Not sure if this is a common problem. I couldn't find anything on the interwebs indicating that others are having this issue frequently.
It seems like my Camera application will almost never allow me to see the pictures that I've taken. When I tap on the picture preview it just goes to a blank screen. If I hit slideshow, it momentarily tries to take me to the slideshow and then bounces me right back.
Sometimes after force closing it with the system monitor app a few times will eventually let me see previews.
It's pretty infuriating that it does this and I have no idea what would cause it. I'm thinking about buying Vignette, but in my opinion the stock camera should work.
Any ideas?
You know what I just noticed - it appears to be the gallery app and not the camera app. Anyone else have this problem with Gallery?
It is most likely a media scan issue with the gallery (sometimes my pictures take a long time to show up on their own as well).
You can either reboot the phone or use an app to rescan media. There are a bunch out there (search market for rescan or scan media). Or if you are running CM6, you can choose the function in the built-in Dev Tools app. Tasker also has this function built in if you wanted to set up something like forcing a rescan every time you exit the Camera app.
New Nexus 7 2013, unlocked and rooted with NRT v1.7.2.
Camera does not work
Any ideas please?
Today I also installed all of my apps, and downloaded the maps and data associated with them, which has taken pretty much all day.
Now I thought I'd have a play, so I decided to take a camera, as that is one of the new things this Nexus 7 can do over my previous one. All I get is a dark grey screen with just the camera controls on it. I can get the on-screen pop-upcontrols to do clever things like change the auto white balance, but NO PICTURE.
If I flip to the front facing camera, it takes a while, but usually gives me a picture, which at 1.2m is pretty awful on this wonderful screen.
If I then flip back, the image stays, and the camera app freezes. Occasionally I have had a message saying "can't connect to the camera". Twice I've had a message saying that the "gallery isn't responding". Well, there is nothing in the gallery.
I've searched here, and found forum threads elsewhere suggesting reboot, or use Permissions Manager to allow access to the camera. The permissions were OK but I removed them and restored them just in case. Rebooting has made no difference.
My last ditch will be restoring to factory settings, as I've spent 5 hours installing my apps and data. Just doing a backup, then plan a nandroid backup so that if I do have to reset, I can hopefully restore how I am now.
Well...you could carefully pop the back off and make sure the camera ribbon cable is seated properly...
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Ah well, the supplier changed it, and the new one is great.
This is embarrassing - I have had the Moto 360 for a few weeks, and it has been working fine. I could view the Keep app and view the lists on my 360 just fine.
Recently (I think after the recent Keep app update from the play store to my Nexus 6), the keep app no longer shows up on my Moto 360. I've performed a factory reset on the 360, and paired it again, and have also tried reverting back to previous version of keep on my N6. No difference. (I've rebooted both devices).
I'm getting other notifications just fine. Any suggestions?
(when I use ok google to take a note from the 360, it tries for a couple of seconds, and then tells me to use my phone instead)
(N6 is stock/rooted)
jj14 said:
This is embarrassing - I have had the Moto 360 for a few weeks, and it has been working fine. I could view the Keep app and view the lists on my 360 just fine.
Recently (I think after the recent Keep app update from the play store to my Nexus 6), the keep app no longer shows up on my Moto 360. I've performed a factory reset on the 360, and paired it again, and have also tried reverting back to previous version of keep on my N6. No difference. (I've rebooted both devices).
I'm getting other notifications just fine. Any suggestions?
(when I use ok google to take a note from the 360, it tries for a couple of seconds, and then tells me to use my phone instead)
(N6 is stock/rooted)
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I had the same issue, though not from updating. Picked up the 360 last week and my first install was like this. Reset the Moto 360 / reinstalled keep on the nexus 6.
I too factory reset my phone shortly after getting the watch and this along with the reset of the watch solved the keep program from not opening on my watch.
I again had the same problem after reinstalling a custom rom, I reset the moto again and reinstalled keep on the phone and I am good to go with keep.
Weird - I tried those steps (except for factory reset of the phone), and it didn't help. Hoping to not have to factory reset the phone
Thanks for the suggestion though
Hi all,
I bought a ZF2 two weeks ago. So far I like it, solved some issues I had in the first days, but I still didn't find how to solve issues I'm having with these two apps.
