Hi,
Anyone know of any ROM for Kaiser with the Camera Function Disable?
The organization that I work at does not allow Phones with Camera Function.
What can be allowed is, disable the Camera in the ROM, and then Seal off the Camera with Security Stickers.
It’ll be great if someone can assist.
Thanks & Regards,
Simon Goh
I haven't seen a rom like that. I don't have a camera on mine (Tilt NC aka 8900) but have you looked at physically removing the camera. If its anything like my 8125 was I was able to take the back cover off, remove the camera (its a tiny little daughter board that just plugs in) and put the back cover on. The lens was still there so it prevented dust from getting in and if you looked into the lens you could see the camera was missing and see down into the device. Once the camera was removed if you hit the camera button all it did was open Pictures & Videos.
Cover / remove the camera lense, then re-assign the camera button so it points to something else.
Go to windows / start menu / programs and delete the shortcut to camera
go to windows/ and delete camera.exe
I would guess that would do the same as a rom with no camera except the registry entries would still be there. The good thing about this though is a hard reset would put it back like it was should you change jobs or sell the phone.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'll still need a Non Camera Edition ROM.
The problem is, security officers will go to the extend of hard reset your PDA and check if the camera will work thereafter.
It'll be great if someone can help.
Tinyk said:
Cover / remove the camera lense, then re-assign the camera button so it points to something else.
Go to windows / start menu / programs and delete the shortcut to camera
go to windows/ and delete camera.exe
I would guess that would do the same as a rom with no camera except the registry entries would still be there. The good thing about this though is a hard reset would put it back like it was should you change jobs or sell the phone.
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simongoh said:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I'll still need a Non Camera Edition ROM.
It'll be great if someone can help.
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There are no non-camera ROMs. The 8925 and the 8900 use the same ROM (as do the 8500/8525 and the 8100/8125). Whether or not the camera functions work is if the camera hardware is installed or not.
Physically remove the camera from the device and it disables all the functions in the ROM.
The problem with only having it disabled in the ROM is there would be nothing to stop someone from running a cab file and restoring the camera function once inside the restricted area. If your security officer allows this to pass as acceptable then the site has piss poor security procedures.
If I find the manual later I'll post the link. The only one I have here right now is the one for the Wizard (8125) as I took that one apart to remove the camera on it.
ATT Non-Camer Tilt - Available for Business
ATT Makes a version of the phone for Business without the actual Camera Hardware in it.
Call ATT Premier, sorry I don't have the number, but their business sales should be able to help
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I am looking for somebody to please attach to this thread a .reg of virgin (or nearly) settings stored in HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera
I'm trying to figure out a problem I've read about in other threads with unsatisfactory resolutions (hard reset and/or disable a feature). There are actually two problems.
1. My camera started locking up after taking pictures and pictures would not save. In Camera\Image there's a setting EnableEncodePortrait that controls whether the camera automatically rotates the picture 90 degrees. If you disable this, the camera WILL take pictures again, but...
2. The Album shows all new pictures rotated incorrectly 90 degrees. Basically, every picture is portrait and not landscape.
Now, these two problems seem to oppose each other. If you want the pictures autorotated to the correct orientation, you need the setting enabled. But if you don't want the camera to freeze you need it disabled. lol
Obviously somewhere along the line in my tweaking I've fouled something up. I'm thinking it's just a matter of finding some setting to tweak back to an appropriate value, so I wanted to compare the registry from a virgin install to mine. I would hard reset myself, but then I can't test to see if I fixed the problem or not.
Can I get a hand, my fellow tweakers?!
Thanks!
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EDIT: I've found that my problem was the Diamond 2's gsensor. After I uninstalled that, and set EnableEncodePortrait back to zero, my problems magically disappeared.
are there anyway to have camera work proper with diamond 2 gsensor?
i dont think the solution is to uninstall and forget about it. i never have any problems with camera. i know the camera uses the accelerometer to decide whether to have the picture in landscape or portrait. i have an issue with double rotate in album though. ill have to get some proper screenshots of what i mean. other problems i have is teeter freaks out. i solved that by deleting the entry for it in gconfig. the rest i havent decided yet.
thanks
i uninstalled and live happily ever after~
I want to be able to change the settings in tjmhe camera app and have them as I left them when I fire the camera up again butbit seems the settings are lost on exiting. Any way to make them stick between use?
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I want to be able to change the settings in tjmhe camera app and have them as I left them when I fire the camera up again butbit seems the settings are lost on exiting. Any way to make them stick between use?
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The only one that doesn't stick for me is the Exposure setting, everything else sticks (front/back, flash on/off, white balance).
Looks like another bug, feature request that needs to be reported (or starred if already reported) at: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list
The camera software on the Nexus S is the biggest disappointment, software-wise, on the phone for me. Not nearly as nice as the Samsung or HTC camera software.
Thanks, haven't tried the other settings, exposure was the one I wanted to stick... sods law!
