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Hey Folks,
Not sure if this goes into the developer part of the forum, but it's pretty deep, so I guess that's the spot.
Sometimes, when I shoot a picture, my SD card umounts, or at least the camera app says so.
Now, usually a reboot fixes things. Occasionally, I had to do fsck -a, which fixed things. Now, I don't have a USB cord handy and a strange thing occurred to me: When I try to view the shot picture via the picture viewer, I can see it perfectly but I get an error message that com.android.camera force closes. But the camera isn't launched - I killed it after the first two attempts via Process Manager for Root Users - what's up? Is the camera app needed to view pictures? That seems wrong...
Thanks for all the help I can get.
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Hey Folks,
Not sure if this goes into the developer part of the forum, but it's pretty deep, so I guess that's the spot.
Sometimes, when I shoot a picture, my SD card umounts, or at least the camera app says so.
Now, usually a reboot fixes things. Occasionally, I had to do fsck -a, which fixed things. Now, I don't have a USB cord handy and a strange thing occurred to me: When I try to view the shot picture via the picture viewer, I can see it perfectly but I get an error message that com.android.camera force closes. But the camera isn't launched - I killed it after the first two attempts via Process Manager for Root Users - what's up? Is the camera app needed to view pictures? That seems wrong...
Thanks for all the help I can get.
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That is odd...
Do you have any themes or wonky mods on your phone? To answer your last question..yes, in order to view pictures, you need to have the camera app installed.
Which build are you running? Do you happen to have a vanilla Camera.apk handy to test if something strange has happened with the one present on your device?
Autarkis said:
Hey Folks,
Not sure if this goes into the developer part of the forum, but it's pretty deep, so I guess that's the spot.
Sometimes, when I shoot a picture, my SD card umounts, or at least the camera app says so.
Now, usually a reboot fixes things. Occasionally, I had to do fsck -a, which fixed things. Now, I don't have a USB cord handy and a strange thing occurred to me: When I try to view the shot picture via the picture viewer, I can see it perfectly but I get an error message that com.android.camera force closes. But the camera isn't launched - I killed it after the first two attempts via Process Manager for Root Users - what's up? Is the camera app needed to view pictures? That seems wrong...
Thanks for all the help I can get.
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Bad memorystick. I got this problem and I chang to new SDcar : Sandisk 8gb class 2. Do not use Trancend.
deprecate said:
That is odd...
Do you have any themes or wonky mods on your phone? To answer your last question..yes, in order to view pictures, you need to have the camera app installed.
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ADP1. Nothing else, every app is standard, although I have used the SnapPhoto app occasionally. Hm, ok, I'm half at-ease now that I know that the camera process isnt' some kind of virus.
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Which build are you running? Do you happen to have a vanilla Camera.apk handy to test if something strange has happened with the one present on your device?
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Camera.apk is vanilla ADP1. It's really strange. Could my SD card be broken? Although, when uploading stuff from PC, playing MP3s, nothing like this seems to happen.
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Bad memorystick. I got this problem and I chang to new SDcar : Sandisk 8gb class 2. Do not use Trancend.
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Ah, thanks. I've got SanDisk 16 GB category 2. I'm getting a replacement tomorrow and post the results in this thread. Though I'd like to upgrad to Cat 4 if they let me. I heard apps launched from SD card should run faster then.
I am having pretty much the same problem. I can't view any pics on my phone, although they show up on my computer when I mount the camera to my computer. All I get is a weird icon in place of all the photos. It even tells me how many photos I have in each folder, just no thumbnails shown. When I try to view an individual picture it says "The application Camera (process com.android.camera) has stopped unexpectedly." And I have to force close.
When I try to take a photo with the phone it says I need to insert an sd card to take a picture, but when I look under storage it shows the sd card fine.
