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com.android.camera, "lost" SD card and picture viewer

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.

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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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.
funbacon said:
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!

SOS!! Upgraded my XT720 from 2.1 to 2.2 and Screwed UP

Hi everyone
I am in need of urgent Help
I upgraded my Motorola Milestone XT720 from 2.1 to 2.2 using Cincinatti Bell Manual.
I referred this
http://www.cincinnatibell.com/milestoneupgrade/#howtoupgrade
Now, After successful upgrade, I have some serious issues
1) My Camera's Flash isnt working. I cant enable it.
2) Performance is low
3) Lost MotoNav. How can I get it back?
4) Even if I keep Pattern lock, the slide lock do appears
5) Also, How I can merge duplicate contacts? like one contact has 3 numbers saved that are same..
Thankyou

1. im not sure. should work.
2. performance is low. you can overclock using milestone overclock if you are still rooted. however, if you are not the kind who maintains you phone everyday, i suggest you go back to 2.1 as its the most stable.
3. just google motonav apk
4. thats a flaw in the rom, cant be fixed. if you'd like to try out custom roms and maintain you phone like most of us do here, then go ahead. its very exciting lol
5. you can merge duplicate contacts by signing in to gmail on a computer, click contacts and just look around the buttons. its called "find and merge duplicate contacts" if im not wrong.
hope this helped

1) Tried all level best best to start flash... It didnt. Installed Sleekcamera apk.
2) Google find and merge always crashes and unable to do the action
3) Whats overclocking? Is it a self explanatory software??
4) Dont feel like going back to 2.1...Love App2SD
5) I also have some issues - cant play HD video and my internal video player isnt working to its full potential as I am unable o avi file. I feel, that there is codec problem, as Ringdriod isnt working too...

Chety said:
1) Tried all level best best to start flash... It didnt. Installed Sleekcamera apk.
2) Google find and merge always crashes and unable to do the action
3) Whats overclocking? Is it a self explanatory software??
4) Dont feel like going back to 2.1...Love App2SD
5) I also have some issues - cant play HD video and my internal video player isnt working to its full potential as I am unable o avi file. I feel, that there is codec problem, as Ringdriod isnt working too...
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if you like to have apps on your sd, there's a more advanced way to have it. i think its better than android's own move apps to sd. many roms we have around here have app2ext automatically set if they detect any ext partitions on your sd card. it moves all user apps onto an ext partition on your sd card (you have to use a partition tool to make this ext partition).
overclocking is actually just controlling your cpu clock speeds. most of us overclock our phone because it sometimes get laggy if we use the stock speeds. theres an app that helps us overclock on the market called milestone overclock. please remember that you need to be rooted do these stuff.
for the camera, you might have hardware problems. i dont know. contacts you should try doing the find and merge duplicates again. i'll upload a pic to show you what it looks like.
i recommend mioze's cm6 rom if you ever want to play around with flashing stuff. the stablest i've tried so far. Cyanogenmod is very versatile lol. there are a lot of themes for this rom too, made by Sileshn our master themer. for the videos i dont think i can help. you could try mobo player from the market (i think?)

Thankyou - Sorry to buggin u again n again. One last help
if you like to have apps on your sd, there's a more advanced way to have it. i think its better than android's own move apps to sd. many roms we have around here have app2ext automatically set if they detect any ext partitions on your sd card. it moves all user apps onto an ext partition on your sd card (you have to use a partition tool to make this ext partition).
How do I do that..in a esy way? I saw I video and it was very complicated for guy like me. Any easy way like app or something??
overclocking is actually just controlling your cpu clock speeds. most of us overclock our phone because it sometimes get laggy if we use the stock speeds. theres an app that helps us overclock on the market called milestone overclock. please remember that you need to be rooted do these stuff.
Cool...Thanks.
for the camera, you might have hardware problems.
No bro. It used work fine before upgrade.
i dont know. contacts you should try doing the find and merge duplicates again. i'll upload a pic to show you what it looks like.
Thanks..but Gmail says Oops… the system encountered a problem (#101)...Maybe due to slow Internet(300kbps). Any app??
i recommend mioze's cm6 rom if you ever want to play around with flashing stuff. the stablest i've tried so far. Cyanogenmod is very versatile lol. there are a lot of themes for this rom too, made by Sileshn our master themer.
This is baffling for me. I feel like M not too smart for smartphone
for the videos i dont think i can help. you could try mobo player from the market (i think?)
Yup, I have that. Unable to to pay HD vid. It shows a lag of sound and vid. Tried soft decoding. Didnt work.

