Hi, thanks for trying to help, please, anything would make me happy. I'm really desperate for a response.
I'm at the end of my rope. I don't know what else to do, I kind of really need the back camera on my phone and I can't afford to buy a new one.
I'm running an ATT GS3 with Liquid Smooth 4.2.2, correct GAPPS and everything. This incident happened under another ROM, Illusion.
My camera started to slow down and my viewfinder would drop to ~10 FPS when taking a picture. Thought it was weird, didn't think much of it. Couple days later, I can't access it at all. I'll try accessing it through different ways like different camera apps and Snapchat, but it either closes or shows a black screen. My front camera still works, however.
I cleared dalvik, wiped everything down, and rebooted. Nothing. When I open the camera, the functions boot up and I can swipe to show options for a split second, then it's black and I get the message "Unfortunatly, Gallery has stopped.". Then I flashed back to my first Stock Touchwiz backup. Same thing. I tried a different ROM, Liquid Smooth. Same deal.
Otherwise, I've tried clearing the cache, data, force closing, disabling of the gallery app. I've removed the SD card and tried deleting everything displayed in Gallery. Nada. Still get this error.
I've tried researching this and I haven't had any sucess. Please, PLEASE help me. I'm pulling my hair out at this, I don't know how else to beg over the internet. ANYTHING
Bosssauced said:
Hi, thanks for trying to help, please, anything would make me happy. I'm really desperate for a response.
I'm at the end of my rope. I don't know what else to do, I kind of really need the back camera on my phone and I can't afford to buy a new one.
I'm running an ATT GS3 with Liquid Smooth 4.2.2, correct GAPPS and everything. This incident happened under another ROM, Illusion.
My camera started to slow down and my viewfinder would drop to ~10 FPS when taking a picture. Thought it was weird, didn't think much of it. Couple days later, I can't access it at all. I'll try accessing it through different ways like different camera apps and Snapchat, but it either closes or shows a black screen. My front camera still works, however.
I cleared dalvik, wiped everything down, and rebooted. Nothing. When I open the camera, the functions boot up and I can swipe to show options for a split second, then it's black and I get the message "Unfortunatly, Gallery has stopped.". Then I flashed back to my first Stock Touchwiz backup. Same thing. I tried a different ROM, Liquid Smooth. Same deal.
Otherwise, I've tried clearing the cache, data, force closing, disabling of the gallery app. I've removed the SD card and tried deleting everything displayed in Gallery. Nada. Still get this error.
I've tried researching this and I haven't had any sucess. Please, PLEASE help me. I'm pulling my hair out at this, I don't know how else to beg over the internet. ANYTHING
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flash a new completely different stock rom not your back-up, wipe everything again before flashing, after you are done reboot and see if that helps
if it does not go back to samsung stock firmware (use odin) and remember to factory reset the phone before you do it
and am 99% sure that everything is fixed and everything goes back in-order when you go back to stock firmware.........hope that helps
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Hi, I recently updated from fresh 0.5.3 to damage control 3.2.3 including updating the radio and wiimax radio to the latest version. My camera nor camcorder app will work correctly now. When I click the icon it goes to a black screen and stays that way until I click the home icon to exit. I've tried flashing multiple roms to see if that was the issue, but it hasn't changed anything. Anyone have any ideas or tips? Thanks.
this has been happening to me lately too... can't get camera to launch!!! running RvU and all was well and camera worked fine... now suddenly camera shows icon briefly then goes back to home screen, or, when a few other apps are running goes black until pressing home button. trying to launch camera has locked phone up a few times too. Tried deleting apps (ATK, fring etc...) hard reset, remove battery, re-flashing ROM, re-flashing radio... nothing has worked and it hasn't come back even once. WTF? hardware issue?
everything else seems fine and I don't really want to take it in to Sprint just yet... but miss the cam!!!
edit: so after 10,000 reboots and battery/SD card pulls and 500 lock ups... three days of trying everything and getting really frustrated, my wife says 'did you smack it yet?' rather jokingly... and out of spite for sprint/htc I did give the phone a few thwacks on the backside and the frickin' camera fired up! strange lines/slow tapestry of colors... able to switch over to front camera and take a pic... after rebooting she works like a charm (!!!???)... so far so good...
still not working
Anyone have any advice? I seem to have tried nearly everything. Rebooted 10 times in a row, took my battery out for extended periods, reflashed several roms several times (damage control, bugless beast, etc), and fixed permissions in rom manager. The only 2 things I haven't tried yet which I guess are next on the list is flashing to a rooted version of the new ota rom and formatting my sd card. Any other suggestions people?
