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[Q]Camera restart phone

Hi. Mine phone was on Android 2.2. I'll put official (s**t) update and sometimes when I'm takig picture camera is suspending and restart the phone.
I put custom rom RCMixS_v2.0_A2SD_CM7Hboot and sometimes camera do it again.
Any solution's?

Radio is up-to-date?
SwiftKeyed from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App

Latest 32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.23 And nowrecording in 720p is good, but playing very bad

Try another video player.
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Re. camera restarting phone - it's been reported that when on autobrightness, the camera will reboot the phone sometimes. Using an alternative camera app (like Camera 360 for instance), or not using autobrightness for the display, will help.
I also had this problem, and since switching camera apps it hasn't happened.

Changing that and now work fine. Thx @rafithegreat .
And Video Recoring in 720p now is very bad. Even if I play in MoboPlayer it's not so smooth.
Now recordingin norma.
One more question: how to turn on Time Stamp when I'm taking photo?

dawpuc said:
Changing that and now work fine. Thx @rafithegreat .
And Video Recoring in 720p now is very bad. Even if I play in MoboPlayer it's not so smooth.
Now recordingin norma.
One more question: how to turn on Time Stamp when I'm taking photo?
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dawpuc, I've your same problem.
I've tried to change some radios and rils, but the problem remains.
I don't want to use an alternative camera app, because I like the default app.
I also would like to continue to use the autobrightness utility, because I need it.
Can anyone help me?
P.S.: do you know how can I add the timestamp to my photos directly on the photo in one of the corners?

Why would anyone want time stamps?
On a digital camera, it is the very first thing I turn off.

Bouncer5 said:
Why would anyone want time stamps?
On a digital camera, it is the very first thing I turn off.
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And this answer is senseless for solving the thread opener's problem.

Yeap. Yesterday problemwas solve (turn auto brightnes off). Today problem come again.
Writing too HTC. And waiting
@Bouncer5 that's your problem m8. I like Time Stamp (I print even that pictures from HTC DESIRE)

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Why would anyone want time stamps?
On a digital camera, it is the very first thing I turn off.
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Because, if I print a photo, I want remember in the future when I have made that photo without seeing that on my pc

So any solution?

...Up.....?

Hi, I have the same problem using Insertcoin CM7 V1.1.2 . The problem has gotten worse since Insertcoin 1.1.1. Back then only the camera would crash.
Since updating to Insertcoin 1.1.2 the camera freezes the whole phone. I have to take the battery out to reboot manually.
I've used a card gparted with ext3 and ext4 both.
At one point the camera kept working but images were not saved properly. Windows then detected problems with the card and some images were placed in the found folder during the check.
The crashes also happen with the separate Sense 3 camera zip linked on Insertcoin's blog. To be honest that one does not look different from the bundled camera and I have the idea that the problems started with the Sense 3 camera.
Hope this makes more people aware of the issue and perhaps attracts the attention of a dev.

Rom with a camera fix?

Are there any roms that fixed the issue with our camera where the white balance is based off the center of the photo, instead of white balancing where I choose to focus the picture?
Sent from SCH-R760

leoilios said:
Are there any roms that fixed the issue with our camera where the white balance is based off the center of the photo, instead of white balancing where I choose to focus the picture?
Sent from SCH-R760
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Does it help if you choose spot metering instead of the default center weighed? I find that I'm taking much better pictures now. I just wish I could keep it as default instead of having to change it each time. I don't know it it will help your white balance issue.

This is what I'm saying. I set the metering on the corner of the picture for example, but the white balance is always based on the center of the photo. This was not the case on other phones I've tried and I noticed it instantly when I got the s3.
Sent from SCH-R760

What build and/or rom are you currently on?
If youre on an early build like UVALEM or UVALG1, try updating to UVALH2. Or maybe try one of the jb leaks.
Another thing you might be able to do is update your camera firmware.
Open dialer and enter this:
*#34971539#
It should automatically open the Camera Std menu.
Press cam version check and it will pop up a toast with the cameras and phones fw versions. If they are different you can choose phone to cam fw write (rear). This will write the updated fw from your phone to the rear facing camera. If you are able to update you should notice some new effects and possibly other changes. Hopefully it will also solve your issue.
As with anything, do this at your own risk! It worked perfectly for me and others, and should be safe for you as well, but naturally things can go wrong.
I would reboot first btw. Just to clear everything out.
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I always end up manually changing the white balance. For example, I've always noticed that pictures with flash have a blue hue to them. I always choose sunny under white balance if using flash to get an accurate color.

Old topic but non-solved issue...
I have reset the original Samsung firmware using odin with pit and low-level etc... no avail... the spot meter remained broken for me.
The cam firmware for my cam is ZDFF03 while the phone rom announces ZDFI02 with a greyed out Phone to cam FW write (so I guess the ZDFF03 is newer?).
I really want this fixed... I feel very annoyed my SGS3 misses this functionality because of a bug.
When using camera360 it even announces the metering adjustment is not supported by my phone for both ISO and Metering... so odd really.

