My sister just got a Lumia 1020 to replace her broken 900. She started the Pro Cam and the shutter opened fine, but the screen stays black. Same thing for the regular Camera app, Smart Cam or anything that tries to use the camera. It seems the camera is actually turning on (the shutter pops open) but the phone isn't recieving input from it. What could be the problem?
Pictures: Dropbox
Picture of the phone laying down is what it looks like in the Pro Cam (not black just because it's on the floor) and the other is the normal Camera app. Note the controls for the regular Camera app. It's not just because Pro Cam is not opening.
Any help would be greatly appreciated; she's really upset about this.
RTM.
c_h0use said:
My sister just got a Lumia 1020 to replace her broken 900. She started the Pro Cam and the shutter opened fine, but the screen stays black. Same thing for the regular Camera app, Smart Cam or anything that tries to use the camera. It seems the camera is actually turning on (the shutter pops open) but the phone isn't recieving input from it. What could be the problem?
Pictures: Dropbox
Picture of the phone laying down is what it looks like in the Pro Cam (not black just because it's on the floor) and the other is the normal Camera app. Note the controls for the regular Camera app. It's not just because Pro Cam is not opening.
Any help would be greatly appreciated; she's really upset about this.
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Have you tried a soft or hard reset??
Yes, did that a couple times. Got them to replace the phone with a new one though. Could not for the life of me find anything out about this problem and neither did AT&T. Thread can be closed.
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My phone freezes while trying to take a photo. Focus is also not working. The only way to wake it up is to switch off and on the screen by on/off button. Any ideas what is this about? No root, updated to last version...
While recording a video focus is also not wotking.
P.S. Front camera works perfect.
Damn you, I can't post link to video that shows how does it look because I am not a flooder...
OK, phone was returned and received back with camera changed. It was hardware problem. Not at all.
So I just decided to unblock bootloader, recovery and all that stuff to get on the custom rom.
Have been tried 2 rom: Evolution X and Pixel Exp
The rom seems to be working perfectly fine and the camera app as well but when I switch to the front camera, it just crashes all the time for any camera applications, I can use the camera and toggle the front camera then slide the phone down a bit and actually seeing the camera works through the small light gap appear on the screen but as soon as the slider full slides down, the app just stops right away without any warning.
How do I troubleshoot this ? Does anyone here encounter the same thing ?
I facetime my mother a lot so this really sucks for these recent couple of days already. Should I switch back to og software ?
If your on EvoX and use this camera: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/changelog590/
When you slide down your front camera should work immediately.
Schumi_wk said:
If your on EvoX and use this camera: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/changelog590/
When you slide down your front camera should work immediately.
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Just swap back the rom and tried the app. Well it still doesn't work. Its go black screen for a sec and close the application.
None of the application with front camera works as well.
Is this a common thing ?
No, it seems like you are the only one with this problem. If it above does not solve it, I don't know.
This is a known issue. Start the camera, switch to portrait mode, then switch to FFC. It works fine with the latest Google camera port than with the Xiaomi camera. Once the app has crashed, to recover it, dismiss the app from Recents.
I had it too i switched back to stock then i formated from twrp then if you don't know what to do when you dont have an os don't freak out just connect it to the pc and drag and drop the files/rom into the phone install and you should be good to go
I have had no issues at all for almost an year with this phone. I was running oreo ever since I bought this phone. Suddenly, a day or two before upgrading it to pie 9.0, I found out in my Snapchat app that there was no back camera sign. First I thought, some weird snap update, but then I found out in system Camera app, it was even not showing the back camera. Whenever I would click on the rear camera sign from the top in Camera app, it would keep on swapping to the frontal secondary camera and then back to the primary frontal camera but no back camera was working. Also I found out that my Flashlight icon is hardened or greyed out, like it's been disabled forcefully. I can make it work using some other app, but it is frustrating why this is happening.
Now I am on android 9, rooted, and this problem keeps on coming and going. At times the back camera won't even work or open with the error "Camera not working" etc. Sometimes, the back camera would work but with only 3 weirded resolutions, like 12MP, 16MP, and some other. and the video mode will be extremely large or zoomed in at 16MP. Suddenly, the camera will start working normally again with all the perfect default resolutions. I tried everything from SAFE MODE to CLEARING THE CAM APP, RESETTING THE APP, but nothing works. All it seems like that camera has suddenly came to life and has a self-consciousness and a mood which it is controlling itself. Sometimes it wants to work and at times, it simply just gets disabled. Any idea what could be the problem? I am rooted using MAGISK.
