Hi,
yesterday i bought 32gb nexus 5 for 150 euros (around 190 dollars). the reason for its modest price was camera which doesnt work.
i flashed full factory image 4.4.4, custom roms and kernels, did factory reset, booted in safe mode, cleared camera cache and data, but no luck.
Camera app doesnt show up in app drawer or dock in gn launcher. When I launch camera, the screen stays black (like its loading but ultimatively it doesnt). Sometimes i get: camera has crashed, or cant connect to the camera. Other camera apps also dont work, flashlight apps dont work.
Now, its obvious to me that this is hardvare isue. Camera doesnt seem like its damaged at all, lens is alright.
Today i teard my n5 down and removed rear and front facing camera and put them back in, and it still doesnt work.
My question is: if i buy new a rear and front camera and install them, can I expect camera to work? Is it possible that something else isnt working properly (maybe logicboard is damaged or something like that). I ask because i dont have knowledge about smartphones hardware. Would replacing cameras do the job?
Thanks in advance, i hope someone has experience with this kind of problem.
I don't know for sure but it could possibly be a corrupt camera driver issue.. The only thing that would make me think replacing the cameras won't work is that the flash/flashlight doesn't work either.. But I dunno if the camera is bad if that'll affect the flash/flashlight as well
I'll do a little research and get back to you
Ok strange thing : now torch built in Mahdi rom works but other flashlight apps don't :
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Hey all,
I flashed CM 10 last night and when I went to use my camera, my screen looked like this:
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As you see.. the camera preview is messed up. Displaying the image the camera sees four times... and not even fully rendered.
I wasn't able to get an actual screenshot of this off my phone as it saves it as a normal picture so I had to use a real camera. The camera functions and takes proper pictures... but the screen so messed up it makes it difficult to take a pic. Also, if I change settings the gallery crashes.
Has anyone come across this before? If so... how do I resolve this heh.
TIA!
Any thoughts? This is driving me insane lol.
My suggestion would be clearing data on the gallery(camera is part of the gallery) to see if that helps. Also try ticking the box under developer settings that references HW overlays.
DarkSirius said:
Hey all,
I flashed CM 10 last night and when I went to use my camera, my screen looked like this:
As you see.. the camera preview is messed up. Displaying the image the camera sees four times... and not even fully rendered.
I wasn't able to get an actual screenshot of this off my phone as it saves it as a normal picture so I had to use a real camera. The camera functions and takes proper pictures... but the screen so messed up it makes it difficult to take a pic. Also, if I change settings the gallery crashes.
Has anyone come across this before? If so... how do I resolve this heh.
TIA!
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Clear your data in the gallery see of that works, n fyi don't freak out if your pictures don't pop up in the gallery after you clear gallery data, your pictures aren't gone they will pop back up after some time
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Hey,
I need small piece of help from you all, I have Samsung Google Nexus S phone. It's camera is NOT performing good job, it's camera result shows whiteness and noise on picture and the picture seems without focus too I have checked the setting that is okay.
Settings are as below:
Flash: Off
Picture Size: 5 MP
Exposure: 0
Focus Mode: Auto / Infinity / Macro (tried all of them but no good focus)
Scene Mode: Auto
Here is my camera result with above settings:
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And here is the camera result which I got from google sarching (it's really nice):
What to do?? Any help???
Thanks
Stock rom?
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Stock rom?
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I am using Jelly Bean 4.1.1
Have you tried with a different camera? I had a similar problem when installing CM10. I was using Camera ZoomFX and it started to work terrible. Stock camera, on the other hand, worked much better. I just went back to the stock one and forgot about it.
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Have you tried with a different camera? I had a similar problem when installing CM10. I was using Camera ZoomFX and it started to work terrible. Stock camera, on the other hand, worked much better. I just went back to the stock one and forgot about it.
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I have tried:
1. Stock Camera App
2. Camere Zoom FX
3. Camera ICS
But I did not get better result from my phone's camera... Stock camera and Camera ICS do not allow me to use TOUCH FOCUS on the other hand in Camera Zoon Fx when I touch on the screen it shows sometimes Red and sometimes Green box depend upon the situation but actually it does not focus that green box is just for showing, it actually does not focus the subject, I have tried different settings but no good focus and no good pictures
do a factory reset, then upgrade to 4.1.2
this was a shot made with my i9023 + stock google 4.1.2, about 5 months ago:
I know this seems like a pretty small thing to be concerned about, but I just wanted to ask if anyone else has this issue or if they have resolved it. The front camera on my nexus 5 is not aligned properly when looking at the lens through the opening in the glass.