I am running JF's RC30 1.41 with the BUUF theme, although I don't THINK that is causing the problem. I'm pretty sure it worked fine until the other night when I tried to take a photo with the battery really low and the phone shut down on it's own. However, I went into the card and deleted the jpg files that weren't showing a thumbnail picture thinking that would solve it, but no dice. Any thoughts? Is there a way to just re-install the camera app? I usually use SnapPhoto but the same no sd card message occurs with both camera apps.
I reported this issue to Google here:
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...ID Type Version Security Status Owner Summary
Their official position is "There's been some significant improvements in that area that will be in a future release." Hopefully, this is included in RC33 just coming out, even though it has not been mentioned so far.
My interim solution was to use a different card (my trouble card was a SanDisk 8GB). I used a 2GB for a while with no problems at all, but I have been using another 8GB car for a week and have not had any trouble. I'd recommend a Class 6 card like the Adata I just got.
i noticed when i remove the camer.apk i lose the shortcut to the picture viewer and the shortcut when long pressing the home screen to add a wallpaper. after removal the only option is wallpaper gallery
Just an update. I don't know why I didn't do this sooner, but after removing the bad .jpg's from my sd card I finally rebooted the phone and I now have a working camera and I can browse my pictures. So anyone else having problems, check your picture folders for files that won't show a thumbnail and remove those. See if that helps. Just remember to reboot your phone afterward.
If the thumbnails have become corrupted then that can cause crashes. Delete thumbnails so it can catologue all the picstures again
I'm terribly sorry but I forgot the promised update to this thread.
They gave me a replacement SanDisk SD card at fnac without much of a hassle and after the phone had indexed the 2200+ pictures on the phone, everything was smooth. I don't have camera app crashes at the moment.
My SanDisk ist 16 GB Class 2. Lots of thanks to funbacon!
Today I spent ages sorting out all my pictures on my computer then loaded up Zune and told it to sync (I have delete from phone option disabled in Zune)
Off it went then I noticed it said it was deleting from phone arrrghh
I stopped the sync and checked the phone and yes it has deleted all the pictures (luckily I have 90% of them on my hdd already) but is there anyway to recover the ones it deleted?
And why did it delete them when I had the option disabled?
My case is pretty different from you,but I just want to let more people know the issue of WP7.
actually I tried to add a folder into my device,however,once everything done. I enter the pictures hub,i have found my folder there,however, all the pictures in my camera roll disappeared,but luckily i jump back to the menu and choose DATE,i can find my camera roll pictures there(it is not deleted,but disappeared).weird...god damn WP7...
This situation is pretty random...now all the pictures is back to my camera roll again,it has happened 3 times on my device.oh my god....
sylau90 said:
This situation is pretty random...now all the pictures is back to my camera roll again,it has happened 3 times on my device.oh my god....
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Is it Samsung Focus with sdcard?
That's why I started using skydrive or whatever it's called to upload all pictures I take to a private online album. It's great because it just happens. You don't even know it's doing it.
Ok so I have a mystery to solve..
I took a pic with the stock camera on rom 6.3.6 earlier tonight. For some reason the pic before it and the pic after it saved into the Gallery, but not this VERY IMPORTANT pic. The pic did in fact take successfully though, I looked at it on the phone after taking it and saw it had shot successfully. But it's not saved in the Gallery. In my mind, though, I'm thinking that even though it might not have saved properly in the Gallery folder or whatever, that it must be still held in some temp memory or folder, given that it did in fact display on the screen..and that as long as I don't turn off the phone, it must be in there somewhere still...
So you xda sleuths..any ideas where it might be stored? As I said, this pic is VERY important and I'd really really like to recover it. I'm scrounging through every folder however small with Root Explorer right now trying to find it..
If it's there it will be in dcim/cammera/
That would be where it was stored if it was saved to the Gallery, right?
Where are pics stored in the interim ie between the taking of the shot and then saving it there? While it's being displayed briefly on the screen?
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That would be where it was stored if it was saved to the Gallery, right?
Where are pics stored in the interim ie between the taking of the shot and then saving it there? While it's being displayed briefly on the screen?
