[Q] my One S camera is blacked out!! help!! - HTC One S

This phone is brand new and the camera app is blacked out. When I select the camera app the screen is black out but you still see all the buttons on screen. The just don't do anything. Has anybody experienced this or know of a way to fix it?

Clear data of the camera through settings, apps, camera.
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lol. that's the first thing i checked. none of the cameras respond (front or back) and when i try to open up a camera app even instagram, the camera app just freezes.

Tried clearing data?
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My camera went black as well on my stock tmo one s I called T-Mobile to find that they are having hardware problems with the camera they sent me a new replacement
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My nieces camera did this the other night! Man I am so fed up from getting the crap phones from CBW!

I had the same issue,also with to stock app. I installed instagram and it told me the camera couldn't be detected. I contacted my seller in Germany and they gave me a free hardware replacement(motherboard+battery)
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i tried to flash a few different roms to see if it was hardware related but no dce. i called tmobile and they are sending me a new one. im selling it as soon as i get the new one back. i keep hearing about all these problems with the one s. going back to the galaxies. plus my hands are too big for this lil thing.

I would really like to know if this is a common issue and if it is if it is fixed with a replacement. Can anyone who has had this issue verify this please?
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JigsterNL said:
I had the same issue,also with to stock app. I installed instagram and it told me the camera couldn't be detected. I contacted my seller in Germany and they gave me a free hardware replacement(motherboard+battery)
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Did this fix your issue?

Its a "common" HTC problem. 2 of my friends also experienced this with a 2011 and 2010 smartphone. After some time it worked by itself. I also had this for 1-2 weeks and it worked after i cleared camera cache or rebooted (it still occured but after some weeks it was gone completly). If you want clear your system cache in CWM or install a new ROM.

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Lines on screen & flickering when taking pix and videos?

I was trying to video something today and it would just reset to the home screen after a few seconds of recording.
Also when taking pictures, it would have lines on the screen and sometimes freeze the image (distorted) on the screen.
I do notice three dead pixels as well on the screen...
Anyone experiencing anything similar?
Not at all... You might havve gotten a defective one
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I think I do now for sure....the phone sometimes just shuts off after I close the keyboard and I have to pull the battery and put it back in to turn it on....
Strange...
Oh well easy solution...going to swap it out....
michaelmab88 said:
Not at all... You might havve gotten a defective one
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Mine is doing this same thing. Pink and or green lines on the camera screen?
It must be defective an unit my work perfectly fine.
Mine just started to do this, i had it for like 2 months.
Its not defective. You have to close every service that has to do with the camera, and clear the data/cache of those services. Also close htc sense. Its in the settings somewhere in your phone, u can fix this yourself
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ggblake said:
Mine is doing this same thing. Pink and or green lines on the camera screen?
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I get green lines once in a while. Must be a hardware issue. Crap.
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Undeadk9 said:
I get green lines once in a while. Must be a hardware issue. Crap.
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i'm thinking it's software because the guy at the TMO store fixed it for me within a couple minutes, he said the same thing happened to his friend and he hooked me up. u just have to clear data/cache of htc sense as well as any of the apps that have to do with the camera.
leoilios said:
i'm thinking it's software because the guy at the TMO store fixed it for me within a couple minutes, he said the same thing happened to his friend and he hooked me up. u just have to clear data/cache of htc sense as well as any of the apps that have to do with the camera.
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IT happens on my senseless ROM. I'm leaning toward hardware
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The green and pink lines happened to me once, when I was 100% stock, so it's definitely not anything to do with roms..
Happened to me once. Rebooting the phone solved the problem.
Just another data point for reference. I've seen this on my CM7 ROM once, but a reboot solved it.
hardware failure or software problem?
I need to pull the battery off and reboot to solve the problem @@

