Is there a resource somewhere that I can use to troubleshoot a potentially busted camera?
Using the stock firmware (RC29), on a fresh install, the camera and gallery apps crash with "Activity Camera (in application Camera) is not responding", with only an option to force close. 3 out of 4 times, the device reboots when I click FC.
I've also used Cyanogen (4.2.15.1) and SuperD (1.10.3), and in both cases, the camera app crashes with "The application Camera (process com.android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." Force close doesn't result in a reboot, though. Also, in these cases, the gallery works fine (I've uploaded some photos, and am able to view them without a problem).
In searching for solutions, I saw some suggestions to replace the existing Camera.apk with the original google one. I did give that a go, using 3 different versions -- one from JF 1.5, the one from DRC83_Defanged, and Cyanogen's (the current firmware I'm using). Both Cyanogen's and the DRC83 apks instantly crashed (process com.android.camera FC error).
On the other hand, the one from JF's package loaded, and had the camera icon appear in the top right corner of the screen, as if it could take a picture. The screen was completely black, though. Pushing the camera icon generated the FC error.
I haven't done any log checking while swapping out the different apks, but previously, the error log matched the problem occurring with "Issue 1037" on Cyanogen's google code page. (tried to link to it, but I haven't had the restriction removed yet.)
Are there any diagnostic tools or tricks that I can use to see if the camera itself is broken? I also have no problem physically cracking my G1 open -- I've already replaced the ribbon cable. I also double-checked that the camera ribbon was seated properly...it's a nasty one to get back in with my vision problems
Thanks in advance,
Nate
nphillips said:
Is there a resource somewhere that I can use to troubleshoot a potentially busted camera?
Using the stock firmware (RC29), on a fresh install, the camera and gallery apps crash with "Activity Camera (in application Camera) is not responding", with only an option to force close. 3 out of 4 times, the device reboots when I click FC.
I've also used Cyanogen (4.2.15.1) and SuperD (1.10.3), and in both cases, the camera app crashes with "The application Camera (process com.android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again." Force close doesn't result in a reboot, though. Also, in these cases, the gallery works fine (I've uploaded some photos, and am able to view them without a problem).
In searching for solutions, I saw some suggestions to replace the existing Camera.apk with the original google one. I did give that a go, using 3 different versions -- one from JF 1.5, the one from DRC83_Defanged, and Cyanogen's (the current firmware I'm using). Both Cyanogen's and the DRC83 apks instantly crashed (process com.android.camera FC error).
On the other hand, the one from JF's package loaded, and had the camera icon appear in the top right corner of the screen, as if it could take a picture. The screen was completely black, though. Pushing the camera icon generated the FC error.
I haven't done any log checking while swapping out the different apks, but previously, the error log matched the problem occurring with "Issue 1037" on Cyanogen's google code page. (tried to link to it, but I haven't had the restriction removed yet.)
Are there any diagnostic tools or tricks that I can use to see if the camera itself is broken? I also have no problem physically cracking my G1 open -- I've already replaced the ribbon cable. I also double-checked that the camera ribbon was seated properly...it's a nasty one to get back in with my vision problems
Thanks in advance,
Nate
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managerd any workaround?
im having the same issue right now!
shikhar623 said:
managerd any workaround?
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yea any fix yet bro? i threw down my g1 for a really long time now i have to run back to it after three high end phones, i also forgot why i threw it down until now when i saw a photo moment. so any fixes?
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Since it seems impossible to read anything on cyanogens experimental thread without page after page of complaints that apps are not working. This has nothing to do with his ROM (for the most part), and should not be clogging up that thread. My suggestion is if there is an app issue, post it here for others to discuss, or just stay off of experimental builds.
I will begin with Bluex not working. The new framework will not allow root access to bluex. I have contacted the dev, but no response. The devs blog has not been touched in a few months, and I worry it has been abandoned.
Well I will keep this list up to date.
Power Manager: some icons to desable certain functions don't work (GPS)
T-Mobile My Account: Quick Tools tab causes FC
dg alert classic
I've had a problem with dg alert classic, I've uninstalled and reinstalled all to no avail, and this is the best app for managing ringtones and alerts
these havent worked for me:
Bluex - Bluetooth Fileshare: can send but not recieve (with root) as error appears when enabling server.
Toggle Settings: app force closes
Taskiller: widget doesnt update as it should (rest of the app works fine)
will update if i find more
Weather Channel and Weatherbug Elite: A 8x8 portion of the map wont update.
Youtube downloader: When trying to open a video it reboots the phone entirely. Fixed Permisions and running fine now. Im dumb =P
Amazon Mobile: Cannot Press the I accept button. ( I got around this by just copying the datastore.xml file from my wife's G1.)
