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G2X Camera Won't Launch

For some reason, the Camera function on my G2X no longer works. It worked a few times previously, but now every time I launch the screen flickers and nothing launches.
Persists across reboot. Cleared data on the camera app, want to avoid wiping the phone if possible.
Anyone run into this, before, or know a fix?

Casao said:
For some reason, the Camera function on my G2X no longer works. It worked a few times previously, but now every time I launch the screen flickers and nothing launches.
Persists across reboot. Cleared data on the camera app, want to avoid wiping the phone if possible.
Anyone run into this, before, or know a fix?
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Haven't run into this problem myself but you could try downloading an alternate camera app from the market to see if that works. If it does, you may have to factory reset your phone. If it doesn't, it may be the hardware(the camera itself).

Casao said:
For some reason, the Camera function on my G2X no longer works. It worked a few times previously, but now every time I launch the screen flickers and nothing launches.
Persists across reboot. Cleared data on the camera app, want to avoid wiping the phone if possible.
Anyone run into this, before, or know a fix?
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I noticed this problem as well, after rooting the phone. I'm not sure if it was an issue before that or not. But what I found is that if you rotate the phone into landscape mode and then open the camera app it works fine. Only trying to open it in portrait caused me any issues. Hope this helps.

zoman7663 said:
I noticed this problem as well, after rooting the phone. I'm not sure if it was an issue before that or not. But what I found is that if you rotate the phone into landscape mode and then open the camera app it works fine. Only trying to open it in portrait caused me any issues. Hope this helps.
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This is ridiculous.
Yet true.
I'll be resetting my phone tonight to fix the battery drain, hopefully this will be resolved at the same time. But this definitely worked, so I can test out this camera some more while I wait. Thanks!

I had this issue too. Try opening while in landscape. Once open switch to portrait then close while in portrait. You should be able to open on portrait after.
Edit: This only works some of the time

Has anyone figured out the camera issue? I had my camera working fine, I rooted the phone and now the camera just flickers around the button. Must have this camera working.
Thanks

djcense said:
I had this issue too. Try opening while in landscape. Once open switch to portrait then close while in portrait. You should be able to open on portrait after.
Edit: This only works some of the time
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Had same issue, as you noted the reset solved my problem, camera is working AOK. I would have hated to loose the camera function, it is a good camera.

2nd phone that my damn camera stopped working after about 15 minutes. I didn't root this phone to make sure that wasn't the issue. The camera worked after I did a factory wipe, got it all set up and was taking pictures while I was setting it up to make sure it wasn't a rogue app. Thought I was in the clear and tried to take a picture and nothing. Same problem everyone else is having. just wiped the phone again for the 3rd time and camera works, going thru same process, can anyone give me any advice on this camera. Very strange and getting real pissed off.
Vinny

vinnyjr said:
2nd phone that my damn camera stopped working after about 15 minutes. I didn't root this phone to make sure that wasn't the issue. The camera worked after I did a factory wipe, got it all set up and was taking pictures while I was setting it up to make sure it wasn't a rogue app. Thought I was in the clear and tried to take a picture and nothing. Same problem everyone else is having. just wiped the phone again for the 3rd time and camera works, going thru same process, can anyone give me any advice on this camera. Very strange and getting real pissed off.
Vinny
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I use anylock to bypass my lock screen so when I get a text message (ssm popup) It will open up my screen automatic and display text message. This way I'm not always pushing my power button to gain entry to phone. Problem is the lock screen app is some how screwing up the camera app. Also tried no lock and same problem.
Just wanted to let anyone using lock screens what I encountered, maybe save you hours of resetting phone.

vinnyjr said:
I use anylock to bypass my lock screen so when I get a text message (ssm popup) It will open up my screen automatic and display text message. This way I'm not always pushing my power button to gain entry to phone. Problem is the lock screen app is some how screwing up the camera app. Also tried no lock and same problem.
Just wanted to let anyone using lock screens what I encountered, maybe save you hours of resetting phone.
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Mine was doing the same thing and I was about to blame it on Pauls patch. It turned out to be widget locker. I froze it in Titanium and then it came on with no problem. I was really close to wiping AGAIN. Really glad I saw this. Thank You

[Q] Is my XOOM messed up?

Something really strange is going on......
Whenever I try to use a different launcher, I press the homekey after installing it and my screen will dim... ...and do nothing. So I press the back key to go back to the market and uninstall the crap.
Sorta the same thing happens when I go to Gallery and try to play my movies...
...the screen with dim and nothing will happen. So I press back to go back to the gallery and try it again...
...same damn thing. My movies used to play fine but now they don't....
Whats going on with my XOOM?