Black Call Screen And Camera Won't Launch

When making a phone call on this phone the screen will become black ( assuming from the proximity sensors like normal ) but it won't get off the black screen unless i slide up the keyboard or reboot phone.
Also camera will randomly not open and just keep closing when i try to launch it.
Any help will be appreciated.
Hey tylermaciaszek, good to see you here with this phone, haha. What ROM are you running, have you rooted yet? I haven't experienced either of those bugs, or even heard of anyone having them I don't think. Is your phone brand new?
I'm not actually with the phone its my friend just trying to get him some help
Back story: had my touch 4g and it broke T-Mobile guy said he would give my friend mytouch 4g slide so he took it for the dual core and the first phone had the problem took it back now this is his 4th one with the same problem
He said he had a software update don't know if there's a software problem or not
Thanks for help!
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Ya definitely got me on that, I haven't seen or heard of those problems on stock with or without the software update. Sorry about that
tylermaciaszek said:
I'm not actually with the phone its my friend just trying to get him some help
Back story: had my touch 4g and it broke T-Mobile guy said he would give my friend mytouch 4g slide so he took it for the dual core and the first phone had the problem took it back now this is his 4th one with the same problem
He said he had a software update don't know if there's a software problem or not
Thanks for help!
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The problem is not software, so the OTA update isn't his problem. You've got an unlucky friend, I guess. He's going to have to get an exchange.
DistrictDigital said:
The problem is not software, so the OTA update isn't his problem. You've got an unlucky friend, I guess. He's going to have to get an exchange.
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I agree. Very strange he has had this problem, and more so that its multiple times.
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I had the same problem. I hit the camera button and screen went black and also had it happen with the power button on the stock rom.
I pulled the battery and rebooted.
Haven't had that problem with any custom roms.
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Front camera ics

Is it right for the front camera to not work using an ics rom?
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who said that? its working just fine but there is an issue, videocalls in skype are green regardless of camera chosen
If the quality is bad, check for dust. My front facing camera will degrade 40ish% (literally) after a week cause of dust build up.
Is won't work at all in camera mode, I don't no why it must just be mine. It hasn't worked with various roms. Should I re install the firmware? I don't really use it but its annoying to no it won't work, thanks
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Pikabat said:
who said that? its working just fine but there is an issue, videocalls in skype are green regardless of camera chosen
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I don't have that issue, Skype with video calling works just fine for me. Maybe it is simply an unresolved bug on OP's ROM if he is rooted?
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Pikabat said:
who said that? its working just fine but there is an issue, videocalls in skype are green regardless of camera chosen
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ICS Sense ROMS, specifically. I think AOSP ROMs don't have that problem.
OP, what do you mean by "not work"?
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I mean not work as in neither using camera or Skype etc. I have used sense roms and aosp. Currently I'm using dan sharpys stripped rom. But like I say it won't work in any rom. When I select it in camera I don't get any errors etc I just get a black screen, I have made sure its clean. Any help would be great!
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Actually now, if I switch to it, it causes my phone to reboot?
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In that case it could be a hardware problem. I've read about a few people having this problem (black front camera screen on a few ROMs and the camera app freezing) but there seems to be no concrete solution for it.
I'm having this problem too. Ever since I upgraded to ICS OTA my front camera has not worked in any application and usually causes the phone to freeze then reboot.
Glad I'm not the only one, just like worldofglass it happened when i upgraded to ics
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Hi, i am also having that problem. Yesterday I noticed that my front camera won't work at all. This morning was working just fine, but I was in my car when I tried it, so I just tried it once. Few hours later it won't work again. Once when I tried to turn it on, phone restarted (but just once)... I can se settings, effects and all other buttons on screen, but everything other on screen is black. I have official ICS, and sense 3.6.
Please if anyone solve this problem or find out it's nature (hardware or software) let us others know.
Thnx!
Any answers for this? Habe tried various roms and even re flashing firm ware but still no front camera. My phone just freezes and force closes any app using the camera. Any help appreciated.
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cartermg120 said:
Any answers for this? Habe tried various roms and even re flashing firm ware but still no front camera. My phone just freezes and force closes any app using the camera. Any help appreciated.
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So it doesn't look like anyone's found a fix for this?
Like cartermg120, I've tried numerous ROMs (ARHD, LeeDroid, Elegance + CM 9 nightly) and re-flashed the firmware from HERE. Nothing has fixed it.
I'm wondering if anyone has tried to flash the latest official RUU (HERE)?
I suppose that would be a good way to check whether it's a H/W or S/W problem and if H/W, the phone could be returned for a warranty repair...
Front facing camera.
Me too, front facing camera has never worked since the ICS OTA update. Any suggestions?
sshede said:
If the quality is bad, check for dust. My front facing camera will degrade 40ish% (literally) after a week cause of dust build up.
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how are you even suppose to clean the camera?
anthonyly said:
how are you even suppose to clean the camera?
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Take off back cover take a cloth and clean where the front camera is? And OP sounds like a hardware issue more then anything else..
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Install the latest OPEN GL DRIVER for ADRENO. It solved my green video issue.
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I have that issue as well. I have been using Virtuous Inquisition rom and when selecting front camera on any app that uses capture, screen goes black. I can continue using the phone except the camera will not work, front or back. I have to reboot in order to be able to use the back camera.
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I expect this has been tried, but when I installed cm9 my camera kept playing up, front and back. I wiped data and cache in camera apk, booted to recovery, fixed permissions wiped cache partition and dalvik cache. After a long reboot my camera worked fine. Worth a go if nothing else.
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Crazy Backbutton