I ran into the same problem when I tried to use toast's uv-oc kernel on the latest Rom from Fresh.I reflashed the stock htc kernel and everything's back to normal now.
Hey all. Starting about two weeks ago, I was starting to get constant FC's on my Camera application and all apps that use the camera.
When I tried restoring back to a nightly where the camera had worked, it opened to the front facing camera and as soon as I tried to switch it to the back camera, it froze, then FC'd and refused to open.
I did a completely clean wipe and installed CM7 Final and I am still having the same issue.
I have tried:
1. Fixing permissions
2. Clearing the data for the Camera App through settings->applications and also through Titanium Backup
3. Deleting the Camera App through Titanium and reinstalling CM7 Final
4. Installing a new kernel (SZ)
5. Switching back to a Sense ROM (camera was still FC'ing)
6. Un-rooting my phone AND hard resetting the stock ROM
and NOTHING has worked. I NEED my camera, it's one of the main reasons why I love my phone so much!
I'm on HW004 which I suspect has something to do with this all.
I took this into the Sprint store the last time this happened and they told me that they "replaced the camera application" but I'm not sure if that's entirely accurate.
I would normally take this into the Sprint store again but it's very difficult for me to get there (I'm a college student without a car) so I'd prefer to find a way of fixing it without having to bring it in.
Anyone have any ideas???
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Hey all. Starting about two weeks ago, I was starting to get constant FC's on my Camera application and all apps that use the camera.
When I tried restoring back to a nightly where the camera had worked, it opened to the front facing camera and as soon as I tried to switch it to the back camera, it froze, then FC'd and refused to open.
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If you've wiped and flashed to a different rom, unrooted your phone and did a hard reset of the stock rom and THIS PROBLEM IS STILL PRESENT?.....Then I hate to tell you dude....you don't have a software problem! You need to find a way to the sprint store OR call customer service and go through the whole technical support crap and have them send you a replacement phone or something. It sounds to me like something messed up your camera to where it won't work any more.....maybe you dropped it or something...spilled O.J. on it or something.....Aliens messed around with your phone and are now laughing at you......SOMETHING WENT WRONG WITH YOUR CAMERA and it isn't anything involving software like the camera app!
Here's the info for HTC
http://www.htc.com/us/support/hotline
Here's the info for Sprint
http://www.sprint.com/contactus/
GOOD LUCK!!
Hey everyone,
So I recently took a friend's EVO 4G and I decided to help him root it. With that being said, I explained that the newer OSes don't have working FFC, and possible issues with Netflix. He was fine with that. However, I've noticed after I installed several ROMs varying from 4.0.3, 4.0.4 and 4.1.1... The camera doesn't work on any of them. It either hot reboots the phone after appearing black for a few seconds or one of the times it showed a blank white screen inside the Camera app. I've tried formatting the phone all different ways, 3x times(although I hear this is a myth, I followed suite). I even tried a couple format scripts. Anyway, I've tried fixing permissions, clearing caches and reinstalling ROMs with no luck. Any suggestions, please!
So it's actually a hardware issue, he neglected to tell me he dropped the phone once and it made the camera a little loose. I was able to press gently on the Camera lens and now it works just fine!
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Hey everyone,
So I recently took a friend's EVO 4G and I decided to help him root it. With that being said, I explained that the newer OSes don't have working FFC, and possible issues with Netflix. He was fine with that. However, I've noticed after I installed several ROMs varying from 4.0.3, 4.0.4 and 4.1.1... The camera doesn't work on any of them. It either hot reboots the phone after appearing black for a few seconds or one of the times it showed a blank white screen inside the Camera app. I've tried formatting the phone all different ways, 3x times(although I hear this is a myth, I followed suite). I even tried a couple format scripts. Anyway, I've tried fixing permissions, clearing caches and reinstalling ROMs with no luck. Any suggestions, please!
So it's actually a hardware issue, he neglected to tell me he dropped the phone once and it made the camera a little loose. I was able to press gently on the Camera lens and now it works just fine!
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I've had this exact same issue but I haven't dropped it/pushes on the camera doesn't help in any way. I'm starting to get quite frustrated as I've tried multiple rooms and factory resets amongst other things. Did you hear of any possible solutions to this?
