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Camera stopped working

My camera stopped working randomly, when i try and load the camera it looks like its jsut taking awhile to load, then i get a message saying activity camera (in application camera) is not responding. I'm not sure whats wrong, any ideas?

Which rom are u using on your phone?
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just got cyanogen mod 7

Is it a ROM Flash issue?
That is: have you tried re-flashing CM7?
When did you flash CM7 in relation to noticing your camera doesn't work?
Did it ever work since you flashed CM7 or did you just notice it?
Is it an application issue?
That is: have you tried a different camera from the market?
Have you tried installing the camera (included in CM7) again?
Is it a hardware issue?
That is: have you visually inspected the camera? Dropped the phone? Stepped on (or otherwise significantly compress) the phone?
SOME information other than "Hey yo, my camera no worky." would really help out.

Sorry for the lack of description, i think it might just be a hardware issue because i first noticed it stopped working randomly when i had Juicy rom on then i flashed a rom that didnt work and then finally got CM7 and it worked great but the camera issue is still affecting it. I have tried taking pictures on different camera apps and i still get that same error screen. I dont know what other info to provide, i think its just broke thanks for helping!

Happened to me once and kinda scared me a bit lol All I kept getting was a black screen no matter what camera app I used even factory reset didn't fix it. What worked for me was to go completely clean and flash the RUU gingerbread update from AT&T.
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My S3's sensors won't work. 100% software related.

Greetings XDA gods! I've been a member for a long time and this is my first post with a question, as I am good at searching and answering my own questions in order to allow others time to be dedicated to making our devices better. I will describe the issue now.
I was running CM 10.1 stable since it came out. I resisted my addiction to flashing my phone every other day successfully, for a long time. My phone was functioning fine. I then decided to flash the first stable 10.2 CM version. Here is where problems began. The flash went perfect as usual and I will now describe what happened next.
1. I noticed that my rotation wasn't working.
2. I searched and discovered a handful of people had the same issues with their own GS3s.
3. I downloaded an app which 'forced' rotation. It worked. That indicates my sensor's aren't physically broken. The app was cumbersome and not automatic so I removed it.
4. I full wiped, flashed 10.2 again, same issue.
5. I full wiped, flashed 10.1??? like I had been running before and still had the non rotation problem happening.
6. Searched and discovered that I had no access to the hidden menu (to manually test the sensors) as CM** doesn't include the hidden menu options in their Roms.
7. Searched forums from all websites remotely related to CM 10.2 and discovered a bigger number of people had the issue, but some had the issue fixed with a nightly release.
8. I full wiped and flashed the nightly they described fixed the issue. (I flash, full wipe, flash, wipe cache's, etc., reboot then reboot again.).
9. The non rotation persisted.
10. I found out Verizon was pushing an ota 4.3 update and although I don't ever partake in that devilish activity, in my desperation for a fix, I decided to go 'there' knowing I'd have to life with my decision until a Dev cracked boot loader, etc..
10. I used the files from this forum to 'stock' my phone, including unroot and flash counter.
11. The 1st flash of the stock version still didn't fix the problem.
12. I rewiped and flashed again, this time updating from the Verizon 'check for updates' menu option.
13. I am now unhappily running 4.3 stock, unrooted (for now) and the rotation problem persists.
14. The was a second, literally, in between the updates that the screen rotated! I was already processing the flash, so I couldn't stop it.
15. I downloaded a app to check sensors. I think its called sensorbox. It reports no sensor info from any one of the movement sensors.
16. My GPS navi function works?! Which it shouldn't. Yet another reason it's software related.
So, for the first time, I am asking this awesome community for help, as my wife and kids are tired of my obsession to fix my phone and all said I need to stop. I am not 'in warranty', so I can't return it.
As a side note from not running any TW Roms since I got my phone, the UI is refreshing. All except for the non rotation..
So, any help that's sensible, not "pull battery and then hold left ear and hop up and down", would be greatly appreciated. I have done all the normal fixs for rom flashing issues, to no avail..
Kurt
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Sorry bro, no idea.
BTW, shouldn't this be is Q&A and troubleshooting?
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Also... Depending on the Rom, there are up to 6 'enable rotate' menu selections to turn on/off the feature. I have tried them all in various patterns and the none work.
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Okay. So maybe its posted in the wrong forum. What should I do? @flyestAC. Thanks for your help
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did you ever try the calibrating option in developer options(not sure on where this menu is, on 4.1 tw right now) same place you usually turn backlights off at. might have been worth trying but i have no idea how to do that on the new tw update stuff.
you could always just go to a store and tell them the update borked it. raise some hell and dont mention it being rooted and you might get a new one.

