Hello guys, i'm quite not sure whether the thread exists, i couldn't find it
My Camera stopped working, every time when i try to start camera app it shows "camera failure" or "unknown error occurred" i tried to use Instagram camera and i downloaded another camera app, but nothing is working.
then i tried factory reset, formating usb storage + sd card, at the end i flashed different JB firmware, but still nothing after all, now i'm afraid i have hardware failure, what do you think? any idea pls
try to downgrade to gb and then try to open camera and if it works...no hardware prob! If still doesn t work....i think should be an hardware prob:/
Try...maybe can help you
The touchwizz camera app, already made me lose good moments, since it takes 3 minutes to open
though this is unrelated to peet777's problem
peet777 said:
Hello guys, i'm quite not sure whether the thread exists, i couldn't find it
My Camera stopped working, every time when i try to start camera app it shows "camera failure" or "unknown error occurred" i tried to use Instagram camera and i downloaded another camera app, but nothing is working.
then i tried factory reset, formating usb storage + sd card, at the end i flashed different JB firmware, but still nothing after all, now i'm afraid i have hardware failure, what do you think? any idea pls
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Please paste logcat and dmesg log, reboot phone and after launching camera app.
How to get logcat and dmesg:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2303834
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after i rooted the phone and install lagfix 2.1.2 i found today that camera won't take pictures, the software starts, i can record video files , but when i press the take picture button the message cam out ''camera failed'' and after i press OK the software closes immediate.
Any help, i tried to found some info on forum and i tried to google it, but nothing yet.
i don't know what to try to fix this camera...for sure is something wrong with saving files, because for video is used the same camera and video is working fine, i can record etc...but when i start the camera everything is working, zoom, everything is o.k. but when i press take picture button, the camera give the error and it closes the program but it creates a picture file, but is all black...
help needed,
Thank you
kikan
kikan said:
after i rooted the phone and install lagfix 2.1.2 i found today that camera won't take pictures, the software starts, i can record video files , but when i press the take picture button the message cam out ''camera failed'' and after i press OK the software closes immediate.
Any help, i tried to found some info on forum and i tried to google it, but nothing yet.
i don't know what to try to fix this camera...for sure is something wrong with saving files, because for video is used the same camera and video is working fine, i can record etc...but when i start the camera everything is working, zoom, everything is o.k. but when i press take picture button, the camera give the error and it closes the program but it creates a picture file, but is all black...
help needed,
Thank you
kikan
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Have you tried uninstalling lag fix to see if the problem goes away ?
no, i will try now.
no lagfix is not the problem.
I uninstall it and the camera still won't make pictures...
For sure was when i rooted the phone...
maybe some kind of permission..
Thank you for suggestion, what now?
Kikan
If you have an external SD card, in camera settings, try change the store location to the sdcard and take a picture, and then change it back. It has fixed the problem for me before, although I had the problem in the camcorder mode! Some kind of glitch in the camera app, I guess.
This isn't really Android dev, should be over in the Q&A forum or something or other.
kikan said:
no lagfix is not the problem.
I uninstall it and the camera still won't make pictures...
For sure was when i rooted the phone...
maybe some kind of permission..
Thank you for suggestion, what now?
Kikan
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It could be hardware problem.
I once experienced something similar to this and no matter what firmware i flashed the problem persisted so i sent it to Samsung SVC centre and they pretty much fixed it, stating that they had replaced the camera module.
i don't have external sd card...
Interesting is that camera i sworking and video is working too, but i can record but i can't take pictures...
Hope that is not hardware problem...
i called to samsung service, and the gay there told me, that is probably something wrong with application, that maybe is there some apps, that are running in the background and this stops camera to make pictures.
first i will buy sd card and test, after
I don't want to change the rom before official release, just to test if camera will work...
I'm thinking that maybe i can uninstall all apps that a downloaded...
it's very strange that nobody had same problem...
The best thing you can do, if you accept loosing all your data, is to go in recovery mode and do a factory reset. If the problem persist after that it means that you have a hardware problem. Good luck
do i have to uninstall lagfix and unroot the phone?
i did recovery and factory reset, but camera still don't work...
