Hi guys.
Here`s my problem.
The camera LED on my hTC Desire won`t work in video camera recording mode(recording with LED ON), and also won`t work on the built in Flashlight.apk from Sense.
However, it does work on photo camera mode(if in dark places, it take photos using the LED - all ok).
I`ve tried different ROMs, with a full wipe(bot cache and Dalvik cache) in between the ROMs, and the LED acts the same in all of them(works only on photo camera mode - darkened places). However, I`ve installed the ICS ROM found here, on xda-developers, and this certain ROM has a small widget called "Torch", which uses the LED for a flashlight, and IT WORKS.
Now, if there was a hardware issue regarding the LED, it shouldn`t work on any ROM - basically it`s not a software issue.
I`m pretty much stunned here.
Has anyone encountered this before?
Thanks.
Hi,
I have a similar sounding problem. No camera, no camcorder, no flashlight, no led's. However the flash flashes when the phone is being booted. Thats it. I will try ICS to see if the flashlight etc works and let you know.
I have tried sense roms, AOSP roms to no avail.
regards
zaphodbeeb said:
Hi,
I have a similar sounding problem. No camera, no camcorder, no flashlight, no led's. However the flash flashes when the phone is being booted. Thats it. I will try ICS to see if the flashlight etc works and let you know.
I have tried sense roms, AOSP roms to no avail.
regards
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I`ve had the exact same problem in the past, regarding the LED, which didn`t work in any applications(flashlight, camera etc.), but strangely flashed by itself when the phone booted, and sometimes flashed randomly while simply browsing through phone(internet, games,) - without a certain pattern. I had to send the phone back for warranty, and they told me that there was a problem with a certain hardware circuit band which connects the LED and Power Button to the phone`s motherboard. I think you have the same problem.
U can try with ICS, but my guess is, it won`t help you.
i_cs_u said:
I`ve had the exact same problem in the past, regarding the LED, which didn`t work in any applications(flashlight, camera etc.), but strangely flashed by itself when the phone booted, and sometimes flashed randomly while simply browsing through phone(internet, games,) - without a certain pattern. I had to send the phone back for warranty, and they told me that there was a problem with a certain hardware circuit band which connects the LED and Power Button to the phone`s motherboard. I think you have the same problem.
U can try with ICS, but my guess is, it won`t help you.
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Hi,
you were spot on. Got the beloved desire back from HTC (excellent service by the way). Thanks for your help.
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The camera on my HTC Excalibur has stopped working. It's not just the camera button, because the button still works as SYM. I get absolutely no response when I try to run Camera.exe as well.
I am using 3VO.3.50.033010 ROM. However, I have tried a couple of earlier ROMs and had the same malfunction.
Any help is appreciated.
GBlackmon said:
The camera on my HTC Excalibur has stopped working. It's not just the camera button, because the button still works as SYM. I get absolutely no response when I try to run Camera.exe as well.
I am using 3VO.3.50.033010 ROM. However, I have tried a couple of earlier ROMs and had the same malfunction.
Any help is appreciated.
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Probably is hardware , since you have flash other roms and hard reset
hey could you fix the issue? Im having the same problem, I tried using the camera and a pop up came up saying it could not load the camera, i can use the camera since. I already did a softreset...
thanks!
ushersorbet said:
hey could you fix the issue? Im having the same problem, I tried using the camera and a pop up came up saying it could not load the camera, i can use the camera since. I already did a softreset...
thanks!
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Do a hard reset and see if that helps
Little late, but continuing...
I had almost given up on the issue, but since I found this topic, just wanted to try.
So, my camera stopped working. First, partially, showing this message that it couldn't be loaded, then completely. After all soft and har resets I tried, all ROMs flashed, nothing seems to have helped. Any idea on what I should do? Should I just assume I can't fix it?!
Do you have other problems with the device, e.g. run out of power easily?
Can you still operate WLAN well?
Often the battery of older devices is aging and slowly getting dead.
If not, then:
As already proposed: try hard-rest first.
If you are on a cooked ROM: try with a shipped ROM.
If that does not help you may need to dis-assemble the device (not easy) and clean up the connector from the camera to the PBA. Still not helping: replace the camera - or the device.
So...
well, as you mentioned, my battery is easily out of power, but i guess the problem is the cellphone cause the two last batteries i recently bought have no difference in performance to the one that came with the phone itself. after 8h it usually discharges completely. disassembling is something i'm not sure i'm doing, but, thanks for your reply!
Hey dudes,
Here my problem:
Since I first modded my Defy, I lost camera auto focus capability. Have you any idea how to solve it?
I can't read barcode anymore.
I'm using a Pays rom 5.1.
Thanks!
Sent from my Defy.
u tried uninstalling the app and then reinstalling it again?
