Ze551ml shuts down after taking pictures - ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello everyone.
I'm restoring my old zenfone 2 (ze551ml). After a very bad smash on the ground, I had to replace the screen and the frame. Other internals seems to be fine, except for the battery lid (the metallic one under the sim card socket), which is lightly bended on a corner. It's actually on stock firmware (6.0.1). Taking pictures, while the camera app (the stock one) is saving a photo into the gallery, the phone shuts down. Then, it doesn't boot until it's plugged to a charger, even with a charged battery. I still have not tried any 3rd party app for camera. Does anyone had this kind of problem? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
Edit: I forgot to say I've already done a factory reset from recovery, the problem still persists.
Edit #2: I've downgraded to LP, but the problem still persists. Despite this, a third party camera app works properly

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I brought my Xperia Play phone USED two years ago and I've never had any problems with it.
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Vortelf said:
Is it with stock firmware?
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Yes.
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Have you tried factory resetting it?
Vortelf said:
Have you tried factory resetting it?
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Yes, but it didn't fix it. The problem still occurs.
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edit: This video shows something very similiar (except the backlight): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4p0-kv1cxA
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5 days ago my microphone stopped working. two days ago, my front camera stopped working. and today, my earpiece stopped working as well.
when I try to make a call, my light sensor shuts down completely and disables everything until the other party disconnects from the call. as well, my battery is draining twice as quickly even though I haven't been using my phone as often as previously.
before these things started happening I didn't install any new apps or change anything. I've done a firmware repair through the pc companion and two factory resets. nothing has worked.
does this sound like a motherboard issue? or is this just a problem with connectors coming loose?
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This started happening to me once I got a 3rd party battery. Usually when the flash goes off.
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Camera not working, freezes the whole phone and makes it restart each time I open it

I have LGG3 D855 MM stock rom, before I've had fulmics rom and that's when the problem started happening, figured a clean wipe and going back to stock rom would solve the issue but it didn't.
Flashlight won't work, tried other camera apps but it always fails.
Sometimes the camera starts working for a fraction of a second then it seizes to work and freezes the whole phone making it restart.
Figured it might be a hardware problem, but can a hardware problem with the camera freeze the phone? I don't really know, sorry.
Can anyone please help?
Update 1: Tried re-rooting the device and installing fulmics rom, still no luck, tried installing V10 camera app, nothing new.
Update 2: Front camera works sometimes but the image seems stretched, also it crashes after seconds and goes to black screen then freezes the whole phone sometimes making it restart by itself.
Tried the force stop and clearing cache and data trick in both camera and gallery and still no luck.
sounds like a hardware issue like a bad mainboard or connections loose or something, did the phone get wet? have u checked the camera connections with phone apart?
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sounds like a hardware issue like a bad mainboard or connections loose or something, did the phone get wet? have u checked the camera connections with phone apart?
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I've actually replaced the rear camera but am still having the same problem only without the phone restarting, maybe it's a problem with some wiring I guess? Any suggestions please?
Also, the phone never got wet.

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