I bought the Sensation 9 days ago but it seems to have some trouble with the camera, hardware or software i don't know..
It works with absolutely no problem at all, but if I install another one, two or three camera apps, the problems begins. I take one photo, then switch to another app, the app freeze (black screen), return to home screen and every camera app don't work anymore.
The stock app shows only a black screen for a moment, camera zoom FX says "impossible to connect to android camera" (or something like that), other app black screen.
Once the phone has been rebooted, everything works well.. as long as (randomly) another camera app freezes and here I go again, back to where I started.
I can't take the phone back to the shop since 7 days has already passed (obviously the issue popped up the night of the 7th day ).
What do you say? Hardware or software? I would like to try a custom rom (even if the stock rom is wonderful and I have no reason to switch to another, besides this problem) but I don't know if that can solve the problem.. and I don't know how HTC warranty is for custom rom, root and everything else..
Help!
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Is your camera locking up (No pre-view picture)?
When I select the camera icon, I see the camera menu in the lower part of the screen and I can even take pictures, however I see a black image instead of the pre-view photo on the screen. This issue goes away by soft resetting the phone; however it usually comes back after few days and the only way to see the pre-view image is by resetting the phone. The strange part is that the camera can actually take pictures but I cannot see the photo before taking it. Have you heard of this issue? The phone works just fine otherwise and I like it a lot.
Thanks,
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Is your camera locking up (No pre-view picture)?
When I select the camera icon, I see the camera menu in the lower part of the screen and I can even take pictures, however I see a black image instead of the pre-view photo on the screen. This issue goes away by soft resetting the phone; however it usually comes back after few days and the only way to see the pre-view image is by resetting the phone. The strange part is that the camera can actually take pictures but I cannot see the photo before taking it. Have you heard of this issue? The phone works just fine otherwise and I like it a lot.
Thanks,
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Are you running stock?
I can't speak for whatever potential issues might be caused by any of the custom roms in circulation, but on a stock phone, obviously it shouldn't be doing that.
I can't imagine what hardware issue would produce intermittent preview-ability that's temporarily remedied by a soft reset, yet still manages to capture the photo itself, but there's a first time for everything.
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My stock camera application (and Camera360) and camcorder applications both exhibit this behavior. A soft-reset of the device usually temporarily resolves the issue (i.e. allows me to use the camera for a short period of time). However, after my phone has been on for a while any app that uses the camera just locks up (eventually have to force close or soft-reset).
It is rather annoying. The only information I found seems to indicate that there may be an issue with the API within FroYo itself. Hopefully when we get the update to GingerBread the problem will resolve itself.
I also read something else about something to do with an LED widget that caused someone problems but I'm not using any LED widgets, so I'm not sure what that's referring to.
Hopefully there's a fix out there somewhere or we get the 2.3 update soonish.
ryguy25 said:
My stock camera application (and Camera360) and camcorder applications both exhibit this behavior. A soft-reset of the device usually temporarily resolves the issue (i.e. allows me to use the camera for a short period of time). However, after my phone has been on for a while any app that uses the camera just locks up (eventually have to force close or soft-reset).
It is rather annoying. The only information I found seems to indicate that there may be an issue with the API within FroYo itself. Hopefully when we get the update to GingerBread the problem will resolve itself.
I also read something else about something to do with an LED widget that caused someone problems but I'm not using any LED widgets, so I'm not sure what that's referring to.
Hopefully there's a fix out there somewhere or we get the 2.3 update soonish.
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Hmmm...
This is the first thread I've come across that brings up this problem.
My stock (rooted) phone, my mom's stock phone, and my dad's stock phone have never encountered an issue like this, but then again, maybe we were the three lucky ones...
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That's not to say you guys are crazy... maybe we just haven't had the right combo of circumstances to expose the problem/bug on our phones.
Now that I think more about it, I did have an issue when I ran barcode scanner once, about a month ago. That of course uses the camera. As soon as it identified the barcode, and I pressed the 'search web' button, it just froze (image still visible), but the back key/screen input was unresponsive. The only thing that worked was the home button, which, instead of going to the home screen, displayed the screen you see when you are about to end a call with someone on your phone. Thing is, I hadn't made a single call that day. That screen was also unresponsive, but when I pushed the home button again, it finally got to the home screen.
I then went into manage apps in settings and FC'd barcode scanner and the dialer/phone, just in case. I even uninstalled barcode scanner because I thought it might have a phone-specific bug that I didn't want to deal with.
I don't know if there's any correlation between the yours/OP's issue, but it sounds like it's ****ed up in a similar way. FWIW.
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I think I managed to fix mine by wiping my dalvik cache. On the downside, my current drain used to be around 5 when my phone was in standby and now it is around 45. On the upside, I haven't had a problem with the camera or camcorder since then.
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Mine ended up being a hardware issue. Phone was exchanged with at&t. Haven't had an issue with the camera since.
Just wanted to update for the OP.
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I'm having an issue (sometimes), when I tap on camera icon at home screen the camera app flashes for a moment and I'm back on home screen. I've tried many times tapping on the icon nonstop, it just quits instantly.
But when I start camera app from all programs list or lock screen, it always starts fine.
Anyone experienced this?