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I have had this problem multiple times acrobat69.
I have had to play with the OC speed and vsel - 800/64 seems to work the best for me for camera and video camera.
If I go more .. or sometimes less I get things lost, or lock up.. and just not work.. sometimes crash the phone.. this is on 6.3 rc3 - I have not upgreaded to 6.3.6 yet.
James
Hey James fwiw I've found 6.3.6 really stable for the most part. Its not that the camera crashed, it just didn't save that one time for some reason.
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Is there a grey icon with a ! in the middle of it? Use the search button on this General forum a look for my thread called Failed to read/write on sdcard. It should help out with the cause, when and solution to get your picture back. I am mobile so I can't link it for you, sorry.
Hey acrobat69,
Did you try importing the pictures using Motorola Media Link? If you are sure that the pic still exists on the sd card and you did not see the error message "Low system memory" (which is when pictures generally do not save) you should try importing pics with the media link. Or, if you think you have deleted the pic accidentally or something of that scenario,try "Recuva" for windows, restores pics from sd cards, if deleted accidentally. Hope you find the pic!
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The link Woodrube mentioned http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1262030&highlight=failed
Try downloading QuickPic from the market too. I use it as my gallery. In fact I have completely deleted my gallery.apk. QuickPic will scan your entire card for media files as long as there isn't a .nomedia file blocking it. Might be easier to find out where it is being held, if at all.
Much thanks to everyone who has tried to help in this thread, some really good tips, all of which Ive tried, including Recuva.
Woodrube I did the thumbnail thing and although I gained back two other pics I previously couldn't see, alas neither of them was the one I needed.
I did notice that there were more than 2 thumbnaildata files as you described..one was big like 400+kb and the other two were identical sized, 4kb. The two at the top were time stamped right about the time that I know I took the lost shot, and the third 4kb was located down towards the bottom, with a time stamp of just 2 minutes before the other two. I deleted all 3, but now I'm wondering if maybe I goofed there. Actually..just typing that out sounds like I did goof, majorly.
Maybe I'll try and recuver that third thumbnaildata file and unmount remount..damn hope I didn't screw it up
ETA: I did use Recuva and returned the 3rd file I was nervous about. It was actually called image_last_thumb and I guess I deleted it because it looked sinister being at about the same time stamp of my "issue" and also because I was working on this at 3 am and not thinking straight. At any rate, no change even once I returned it to it's proper spot. My image is lost, I think.
On the upside, I too have to recommend QuickPic. Really like the speed of it and it seems to be more stable, so far. Thanks Woodrube!
Q Pic not in gallery so where is it
None of the above, Kenny. In fact, your dash work is exactly the kind of thing we want to highlight in the Gallery.
<snivelling excuse>Weve been working hard on a new release, and support, and the Gallery has not been getting any love. </snivelling excuse>
Please email a link to your clip, and Ill get it into the list for the next Gallery update.
Hi All,
I have searched the web but have been unable to find a resolution to this problem. Sometimes after a take a photo with the Galaxy Ace 2 I will find in the gallery a black rectangle with a small square in the center containing a stylized picture of a person with a lightning bolt on the top right of the person, this is in place of the expected photo.
I assume this means that the photo I have taken has failed, what I would like to know is why? For example I just took two photos, the second a few seconds after the first. The first photo was fine, the second failed. Any thoughts? I am saving the photos to the memory card (16 gb) and I have had other issues such as some photos corrupting after I have sent them via whatsapp and mp3s that can be played one day but not the next. Most of these issues resolve themselves with a restart although the photo issues remain obviously.
Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Nick
Does anyone else have an issue when they press the photo preview in the camera app where it stays pixilated for a while, the screen goes black, then I crashes back to the camera?
I also have the same issue if it loads correctly but I then delete a photo. It hangs for a while and does nothing. Sometimes it deletes, sometimes it doesn't.
Whilst I do like Google Photos, it'd be nice to change the default app to open with.