Moved from Original Development (which it is not), to the more appropriate Verizon Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting (where questions and help go... Hence the title)...

Well I enabled Dev options. There isn't any calibration options. I searched and found that it seems that 4.3 doesn't have the old option to set your phone down on a flat surface and hit calibrate anymore. The settings are under motions/sensitivity but they (3diff types) have no effect at all.
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Judging by googles search results, this issue is causing many GS3 owners issues.
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kurtazz said:
Judging by googles search results, this issue is causing many GS3 owners issues.
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Just to chime in, the EXACT same thing started happening to me yesterday. Lost all accelerometer readings on my d2vzw.
I'm on CM 10.2. I tried a factory reset but that didn't do anything. Anyone else having this issue?

I posted this very same issue in 3 other sites. I have a total of 21 who commented that 10.2 made their sensors stop working. No one has a fixed.. posted. Which Id figure there would be at least 1 dev/smarter person than us looking into this issue or at least providing suggestions. I am getting discouraged!
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kurtazz said:
I posted this very same issue in 3 other sites. I have a total of 21 who commented that 10.2 made their sensors stop working. No one has a fixed.. posted. Which Id figure there would be at least 1 dev/smarter person than us looking into this issue or at least providing suggestions. I am getting discouraged!
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I'm on board if you can find me a willing and able guinea pig. Root and ADB are mandatory, and I'd strongly prefer AOSP ROMs over TW. Some familiarity with the command line for whatever OS they use would be nice, but definitely isn't required. I can't offer much help setting up ADB except on Linux.

I wish I could be the person to help
the fact that I tried to fix it with the OTA update to 4.3 from verizon, the option to reflash is not an option yet. Unless I am mistaken.
Which may be a good thing.
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I'm on board if you can find me a willing and able guinea pig. Root and ADB are mandatory, and I'd strongly prefer AOSP ROMs over TW. Some familiarity with the command line for whatever OS they use would be nice, but definitely isn't required. I can't offer much help setting up ADB except on Linux.
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kurtazz said:
the fact that I tried to fix it with the OTA update to 4.3 from verizon, the option to reflash is not an option yet. Unless I am mistaken.
Which may be a good thing.
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Hold the phone firmly on your right hand and smack it to your left hand. Try a few times this should unstuck the G sensor....

I tried this tapping action. First with my hand them with
A hammer. Still doesn't work. After downloading a few sensor apps all the sensors show that they are on the phone but no data is being delivered.
Again to reiterate, everything worked perfect until the cm stable rom was flashed.
About to throw this thru a wall
Kurt
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Same issue ! no sensor data :S
I tried CM 10.2 ROM, then i noticed my screen on my phone doesnt rotate.
tried other ROM´s and nothing,
also used Sensorbox app and there is no sensor data ,
and with GPU-z no data from sensors either
my sensors were working but after flashin they stoped.
can find a way to fix this. im shure its software related because my sensors were working...
any help would be apreciated

maxcrown said:
I tried CM 10.2 ROM, then i noticed my screen on my phone doesnt rotate.
tried other ROM´s and nothing,
also used Sensorbox app and there is no sensor data ,
and with GPU-z no data from sensors either
my sensors were working but after flashin they stoped.
can find a way to fix this. im shure its software related because my sensors were working...
any help would be apreciated
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Go back to what you had before 10.2
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I've had this issue ever since I accidentally took the OTA. Right after a battery pull the screen will rotate right up until everything loads and then nothing. Very frustrating!
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[Q] Google Maps corrupted (see screenshots)

