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.
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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.
My camera for my Galaxy Nexus has been broke for the last several weeks.
When opened, a black screen opens before shortly thereafter giving the message "gallery is unresponsive" and force closes.
I restored to AOKP build 3, updated the ROM to build 4 and flashed that (after corresponding factory reset, wipe data/cache/dalvik).
Now the camera opens, shows the "take picture" etc buttons but still has a black screen and force closes.
I assume while flashing different ROMs I had restored using Titanium backup a system setting/app that caused this problem.
I understand this question has been asked, but I have to find a solution to my problem (I have done battery pull etc.)
Any help will be appreciated.
I should mention that I have had a couple messages over the previous couple weeks where it says "SIM card invalid" and phone restarts.
I have not had this message is several days.
have you tried a different ROM?
use RootBox 4.2.2
ive been using it no problems and amazing battery life, not to mention the smoothness and pure awesomeness of the ROM
Jack Jake said:
have you tried a different ROM?
use RootBox 4.2.2
ive been using it no problems and amazing battery life, not to mention the smoothness and pure awesomeness of the ROM
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Yes. Originally this problem happened shortly after flashing codename. With this ROM, a black screen would show and then "gallery is unresponsive."
I reverted to AOKP and flashed updated version. Now camera app opens, shows the take picture etc. buttons on bottom but where the actual picture should be stays black and gallery goes unresponsive.
Have also tried deleting camera apk and re-flashing a downloading camera zip file. Same problem.
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Yes. Originally this problem happened shortly after flashing codename. With this ROM, a black screen would show and then "gallery is unresponsive."
I reverted to AOKP and flashed updated version. Now camera app opens, shows the take picture etc. buttons on bottom but where the actual picture should be stays black and gallery goes unresponsive.
Have also tried deleting camera apk and re-flashing a downloading camera zip file. Same problem.
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have you tried clearing data and cache for the gallery app? try that
Jack Jake said:
have you tried clearing data and cache for the gallery app? try that
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Cleared data and cache for the app. Same issue.
Very frustrating issue.
Fast boot flash back to stock. If camera is still acting up then its more than likely hardware issues
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do you get any messages after boy saying something like: com.xxx.xxx has unexpectedly stopped. this has happened to me to. you have to format your sd card. try that
remember to backup all your important file from the sd card to your computer EXCEPT the DCIM (where a'll your pictures and stuff are. anything related to the gallery don't backup)
Why not try a complete wipe.
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot erase system
In that order
then fastboot back to stock as mentioned by namtombout.
If that doesn't work it is indeed a hardware issue.
Jack Jake said:
do you get any messages after boy saying something like: com.xxx.xxx has unexpectedly stopped. this has happened to me to. you have to format your sd card. try that
remember to backup all your important file from the sd card to your computer EXCEPT the DCIM (where a'll your pictures and stuff are. anything related to the gallery don't backup)
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I don't think I've got any of these messages..
I will attempt the complete wipe per instructions in this thread (simply working up to the time that I actually will go through with it). I'm thinking I must have restored some system settings/camera settings from titanium backup during one of my recent ROM changes.
My battery life has been awfully poor lately as well....wondering if the restore of some system setting screwed with that as well...
Hopefully the complete wipe will get things back in order.
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I don't think I've got any of these messages..
I will attempt the complete wipe per instructions in this thread (simply working up to the time that I actually will go through with it). I'm thinking I must have restored some system settings/camera settings from titanium backup during one of my recent ROM changes.
Hopefully the complete wipe will get things back in order.
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after you complete the wipe, DO NOT use titanium backup to restore your apps (even user apps). try fresh ones from the play store and see if that helps. if not im afraid you will have to go back to stock and then root again, flash a new ROM again, and then download your apps from the play store.
this problem has happened to me with my old phone (Samsung Captivate) but the formatting of the SD card fixed that for a while, when it started again i did the steps above and the phone worked better than ever.
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...
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
jubin0 said:
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
While cleaning junk files on my Sprint Gnex root 4.3 stock Build JWR67B.L700GJ04, I accidently deleted a file called gallery.3d, or something like that. Shortly after whenever i tried to take a picture with Instagram, or anyother camera app even the stock camera app, it would crash and say the the gallery has closed. I can still view all of my pictures perfectly fine in the stock gallery app, but i am unable to take any pictures due to the app craching everytime i attempt to open it to take a picture. I've tried clearing the cache and data from the gallery app and rebooting but that does not work. the first time i simply rebooted it seemed to fix the error but it was only temporary. If someone could please help me with this problem it would be greatly appreciated.
Try clear cache and dalvik in recovery if you have one
SeaBass2013 said:
While cleaning junk files on my Sprint Gnex root 4.3 stock Build JWR67B.L700GJ04, I accidently deleted a file called gallery.3d, or something like that. Shortly after whenever i tried to take a picture with Instagram, or anyother camera app even the stock camera app, it would crash and say the the gallery has closed. I can still view all of my pictures perfectly fine in the stock gallery app, but i am unable to take any pictures due to the app craching everytime i attempt to open it to take a picture. I've tried clearing the cache and data from the gallery app and rebooting but that does not work. the first time i simply rebooted it seemed to fix the error but it was only temporary. If someone could please help me with this problem it would be greatly appreciated.
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reinstall your camera + gallery. apk..
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reinstall your camera + gallery. apk..
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I reinstalled the app by reflashing my GApps. After reboot i opened the camera app, and it seemed to work at first but then it never fully opened the camera to where I could see an image, froze and closed and gave me the same message "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped". Not sure what to do from here.
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Try clear cache and dalvik in recovery if you have one
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Will i lose or wipe any personal data in doing this?
SeaBass2013 said:
I reinstalled the app by reflashing my GApps. After reboot i opened the camera app, and it seemed to work at first but then it never fully opened the camera to where I could see an image, froze and closed and gave me the same message "Unfortunately, Gallery has stopped". Not sure what to do from here.
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maybe that camera + gallery. apk not compatible wt rom. try others or update.
wipe data partition not erase any data in internal storage. so, your internal data saved. the apk's setup gone. good to try
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Will i lose or wipe any personal data in doing this?
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No, would won't