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Camera => Album = black (blank) screen?

I've searched and read (and read and read) but haven't found a solution to this. Maybe I've missed it. If so, please point me in the right direction.
I upgraded my new Tilt with Dutty's Diamond V1 (WM6.1) ROM. It has a new camera (v 5.04, build 29195) installed. When running, I can take pictures just fine. However, when I click on the right-pointing arrow in the lower-left corner, it's supposed to link me over to the photo album but all I get is a black screen. At this point, I can press on the "windows" button and launch Today where I can see that the album has launched and is running, but when I select it, I only see a black screen.
Is there a fix for this?

i got the same issue

your camera works fine? where are the photos saving to?

The camera works fine. I can save the pictures to either the device or the storage card - both work.

Some pix
Just so it's clear, I'm posting a couple of pictures. I used MyMobiler to capture the screens which, unfortunately, does not capture the camera image in the first frame.
The first frame shows the screen (sans what my camera was seeing). The red circle highlights the "Album" button.
When pressed, I get what you see in the second - nothing but black. The phone's not locked up, however. It's just not displaying anything. No album - nothing.
And finally, in the third screen, you see that both Camera and Album are running. Album was launched, apparently, by the screen tap in the Camera application but doesn't seem to quite get it right when launched this way.
Ideas?

so you have a black screen when using camera, but it still takes pictures, if that is the case try another radio.

bilbobrian said:
so you have a black screen when using camera, but it still takes pictures, if that is the case try another radio.
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its not a radio problem. i think it has something to do with a broken album link in the camera application. im looking for a solution as well, as i am having the exact same problem on my own cooked rom

bilbobrian said:
so you have a black screen when using camera, but it still takes pictures, if that is the case try another radio.
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No. I don't have a black screen when using the camera. I see things just fine when using the camera. Works just like you'd expect. What you're seeing above in the first pic is an artifact of the screen capture program.
The anomalous behavior begins when trying to launch the album from inside the camera application. That's when the screen goes black.
My initial thinking was as mbarvian has floated - a bad link or some bad parameter passed from inside the camera app. I was hoping that this could be fixed with a registry edit, actually, but couldn't find a registry key that offered promise.
(BTW, I tried re-flashing the ROM but that didn't fix the problem. Just another data point to consider.)

So, nobody has a solution? Are others seeing this or just the two of us who have posted? I guess it's just something we live with until the day it's fixed?

Same problem same ROM...

when i had windows 6.0 i went on the htc website and downloaded 3 hot fixes for my phone ,then when i updated to the orange 6.1 version of win mobile i had the same problem as you ,( black screen on camera ) anyway i uninstalled the hot fixes ( they are not required on 6.1 version ) camera is now ok

Also, same problem... same rom.

stop taking pictures of only black things...

gthing said:
stop taking pictures of only black things...
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Well, if it can't be fixed, I may as well have a laugh over it, eh?

topbanana4 said:
when i had windows 6.0 i went on the htc website and downloaded 3 hot fixes for my phone ,then when i updated to the orange 6.1 version of win mobile i had the same problem as you ,( black screen on camera ) anyway i uninstalled the hot fixes ( they are not required on 6.1 version ) camera is now ok
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Yours may be slightly different than mine. I don't really get a black screen on the camera - only when I launch the album viewer from inside the camera application.
The "same issue - same ROM" responses at least give me a measure of affirmation that there is a known unresolved issue. For now, I'll just manually launch the album from the launcher where it seems to work, and avoid using the call from the camera app.

maybe using advanced config. and making sure the photos are saving to My Pictures might help

kaalgoosy said:
maybe using advanced config. and making sure the photos are saving to My Pictures might help
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Set to that by default already. Tried swapping it to DCIM just to see what happened but that didn't work either.

camer w/black screen
after upgrading tilt to wm 6.1, my camera takes photos, but the screen is black, no preview, until AFTER taking the photo, then it appears briefly. is there a CAB fix for this. please help

I think it may have something to do with the version of the camera fix. I noticed the problem this weekend after updating to the ATT Official 6.1 ROM. Installed a newer version of Nadavi HTC Camera and when i went into the camera all I can see was a black screen. I'm using 5_0_4_2915 which seems to have corrected the problem for me.

where can i get this version that you tried? i am having the same problem

HTC Album incorrectly rotates pictures...sometimes

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed that occassionally (and seemingly more and more frequently) pictures that I take with the camera are either incorrectly saved in the wrong orientation or are being displayed in both the TF3D tab and the HTC album in the wrong orientation.
In other words, in HTC Album, when I hold the phone in portrait mode, the picture shows in landscape and when I rotate the phone to landscape, it switches to upside-down portrait mode. It's like chasing your tail! Really frustrating! It also displays landscape pictures in portrait and vice-versa in the TF3D tab as you flip through the photos.
This doesn't happen with every picture, but I can't seem to figure out any pattern that would illuminate the cause of the problem.
Am I alone in this? (I have a Euro Diamond)

