[Q] camera fail - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Hey I'm new to all this and rooted and installed the jelly bean rom. Now my camera give me the camera fail msg. Front facing camera works in apps but cant get it to switch over. Pretty sure I didnt save stock rom. Should I try a different Rom or what should I do? Any Help would be great

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Camera not working after update to ICS

Hi have got big problem with me sensation. Today i update to ICS and me camera donnt work. I try reinstal or instal other roms but not help me. Trying factory reset and delete setting of camera. Not help me but when i downgrade to 2.3.5 camera work normal. Only when upgrade to ics and when i start recording camera application do "piiiiiip" and force close. I havent got some idea :/
Can somebody help me ??
Hello,
did you try to do a full wipe and change firmware to the newest avaible?
Yea i try full wipe and reinstal software but all ICS software do this error on my htc :/ donnt know why . But when instal back 2.3.5 camera work normaly.

how to make my camera+video work on cm9

hey friends,I have a Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 rooted running on ICS(4.0.4) CM9 RC1.My phone's camera is working only if I i turn my phone in 270 degree angle. Plus the camera which is pre-installed gives very poor quality pictures and I cannot change its settings and cannot turn on-off the flash,even I installed ics camera to try to fix this but it shows a error 'cannot connect to camera' everytime and force-closes.I even cannot take any videos.I read the forums on XDA that can help to fix camera,but none of them worked.I installed an patch update for camera from maclaw's website,but instead it got hanged on the samsung logo.I tried to flash nandroid backup but it showed error after 60% installation...so i flashed CM9 again. I want my camera back but for that I have to go back to stock rom.I'm not used to odin so i feel very awkward,and which is the only way to go back to stock.....Please tell me solution to this problem....should I go back to stock or is there any Patch available....please if you know help me...
Head to the galaxy ace subforum and post in the cm9 gerenal thread, i think cm9 already has a working cam.
Install the latest build, maybe wayland's.
I'm not going to stock again,instead I'M thinking of flashing 'Beats With Smooth Sense' ,is it a good ROM? what are the defects of this ROM?If someone know about it please tell me.....!!!
Lol this is general Q/A ask here http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1623
Hey, I got my stock ROM with the Extension ' .zip' from the site 'http://acetips.wordpress.com/roms-wiki/ . Do I need to flash through ODIN or I can flash through CWM?

[Q] Port AOSP 4.1 Camera to 4.2 Rom

As the title states, how would one go about porting an 4.1 camera to 4.2? I really need a stable camera I can rely on and none of the current 4.2 Roms fit the bill. However, I really don't want to go back to 4.1.
Any help would be wonderful!
You mean run the touchwiz camera on a AOSP rom? Or run the AOSP 4.1 camera on a 4.2 rom? If you are talking the touchwiz camera then the answer is no. Touchwiz stuff needs touchwiz framework to work properly which obviously AOSP does not. There are a lot of camera apps in the playstore with similar functions as the touchwiz camera that you can run. I personally like Procapture.
x714x said:
You mean run the touchwiz camera on a AOSP rom? Or run the AOSP 4.1 camera on a 4.2 rom? If you are talking the touchwiz camera then the answer is no. Touchwiz stuff needs touchwiz framework to work properly which obviously AOSP does not. There are a lot of camera apps in the playstore with similar functions as the touchwiz camera that you can run. I personally like Procapture.
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As stated, I'm talking about the AOSP 4.1 camera on 4.2. Not talking about touchwiz.
The 4.2 camera is extremely buggy at least for me. The 4.1 camera was rock solid.
Anyone? Or does anyone know what all files the camera needs to operate so I can copy one over myself?
After several tries, all I have managed to do is soft brick the phone, alot. Does anyone else want to solve this problem?
I don't think anyone else is having camera issues on 4.2, so you're probably not going to get a lot of support here. What issues are you having? Is never had one yet on 4.2, and I use the camera often, as I have an infant.
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Frequent FCs, sometimes rebooting will fix, other times I have to re-flash the rom. I too have an infant (2 wks old tomorrow) and a 2yr old. I also use the camera quite often for work. I know I am not the only one having the FC issues, I just don't know why it doesn't happen to others as well. When I flash a new rom I always Factory Reset, Wipe Cache/Dalvik, and Wipe System. Then flash, boot to system, wait a few minutes, reboot to recovery, flash gapps, then restore with titanium. The only camera that worked great (aside from TW of course) was the AOSP 4.1 Camera. All 4.2 cameras have failed.
brotherandyslb said:
Frequent FCs, sometimes rebooting will fix, other times I have to re-flash the rom. I too have an infant (2 wks old tomorrow) and a 2yr old. I also use the camera quite often for work. I know I am not the only one having the FC issues, I just don't know why it doesn't happen to others as well. When I flash a new rom I always Factory Reset, Wipe Cache/Dalvik, and Wipe System. Then flash, boot to system, wait a few minutes, reboot to recovery, flash gapps, then restore with titanium. The only camera that worked great (aside from TW of course) was the AOSP 4.1 Camera. All 4.2 cameras have failed.
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I assume you have tried pulling the gallery app from a 4.1 rom and pushed it to /system/app/ on your phone. If not give that a try. Im not fully confident it will work but you might get lucky.
mentose457 said:
I assume you have tried pulling the gallery app from a 4.1 rom and pushed it to /system/app/ on your phone. If not give that a try. Im not fully confident it will work but you might get lucky.
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Yes, I have tried just the APK. Doing that results in the camera becoming non functional. Then I expanded removed gmscore.apk and 2 lib files then added gallery.apk from 4.1 along with several files merged in to all folders set permissions, reboot ... soft brick. I'm not 100% sure what files the camera relies on and what files the system relies on. What I'd like to do is pinpoint down every file the camera relies on in both 4.1 and 4.2 then make the proper changes. I'm just not sure of how to do that. I've downloaded several different flashable cameras and it seems that each one has different files.

