Hi all! I have flashed my phone three times with the Synergy ROM and I've flashed the freedom kernel, and chopsuey kernel numerous more times. But for some reason I can't get my camera to work! I tried to the date fix trick and it didn't work. I tried flashing a camera.zip file I found on another forum that was supposed to wipe the data so I could use it again but it was no good.
The camera stopped working once before I rooted my phone but after I tried the date fix trick it worked again. Ever since then it hasn't work
Please help!
Thank you
What recovery are u using. U should be using amonra. If so are you wiping properly?
Have you ruled out possible hardware failure by maybe nanding back to a back up where the camera was working?
Have u checked the md5s for both synergy and your kernels?
Just a few ideas....good luck
Hey,
That sounds more to me a hardware issue, my dads camera on his evo is all screwed up and is just a broken camera and it works when it wants to, but there is nothing really you can do about it.
Does the front camera work?
and are the kernels compatible with your rom?
Try mikg,3.0, it's a better version of synergy .should take care of your problem.
Thank you for all your input but I think it is a hardware issue. I've flashed energy, synergy, CM7 with different (yet compatible) ROMs on each of them and the camera still doesn't work. I've given up
sounds like hardware. The cam is set into a removeable port. Try taking out the back and remounting the cam.
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Anyone else have the camera load to a blank black screen with no buttons in any and all apps that utilize the camera? Camera, Barcode Scanner, Sniper Shot, and all other programs that use the camera fail to load since the update. Anyone have any idea as to why?
DanielWGK said:
Anyone else have the camera load to a blank black screen with no buttons in any and all apps that utilize the camera? Camera, Barcode Scanner, Sniper Shot, and all other programs that use the camera fail to load since the update. Anyone have any idea as to why?
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Did you try a restart, I have heard of camera problems like this before (i think first FroYo update) and all it needed was a simple reboot.
Reboot didn't work. I reflashed the rom and BAM, it worked again. Crisis averted.
I have the same problem.
I'm running the following:
Azreal 3.0
circular battery widget update
removed HTC lock screen
superior battery charging kernel
wifi hotspot patch
I'm currently trying things to figure out what will fix it.
Here are the current things I have tried that did NOT fix the problem:
Reboot
Wipe cache/davlik cache
fix UID mismatches
I then reflashed azreal 3.0
At this point the camera worked again but everything was wiped. I then reapplied the following patches:
Circular battery
remove HTC lock screen
wifi/hotspot patch
after this everything continued to work
I then applied:
superior battery charging kernel and it broke again
I think the problem is the superior battery charging kernel
i am having the same problem and have not been successful yet fixing it. switched from cm7 back to stock to update my prl and tryed to use the camera while stock when the black blank screen happened. flashed to evdo(sense) and same result. flashed back to cm7 and the 1st time i opened camera it opened the ffc. when i tried to switch and everytime i have tried to open it since i get "camera error cannot connect to camera" help plz!
If you have HW 0004 phone or HW003 with the new camera, you have to make sure your rom has a kernel with the NEW drivers. The kernel in my signature has the new drivers for ASOP roms (like cm 7).
just flashed Savaged-Zen-V002-CFS-HAVS-SBC-WiMAX - GB.zip
with the same result running cm7. seems like ive tried 20 different things with no success. everything i have flashed has been off my sd meaning i have had all of it running before at one time or another with no problem. i really cant think of what ive done new to have caused this
Same here
Happened to me right after I flashed calkulins_format_all.zip and then the MikFroyo4.4.zip yesterday. I thought it was a problem with mikfroyo so I flashed Azraelz 3.1 and still the same issue (i was using azrael 3.0 with no prob prior to mikfroyo).
I'll post if I find anything that works, please also give any suggestions i'm willing to try anything b4 i take her to sprint.
I also flashed calkulins evio rom. When I flash back to stock it will start running again sometimes. Not even right away though. It will be black for a while then if I just let the phone sleep for a bit and come back to it bam. Camera again. For a little while. Then back to the same thing an hour later without doing anything! This is very frustrating! Someone plz help!
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UPDATE
I turned my phone off and switched SD cards to one that has an old backup (3.29, kernel#11), when I booted into recovery, I could hear clicking noices coming from the lens, at a super fast rate (say 2-3 clicks a second).
Not wanting to do any more damage I turned off the phone.
I did just take my phone to sprint to fix my kick stand, maybe they did something to mess with me (thats just my paranoid side speaking)...
But what gives? What would make the camera shutter do that while im in recovery (btw using latest amon ra recovery)?