1-I used Cerberus for years on my old devices and worked perfectly, it takes a picture using the front camera when someone tries to unlock my phone with the wrong PIN/Pattern. On ZF2 it shows enabled but simply doesn't work.
2-I also use Dropbox with the Camera Upload function enabled. So when I take pictures it automatically sends to my Dropbox account. On ZF2 it only works if I open the Dropbox app, which shouldn't be needed.
For both cases I tried enabling them on Autostart Manager, enabled all apps on Autostart Manager and even disabled Autostart Manager completely to avoid it blocking something. But none of them solved.
Does anyone have any idea of what to do?
Thanks
I have Cerberus too and the camera works, but the photos are all black, I think that it's because the Cerberus take a photo before the camera is ready.
Shaxine said:
I have Cerberus too and the camera works, but the photos are all black, I think that it's because the Cerberus take a photo before the camera is ready.
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That's weird. I even tried a Factory Reset and installing everything again, Cerberus is still not working. It doesn't even send the mail, not even a black picture.
Try CM Locker's intruder selfie feature. I never had a problem even on CM13.
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Hello guys,
I'm writing here because I've been running some frustrating problems with the htc camera application on my M8.
I run stock firmware, stock rom. never did any kind of flashing-modding or whatsoever, although I am not completely sure since it is a second hand phone. When i got it, it came on kitkat. I then upgraded directly to marshmallow.
Here are my actual software information: Android 6.0 / Software number: 6.16.708.1 / Kernel Version: 3.4.0 [email protected] #1 SMP PREEMPT. Build number: 6.16.708.1 CL683910 release-keys.
I used the phone for one month without a problem. Then, for roughly two weeks my phone run minor random crashes with a very weird soft reset of certain application setting after the reboot. I.E: I had to log back again on all my app which required log in: spotify, wechat, even whastapp once, etc. Every time the home screen would show me the "how-to-use" tips as if it was the very first time I run the phone.
The camera became unusable: once opened, every button on screen was unusable. It didn't take photo, it didn't go to settings. nothing of nothing. It couldn't even show the bottom buttons for returning back to the home screen or managing the multi task. The whole interface seemed to be completely unresponsive.
Two days ago, I decided to factory reset through the recovery and reinstall everything.
Everything seemed fine.... but the camera.
It takes litteraly ages (7s more) to save photos. The interface is super laggy, I have to wait sensible seconds to go to settings or switch the camera mode. It is not as bad as it was before the reset, but it still unusable.
I have to mention that I have an sd card formatted as internal storage. However, since the problem persists, I formatted as portable and eventually I removed it completely. Despite this, the camera still does not work properly.
I tried to wipe the cache of the phone from the recovery. Nothing changed.
I also tried to run the phone in safe mode to see whether it was due to some application conflict. Problem still persists.
I am so frustrated, I really want my camera to work back again. I mean, I need it because I love taking picture with this phone ( I often go for photo shooting at night) and the htc camera application gives you a great Manual Mode which I cannot find in other 3d party applications.
Do you have any idea of what it might be?
Many thanks for having spent time reading this post.
I hope you can give some good feedback on this.
Cheers!
I have ran into the same problem. I even did a fresh install of viper rom. And still very slow.
This started happening less than a week ago.
Good afternoon,
The same problem occured to me last week.
This problem started after I restored apps from titanium backup.
I can point our how.
But.. After fresh wipe, all caches cleared. Camera seems to work fast again, no lag.
So check your phone space.. Free ram available.. And your use of titanium backup.
That helped me.
Let me know if this does something.
Regards,
WyCkson
I have the same problem it just started yesterday.
at the moment im using a another application to use the camera.
i want the stock camera working.
i have enough space and enough Ram.
why is it that the camera is so laggy.
NZR91 said:
I have the same problem it just started yesterday.
at the moment im using a another application to use the camera.
i want the stock camera working.v
i have enough space and enough Ram.
why is it that the camera is so laggy.
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OK a fresh install of viper and camera works fine, after updating from the play store the camera is slow. I don't think this is a titanium backup issue, I think it's a new update for something on the device that's interfering with the camera
Fresh install again, removed Titanium Backup. Downloaded selected system Google apps and all HTC apps except for sense home. Camera worked fine. Restarted for the lock screen update and now the camera lags. Trying to figure out which app is doing it.