[Q] S3 Camera Breaks Upon Installing Custom ROM

I have had Bean's Jelly 'Beans' ROM installed on my GS3 since I first got the phone in October. Verizon had to replace my phone this past week, and once I received the new one, I did the customary procedure of rooting it and installing a custom ROM. However, after I install a ROM, the Camera always breaks (I get the message "Camera Failed" and the camera screen is black when I open the stock camera app).
I have already researched the issue, and it seems there is a history of some S3's coming out of the box with a broken camera, but it is important to note that the camera works fine as long as I revert back to the stock (and rooted) rom. When installing the Jelly 'Beans' ROM, I have selected 4 different kernel options(Beans custom stock, imoseyon lean kernel, ktoonsez, and faux kernel), thinking that may be the issue, but each one still leaves a broken camera. I have also tried installing an aftermarket camera app, in case the S3 camera apk is somehow broken, and have flashed the Photosphere Camera. Nothing will get the camera to work (and yes, my battery is fully charged).
Not being able to install a custom ROM is a pretty big deal to me, and not having a working camera is a deal breaker. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get Verizon to replace the phone again since it all works on the stock ROM. Does anyone have any ideas? I have tried several things I have read in the forums, but nothing has worked so far. Thank you all in advance for your help!
tfc87 said:
I have had Bean's Jelly 'Beans' ROM installed on my GS3 since I first got the phone in October. Verizon had to replace my phone this past week, and once I received the new one, I did the customary procedure of rooting it and installing a custom ROM. However, after I install a ROM, the Camera always breaks (I get the message "Camera Failed" and the camera screen is black when I open the stock camera app).
I have already researched the issue, and it seems there is a history of some S3's coming out of the box with a broken camera, but it is important to note that the camera works fine as long as I revert back to the stock (and rooted) rom. When installing the Jelly 'Beans' ROM, I have selected 4 different kernel options(Beans custom stock, imoseyon lean kernel, ktoonsez, and faux kernel), thinking that may be the issue, but each one still leaves a broken camera. I have also tried installing an aftermarket camera app, in case the S3 camera apk is somehow broken, and have flashed the Photosphere Camera. Nothing will get the camera to work (and yes, my battery is fully charged).
Not being able to install a custom ROM is a pretty big deal to me, and not having a working camera is a deal breaker. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get Verizon to replace the phone again since it all works on the stock ROM. Does anyone have any ideas? I have tried several things I have read in the forums, but nothing has worked so far. Thank you all in advance for your help!
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I'm going to go ahead and help myself out and respond to my own question. Upon even further research (yes, I know everyone says people don't look hard enough), I believe the issue relates to the Firmware version. Supposedly the newest firmware breaks the camera unless it's on the stock rom. There are modified firmwares out there that change the part that breaks the camera, but I believe I am going to downgrade the modem and all from what was pre-installed and see if it works.
tfc87 said:
I'm going to go ahead and help myself out and respond to my own question. Upon even further research (yes, I know everyone says people don't look hard enough), I believe the issue relates to the Firmware version. Supposedly the newest firmware breaks the camera unless it's on the stock rom. There are modified firmwares out there that change the part that breaks the camera, but I believe I am going to downgrade the modem and all from what was pre-installed and see if it works.
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if its a custom Rom (Stock but maby some extras such as overclocking or somethin) they are Sometimes Broken They will try to fix it sometimes, upgrading to a higher android version it is sometimes is Quite hard to Fix everything.
Trozzul said:
if its a custom Rom (Stock but maby some extras such as overclocking or somethin) they are Sometimes Broken They will try to fix it sometimes, upgrading to a higher android version it is sometimes is Quite hard to Fix everything.
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I downgraded the firmware to VRBMB1 and went back to that custom rom and the camera works flawlessly. I read in the firmware forum that the new firmware is doing this to a lot of people...I just happened to have one of the phones that came with it pre-installed. Problem solved and hopefully this post will help someone out...if not...it helped myself out at least.
