Went to official 6.0.1 through Odin.
Rooted, but had a hell of a time getting all the apps to see root.
Flashed TEK's stock rooted 6.0.1
Noticed gallery wanted too many permissions.
Went back to 5.1.1 (Hyperdrive) to control the rom a little more. I used twrp to restore a backup.
Camera is now focused at a fixed point about two inches from the lens.
Third party cameras don't allow it to focus.
Took phone apart to see if lens was stuck, it's not stuck.
Odin'd back to official 6.0.1, camera works fine...
Reflashed backup, no focus available.
LolliPop brought a known unfocusing bug to Note4/Edge from all carrier's, only way to temporarily fix it was to flick the lens with your your finger rapidly a couple times, but it was a huge ugly bug that affected a lot of users and some had to send their phones in get the camera replaced and even then the bug would reappear.
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I have a weird camera bug on my phone.
Since a few days ago, every time I switch to the front camera, the camera app crashes and I have to force close and delete data to get it working againg.
This happens on multiple roms with multiple camera apps, so it has to be hardware related.
I opened up my phone to change the screen a few weeks again, but everything was working fine after that until now.
Now the thing is, I opened up the phone again to see if maybe the cable went loose, which it didn't, but when the back was removed the camera was working correctly.
Closed up the phone again, same thing as before, front camera does not work.
What could the reason for this be?
It's software not hardware. Mine won't take screen photo's. It says not enough memory with 4gigs free. I use a widget with extensive reboot /recovery options and that has a screen grab that works. I've had the bugs you have and had to switch roms, providing it's software
How can it be software when the issue persists on different roms, stock roms and after factory reset and with different camera apps. Added to the fact that the front camera worked when I tried it with the phone back removed
Hi All,
So I've been having issues with my rear camera on Nexus 5 (my front facing camera works fine). Currently the camera and the flash will not work and basically stopped working some time around the upgrade to lollipop. While on lollipop, I tried uninstalling the app updates, restarting, clearing the cache...all the usual suggestions I've found online for dealing with this issue, but none of them work. Now, I'm currently running 6.0 and still the camera/flash are not working. Tonight I tried wiping the phone and reverting all the way back to kitkat 4.4.4 to see if that would fix it. I tried this multiple times, wiping and reflashing to various versions ranging from 4.4.0 to 6.0 to see if any would somehow fix the camera issue, but none worked.
At this point, I'm back on 6.0 and its still not working. My phone doesn't even show the default camera app in the app drawer. I have to access it through the shortcut on the lock screen and when I do I get the "Can't connect to the camera" message. I'm assuming its a hardware issue at this point, but wanted to know if anyone has any insight on this. From what I can tell, the flash is not part of the camera module, so if the camera itself broke, it seems like the camera flash should still be recognized and functional (its not in my case, not even an option for the default flashlight on the taskbar pull-down screen). I am wondering if its worth buying an oem replacement camera module and installing it to see if this fixes the issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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Still looking for an expert's take on this
I have the same problem
Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
Okay so a couple of days ago I had an issue when my device bricked but I managed to bring it back to life (thread for reference http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-z5/help/bricked-z5-t3338860).
I'm now having a new problem. Since updating to MM my cameras don't work, front and back. The stock camera app just FC straight away, the Cyanogen camera app opens but it's just black with all the buttons on top, snapchat has a black screen too. I've tried 3 different stock MM FTFs, I've tried the slimstock rom, I've tried the RomAur MM rom. I've tried it rooted and completely stock. I've tried going back down to 5.1.1 with the .200 firmware. I've done fresh installs wiping everything. Nothing. Both of my cameras have just stopped working. If I open the AR Camera app I get a toast notification saying 'Camera not available'. In the service menu it says 'Camera not connected' and secondary camera says "Device does not support this function'.
Any suggestions?
I have had no issues at all for almost an year with this phone. I was running oreo ever since I bought this phone. Suddenly, a day or two before upgrading it to pie 9.0, I found out in my Snapchat app that there was no back camera sign. First I thought, some weird snap update, but then I found out in system Camera app, it was even not showing the back camera. Whenever I would click on the rear camera sign from the top in Camera app, it would keep on swapping to the frontal secondary camera and then back to the primary frontal camera but no back camera was working. Also I found out that my Flashlight icon is hardened or greyed out, like it's been disabled forcefully. I can make it work using some other app, but it is frustrating why this is happening.
Now I am on android 9, rooted, and this problem keeps on coming and going. At times the back camera won't even work or open with the error "Camera not working" etc. Sometimes, the back camera would work but with only 3 weirded resolutions, like 12MP, 16MP, and some other. and the video mode will be extremely large or zoomed in at 16MP. Suddenly, the camera will start working normally again with all the perfect default resolutions. I tried everything from SAFE MODE to CLEARING THE CAM APP, RESETTING THE APP, but nothing works. All it seems like that camera has suddenly came to life and has a self-consciousness and a mood which it is controlling itself. Sometimes it wants to work and at times, it simply just gets disabled. Any idea what could be the problem? I am rooted using MAGISK.
Simular camera problems with Lenovo tab v7
I have a Lenovo tab v7 with almost the same problems, the rear camera wont work but occasionally the front camera works and the flash LED is dead.
Running Android 9 Pie as well, but not rooted yet.
Any ideas about what we can do about it, is the camera hardware due to be replaced?
cloud_silver said:
I have a Lenovo tab v7 with almost the same problems, the rear camera wont work but occasionally the front camera works and the flash LED is dead.
Running Android 9 Pie as well, but not rooted yet.
Any ideas about what we can do about it, is the camera hardware due to be replaced?
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It suddenly started happening almost a month ago, I was on oreo 8 and then upgraded to pie 9 but the problem persisted. It kept working for few days and then started to make problems again. I tried to read many forums for android users with the same problem but still haven't found a single complete fix for this problem other than that the rear camera needs to be refixed. But I am finding it hard to believe that even if camera was getting bad, there is no point of FlashLight getting greyed out/disable from the notification bar. It seems more like some kind of a process is not releasing the rear camera and flashlight module/process.
Hello everyone, I have a fairly new OnePlus 7 Pro (GM1910) and needed to root it for something. I was on the latest OxygenOS, 10.3 and rooted it after several attempts. However, I wasn't able to do what I needed on OxygenOS 10 so I downgraded to OxygenOS 9. Rooted again, did everything I needed and formatted the phone several times, installed OxygenOS 10.0.3.GM21AA. I also re-locked the bootloader.
The issue is that whenever I launch my stock camera app, it tries to load image from the camera but then crashes before showing anything from the camera. Camera works in Instagram, WhatsApp and some other apps just fine, as well as during face recognition. In addition, rotation sensor doesn't work at all. Auto-rotate on and off, it just doesn't work. Finally, the proximity sensor doesn't work either. It doesn't turn off the screen when I'm on a call and hold the phone near my face. It doesn't change screen brightness when it's on auto.
These all happened at once. I believe it all started around when I was first trying to root the phone with Magisk on OxygenOS 10.3. I used the phone on OxygenOS 9 with and without root, these 3 problems were also there. Now I'm on OxygenOS 10.0.3, unrooted, bootloader locked but problems still exist. It's driving me crazy having all these issues even after turning everything back to stock, factory settings. I spent 4 days on this whole process and ended up with these annoying problems...
I can provide any additional information you need. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Even if you can just direct me towards the right direction to identify why I'm having these problems.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Update: The camera app just started working after another factory reset. A little off topic but now I'm having another weird issue where the Android Setup doesn't see my last Google Drive backup but sees the older ones from a few days ago.