Hey everyone,
I've been using CM7 since the stable build was released for the G2 and today my Camera App stopped working and just force closes anytime I try to start or when any other application tries to access it.
I thought maybe this was just a bug, so I backed up, cleared data,cache,dalvik cache,fixed permissions and installed a fresh CM7 and the camera app still didn't work. Then I reverted all the way back to my stock 2.2 and for some reason that's not working either. I thought maybe it was a Kernel problem, so I flashed some fresh ones and some stock ones and still no dice.
What am I missing?! I JUST used the camera earlier today and it was fine, then it just stopped working for some reason. I can still access the Gallery, just not the Camera.
Any suggestions would be awesome!
Thanks for the help
I would think that installing a fresh CM7 would fix it, but since camera is a system app there is a chance that whatever the problem was, it may not have been remedied by the methods you've tried.
did you do a full wipe when you went back to froyo? if not, that would explain why the camera still wasn't working (among other things I imagine)
I've attached the camera.apk from CM7.0.0 stable. try pushing it to /system/app and see if that fixes.
Try switching to an freshly formatted SD. I had the same problem after installing an app called Daily Driver that I used for a time lapse video. I think it corrupted some files on the SD card. I try restoring to a previously good nandroid and it still wouldn't work. Switched out my SD and it works fine now. Hope that helps.
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Hi, everyone; adding to the flood of questions...
I've been having some issues after a reboot lately:
- a couple of my apps will disappear. Namely Line Runner and the Merriam Webster Dictionary. I did some searching on this earlier and people who have had similar problems said it was due to the apps being installed on SD. I moved them to the phone, which seemed to solve the problem, but:
- rebooting also seems to make me lose my latest Google Search and Maps updates. The market will prompt me to update these. These apps are already on the phone, so no clue how to fix that one. But the most annoying thing is:
- after reboot, several of my game apps will force close when I try to open them. It seems like it's the more processor-intense ones: Pew Pew, Osmos, Anomaly, World of Goo. I thought maybe it was because of the undervolting/underclocking settings I have (from GideonX), but the apps work fine (running quite smoothly) after I install them, as long as I don't reboot. As soon as I reboot, if I try to open them again I get FC. If I uninstall then reinstall, they run fine again.
Any ideas? I'm running Juggernaut 4.1 with faux's 009u kernel and, as I said above, Gideon's script. I tried one reboot back to faux's stock clock/voltage settings, but I still got FCs on the apps. Granted, I didn't try it again or give it time to settle in or anything.
Any thoughts, folks? Thanks!
fix permissions? fresh wipe and install? clear cache? fiddle around
Ah, forgot to mention. Tried all of the above (fix permissions, clear cache, reflashed ROM, even recovered to my pre-custom ROM backup and reflashed from there).
I did some more testing on this, and I think I've narrowed down the problem. I flashed back to stock voltage/clock settings under faux's kernel, then reinstalled one of the apps I had issues with (Osmos). Upon reboot it still ran okay. So it seems I won't get force closes after reboot IF the app was installed under stock settings.
Does anyone know why undervolting and/or underclocking would cause apps to force close only after reboot?
EDIT:
Well, never mind. I did some more testing, and what I thought worked last time didn't work again. Must have just gotten lucky that time. Sigh.
Try wiping your phone with darksides super wipe and clean flash a rom. Check the md5 sums to make sure youre not installing a bad download
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Oh, wow, didn't even know about the existence of that tool. Will definitely give that a try when I have some free time this weekend. Hopefully I can report back with positive news.
Thanks!
Don't want to count my chickens, but using super wipe seems to have done the trick so far! Using super wipe before flashing Jugg 5.0 seems to have gotten rid of my problem of FC apps.
Thanks again!
Hey everybody, I'm on a JB rom right now (Jellybelly 3.3), and whenever I try to open the camera, it says flashes a message that gallery has stopped working. I noticed the problem a couple days ago, but I'm not sure how long I've had the problem because I rarely use the camera. When the phone boots up, it flashes the same message.