You Are Not Alone!!
I have been having the exact same problem,and its becoming more and more frequent!
It is fustrating tho because when you are holding the phone in a portrait position and you have a landscape picture, you instinctively try and the phone sideways to see the picture straight....but this just turns the picture so your looking at it the wrong way again!
Its weird how some pictures arent affected and some pictures which are taken right after the non affected pictures are affected!

try to make sure your device is fully upright, perpendicular to the floor. i have a feeling your g sensors are not calibrated and your devices are confused with odd angles. give 'er a try and post results

Yeah, I've experienced this too.
Are you guys using the Gsen app cos I'm wondering if it's that which is having an effect?
Just in case you don't know, you can edit them so they show the right way round using Pictures & Videos in Programs, just select the offending pic and select edit from the menu, then rotate and then just hit ok in the top right corner once you have it the way you want.

I have this problem and it is very annoying, I have the HTC 1.93 ROM and don't use GSen (at the moment). It would be great to find a solution to this problem.

I think this is just a major design flaw in the HTC picture viewer. It's one of the major reasons I use other software instead.
Having the g-sensor enabled in a photo application is just f*#&ing stupid IMO. It totally fails to handle the fact that people often rotate the camera when they take photos. Most people find it easier to rotate the viewer rather than mess about with image editing ... but when they try, the g-sensor f*#&s it up for them.
It's tragic and funny seeing my friend (who still uses the HTC software) having to bend his neck right the way over to view his own photos. And what is with the inability to change the sorting behavior?!!

fl4r3 said:
I have been having the exact same problem,and its becoming more and more frequent!
It is fustrating tho because when you are holding the phone in a portrait position and you have a landscape picture, you instinctively try and the phone sideways to see the picture straight....but this just turns the picture so your looking at it the wrong way again!
Its weird how some pictures arent affected and some pictures which are taken right after the non affected pictures are affected!
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I think this might be because when you're taking a picture, you should be holding the phone in landscape mode, when you take a picture in portrait mode your phone will rotate the picture like that.. i ALSO had that problem. try it and let me know

Are you using G-Sen?
If you have had G-Sen on then toggled it off, photos will be in the wrong orientation.
If you do a soft-reset without g-sen loaded, pictures are taken correctly.
Solution: if you are using g-sen, make sure it is toggled on before you take a pic.
That's what i found works for me anyway.

I have the exact same situation. But the photos weren't taken with the Diamond, and I have more than a hundred of those. They are, for the greatest part of it, taken in landscape mode and it thinks they are in portrait mode.
Is there a way to change their orientation massivly ? I mean it would take me a life to rotate them one by one.

Scotchy49 said:
Is there a way to change their orientation massivly ? I mean it would take me a life to rotate them one by one.
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Place a very large mass next to the diamond, in order to confuse it about which way is down.
It'll be much quicker to alter the orientation on your desktop pc - but it'll have to be a manual one-by-one job. AFAIK, there's no way to do it automatically because it's impossible for any software to know which way up each photo is supposed to be.
Or just use a better viewer without stupid g-sensor usage.
Edit: Another thought... if you change the orientation of some of your pictures (after taking them) then you'll find that they're out of order in the album because the time/date stamps have changed! 3rd party software really is the way to go! /rant

ok, it's been a month, i just found this thread. i have the touch pro but having the same problem. the htc is calibrated just fine. anyway to fix it? htc is so notorius for bugs, can't believe that one slipped.
any better touch oriented album viewer to replace the htc album app? also, would the camera app know to switch to other album prg or always insist of this damn buggy album prg ?
thanks

Camera not as good as Mogul?

Hi, I am coming from a Mogul and the camera wasn't great, though it did work in a pinch. Now I have a Sprint Diamond which I love, though the camera is so slow that I cannot take a picture or video without blur. I am not trying to complain as the phone suits my needs very well. The question is, can registry edits be made to improve the camera? Maybe speed up the process a bit?
By the way, thanks for this great site! I have learned so much already!

crizyal said:
Hi, I am coming from a Mogul and the camera wasn't great, though it did work in a pinch. Now I have a Sprint Diamond which I love, though the camera is so slow that I cannot take a picture or video without blur. I am not trying to complain as the phone suits my needs very well. The question is, can registry edits be made to improve the camera? Maybe speed up the process a bit?
By the way, thanks for this great site! I have learned so much already!
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Good question my friend. Well search for the tool called Advance Config. by default ( and i dont know why) the phone is programmed to have a slight delay when you press the action button and when it actually take the pictures.
So install that app and search for the photo options, there you can set the details, activate another options.
Have fun,

Best Picture Viewer !!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNJcBs2D4r8&feature=related
Please see this video. It's a China phone run Android OS. You can see the Picture Viewer on this device, it's awesome. I hope someone can get this application and share it.

According to the description for that video, it is not running on Android, but rather is an Android skin to whatever operating system it is running on. Probably precludes the picture viewer from running on Android.

