I've been scouring the forums in hopes of a fix for my problem (the G1 Q&A and the Android Development forums). In my searches I have found 10-20 people who have had this similar problem, specifically, a force close whenever I (we) attempt to use the camera.
I'm %90 positive this is a software issue. I have had this phone (my 3rd one) for a few months now, and never have I had any issues with the camera, i actually use the video cam fairly often. Anyways...I decided a while back to root and flash Cyanogen's latest ROM, with the latest radio (posted a few days ago) and the Death SPL. Once i completed this, I was met with an instant force close when attempting to use my camera.
I have actually wiped and installed Cyanogen's ROM 2x, (the 2 latest versions), I have also installed KingKlick latest ROM, neither of these, coupled with countless different configurations has solved the problem. I have attached a small snippet of the last log I pulled. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I also forgot to mention (and this might be completely wrong), I did restore the 1.5 image from the SPL, rebooted the phone, and the camera still didn't work, it didn't force close, just hung like it was trying to boot. I have also used the latest Super D ROM and I'm experiencing the same issue.
With my minimal knowledge, only one thing in the log jumped out at me, or, should I say I only saw one thing that I understood.
"X: /dev/msm_camera/control0 open failed: No such file or directory!"
Please help, this is a major deal for a number of people, every time it's posted, people just seem to ignore it.
Download Camera Magik from the market. If the problem is software related, then using a different camera app could be the solution. I like camera magik because is takes better pictures at low lights then the stock and the ability to zoom, but you can try any other app. Another suggestion is trying a sense based rom and using HTC camera. GL
I guess I should have said Kernel based as opposed to software based. I tried Camera Magic as well as one other new type of photo software, Camera Magic FC's, the other one opens, but, the camera never turns on.
Do you have any other apps that use camera(i.e barcode scanner, shopsavy)? You may have to uninstall and re-install. Did you wipe in-between roms? Try clearing your rotation settings from recovery, that may sort it out (I know it's a long shot). Other then that, email whoever's rom you're using directly with that log, they may be able to help you a lot faster then any of us regular folks can
Good luck
try a complete super duper wipe.
start from rc29, nonrooted. see if the camera works. if it does, start the root-rom process and check at certain intervals. if it doesnt work when your not rooted and on the stock original firmware, then its gotta be the phone. did it ever work before? i know you said this is your 3rd phone. has it ever worked on this particular phone?
First off, the camera/video has worked on all 3 of my phones, the 1st one had to be replaced because the keyboard went out, and, the 2nd one just kept randomly rebooting, the 3rd hasn't had any problems what so ever until my first root, which was Stock 2 Cyanogen.
So, I went back to RC29 unrooted and experienced a different problem. The camera didn't FC, but, it hung indefinitely at a black screen (kind of a dark grey). Unfortunately, for some reason the system option to force update to cupcake wasn't available, so, after 5hrs of waiting, I went back to root SuperD.
Downloading Sky Map (and also one other app I've found, Speedx 3d), will crash my phone. It goes into the sparky-multicolour-X reboot and boots the phone on install (the download works, the status changes to "installing", and it reboots).
This is only since applying FRF50.
I've tried uninstalling both and starting over with them, but no dice. In the past, both were on my apps2sd list on Cyanogenmod 5.0.7.
TIA for any ideas.
Hi,
I'm sorry I can't offer a solution, but I just wanted to report that I have the exact same problem, after FRF50 (and the problem persists with FRF83).
I've noticed my phone occasionally reboots at (seemingly) random occasions, sometimes two or three times a day, sometimes not at all... I don't know if it's related though.
I'm really busy at the moment, so I haven't had any time to look at the log files, but I'll try to let you know if I find a solution.
+1
Have the same problem...
... any resolution in sight?
So I love froyo and for the past week that I've had it (via ota) it has been really great, but today I began having these sudden problems:
I can't install certain apps (market or sideloaded), even though I have plenty of room for them.
Random apps that are normally stable just crash out of the blue.
The phone just keeps slowing down and things are taking longer than they should for both 2.1 and 2.2.
The phone crashed today, meaning it decided to reboot on its own accord, once when I was running a few apps at once (something that I do almost every time I pick up the phone) and was switching between them, the second time was when I had some background processes and I was browsing the web.
I was just wondering if anyone else was experiencing these problems, and if you are did it just happen suddenly one day like me or was it from the beginning? I also want to know if anyone has suggestions or a diagnosis that I should consider before emailing google.
Thanks for all the help,
Liam
Try resetting the phone to Factory (Settings-Privacy). Or if you're rooted...Wipe.
SiNJiN76 said:
Try resetting the phone to Factory (Settings-Privacy). Or if you're rooted...Wipe.
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Does that wipe apps, settings and all other data, and is there a way to get it all back?
Ever since the last update to maps the navigation gets stuck on the start up screen and vibrates constantly. I thought it might be because i was running cm7 so i flashed back to stock, 2.2. I still had the same issue so i tried 2.3.5, no change. I am currently back on cm7. I was wondering if anyone else was having this issue. Hopefully it's a simple fix, I rather enjoy that app. Thanks in advance.
I had this issue as well. The newest maps update (6.0.1) fixed it for me.
If it doesn't fix it for whatever reason, you can get around it by opening maps first and then opening navigation from there, but an update should help.
had the same thing when running CM7 nightlies, updating maps and changing to ICS worked mine out just fine.
I updated to Central Europe 4.3 this morning and all went well but my device seems quite sluggish when initially unlocking it and sometimes just when doing general tasks.
Is there anything I can do to restart my phone properly or will it just settle in time with use? I did it with user data wipe so the phone was started from scratch and it reinstalled all my apps.
I have noticed Google play services is constantly trying to run at the moment and the phone is getting a bit warm but theres no programs I can see that should need to be updating or anything.
Well the cuplrit seems to be the update to google play services (hangouts says it needs an update to get it to work with the most recent version) the updated version constantly keeps data on though and the phone gets hot and eats battery.
Google now says it cant run without the updated version either sadly not tested whether thats for any of it to run or just certain cards.
If anyone has any ideas of fixing this ill give them a try but i can live with an old version if need be.