*So after hearing that your camera was "loose" I tried pushing lightly and nothing. A couple hours later after more frustration I pushed with quite a bit of force and the camera appeared for a quick second then shut off again. I suppose this is a really good thing because now I know it is just the hardware. Is there any easy process for fixing the camera itself now?
So a couple of days ago, my Nexus was just fine. Smooth as butter..then i decided to charge it overnight as usual(the phone was not turned off). next day, i pick the device..everything is normal. Couple of hours later, out of NOWHERE, strange things begin to occur. Some apps coudn't load properly(the would open, but kept loading forever), none of my videos would play(they keep loading, won't start), even using different players, the camera would not load, black screen and nothing when i open the app..tried other camera apps as well, same thing happens with the gallery..
i mean, i don't recall doing anything different. My phone is rooted with CNA, never experienced anything like this before.
i already did wipe data/factory reset, wiped cache, etc. tried several other Roms as well..it remains the same.
it just boggles my mind what may be causing this "behavior", It was really out of nowhere.
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ok, so after further observation, the thing with the videos is that i can't play them using any kind of hardware decoding..they still play( choppy) with soft decoding
a hardware malfunction maybe?
unbeliavable..
Could be a bad battery.
davidstjohn1 said:
Could be a bad battery.
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Unfortunately i don't have an extra battery at hand
Last night tried the following:
1 - Factory reset/wipe data
2- Reflash the stock rom, relocked bootloader
Put the phone literally back to the way i got him, and STILL have the same issues!!!! It's just so weird, some apps are normal, others crash every single time, black screen on camera app, gallery opens but sometimes show pics, and others just keep loading and eventually crashes, can't play videos with HW decoding(manage to play fine twice but i have no idea how).
Again, it just happened out of nowhere! The thing is unusable at this point, just unbelievable!!!!
I'm willing to bet you it's definitely a bad battery
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So a couple of days ago, my Nexus was just fine. Smooth as butter..then i decided to charge it overnight as usual(the phone was not turned off). next day, i pick the device..everything is normal. Couple of hours later, out of NOWHERE, strange things begin to occur. Some apps coudn't load properly(the would open, but kept loading forever), none of my videos would play(they keep loading, won't start), even using different players, the camera would not load, black screen and nothing when i open the app..tried other camera apps as well, same thing happens with the gallery..
i mean, i don't recall doing anything different. My phone is rooted with CNA, never experienced anything like this before.
i already did wipe data/factory reset, wiped cache, etc. tried several other Roms as well..it remains the same.
it just boggles my mind what may be causing this "behavior", It was really out of nowhere.
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ok, so after further observation, the thing with the videos is that i can't play them using any kind of hardware decoding..they still play( choppy) with soft decoding
a hardware malfunction maybe?
unbeliavable..
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Definatly your battery, this happend to my nexus S.
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I'm willing to bet you it's definitely a bad battery
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Hi gang. So, the other day, I'm using Pro HDR on my front camera, and it was taking some pretty odd looking pictures. When I go back to the stock camera app, and click onto the front camera, it freezes. Restart tablet, same deal. Force stopped the camera app and cleared its data, same deal. I feel like this is a software thing caused by Pro HDR, and I'm wondering if a factory reset would solve this, but I've got too much crap set up for work to want to do that. Is there a way to reset, but back up all my logins and apps and all?
For reference, this is an absolutely pristine, unrooted, totally stock N7 FHD running KitKat.
Any ideas appreciated!
Even if nobody knows why the camera failed, can someone suggest a way I might backup my apps so I don't have to reconfigure everything when I try a factory reset? Preferably without rooting? I need to be careful about security with some of my data, so I prefer not to root.
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Even if nobody knows why the camera failed, can someone suggest a way I might backup my apps so I don't have to reconfigure everything when I try a factory reset? Preferably without rooting? I need to be careful about security with some of my data, so I prefer not to root.
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I believe any app backup apps require root. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
prshosting.org
Helium, maybe?
Thanks to you both for the replies. The good news is that this problem has cleared itself up. I found some similar issues discussed on another forum, and some people have cleared thus up by 1) force quitting the camera app, 2) clearing its data, 3) rebooting the tablet. I'd tried all those things, but not specifically in that order. For laughs, I tried it like that and the front camera is back.
Hopefully Google is working on this, because others have reported the exact same issue.