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For some reason, the Camera function on my G2X no longer works. It worked a few times previously, but now every time I launch the screen flickers and nothing launches.
Persists across reboot. Cleared data on the camera app, want to avoid wiping the phone if possible.
Anyone run into this, before, or know a fix?
Casao said:
For some reason, the Camera function on my G2X no longer works. It worked a few times previously, but now every time I launch the screen flickers and nothing launches.
Persists across reboot. Cleared data on the camera app, want to avoid wiping the phone if possible.
Anyone run into this, before, or know a fix?
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Haven't run into this problem myself but you could try downloading an alternate camera app from the market to see if that works. If it does, you may have to factory reset your phone. If it doesn't, it may be the hardware(the camera itself).
Casao said:
For some reason, the Camera function on my G2X no longer works. It worked a few times previously, but now every time I launch the screen flickers and nothing launches.
Persists across reboot. Cleared data on the camera app, want to avoid wiping the phone if possible.
Anyone run into this, before, or know a fix?
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I noticed this problem as well, after rooting the phone. I'm not sure if it was an issue before that or not. But what I found is that if you rotate the phone into landscape mode and then open the camera app it works fine. Only trying to open it in portrait caused me any issues. Hope this helps.
zoman7663 said:
I noticed this problem as well, after rooting the phone. I'm not sure if it was an issue before that or not. But what I found is that if you rotate the phone into landscape mode and then open the camera app it works fine. Only trying to open it in portrait caused me any issues. Hope this helps.
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This is ridiculous.
Yet true.
I'll be resetting my phone tonight to fix the battery drain, hopefully this will be resolved at the same time. But this definitely worked, so I can test out this camera some more while I wait. Thanks!
I had this issue too. Try opening while in landscape. Once open switch to portrait then close while in portrait. You should be able to open on portrait after.
Edit: This only works some of the time
Has anyone figured out the camera issue? I had my camera working fine, I rooted the phone and now the camera just flickers around the button. Must have this camera working.
Thanks
djcense said:
I had this issue too. Try opening while in landscape. Once open switch to portrait then close while in portrait. You should be able to open on portrait after.
Edit: This only works some of the time
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Had same issue, as you noted the reset solved my problem, camera is working AOK. I would have hated to loose the camera function, it is a good camera.
2nd phone that my damn camera stopped working after about 15 minutes. I didn't root this phone to make sure that wasn't the issue. The camera worked after I did a factory wipe, got it all set up and was taking pictures while I was setting it up to make sure it wasn't a rogue app. Thought I was in the clear and tried to take a picture and nothing. Same problem everyone else is having. just wiped the phone again for the 3rd time and camera works, going thru same process, can anyone give me any advice on this camera. Very strange and getting real pissed off.
Vinny
vinnyjr said:
2nd phone that my damn camera stopped working after about 15 minutes. I didn't root this phone to make sure that wasn't the issue. The camera worked after I did a factory wipe, got it all set up and was taking pictures while I was setting it up to make sure it wasn't a rogue app. Thought I was in the clear and tried to take a picture and nothing. Same problem everyone else is having. just wiped the phone again for the 3rd time and camera works, going thru same process, can anyone give me any advice on this camera. Very strange and getting real pissed off.
Vinny
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I use anylock to bypass my lock screen so when I get a text message (ssm popup) It will open up my screen automatic and display text message. This way I'm not always pushing my power button to gain entry to phone. Problem is the lock screen app is some how screwing up the camera app. Also tried no lock and same problem.
Just wanted to let anyone using lock screens what I encountered, maybe save you hours of resetting phone.
vinnyjr said:
I use anylock to bypass my lock screen so when I get a text message (ssm popup) It will open up my screen automatic and display text message. This way I'm not always pushing my power button to gain entry to phone. Problem is the lock screen app is some how screwing up the camera app. Also tried no lock and same problem.
Just wanted to let anyone using lock screens what I encountered, maybe save you hours of resetting phone.
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Mine was doing the same thing and I was about to blame it on Pauls patch. It turned out to be widget locker. I froze it in Titanium and then it came on with no problem. I was really close to wiping AGAIN. Really glad I saw this. Thank You
Hello everyone, I have been searching for this specific issue and have found nothing, apologies if this has been addressed. First, I am on my second week of Android after 6 years of iOS so please bear with me, I may not have all the terminology down.