I found out that doing factory reset will not delete sdcard files and i still have superuser apps installed and when i tried to install lagfix, i receive one error...so is not completely factory reset.
maybe something happen when i root the phone?
is there one way to completely remove all thing and reinstall all stuff? Just to see if i can solve camera issue...
i would like a fast and stable frojo release...
Thank
Kikan
i did a mess...
i didn0t uninstall lagfix before doing factory reset and now i think that i will go to samsung service...
i spoke with them today i and they are putting JP5 firmware now in all SGS...he thinks that firmware update can solve my camera problem...
i sow that is maybe batter to flash the JP6 firmware?Is this the stable frojo version?
thank you a lot
i solve my camera problem....
i use rom manager and Doc's Rom last jpm firmware version...
Thank you all for help me....
kikan
Sorry to ressurect an old thread.
But I'm currently experiencing this problem with the latest official release of Froyo. I've 2 Galaxy S phones here, both that I've setup, except only 1 seems to have the majority of problems.
I'm experiencing the same issues as above. Front facing camera shoots/saves, and so does the Video using the back camera. Saving pictures using the back camera fails with a simple 'camera failed' message and a broken invalid image file.
I'd like to keep my official froyo version without flashing another firmware. Strange that my other phone has none of these issues, yet is running the same firmware.
Anyone have any sort of idea what's going on or how I can solve this? Much thanks is appreciated.
I can't seem to post the screen capture. but if you want to take a look
browse via http to:
i1212.photobucket.com/albums/cc456/tempest7/GS_CameraError01.jpg
any one help me. my HTC dream g1 camera just suddenly stopped working. it just shows ""Sorry! The application Camera)process.com.android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
i tried to completely wipe my rom, upgraded to a new rom and rebooted my my g1 many times but still this problem appears.please help me!thanks!
You may need to wipe your sdcard. Other then that, may be a hardware failure. Try to get a log and post it here next time it happens, there may be some clues as to what happens to triger that.
Good luck.
So I was working on developing an app for android when I noticed that my camera had stopped working. Like many, I rebooted to find that it was still broken. This is my record for future Droid 3 users who get the same error "Unable to initialize" when starting up their camera.
To note:
I was rooted
I had the OTA update installed
Camera was working with both cases above
The camera was found broken after:
1. I was connected to the computer with "USB Mass Storage" Enabled
2. I was uploading Kitchen Sink, a test app for appcelerator through titanium X
3. I was testing geolocation which worked
4. I was testing camera which then reported "Unable to initialize"
I then quit the kitchen sink app, started the stock camera, which reported "unable to initialize"
I had read a few pages of google searches by this point like the one following:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/message/468467
I've had this camera since the release so its not that easy to simply send it to wirefly which is where I got it.
So I tried wiping the data, still didn't work. Reinstalled the camera files directly from the OTA update file, didn't work.
So what seemed to work was what follows:
-Factory reset
I restarted
held the X key
wiped cache TWICE
did a factory reset TWICE
reboot
Still didn't work.
So I restarted
held the X key
installed the latest OTA update
reboot
And now it works.
I hope this helps someone like me out there. There really isn't much material on this issue.
yea
when my camcorder wasnt workin i replaced the build.prop cause i know i did a few things that messed with it.
Can someone else confirm this fix?
Droid 3 camera not working.
So ive been looking all day on this site for a successful fix for my problem and everything I have tried is not working. Im not sure how it happened I assume I did it when installing a rom. When I Try to open my camera or anything involving the camera hardware the screen stays black and will force close then upon a second time it just pops up with the "camera was unable to initialize" Im running the Droid 3 android version 2.3.4 sys version .xt862 and currently have on the dark droid rom. Im not that good at this and have been just winging it and following walkthroughs on the sites but I seemed to have missed a step or something along the way. Any help or advice would be awesome.
Hi, i have seen many forums regarding this error, so I will post what i have tried already. Problem only on rear camera.
I did clean cache and restarted.
Reinstalled camera app/other camera apps from the store.
Started in safe mode.
Ran xperia diagnostics/service test. Camera didnt start.
As far as i can remember it happened shortly after installing avatar rom. I kept getting constant crashes so i decided to flash stock again, everything works fine but the camera.
Right now i am on 4.4.4, with the "C6602_10.5.1.A.0.283_Customized_US" firmware. Rooted using towelroot, but the problem existed before and remains after rooting.
