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Camera stopped working

The camera has stopped working randomly. The only thing I could think of that might of caused it would be the phone some how shut down when it was in my pocket. When I start up the camera app it immediately closes. When I attempt to use Google goggles, it says cannot connect to camera. What can I do?

First off you can give us some more details as to what software you are running. Are you on a stock Sprint ROM? A custom ROM? Did you install any software and then notice this change? Does this happen 100% of the time?

I'm running the stock 2.2 rooted odexed rom. Stock kernel. And haven't installed any new software to cause this...

I've cleared cache, dalvik cache, camera app's cache and it still doesn't work...

No one has any idea? Has this ever happened to anyone else?

It happens to me on both ava stock 2.2 and now netarchys 2.2... I have to wipe everything to get it back for a few hours... it just did it to me again do you have netarchys fps fix?
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This is the craziest thing ever. The camera has returned to working after 10 hours of not working. I didn't do anything to get it to return. I will be continuing to monitor the camera to see if it happens again... This is the first time it has ever happen and the first time I've been on a 2.2 Rom for a significant amount of time.

This just barely happened to my phone too! Grrrr!!!
I'm running Fresh.02 + I tried flashing several kernels to see if it would fix it but none of them helped.
kernels I tried, latest versions of: kingX, snap, netarchy
Will try to do a full wipe and flash the stock 2.2 rooted w/o any fancy mods. <--- ok this fixed it!

Does installing the 3D Gallery app cause the Sense camera app to randomly stop working?
I'm getting the same problem again on a different ROM.
UPDATE: I've uninstalled 3D Gallery & cleared data on the Camera app and it still doesn't work.

i am having this same problem. have flashed several roms with no fix. cannot pin point when this happened either. really frustrating. ive done reboots, wipe, you name it.

happened to me
blix1337 said:
No one has any idea? Has this ever happened to anyone else?
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Yes it happened to me, but i have HTC EVO 3D i used leedriod rom and it happend exactly i changed rom to ics and still didnt work know i will call htc and ask them how to get the official ics rom after that if camera wont work i will tell them that the camera was working before i made this update and they must fix it for free

Hi guys
Any luck with this problem? I'm using a rooted xperia neo running [email protected] #2 with an unlocked boot loader - I've used Google goggles many times before and then today its coming up with "Cannot connect to camera. You may need to restart your device" and yet the camera is working because behind this pop up I can see the image that the camera is seeing. I've tried to take a screen shot of this but the screen shot uses the camera and therefore I blanks out the image through the back lens.
I've also uninstalled the app and reinstalled it - cleared all Dalvik cache - as well as moved it to SD and made it a system app - none of these trials have made any difference.

hilfordjames said:
Hi guys
Any luck with this problem? I'm using a rooted xperia neo running [email protected] #2 with an unlocked boot loader - I've used Google goggles many times before and then today its coming up with "Cannot connect to camera. You may need to restart your device" and yet the camera is working because behind this pop up I can see the image that the camera is seeing. I've tried to take a screen shot of this but the screen shot uses the camera and therefore I blanks out the image through the back lens.
I've also uninstalled the app and reinstalled it - cleared all Dalvik cache - as well as moved it to SD and made it a system app - none of these trials have made any difference.
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Are you sure there are no problems or known bugs with the rom you are using? Have you tried reflashing your rom? (it might be a pain to do, but something in the rom might have broke and it can help to start fresh).

I never post here but I have had a problem with my phone's camera that I fix by some random thread I found a while ago so I thought I would share what helped me. The thread stated it is something to do with the camera's connection to the phone and sometimes with drops or bumps of the phone it becomes loose. All I had to do was turn the phone face down, put my thumb over the camera and press down with some force. Not enough to break it but just to reseat the connection. After that, restart the phone. I have done this a few times and it has been successful ever time. I hope you guys have the same success.
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hippy70 said:
I never post here but I have had a problem with my phone's camera that I fix by some random thread I found a while ago so I thought I would share what helped me. The thread stated it is something to do with the camera's connection to the phone and sometimes with drops or bumps of the phone it becomes loose. All I had to do was turn the phone face down, put my thumb over the camera and press down with some force. Not enough to break it but just to reseat the connection. After that, restart the phone. I have done this a few times and it has been successful ever time. I hope you guys have the same success.
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That is correct, in some cases i have found the camera has come unseated. but it could also be the board.

Camera not starting?

in the past two days my phone has failed to start my camera twice. I opened instagram first and when I tried to take a photo it said "unable to start camera" in tried it again and it said the same thing. So I opened the actual camera and it just opened a black screen with the camera controls (shutter buttons, settings, etc)
No matter how many times I opened the camera or cleared the tasks using the camera it still refused to start. only after restarting the phone did the camera start again.
has anyone else experienced this or know any possible reasons as to why this could be happening???
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Try deleting the data of the camera app, if that doesn't work, try a different ROM, if it still happens, it's a hardware problem.

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Try deleting the data of the camera app, if that doesn't work, try a different ROM, if it still happens, it's a hardware problem.
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ill try that the next time it happens but at the moment I'm completely stock and just rooted.
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I actually had this happen a few times before I rooted or ROM'd. I have yet to have it happen on JellyBean and, if I did, I could just hot boot. The only thing that ever fixed the issue on stock was a restart.

Is it possible this is an issue similar to webcams and PC's where the permissions get messed up? Can you recreate it? Open app x then try to use the camera in app y and see if it's bonkers.

I have been trying everything in order to reproduce the problem, no luck as of yet unfortunately.
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Camera won't stick as Default?

Is anyone elss having this issue? When I access the camera via the lock screen widget, it asks me which camera to use. I always select the stock camera and select to always use it. It will work for a while, but then it starts asking again which camera to use. I am running WickedV5 w/Saber Kernel.
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Camera sometime not work

Sometimes the camera doesn't work, it says it "can't connect to device" or something like that. I don't know what's going on and I have to reboot to make it work. I'm on stock rom 4.3 and stock kernel, rooted. sorry for my bad english

You probably have been using an app that doesn't release the camera properly. Can you think of an app that you've recently installed that uses the camera?

Mine sometimes does this with Snapchat.

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Mine sometimes does this with Snapchat.
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Maybe snapshat doesn't release the camera properly every time. I remember a while back I was developing a camera app, and whenever the app crashed, the camera wasn't released, and the easiest fix was a reboot...

Camera broken

OK I dunno why but I can't upload pictures in Tapatalk anymore without getting a force close. So no screenshot. Anyways last couple weeks my camera has been broken at least when using Google camera. Have tried disabling security and trusted face, uninstalled updates and reinstalled Google camera, enabling all permissions I can, wiping cache, and today a factory reset yet the same problem, hit the icon, black screen and ui lag for 10 seconds then a window pops up that says "error can't connect to camera". What really make's no sense is I tried downloading open camera and it work's fine. Seems like it takes about 10 seconds to fire up but it work's fine. I'm running pure stock, no root, MRA58V. Anything else I could try? Thanks!
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Well go ahead and add reflash factory image to the list of things that didn't work... Sigh
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Well I figured it out. My front camera is busted. Open camera works fine with the rear but the front camera says it can't connect. Who ever heard of a front camera going bad
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