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Fresh install again, removed Titanium Backup. Downloaded selected system Google apps and all HTC apps except for sense home. Camera worked fine. Restarted for the lock screen update and now the camera lags. Trying to figure out which app is doing it.
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After some 'auto updates', my camera started lagging huge ammount ~ 6 secs. plus other stuff. . .
Sounds like the same problem. Please post if you find out what's causing it.
same here
I just noticed crazy camera lag this morning (seemed to be working fine just yesterday). The Camera app was updated 6/23, so I assume its that. Can't find any other HTC apps that have recently updated; and no recent changes to the phone (Titanium restores or anything like that). Been on the same build of S.ROM for over a month, with no previous issues.
same here! ...
Hey guys I found your page during my research, since last night I cannot use my camera properly as you said huge lags occur and until that moment I cannot find a proper solution. But at least I found! The source of our problem is HTC SPEAK app. When I uninstall the app's updates camera became more stabyl and my phone's getting warm issues solved!
Good luck.
Found Solution(s)
For me, its HTC Speak app. If I uninstall updates for this App, Camera is back to normal.
But there is workaround even when recent update for this App is installed.
Turn On Camera App, go to Settings-Camera Options-Voice Capture. Turn it ON, download language pack when asked and than use Speak App for Camera or turn it off (as I did). Camera is working like it should either way
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Found Solution(s)
For me, its HTC Speak app. If I uninstall updates for this App, Camera is back to normal.
But there is workaround even when recent update for this App is installed.
Turn On Camera App, go to Settings-Camera Options-Voice Capture. Turn it ON, download language pack when asked and than use Speak App for Camera or turn it off (as I did). Camera is working like it should either way
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Thanks, this solved my problem with the camera lag.
The same thing effects the 'Motion Launch Gestures' in Settings (Display & gestures). For some reason, it also uses language pack, same as camera app.
patriotturk said:
hey guys i found your page during my research, since last night i cannot use my camera properly as you said huge lags occur and until that moment i cannot find a proper solution. But at least i found! The source of our problem is htc speak app. When i uninstall the app's updates camera became more stabyl and my phone's getting warm issues solved!
Good luck.
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worked for me! thks
I can`t seem to find the speak app?
3alfa3 said:
Turn On Camera App, go to Settings-Camera Options-Voice Capture. Turn it ON, download language pack when asked and than use Speak App for Camera or turn it off (as I did). Camera is working like it should either way
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This worked for me, too! Thanks.
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ryanjsoo said:
I can`t seem to find the speak app?
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Are you trying to uninstall the Speak updates, or the Camera app workaround in Post #12?
If you are trying to uninstall updates, you can find the app in phone settings under Settings>Apps>Speak. But for me, the option to uninstall updates is grayed out, and cannot be selected.
For the workaround: when you select "Voice Capture" in Camera app Settings, it will ask you to update the language pack. Select to update it. Then, once that is updated, the camera will work fine. You can leave "Voice Capture" on, or turn it off in Camera app settings; either way, the camera should work fine now.
The option to uninstall updates was also greyed out for me, but you can select the menu icon in the top right corner of the Speak app settings to make that option available. I did this and yes it did fix the laggy camera issue but did not fix the non-functioning gesture control. The workaround that 3alfa3 provided fixes both issues.
Thank you to everyone who has helped resolve this issue as HTC support were as much use as (insert your own witty line...)
3alfa3 said:
Found Solution(s)
For me, its HTC Speak app. If I uninstall updates for this App, Camera is back to normal.
But there is workaround even when recent update for this App is installed.
Turn On Camera App, go to Settings-Camera Options-Voice Capture. Turn it ON, download language pack when asked and than use Speak App for Camera or turn it off (as I did). Camera is working like it should either way
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I can confirm it worked for me too.
Enabled voice capture after couple of lags, and just hit the download button. Couple of seconds later baaam! Solved.
But Its really strange reason to lag. Curious about how you figured it out tough..
Many thanks.
Just uninstall HTC Speak ... i test this on 3 devices ...
Same problem here.
Turn On Camera App, go to Settings-Camera Options-Voice Capture. Turn it ON, download language pack when asked <--- did the trick for me as well.
When will HTC wake up and fix this?