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[Q] Why does WP7 keep restarting?

I just installed WP7 on my HD2 and it restarts every 20 mins or. No error messages, everything went smoothly. Everything is working as well, although I haven't activated my phone yet. Is this normal behavior for an un-activated phone?
EDIT: Actually it restarts more like every 15 mins now. It also deletes all my info I set up (email, contacts, etc).

Maybe it is the SD card. Did you try another one?

I only have one SD card. I was running android on it fine this morning but I just read in the instructions that some SD cards aren't compatible. I guess I'll go buy another one.

Yes you sd card is not supported
check DFT release log its mentioned there
with some memory cards you will get random restrarts

Yeah, I'm experiencing similar behavior right now. I installed WP7 last night and at first it wouldn't read my SD card, after doing a full (boring and long) format to FAT32 it was still not getting recognized by WP7. I hard reset my phone with the card inside and VOILA! It was finally recognized. Then I moved some music from Zune on to it and went to sleep. Woke up this morning and there's was no music in my phone, did a soft reset and music appeared! But now it just keeps restarting randomly. I'm using the original 16gb that came with my HD2 and I can't afford a new SD at the moment!
Dammit! Phone restarted with the 8GB card...

Thread moved to HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A and General

I am having somewhat of the same issue. however mine only reboots when phone is in sleep mode and upon rebooting it resets everything. But if you turn the phone off and back on, all settings returns. I am not sure if this is an sd card problem because the sd card I have is one of the sd cards that is supposed to be on the list of working cards and also the rebooting is not random, only happens while phone is in sleep mode.

It's happening to me also!! I'm using the sd card that came with my cell... any solutions yet?

Yes there is:another card.
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

Yeah only solution is to get a different card. I traded my mother my 16GB from my HD2 for the 8GB from her MyTouch/Magic and I haven't had the restarting problem ever since. I hope to upgrade to a good 32GB or a 16GB that works in the future, but for now 8GB will have to do.

Radio
I had this same problem when i tried the radio from the thread on how to flash to WP7.
I solved my problem by simply updating my radio to the latest.
There is a TMOUS radio thread in the winmo 6.5 dev section.

Reflash WM7 again and it solved my problem

jessesam said:
Reflash WM7 again and it solved my problem
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Good advice. My phone has not been running smoothly all day long after reflash.

Here's what happens to me and why I havent been bothered by it.
Basically the phone has been working top notch since I flashed it. No hiccups etc.
There are certain instances when I turn off my phone at will, and turn it back on the MAGLDR screen starts, then the DFT splash shows up and it reboots once or twice and then boots up fine like nothing.
I have not had any reboots while on the OS at all. Just when Im gonna turn it on, and has only occurred three times since WP7 was flashed. I dont lose settings or anything like that, everything is intact AFAIK. Anyone else?

5achin said:
I had this same problem when i tried the radio from the thread on how to flash to WP7.
I solved my problem by simply updating my radio to the latest.
There is a TMOUS radio thread in the winmo 6.5 dev section.
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Are you using the stock sd card?

OK, I have 1 question regarding accepted SD cards.
I'm not having this reboot issue but want to make sure if I understood correctly.
I have a kingston 2gig class4 card.
I have formatted it in windows, put the card in the phone (with wp7 installed) and made a HARD RESET (using vol down x 2);
The phone started superbly, I have wifi access with SD inserted.
about phone shows 1.6GB free space now;
When I connect the phone to zune software it reports 900 megs free
When I pull the card out and insert it to winxp sp3 it reports it has 200 megs ALL.
I know about how to format the sd back but I just want to understand how WP7 uses the SD card.
Can anyone explain? What partions does wp7 creates and how it manages the SD spacE?
What's with the different reports about free space (about phone and zune ? )
Thank you

i had tested for the forum with my SDcard 2Gb and my phone only restart so if a have my 16Gb SD HC my phone is OK !! and work fine !!

