Hi,
I got a 2nd hand N915T running 4.4.4 recently . For the stock camera app, when it tries to auto focus, very often it will freeze for seconds and the resumes. And eventually, it will crash saying "Camera failed". Sometimes, it will just freeze with some random screwed up graphics.
I have tried wiping cache, but after a few pictures , it will happen again. I am not sure if it's a conflict of certain apps.
Is this a known issue with 4.4.4? Does it get fixed with 5.0.1?
Thanks.
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Hi All,
The camera crashes sometimes and I have to force close it. When I try to open it again, it displays a black screen for 2 seconds with maximum brightness then kicks me back to my home page.
I have disabled Geotagging and going to Settings -> Applications -> Manage
Clearing the camera data
Clearing the cache
Force stopping & reopening the camera app. does not resolve the problem.
I need to restart my phone in order for it to start working again.
Does anyone know of another way to revive the camera after it crashes without having to restart?
Thanks.
I'll assume that camera worked properly when you installed the rom. If that is the case, just flash the SAME rom on top of it, without wiping anything, and you should be fine.
Thanks for the response strahota.
I'm running InsertCoin 3.4.0 and not having any problems with the camera or ROM itself, but rather a third-party application that will sometimes crash the camera and prevent the camera app. from being opened again until I restart.
Just would like to know if there's anyone out there that knows of a way to restart the camera without restarting the phone?
Thanks.
bump, hoping someone can help...
For some God forsaken reason, the camera in my N5 is a pile of crap. Let me list the issues:
(Note I'm using the stock Google Camera app and have tried CM Focal with identical results).
Switching from Rear to Front camera takes a stupid amount of time, usually winds up crashing the Camera app altogether.
Switching from Camera to Video results in a grey bar, 1/10th the width of the screen, spanning the entire length of the right side of the screen. The app usually crashes after this.
Videos usually can't record, the screen freezes, forcing me to hit the back or home button.
When videos do record, they're corrupt and cant be played on any windows machine or in any program.
Sound quality is laughable. (wasn't when I first bought the phone with 4.4.2 on it)
Snapchat usually can't even launch the camera and asks to restart the app. Usually results in me having to reboot the phone.
When the camera does work in Snapchat, pictures come out fine, but switching cameras usually reproduces the issue mentioned above. Videos, however record only 50% of the time. The times they dont, the screen freezes, resulting me having to restart the app.
When videos do actually record in Snapchat they have about a 50/50 of being unable to be played back, resulting in the error message: "Can't play this video".
On rare occasions, using the camera in Snapchat results in the screen flickering rapidly for a few seconds and then the phone reboots... The last time this occured it wiped all the data to Facebook, Snapchat, and EvolveSMS.
These symptoms exist in both Vanilla KitKat 4.4.4 and CM11 (Snapshot M8). Yes, I have reinstalled Snapchat. I've also tried toggling on/off HDR+ to no avail.
My Camera is basically useless and it's extremely annoying. It has even caused crashes that have wiped data from my phone. Hardware related? Software related? I'm really at a loss here... Any help is appreciated.
Well first try a complete fresh install to see if it's just software related
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Ben36 said:
Well first try a complete fresh install to see if it's just software related
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Factory reset, wiped case and dalvik, freshly installed CM11 last night before bed. Same symptoms exist as they did before.
So the issue is 5.1 only, never had this issue on any previous version. The camera will work, then the next moment it can't connect to camera or it stops responding or shows me a black screen when I try to use front facing (but rear will work). Many different scenarios but only reboot fixes it temporarily.
Tried the usual, clear cache, clear data, this is a new install of latest march 21 cataclysm stable.
Snapchat occasionally tells me that it can't connect to camera (but it works anyways so I don't know why it says its not working).
Any way to narrow down the issue?
Thanks.
Hi everyone,
I have a Nexus 5, which is completely stock with locked bootloader. I am running the latest Android 6.0 with the Nov 2015 security patch.
I noticed a couple of days ago that my torch had stopped working. Also when I try the camera I get the 'Can't connect to the camera' error.
I tried clearing app cache for camera app, and this did not work
I tried clearing all cache through settings, and this did not work
I rebooted, and this did not work
I tried a 3rd party torch app, and this did not work (uninstalled)
I tried a 3rd party camera app, and this did not work (front camera briefly worked but then also errored if I tried to take a pic. Uninstalled)
I tried safe mode, in case it was a third party app causing the issue, and this did not work
I then tried wiping cache through recovery, and this did work, but only for a short time - after an hour the issue returned.
Sometime just after rebooting and then starting the camera app I get a garbled view instead of the error (screenshot attached) and can briefly switch to the front camera, but if I take a pic it errors again.
Has anyone got any idea as to what could be causing the issues?
Thanks!
I recently updated my phone to 7.1.2 (Verizon, May updates) and every time I take a picture with HDR Auto or On, it gets stuck in "processing HDR+" around 75%.
If I take another photo, they also get stuck since the first photo is not processed at all and what's worse is that
I tried rebooting several times, clearing the cache and the data of the camera app but none of them worked. Do you have a solution for this issue?
I had the same problem. I'm BL unlocked and rooted. So i uninstalled the camera app via Titanium backup. Reinstalled from Play Store after a reboot. Now it's been working fine.