I'm kinda shocked no one made a picture scrolling app...or at least the Astro makers released their built in one as a standalone...
I'm shocked the standard picture viewer doesnt support swipe.

Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with pushing the left and right arrow buttons to switch pictures? It's less work than swiping.

true...nothing is wrong with it, but I mean overall astros viewer (thumbnail slider, autorotate - which I think will exist in cupcake anyways if haykuro's builds are proper) is much nicer more functional when it displays (not enough menu options though..aka one...share)

nEx.Software said:
Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with pushing the left and right arrow buttons to switch pictures? It's less work than swiping.
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That's just boring swipe is more Gucci

download photoslide on the market
it has slide / swipe to nex picture
with thumbnails on the bottom
go check it out its .99
well worth it.

Why on earth would anyone want that program he couldn't even swipe the pictures. Get photoslide on the market its only $0.99 and works a lot better.

I dont like photoslide, a waste of my dollar, but someone should really make HTC Album, I had it on my Wing and loved it

AsaSpades said:
I dont like photoslide, a waste of my dollar, but someone should really make HTC Album, I had it on my Wing and loved it
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whats wrong with it then???
if you want the htc album you should get a wing right....

johnnylicious said:
whats wrong with it then???
if you want the htc album you should get a wing right....
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As you can c I HAD a Wing, and Photoslide doesnt even have a rotate feature, like rotate the picture and save it rotated, and pressing back exits the app, id rather use the stock one

AsaSpades said:
As you can c I HAD a Wing, and Photoslide doesnt even have a rotate feature, like rotate the picture and save it rotated, and pressing back exits the app, id rather use the stock one
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well, since you have ROOT G1 you an enable auto-rotate and this will also work in photoslide...
works for me....
note: you gotta download droidsan tools for this to work.

AsaSpades said:
As you can c I HAD a Wing, and Photoslide doesnt even have a rotate feature, like rotate the picture and save it rotated, and pressing back exits the app, id rather use the stock one
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The developer of photoslide has said they are working on an auto rotate feature. What don't you like about photoslide? I find its pretty close to HTC album.

i dont mean auto rotate idc about that, u evr take a pic and its sideways? Ok in photoslide you dont have the option to rotate the picture and save it rotated.

I have photoslide, It's very suck.
1. Bad icon
2. Force Close many time
3. No rotate feature
4. Bad interface
5. Must click menu to select Folder.
I thought the developer will add new feature and make his app better then I bought it. Very dissapoint

It's real Android. And I think that application can run in any android device
I have photoslide, It's very suck.
1. Bad icon
2. Force Close many time
3. No rotate feature
4. Bad interface
5. Must click menu to select Folder.
I thought the developer will add new feature and make his app better then I bought it. Very dissapoint

Can we seriously still not rotate and crop?

The Kaiser was able to crop photos and rotate them around, and I cant for the life of me stand to believe that this phone isnt capable without spb mobile shell. It wouldnt be so bad if the camera didnt store the photos upside down and sideways , no matter which way you hold the phone.
I have G sensor disabled for camera in G-config and can hold camera straight up and down and the pic store upside down one shot, and right side up the next. same problem if held horizontally. and take a pic. its becoming quite aggrivating lol. If I have missed something somewhere please flame me in the right dir .Thanks

I was a bit disappointed I couldn't find a decent app for this. As far as I know, cropping is limited to looking at a picture in Album, zooming to whaty you want then hitting menu and save screen, which will save what you see on your screen. Haven't seen any rotation or anything of the like anywhere. Perhaps whatever app you used before could be found or packaged as a cab and someone could provide that?

SDreamer said:
I was a bit disappointed I couldn't find a decent app for this. As far as I know, cropping is limited to looking at a picture in Album, zooming to whaty you want then hitting menu and save screen, which will save what you see on your screen. Haven't seen any rotation or anything of the like anywhere. Perhaps whatever app you used before could be found or packaged as a cab and someone could provide that?
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you can rotate and crop with the regular pictures and videos app

The tool you want to use for editing your photos is \Windows\pimg.exe (even most "cooks" don't remove this...I think it's the system's image rendering tool).
if you're like me and you really hate the reduced functionality of the Album app, just edit the file associations with Schap's Advanced Config, so they all open pimg instead of album.

impulse said:
you can rotate and crop with the regular pictures and videos app
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Holy.... you're right! Thanks for that! That's exactly what I was looking for, didn't even know it had auto correct....

Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!
Myrddin Wyllt said:
The tool you want to use for editing your photos is \Windows\pimg.exe (even most "cooks" don't remove this...I think it's the system's image rendering tool).
if you're like me and you really hate the reduced functionality of the Album app, just edit the file associations with Schap's Advanced Config, so they all open pimg instead of album.
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Sry for the late thanks, I didn get a chance to check my thread til today. Worked perfectly, and I learned more about advanced
config! It took me a min or two but I got it and it worked like a charm! Thanks again!

I use xnview pocketfor all my photo editing on the go. Very feature rich and best of all FREE!!!!!
http://www.xnviewpocket.org/