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It seems like there's a 50% chance that when I take a photo with the Motorola camera, it causes Screen Balance (and often Tasker) to close. They'll restart themselves after a period of course but I'm curious as to whether anyone has experienced this themselves.
Not only that, I get major redraws on the home screen.
Yeah, it's like Motorola Camera suddenly eats all the RAM for a second, kicking everything else out of memory (hence the launcher redraw). I don't get why though. So long as it isn't just me being crazy.
I just got my XT1095 last night and had this issue in the morning. Glad I'm not going crazy. BeyondPod and Waze shut off on me when I took a photo while driving to work. I'm on 22.21.11 so it's definitely there in the latest version.
Where does one report bugs for Motorola apps?
I face the same problem: using camera kills Google Maps navigation.
Test: I got waze and Google nav running at the same time, opened some random apps and then opened Camera. Took a pic, a video. Waze and Google nav still running. I'm still on kit kat
Are you all on lollipop?
CUBENSIS said:
Are you all on lollipop?
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Not me, I'm on AT&T so stuck on KitKat.
hyperspacey said:
Yeah, it's like Motorola Camera suddenly eats all the RAM for a second, kicking everything else out of memory (hence the launcher redraw). I don't get why though. So long as it isn't just me being crazy.
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I have a little bit different issue. I noticed that I can do the twist launching, so I open the camera manually, and have the same issues like you guys. I'm not sure about whether this is the camera problem or the other services that linked to the camera.
Thanks to you guys. I will avoid using moto camera for a while, although it works fine so far.
I'm on KK. The annoying thing is it isn't 100% reproducible. I sent Motorola an email via the Play Store listing for the Camera app, if anyone else feels like doing it too go ahead. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motorola.camera
Remember the bug a while back where if you turned on the flash, it would time out in a minute or so and turn itself off? And then you would get the "Cannot connect to camera" bug and couldn't use the flash or camera until you rebooted?
That was either in the L dev preview or 5.0.0, i don't remember. It seemed to be fixed in the latest patch prior to 5.1, though.
Sadly, it appears to be back in 5.1. Is there an open bug for this?
Oh gawd
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Remember the bug a while back where if you turned on the flash, it would time out in a minute or so and turn itself off? And then you would get the "Cannot connect to camera" bug and couldn't use the flash or camera until you rebooted?
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FWIW, I have never been able to duplicate the problem on my N5, either with 5.0.1 or with 5.1. Just now I turned on the flashlight via the quick settings shade and left it on for over 10 minutes. It stayed on all that time, and after I turned it off, the camera is working fine. I don't know what to conclude, but I'm glad I'm not experiencing the problem.
Also was there with 5.0.1
Sometimes the flashlight worked, but most of the time it behaved the way as in OPs post.
Annoying, especially since Xposed also doesn't work with 5.1.....used the Wanam Torch module the whole time.
Yeah Wow and I thought I was the only person with this problem I thought my flashlight LED blew out the first time it happened because it wouldn't turn back on until after I Rebooted.
yup, had the problem just now..
The bug is NOT because of Android.
The bug is that one of your APPS is poorly written, it is using the camera HAL and is not releasing it properly after use, as only one process can use the camera HAL at any given time.
Such culprit apps are usually video call apps (e.g. Skype), instant photo-sharing apps (e.g. Snapchat), flashlight apps, or a poorly written 3rd party camera app.
The timing out is likely to prevent you from burning out the flash, as it's main purpose only involves a brief flash, not continuous use.
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The bug is NOT because of Android.
The bug is that one of your APPS is poorly written, it is using the camera HAL and is not releasing it properly after use, as only one process can use the camera HAL at any given time.
Such culprit apps are usually video call apps (e.g. Skype), instant photo-sharing apps (e.g. Snapchat), flashlight apps, or a poorly written 3rd party camera app.
The timing out is likely to prevent you from burning out the flash, as it's main purpose only involves a brief flash, not continuous use.
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Wrong, faced it on Day 1 when i was in 5.0, it was a clean flash of factory image with no user apps installed.
