Something went wrong with my camera all of a sudden. When I was traveling I was taking a number of pictures, and a few times the camera app I was using (it was the out-of-the-box app with the Cyanogen ROM) froze the phone and I had to pull the battery. I left the phone with a friend and the first pictures they took had artifacts like the attached image does (read: see attached!).
For some reason, when the camera app is open, the real-time preview has these artifacts across the whole image. When it focuses and captures the image, only half of the image has a problem. When the problem first occurred, the whole image was affected.
Has anyone seen this before? I could try re-flashing my phone, but if it's a hardware defect it would be for nothing. Any ideas?
I did a factory reset and re-flashed CM6. The camera is still messed up.
Am I totally out of luck?
The only thing left I can think of is to reformat the SD card, not that I can see how it would help...
Reformatted, reflashed, the whole 9 yards. No fix. It must be a hardware defect. Blast.
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New Nexus 7 2013, unlocked and rooted with NRT v1.7.2.
Camera does not work
Any ideas please?
Today I also installed all of my apps, and downloaded the maps and data associated with them, which has taken pretty much all day.
Now I thought I'd have a play, so I decided to take a camera, as that is one of the new things this Nexus 7 can do over my previous one. All I get is a dark grey screen with just the camera controls on it. I can get the on-screen pop-upcontrols to do clever things like change the auto white balance, but NO PICTURE.
If I flip to the front facing camera, it takes a while, but usually gives me a picture, which at 1.2m is pretty awful on this wonderful screen.
If I then flip back, the image stays, and the camera app freezes. Occasionally I have had a message saying "can't connect to the camera". Twice I've had a message saying that the "gallery isn't responding". Well, there is nothing in the gallery.
I've searched here, and found forum threads elsewhere suggesting reboot, or use Permissions Manager to allow access to the camera. The permissions were OK but I removed them and restored them just in case. Rebooting has made no difference.
My last ditch will be restoring to factory settings, as I've spent 5 hours installing my apps and data. Just doing a backup, then plan a nandroid backup so that if I do have to reset, I can hopefully restore how I am now.
Well...you could carefully pop the back off and make sure the camera ribbon cable is seated properly...
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Ah well, the supplier changed it, and the new one is great.
I'm not sure if anyone has experienced this problem, but ever since going from 4.1.2 rom to what was the 4.3 beanstalk rom at the time my camera is always extremely dark. The weird thing about it is, after playing around with settings and what not(I didnt have to do this before) if you put the camera in "action mode" it brightens right up(for a short period of time before going back) without changing any other setting. If you change back to "auto" it goes right back to being overly dark. Don't get me wrong, the camera works, but with the pictures being so dark they are hardly good quality.
Troubleshooting wise, I wiped the whole phone, sd card and everything, flashed back to stock through odin. The original 4.1.1 camera seemed to look much better. Went back to flashing 4.3 and 4.4 roms with the new camera and bam, same problem. Has anyone ever experienced this issue or have a fix for it? I have looked all over the internet and can't find someone with a fix. I don't want to stay on 4.1.1 stock, but is there a way to use that camera? Cameras on the play store have the same dark effect.
I've got the "cannot connect to camera" issue since last summer, but I can still use the camera if I reset my phone once or twice. It became seriously day by day until now, I cannot activate my camera completely. "Flashlight" shows gray in top menu (but flashlight hardware is fine), Google Camera will FC after few seconds I open it.
I saw many threads in XDA and Chinese forums, tried safe mode, factory reset, wipe all data and even flash factory images, relock bootloader by following those instructions but nothing helps. I don't know why because I didn't do anything to my phone and it just naturally became like this. Except for the camera, all the hardwares and softwares as well as functions are working properly, no signs of getting worse.
I'm not sure the camera module or the motherboard has broken or not, anyone still have any ideas to fix this?
Darnedest thing happened this morning. Went to take a photo, camera went blurry on me. Forgot about it, went to take another photo this afternoon and the camera just remained blurry. In fact, it was "stuck" on macro, focused about 3" from the camera, but nothing else I could do to shake it.
Force closed app; wiped data; wiped cache; rebooted. Powered off. Rebooted. Wiped the laser focuser. Nothing worked. Had a lovely long chat with Sony Tech Support, which (naturally) recommended software repair (why do they ALWAYS say "you'll have to factory reset....?")
Decided, who the hell knows why, to give the camera a slight knock, like something was "loose" inside (not that I heard anything).
Guess what? Everything is copacetic.
WTF? Why/how could this possibly be?
Hi!...really need some help!
Had phone for 1 year. Generally no performance issues. Over the last month or so, the camera app has started to play up.
1. It takes ages to load
2. The picture stuters/freezes when moving phone in pictures or videos causing delays in snapping and/or jumps in recordings
3. It can no longer focus on things at near distance.
I did a factory restore and think it was okay right after (didn't test it properly). Have since reinstalled most of the same apps and went to use camera today and same issue.
I installed adobe camera app and it works phone so don't think it's a hardware issue. Seems more like something is interfering or maybe a bad update.
Don't want to have to use a seperate app for videos too. Saw some others mention similar issues in the forum though not exactly the same and no resolution (no pun intended). Anyone experienced this and fixed it?