tfc87 said:
I downgraded the firmware to VRBMB1 and went back to that custom rom and the camera works flawlessly. I read in the firmware forum that the new firmware is doing this to a lot of people...I just happened to have one of the phones that came with it pre-installed. Problem solved and hopefully this post will help someone out...if not...it helped myself out at least.
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maby just wait till next firmware and they will fix it?
Trozzul said:
maby just wait till next firmware and they will fix it?
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Yeah I'm sure it will be fixed. Either way, I don't recommend that newest firmware...signal seems to be the worst out of all of the ones I've tried...for me at least. Seems to be a lot of complaints out there with it anyways.
Similiar issue?
I am having a similiar issue with my US Cell GS3. I bought the donor version of mskip's Samsung Galaxy S3 Unified Toolkit and rooted my device yesterday now my camera is doing the same thing...fires up to a black screen, hangs a few seconds then says camera failed. I'm running Android 4.1.2, build R530UVXAMD4. I've read in a few places that I may have to either downgrade my kernel or flash with some sort of alternate firmware.
Any assistance provided is greatly appreciated!
Sterling8356 said:
I am having a similiar issue with my US Cell GS3. I bought the donor version of mskip's Samsung Galaxy S3 Unified Toolkit and rooted my device yesterday now my camera is doing the same thing...fires up to a black screen, hangs a few seconds then says camera failed. I'm running Android 4.1.2, build R530UVXAMD4. I've read in a few places that I may have to either downgrade my kernel or flash with some sort of alternate firmware.
Any assistance provided is greatly appreciated!
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did you figure this out?
im having same problem
I had the same problem while flashing one of my friend's S3...i just did the whole process once again..and everything works fine
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tfc87 said:
I have had Bean's Jelly 'Beans' ROM installed on my GS3 since I first got the phone in October. Verizon had to replace my phone this past week, and once I received the new one, I did the customary procedure of rooting it and installing a custom ROM. However, after I install a ROM, the Camera always breaks (I get the message "Camera Failed" and the camera screen is black when I open the stock camera app).
I have already researched the issue, and it seems there is a history of some S3's coming out of the box with a broken camera, but it is important to note that the camera works fine as long as I revert back to the stock (and rooted) rom. When installing the Jelly 'Beans' ROM, I have selected 4 different kernel options(Beans custom stock, imoseyon lean kernel, ktoonsez, and faux kernel), thinking that may be the issue, but each one still leaves a broken camera. I have also tried installing an aftermarket camera app, in case the S3 camera apk is somehow broken, and have flashed the Photosphere Camera. Nothing will get the camera to work (and yes, my battery is fully charged).
Not being able to install a custom ROM is a pretty big deal to me, and not having a working camera is a deal breaker. Unfortunately, I won't be able to get Verizon to replace the phone again since it all works on the stock ROM. Does anyone have any ideas? I have tried several things I have read in the forums, but nothing has worked so far. Thank you all in advance for your help!
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I have had the same problem when I installed a certain custom rom (can't remember the name ) on my s3. But later I found that during installation of the rom, there was an option to choose one of four kernels, and if I chose Boeffla kernel (included in the options) my camera wouldn't work. So I just reverted back to the stock kernel and walah! My camera works again.

camera firmware issue . maybe

ok, after installing superliterom v3.0
I ran *#0*# test
checked all things including megacam and frontcam
since then, camera is taking poor shots in mid light. pics are darker, flash doesnt light on full intensity when final capture, but works perfect while focusing
i reflashed stock rom but still same, now above test give error on megacam and front cam : Unfortunately, LCDTEST has stopped
i thought of flashing camera f/w using *#34971539#, on superlite rom as well as stock ne1
does this code work for you, can you make a backup for your firmware and upload here?

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