This started happening a few weeks ago. Rooted stock w/ franco kernel. I tried uninstalling any Maps updates, reinstalling the latest version, and even doing a full wipe and flashing another ROM (Cataclysm), but nothing seems to fix the issue. When I first installed Cataclysm it seemed to work again, but I just opened Maps and the corruption is back. Could it be a hardware issue?

mitchellaneous said:
This started happening a few weeks ago. Rooted stock w/ franco kernel. I tried uninstalling any Maps updates, reinstalling the latest version, and even doing a full wipe and flashing another ROM (Cataclysm), but nothing seems to fix the issue. When I first installed Cataclysm it seemed to work again, but I just opened Maps and the corruption is back. Could it be a hardware issue?
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Try different GPS/Location setting? If not, sounds probably like hardware issue.

mitchellaneous said:
This started happening a few weeks ago. Rooted stock w/ franco kernel. I tried uninstalling any Maps updates, reinstalling the latest version, and even doing a full wipe and flashing another ROM (Cataclysm), but nothing seems to fix the issue. When I first installed Cataclysm it seemed to work again, but I just opened Maps and the corruption is back. Could it be a hardware issue?
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try it at other location?? I'm using cataclysm and franco r32 and always using this app, works perfectly

Have you saved these maps offline?
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I'm having similar problems also... And I've tried over 4 different ROMs.
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Same problem here. Stock Rom. Satellite view works fine.
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Same problem her!

Oh man I've been searching for weeks on this issue, thought I was the only one. Had this problem since late december, was on OmniRom at the time. I've tried multiple roms as well, factory resets in between each flash. The kicker is that my girlfriend's moto x doesn't have this problem.
For me, after a certain zoom level, all the "blue artifacts" disappear, but once you zoom back out, they're back, are you guys experiencing similar behavior?

I never saw this, until I zoomed out.
Now it's present even zoomed in.
lol maps wtf.
WR
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Try installing Waze and see if that works for you. I never use Google Maps anymore.

I actually use maps daily at my job, I drive a wrecker.
Though I use it on a ten inch tablet solid mounted in my unit, and not my phone.
Waze, loses detail of roads at certain zoom levels and kind of works against my usage.
My phone is my back up mapping to my tablet and paper map to that.
So I'm not screwed, but highly annoyed by this map glitch.
WR
Edit to add, waze is neat, but I need to be routed to the worst spots with out bias, not around them oddly to most.
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@mitchellaneous - has your phone been screwing around with iphones?? this looks like the infection that apple's maps has had when they launched!

I'm having this issue to. Tried wiping system, data, cache and flashing three different ROMs. It won't go away. I thought it may have been related to changing the DPI but that theory was null and void after wiping everything and flashing multiple ROMs without modifying the DPI.
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Does the issue persist even if you flash stock ROM/kernel?

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Does the issue persist even if you flash stock ROM/kernel?
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Have not gone to that dramatic of lengths yet. It might come to that sadly though.
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G1ForFun said:
Have not gone to that dramatic of lengths yet. It might come to that sadly though.
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Given that other apps are not running into this issue, I guess the screen and GPU are fine. You said that you already uninstalled/reinstalled maps and updates, so that rules out a bug in the app. Only thing left is the rest of the software (ROM/Kernel) - hence the suggestion.

Myself I'm on stock rom, Bionic patch, currently 439 DPI and Trinity kernel.
I'll go stock and test it again.
WR
Edit, flashed a stock nandroid of system, cache and boot.
Glitch still present.
Redownloaded local maps, still present.
Must be something on internal storage I'm thinking.
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Its been fixed I see.
Starting showing maps without glitch last couple days. At least is now on mine, no matter how much I zoom in and out.
WR
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Updated to 7.7.0, same problem...

Same here, dpi was set to 439 on a stock kernel. Setting back to 480 and clearing app data resolved the issue.

Audio Lollipop bug

So after a few weeks of using Digital highs GPE Lollipop build I ended up having this issue where my bottom speaker will just stop functioning entirely and I'd have to reboot to fix it, I decided this was a software issue and not a hardware issue so I flashed a new ROM, Liquid smooth. Now my issue is less annoying but still unbearably frustrating, instead of a reboot required, when I listen to music or higher pitched songs it will just give out again but I can fix it by killing my music app and restarting it. I believe this has to do with lollipop and isn't related to my phones speakers being broken but what do you guys think? I'm frustrated as hell about this.

