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
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Hi all, I've got my Arc for two weeks, it seems that sometimes the camera is not available when I launch the application. It always happen when the accelerometer doesn't work. It works fine again when I reboot the phone.
Anyone else got this issue? Do I have to repair via SEUS or there is another way around?
Thanks
rein_hiryu said:
Hi all, I've got my Arc for two weeks, it seems that sometimes the camera is not available when I launch the application. It always happen when the accelerometer doesn't work. It works fine again when I reboot the phone.
Anyone else got this issue? Do I have to repair via SEUS or there is another way around?
Thanks
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Nope, I used the camera many times and not even once I saw this issue. It's best to do a repair firmware to rule out that it's not a software issue. Once done and you are facing the problem, then it could be the hardware faulty and you need to bring the phone to service centre for repair.
prathaban said:
Nope, I used the camera many times and not even once I saw this issue. It's best to do a repair firmware to rule out that it's not a software issue. Once done and you are facing the problem, then it could be the hardware faulty and you need to bring the phone to service centre for repair.
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Thanks for the quick reply, I'll try to repair using SEUS first, hopes it will work
I face this problem a lot, I'll try SEUS.
Sent from my Xperia arc using XDA App
Having the same problem too, SEUS didn't solve the problem for me unfortunately .
Never faced this problem Use camera many times everyday
Repair by using SEUS didn't solve the problem either unfortunately :-(
Id send the phone bk defo sounds faulty
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rein_hiryu said:
Hi all, I've got my Arc for two weeks, it seems that sometimes the camera is not available when I launch the application. It always happen when the accelerometer doesn't work. It works fine again when I reboot the phone.
Anyone else got this issue? Do I have to repair via SEUS or there is another way around?
Thanks
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I am having exactly the same issue. Had phone 2 days now and many unstable aspects from day 1 and ongoing.
Camera is sometimes 'not available' - interestingly at the same time other things don't work such as the accelerometer.
Phone reboots randomly by itself including during phone calls.
Items downloaded from market disappear .
I am returning it and hoping for a replacement as I do not want a 'repaired' phone after paying so much.
Also should note I have made no changes to the phone at all - this is 'as delivered'
I had this happen a couple of times. When it does I just go to the app manager and force stop the camera app. It should work again after that.
Never had the problem with camera not being available... although most times my photos dont work... its like a black broken image icon that shows instead...
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I had this happen a couple of times. When it does I just go to the app manager and force stop the camera app. It should work again after that.
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Thanks - Your problem must be different, as this solution does not work for me.The app manager does not show the camera as running, so no force close option is available.
Only way to get the camera to function when the phone is in this 'camera not available' mode is to reboot. Every time the camera is not available the accelerometer stops working as well - again a reboot is required to fix this
^ Yes it is, reboot solved it. But I'm curious, is it a bug or a fail hardware?
I have the same problem. The camera app fails to launch. I long press camera button and get the haptic feedback but nothing happens.
for me it's just the shutter button
never had this problem
but my camera doesn't activate when i press the shutter.
any ideas?
ps: i have vignette demo and fxcamera installed
pps: the arc camera is brilliantly EXCELLENT (coming from a G1)
ppps: the shutter button is terribly stiff
had the same problem but SEUS fix it for me by reflashing the firmware.
The phone should be awake when you press on camera button inorder the camera app to launch
ozjay1 said:
I am having exactly the same issue. Had phone 2 days now and many unstable aspects from day 1 and ongoing.
Camera is sometimes 'not available' - interestingly at the same time other things don't work such as the accelerometer.
Phone reboots randomly by itself including during phone calls.
Items downloaded from market disappear .
I am returning it and hoping for a replacement as I do not want a 'repaired' phone after paying so much.
Also should note I have made no changes to the phone at all - this is 'as delivered'
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Camera stays on after been used, i think its not possible to quit it with adv task killer, so i downloaded app "fast reboot pro" so test it when u get it back, and it also works with apps, i have seen that issue few times, just click to reboot and it will be good.
just a thought or two..
have you try resetting or calibrating those sensor?
or do you have any app that totally disabled rotation (not just simple rotate toogle)?
Anyone found the answer to this problem? Really annoying
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.
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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...
After OTA 2.22.1540.3 (4.4.3), Camera app crashes on Zoe and Video Camera mode. I have tried disabling Xposed, and any modifcation, as well as booting into Safe mode, doesn't seem to fix it.
Is anyone else getting this issue?
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After OTA 2.22.1540.3 (4.4.3), Camera app crashes on Zoe and Video Camera mode. I have tried disabling Xposed, and any modifcation, as well as booting into Safe mode, doesn't seem to fix it.
Is anyone else getting this issue?
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lol ...your right ...mine doesn't even open it reboots the phone, and google camera force closes? what a pointless update lol. mines 2.22.401.3. Stupid camera upgrades ....were these even tested? now my media database is messed up, wont play the right sound I set. I thought there was something odd about this update, after the upgrade ...it only optimised a 100 apps ....it always did 359 apps before, wiping dalvik manually does the same, 100 apps, theres a storage issue aswell as the camera, and google camera don't work either, its not part of sense. Is it because we are rooted etc? Oh yes and art don't work for me either.UPDATE: Got ART to work, but not the cameras ...any camera to be exact, thought it might be supercid or because its unlocked but that wouldn't stop other camera apps would it?
If you have Xposed and other root system tweaking apps installed you really can't expect OTA's to go perfectly smooth, can you?
Mine is working just fine, I'm rooted but with stock recovery and no xposed.
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If you have Xposed and other root system tweaking apps installed you really can't expect OTA's to go perfectly smooth, can you?
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I restored to stock before I flashed the OTA, only after the OTA did I root/run Xposed again.
mine is working absolutley fine, even after converting my m8 to a dev edition from WWE edition. I was completeley stock before i took ota (no mods, nothing)
exocetdj said:
mine is working absolutley fine, even after converting my m8 to a dev edition from WWE edition. I was completeley stock before i took ota (no mods, nothing)
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Yeah, turns out it was an app conflict, mainly Google Now/Google Voice Search -- when you enable "Ok, Google" from any screen in the Google Now settings, it interferes with the Camera apps microphone access, sometimes it is able to terminate the process and use the microphone, but when it's not able to, it crashes.
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Yeah, turns out it was an app conflict, mainly Google Now/Google Voice Search -- when you enable "Ok, Google" from any screen in the Google Now settings, it interferes with the Camera apps microphone access, sometimes it is able to terminate the process and use the microphone, but when it's not able to, it crashes.
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Thanks much. This problem was also causing my video button to require a double press. It wasn't crashing, but the first press must disable the "Ok, Google" listening, then the second press would record the video.
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 ???