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JonesWTF said:
Does anyone else have an issue when they press the photo preview in the camera app where it stays pixilated for a while, the screen goes black, then I crashes back to the camera?
I also have the same issue if it loads correctly but I then delete a photo. It hangs for a while and does nothing. Sometimes it deletes, sometimes it doesn't.
Whilst I do like Google Photos, it'd be nice to change the default app to open with.
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Yes, and it's horrendous. If you save photos to microSD and the image happens to be HDR, it can take 10-20 seconds for the picture to properly load (and reload and flash, etc, until it's done loading) from the camera app using Photos (I think it's faster if images are saved internally, but I really prefer being able to transfer my photos from device to device on microSD, and I often don't have access to the cloud to view uploaded photos). I have no idea why Google Photos is so slow, because if you take the picture and immediately open ANY other 3rd-party gallery app, the image is instantly viewable at the same quality, so you can't blame microSD speed. I think this is Android's doing, though, since it was also this way on my HTC 10 since the Nougat update (before that update, you could set the default gallery app to something else, so I always used 3rd-party galleries and had the luxury of seeing my photos instantly). Now, after taking a picture, if I want to review, I close the camera app and open my own gallery app. It's annoying to add so many steps, but it's still infinitely faster than waiting for Google Photos to load. Personally, I absolutely despise Google Photos and think it's a prime example of trash programming, but Android (which is becoming more and more a closed system every day) has spoken, and we have to use it, moles and warts and all.
I know other ROMS have worked around Android forcing you to use Photos from the camera, but I prefer to stay on stock for stability. But if anyone knows where in the code this is kept, I'd love to tweak the system to enable a different default gallery app. I just don't know where it is.
itiskonrad said:
I know other ROMS have worked around Android forcing you to use Photos from the camera, but I prefer to stay on stock for stability. But if anyone knows where in the code this is kept, I'd love to tweak the system to enable a different default gallery app. I just don't know where it is.
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I want this to, would love to use my preferred gallery app. I tried removing google photos and use another gallery as default but then you can not view your photos from the camera app directly.
U have to be rooted so u can install gallery apk to system
itiskonrad said:
Yes, and it's horrendous. If you save photos to microSD and the image happens to be HDR, it can take 10-20 seconds for the picture to properly load (and reload and flash, etc, until it's done loading) from the camera app using Photos (I think it's faster if images are saved internally, but I really prefer being able to transfer my photos from device to device on microSD, and I often don't have access to the cloud to view uploaded photos). I have no idea why Google Photos is so slow, because if you take the picture and immediately open ANY other 3rd-party gallery app, the image is instantly viewable at the same quality, so you can't blame microSD speed. I think this is Android's doing, though, since it was also this way on my HTC 10 since the Nougat update (before that update, you could set the default gallery app to something else, so I always used 3rd-party galleries and had the luxury of seeing my photos instantly). Now, after taking a picture, if I want to review, I close the camera app and open my own gallery app. It's annoying to add so many steps, but it's still infinitely faster than waiting for Google Photos to load. Personally, I absolutely despise Google Photos and think it's a prime example of trash programming, but Android (which is becoming more and more a closed system every day) has spoken, and we have to use it, moles and warts and all.
I know other ROMS have worked around Android forcing you to use Photos from the camera, but I prefer to stay on stock for stability. But if anyone knows where in the code this is kept, I'd love to tweak the system to enable a different default gallery app. I just don't know where it is.
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How fast is you micro SD card. Maybe is the speed of the card.
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How fast is you micro SD card. Maybe is the speed of the card.
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As I said, other apps open the image instantaneously. Only Google Photos takes forever, so it's not the microSD speed.
I also save directly to the internal memory, so I can confirm, it's not an SD card issue.
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FYI this problem or bugg, is from the Google Photo software, it's not a hardware issue, because even on my Samsung phone it did exactly the same thing, that annoying lag is terrible when switching between Camera and Gallery in the Google Photo App.