Hmmm i havent had any dimming issues (still new with the xoom) Are you using a movie converter app?
Sent from my Xoom using XDA App

If you've updated to 3.2 this is a known issue I think... known to me anyway, lol.
When you press the home key, you should get the option of which launcher to use but for some reason 3.2 doesn't draw the popup box properly. Anyway, to get round it, hit home, wait for the screen to dim and then switch the Xoom into portrait mode. This will re-draw the popup properly and you should be fine after that as it only seems to be a problem the first time.

could try turning off auto brightness and see if it does they same thing, i have mine always on full brightness it might mean less battery life but with my eyesight i need it bright.
Lordao

burden010 said:
If you've updated to 3.2 this is a known issue I think... known to me anyway, lol.
When you press the home key, you should get the option of which launcher to use but for some reason 3.2 doesn't draw the popup box properly. Anyway, to get round it, hit home, wait for the screen to dim and then switch the Xoom into portrait mode. This will re-draw the popup properly and you should be fine after that as it only seems to be a problem the first time.
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They actually makes sense. It never had this issue on 3.0.1 or 3.1.
Ill try it. Thanks!

lordao said:
could try turning off auto brightness and see if it does they same thing, i have mine always on full brightness it might mean less battery life but with my eyesight i need it bright.
Lordao
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I shall try this one as well good friend.

Rotation Broken

For some reason my rotation has stopped working and i can't seem to fix it. So far I have:
Restored to stock .23
Cold booted 3 times
Factory reset on stock twice
Auto rotate enabled
Used ultimate rotation control from store and that works
Checked sensors and those seem to be functioning
Any help is appreciated.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 2

Bump! Hopefully someone can help

This really sucks no one knows whats up... Maybe I should exchange?

codyvance said:
This really sucks no one knows whats up... Maybe I should exchange?
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You did pretty much everything that we could do. However, I have an idea, how about download this third party "Screen Orientation Control by eflow inc." app, once done open up notification and set it to portrait mode, then set it to landscape mode, then finally set it to off (auto) and see if it's working, if it stills not working, there's not much we can do except to return the device for repair/exchange.

buhohitr said:
You did pretty much everything that we could do. However, I have an idea, how about download this third party "Screen Orientation Control by eflow inc." app, once done open up notification and set it to portrait mode, then set it to landscape mode, then finally set it to off (auto) and see if it's working, if it stills not working, there's not much we can do except to return the device for repair/exchange.
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Damn, I was hopeful, but it still won't rotate... It is weird too because at some point I was able to rotate, so I cant see it being a hardware issue, but I guess I will need to have ASUS repair/exchange.
Thank you for the suggestion though

[Q] Livesuit Image For Stealth Pro 9.7C

Hi. Just wondering if anyone out there would happen to have a .img image of the firmware for the trio stealth pro 9.7c. I.ve looked everywhere and can only come up with images that install through CWM recovery. My tablet will not boot into recovery as I flashed a rom that I thought would work, but now no video. Not an emergency, but if someone has it, it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance

jgb441 said:
Hi. Just wondering if anyone out there would happen to have a .img image of the firmware for the trio stealth pro 9.7c. I.ve looked everywhere and can only come up with images that install through CWM recovery. My tablet will not boot into recovery as I flashed a rom that I thought would work, but now no video. Not an emergency, but if someone has it, it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance
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I used a livesuit image that was supposedly for the 9.7 on my 9.7c and everything works flawlessly. Use at your own risk. can't post links. pm me if you want it

Try this.
A member called hammerite said in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52298998 that the firmware for Wintouch Q91 works with this tablet. Specifically the file name is Q91A30321.img. Google it. I'm just downloading it right now and hope to fix a friend's tablet with it..

Sorry to say that file didn't work for me.

Another works, kinda
Headroom said:
Sorry to say that file didn't work for me.
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I was grasping at straws and downloaded the Q95A306043G file, and everything works, but you need to put it to english, and the colors are off, kinda like low res kinda look, but it's a good start if someone can fix the res of the screen :fingers-crossed:

A possible work around to get the 9.7c up and running
Headroom said:
Sorry to say that file didn't work for me.
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Yeah didn't work for me either. But I did find a bit of a work-around to have a functioning tablet again. A bit of a pain in the butt way to go about it, yet it is usable. If anyone wants to give it a try so you can at least use the thing, I'll try to explain it.....here it goes.......
Things needed:
1. LiveSuit or PhoenixSuit (I used PhoenixSuit)
2. Not necessary, but useful later, Root_with_Restore_by_Bin4ry_v32.zip
3. F918-WCDMA-20130423.1.1.11-a106-dou0308.img (copy and paste this into google, you will see a link from a site called pan.baidu.com on the first search page. Turned up about the third search down during my search. It is in Chinese, but the download link to click will have the file size, (310.16mb) click it and another box will appear, click the white box on the right, then yet another box will appear, click the blue box on the left this time, then it will give you the download.) This image is for a ly-f918 tablet, but mostly functional on 9.7c
Now we can start flashing.......
1. Using either LiveSuit or PhoenixSuit, flash the image that you downloaded to the tablet.
2. After the flash, you will notice that the screen colors are messed up and screen rotation is 180 degrees off. For the rotation, I just turned off auto rotate.
We will get to the color issue in a few....The screen will be barely legible at this point, but if you squint just right, you can read it
3. Run Bin4ry to gain root
4. For the screen color issue, I signed into google, went to the play store and downloaded and app called Screen Adjuster Free, ( yes this rom has play store built in) Set the Screen Adjuster to on (box at the top of the app) and set the system brightness to 23%. The screen should now be legible.
Things that are NOT working:
As mentioned, auto rotate is off 180 degrees
Rear camera causes the tablet to shut down
Volume up button lowers the volume, volume down and back buttons do nothing. There are volume up/down icons on the notification bar though
Color still off in the notification bar
I know it seems half-assed, but I DO at least have a working tablet again!!
I did find another rom that touch, wifi and camera do not work, but the screen colors are right:
sun4i_crane_v1.5_T05A_mc32x0_20121012-tm2.img
Maybe if someone knows how to open the images to play around with them, the display driver from the sun4i rom can be put into the F918 rom so the color is right. And possibly fix the screen rotation issue. Then the only things to worry about are the hard buttons and rear camera at that point.
Sorry if this seems lame, but like I said, My Stealth Pro 9.7c is functional again ( to some degree any way ) and if you were in the same boat as I was.....holding a tablet that didn't work at all.......it's better than nothing.
as always, try at your own risk. Let me know if anyone has trouble with this method or improvements. Thanks!

WoppTorr said:
I was grasping at straws and downloaded the Q95A306043G file, and everything works, but you need to put it to english, and the colors are off, kinda like low res kinda look, but it's a good start if someone can fix the res of the screen :fingers-crossed:
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Just noticed you posted this as I was writing my post Does auto rotate work right? and do the hard buttons fuction correctly? and rear camera work? If it does you're a step closer than I was. maybe if someone takes THAT rom and the second one I posted and made a flashable image, we would have a completely working rom!!

Just seen this thread and posted this earlier http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=53242286
Sent from my Nexus 7 using XDA Free mobile app

jgb441 said:
Just noticed you posted this as I was writing my post Does auto rotate work right? and do the hard buttons fuction correctly? and rear camera work? If it does you're a step closer than I was. maybe if someone takes THAT rom and the second one I posted and made a flashable image, we would have a completely working rom!!
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Ya it's kinda the same as the one you were using, auto rotate is off 180 degrees, but no auto rotate fixes that been, testing it for awhile and found that utube, and netflix auto turns it upside down, and I have to use that other program to get the colors right, camara worked for a bit then it stopped working, but the play store worked just fine, sorry I've been gone, just busy at work =( volume up doesn't work but volume down does

Downloaded from where.the site won't let me download it

Gravity sensor suddenly stopped working

Hi, it appears that recently the gravity sensor in my Nexus 5 stopped working.
At least it is what it seems by using sensor testing apps. And this makes it impossible for the phone to get its orientation (compass is not working).
Screen rotation is still working fine though.
Here is what happened exactly: not long ago I was using Google Maps, but the phone was a bit sluggish so I decided to reboot it.
After rebooting I opened Google Maps again and immediately noticed that the orientation indicator was missing (the blue "beam"), while it was present before the reboot. But I didn't care about it, and just thought that the compass needed re-calibration.
After a few days the orientation indicator was still missing, and the phone never asked me to re-calibrate, as it used to do before instead.
Then one day I launched Google Sky Map, and noticed that the view does not rotate automatically.
So I fired up a sensor test app I had installed (asd.vector.sensor), and no data is displayed for the Gravity sensor. Also orientation is not displayed and the info says that the gravity sensor is used to compute orientation, too.
Other sensors are ok, and as I already wrote screen rotation still works great.
Any clues about this issue? Did anyone ever experience this?
I'm afraid a system restore would not help...
I'm using Resurrection Remix ROM, Android 6.0.1.
Thanks.

If the problem exists on a stock ROM, it could be a hardware fault.

audit13 said:
If the problem exists on a stock ROM, it could be a hardware fault.
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Ok yes, but I still do not know if it exists on a stock ROM.
Taking it the other way around... Do you think there is real possibility that it is a software fault?
I mean: did it ever occur to anyone? Is there really any hope that resetting my phone to stock will fix this?
I HATE having to reset my phone...
Thank you.

I stopped using custom roms a while ago because of minor problems that would suddenly appear.
I don't think there is a way to really tell if it is software or hardware unless you reset or use a stock ROM.

audit13 said:
I stopped using custom roms a while ago because of minor problems that would suddenly appear..
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Well, that's a little hope at least.
I will need to find some time to re-stock my Nexus and try.
Thanks .

Ok, I restored the phone to stock and all sensors work again now!
Thanks audit13 for pushing me in that direction .

That's great that it was a software bug in the custom ROM.
Now you get to hunt for a custom ROM that works with a minimal or zero number of issues