Hello,
my Backbutton activates itself. While I am watching Videos, or whatever I do it stops shining and I am out of every application I'm using. After about half a minute it's shining again and I can use it normally. It's like pushing the button multiple times. Does anyone has an idea how to fix it? I tried different roms but it looks like an hardware failure to me.
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Happened to me as well it is an issue sometimes with samsung but covered under warranty bring it in to sprint
Hit the thanks button if i helped
Sending it back for support is not an option for me. I imported my device from the US to Germany. The support at Samsung Germany told me that they are not responsible for AMOLED devices.
My second problem ist that my IMEI is crashed since I flashed a rom where the dev made a little mistake. So Samsung won't give me any support.
I thought about changing the display but the price for a new one is about 190 Euro. Way too much... I can assemble and disassemble the device but I think that cleaning the device will not solve the problem.
Any suggestions?
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srichter said:
Sending it back for support is not an option for me. I imported my device from the US to Germany. The support at Samsung Germany told me that they are not responsible for AMOLED devices.
My second problem ist that my IMEI is crashed since I flashed a rom where the dev made a little mistake. So Samsung won't give me any support.
I thought about changing the display but the price for a new one is about 190 Euro. Way too much... I can assemble and disassemble the device but I think that cleaning the device will not solve the problem.
Any suggestions?
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It has nothing to do with the display though.
That's likely the part failing:
http://www.globaldirectparts.com/Nexus-S-Navigator-Flex-Ribbon-p/smsng6098595.htm
http://stellatech.com/samsung-gt-i9020-nexus-s-ui-flex,a,en,810423.html
Verify that the one you currently have isn't simply not connected right.
Thank you. I will have a look if the part is not right connected.
Maybe I have to replace it. But in that case 25 Euro are much cheaper than 190.
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This happened to me once. A day later my display completely died. I could turn on my phone, answer calls, etc the touchscreen worked, but I couldnt see anything. I had to get a new one..
I had this problem too.
I flashed a different radio, and boom!! issue resolved
I occasionally get this too. It only comes up when I'm using cm/cm based kernels though, very odd. I'm on matrix right now and it seems to Beowulf, anybody have some tips or suggestions?
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I tried a different kernel and it looks like the problem is solved. I know that you should not count your chickens before they are hatched. But I really think that the kernel was the problem.
Anyway, I am just happy that my phone is working properly.
And now I am waiting for jellybean.
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srichter said:
I tried a different kernel and it looks like the problem is solved. I know that you should not count your chickens before they are hatched. But I really think that the kernel was the problem.
Anyway, I am just happy that my phone is working properly.
And now I am waiting for jellybean.
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What kernel were you using?
It was not the Kernel!
Changing the radio solved the problem.
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Check out this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1277226
I had same problem and fixed it that way.
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It's Alive!
I don't see how the kernel would have anything to do with the backbutton. Although if it worked out then hey that's awesome. Amazing how much I have learned by reading the forums on this site.:victory:
Just clean off the the backbutton, and maybe it will stop or you have a software bug.