S1L3nTShaDoWz said:
So after a few weeks of using Digital highs GPE Lollipop build I ended up having this issue where my bottom speaker will just stop functioning entirely and I'd have to reboot to fix it, I decided this was a software issue and not a hardware issue so I flashed a new ROM, Liquid smooth. Now my issue is less annoying but still unbearably frustrating, instead of a reboot required, when I listen to music or higher pitched songs it will just give out again but I can fix it by killing my music app and restarting it. I believe this has to do with lollipop and isn't related to my phones speakers being broken but what do you guys think? I'm frustrated as hell about this.
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just a thought have you tried reverting to a 4.4.4 rom to see if it fixes it? just to be sure it is not a hardware problem, i am curious how you came to the conclusion that it was not a hardware problem. if you think this because restarting the app or phone fixes it you may be mislead, could be the amp or some circuit is cutting out and then resetting have seen this in other types of amps. i could be completely off about this but it is something to consider.
if you were running 4.4.4 before and did not have the issue then that would be my suggestion. and if you find out that it is definitely software then you might want to try re installing the latest firmware again if you have not already tried this.

Azag Thoth said:
just a thought have you tried reverting to a 4.4.4 rom to see if it fixes it? just to be sure it is not a hardware problem, i am curious how you came to the conclusion that it was not a hardware problem. if you think this because restarting the app or phone fixes it you may be mislead, could be the amp or some circuit is cutting out and then resetting have seen this in other types of amps. i could be completely off about this but it is something to consider.
if you were running 4.4.4 before and did not have the issue then that would be my suggestion. and if you find out that it is definitely software then you might want to try re installing the latest firmware again if you have not already tried this.
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First off thanks for the reply, secondly, I haven't tried converting and it only started happening a month after Lollipop use so perhaps you're right and I was wrong to jump to the conclusion. However I only thought this because using a dif ROM the issue changed from reboot required to fix it to simply restarting the app im using. Leads me to believe it is ROM related. And I'll fix my MultiROM n boot up the old 4.4.2 rom i have n see if it works properly in a bit. Will report back when I'm done.

S1L3nTShaDoWz said:
First off thanks for the reply, secondly, I haven't tried converting and it only started happening a month after Lollipop use so perhaps you're right and I was wrong to jump to the conclusion. However I only thought this because using a dif ROM the issue changed from reboot required to fix it to simply restarting the app im using. Leads me to believe it is ROM related. And I'll fix my MultiROM n boot up the old 4.4.2 rom i have n see if it works properly in a bit. Will report back when I'm done.
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No problem, I understand how frustrating these things can be and i seen you had no replies thought I might share my thoughts.
You may be correct about it being The Rom, since after the change of rom changed what it took to reset it. Only thing that bothers me is why did it take a month before the problem surfaced, unless you added some other app that is somehow causing the problem.
Have you tried putting phone in safe mode and see if problem persists, if not it a app or something you have installed after that first month.

Problems after Lollipop update (Help needed)

Hi guys,
Ever since I updated to Lollipop especially after the recent update to 5.1.1, everything is screwed up.
The google camera doesn't work so I had to uninstall it to atleast get the phone's camera working. Flashlight turns off after a while.
I'm not receiving calls as those who call get the message that my phone is switched off even though my phone is in my hands SWITCHED ON.
What the hell should I do? Its pissing me off.

I just updated to LMY48B and the camera is laggy as hell -- pretty much unusable. I don;t know what to tell you except maybe try another camera app? I'm still looking for something myself. I use my camera constantly and this has made it worthless. Almost cause for rolling back to KitKat.

Those are uncommon issues. I suggest you to start from scratch by flashing the factory images.
Camera MX is a nice alternative app.

Primokorn said:
Those are uncommon issues. I suggest you to start from scratch by flashing the factory images.
Camera MX is a nice alternative app.
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My install was a clean factory image. No idea what the issue is.
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