I have a brand new Defy from Orange in the UK. I love the phone but the camera and camcorder do not work. If I go into these apps, I just get a black screen. The only way I can get out of it is to hit home (and also turn the phone off and back on if home was not the first key I pressed after opening the app!). I have tried a hard reset which had no effect. I have also tried clearing out the storage data for the camera. After this, the camera app displays for a second or so (i.e. I can see the app graphics) but then the following error is displayed before the app closes - "Oops, cannot open camera. Please try again later." After a reboot, the original black screen returns. I currently have no third party apps installed, but have tried apps that use the camera and these all report an error when initialising camera.
System version is 2.51.1 if this is relevant.
Anyone else had this, or can anyone suggest a fix?
Sounds like a camera hardware problem to me. Maybe you should contact orange to ask for a replacement or repair?
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Hi! First things first, I've looked at most of the other threads regarding common camera issues (blurry pic, mms pics being blurry, etc.) and none of them cover or regard the issues I'm having.
Onto my issue: I'm running Jugg. 4.1 (and am absolutely loving it) but, just yesterday, my camera stopped working. It works when I switch it to video mode and worked a couple times when I would zoom the camera in or out. Now, however the screen is staying black. I can see all the camera controls/shortcuts but nothing comes up on the screen. When I switch the camera to video mode the camera works fine. When I swap the camera to self-shoot it works fine. I've also downloaded a couple different 3rd party camera apps to see if that would fix it and I have the same issue: I can use the shortcuts provided but nothing shows up, just a blank screen in the camera window. I would post a screenshot, but the screen shot's are also coming up as just a black window and aren't showing the camera shortcut menus, camera switch button, etc.
Anyone know of what would cause this or how to fix it?
backup and reinstall ROM.
I am having something similar to what you are faced with.
The difference with mine is that, it says camera failed then closed after pressing ok.
Does anyone know how to correct this problem?
Also I'm having issues with charging my phone.
yeah I'm finally able to get around re-installing tonight, I'll let you know if it fixes it. As for your issues, I'd guess that you have to re-install as well
Yeaaaaaaaaaaah just re-installed, still having the issue. Now I can't record video, either.
mmk... so I've installed teshxx's stock rooted rom, still the same issue. Anyone have any ideas what would cause the camera to work for video recording (that's actually working now, just takes a minute for the camera to start working) but not for taking pictures?
annnnd just restored back to the stock rom, before I installed anything other than root access.
Can anyone please help?
Hey everyone, I recently updated to KitKat on my phone, and I have noticed a strange issue.
When loading up the camera, whether in the default camera app or on a program such as snapchat, the following thing happens:
The menu buttons and the camera shutter button all appear as normal...
BUT the screen (the camera viewfinder) remains black, and everything freezes for a few seconds. Then the screen shows up the cameras image and everything starts to work as it should.
So it seems like the apps are asking for the camera, but the camera is taking a few seconds to actually boot up. Which is weird, right?
I'm not on a stock ROM, im on the RomAur 3.0 one, but as far as I can tell it is using the standard camera app, and noone else has had this problem. I cam from the previous version of RomAur and the camera in that didnt have any issues either.
Just wondering if this is some glitch or something is interfering? Any suggestions?
Thanks
Try to clean (wipe) all cache.
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Had the same issue...
I did a reboot and the problem didn't happen again....
strangely enough this worked, even though clearing the cache and reboots were all things I did since I installed the ROM anyway...
I must have done something in the interim. Silly of me. Seems to be working now anyway so thanks guys
Hello guys,
I have the same problem, I did a factory reset which solved it.
But after some days it appears again, sometime it's working sometime not, it seems to be random...
raphoun said:
Hello guys,
I have the same problem, I did a factory reset which solved it.
But after some days it appears again, sometime it's working sometime not, it seems to be random...
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Can confirm this.
Sometimes the camera app is working fine and sometimes it takes several seconds to start and it is laggy... :-/
If it lags, but starts okay, rebooting does fix it. No idea what causes it, but it's only done it twice so far.