Couple of things about this. Are you still Rooted? CBW gave root permissions and then I think later in the tutorial they tell you how to give it back. Don't give it back. For what you want to do, you need to keep Root permission of your device.
Next are you comfortable with flashing custom ROMs and doing realtive non-beginner stuff on your phone. We can help you and walk you through stuff but unfortunately, there isn't an "app for that". If so, then here we go.
If you successfully were able to upgrade your phone, then you can do this. There are many custom ROMS in our forums that you can use. CM6, Hellmonger's, Kahl's V4, Bravo (wip) and CM7 (wip). I suggest CM6 or Kahl's V4 as they are stable enough for beginners to learn on. The have 99% working everything and what doesn't work, is either being fixed or there are already work-arounds. (search the development forums for these)
CBW's ROM doesn't have app2ext. It only has the native Froyo app2sd where you can go to settings>apps>pick your app>move to sd. This is not the same as App2ext or Link2sd. In these you have to partition your SDcard with an ext partition. Do you know how to partition your SD card? All the above ROMs do have the native Froyo app2sd, so if you don't know how to partition your SD card, that is fine too.
Answer those and then you can decide to move forward or not. It isn't hard and you don't have to be super smart to do it, although the more you read around, there are some seriously intelligent people in here. It is just from reading your posts above, how comfortable are you? You will not brick your phone and make it a paperweight, we can bring it back from the brink, if need be. We've done it before.
**Milestone Overclock is an app in the market (requires Root) that is free to download. Just download it and set it at preset 1000/66 and you'll definately seem a boost in performance.
**Google contacts. If merge doesn't work for you, go into google on PC and look at your contact and you may have some duplicates in there. When i first got it, i had 3 of everyone too. Also, go into your phone and go to settings>account/sync and see what is sycnhing. Side note: if you have a Google+ account, unsych that as everyone in your circles will be put on your phone and vice-versa.
**Moboplayer. I use this all the time and have no problem seeing HD vids. Might want to take another look at the preferences. It even says it on the thunmbnails that it is HD.
**Camera. If you don't like the the camera function, there are a few on the market (mostly paid though) that work well. I use Vignette, but there is Camera360 and I think one for LG too. If your flash isn't working though, that might be a hardware issue.
Figure out what you want to do with your phone (flash custom ROM or not) and we can help. If you already flashed the CBW upgrade, then you are really half-way there.
Also sorry for the manifesto sized response.

Hi
Actually thankyou for detailed resonse. I find it very helpful. But, M disappointed to tell, that in afternoon,I installed Moto-optimizer after I couldnt work on Motorola Overclock and Started the process at 800...and then, its only M logo which is showing up.
Will give it to service centre tomorrow and get back to 2.1. I hope, they are not ale to detect this s/w fault..
Will love to learn our SD card partition,

Chety said:
Hi
Actually thankyou for detailed resonse. I find it very helpful. But, M disappointed to tell, that in afternoon,I installed Moto-optimizer after I couldnt work on Motorola Overclock and Started the process at 800...and then, its only M logo which is showing up.
Will give it to service centre tomorrow and get back to 2.1. I hope, they are not ale to detect this s/w fault..
Will love to learn our SD card partition,
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See this before you do the below. Easy read but might work for you instead of flashing back to 2.1.
Here is a recent troubleshoot that we fixed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1089148
No need to take back to service. We can get you back to stock pretty easily.
All you need is to download RSDlite on your computer, install it and run it.
Here are the .sbf's http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=953863
Here are the directions http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753170 See first post. It's easy to do.

[Q] Pic not in gallery...so where is 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?

acrobat69 said:
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.
Sent from my Milestone XT720 using XDA App

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.

Anybody using Dropsync with 5.0.x?

The app developer hasn't updated it for Lollipop's new folder hierarchy permission, and he seems to be pointing everyone who asks about it to his Kitkat workaround (https://metactrl.com/docs/sdcard-on-kitkat/). I tried to create the necessary directory via ES File Explorer, but it couldn't create it. Consequently, Dropsync has become completely useless for me. Does anybody use it and have advice? I might be willing to root it if it solves the problem entirely... I hadn't had a reason to root prior. Lollipop penetration is so low that I can't find information on it anywhere else, hence why I'm hoping someone with a Shield has figured it out.