In 5.1 so far i haven't encountered that bug.
Didnt experience it before 5.1 but now do
It did it on the developer preview also
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I had this bug from 4.4 and still happening, im used to it not a big deal. Just dont keep flash on longer then 10 min.
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The bug is NOT because of Android.
The bug is that one of your APPS is poorly written, it is using the camera HAL and is not releasing it properly after use, as only one process can use the camera HAL at any given time.
Such culprit apps are usually video call apps (e.g. Skype), instant photo-sharing apps (e.g. Snapchat), flashlight apps, or a poorly written 3rd party camera app.
The timing out is likely to prevent you from burning out the flash, as it's main purpose only involves a brief flash, not continuous use.
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Not using any of those things you mentioned.
And what you call a prevention from burning out the flash....I don't know man, since when did "having to reboot your phone because the flash would never turn back on after it turned off by itself" become a feature?
Elluel said:
The bug is NOT because of Android.
The bug is that one of your APPS is poorly written, it is using the camera HAL and is not releasing it properly after use, as only one process can use the camera HAL at any given time.
Such culprit apps are usually video call apps (e.g. Skype), instant photo-sharing apps (e.g. Snapchat), flashlight apps, or a poorly written 3rd party camera app.
The timing out is likely to prevent you from burning out the flash, as it's main purpose only involves a brief flash, not continuous use.
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So you're telling me.. When I drop down the notification page and toggle "Flashlight" and it goes out it's the "APPS" Fault. Which is the built in notification area?
I've never had a problem regarding this, fortunately.
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79565
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https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=79565
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Don't comment unless you have useful input for the developers - commenting just spams everyone on the list, meaning many will un-star it. Just star it instead.
Have this bug on clean install of 5.1
Pretty random in nature
I had the same issue and I solved going in the development option and I switched on the Awesome player option.
Seems it works. I had for 2 minutes the flash light on without problems
Initially I didn't think I had it....and I don't on a fresh boot when no notifications come in. Then I had the flashlight on and an e-mail (Gmail) notification came in, and I couldn't turn off the flashlight. Before 5.1 had it stuck on every time if the screen timed out, at least that is fixed (I think).
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I had the same issue and I solved going in the development option and I switched on the Awesome player option.
Seems it works. I had for 2 minutes the flash light on without problems
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I have no idea why this worked, but it did. 10+ minutes, no timeout!
this has been the most infuriating bug I have experienced going all the way back to making my htc ozone run on gingerbread.
has been present on every variation of lollipop I could find. my flash light would time out in 2 minutes or so.
Thank you so much!
I'm about to receive my third warranty replacement for the numerous problems I had with my Note4. Most of the problems are fixable (camera, GPS, etc), but one problem is bad and I don't see a simple solution.
Something seems to be intermittently stealing the focus from my app (I believe). So, if I'm watching YouTube, it randomly pauses because it thinks I've switched apps. If I'm recording video, it randomly stops, because it thinks I've switched apps. If I'm playing a video game, it pauses while I'm playing until 'I return'. If I go to the app-switcher, sometimes it closes randomly before I select which running app to switch to.
I actually bought a new SD card (64GB wasn't really doing it for me, anymore, anyways) but the problem persists. The phone does seem better behaved before all my apps repopulate (although there's not much to do on the phone before the apps are back), so I suspect it's an app, but I haven't heard anything about this sort of problem on any website or forum.
Lastly, the problem may have started around the time of the StageFright patch in August, but a lot of apps also updated around that time.
I'm stock 5.0.1 without root (maybe in the future), although I always disable T-Mobile bloatware like DT_Ignite. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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I'm about to receive my third warranty replacement for the numerous problems I had with my Note4. Most of the problems are fixable (camera, GPS, etc), but one problem is bad and I don't see a simple solution.
Something seems to be intermittently stealing the focus from my app (I believe). So, if I'm watching YouTube, it randomly pauses because it thinks I've switched apps. If I'm recording video, it randomly stops, because it thinks I've switched apps. If I'm playing a video game, it pauses while I'm playing until 'I return'. If I go to the app-switcher, sometimes it closes randomly before I select which running app to switch to.