Gameboid: Im not 100% sure this is a donut issue but nothing will play for me.
wysinc plus doesnt work for me
power manager 1.6 force closes before starting
MixZing - Cant access settings.
Alarming! - I made a post about in in a separate thread, but the alarm volume just is horrible!! Wouldn't wake up a baby even with V7 audio mod.
jpcastedo said:
Well I will keep this list up to date.
Power Manager: some icons to desable certain functions don't work (GPS)
T-Mobile My Account: Quick Tools tab causes FC
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I have both these working perfectly fine on mine.
Nombuzz don't work with donut's....
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Gameboid: Im not 100% sure this is a donut issue but nothing will play for me.
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If you wiped data and then upgraded to donut you need to reinstall the apk/program. I had that problem with force closes as soon as I clicked on the program before. A simple reinstall will do the trick and no its not a CM or Donut issue, thats just the way that is lol.
ToggleSettings and Useful switcher dont work. Most likely because the donut framework is all different
Nask26 said:
Weather Channel and Weatherbug Elite: A 8x8 portion of the map wont update.
Youtube downloader: When trying to open a video it reboots the phone entirely.
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Verified Weather app with the 8x8 block in the lower left not updating. (Weather Channel app in my test).
Havent tried Youtube app yet. I remember cyan fixing something with this a couple revisions back. Are you running the latest (4.1.10.1 or 4.1.11.1?)
Can also verify on the Weather Channel 8x8 block not updating. This problem came up a while ago..On one of Cyan's recent experimental ROM's. probably 4.1.4. I am using his most recent, 4.1.11.1, and the problem still exists. Tried reinstalling, doesn't work. the 8x8 block seems to appear on apps other than google maps, that use the map function. Places Directory is another app that has that 8x8 block.
tekkitan said:
Verified Weather app with the 8x8 block in the lower left not updating. (Weather Channel app in my test).
Havent tried Youtube app yet. I remember cyan fixing something with this a couple revisions back. Are you running the latest (4.1.10.1 or 4.1.11.1?)
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I need to edit the post on that one, Youtube downloader only crashes my phone when opening a video from inside that app. I can use SUFBS and open the videos just fine once they are downloaded. Im running 11.1.....UPDATE lol as I was typing this I though hey I should fix permissions and see if that helps. It works fine now =P
Yaboiaj THanks for the tip on Gameboid!
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Alarming! - I made a post about in in a separate thread, but the alarm volume just is horrible!! Wouldn't wake up a baby even with V7 audio mod.
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Not only, but settings gives FC.
Also,
Budgetroid - Forceclose when opening. Gives same logcat error as Alarming FC.
Ustream won't work and Pandora seems to cause my phone to reboot. a couple of times but not all.
app manager pro ive noticed doesnt work.....
Donut issues
I have found that somthing has changed with the way SQL works.
What i have noticed if u have an app that was previously installed that needed to create a table it works fine on donut but if you happened to wipe or delete your tables when going to donut alot of apps fail trying to create a new table. I am not saying this is the case for all apps.. but 3 of my own i had to recode to use tables a little differently and a few other apps im seeing identicle error logs as my apps were giving
Moxier Mail doesn't seem to work with Donut. You can setup your account sync, but after the setup is complete and it tries to switch to the main mail list screen, FC.
Well I took the plunge last night and rooted and installed the Cynogen ROM and after some pretty tense moments everything worked!!
Only thing is Cherry Rplayer, a decent radio app I liked will no longer work: I get a "Sorry! The application Cherry Rplayer (process com.leadapps.android.radio.cherryrplayer) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again. Force close" message immediately upon launch.
I searched for a similar app & found 'A Online Radio' (which looks exactly the same as Cherry Rplayer in the screenshots in the app store?) and it does the same exact thing.
Other radio apps continue to work fine such as 'NPR News'. I've also tried re-installing and still does not work.
What's up with that?
Thanks in advance
Did you flash with the latest version, ie, 5.0.5.2? One of the changes include
* Disable V8 in Webkit and switch back to JSC due to app incompatibilities
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No, I used 5.0.5.1. But I just upgraded to 5.0.5.2 and launching these apps result in the same immediate force close message.
In case anyone else is having the same problem, I was able to find in another thread that fixing uid mismatches in recovery (THANKS jsapp & travon802!) solves this problem...
I'm having the same problem with Power Manager Pro (I bought it, so it's kind of annoying) and fixing uid mismatches didn't solve it.
Happens since CM5.0.5. I'm currently on 5.0.5.2
I have the latest updates from samsung, and a rooted tab. Recently the camera stopped working. I could open it, but when I clicked on any of the settings, it showed I was touching them, but didn't bring up any menus, the preview screen is completely black, but camera apps from the marked DO work... I'm assuming something happened to my camera.apk?
Also, when I try and attach a file using the email app, I click "attach file" and it saves an email draft then nothing else happens... is it because I uninstalled the thinkfree.apk?