Unfortunately the only apps I've seen accessing the file system properly are the ones that have the special lollipop hack that it looks like was begrudgingly added at the last second.
That much being said, it is ENTIRELY possible that if you are not able to write to your SD card, it is because the SD card is not properly formatted. I recently posted an article somewhere in this forum about how I reformatted my SD card and got apps to write to it and everything was peachy keen.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2973307
Disclaimer: I really hope this works for you but given my Thanks it's only been called functional by one other person besides me.

I actually did try formatting as NTFS (after seeing your post) and it was unsuccessful. However, I did quick format and I see now that your post says to format it twice. Perhaps I'll try it again this evening.
Thanks for your input, either way!

Any reason why not to root? DS works fine for me on 2.1 and starkissed kernel

Mathman85 said:
I actually did try formatting as NTFS (after seeing your post) and it was unsuccessful. However, I did quick format and I see now that your post says to format it twice. Perhaps I'll try it again this evening.
Thanks for your input, either way!
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I'm sorry to hear that. I probably formatted my SD card a couple times too.
berryman13 said:
Any reason why not to root? DS works fine for me on 2.1 and starkissed kernel
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Because warranty. Because good old days of not needing root.

Regarding root, I simply haven't had a need to with the Shield. With my phones and older tablets, there is functionality that I could only gain through root. But with the Shield, it's not like I'm removing carrier bloat, tethering behind the carrier's back, etc. I'm not necessarily worried about the warranty aspect... I do have microscopic hairline fractures on the corners, but I'm not petty enough to submit for a warranty exchange for cosmetic blemishes that don't affect performance, and I don't foresee other warranty-worthy issues.
Would root allow me to completely resolve the issue, though? As I mentioned, the developer's write-up specifically covers fixing the issue on KitKat, not Lollipop.

berryman13 said:
Any reason why not to root? DS works fine for me on 2.1 and starkissed kernel
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OFF TOPIC but, what is the starkissed kernel? I searched the shield tablet forum for that keyword and this was the only mention it found....

PSA: If you encounter a problem where an app asks for write permissions for the sd card, but selecting it in the documents menu that pops up causes it to crash, format the drive as NTFS and assign a volume label. I had formatted as NTFS but not assigned a volume label and had this issue... once I assigned a label, it was remedied.
And the dropsync developer is updating the app to support these permissions very soon.

What happened after I deleted .apks in /system/app ?

Hello all,
I fell into a huge problem. I use a Nexus 5 16 GB variant with all sorts of games I can put inside of. Now I ran out of storage.
My smart ass told me search for culprits and I was ruthless on files as small as 50 MBs. . Now, then I saw a treasure trove of space which could be freed and that was in #/system/app. I deleted almost all of them and left behind some like Bluetooth.apk and NFC et al.
Now two things happened
1) I can no longer use the 'Explore Storage' in the Other category of Storage found i Settings app. It would say, Settings has Crashed.
2) I can no longer sync my contacts to Google as After asking to add account, it just asks again. Earlier I seamlessly used that feature.
I don't know what's broken more.
Please someone help.
Much thanks in advance.

Have you tried a full reset? Kinda of a risk... But worth it at times. My old phone I could delete all the system apps, then reset it and they'd all pop back up.

buffering.... said:
Have you tried a full reset? Kinda of a risk... But worth it at times. My old phone I could delete all the system apps, then reset it and they'd all pop back up.
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I have the ROM with me. Flashing that will ( or might) restore every functionality. But the point is why it did happen and unbreak the broken without flashing.

Why would you think that deleting anything from a system folder is a good idea...?
Just flash the system.img again. That should restore at least a working system, though I'd guess that you'll have to do some manual rework to restore lost apps. Your data should still be intact.
Just guessing, to be honest. I'm still astonished that you did this...
Have you considered an OTG USB stick? The attached photo shows an additional 128GB of storage on the tip of my little finger. I can post the links if anyone is interested.

dahawthorne said:
Why would you think that deleting anything from a system folder is a good idea...?
Just flash the system.img again. That should restore at least a working system, though I'd guess that you'll have to do some manual rework to restore lost apps. Your data should still be intact.
Just guessing, to be honest. I'm still astonished that you did this...
Have you considered an OTG USB stick? The attached photo shows an additional 128GB of storage on the tip of my little finger. I can post the links if anyone is interested.
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I don't know why I did that. Maybe because I saw those apks lying there and thought to myself, what are they doing here. I deleted all of them.
The next part is more important now. I installed the same ROM on the same phone using multirom and then copied the whole system/app folder to my other ROMs broken app folder. And this helped remove the broken Settings functionality. But the Contacts functionality is still broken. Lastly I will flash the system image if I could not find the reason behind this. Thanks sir for the help.