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.
Brad92 said:
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...
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Hey guys. i've been experiencing this problem for all the roms. the only way i can use the camera is by rebooting the damn phone . It's very annoyingand i hope somebody cpuld actually hep me fix this problem. thanks
Check whether you have another camera application other than camera running.
Like camera 360 running in background while you try to open stock's camera. It will cause camera error.
Try uninstalling another application which uses camera as its's main feature
willypt said:
Check whether you have another camera application other than camera running.
Like camera 360 running in background while you try to open stock's camera. It will cause camera error.
Try uninstalling another application which uses camera as its's main feature
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I have no camera application except for facebook and instagram.
lpcrazerocks said:
I have no camera application except for facebook and instagram.
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Try uninstalling Instagram...
Does the camera error fixed after uninstalling instagram?
Can you give us the chronology on how the camera not working?
Like, the steps to recreate the problem.
Lastly, if the camera still "playing" with you, I suggest you bring it to the nearest Samsung Service Point as you might have faulty camera
willypt said:
Try uninstalling Instagram...
Does the camera error fixed after uninstalling instagram?
Can you give us the chronology on how the camera not working?
Like, the steps to recreate the problem.
Lastly, if the camera still "playing" with you, I suggest you bring it to the nearest Samsung Service Point as you might have faulty camera
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Okay thanks will let you know in a bit.
How this problem occurs is when i use the camera and i exit the camera application and then i i'll leave my phone idle for a few hours. next thing i know is this happens
thanks. will see if it still happens
Woah :eek
that's totally random then...
Do you have task killer app such as 2B Orange?
You might want to install it, open your camera... use it for a while...
go to 2B orange, kill the camera process...
leave it for few hours and try to restart it...
willypt said:
Woah :eek
that's totally random then...
Do you have task killer app such as 2B Orange?
You might want to install it, open your camera... use it for a while...
go to 2B orange, kill the camera process...
leave it for few hours and try to restart it...
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I can't seem to find that app anywhere. could you link me??
I think your phone can't use certain kernels especially cow's kernel, when you said you left the phone idle for a few hours and can't use the camera is same as my phone, only thing is after a few hours idle I experience force close for some apps when I open it and wifi error as well. only happens if I don't touch the phone for like an hour or more.
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I think your phone can't use certain kernels especially cow's kernel, when you said you left the phone idle for a few hours and can't use the camera is same as my phone, only thing is after a few hours idle I experience force close for some apps when I open it and wifi error as well. only happens if I don't touch the phone for like an hour or more.
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Hi. yeah i do experience what you experience. but i also have camera failed problems on stock roms too! That's what made me so curious. my stock rom doesnt have force close problems. now i am using hybrid rom and so far i'm not having the prob for 4 hrs alrdy. will be monitoring continuously
Hey there, I hope this isn't a recurring thread but I'm having a lot of trouble with this. The stock camera works fine as far as I see, but anything else, the front facing camera WILL crash the phone and make it reboot. I'm running CM10.2 now and I'm on the latest nightly. I don't really expect this ROM to be perfectly stable or anything but it worries me that I might be one of few that have this issue and it will never be fixed. Any clues? Is this something that is happening to everyone? Is there something I can do? Thanks!
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JJ Says Nay said:
Hey there, I hope this isn't a recurring thread but I'm having a lot of trouble with this. The stock camera works fine as far as I see, but anything else, the front facing camera WILL crash the phone and make it reboot. I'm running CM10.2 now and I'm on the latest nightly. I don't really expect this ROM to be perfectly stable or anything but it worries me that I might be one of few that have this issue and it will never be fixed. Any clues? Is this something that is happening to everyone? Is there something I can do? Thanks!
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This is happening to me too. I am running Bam Rom or Jellybam the latest release. The back camera works fine but when I take a picture with the front facing camera, the phone freezes makes a loud constant beep noise for like ten seconds then crashes forcing the phone to reboot. Sometimes it won't even let me access the camera and it says something like "Can't connect to camera" Please help!
When I turn on the camera I get the msg 'camera failed'. I don't know if it's a hardware or a software defect.
My device is not rooted
I have known certain apps to lock your camera for use with them, ive then tried starting camera and its said the same, maybe it could be that?
james_lpool said:
I have known certain apps to lock your camera for use with them, ive then tried starting camera and its said the same, maybe it could be that?