I've used several roms over the past few weeks, and my usual method of flashing is to wipe data and cache before installing the rom. Since I noticed the problem, I tried wiping data, cache, then system, installing the rom and gapps, then fixing permissions. After that didn't work, I tried using superwipe before flashing a rom. Apparently I've had this problem for a while, as my nandroid backup has the same problem.
Does anybody have any idea as to what the problem is and how to fix it? Thanks in advance.
Did you by any chance freeze/delete the gallery app after you installed the rom? The gallery app is tied to the camera in jellybean, i froze my gallery app(use quickpic instead) and noticed the camera was missing.
peachpuff said:
Did you by any chance freeze/delete the gallery app after you installed the rom? The gallery app is tied to the camera in jellybean, i froze my gallery app(use quickpic instead) and noticed the camera was missing.
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No, it doesn't function directly after installing a rom.
I'll cut to the chase with my issues and explain where I am now. Then I'll go through some if the previous issues leading up to this...
I got tired of the problems and flashed back to stock FC09 with Odin.
Booted up and made sure it worked...
Flashed CWM 5.0.2.7 with Odin.
Rebooted
Flashed CWM 6.0.2.8 with CWM...
Booted up to make sure nothing broke.
Data, dalvik, and cache wipe
Flashed a CM 10.1 nightly from a couple weeks ago.
Flashed goo.im's latest jelly bean pack (2013-03-01 iirc)
Booted up and went through the normal setup.
Only google apps that showed up are search, play, talk, and voice search. No Gmail or Maps or others. Gallery I'd there but force closes right away. So it and the camera do not work.
I haven't tried recreating the rest of the problems yet since I ran into a problem there.
The rest of the problem started after finally deciding to try the nexus radio hack. I got it working then had a hell of a time getting it working again after flashing a newer nightly. What should have worked didn't. Got it working then decided to revert back to the factory modem and CM 10.1 kernel. Wasn't worth the hastle for me.
After all that I got it working again. Then after the next nightly I lost all my apps, Google apps, and contacts.
Since then I was able to manually flash the Google apps and get it working but even then, it would not sync automatically though I set it to do so. It would forget my contacts and would not sync with gmail unless I did so manually.
Looked at to goo.im zip... realized gmail and maps were not in there.
While I was confused... that does not change the fact the phone seems broken in bazaar ways.
Losing my contacts randomly, refusing to automatically sync to Google, losing my apps after flashing an updated rom (also changes my background to an old one) and other weirdness.
Restored my latest nandroid backup after realizing the camera was broken last night. Everything worked perfect before making that backup. Now the camera and gallery force close...
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Looked at to goo.im zip... realized gmail and maps were not in there.
While I was confused... that does not change the fact the phone seems broken in bazaar ways.
Losing my contacts randomly, refusing to automatically sync to Google, losing my apps after flashing an updated rom (also changes my background to an old one) and other weirdness.
Restored my latest nandroid backup after realizing the camera was broken last night. Everything worked perfect before making that backup. Now the camera and gallery force close...
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Go to Settings->Apps->All : Find and click on Gallery then hit the button that says "Clear Data". That should fix the force close problem.
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jeffreyjicha said:
Go to Settings->Apps->All : Find and click on Gallery then hit the button that says "Clear Data". That should fix the force close problem.
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Nope...
Tried that and also cleared the cache and dalvik in CWM.
Neither helped.
Thank you though...
Well, if anyone else runs into similar and finds this via a search here is where I ended up...
I re flashed to stock again with Odin. Only I set it to re partition this time. Then flashed can via Odin.
Finally, I flashed CM 10.1 and gapps.
Everything worked...
Restored the data out of my latest nandroid backup.
Everything was good.
Ran cyandelta to update to the latest nightly and all hell broke loose again.
Think it is because we are butting so close against a full system partition. I had less than 100k free.
I ran my "remove useless junk" script via a CWM flash. I now have almost 100mb free and everything is working as it should. I'm betting I won't have any more issues if I set cyandelta to flash it after updating from now on.
The flash removes a bunch of stuff from CM that I don't need and/or never use like wallpapers, sound files, videos, a few apps and other random things. Need to update it for 10.1 since I made it for 10.0 though...
And today it forgot my Google account...
Noticed my contacts were missing and then saw gmail wouldn't open.
