Develop Bugs

Camera focus stuck on N7100

After more than 1.5 yrs of using my Note 2, recently I noticed that sometimes the camera focus gets stuck. It seems to be at macro focus distance. So everything close to the lens will be clear, and things beyond that blurred. There is no way to refocus. No matter what I do (using manual touch focus, setting to autofocus, setting to macro focus, setting to video mode, killing the camera app or restarting the phone) it is stuck for some time. And then it just starts to work again by itself after few minutes. Completely randomly it seems. I'd say it gets stuck approx every 5th time when I turn the camera on.
If I look at the lens, while the focus is stuck, the lens, naturally, also don't move as they move when the focus is not stuck.
What could this be? My bet would be an issue with camera, but I'd like to exclude any possible known issue, before I RMA it. I still have few months of warranty. Normally I would be doing the factory reset, but I was kinda waiting for the 4.3 or 4.4.2 update, and fresh flash.
I'm running stock 4.1.2 (still the latest official for me), and it is rooted, and triangled away. Everything else is stock. I use stock camera app. Also I don't seem to have any other problems. When it does focus, the camera produces sharp photos. SO no problems there either.
PS The lens are clean and undamaged, as is the whole phone.

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B380 update breaks stock camera on RIO-L01 Dual SIM?

Hey everyone,
I've got the GX8 Dual SIM in Germany and there have been a couple of updates in the last few days. I just updated to RIO-L01C432B380 yesterday, and have found that the stock camera app won't capture photos. I've tried using the volume rocker, screen tap, smile to capture and nothing responds, front - back - or video. Interestingly, other camera apps work without issue. I've reset the data on the stock camera app, and tried to force stop, but it doesn't have an effect.
Has anyone else had this experience since updating?

I'm in Germany too, and upgraded to b380 myself, but I did a factory reset after installing the new update. I make it a habit to do so after every update, to prevent crashing apps or strange things going on.
I know most people hate doing a factory reset, but once in a while, it's the only true way to keep things running smoothly.

N5X Google Camera really clunky after Oreo 8.1 update

Is just my phone? Since 8.1 update, camera becomes really clunky and laggy, when I take a picture, if I go to the preview the app becomes really slow and almost useless, I have to directly open Google Photos cuz trying to watch a picture from the camera app is a mess.
It happens to the stock camera, to the NX version too, the only app that does not present the problem is the "OnePlus Camera"
I tried wiping cache partition, wiping cache and data from camera app, uninstalling updates, updating the camera again and nothing solves the problem...

Jerber said:
Is just my phone? Since 8.1 update, camera becomes really clunky and laggy, when I take a picture, if I go to the preview the app becomes really slow and almost useless, I have to directly open Google Photos cuz trying to watch a picture from the camera app is a mess.
It happens to the stock camera, to the NX version too, the only app that does not present the problem is the "OnePlus Camera"
I tried wiping cache partition, wiping cache and data from camera app, uninstalling updates, updating the camera again and nothing solves the problem...
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Happens to my friends n5x also.

for me too

Install camera nx 7.2 and disable stock camera

Same here. Flash triggers before the shot, resulting in a black screen, and zoom is erratic.
No issue when reverting to 8.0 so that's software related for sure.

3d scanner app unable to launch

This is an odd issue I've been having with my Note 10 plus.
Used the 3d scanner before the September patch and it worked fine, but I don't remember using the app since the patch. Now when I try to launch the app, it loads for about 5 seconds, and then crashes. I get a message on the bottom of the screen that says "Couldn't open 3d scanner. Try again."
I've tried so far:
Clearing cache and wiping data for app
Rebooting phone
Uninstalling and reinstalling app
Clearing phones memory, cache with device care app
Googling (no specific results)
Other than wiping my phone or clearing my phones cache from recovery mode, I'm at a loss. I can't justify the hours lost resetting my phone (500+ apps) and don't remember the risks of wiping phone cache

There is no or negligible risk of wiping cache

OK, try wiping the cache. If that doesn't work, backup all data and try a factory reset.
If that doesn't work there may be a problem with the 3D camera on the back which will be a warranty repair. As Samsung wipes the phone as soon as they get it, privacy issues, you would still need to backup before you do that anyway...
You could also try the test mode you access by the keypad but I'm buggered as to what the code is, someone else may be able to tell you...
Good luck...

What app are we talking about here?

pump142 said:
What app are we talking about here?
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3D scanner in Bixby vision...

This app sux anyway... really needs a fix, it bugs all the time and all you get is pictures of textured potatoes at best.

General Jerky Camera App

Hi, not sure if you guys are also experiencing this. My camera lags a LOT.
When you enter the camera app, it kinda lags already, and especially the first 3 seconds recording, it is just very jerky and skipping frames.
When I take videos of my kids, very sure the first 3 seconds are wasted. This issue was not there on my previous S21U.
I've done factory reset, clear cache, clear app cache, etc. Nothing works so far. Have the latest August patch as well.
This also been reported here: https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5...yback-video-issues-jerky-stutter/td-p/5492576

same thing happens with me too
had the same issue with s21 exynos version as well
never got any fixes