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Thanks James
I dont have any camera apps installed. Nor any funny apps that I may suspect be using camera. Any guesses?
its the go launcher
press the home key to go to touchwiz, and the camera app begins to work again
cant figure out why, though
I have started with the stock ROM, and used cm13, and even updated to the newest fully stock ROM 3.2.4 and to no avail.
The camera app either force closes or nothing shows up on screen. Every once in awhile the front camera will work, but I'll click the icon to switch to the rear camera and no effect, it just stays on fron t camera.
I've tried many third-party apps, I've tried cm camera fix, everything I can think. Clearing data and coach for the app the whole shabang.
Now I'm ordering a brand new camera module and I will see what happens. But any help and any information will be much appreciated thanks
Was it working when you bought it...what did you do to it before it broke?
it definitely seems like a hardware issue, had it been a software issue a custom rom or 3rd party camera might have resolved it and since you have tried many roms and reverted back to stock too so it doesnt look like a software issue.
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Was it working when you bought it...what did you do to it before it broke?
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Funny you should ask, because I honestly don't know when it actually started but I do remember wiping userdata so I could unencrypt my phone and thereafter was when I noticed it no longer worked. Don't know if those 2 things correlate because I flashed back to stock (which is encrypted) and still no luck
Did you solve the camera problem ???
Hello,
so for the past few weeks my camera hasn't been working and I finally decided to ask you guys for help.
It all started when I wanted to try RR but it kept asking for 21C modem so I quickly downloaded one and flashed it. So I checked what I needed and restored Fulmics from the nandroid backup I made, but the camera app stared to just crash and since then I pretty much don't have camera.
What I've tried till now:
Restoring to stock
Flashing Fulmics again
Replacing the camera
Still can't resolve this issue...
By restoring to stock, do you mean flashing a TOT or KDZ file?
If you have done that and still not working you have something broken in your hardware.
Is the front camera working?
I guess you have already tried a different camera app.
Brgds
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By restoring to stock, do you mean flashing a TOT or KDZ file?
If you have done that and still not working you have something broken in your hardware.
Is the front camera working?
I guess you have already tried a different camera app.
Brgds
Sent from my phone
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Sorry for the late reply. I used the kdz file. The front camera is working. The thing is that yesterday the camera worked for a few minutes just fine. It's strange.
Fr33aKk said:
Sorry for the late reply. I used the kdz file. The front camera is working. The thing is that yesterday the camera worked for a few minutes just fine. It's strange.
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Ummm... sounds strange... maybe your camera is partly broken, did you drop your phone or something before this problem? If so, the camera could have a bad connection to the motherboard or is about to die.
Saratoga79 said:
Ummm... sounds strange... maybe your camera is partly broken, did you drop your phone or something before this problem? If so, the camera could have a bad connection to the motherboard or is about to die.
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I know right? I've never dropped it. I replaced the camera so I wonder if it can somehow be a software problem...
Just wanted to bump this as I STILL have this problem...
Same issue here, was running fulmics for several months with no issue, then suddenly and out of nowhere my camera app started to fail. At first the front camera looked stretched and weird and some app buttons dissapeared such as flash, but I could still choose front or rear camera and both worked fine. Then it got worse and the button to switch cameras dissapeared completely. I tried re flashing fulmics, tried xenon rom, tried back to stock... nothing so far. I tried booting in safe mode and the camera app gives me the option to choose rear camera but when I press it the app crashes.
I hope someone can find a fix for this!
nemor44 said:
Same issue here, was running fulmics for several months with no issue, then suddenly and out of nowhere my camera app started to fail. At first the front camera looked stretched and weird and some app buttons dissapeared such as flash, but I could still choose front or rear camera and both worked fine. Then it got worse and the button to switch cameras dissapeared completely. I tried re flashing fulmics, tried xenon rom, tried back to stock... nothing so far. I tried booting in safe mode and the camera app gives me the option to choose rear camera but when I press it the app crashes.
I hope someone can find a fix for this!
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No software update inbetween? Sounds like a hardware issue, try cleaning your connections and reattaching the Camera tightly.
The camera module is extremely close to the problematic overheating chip in the G3, so it's not impossible something got messed up.
I have Exactly the same problem.. Pleaaase someone give us a solution.. Fulmics ruined our phones
I have that same problem. Resolved?
There were fulmics rum. I decided to replace it with RR rom. The rear camera did not work, the flash did not work.
I installed a different kernel but it was not resolved.
Help plsss