The far bigger problem is trying to start the camera when it was locked, when there's every chance the camera will freeze and not take or save your picture.
Unlock first then start the camera and all should be fine.
nirurin said:
Hey everyone, I recently updated to KitKat on my phone, and I have noticed a strange issue.
When loading up the camera, whether in the default camera app or on a program such as snapchat, the following thing happens:
The menu buttons and the camera shutter button all appear as normal...
BUT the screen (the camera viewfinder) remains black, and everything freezes for a few seconds. Then the screen shows up the cameras image and everything starts to work as it should.
So it seems like the apps are asking for the camera, but the camera is taking a few seconds to actually boot up. Which is weird, right?
I'm not on a stock ROM, im on the RomAur 3.0 one, but as far as I can tell it is using the standard camera app, and noone else has had this problem. I cam from the previous version of RomAur and the camera in that didnt have any issues either.
Just wondering if this is some glitch or something is interfering? Any suggestions?
Thanks
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Mine did this as well as other issues. A factory reset did not help but the thing that cured is was a "Repair" from Sony PC Companion. This will perform a factory reset and reflash the OS. Worked for me.
Resets, wipes or repairs won't fix it forever. In fact, I think it's something else that causes problems with the camera app and not the app itself. It's how you start the camera and what was going on at the time that matters.
jonmorris said:
Resets, wipes or repairs won't fix it forever. In fact, I think it's something else that causes problems with the camera app and not the app itself. It's how you start the camera and what was going on at the time that matters.
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This turns out to be right. After a day or so of no issues with the camera, I tried loading up instagram today and the camera took a long time to load up.
I also notice that even when the camera is loaded, if you try switching to the front-facing camera - that takes a long time to load up too. And same again if you try and switch back to the rear camera.
If this is standard on all kitkat roms for the Z1c then there is some major glitch in there somewhere.
So far it happens on standard app, instagram, and snapchat for sure.
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This turns out to be right. After a day or so of no issues with the camera, I tried loading up instagram today and the camera took a long time to load up.
I also notice that even when the camera is loaded, if you try switching to the front-facing camera - that takes a long time to load up too. And same again if you try and switch back to the rear camera.
If this is standard on all kitkat roms for the Z1c then there is some major glitch in there somewhere.
So far it happens on standard app, instagram, and snapchat for sure.
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Resurrecting my own thread, as I never actually noticed a fix for this to come up anywhere? I know im not the only one experiencing this, is everyone just living with it?
Its not a huge bother as when it crops up I can do a restart to fix it for another day, but if/when it crops up when im trying to do something quickly its pretty annoying.
I noticed this. Turn off location and it fires right up. That GPS lock can take a few seconds... especially if you're indoors!
charlatan01 said:
I noticed this. Turn off location and it fires right up. That GPS lock can take a few seconds... especially if you're indoors!
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I always have location turned off, at least the location toggle is turned off. Unless the camera is still attempting to use gps even when the service is deactivated? But then thats still a fault
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I always have location turned off, at least the location toggle is turned off. Unless the camera is still attempting to use gps even when the service is deactivated? But then thats still a fault
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Hmm, that's how I disable it... and I haven't noticed the lag. I should say, I am currently running a CM based ROM - PA.
charlatan01 said:
Hmm, that's how I disable it... and I haven't noticed the lag. I should say, I am currently running a CM based ROM - PA.
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Oh well then its unlikely to be the same problem, as CM (as far as I know) doesnt use the same camera/framework/etc as the stock sony.
I have the same lag on my Z1C (CM Nightly), but it only occurs the first time I start the camera after a reboot. I just start the camera once I have rebooted the phone (you can kill it via task manager again and it still works!) and do not have any lags afterwards that could prevent a quick shot. It's not perfect, but it works.
Same here with cm 11.
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Same here with cm 11.
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Then its a completely different problem, cos on the stock android after a reboot the camera is fast straight away, and its only after an indeterminate amount of time (hours/days) of running that the camera will then become slow to load. And then a restart fixes the problem.