5achin said:
I had this same problem when i tried the radio from the thread on how to flash to WP7.
I solved my problem by simply updating my radio to the latest.
There is a TMOUS radio thread in the winmo 6.5 dev section.
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You're right!! Using the newest radio it works like a charm!

NFRCER said:
Here's what happens to me and why I havent been bothered by it.
Basically the phone has been working top notch since I flashed it. No hiccups etc.
There are certain instances when I turn off my phone at will, and turn it back on the MAGLDR screen starts, then the DFT splash shows up and it reboots once or twice and then boots up fine like nothing.
I have not had any reboots while on the OS at all. Just when Im gonna turn it on, and has only occurred three times since WP7 was flashed. I dont lose settings or anything like that, everything is intact AFAIK. Anyone else?
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Same for me.
It was working fine for 1 day, then reboots after turn off and turn back on.
Fixed that issue: I'm on Android now

5achin said:
I had this same problem when i tried the radio from the thread on how to flash to WP7.
I solved my problem by simply updating my radio to the latest.
There is a TMOUS radio thread in the winmo 6.5 dev section.
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Solved the rebooting issue for me to. Thanks for this little fix. Running LEO512 with stock card here.

[Q] Help would be appreciated.

I recently received a new HD2 i the mail (wore out the hard keys on my last one ) and i quickly proceeded to remove winmo ASAP. The same way I've done a thousand times. Android (sense of eclipse) finally boots and every time i try to download an app it says the download has failed. EVERY TIME! I've tried re flashing the rom numerous times, re flashing cwm, magldr, task29 all with the same outcome. I also tried 3 diffferent sd cards and formatted 2 of them. This is a rom that was working fine on my old phone and i even tried a different rom (typhoon cm7) with exactly the same problem. I've had andoid on my phon since the sd days so i'm not really new at all this, but I'm not an expert so if somebody thinks this sounds familiar please help. Thanks for your time.
T-MOUS
Radio 2.15.50
HSPL 2.08
Sorry. Guess I could have put this in the Android Q&A

drakepayton said:
I recently received a new HD2 i the mail (wore out the hard keys on my last one ) and i quickly proceeded to remove winmo ASAP. The same way I've done a thousand times. Android (sense of eclipse) finally boots and every time i try to download an app it says the download has failed. EVERY TIME! I've tried re flashing the rom numerous times, re flashing cwm, magldr, task29 all with the same outcome. I also tried 3 diffferent sd cards and formatted 2 of them. This is a rom that was working fine on my old phone and i even tried a different rom (typhoon cm7) with exactly the same problem. I've had andoid on my phon since the sd days so i'm not really new at all this, but I'm not an expert so if somebody thinks this sounds familiar please help. Thanks for your time.
T-MOUS
Radio 2.15.50
HSPL 2.08
Sorry. Guess I could have put this in the Android Q&A
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Hi,
I can't say I've had problems with every downloaded app,but certainly a few.
As you can see from my sig,I'm using the same ROM.
If any app failed to download,I just repeated the process several times,and it evetually took.
The other thing I tried,was switching from wi-fi to data,or vice-versa.Then it worked.

thanks for the reply
I've tried WiFi and on edge. used the WiFi for a long time so i know its not that, and the browsing works fine.hmmm

drakepayton said:
I've tried WiFi and on edge. used the WiFi for a long time so i know its not that, and the browsing works fine.hmmm
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Hi,
What I meant was,if it didn't download on wi-fi,try downloading it on data.

Unexplained
Ok, so I used winmo for the entire day yesterday. Then this morning I tried flashing android one more time just for the heck of it. For no apparent reason it's working fine, apps downloading and installing perfectly. Now I'm afraid to flash any different roms, worried it might happen again. I did everything the same as always so I'm not sure what was wrong be fore or if it'll happen again. Hmmmm...