Hey everyone,
So I have been having problems connecting my evo to my bluetooth fm transmitter for my car (I can't post links yet, but it is on amazon, the gogroove flexsmart x2) ever since I switched from cm6.1.2 to miui 12.31. The transmitter was working perfectly, and my phone would pair and connect to it flawlessly, however, when I switched to miui, it didn't work at all. It would just not connect, no matter what I did. So I tried switching kernels around, and none of them worked (I tried about 3 kernels on cyanogen before I switched to miui, and switching didn't cause any issues). So I decided to go back to cyanogen, yet my bluetooth didn't work when I restored to a nandroid backup. Bluetooth still wasn't working. So then I went into clockwork and wiped my data/cache and installed the latest cm6 and bluetooth worked. Excited, I installed all of my applications, got my settings right, and installed a different kernel. When I switched kernels to try out a savage one, my bluetooth wouldn't connect. Nothing would work to bring that back, so I deleted my data/cache again and got it to work. Everything worked fine, but I wanted a different kernel, so I tried putting on snap 7.6, and it won't work anymore. I am not entirely sure what to do. I can re-install cm6 by clearing my data/cache, but I want to know why I can't use any other kernels that worked previously. Any suggestions?
Recently, I posted on cyanogen forums, and someone said to use Calkulin's format all zip as well as clear davlik cache. That didn't wok. I also tried going onto a sense rom and installing a sense kernel which didn't work either. I'm not entirely sure what to do. The thing that bothers me the most, not that I can't be on a different kernel than the stock cm6 one, it is that I don't have the option to change, but I did before.
Thanks so much for any help!
Almost sounds like it may be a hardware problem. Most of the software fixes I would suggest you've already tried with no luck. Keep in mind hardware can fail.
spiicytuna said:
Almost sounds like it may be a hardware problem. Most of the software fixes I would suggest you've already tried with no luck. Keep in mind hardware can fail.
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I would think that it is a hardware problem, but I am lead to believe it is something dealing with the kernel because when I am on a stock cm6 kernel, it works, but when I change the kernel, it fails.
EDIT: Also, would you recommend maybe unrooting my phone and completely resetting it?
I justest loaded CM 6.1.2 on my HTC evo and now every time i try to use my camera it freezes and has to force close. Any idea's? I'm new at this whole phone moding thing, so if I left out any important info just tell me. I had someone who is more experienced help me root my phone and load the rom so I don't think I messed up anything there.
Hmmm...that's strange.....I had the CM on my phone, and didn't experience any camera issues. Are you using a custom kernel?
Have you tried clearing the data and cache from the camera and then opening the camera back up? (Settings/Applications/Manage Apps/Camera) This has helped others on certain roms. Not sure on CM though.
Also, agreed with the kernel thing from filmaker. Sometimes that will do it. Try a different one.
Good luck!
I'll try that, thanks. I loaded a different rom on my phone and I'm having some problems with it, I'll reload cm and try what you told me. As to the custom kernel question, I dont believe I do. I also read on the cm forum about CM6.1.2 having issues with the camera pm newer evos and they talked about a fix but I couldn't seem to find it.
Having sorta the same problem... I switched to CM6 and the camera is just buggie... It either wont take a picture, lags really bad or FC's... I've tried clearing the data out of it but that seems to have made it worse.... Any other idea people? Thanks
Oh, I'm runnin CM6 with a stock kernel... maybe try a different kernel? And if so, can I just flash a kernel without changin anything elese like radios and what not?
Well I reinstalled cm and the camera worked prefect for a while but its not working now. I tried what you said and it didn't work. I have the stock kernal as well.
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hhhmm... that's prolly gonna be a deal breaker for me if I can't get it fixed... I use my phone camera quite a bit
Did you wipe data, cache, and dalvik between ROMs? How about system?
Well I know I wiped data, cache and dalvik... and I think I wiped system (If that's an option in to do from recovery then yeah I did)..
What recovery are you using and what rev? When I first tried CM6.1.2 I was using RomManger, which was using ClockWork 3.x.x.x recovery. I couldn't get CM6 to run for more than a day without having issues. I was able to switch to Amon_RA 2.2.1 and flash a few other ROMs which ran fine for days without any issues. I have since loaded up the EvoNonsense 4.3.1 ROM, which feels a lot like Cyanogen but still has Sense, so everything works (4G, HDMI, Camera/Camcorder, etc...). Anywho, not sure if using Amon_RA recovery will fix your Cyanogen issues or not but it may be worth a try. If that doesn't work out then you may want to try the EvoNonsense ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=758197
Hey,
I know there are a few threads on this but I haven't found one that followed through to a reported solution.
G2 rooted with CyanogenMod 6.1.1 since January of this year. Tried google goggles and the app locked up. I finally realized that was because the camera has stopped responding. When I pressed on the camera help, nothing changes for a few seconds, then it goes to a black screen. Eventually, (pressing on the back key helps) I'll get a force close/wait screen. Camera had been working fine the previous day.
I've tried clearing caches, using a different SD card with no changes. Used the opportunity to finally upgrade to CyanogenMod 7.0.3 and cleared all the caches as part of the flash. Tried the camera the first chance I could get the phone to that point. Same response from the camera (hesitate, black screen, force close).