I have a similar problem with Pays 5.1:
Mostly the camera works but the picture is cut somewhere (rest of the screen is in the color of the last pixel recorded correctly I think) and the screen is frozen for a few seconds until the camera works again (picture is not saved)
and sometimes the whole picture is black or very dark (saved, but useless).
Maybe this happens because of an error in this rom?
I don't know, but I tried to uninstall and then reinstall the application, but it didn't work.
It seems that CEE and UK roms don't use the proper AF setting..
Sent from my Defy.
I'm using 3.4.2-155-CEE in Barebones 1.3 and it's ok. There's jpeg fix on the Barebones thread (on the latest pages), but i don't know if it can help, since Pays use 3.4.3-11
I flashed 3.4.2-155-CEE (no custom rom, no data) and took about 20 pictures - no error.
LordNemesisXDA said:
I have a similar problem with Pays 5.1:
Mostly the camera works but the picture is cut somewhere (rest of the screen is in the color of the last pixel recorded correctly I think) and the screen is frozen for a few seconds until the camera works again (picture is not saved)
and sometimes the whole picture is black or very dark (saved, but useless).
Maybe this happens because of an error in this rom?
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I have the same problem with S.Froyo Cee Edition.... Sometimes i can not take a picture because of freezing screen with the lower part painted with plain color. Sometimes it's ok. When i was on a factory firmware 3.4.2-155 there were no problems with the camera....
I am using official french 2.2.2 update(since my defy is from france). I've updated it trough motorola defy, and my phone lost auto focus. On 2.1 there was the rectangle and when it gets green the camera takes the photo, now it just snaps without the focus.
:/
I've tried camera 360, and auto focus works there, but I need a fix for the stock app. :/
EDIT: I've went to Settings/manage applications/Camera and clicked on the Clear Data, and now auto focus is back!
hi all.
i had a similar problem: after update from 2.1 to 2.2.2 (cee stock both), auto-focus stopped working. tried the "clear data", but without a success. i didn't want to make factory reset, so i tried "fix permission" from rom manager. at first, it threw an error, because it didn't find the busybox. installed it to "/system/bin". after that, fix permission run without an error, reboot, and focus is working again.
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Hello,
I am using French 2.2.2 stock rom and since the update from 2.1, I lost the autofocus. I tried to clear all data from the stock camera app but it did not work. I also tried fix persmissions from Rom Manager as said above but with no luck.
I noticed that the autofocus does not work with Camera360 and Barcodescanner either...
Any clue on what I could try (without a full reset which would be my last resort ) Thanks!
same here
I have the same problem since Cyanogenmod 7.1 flash.
I tried the "clear app data" method and the "fix permissions". Still I can't get any focus.
Some help please ?
Thanks
I have the same problem, neither the clear data nor the fix permissions didn't work...
Hello,
same problem for me, so that programs like prixing or barcode scanner don't work properly .
Thanks
Very annoying problem, I tried everything.
Factory reset, fix permissions, clear cache.
I have WajkIUI (Miui based custom rom) and the 2 camera app do the same. Auto focus is dead.
What is your opinion, it this a hardware related issue?
vicked said:
Very annoying problem, I tried everything.
Factory reset, fix permissions, clear cache.
I have WajkIUI (Miui based custom rom) and the 2 camera app do the same. Auto focus is dead.
What is your opinion, it this a hardware related issue?
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I can tell you (from personal experience ) that it is possible for the camera module auto focus to break, the camera will still work "normally" but just won't focus.
Mine is/was a SoC module, so I've just been looking to see if I could find a Bayer module to replace it. I haven't found one yet though....
Have you tried going back to a stock ROM yet?
I didn't try jet.
Is it possible that the rollback solve this issue?
I don't even know what is my camera module, but when I arrive to home I will check it.
Well it appears that it might not be the actual camera itself that is broken, I've just replaced mine and the autofocus still doesn't work
I've tried flashing stock sbfs, and also all the suggestions above as well, so I was "sure" it was the actual camera that was broken.
I have absolutely no idea what to try now. Maybe the power for the focus motor in the module comes from a different place to the main camera power?
Does anyone know how to get more detailed debugging information on what happens when the camera is told to focus?
Even if you press and hold the camera soft button it will not focus and give you the green square?
How about booting the phone.. is there any clicking sound from the camera that it auto adjusting itself?
farsight73 said:
Even if you press and hold the camera soft button it will not focus and give you the green square?
How about booting the phone.. is there any clicking sound from the camera that it auto adjusting itself?
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No, whatever I press, the green square never appears, and there is no clicking sound during boot.
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Well it appears that it might not be the actual camera itself that is broken, I've just replaced mine and the autofocus still doesn't work
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Did you manage to get a Bayer camera module from SBE like you said you were going to try in this thread?
I recently noticed some weird activity with my 2 year old Desire. Just yesterday I realized that my LED flashlight + camera flash is not exactly dead, but it doesn't turn on when I want it to.