I am running a Nexus 5 (bootloader unlocked if that matters) with 6.0.1, otherwise stock. It was a new-in-box model with 4.4.3 loaded, I updated by flashing it rather than a side-load. I was having the following issues with Face Unlock:
1. First issue, Face Unlock would randomly stop working, when you go into the settings to 'Improve Face Matching' it would report that 'Google Play services has stopped'. This would be accompanied by an increase in processor demand from Trusted Face and a severe drain to the battery, I am assuming it was frequently trying to connect to Google Play. No issue in Safe Mode. This was resolved by disabling Google Play and reinstalling the latest version.
2. Second issue, Face Unlock would again randomly stop working, but this would be accompanied by the Camera also failing to function. I would either get a 'Camera cannot be accessed' report or just a blank screen (camera controls visible, but no picture in the viewfinder). Going to 'Improve Face Matching' would report a problem with the camera. No issue in Safe Mode, so I am assuming the camera hardware was fine. This was resolved by disabling the Camera app and reinstalling the latest version. I had to do this twice, along with the Google Play update, before it worked consistently. This would again result in a reported drain coming from both 'Trusted Face' and the Camera app, again I am assuming it was constantly trying to connect to the Camera.
3. Last issue, Face Unlock randomly stops working, with no issues reported in either the camera or Face Unlock settings. no change in battery life and no reported processor demand using System Monitor Lite. If I open 'Improve Face Matching' I get the white screen with white dots with a permanent "Starting up..." notice. This is easy to fix, a reboot always gets it working again. Usually it stops within 6-10 hours of use, sometimes shorter or longer. Rebooting into Safe Mode also fixes the problem, but I am not sure if that is just because of the reboot. I have not run Safe Mode long enough to replicate the issue.
Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot? I suppose I can just disable Face Unlock but I find it quite handy. It seems to be a little bit different than the plethora of other Nexus 5 camera / Smart Unlock problems I have been reading up on.
Hey guys,
I just got my op7 this morning, does anyone use google photo too?
I found when I used google photo to browse photos, the screen will automatically become yellowish, and I'm sure the night mode is close.
Can anyone help me to solve the problem? By the way, when the phone is charging, the screen will wake up in sometimes... also need some helps to solve it...
Thanks
That sounds really strange. Did you install any apps with eye care behaviour? Does a factory reset fix the issue? Can you post a picture of the issue?
Yes,, there is an issue appeared in after the recent update, in my case, When I am using the OOS with Night mode turned on, while opening images in full screen with in the Google Photos app, the Night Mode turns off automatically,
I thought that this would be a feature of Google Photos to show us the accurate color of the images, but on going back from Google photos, the Night mode remains turned off , I have to manually toggle the Night mode agian to turn it on , or it turns on during the squeal unlock, Assuming this could be an issue of Google Photos and tried to revoke the "Modify System Settings" permission, but still the issue exists. This is an issue of OOS , appeared in 9.5.6, still in 9.5.7,
Hey!
So a little backstory first.
I bought the Oneplus 7 Pro off an auction pretty much sight unseen knowing only it boots and has a cracked rear. In addition to that, I've found out that the speaker and fingerprint sensor are also broken. Since it's a second hand device I didn't bother with warranty since that usually doesn't carry over to next owners. I've already ordered new parts and am still waiting to receive them.
Now to the issue.
The camera worked amazing until last night when I was trying to open snapchat. It gave me the snapchat error message of being unable to open the camera suggesting to close the app or ignore the warning.
I shut the app and noticed I still had a notification that snapchat was using the camera.
I then rebooted the phone and once it started up again, the face unlock said the camera is in use by another app.
I uninstalled snapchat thinking that was the root of my issue however the face unlock still kept saying another app is using the camera along with camera app and all other apps just give a black screen or crash.
I removed camera permissions from all applications.
I updated my android to the beta branch.
I tried testing it within the safe mode.
I tried testing the cameras on the factory test app (whatever you get by dialling *#808#). The camera tests either crashed the app or just gave a warning however the flashlight test did turn the flash on. The popup camera motor works and even moved the camera up when trying to face unlock, it just left the camera up after failing to unlock.
