 7 .
Sometimes when i start my camera or through any other app like snapchat, insta, image blurs in the display and i feel the vibration on the back side of phone where the rear camera is present.
It feels like camera is vibrating. i can hear the sound of vibration also.
Front camera works fine at that time.
Help
teji007 said:
I am using A2017U model. There is a new kind of issues in my axon 7 .
Sometimes when i start my camera or through any other app like snapchat, insta, image blurs in the display and i feel the vibration on the back side of phone where the rear camera is present.
It feels like camera is vibrating. i can hear the sound of vibration also.
Front camera works fine at that time.
Help
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That is a known issue with the custom roms available today. Its the OIS in the camera that's causing the vibrating.
teji007 said:
I am using A2017U model. There is a new kind of issues in my axon 7 .
Sometimes when i start my camera or through any other app like snapchat, insta, image blurs in the display and i feel the vibration on the back side of phone where the rear camera is present.
It feels like camera is vibrating. i can hear the sound of vibration also.
Front camera works fine at that time.
Help
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Is that the stock ROM though, or did you install the ZTE camera on a custom ROM?
If you're on stock you probably have a messed-up OIS --> send to ZTE
I am on RR ROM. Stock should not have the same issue.
I had this on stock ROM, both Marshmallow and 7.0 Nougat. It doesn't happen anymore, don't know why. I would just shake the phone and restart camera app when it happens, and it usually goes back to normal.
This happened yesterday to me... Blur and vibration... Restarted phone and has not happened since... On Los April 24 nightly...
borijess said:
I am on RR ROM. Stock should not have the same issue.
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It does have it if you have a broken ois though
Simply one coil messed up and it's constantly trying to correct the position
Stock
borijess said:
That is a known issue with the custom roms available today. Its the OIS in the camera that's causing the vibrating.
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I am on the Stock 7.1.1 and i dont think i have droppped it anytime. sometimes it works fine but somtimes it wont work for hours
I can confirm this randomly happens on my stock, unrooted Nougat 7.1.1 A2017U ever since I got Nougat. Didn't do it before w/ MM.
When it happens I have to back out of the camera and start camera app again, but then it's fine until it happens again.
A person on the LOS thread told me this is a hardware issue and was only able to fix it by getting a new device from zte. I have the same exact issue. Now I just have to figure out how to go back to stock and lock the bootloader of and get an exchange.
The word is still not up yet.
Here are my experiences with it:

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