The camera app works fine, but it does not flash regardless of whatever camera flash settings I use. Torchlight seems dead as well (tried with power control + market apps).
The strange this is, that the flash does go on for a split second when the phone boots, as well as during normal phone usage (I'm using whatsapp, then I notice a quick, bright flash on the wall). It also does go on like this even when I'm in recovery.
Hardware/software issue? Let me give you a run down of what I did prior to this. And I did not drop my phone, submerge it in water/acid.
I decided to flash the excellent dGB rom in the middle of April. All was well, and I know the flashlight worked then because of a power-outage in my house. Towards the end of the month, had some signal issues on the latest radio, decided to flash 5.10.05.23.
To recap at this point,
ROM: dGB v01_28_2012
HBoot partition: 65MB /system (SURoot)
Radio: 5.17.05.23 -> 5.10.05.23
Kernel: dGB-2.1-EViollet-GB-HAVS-AXI-128-CFS.zip
After the whole power-outage in my house, I did not use the flashlight.
As I was in my room yesterday, I realized the LED Flashlight went on and off for a split second. Finding it strange, I tried to turn on the flashlight from the notification menu. Didn't work. Tried to use the camera to shoot a picture with flash - camera works, but the flash didn't. Flashlight apps in the marketplace did not work as well.
Thinking it was software, I decided to flash a new rom, kernel, radio, hboot (everything).
I tried Runnymede AIO, 5.14.05.175.14.05.17, cm r2 hboot, droidzone #18 kernel last night, with the same result- camera app works, flash and flashlight doesn't. Random flashes still happen.
I've searched around, and most people with this same problem, BUT with black camera/camera crashes as well have reported hardware problems.
So, what could be wrong with my phone? I have the tools to open up the phone, is there anything I could do?
Thanks in advance!
Ok, I think I may have solved the problem?
Unrooting or s-on didn't help (flashed alpha rev downgrade as well as 2.3 RUU).
Decided to pop out my MUGEN battery (1600MAH) back to the stock HTC battery for some reason....
And now the LED Flashlight works!
Anybody with this problem could try this just to confirm, I know there are a few topics out there with only two outcomes "I sent it back to HTC" or there was no reply from the OP.
This also brings up a curious question. The only thing I did with the MUGEN battery in the past couple of weeks was calibrating it according to the FAQ written over at the Oxygen forum, using the Nexus One Calibration tool.
I don't exactly think I've messed up somewhere.. But could that have been an issue?
The Plot Thickens
The Plot Thickens!
Being happy that the LED flash works again, I decided to root my phone (again, after previously unrooting it to troubleshoot the problem).
What do you know? The LED Flash is not working on the stock battery now!
Swapping back to the previous assumed culprit, Mugen 1600MAH, enables use of the Flashlight once again.
What could be the problem? I would love for some input!
I have a problem with my LG G3 my flash light the yellow working but the white do not work only one led work.
Please HELP! if some had this problem before and fix it.!!!!!!!!!!
khalilzip said:
I have a problem with my LG G3 my flash light the yellow working but the white do not work only one led work.
Please HELP! if some had this problem before and fix it.!!!!!!!!!!
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I have the same problem. At first I thought the flash was delayed or that the shutter was laggy I.e. one was firing before the other, but then realised that the white portion of the dual led wasn't firing at all. Neither does it work with flashlight apps. However the white portion of the led works just fine when videoing. It makes no sense as this would indicate the actual hardware is fine and could be software related. I've tried different ROMs to no avail inc CM12. At the moment I'm running Cloudy 2.2 and don't really want to flash back to stock just to fix this. I may just RMA the handset though, so I'd have to reflash back to stock it anyway.
There are quite a few posts about this now, so its certainly not a one off problem.
I have started with the stock ROM, and used cm13, and even updated to the newest fully stock ROM 3.2.4 and to no avail.
The camera app either force closes or nothing shows up on screen. Every once in awhile the front camera will work, but I'll click the icon to switch to the rear camera and no effect, it just stays on fron t camera.
I've tried many third-party apps, I've tried cm camera fix, everything I can think. Clearing data and coach for the app the whole shabang.
Now I'm ordering a brand new camera module and I will see what happens. But any help and any information will be much appreciated thanks
Was it working when you bought it...what did you do to it before it broke?
it definitely seems like a hardware issue, had it been a software issue a custom rom or 3rd party camera might have resolved it and since you have tried many roms and reverted back to stock too so it doesnt look like a software issue.
GeneralDisaray2 said:
Was it working when you bought it...what did you do to it before it broke?
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Funny you should ask, because I honestly don't know when it actually started but I do remember wiping userdata so I could unencrypt my phone and thereafter was when I noticed it no longer worked. Don't know if those 2 things correlate because I flashed back to stock (which is encrypted) and still no luck
Did you solve the camera problem ???