It is a common problem. You need to make sure that you set up / login to the gmail account before trying the market. The solution I received is quoted at the bottom of this post.
Here is the solution given to me when I couldn't download from the android market. I went from a working SD Android version to the next version (when the market wouldn't download). The only difference was that I had set up the gmail account then went onto the market with the first version but went straight onto the market with the next version and then logged onto gmail.
pascalsg said:
To fix it you go into Settings/Applications/manage applications/all and click on the following:
Google Backup Transport - then click clear data
Google Partner Set Up - then click clear data
Google Services Framework - then click clear data
Market - clear data
Reboot the phone, and Market should then work
Make sure you add your gmail account 1st before attempt to use the market
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Thanks for the reply
Thanks for your input. I am having trouble figuring out what was wrong and what fixed it. I know that's not the issue here because the I would try apps in "my apps" (meaning I was signed in) in the market and also ones I've never downloaded before. Also maybe its gierbread or just the two roms I was on but I couldn't even open the market till I signed in with Google. I know cause after flashing a million times I was anxious to try the market quickly and forgot to sign in. It would then re direct me to the Google sign in. Strange

[Q] Strange problems with rooted and not rooted i9505

This is actualy a dual question because I don't know if the two are related. But one problem came up after solving the other.
My wife and I both have a Galaxy S4 i9505. We are Dutch and on the Vodafone network I rooted mine but hers is untouched. Recently after the update I began to experience a bootloop. I thought it was related to the rooting. Keep in mind I didn't flash another rom. Just rooted my S4. The flashing comes maybe later. :silly:
So I did a complete factory reset and much to my surprise I found out in Samsung KIES that the use of my internal memory decreased very much. After reset and new install of all my apps ( and placed them as much as I could on the sd card as before) I had a total use of 1.68 GB from the 9 I got. Before the update I used almost 6 GB of 9 GB
The bootloop however was stopped. And everything works fine. Except acalendar but to that point I will come later on.
Recently my wifes S4 started bootlooping. She also had the update a while ago. Ther only option I could think of was a factory reset. I went on doing that and again all works fine. Exept...... acalendar offcourse
So my questions are:
Has anyone experienced the bootloop after the update?
And could the update causing acalendar to stop functioning.
The problem with acalendar is that the 4x4 widget won't stick to the homescreen. I tried everything but whatever I do, if I hit OK or the return button the screen comes up empty and no widget. The app itsel;f works and the app icon will attach to the homescreen. But I don't want the app icon I want the widget.
can anyone help plz. I allready posted a question on the developers website but so far no comment.
grtz Maverick ®
Just got a reply from the developers. Ok time off I can imagine... but 1 1/2 month vacation???? And ALL of there developers on vacation? Ths makes the app less appealing
QUOTE.......Hi, this is an automatic out-of-office reply. We are sorry, but also developers need some vacation once in a while, thus for deeper technical problems you'll have to wait till mid-November for me to get back to you. For less technical issues Tapir Apps support will get back to you.......

Just got a rply from Tapir support:
Try uninstall and reinstall it... maybe that helps... deuheuuu

Do you have acalendar installed on your sd? Because then that will probably cause those problems.
If so, then I think that also caused the bootloops.

Lennyz1988 said:
Do you have acalendar installed on your sd? Because then that will probably cause those problems.
If so, then I think that also caused the bootloops.
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Mine was installed on the SD card.. My wifes was not..... still bootloop
tnx 4 reply

Do you use an app or script for moving your apps to the SD? I still think that moving the apps to the SD is causing the bootloops. Based on your information, that is my conclusion. Maybe it was not caused by Acalendar but some other app.
For the problem with Acalendar you should stay in contact with the developers and hope they will fix it. Or you can try to flash a custom rom and hope it will work on those roms.

tnx 4 the reply,
the S4 came with the option to move apps to the sd card after the update. So no external script used. I fixed my problem with aCalendar. I made a backup in Samsung Kies so I reverted aCalender back to my S4 and that worked. But my wife doensn't have the backup. Tomorrow I will try though toput aCalendar back using my own backup. Still finding it strange though...
grtz