Settings> accounts did not have Google listed.
+ Add account did not have Google listed to add it back.
Had to flash gapps again and set my account back up...
This is one of the original problems...
unfortunately, gallery stopped working when using "capture picture" via messaging
When using the stock messaging app, if I use the "capture picture" option, it allows me to take a picture, but when I hit the check mark to select the picture, it closes with the unfortunately, gallery has stopped working message. This only happens on the messaging app. Works fine with hangouts and other apps. Its also the stock camera.
I am on 4.3, but I have restored my 4.2 and same thing. It worked last weekend and maybe monday, but yesterday and today, its done working.
Ive cleared cache's and data and same thing.
Any ideas on what may be causing this and what can fix it?
Im on the unofficial CM10.2 and it just worked for me. So I have no idea. Maybe its the gallery app thats included in the gapps package you use.
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Im on the unofficial CM10.2 and it just worked for me. So I have no idea. Maybe its the gallery app thats included in the gapps package you use.
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gapps was built into shiny rom, nobody else had the issue either. Im throwing on FTL right now to see if that does anything. I'm at a total loss on what the issue is. I reverted to 4.2 and I know it was working there and now its not.
When restoring from recovery using cwm, what files or directories does not get changed?
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gapps was built into shiny rom, nobody else had the issue either. Im throwing on FTL right now to see if that does anything. I'm at a total loss on what the issue is. I reverted to 4.2 and I know it was working there and now its not.
When restoring from recovery using cwm, what files or directories does not get changed?
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I have no idea then if no one else using that ROM had no issues either. If you are the only one having that issue then it makes it even harder to figure out. And I'm not sure how recovering a backup works exactly. I always thought it pretty much wiped the whole system and flashed the backup.
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I have no idea then if no one else using that ROM had no issues either. If you are the only one having that issue then it makes it even harder to figure out. And I'm not sure how recovering a backup works exactly. I always thought it pretty much wiped the whole system and flashed the backup.
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Yup, only one. There are a handful of S3 users that have a similar issue as well but so far, i think I'm the only GN.
I was under the impression of a recovery backup/restore was a mirror image of what was backed up too, but there is something that isnt. The problem seeped into my perfect backup somehow.
i installed this rom last night, working great for me, only one thing camera not working. After taking one picture it just freezes, nothing can be done after that, the only solution is to restart and after restart i can only take one picture and again it freezes. Is there any fix for it plz help...
One thing more i have switched the run-time from dalvik to Art and after that titanium backup not working, i try to re-install the latest version straight from Google play, but unable to install - error
camera not working
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i installed this rom last night, working great for me, only one thing camera not working. After taking one picture it just freezes, nothing can be done after that, the only solution is to restart and after restart i can only take one picture and again it freezes. Is there any fix for it plz help...
One thing more i have switched the run-time from dalvik to Art and after that titanium backup not working, i try to re-install the latest version straight from Google play, but unable to install - error
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hello, am a total noob myself but stumbled across a fix for camera not working after a cm 11 nightly flash. i reinstalled camera app and data from my titanium zip and camera worked fine afterwards. perhaps you could reinstall from your nandroid backup (if you have one), just an idea.
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i installed this rom last night, working great for me, only one thing camera not working. After taking one picture it just freezes, nothing can be done after that, the only solution is to restart and after restart i can only take one picture and again it freezes. Is there any fix for it plz help...
One thing more i have switched the run-time from dalvik to Art and after that titanium backup not working, i try to re-install the latest version straight from Google play, but unable to install - error
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You my try this: go to recovery then wipe dalvik cache and format cache. But don't expect much from CM based camera... it's borked. My personal recommendation is SnapCamera, it's not free but I am tired with stock camera issues.
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hello, am a total noob myself but stumbled across a fix for camera not working after a cm 11 nightly flash. i reinstalled camera app and data from my titanium zip and camera worked fine afterwards. perhaps you could reinstall from your nandroid backup (if you have one), just an idea.
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I already tried that option dear, not working after restoring data from titanium bkup and after switching to Art, titanium also not working, will try Snap Camera and other backup apps. Thanks for suggestions