I've read that the camera and email are related... so perhaps that is where my problem lies?
Also, how can I install the camera.apk? I got a backup of it but after uninstalling the old one, I just get "install failed" or whatever...
Thanks!!!
Try a factory reset. Settings, Privacy, factory reset (wipes user data). If it doesnt work. Search this forum it has email app somewhere.
I was hoping to avoid that... oh well. thanks
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I have the latest updates from samsung, and a rooted tab. Recently the camera stopped working. I could open it, but when I clicked on any of the settings, it showed I was touching them, but didn't bring up any menus, the preview screen is completely black, but camera apps from the marked DO work... I'm assuming something happened to my camera.apk?
Also, when I try and attach a file using the email app, I click "attach file" and it saves an email draft then nothing else happens... is it because I uninstalled the thinkfree.apk?
I've read that the camera and email are related... so perhaps that is where my problem lies?
Also, how can I install the camera.apk? I got a backup of it but after uninstalling the old one, I just get "install failed" or whatever...
Thanks!!!
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I`m getting Force Close everytime i try to open camera on my GTab, but i have an app called "camera 360" and that working very good. This problem since today. It coud be from changeing lcd density ?
Try 182 density.
wackymix said:
I`m getting Force Close everytime i try to open camera on my GTab, but i have an app called "camera 360" and that working very good. This problem since today. It coud be from changeing lcd density ?
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I'm running the latest stock rooted (2.16.651.4) and just tried to use the Zoe function in camera. It's the first time I've tried to use it since the update, and it's crashing the camera app left and right. When I switch from any other function to Zoe, crash. I bring camera back up, and it'll be in Zoe, but half of the time, it'll crash right away again. If it does stay up, it seems to work until I switch away and back again.
My question is, could anyone share the apk for camera (assuming it'll contain all of the functions including Zoe) so I can try to reload the app? Or if anyone knows of a different fix, I'm certainly open to suggestions. Thanks.
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I'm running the latest stock rooted (2.16.651.4) and just tried to use the Zoe function in camera. It's the first time I've tried to use it since the update, and it's crashing the camera app left and right. When I switch from any other function to Zoe, crash. I bring camera back up, and it'll be in Zoe, but half of the time, it'll crash right away again. If it does stay up, it seems to work until I switch away and back again.
My question is, could anyone share the apk for camera (assuming it'll contain all of the functions including Zoe) so I can try to reload the app? Or if anyone knows of a different fix, I'm certainly open to suggestions. Thanks.
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Try clearing the App Cache in the App Settings to reset the camera to the default settings.
Edit: Interestingly enough, my camera app crashes when I switch to Zoe, but without a crash alert (not sure if my custom Rom has blocked those). The difference is that u can open my camera into Zoe, and successfully capture Zoe images.
That's almost identical to my problem. No crash alert, the app just goes down. If, by stroke of luck, I can get it to run with Zoe, I can take images just fine. The problem shows back up when I try to use any other camera function then go back to Zoe.
I did get one error, systemui crashed and it was the report or not error, but that only happened once.
I cleared the cache, and while it doesn't crash 8 out of 10 times, it'll still go down like 4 out of 10. If I cleared the app data, would that smoke my pictures or anything?
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That's almost identical to my problem. No crash alert, the app just goes down. If, by stroke of luck, I can get it to run with Zoe, I can take images just fine. The problem shows back up when I try to use any other camera function then go back to Zoe.
I did get one error, systemui crashed and it was the report or not error, but that only happened once.
I cleared the cache, and while it doesn't crash 8 out of 10 times, it'll still go down like 4 out of 10. If I cleared the app data, would that smoke my pictures or anything?
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No. It only clears the App data for the camera, making it as 8f you opened the camera for the first time, pop-up tips and all.
Well, I cleared the app data, and while it didn't completely fix things, it's definitely crashing less. If I last used the camera in Zoe, the next camera launch crashes, along with a random crash when switching from another function to Zoe. It certainly ain't perfect, it'll do for now I suppose.
Hello, when I updated from 10.3.3 to 11.0.3, the official camera app of the phone is in incredibly laggy. When I take a photo, I often have to close and reopen it, because it stucks. I performed a clean update and I tried to reset the app many times. What I could do?
I have the same problem. In stock cam, the "vídeo" wont works, just work when I restart. You have found any solution?
Hi, I have a problem with the native camera app version 3.0.
Sometimes "corrupt" pictures appear in the camera folder when I want to paste into WhatsApp. They just appear as a gray icon with an exclamation mark and when I select it I get the message: "This file format is not supported". Other images are previewed, but they cannot be inserted too.
When I open the camera folder with a file manager, these images are not displayed. I suspect that it happens when I delete some pictures in the camera app.
Best regards
Manfred