Clearly CM uses a different camera, or some other different piece of coding, that isnt the same in the stock sony build.
I installed port camera from z2 and i dont have lags. On stock camera i had couple of lags and crashes but for now with new camera is good
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mosespl said:
I installed port camera from z2 and i dont have lags. On stock camera i had couple of lags and crashes but for now with new camera is good
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Does the ported Z2 camera overwrite the Z1 camera? As in, will apps like snapchat etc use the Z2 camera code instead of the Z1 code?
Because the problem isnt just with the default camera app, its with every app that uses the camera. Snapchat, instagram, facebook, whenever you load up the camera on any of them, theres a 5 second delay while the camera screen stays black, until the camera then switches on and starts working.
BUT not all the time, after a fresh reboot they all work instantly like they should. Its only after a few hours or whatever that the camera starts misbehaving. Something is causing interference.
Getting a weird one. When I am video'ing, and I try to zoom in, the camera then crashes with "Unfortunately, the camera has stopped". I have tried with Google Camera, which I have installed, and the zoom seems to work fine, but I would rather use the LG G3 camera app. The zoom works fine when not recording, and when taking stills, but only crashes when actually recording
I have tried a full factory reset, and even waited till the next OTA was released (v10i), hoping that a new ROM would fix this, but still having the same problem
Yesterday, when showing someone the issue, the zoom was working ... which confused me, but then later on during the day, had to reboot the phone. Went to show my partner last night that it was working, and it was crashing again. This morning tried to zoom, and yep, it seems to be working today
This has really got me stumped. If it was hardware, you would expect it all the time, and for it to fail on other 3rd party apps. I like the stock app, but cannot use it as my default in case I have the zoom issue, and therefore lose what I am videoing
Anybody have any ideas on this?
The phone is stock, LG-D855 and running V10i-EUR-XX
Has nobody else had this issue, or any ideas how to resolve?
Hey guys!
So just as the subject reads, the phone from time to time can't connect to my camera and I just get a black screen. Switching between the front and back when this happens triggers the error message and tells me to send a diagnostic report to Google. One of the things I tried was to force close the camera process and still nothing. Only fix is to reboot the phone, but eventually in a day or two the camera will crash again.
Just to rule out any kind of corruption, I wiped the phone to factory settings via recovery and the phone still behaves like this. One of the apps I noticed does not play well with the phone is snapchat (current beta). The app is super laggy and wondering if this could cause the camera overall to eventually crash. Any ideas or thoughts are welcome!
Overall I'm kind if disappointed with the performance of the phone over several days. Upon reboot its quick and over a day or two the phone gets pretty sluggish, even locking up at times for a few seconds without being able to do anything. Sometimes exiting an app and going to the main screen takes a solid 5 to 10 seconds.
Yeah the camera app is very, very bugging. Really hoping there'll be an update that fixes the problems with that and 3rd party cameras.
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I though I was the only one, the camera takes forever to open and bogs the whole system down, I just the l got the security updates and no camera bugs were addressed
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Actually that's exactly the way my Nexus 4 behaved, which was the main reason I had to replace it now. Hope 5X won't do that, or I'd be pretty pissed off. I thought it was a hardware issue, but now according to what you write I suspect this might relate to some application installed.
I'll add myself to the list. Sometimes It doesn't even make picture, just get stuck and does nothing for a while, then for whatever reason it start shooting a sequence of pointless picture. Many times it take 2 pics in a row, like a not asked, not wanted crappy pointless multishot
Camera was completely fine for me until I got an OTA update 2 days ago and now its completely dog ****. Freezes for a while when I open the app, and crashes if I turn the phone to landscape.
I just rooted my phone and camera stopped working. Reset to default did nothing.
I'm on B29K. Do I need to downgrade?
twiifm said:
I just rooted my phone and camera stopped working. Reset to default did nothing.
I'm on B29K. Do I need to downgrade?
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How exactly did you root? And if you flashed a modified boot.img, which one fid you flash? Also, what does "reset to default" mean? Does this mean that you flashed the factory image for MMB29K?
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