Media playback issue with Galaxy note 3 N9005 - Audio & Video

Hi there,
I've had my Galaxy note 3 over a year now, its been a brilliant phone which has been well looked after. Yesterday all of a sudden whilst sat at the desk in work I went onto YouTube and tried to watch a video. It said playback error I thought it was just poor wi-fi connection so I tried to play some music off the phone (via mp3s i've had on there for a long time). I then got a Music playback error - Couldn't play the track that you requested. I thought ah its probably just a reboot thing so restarted the phone & still got the issue. I tried all of the media on the phone, videos, music in different formats...nothing works. I decided to boot the handset in Safe mode to see if that would help. Same problem. I had a look online for known issues & a few mentioned SD card problems. I had no SD card in my phone.
I decided to backup all of my stuff via my laptop & give it a factory reset. I really didn't want to do this but had no real choice. Anyway the problem still persists.
I am completely confused to how half an hour earlier on the desk in my office it was absolutely fine, then shortly later it stops working. I've never had a problem with it. I've tried numerous reboots since & still no luck.
The camera still works, its just no audio what so ever via headphones or through the speaker.
I also tried a few different media players too. MX player lets you pay the video....where as the standard android player freezer the handset when you try to watch a video.
At first I kept getting a SoundAlive is not working, close error.
Each time I try to make a phone call too it says "Call not sent" and the handset locks up and freezes really bad.
Does anyone have any idea what might of caused this? Literally the only thing I can think of is the fact I purchased a new battery for it 3 months back which is a none Samsung battery but would the phone really act this bizarrely all of a sudden?
I really don't wanna have to go and purchase a new phone when this was working fine yesterday & nothings happened to it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers

Try a factory reset first.

as mentioned above I already have done. No luck. I really cant get my head around why playing back audio and video would cause the phone to come up with errors. Its as if its a pc amd the soundcard has dust in it or drivers arnt installed.

Del

Ive just downloaded the phone info Samsung app. I dont understand why id need to flash my phone though when it was working fine one minute then not working the next but ill still try it. No apps or updates were installed and ive never flashed any roms, firmware updates or rooted the device ever. Ill give it a flash and see what happens though

Zkingtut said:
Go to play store and install 'Phone info *samsung*.apk' to know all your phone info
Factory reset your phone
Go to Sammobile & Download and flash the latest firmware via Odin ( Download the right firmware )
Search YouTube to see how to use odin
https://youtu.be/V5kj33ygzIw
Good Luck
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Ive just tried to register on Sammobile but the registration page is not working.
If anyone has access to it would you be able to download this for me & upload it to somewhere?
http://www.sammobile.com/firmwares/download/61445/N9005XXUGBOK6_N9005BTUGBOJ1_BTU/
Id really appreciate it & pray it fixes my phone.
Thank you

Del

No apps or updates were installed and ive never flashed any roms, firmware updates or rooted the device ever
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- Im feeling pretty angry.
Ive just paid for a hostgator premium account which is meant to have rapid speeds & the download keeps failing.
http://rapidgator.net/file/cc36c745...te-3-sm-n9005-stock-firmware-lollipop-update/
I have also tried to register on the sammobile webpage to download the same firmware & it will not let me register as there's a problem with signup

Del

nolimit966 said:
Ive just downloaded the phone info Samsung app. I dont understand why id need to flash my phone though when it was working fine one minute then not working the next but ill still try it. No apps or updates were installed and ive never flashed any roms, firmware updates or rooted the device ever. Ill give it a flash and see what happens though
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JJEgan said:
Try a factory reset first.
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I finally managed to download the original firmware and reflash via ODIN but unfortunatley still no luck
Its such as shame as the phone works brilliant still, the camera, charging, internet, sms, 4g works perfectly fine as usual. Its just this strange media playback problem.
Does anyone have any final suggestions?
If the mainboard was damaged, could this fault just happen to media?
Thanks for your help

Start
Test a known file on a PC or Laptop to make sure it works .
Make sure its a format that your phone can play .
Copy to phone .
Test if fails try another media player .
Does the phone ring or play system sound check settings volume .
If fails then it looks like a hardware connection problem .