Before I go and factory reset the phone (cba setting up all my apps which need another device to set up again) have any of you got any ideas on what to try next?
I did check on oneplus forums but as expected, people there just suggested to contact the support which I've no point in doing really since if I was to send my phone in they'll also want to fix the million other issues which I'm perfectly capable of doing myself.
typo404 said:
Hey!
So a little backstory first.
I bought the Oneplus 7 Pro off an auction pretty much sight unseen knowing only it boots and has a cracked rear. In addition to that, I've found out that the speaker and fingerprint sensor are also broken. Since it's a second hand device I didn't bother with warranty since that usually doesn't carry over to next owners. I've already ordered new parts and am still waiting to receive them.
Now to the issue.
The camera worked amazing until last night when I was trying to open snapchat. It gave me the snapchat error message of being unable to open the camera suggesting to close the app or ignore the warning.
I shut the app and noticed I still had a notification that snapchat was using the camera.
I then rebooted the phone and once it started up again, the face unlock said the camera is in use by another app.
I uninstalled snapchat thinking that was the root of my issue however the face unlock still kept saying another app is using the camera along with camera app and all other apps just give a black screen or crash.
I removed camera permissions from all applications.
I updated my android to the beta branch.
I tried testing it within the safe mode.
I tried testing the cameras on the factory test app (whatever you get by dialling *#808#). The camera tests either crashed the app or just gave a warning however the flashlight test did turn the flash on. The popup camera motor works and even moved the camera up when trying to face unlock, it just left the camera up after failing to unlock.
Before I go and factory reset the phone (cba setting up all my apps which need another device to set up again) have any of you got any ideas on what to try next?
I did check on oneplus forums but as expected, people there just suggested to contact the support which I've no point in doing really since if I was to send my phone in they'll also want to fix the million other issues which I'm perfectly capable of doing myself.
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Looks like you've done about all I would suggest. I've seen a million people with the same issues on it no one particular fix other than send it to support. Which myself won't do. Since I do my own repairs. So. Just bassicly waiting for mine to do it too since sending it to support we will never find the cause
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Only other thing I would suggest. Is reinstall snapchat. Clear cache and data. Go-to camera app setting and wipe the cache and data their. Maybe a permission manager and deny rights to everything for the camera. And wipe cache from recovery
TheMadScientist said:
Looks like you've done about all I would suggest. I've seen a million people with the same issues on it no one particular fix other than send it to support. Which myself won't do. Since I do my own repairs. So. Just bassicly waiting for mine to do it too since sending it to support we will never find the cause
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Only other thing I would suggest. Is reinstall snapchat. Clear cache and data. Go-to camera app setting and wipe the cache and data their. Maybe a permission manager and deny rights to everything for the camera. And wipe cache from recovery
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Yeaaah, forgot to mention, I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling snapchat multiple times, I've wiped the camera app cache and data. I uninstalled Gcam app just in case. Already denied the camera permissions to every app I have. I suppose I'll try a factory reset and a wipe tomorrow.
I might consider sending it to oneplus once my replacement parts arrive just so they wouldn't charge me for parts I already have ordered and hence paid for.
Googled about and it seems like it's quite a common issue. In case anyone experiencing this stumbles upon this thread, here someone claims reflashing the rom helped for them.
Update, needed to text at work today and the messaging app also doesn't work, seems like an OS issue. Might try flashing an older rom using adb/fastboot, perhaps I received an update on the background.
I am so damn confused. Downgraded to android 10.0.5, nothing changed. Downgraded to 9.5.3 afterward.
Dialled *#808#, went to camera tests
rear camera preview opens front camera and actually displays the image now!?
second back camera preview opens wide lense camera and displays it
third back camera preview crashes the app
front camera preview on first try just showed rear optical zoom camera, later on pops up the front camera but displays the optical zoom camera.
flash test still works, the flashlight icon on the damn thing you drag down from notification bar isnt' grayed out and works but doesn't actually turn on the flash.
I got the camera app working by selecting the "selfie" icon on the dashboard or whatever's left of homescreen, however I can't select other cameras than the front one.
I'll keep poking around, this stuff's confusing lol
typo404 said:
Hey!
So a little backstory first.