I have been uninstalling/disabling some sistem apps through Titanium Backup , so I would say i mistakenly deleted some important system app. Can anyone share the process/apps needed to use camera? so i cant install all of them again.
Can it be the firmware? should i try a different one? I would like to fix it without having to wipe, but if it must be I will just restart from scratch.
Thanks for the assistance, feeling sort of lost on this one.
kennycol said:
Hi, i have seen many forums regarding this error, so I will post what i have tried already. Problem only on rear camera.
I did clean cache and restarted.
Reinstalled camera app/other camera apps from the store.
Started in safe mode.
Ran xperia diagnostics/service test. Camera didnt start.
As far as i can remember it happened shortly after installing avatar rom. I kept getting constant crashes so i decided to flash stock again, everything works fine but the camera.
Right now i am on 4.4.4, with the "C6602_10.5.1.A.0.283_Customized_US" firmware. Rooted using towelroot, but the problem existed before and remains after rooting.
I have been uninstalling/disabling some sistem apps through Titanium Backup , so I would say i mistakenly deleted some important system app. Can anyone share the process/apps needed to use camera? so i cant install all of them again.
Can it be the firmware? should i try a different one? I would like to fix it without having to wipe, but if it must be I will just restart from scratch.
Thanks for the assistance, feeling sort of lost on this one.
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Try with clean install. Repair it via PC Companion or reflash it via Flashtool. If still doesn't work it's probably hw problem.
ok, i tryed reflashing a couple of times, the error is still there. It doesnt seem likely that its a hardware issue. Is it possible to reinstall the files necessary for using the camera?
One other thing, i cant use pc companion repair because it says my software is modified, if i relock bootloader can i use it?
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ok, i tryed reflashing a couple of times, the error is still there. It doesnt seem likely that its a hardware issue. Is it possible to reinstall the files necessary for using the camera?
One other thing, i cant use pc companion repair because it says my software is modified, if i relock bootloader can i use it?
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Yes, you can use it with locked bl, but you don't need to do that, find .ftf ROM for your region and model or any other you like and do a clean flash via Flashtool, if still not working it's hw issue, you need new camera module.
Sent from my C6603 using XDA Free mobile app
i just reflashed 2 different roms for my phone and version. Relocked and repaired via pc companion. And nothing worked, i assume its hw damage then.
Does it happen when the phone suffers a hit? or is there another explanation?. Cant figure out how it happened.
Thank you for all your help.
kennycol said:
i just reflashed 2 different roms for my phone and version. Relocked and repaired via pc companion. And nothing worked, i assume its hw damage then.
Does it happen when the phone suffers a hit? or is there another explanation?. Cant figure out how it happened.
Thank you for all your help.
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Hi, kennycol
Can you tell me if it is hardware problem?
I met the same problem
After revive my C6833, the camera can't work. Firstly，the front camera is OK，but not a long time, it also can't work.
After I flashed other rom using flashtool, two camera both can not work.
when I use camera , phone shows "unfortunately, the camera stopped"
press *#*#7378423#*#*
enter service test
camera CAMERA NOT CONNECTED
Secondary camera THIS DEVICE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE FUNCTION
Then, I reflash it by S1tool, the things repeat again.
First thanks xda forums and members for helping.
Each time i turn on the camera it says Can't connect to the camera or Camera might be in use by another app.
What i did try:
-Clear cache and disable enable app
-Restarted phone
- Formated the phone
After i formated it the camera app was gone and i downloaded another app form playstore and it same error again. I tried to enable the app by apps but the disable button was greyed out.
I opened up the phone and disconnected / connected the camera & and booted the phone again but still the phone wouldnt work.
I am facing the exact same problem with my K3 Note and i have tried all the possible methods available on the internet so far but without success. Need help.
maniche0201 said:
I am facing the exact same problem with my K3 Note and i have tried all the possible methods available on the internet so far but without success. Need help.
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tell me if you fix it, did you take it to the service ?i havent taken my phone there yet , i usualy fix all my computers/phone problems myself but cant do anything to this one.
I have the exactly problem after I change the photo storage location from internal storage to external sd card. I think it is a issue of android 7.1.2
It is normal after I change back to internal storage and reset the camera.