What could cause this?
i had the same problem the other day .. my camera app would not open! it just did exactly what you described .. i even closed all the recent apps to see if it was low memory.. it still didn't work.. but a simple restart of the phone cured it ... not really sure what happened but hasn't happened again yet knock on wood
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i had the same problem the other day .. my camera app would not open! it just did exactly what you described .. i even closed all the recent apps to see if it was low memory.. it still didn't work.. but a simple restart of the phone cured it ... not really sure what happened but hasn't happened again yet knock on wood
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Same thing happened to me and i also restarted my phone. Hasn't happened since.
I got it once, haven't had it again.
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its probably just android being android .. hahaha no but seriously .. prob just a memory glitch or something
Reboot usually cure most bugs for while, but with this particular one it's interesting, that camera would start if started from lock screen or all apps list after it wouldn't start from home screen. Once it started it then starts fine frome homescreen too.
Very strange.
So yea the camera been acting up a lot lately ... It has happened 3 more times since I last posted on this thread..I have to reboot for it to start working again ... Its soon annoying!!! I missed the moments I needed to capture a pic because of it!! Not sure what the culprit is
Just remove it from your dock and place back...that is alot easier than rebooting and should work fine.
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My girlfriend's camera app wouldn't start from the home screen or the app menu. I had to connect it to my computer and rename the DCIM folder and reboot the phone before it worked again.
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Upgraded to ruu 1.85 - still same problem.
Same issue here. I will try and open the camera app up and it immediately crashes. It doesn't even really open, it just flashes the camera buttons and goes back to the home screen. It has happened to me at least 10 times since I've purchased the phone.
Restart is the only thing that alleviates the issue. Any ideas? Let's keep this going because it is pretty annoying to have to restart the phone just to use the camera.
Neil1138 said:
Same issue here. I will try and open the camera app up and it immediately crashes. It doesn't even really open, it just flashes the camera buttons and goes back to the home screen. It has happened to me at least 10 times since I've purchased the phone.
Restart is the only thing that alleviates the issue. Any ideas? Let's keep this going because it is pretty annoying to have to restart the phone just to use the camera.
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But when this happens, have you tried any of these:
1) open app list (middle soft button) and then start the camera from home screen
2) start camera from app list
3) lock the phone with power button, and drag camera icon to the unlock circle.
For me either of the above fix the problem, never had to do reboot...
I posed this in a similar thread in the general section, here is a video of it happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4hDD-hMiF0
Moving out of the dock had no effect, Instagram can still use the camera hardware, but the stock camera app cannot, i wonder if it has ties with the image sense chip and is on all the time and crashes due to something....
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I'm also getting this problem. It only happened once in a while at first but has now gradually gotten worse and worse. Now I can't take any pictures with my One X. Even rebooting the phone doesn't fix it. It's funny that the Instagram camera still works perfectly fine though.
See my thread here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722627
Hello,
a while ago a friend of mine bought a Sensation as well.
It´s stock ICS, unrooted.
It worked well for about a half year and now the Camera closes every time.
When you push on camera App, the background gets black and the buttons appear. Short before you should see anything, you get back to the homescreen.
The backlight doesnt get lower.
Now the surprise:
If you open the videocamera-App, it workes! Frontcamera works with both (video & picture)!
Change back to main camera and it dissapears...
Starting camera from App (WhatsApp) doesn´t work either. Camera-Apps from market are working.
Untli yet, we tried deleting Camera-Data & some restarts.
I´d S-off this thing, root & try a different ROM. But it´s not my phone
my camera stopped working.
aplicatico when I click on the camera, the screen goes black and hangs the phone.
however the other day so moving, I realized that the sound and hit a picture, the phone rebooted and went to see the albums.
And the albums was a photo of the mobile screen at that moment it hit the picture, I found it very strange.
My android was original, I tried to upgrade to another official version too, but not worked.
Anyone have any tips?
Install a custom rom
If you ask me , just make a factory reset try to see if you still got the problem , then try some custom rom if you want but you can try HTC test functions just in case to see if this working , or just found something for test for the camera ...
Hey guys ever since I got my nexus 5, randomly my camera app just don't load up the camera. I open the app, and its just black. Sometimes, it'll show a green screen with graphical defect lines all over the place. I use snapchat a lot too, and snap chat will give me an error saying to restart the app because the camera failed. But once I reboot the camera works all over again. Its just annoying because sometimes I really want to take a picture but it just doesn't open up and I have to wait for it to reboot, then take it. It did this on stock, so I rooted it and flashed Franco's kernel on the stock rom to see if that would fix it. I still get the same problem. Is this normal or do I just have a defective phone? I feel like something inside my phone is loose when I shake it, holding the bottons so I know those aren't the reason.
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Hey guys ever since I got my nexus 5, randomly my camera app just don't load up the camera. I open the app, and its just black. Sometimes, it'll show a green screen with graphical defect lines all over the place. I use snapchat a lot too, and snap chat will give me an error saying to restart the app because the camera failed. But once I reboot the camera works all over again. Its just annoying because sometimes I really want to take a picture but it just doesn't open up and I have to wait for it to reboot, then take it. It did this on stock, so I rooted it and flashed Franco's kernel on the stock rom to see if that would fix it. I still get the same problem. Is this normal or do I just have a defective phone? I feel like something inside my phone is loose when I shake it, holding the bottons so I know those aren't the reason.
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I think it's defective, i have franco and it's been fine rooted or unrooted, call in for a new one i suggest