Sorry for reviving this old topic but the same error occurred on my device too. Not sure what caused it.
I updated my rom and replaced battery at the same time. Tried to install stock via odin, edit audio config files, install custom audio engines but nothing helped. My every action gave the same result - no media playback and audio proccessing app crashes. Samsung phone info shows empty space under "Sound Card".
I hope this is not a hardware failure but if it is any idea how I can check that?

What model ???
Sugest factory reset then flash a new stock rom via Odin .Install nothing else and test .

JJEgan said:
What model ???
Sugest factory reset then flash a new stock rom via Odin .Install nothing else and test .
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As the thread title suggest my model is N9005. I reset and flashed stock via Odin already and it didn't work. I can try and do that again tho.

Sir_Druggist said:
As the thread title suggest my model is N9005. I reset and flashed stock via Odin already and it didn't work. I can try and do that again tho.
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I was messing around trying to make my phone surround sound and flashed the wrong mixer path and mine started to do the same thing as you guys described. Restored my stock mixer path and all was good, what I'm getting at is maybe do a search do a sound mod, one that is louder then stock and try that, maybe it will change something for the good for you. I've seen ones u can flash in recovery and they also have a uninstaller zip so u can revert back to stock if it don't work.
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Sir_Druggist said:
As the thread title suggest my model is N9005. I reset and flashed stock via Odin already and it didn't work. I can try and do that again tho.
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Try one of these if u haven't already. It's worth a shot.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2470890

Thanks for the help. Issue was fixed after flashing stock rom for the third time and then flashing separately bootloader and modem.

Flashlight being used by another app. Camera doesn't work

After flashing the unbranded firmware and rooting the phone, I'm not able to use the camera app. Opening it just says "Camera Failed. In the slide down menu, the flashlight icon is turned on even though I'm not actually using the flashlight. and I cant turn it off either. How do I fix this?
I've tried: clearing data & cache of camera app, clearing the cache partition, setting default settings of the camera app, changed camera storage from SD card to internal & vice versa

TommyQuid said:
After flashing the unbranded firmware and rooting the phone, I'm not able to use the camera app. Opening it just says "Camera Failed. In the slide down menu, the flashlight icon is turned on even though I'm not actually using the flashlight. and I cant turn it off either. How do I fix this?
I've tried: clearing data & cache of camera app, clearing the cache partition, setting default settings of the camera app, changed camera storage from SD card to internal & vice versa
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Sucks no one responded to your post. I rooted my sons S7 Edge and sometime after it acquired the same issue yours has/has. I had another S7 Edge phone so I ended up rooting that one and giving it to him. I still have his old one with the camera fail issue but I've yet to try to figure out what caused it to happen. I know my response doesn't help with info or duration from OP post to reply, I just wanted to let you know that your post wasn't ignored by everyone. Unfortunately I have nothing substantial to contribute.

kanesglove said:
Sucks no one responded to your post. I rooted my sons S7 Edge and sometime after it acquired the same issue yours has/has. I had another S7 Edge phone so I ended up rooting that one and giving it to him. I still have his old one with the camera fail issue but I've yet to try to figure out what caused it to happen. I know my response doesn't help with info or duration from OP post to reply, I just wanted to let you know that your post wasn't ignored by everyone. Unfortunately I have nothing substantial to contribute.
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So I ended up putting that phone back to stock then rooting it again and it had the exact same issue yours has. I did a clean root too and the issue is still present. From there I decided to again run it back to stock and this time do a nand erase all and repartition the device. After all was finished I checked the device and I'll be goddamned... it still has the same issue. So if the problem persists after all that reformatting is it safe to say that it's a hardware issue? I'm out of ideas. Sorry I couldn't help you.