So, is there anything else to try or is this a hardware camera failure?
Thanks for any help.
Try flashing some other rom. If that fails, then try flashing another radio.
I'd suggest taking a rooted stock rom and a stock radio just to be sure.
Thanks, but I'm trying to understand what any of that would do to fix the camera over what I've already tried.
I guess I'm looking for anyone that actually had a similar problem and either fixed it or failed to fix it.
Thanks.
Well for once the stock rom uses HTCcamera.apk to open the cam. Since you are using CM7 its a completely different apk.
Radio is somethign that is responsible for almost every device on your phone. Then the drivers that are in the Kernel, and then the ROM which has the apk, that uses the driver from the kernel to start the camera that is defined in the radio.
Well, nothing worked. Unrooted and back to stock (camera still doesn't work). Replacement phone is on it's way.
I had a perfectly working Galaxy Nexus running CM10.x, which I updated to a CM11 nightly. This worked great for a week or so and then the camera and gallery started FCing. After several resets, restores, newer/older nightly installs, nothing changed. Tried all possible combinations of new/old Gapps, but still no luck. I tried different ROMs - PA, stock 4.3 and some others, but nope. I even tried Ubuntu Touch and even that couldn't access the camera. This is when I was pretty convinced that the camera module itself must have died.
My questions:
What killed the camera? Is it possible that a bad ROM could have done it?
Is it possible to fix this via software?
I can try and get it repaired locally, but I just want to know if anything can be done at home.
Thanks.
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I had a perfectly working Galaxy Nexus running CM10.x, which I updated to a CM11 nightly. This worked great for a week or so and then the camera and gallery started FCing. After several resets, restores, newer/older nightly installs, nothing changed. Tried all possible combinations of new/old Gapps, but still no luck. I tried different ROMs - PA, stock 4.3 and some others, but nope. I even tried Ubuntu Touch and even that couldn't access the camera. This is when I was pretty convinced that the camera module itself must have died.
My questions:
1) What killed the camera? Is it possible that a bad ROM could have done it?
2) Is it possible to fix this via software? I can try and get it repaired locally, but I just want to know if anything can be done at home.
Thanks.
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A ROM wouldnt just kill the camera over time. It would have not worked right after the ROM was installed. So I doubt it was a ROM. I would do a full reset. Not just a normal factory reset but flash the factory image and see if it fixes it. If it doesn't then most likely it's a hardware issue.
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A ROM wouldnt just kill the camera over time. It would have not worked right after the ROM was installed. So I doubt it was a ROM. I would do a full reset. Not just a normal factory reset but flash the factory image and see if it fixes it. If it doesn't then most likely it's a hardware issue.
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I've used the phone for over a year without any issues with several kernels and ROMs before and the camera worked just fine.
Yes, I've done a complete clean up - I wiped the whole phone and memory (using the fastboot -w option) and installed different ROMs and even a different OS (Ubuntu Touch), but the camera issue persists.
I believe it's hardware issue, but I just wanted to know if anyone's faced a similar problem.
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I've used the phone for over a year without any issues with several kernels and ROMs before and the camera worked just fine.
Yes, I've done a complete clean up - I wiped the whole phone and memory (using the fastboot -w option) and installed different ROMs and even a different OS (Ubuntu Touch), but the camera issue persists.
I believe it's hardware issue, but I just wanted to know if anyone's faced a similar problem.
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So you went through this process?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/how-to-return-to-stock-galaxy-nexus-t1626895
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So you went through this process?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/general/how-to-return-to-stock-galaxy-nexus-t1626895
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Yup. I believe that's the exact post I referred to when I did it.
It even lost root during this process (of course) and I had to do it again - something I hadn't done in almost two years.
Since it was a spare phone, there wasn't any useful data on it. I backed up a few pictures and completely wiped it clean. No luck.
I'll add that the issue is only with the camera. Some apps FC, some apps (such as Camera+) give a message saying it was unable to connect to the camera or something. I believe the Gallery also FCs because it uses the camera at some point. All other apps work perfectly fine.
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Yup. I believe that's the exact post I referred to when I did it.
It even lost root during this process (of course) and I had to do it again - something I hadn't done in almost two years.
Since it was a spare phone, there wasn't any useful data on it. I backed up a few pictures and completely wiped it clean. No luck.
I'll add that the issue is only with the camera. Some apps FC, some apps (such as Camera+) give a message saying it was unable to connect to the camera or something. I believe the Gallery also FCs because it uses the camera at some point. All other apps work perfectly fine.
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Usually if the phone has any issues at all, that process fixes them. And if it doesn't, then there is usually something wrong with the hardware. I wouldn't think the problem was brought on by installing a ROM or kernel though.
I think it's related to the kernel that you're using
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i think yes but if you change the rom it will work
some roms the camera has some bugs big bugs colors are broken and stuff