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It doesn't affect pictures taken with the camera but it is off centered so much the lens is almost partially hidden and it is very noticeable. At first I thought I could live with it but I had some free time and just for fun decided to open it up and see if I could move the camera at all and I found that the whole board/bracket that the camera mounts to is out of alignment and am now wondering if that is something to worry about.
I also have a slightly loose power button and wonder if maybe the board being out of alignment could be the cause of that as well. Other than the power button and the front camera I have not noticed any other ill effects. Anyone else have this issue or input?
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I know this seems like a pretty small thing...
It doesn't affect pictures taken .....and am now wondering if that is something to worry about.
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If you want to worry..knock yourself out.
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Ocd?
Your ocd is freaking you out? Maybe you should send it back to Google to fix that but it's a waste of time, and about the power button I have the same problem and you can solve it putting a little piece of paper between the button and the eboard
I'm definitely not feeling that worried about it. Like I said, everything seems to be working fine and I only bothered to open it up because I was bored and I thought it would be a fun project. I was mostly just surprised to see that the whole board inside the phone was out of alignment and not just the camera and was curious as to whether or not this was common. I did end up wedging some paper in between the power button and it seems to have alleviated that problem. As for the camera, it's a shame it doesn't seem I can fix it but I don't think it will really bother me.
Does anyone found this issue on xperia 5 camera ?
when i open camera app and turn to 2X Lens(1X Len is not find this issue) the Camera interface was shake and shake 。It just not like an hardware problem, more like software problem. Is someone have ability to fix the problem? (I will set .gif under it)
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I can't replicate this on mine.
Well, i have received an explanation from a bro,which have find the same situation. He just think that it related to brightness. When the sensor detect the brightness is enough, the 2X camera will run, if it detect brightness is not enough the camera will change to 1X camera. Sothat, when the light in a embarrassing situation(no brightness enough and also not realy dark) this issus will happen,two cameras switch and switch, realy quickly and also again here is a kind of explanation ,so am i.
Try video Pro
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Yeah I see what you did there XD. Neat trick.
High light/contrast on the computer screen and no light on the Keyboard...you're asking for problems.
Have you tried using the Pro video app. That's going to get a better shot than the standard camera app.
While I can't possibly see the reason for attempting this kind of shot in low light conditions. I have sort or re-created it on mine but the camera wants to focus on where i hold my finger/thumb; which has next to no visual queues for the hardware/software to recognise so it will do what your are seeing.
I agree that the camera has become a little sluggish in 2X mode in low light. But to be honest I wouldn't have bothered until you posted this.
It's doing exaclty what I would expect it to do under the conditions.
Hey guys,
I finally (kappa) managed it, to broke my front camera motor
I think, it got broke while the last time my phone dropped..
The camera itself still works (Surrounding light is shining through) but the motor, for pushing the camera up and down, is dead.
I can't hear any sound, nor any sidelights of it. The notification LED still works too btw.
Do anyone else expected this failure too and maybe know a fix for it? I already tried to "pick it up" a bit with a sharf cutter and trigger the mechanism with the camera app and front camera sidelight settings, but vainly it didn't work..
Sony make.belive said:
Hey guys,
I finally (kappa) managed it, to broke my front camera motor
I think, it got broke while the last time my phone dropped..
The camera itself still works (Surrounding light is shining through) but the motor, for pushing the camera up and down, is dead.
I can't hear any sound, nor any sidelights of it. The notification LED still works too btw.
Do anyone else expected this failure too and maybe know a fix for it? I already tried to "pick it up" a bit with a sharf cutter and trigger the mechanism with the camera app and front camera sidelight settings, but vainly it didn't work..
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The engine seems strong.
The connection between the engine and the camera more likely or solder or printed circuit.
You'd have to open it to see.
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Engine:3,80$
NOSS8 said:
The engine seems strong.
The connection between the engine and the camera more likely or solder or printed circuit.
You'd have to open it to see.
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Camera:20$
Engine:3,80$
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Thanks for the information! But heating up the display and re-glueing it by myself could end up in a disaster ..
I think, I will first try to contact my seller (or xiaomi) and ask for repair service.