So using the *#808# diagnostic menu I can see the the first rear camera is inoperable but the second rear camera and the front camera work. I know about the *#*#1576#*# or whatever thing that pulls up the camera and should let you cycle through which one it's using. However because it first tries to pull up the dual camera before you can switch, the app crashes. I also tried the nokia camera that lets you select individual camera modules and the same thing happens. Is there anyway to change my camera preference or to disable the first camera so it defaults to the second rear camera?
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camera quality and performance is far worse than my 2mp dummy phone from 2006, the camera tries to auto focus again every time you try taking a picture, and it snaps the shot when it's blurry... getting really frustrating, could probably get better quality images if I just take a screenshot of the camera app... I just want to prevent that camera from focusing on it's own, and only focus when I tell it to, or manually focus somehow.. there should be some way to do that right?
Also, I thought I would add that I frequently encounter an error opening up the camera and then it says "can't connect to the camera" and the only way to fix it is to restart the device. usually the error occurs when browsing the gallery and then trying to go back into the camera, wher eit fails to start the camera and then no camera app, including the default one can access the camera.
Touch to focus on your object on the display. Ring will turn green.
Can also press and hold the picture/shutter icon to force it to refocus re everything and just release it to take the shot
albundy2010 said:
Touch to focus on your object on the display. Ring will turn green.
Can also press and hold the picture/shutter icon to force it to refocus re everything and just release it to take the shot
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when you tap the screen to focus, it will focus, but then start auto focusing immediately after, thereby defeating the purpose entirely. and when you push the take picture button it will try focusing WHILE it takes a picture and you'll get an out of focus shot every time that takes a long time between shots. horrendous... I would swap it with the 3mp iphone 3gs camera or even my old 2mp nokia camera any day. With the forced auto-focus and bugs, the nexus camera is totally unusable. If you could just disable the camera auto focus somehow in the system settings so that it only re-focuses when the application tells it to (such as with clicks) it would be much better (ie. not broken).
When I try other camera apps, the camera also forces refocus when attempting to take a picture, despite pre-focusing by tapping.. I think it must be something with the camera or the system that is telling the camera to refocus when you take a picture because it happens in every application I've tried. I want to just tap somewhere on the screen to focus once and then it will NEVER try focusing again until I tap again.
UPDATE: Also, the one app that can expressly disable autofocus on camera shutter "camera fv-5"... does something weird on nexus 7, the first time you try to take a picture, even though it is set to disable auto focus and it is already focused, it will focus the first time you take a picture. then after that, even if you change the focus just like before manually or whatever, for as long as the app remains open it won't force refocus as you take a picture. There must be something in the android system that is overriding camera settings and causing the autofocus to go crazy in all the applications rendering the camera and video apps unwatchable.
Oh yeah, and the camera FV-5 trial limits the picture resolution to 0.3mp, and confirms my thoughts when I compared it to my old 2mp nokia, there is no additional detail in my 5mp images than the .3mp images taken by fv-5 without autofocus, and even those aren't sharp even when resized to .3mp. Wonderfully depressing and irritating that you can't even get .3mp of clarity out of a so called 5mp camera. >____<. The focus never focuses properly, it always scans through the correct focus and lands on blurry.
Not a disaster but really got me curious.
I looked everywhere. There is always a user guide for the rear camera, never for the front as far as I could find. I just want to know what is that first option in the front camera settings. What does it do? (icon of hand holding phone and an arrow)?
Take a picture with front facing camera, then bring the phone down and it will automatically show the preview of the pic you took, that's If you have it "ON".
On the other hand, if its " OFF", there is no automatic preview.
Hope it helps =)
Hey peeps,
Yeap, I did search a lot before posting it, but apparently the other topics are not quite about the same thing.
My HTC One M8 rear camera is not working anymore (buzzing sound, it is a hardware issue and I can't send it to repair for now).
I need to use some apps that turn the camera on automatically, but they don't provide the option to change from rear/front. So, when they turn the camera on, they use the REAR camera, which is not working (it opens normally, but it can't focus, so it's useless).
So, I need to force apps (and, hopefully, the whole system) to use the FRONT camera as default, maybe by disabling the rear camera? I don't know yet.
Does anyone have any light about the process? Is there any filesystem I can edit to disable rear camera / force front camera?
I'm on Marshmallow, CM13.
Thanks!
Hello,
After launching the camera application, when I select the front camera, the app shows a black screen for a few seconds, then crashes back to home screen with no error message.
The rear camera and everything else work fine.
I replaced the front camera or/and the daughter board the symptom is the same no front camera works.
I need help please.
Best regards.
I have the opposite problem. After removing my daughter board, the camera app just exited. After replacing my rear camera, only the front facing seems to be working (and no flash)
TF85 said:
Hello,
After launching the camera application, when I select the front camera, the app shows a black screen for a few seconds, then crashes back to home screen with no error message.
The rear camera and everything else work fine.
I replaced the front camera or/and the daughter board the symptom is the same no front camera works.
I need help please.
Best regards.
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CAMERA ISSUE - Reversed Camera - Rear Camera opens "Front Camera Harware" vise versa.
Hi,
I am having this weird issue where my phone opens the "Front Camera Hardware" and thinks it's the rear camera and Rear Camera opens with the front camera settings and it shows a mirrored view.
Sometimes it just will not launch and will just show yung the Camera functions with a Black Screen.
Installing a different camera app makes it worse as the camera shows an inverted picture for both front and back cameras.
I tried to do a Factory Reset but it doesn't fix the issue.
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Got the same issue on my realme 3 pro, found any fix yet?