Hey All,
Replaced my cracked screen this weekend. Everything seems to be back to functional now, EXCEPT
- the ambient light sensor isn't working
- the rear camera isn't working
If I open the camera app (any camera app) it will show the front camera so I see my stupid face, but if I push the "use the other camera" button nothing happens.
Entirely possible I messed something up in the reassembly, BUT before I go and take the thing apart again I was wondering if there was anything I could try from a software / firmware perspective first.
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Hey All,
Replaced my cracked screen this weekend. Everything seems to be back to functional now, EXCEPT
- the ambient light sensor isn't working
- the rear camera isn't working
If I open the camera app (any camera app) it will show the front camera so I see my stupid face, but if I push the "use the other camera" button nothing happens.
Entirely possible I messed something up in the reassembly, BUT before I go and take the thing apart again I was wondering if there was anything I could try from a software / firmware perspective first.
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Well, I am not the biggest hardware person, but I believe you can run the RUU and detect if it is a hardware issue. Again, I am not sure, you may want to double check.
Bump, anyone else have any suggestions for ways to "wake up" my camera?
FYI for anyone else who stumbled upon this thread - the problem was a disconnected ribbon cable that I missed. Between the motherboard and the plate that the camera sits on it a TINY ribbon cable (lengthwise) that has to plug into the back of the motherboard. It's nearly impossible to get even the tiniest tool in between the motherboard and the front assembly while this cable can reach its connector. So if you end up in this situation, have a lot of patience. I don't know if there's a way to get the screen off WITHOUT disconnecting this cable, but I certainly couldn't find one.
I got my OP6 and installed whatsapp and I am now trying to activate web whatsapp which requires you to scan a QR code on a web page on your computer.. However the camera is not focusing and therefore recognising the QR code. If I try to take a picture in a whatsapp chat it shows a very clear picture.
I've added a screenshot of what this looks like. I tried pressing the screen, double tapping, rebooting etc. I use a custom ROM, Havoc.
By moving fingers over the two lenses I've figured out that whatsapp is using bottom of the two lenses present lens for finding QR code.
Is this a hardware problem? Or is there something else going on? Can I test this somehow? I am not sure how I can just test this one lens alone.
Thanks in advance for any help!
EDIT: I did read up on all the camera problem threads but it seems my problem is just with the lower lens hence this thread.
I just checked with a supermarket app that allows you to scan their items and here the scan camera focused quickly and perfectly.
roel1976 said:
I got my OP6 and installed whatsapp and I am now trying to activate web whatsapp which requires you to scan a QR code on a web page on your computer.. However the camera is not focusing and therefore recognising the QR code. If I try to take a picture in a whatsapp chat it shows a very clear picture.
I've added a screenshot of what this looks like. I tried pressing the screen, double tapping, rebooting etc. I use a custom ROM, Havoc.
By moving fingers over the two lenses I've figured out that whatsapp is using bottom of the two lenses present lens for finding QR code.
Is this a hardware problem? Or is there something else going on? Can I test this somehow? I am not sure how I can just test this one lens alone.
Thanks in advance for any help!
EDIT: I did read up on all the camera problem threads but it seems my problem is just with the lower lens hence this thread.
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The lower lense isn't for capturing images.
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The lower lense isn't for capturing images.
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But if whatsapp forced the use of this lens on OP6 more people would have seen this issue? Can you try it perhaps. No need to scan, just activate the camera: open Whatsapp > three dots at top right > WhatsApp Web.
Thanks!
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But if whatsapp forced the use of this lens on OP6 more people would have seen this issue? Can you try it perhaps. No need to scan, just activate the camera: open Whatsapp > three dots at top right > WhatsApp Web.
Thanks!
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I don't use that app.
Whatsupp?
Have u tried cleaning the lens?
I had the same issue but it was when installed omni rom.. i have played with it a bit flashed back oos, and it working properly.
I have same problem, but i use custom rom, liquid_remix.
Has anyone got the solution?
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The lower lense isn't for capturing images.
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yes it is, open the camera and place your finger on the lower lense and you will see that no image can be captured. Upper lense is depth sensor also a camera with autofocus.
if you want to test the cameras dial *#*#1597#*#* and you can change wich of both cameras you want to use to take pics. (at least in oxygenOS, i dont know about other roms). to discard a hardware malfunction, propper way to test this is to install stock OOS, then dial that number and check if both cameras focus (point at a distant object and see if it is focused, then place your hand close to the camera and see if it can focus on it) and check if OIS work (activate the camera and move the phone and look at the camera if it moves with the phone or if it stabilizes correctly)
I was previously on android 10 i believe just a few days ago and my camera was working just fine. The other day I got a notification telling me to update to android 11...so i did and didn't think anything of it.
I use my camera alot for photography so this is very important to me, google camera or any app that uses your camera no longer works.
