[Q] Weird camera flash issue - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I usually don't take pictures with flash, but today I noticed that the flash doesn't work properly in the camera app. When I try to take a picture, the the flash lights up while the camera is focusing, but when the actual picture is being taken it remains off, resulting into a very dark picture. I am running stock 4.4.4 + elementalx kernel. Has anyone else noticed something similiar and have any idea how to fix this?

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Green tint in burst camera mode

Whenever i take a picture in burst camera mode, the picture has a green tint on it. I had the problem with the stock ROM when I enabled all camera modes and still have it running mightymike's 11.16 rom so it may be hardware related. All other camera modes seem to work fine. Has anyone else come across this problem?
mikelittle24 said:
Whenever i take a picture in burst camera mode, the picture has a green tint on it. I had the problem with the stock ROM when I enabled all camera modes and still have it running mightymike's 11.16 rom so it may be hardware related. All other camera modes seem to work fine. Has anyone else come across this problem?
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This is completely a stab in the dark, but try taking your back cover off and take a picture. Do you still have a green tint? Also, when you move the picture to a computer, does it have a green tint still?
TaurusBullba said:
This is completely a stab in the dark, but try taking your back cover off and take a picture. Do you still have a green tint? Also, when you move the picture to a computer, does it have a green tint still?
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Interesting... When i move the picture to the computer it looks fine. Also, When I browse to the pic thru the file explorer, it also looks fine. It's only green in the pic immediately after the shot.
Ah well.. Thanks for the ideas.

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I have a strange problem that I can't seem to find an answer for. I have an SGH-I727R rooted with stock ICS ROM. I don't know when this started happening so I'm not sure what triggered it, but the flash on my camera doesn't work.
My LED works because my flashlight app works, and when I go to take a picture in the dark, the camera will turn on the light for auto-focus, but when I go to actually take the picture, the light turns off but doesn't flash for the picture. I've tried 4 camera apps and they all do the exact same thing.
Things I've tried so far:
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