I actually bought a new SD card (64GB wasn't really doing it for me, anymore, anyways) but the problem persists. The phone does seem better behaved before all my apps repopulate (although there's not much to do on the phone before the apps are back), so I suspect it's an app, but I haven't heard anything about this sort of problem on any website or forum.
Lastly, the problem may have started around the time of the StageFright patch in August, but a lot of apps also updated around that time.
I'm stock 5.0.1 without root (maybe in the future), although I always disable T-Mobile bloatware like DT_Ignite. Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Just a shot in the dark: go to Settings, Display, and make sure Smart Stay is unchecked.
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Just a shot in the dark: go to Settings, Display, and make sure Smart Stay is unchecked.
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Thanks - And sorry for the late reply (I don't remember getting a notification about a reply). I'll try your suggestion if the problem comes back.
It appears to be a problem with the Samsung Techwin app for their video cameras. For others, the app would just randomly pop-up during phone use, making the problem easier to diagnose. For me, it would just steal focus.
I uninstalled the app & things are back to normal.
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Thanks - And sorry for the late reply (I don't remember getting a notification about a reply). I'll try your suggestion if the problem comes back.
It appears to be a problem with the Samsung Techwin app for their video cameras. For others, the app would just randomly pop-up during phone use, making the problem easier to diagnose. For me, it would just steal focus.
I uninstalled the app & things are back to normal.
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Very cool you found what was giving the problem. I'll remember this fix as well, another tool in the toolbox!
Extreme lag when using camera, eventually leading to "could not open camera" error
I'm quoting this from Reddit because I am having the exact same problem:
"This randomly started happening about a month back. My front and back facing camera would lag intensely while I try to take a photo. When I move my phone around while using the stock camera app it would show everything in a frame by frame motion. When I go ahead and switch over to video mode the app freezes and then eventually crashes. This problem also happens in my Snapchat app. After either the camera app crashes or the Snapchat app crashes it causes extreme system lag and I can't use my phone for about 20-30 seconds. I have tried factory resetting my phone and it worked like normal for a few days and then the same problems started to occur. I have also tried clearing my cached data. Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?"
I'm on Chroma (4/5 build, 'stock' kernel, no xposed) and the person that posted this on reddit is completely stock.
Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
If it's happening on both a custom ROM and stock ROM, it's a hardware problem. Call Motorola.
The same happens to my nexus 6, under 6.0.1.
I don't think it's hardware: try using it on safe mode (when turning it off, push and hold the power off confirmation on screen). You'll notice that the lag in the camera app is completely gone. Any thoughts?
Safe mode certainly wouldn't hurt here, and it wouldn't be the first time I was wrong, and not the last either.
This only started happening with marshmallow for me. It was really noticeable too on Android N preview but it seems to have gotten better now. Idk, but I hope it will be fully fixed by the time N is officially out
I have this issue also, my camera app is kinda unusable, with all that lag and glitches, but it works awesome in safe mode... Did anyone found fix for this?
DUmb question...how do I get to "safe mode"?
I still have the problem with the latest Android N official ROM after flashing and clean install. Before I had the DP5 but unencrypted & it was a little bit better. Any solution / ideas?
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DUmb question...how do I get to "safe mode"?
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Hold the power off popup instead of just tapping it.
Hi,
firstly i don't know if that's good place to post.
I have experienced a bug with camera for a couple of weeks. At some point i noticed that camera runs by itself when the phone signal changes (usually from LTE to 3G). When I'm on wifi the problem doesnt occurr. Before updating to Miui12 the bug was less annoying as i turned off all camera permissions. The camera then was turning on but immediately closing. Now, after Miui12 update i did the same with permissions, the camera runs with Black screen(similarly to miui 11), but i usually need to close it manually. That's really annoying especially when I'm using some apps which minimized need to be run again from the intro screen.
Have someone experienced similar problem? Any ideas how to solve? Thanks in advance.