Example 1: As soon as I launch google camera it just crashes.
Example 2: Snapchat, instagram, or any other apps just give me the error like "snapchat was unable to open the camera".
I know a lot of people are getting this same issue because if you go to the play store and go to google camera app and sort reviews by recent tons of users are experiencing this.
I have two theories on what's causing this.
Theory 1: I've been using an app called "lens cap - disable camera" for over a year now just for peace of mind, I guess it used some sort of device administrator priveledges to block all apps from accessing the camera.
I believe I had the lens cap on (camera disabled) before and when I started updating to android 11 and I think that may have caused a weird break in permissions that somehow has me permanently unable to use the camera anymore.
The reason why this is something I suspect is because according to the developer of that app "android 11 removed most of the functionality of device administrator in favor of enterprise work profiles" (not sure what this means) but I think for some reason this caused it to get permanently blocked.
I have the github page for the apps source code if anyone can possibly look at it and see what exactly the app was changing in the first place because then maybe that way someone can possibly come up with a way to fix mine and many others cameras.
Edit: Apparently I'm not allowed to post links on a new account but the program can be found on github called LensCap by a user named percula
Theory 2: Android 11 just broke the camera by itself and the lens cap app maybe has nothing to do with it.
Ive already done all the obvious troubleshooting like resetting permission/preferences, restarting in safe mode, uninstalling and reinstalling camera apps + clearing cache and storage etc
Sorry of my formatting or grammar is sloppy at all I've had a long day and I just really want to get this working again
If none of your troubleshooting fixed the issue, I think the next option is to do a full reset (using recovery - not the selection in the settings menu). Another alternative is to flash the full factory image and allow it to factory reset the phone as well.
This will mean loosing all your app data and pictures, etc, so back up before you do it. But I am confident it will fix your issue, regardless of the actual cause.
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If none of your troubleshooting fixed the issue, I think the next option is to do a full reset (using recovery - not the selection in the settings menu). Another alternative is to flash the full factory image and allow it to factory reset the phone as well.
This will mean loosing all your app data and pictures, etc, so back up before you do it. But I am confident it will fix your issue, regardless of the actual cause.
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So would you recommend doing "recovery" or "flashing"? Also how do I get to this "recovery" thing,
originally I was thinking about trying to downgrade back to android 10 but from what I remember the steps looked really confusing ;w;
Apparently a lot of people are getting this issue but in the end they said they had to try and RMA it, so I hope recovering or flashing fixes it, kinda worried this update actually permabricked something in my phone.
sorry if its a dumb question I don't know much about phone stuffs
thank you for your response.
There's definitely an issue with android 11 and the camera.
I didnt have any issues on the beta 2, 2.5, or 3. But upon installing the public, official version.. the camera fails. I've tried 2 factory resets. I've installed the ota.zip via adb sideload. And then did a complete format and install of the full image.
Here's what issue I'm having, personally:
When I open the gcam app, it freezes for about 15 seconds. Then I get the "not responding" screen. If I hit wait, about 15 second later, I get the camera on and it's images are on the screen. But it's so laggy that it's not even functional. For instance, If I try to zoom in, it's about 20 seconds until it actually does. Same for taking a picture. I have sent bug reports to them.
I'm gonna downgrade to a better/smoother version. Probably a custom android 10.
Like others, I use it24/7. The pixel 3a is an incredible camera. I hope it's fixed soon.
I don't even know where to post, I came here looking for a solution, but looks like there may be none, other than going back to Android 10 and never ever installing any kind of update on this phone.
I bought the 3a because of the camera, and because I was taking crappy quality pix of my toddler with my previous phone. A9 worked great, A10 worked great. Camera almost instant, switching from Camera, to Video to Portrait, no problem. Message that A11 is available, so hey why not, it's not IOS. Wrong. It totally screwed me, the camera takes from 1-8 seconds to start, to switch between modes. If I double click power when locked camera start (with delays), I then turn it off using power button, when I unlock the phone the camera app is open.
Sometimes when I open it a second time it stays on the setting I chose before (i.e. portrait, or video - not camera default - this would be a nice toggle in the options though - say if you always shoot portrait).
Portrait mode has reversed the picture order (left/right - blur/no blur).
I have missed many shots of my little one since I've upgraded because of this garbage update.
I have a lot of apps that aren't the "latest" version, that work as I need them to; can someone suggest an app that will let me back up my exact versions, then reinstall them after? I have no idea if such a backup/restore app could also save the app data; I don't have root
Also, if someone could point me to a post which shows the way to switch back to Android 10, step by step, I would appreciate it. If I need to reload all the apps and info, I might as well go back to a known working version.
I have also noticed that some other apps are acting funky now. A once rock stable and reliable phone, these days I just want to throw it straight down at the pavement with all my strength... often...
I have the same issue. Have you resolved it yet. My camera app is working but other app using camera gives error.i had also lenscap and problem arised after update to android 11