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POOF!
I've been waiting for this. Thanks. I will report back soon! Downloading now. First!
motive said:
I've been waiting for this. Thanks. I will report back soon! Downloading now. First!
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Yea, it took a little longer than expected...due to my Dell crapping out on me...so I had to save up a few checks to get a new laptop
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troby86 said:
Yea, it took a little longer than expected...due to my Dell crapping out on me...so I had to save up a few checks to get a new laptop
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Awwww. I just had a similar experience. I dropped mine down a service elevator shaft... Don't ask. I still don't know how it happened. So far so good on the ROM. I'll tinker more in the morning.
Hi, not is just me but screenshot not working, power+home.
When doing the picture, the keyboard does not show smile icon etc, just dark keyboard. That's all I found so far
LOL I'm not sure I'm brave enough to be the first to try this out. XD
cat2115 said:
Hi, not is just me but screenshot not working, power+home.
When doing the picture, the keyboard does not show smile icon etc, just dark keyboard. That's all I found so far
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Screenshots work perfectly for me. I did notice that the keyboard smile icons were missing, I will look into that.
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Super_Dork_42 said:
LOL I'm not sure I'm brave enough to be the first to try this out. XD
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Its safe to flash, I've been running it for about 6 hours now.
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troby86 said:
Its safe to flash, I've been running it for about 6 hours now.
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I just meant that I've been out of the flashing scene for about a year until recently and this phone has a different method, plus the fact that it took me 2 days to get everything backed up, set back up how I like, etc. I've lost my nerve I guess. I used to be a serial flasher of roms back in the Eris days. New rom that nobody's tried yet? Sure thing. These days I'm even hesitant to flash something if it's tried and true and nobody is seeing any problems. Plus the fact that my hardware is messed up. (I dropped it in water twice by accident and the screen also broke in a separate incident)
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I just meant that I've been out of the flashing scene for about a year until recently and this phone has a different method, plus the fact that it took me 2 days to get everything backed up, set back up how I like, etc. I've lost my nerve I guess. I used to be a serial flasher of roms back in the Eris days. New rom that nobody's tried yet? Sure thing. These days I'm even hesitant to flash something if it's tried and true and nobody is seeing any problems. Plus the fact that my hardware is messed up. (I dropped it in water twice by accident and the screen also broke in a separate incident)
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Damn, still working after water twice, nice! Just do a backup before, so if you don't like it, you can restore everything you had. And, if your S-ON, remember to flash boot.img separately.
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troby86 said:
Damn, still working after water twice, nice! Just do a backup before, so if you don't like it, you can restore everything you had. And, if your S-ON, remember to flash boot.img separately.
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Yeah, it's a good thing I always keep rice in the house in easy reach. But the phone is fine except that neither camera works. Pretty annoying seeing as the camera is so awesome on the HOS.
Will be definitely trying this, I was wondering, you think this might help my losing signal issues, getting the X all the time it's driving me nuts lol. I am with Cincinnati Bell but i think they work through T-mobile. Anyway thanks for this bud much appreciated.
ROM looks great man, downloading now and will flash tomorrow. Hope I don't have the WiFi issue anymore, reaaally wanna use this
I'm having the same gps problem I have with Viper; when you go to a site thru Chrome that desires location access, gps never turns on! It turns on for Maps and other things when you test it, but not through Chrome. Browser works tho, strangely...
bigmoew said:
I'm having the same gps problem I have with Viper; when you go to a site thru Chrome that desires location access, gps never turns on! It turns on for Maps and other things when you test it, but not through Chrome. Browser works tho, strangely...
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Sounds like a Chrome issue maybe. I haven't touched any GPS items yet, so its either Chrome, or something T-Mobile jacked up.
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I just did another clean flash and i still can't get screenshot to work (power+home). I tried [ROM][S4][MAY8]V1.6 T-Mobile HTC One S JellyBean Stock/Rooted/deodexed/ and screenshot work. Then I did another clean flash (full wipe) of your ROM, screenshot still not working.
cat2115 said:
I just did another clean flash and i still can't get screenshot to work (power+home). I tried [ROM][S4][MAY8]V1.6 T-Mobile HTC One S JellyBean Stock/Rooted/deodexed/ and screenshot work. Then I did another clean flash (full wipe) of your ROM, screenshot still not working.
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Are you pressing it quickly or holding it for a few seconds. Mine works perfectly, but you should be pressing Power+Volume Down, which is stock for this ROM.
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I think I may have found the issue with Chrome...I believe I deleted a ChromeBackgroundSync apk on accident. This may be causing the issue...maybe not, but I'll put it back and test. If it works I'll release an update tonight...if I'm not lost in Double XP Weekend on Black Ops 2
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troby86 said:
Are you pressing it quickly or holding it for a few seconds. Mine works perfectly, but you should be pressing Power+Volume Down, which is stock for this ROM.
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Thank you. It works with Power+vol down. i did try power+vol down but not work cuz i press power then vol+down, I should have press power and vol down at same time. dumb me.
Anyone having an issue with web page links in text messages FCing the messaging app?

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