kanesglove said:
So I ended up putting that phone back to stock then rooting it again and it had the exact same issue yours has. I did a clean root too and the issue is still present. From there I decided to again run it back to stock and this time do a nand erase all and repartition the device. After all was finished I checked the device and I'll be goddamned... it still has the same issue. So if the problem persists after all that reformatting is it safe to say that it's a hardware issue? I'm out of ideas. Sorry I couldn't help you.
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you guys offer little information at all so this is why no one helps you. Maybe tell what firmware version you flashed what root version you did etc. There is a big difference between bootloader revB/11 and the others

Holy ****. Did I just get constructive suggestions from jrkruse?! Dude if you told me I could fix my phone by sucking a fart out of a wallaby's ass I'd do it cuz the advice came from you, and if there's one thing I know it's that you know your ****. You're ****in' awesome. I feel so special now. Ok sorry about that...
Well, I'm not too sure about the OP but I can tell you about the phone I have that seems to have the same issue.
My S7 Edge is a SM-G935V on android 7.0 on update 4BQK2. Prior to rooting I put everything to stock then I did a NAND erase and repartition. No issues with any of that.
I rooted my phone from this post
G935V Root Method. No Lag! No Heat!
G935V Root Method. No Lag! No Heat!
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OF YOUR ISSUES! ALL I CAN DO IS RECOMMEND A GOOD PSYCHOLOGIST! Hey guys. Stumbled on this by accident. I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHY IT WORKS, BUT IT DOES. THE METHOD HAS BEEN TESTED BY ME AND A FEW OTHER PEOPLE HERE...
forum.xda-developers.com
which directs to your older method for gaining root privileges.
[DISCONTINUED] ROOT Method For Nougat
DISCONTINUED New Thread Found Here This Root Method For S7 Nougat Nougat_S7_Root_2_82_All_Carriers_V2.zip Includes Fingerprint Fix [Latest Verison] Nougat_S7_Root_2_81_All_Carriers_V2.zip Includes Fingerprint Fix Nougat_S7_Root_2_79_All.zip...
forum.xda-developers.com
I also flashed Unzip the Nougat_S7_Root_2_82_All_Carriers_V2.
Then I flashed the BL file in the BL slot from the G935U firmware with odin checking "Phone Bootloader Update". I used the BL file from G935UUES4BRA1 since it's the closest update for the U brand to the firmware this phone is on (G935VVRU4BQK2)
I'm aware that there are newer methods for gaining root access but I chose this method cuz I used it back in 2017-2018, I had read all the posts in the thread, and I knew it worked.
I currently have 3 S7 Edge phones all on the same firmware and build and are all rooted with the same combo method I just explained. The other 2 phones also have xposed installed and they both work well.. expect mine says weird stuff instead of the callers information. I think it only does it if they're a contact but in the notification tab it says an example like this 5556661234;verstat=No-TN-Validation. No clue how to fix that.
The phone that is having the same issue as the OP still had access to the private/secure folder when it was rooted; which I thought was weird cuz mine doesn't and from what I understood private mode gets disabled if the phone's rooted. Maybe it only gets disabled if you install xposed? I don't know. My son had the phone with the issue and it was his first smart phone and he dropped it a few times (with a case) so I was thinking it's an effect from something he downloaded from the play store (he's 20 now but pretty still very ignorant with android). Now I'm not sure if it's a software or hardware issue since the problem persisted after the NAND erase.
Something to note about my sons old phone also is that it has 2 thin pink lines running down one side of the screen (defective/dead pixels) and when the screen turns off it it flashes once before actually turning off. One time over the phone I tried troubleshooting the issue with him and he ended up being able to use his camera immediately after rebooting the phone though once he exited the camera app it wouldn't open again. We were trying a bunch of things, force closing any app I thought would be related to the issue. Not sure what allowed it work when it did, but even now right after a reboot the camera app still crashes.

This was long ago, I've since lost the phone. But, I was on the A bootloader and on OREO rooted using @/billa's method using an ENGboot file. I tried everything possible to get the camera to work including flashing back to stock but nothing helped. I just gave up finally. @kanesglove maybe try safely updating the firmware. Hope it helps