Simular camera problems with Lenovo tab v7
I have a Lenovo tab v7 with almost the same problems, the rear camera wont work but occasionally the front camera works and the flash LED is dead.
Running Android 9 Pie as well, but not rooted yet.
Any ideas about what we can do about it, is the camera hardware due to be replaced?
cloud_silver said:
I have a Lenovo tab v7 with almost the same problems, the rear camera wont work but occasionally the front camera works and the flash LED is dead.
Running Android 9 Pie as well, but not rooted yet.
Any ideas about what we can do about it, is the camera hardware due to be replaced?
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It suddenly started happening almost a month ago, I was on oreo 8 and then upgraded to pie 9 but the problem persisted. It kept working for few days and then started to make problems again. I tried to read many forums for android users with the same problem but still haven't found a single complete fix for this problem other than that the rear camera needs to be refixed. But I am finding it hard to believe that even if camera was getting bad, there is no point of FlashLight getting greyed out/disable from the notification bar. It seems more like some kind of a process is not releasing the rear camera and flashlight module/process.
Hi everyone,
Has anyone experienced an issue with the camera?
Since my phone overheated, about 3 weeks ago, staying under the sun, I can't use the rear camera... I had the overheating warning pop up.
Basically if I launch the app, the app freezes, I can't switch to different rear cameras (wide, regular, telezoom) nor switch to front camera.
Sometimes I get a pop-up saying "can not connect to camera".
I can launch selfie mode directly from the app shortcut (by long pressing), other apps can't access the rear camera either and clearing cache of the camera app didn't change anything.
So, I had to change the back cover of the phone that had been previously cracked (nothing to do the camera not working), and I benefited the phone opened to try with disconnected cameras:
Telephoto works well, super wide as well.
Funny thing: the phone can use only the super wide camera to do both x0,6 and x1 (you don't notice that the main camera is not used).
Main camera worked.
2nd funny thing : portrait mode works perfectly without the Tof sensor being plugged in...
I plugged back the Tof sensor, it was still working, but stopped after restarting the phone. I removed it, cleared cache, it started to work again. I plugged the Tof sensor back in, it was working... I glued back the cover, and had the camera stop working within few minutes...
Long story short, has anyone experienced an issue with the Tof sensor? Which doesn't seem to be very useful...
I guess I'll try to remove it completely and check if the camera becomes stable.
I didn't find this part being sold :/
Regards, Charles
Hi everybody,i have search everywhere but did'nt seen similar case anywhere,my problem began after a litlle fall after this my camera started to behave strangely, like a reversal the motor brings out the front camera when I activate the rear camera and vice versa so the selfie camera works but only inside as you can see on the video, I already tried a factory reset.I also removed the back cover to check all the camera cables and nothing has changed except that when I disconnect the one from the front camera, the interface of the rear camera becomes "normal"
Thanks
summary of the situation the pop-up camera comes out when it should be in and stays in when it should be out
jag011 said:
Hi everybody,i have search everywhere but did'nt seen similar case anywhere,my problem began after a litlle fall after this my camera started to behave strangely, like a reversal the motor brings out the front camera when I activate the rear camera and vice versa so the selfie camera works but only inside as you can see on the video, I already tried a factory reset.I also removed the back cover to check all the camera cables and nothing has changed except that when I disconnect the one from the front camera, the interface of the rear camera becomes "normal"
Thanks
summary of the situation the pop-up camera comes out when it should be in and stays in when it should be out
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I don't know about the Poco F2 Pro but if it's something like the Huawei Y9 Prime with its pop-up camera it has a small magnet that "indicates" to the system when the front one is up or down and that makes the small motor that moves it activates the front camera, now the cell phone fell with the camera outside and the module was hit, it is possible that the state of the camera (down/up) has been "uncalibrated", in any case you would have to take it to a center specialized to be disassembled and checked because it seems to be a physical failure rather than a software one
thank you, indeed it is very interesting I had not thought of it did you see the video that I posted it is for this reason that I thought of a software defect but your proposal holds the road.