Camera issues-Green photo in night!!!

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Few days ago when i want to take a photo(it was night outside) all my photos was green...i change the settings and nothing.After this i tryed few third party camera apps and the photos again was green.Today i full wiped the phone and try another rom and the problem persist.
I wan't to mention that the first rom was ICJ 2.4 and the second is RD MIUI JB.You have any idea what is the problem?I don't know i must do or try to see what it's happends.
I attached a photo to see what is about...

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Few days ago when i want to take a photo(it was night outside) all my photos was green...i change the settings and nothing.After this i tryed few third party camera apps and the photos again was green.Today i full wiped the phone and try another rom and the problem persist.
I wan't to mention that the first rom was ICJ 2.4 and the second is RD MIUI JB.You have any idea what is the problem?I don't know i must do or try to see what it's happends.
I attached a photo to see what is about...
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Hey,
Tried to go back to Stock Rom? Maybe there is a Bug.
Or your camera is defective.. but i don't think so.
Greetz, SoLdieR9312

This might be a silly question but were these pictures taken with your One X wearing a GREEN jelly/tpu case?

This happens on AOSP roms sometimes. I personally faced this problem too. Its one of the reason I hate AOSP roms. Camera is very very bad. Go back to stock and you will find there won't be green light issue.

ilamaan said:
This happens on AOSP roms sometimes. I personally faced this problem too. Its one of the reason I hate AOSP roms. Camera is very very bad. Go back to stock and you will find there won't be green light issue.
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It happens with aosp stock camera. Other apps work well
Sent from my HTC One X

I tryed different apps like camera zoom of camera 360 and are the same green photos. Tomorrow I will return to stock hope to solve the problem. Thanks for your ideas.
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6jaipur6 said:
I tryed different apps like camera zoom of camera 360 and are the same green photos. Tomorrow I will return to stock hope to solve the problem. Thanks for your ideas.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app
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Change colour balance, see if that helps

Change that settings too tonight after many shoots in a raw photos was better and better that make me think that isn't a hardware problem.
I attach another photo now is yellow...but I think is better, but I want to say that without flash they aren't green or yellow they are normal.
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My one x does that too. There was some thread with a 'fix' for it. Search one x general. Post it here once you find it.

See if this helps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1776936&highlight=camera+green

I will try thx for your help.

Problem with Gallery - Grey Pictures

Hi all,
I have a problem I hope the great minds here can help me with.
I'm using Slimbean 6.2. I have taken two pictures recently with ordinary camera.
Trouble is, the pics appear grey in the Gallery.
Interestingly, the thumbnails show the image clearly as expected.
I think it may be because the camera wasn't focused, the first pic was of my daughter on a fairground ride and the second was of a train (don't ask).
Is there anything I can do to make them appear correctly?

Examples attached.
You can see the thumbnails clearly, when I tap into the second photo down on the left, I get a grey pic.
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Have you tried to transfer them to your pc or laptop ?
Bam Bam Bam

nogotaclue said:
Have you tried to transfer them to your pc or laptop ?
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I'll try that, but in Dropbox on my laptop they are appearing as grey as well..

I've just flashed build 6 and then 6.9 weekly and camera is working in both. I took a number of shots on both builds and purposefully made sure some were out of focus, no problems at all. Best option is probably just to flash the rom again, try the weekly it seems really stable and the camera is definitely working(as it appears to be in build 6).or You could try to push the camera apk first
Bam Bam Bam

It's odd, it's only happened on a couple of pics, others have come out fine.
Looking at the details, width height and orientation are the same as for other pics (which did work).
Exposure time is 1/2000 and ISO = 100
Size is 43.33kb vs others which are approx 1.5mb
I'll probably never know...

it happened to 2 or 3 month ago but I can't for the life of me remember which rom it was or how i resolved it, hopefully it will be ok now

No fixes available for that ATM!
Change to 6 MP and the camera won't take gray photos... That's the only temp. fix AFAIK!

Delete please

vin4yak said:
Change to 6 MP and the camera won't take gray photos... That's the only temp. fix AFAIK!
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Thanks vin4yak, I'll try that and hope it doesn't happen again

Happened to me a while ago on viperx rom completely out of the blue. I thought it might be camera settings (even though I changed nothing at the time) but i reset them and it continued intermittently. Only for one evening, and it's never happened again. I hadn't changed anything else either, it just started with the grey pic rubbish, and then for no apparent reason it stopped! And never did it again.. I know what I've said doesn't exactly help a lot , just wanted to say that the 6mp fix might not be necessary.. Must be something else that caused it
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Display problem plzz gys help

I have been noticing horizontal lines flickering
when viewing a mostly white screen while on full
brightness at bit closer to my face no flickering is visible at other colors is this a sign my note 3 neo a 3 weeks old has a display complaint or this is a generic thing all of you have ...plz check ur phones and replay me ..Am really sad as this is new phone:crying:

Gintu said:
I have been noticing horizontal lines flickering
when viewing a mostly white screen while on full
brightness at bit closer to my face no flickering is visible at other colors is this a sign my note 3 neo a 3 weeks old has a display complaint or this is a generic thing all of you have ...plz check ur phones and replay me ..Am really sad as this is new phone:crying:
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i see something more like a flashing while on really low brightness at a dark room

Gintu said:
I have been noticing horizontal lines flickering
when viewing a mostly white screen while on full
brightness at bit closer to my face no flickering is visible at other colors is this a sign my note 3 neo a 3 weeks old has a display complaint or this is a generic thing all of you have ...plz check ur phones and replay me ..Am really sad as this is new phone:crying:
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Only problem with N3 Neo display I know of is flickering while typing which was later fixed with an update.

this is like when looking at white image closer to eyes I can see some flickering and am really shocked.

Gintu said:
this is like when looking at white image closer to eyes I can see some flickering and am really shocked.
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I don't have this issue, better get it checked!

Guys I observed this closely and I found that this flickering occouring oly some times and it's clearly visible only in apps when I set a white wallpaper on homescreen can't see any flickering but at same time its there in browser gallery etc and when I touch screen it disapperas and reoccur when I didn't touch display but this flickering is present only for some time not continuous. I think it's not display problem but software glitch which all of u have and u guys might not noticed it

Gintu said:
Guys I observed this closely and I found that this flickering occouring oly some times and it's clearly visible only in apps when I set a white wallpaper on homescreen can't see any flickering but at same time its there in browser gallery etc and when I touch screen it disapperas and reoccur when I didn't touch display but this flickering is present only for some time not continuous. I think it's not display problem but software glitch which all of u have and u guys might not noticed it
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I'm pretty sure I don't have this issue

peRFect! said:
I'm pretty sure I don't have this issue
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ok am taking it to customer care

I'm having this problem too please tell me what happened after you bring it to home.
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Hi I got the solution I think its the mura effect of the amoled check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2108073
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kaushal.k said:
Hi I got the solution I think its the mura effect of the amoled check this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2108073
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I took it to customer care yesterday and it was funny that the guy there showed me his note 3 which also have same flickering and they said that it's normal with amoled due to voltage variation at low brightness levels.So I left customer care without replacing display:victory:
Actually I don't want them to teardown my new phone so I thought of changing display after some time if it get more worse

Get the latest 4.3 update. Screen flicker problem was solved with the UANF2 rom
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fylim said:
Get the latest 4.3 update. Screen flicker problem was solved with the UANF2 rom
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am using latest 4.3 update I think it's problem with Indian INU firmware will be solved by 4.4 soon guess

I did a factory reset yesterday and kept brigtness above half till now I didnt have ny flickering.
I found this on web
There seems to be a
problem where the phone has problems
deciding if the software or hardware(CPU
vs. GPU) is what should be drawing the
screen… So this indecision causes it to
switch back and forth, redraw, etc….
Over at XDA there are lots of post relating
to this problem. Below is a temporary
solution to the problem
Here are the instructions!!
Temp Fix: (until they find/fix the problem)
1. Go to settings > about phone
2. Click “build number” 6 times fast
3. You’ll see “you’re now a developer” as
a notification at the bottom.
4. Go back to settings, you’ll now see
developer options above ‘about phone’.
5. Go in developer options, and click
“disable hardware overlays” under the
drawing section
This will fix the flickering!! The problem is
with android 4.2.x, the OS gets confused
and can’t decide if the CPU or the GPU
should be drawing the screen, so it flickers
do to it switching between the CPU and
GPU real fast…
Hope this helps anyone out there
experiencing this problem, and spread the
word to anyone else you know to make it
known! Loads of people are re flashing,
returning to stock, even returning their
phones because of this bug! So spread the
word to prevent others from making this
mistake.

Gintu said:
I did a factory reset yesterday and kept brigtness above half till now I didnt have ny flickering.
I found this on web
There seems to be a
problem where the phone has problems
deciding if the software or hardware(CPU
vs. GPU) is what should be drawing the
screen… So this indecision causes it to
switch back and forth, redraw, etc….
Over at XDA there are lots of post relating
to this problem. Below is a temporary
solution to the problem
Here are the instructions!!
Temp Fix: (until they find/fix the problem)
1. Go to settings > about phone
2. Click “build number” 6 times fast
3. You’ll see “you’re now a developer” as
a notification at the bottom.
4. Go back to settings, you’ll now see
developer options above ‘about phone’.
5. Go in developer options, and click
“disable hardware overlays” under the
drawing section
This will fix the flickering!! The problem is
with android 4.2.x, the OS gets confused
and can’t decide if the CPU or the GPU
should be drawing the screen, so it flickers
do to it switching between the CPU and
GPU real fast…
Hope this helps anyone out there
experiencing this problem, and spread the
word to anyone else you know to make it
known! Loads of people are re flashing,
returning to stock, even returning their
phones because of this bug! So spread the
word to prevent others from making this
mistake.
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i don't think it is software related but i will give it a try though it does not bothers me much