Camera and Gallery - Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help &

Hi,
I've been searching high and low for a solution, but one or another it just fails.
Here's the problem.
I've just rooted my SGS3 LTE. I'm on rXTREME.JB-4.3-v2.2 with Boeffla-Kernel-5.1-Beta13.
At first I used the stock kernel as Boeffla's causes camera failure (after reading and searching). Then i reflashed Boeffla's again and the camera works. Now another problem surfaces, whenever I take pictures, I try switch to gallery to view them from the camera app but it freezes the camera and eventually crashes but the gallery opens.
Now I've tried clearing the data for both the gallery and camera and it kind of worked, I managed to switch to gallery after taking pictures but now when I press back to switch back to camera, it freezes. Had to pull battery to shut it off.
And note, this happens regardless of the kernel I'm using.
So there you go, any takers?
update: something that I observed, whenever the view switches from landscape to portrait, and vice versa, it causes the device into an eternal hang and it finally crashes, i.e taking pictures in potrait and opening picture in landscape causes it to freeze and crash. Watching Youtube when switch to full screen view (landscape) and switching back to portrait causes it to freeze and crash as well, etc.

Have you tried a different rom. Sounds like a rom issue

Yup, I realized it was a custom rom issue, reflashed stock rom and reroot didn't have any issues. Cheers!
Sent from my GT-I9305 using Tapatalk

Give a try on the Agni kernel, it has the 9305 sources for better compatibility or the Boeffla beta 14..

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I've been using Cyanogen for a few months and now I face this problem:
When I use the camera, i see a black screen with controls, and can take pictures, however, I see a black screen and not what you expect to see as the view is the camera lens.
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Dear jhonnyx,
I had the exactly same issue and I found it was a Kernel issue.
I was using wrong CF-Root and solved it just by flashing new kernel.
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[Q] Stock camera makes corrupted photos

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The problem which I have happens on stock ROMs with a main I9000 camera. It shows the picture fine, focuses also ok, writes a video just fine, but if I make a shot, it does corrupt it and save just "black" photo on the disk. Front camera make shots just fine.
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have similar problem for a long time, but reinstalling stock or other ROMs DOES NOT fixes the issue.
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panaroma works fine.
but when i'm trying to take a normal shot i can see the image, the camera focuses but when saved its a black/grey photo. (the corrupted pics are corrupted on the computer too .. )
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Camera lag issues

I don't know if it is very common or not but I have been facing a lot of camera lag. It takes some time whenever I open the camera app although photos are clicked without lag.
Apart from that, whenever I have to share a photo through WhatsApp and go to camera to click the picture, the lag seems much higher and a few times phone hanged and restarted too.
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yeah... i've been facing this same issue... but .... to take regular photos.. if i try to shoot any photo takes 10... 15 seconds or to open the camera or to take the photo.... i will try to flash a custom rom today and see if this issue remains....
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[Q] Possibly faulty camera. module.

Hello everybody.
I have been having a strange issure with my i9295's camera, and thought I'd get some feedback. For a long time I used the 4.2.2 rooted firmware and everything was fine, but then I broke the screen and replaced it, and decided to try using custom ROMs.
Now, I'm not sure if it is related to me taking the thing apart and putting it back together, or just from using custom ROMs, but the issue seems too convenient to happen on three different versions, with three different stock camera apps.
My problem is now, that whichever stock camera app I try to use, the phone will freeze for 4-5 seconds when taking a photo, and will completely freeze and make the camera inaccessible to any app until I restart if I try to shoot using HDR. I tried some random 4.42 version, Paranoid 4.4.4 and now CM12 5.0. They all had a different type or version of the camera, but all the same issue. Yet I have no issues using CameraZoom FX. I'd just like to be able to use the stock app for it's features and speed.
Is a non-working stock camera a known issue, is it a convenient software bug that happened to be in the exact 3 roms I used, or is there a possibility that I damaged the camera module when I disassembled?
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Rear Camera and Flash not working. (Possible Camera Firmware problem)

Ok, the rear camera doesn't open. I can't switch to it in the camera app or snapchat etc. Flash doesn't work either, and if I do the "V" gesture for flash when the phone is locked, it restarts. I have:
* Cleared cache/data
* Disabled and re-enabled the app.
* Dirty flashed OOS 4.1.7 multiple times and have also flashed Franko's Kernel which I normally use (currently running stock kernel though).
* Google camera app multiple times. (had this before too, then I deleted it after this camera problem arose)
Not sure if relevant but TWRP has been giving me some error I haven't been able to fix for some time, and can't delete the file that it says it can't open (through twrp itself or cmd+adb) . Relevant SS attached.
Thanks.
You may want to try to flash the phone using the unbrick tutorial. Make sure you have a backup of internal memory
Hmm, I haven't tried that. I just did a clean install with no success. I deleted everything except USB OTG from TWRP. This has become much harder to fix than it should be . I didn't even do anything to set it off, I was in snapchat and took a pic and then it stopped and the rear camera/flash haven't worked since.
Just to update, I just tried a clean install of NLOS Lineage OS and the rear camera/flash still didn't work. Also, if I try to take any type of video with front camera the phone says "Low memory, adjust the picture resolution or delete some files" even though there's only 3.3 GB of space used.
Also, after a clean flash and wipe of everything the error reported by TWRP no longer exists. So that wasn't what was causing the problem.
Just used the unbrick tutorial. It worked perfectly however the problem still persists and remains unchanged. Anyone have any other ideas?
After some deep diving through forums I decided to use the phone's inbuilt hardware tests, in particular *#808#, as the camera test given by dialing *#*#34971539#*#* doesn't work. Firstly, the flash works through the hardware test (although quick settings still doesn't). The "foolproof camera test" gives BackCamera PASS and FrontCamera Fail. This makes sense as when I go to the individual tests the "backcamera" shows the front camera image, while the "frontcamera" just says "cannot open camera". The PDAF/Cam_EEPROM info test says "FAIL Qualcomm", which I believe is the camera firmware not working. The storage test says "sdcard is unavailable" which I assume is why the camera isn't allowing me to record any video through the selfie camera and says "Low memory".
In summary, how do I fix the camera firmware problem and the sd card error?
RMA your phone, hardware fault.
Ok Thanks.
So there is no way to update/fix the firmware problem?
luusid said:
Ok Thanks.
So there is no way to update/fix the firmware problem?
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No.
P.S. "Thanks" button is for thanking, by the way. Use it in the future on this forum, whenever somebody helps you.
Im having the same problem on my one plus 3...did u find any solutions??? if yes plz lemme know.
I haven't found a solution.i replaced both The front and back camera and even played with old/new cameras in different configuration (old front + new back / new front+old back / no front + new or old back and so on) varying the result from "Back camera pass/Front camera fail to both Fail ) .the funny thing Is that if you just remove back camera and do the diagnostic menu *#808# > foolproof camera test it still says back camera pass
I have the same problem... And my camera before of this beta worked awesome... Beta 24 **** our phones...
Experiencing the same problem with the front (away) facing camera and the flashlight.
Same Problem for me since the latest official Beta. Ich tried resetting and reflashing the Phone with the last official stable rom. Did not help.
I think I solved this. I let the phone cool down then i powered it off. I let it cool down a bit again and then booted it back up. The camera and FL work.
It seems that this happends when the phone gets heated, at least in my case.
I have the same problem, camera was working fine yesterday. Foolproof camera test shows front camera fail. But the front camera works

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