I bought the Oneplus 7 Pro off an auction pretty much sight unseen knowing only it boots and has a cracked rear. In addition to that, I've found out that the speaker and fingerprint sensor are also broken. Since it's a second hand device I didn't bother with warranty since that usually doesn't carry over to next owners. I've already ordered new parts and am still waiting to receive them.
Now to the issue.
The camera worked amazing until last night when I was trying to open snapchat. It gave me the snapchat error message of being unable to open the camera suggesting to close the app or ignore the warning.
I shut the app and noticed I still had a notification that snapchat was using the camera.
I then rebooted the phone and once it started up again, the face unlock said the camera is in use by another app.
I uninstalled snapchat thinking that was the root of my issue however the face unlock still kept saying another app is using the camera along with camera app and all other apps just give a black screen or crash.
I removed camera permissions from all applications.
I updated my android to the beta branch.
I tried testing it within the safe mode.
I tried testing the cameras on the factory test app (whatever you get by dialling *#808#). The camera tests either crashed the app or just gave a warning however the flashlight test did turn the flash on. The popup camera motor works and even moved the camera up when trying to face unlock, it just left the camera up after failing to unlock.
Before I go and factory reset the phone (cba setting up all my apps which need another device to set up again) have any of you got any ideas on what to try next?
I did check on oneplus forums but as expected, people there just suggested to contact the support which I've no point in doing really since if I was to send my phone in they'll also want to fix the million other issues which I'm perfectly capable of doing myself.
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Disable default cam
Install latest GCAM
Install Camera FV-5 lite
BANG
I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9S which has the following behaviour: it works normally until the moment it goes under the sun, then (apparently only) the backlight of the screen is turned off and never turns on again until I restart the smartphone, where it works normally until the very moment it "detects" a bright light like under the sun, then the screen goes black. When this happens, sometimes you can still see the shape of what was on screen, but most times it only goes totally black.
When the screen is black, the telephone keeps working normally (music keeps being played, receives calls, vibration responses keep working, etc...(confirmed it using scrcpy and all is working normally)), only that the backlight is turned off and it keeps totally black. During the night, i.e. with artificial light, the telephone works normally (I was able to replicate the error using a strong flashlight above the telephone, the screen also went black the very moment I turned it on).
What I tried to resolve: restarted many times, disabled every auto brightness (also one that I think is a Xiaomi MIUI only, sunlight detector, something like this) settings that are in the configuration menu, restarted using vol up + power button. Factory reseted the smartphone. Disabled pocket mode before and after factory reset.
Any idea how to proceed? What is killing me is that it seem to be a software issue, like, why the screen don't turn on back after a while, but every time you restart it, or why the phone works all night long (i.e. there no strong light on it)? How to capture the telephone log (logcat perhaps?) and be sure of what is the exact event that is disabling screen? Maybe I can manipulate it to prevent from happening, or to make screen goes back to normal after a while, as I work as a software developer.
LionManBrazza said:
I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9S which has the following behaviour: it works normally until the moment it goes under the sun, then (apparently only) the backlight of the screen is turned off and never turns on again until I restart the smartphone, where it works normally until the very moment it "detects" a bright light like under the sun, then the screen goes black. When this happens, sometimes you can still see the shape of what was on screen, but most times it only goes totally black.
When the screen is black, the telephone keeps working normally (music keeps being played, receives calls, vibration responses keep working, etc...(confirmed it using scrcpy and all is working normally)), only that the backlight is turned off and it keeps totally black. During the night, i.e. with artificial light, the telephone works normally (I was able to replicate the error using a strong flashlight above the telephone, the screen also went black the very moment I turned it on).
What I tried to resolve: restarted many times, disabled every auto brightness (also one that I think is a Xiaomi MIUI only, sunlight detector, something like this) settings that are in the configuration menu, restarted using vol up + power button. Factory reseted the smartphone. Disabled pocket mode before and after factory reset.
Any idea how to proceed? What is killing me is that it seem to be a software issue, like, why the screen don't turn on back after a while, but every time you restart it, or why the phone works all night long (i.e. there no strong light on it)? How to capture the telephone log (logcat perhaps?) and be sure of what is the exact event that is disabling screen? Maybe I can manipulate it to prevent from happening, or to make screen goes back to normal after a while, as I work as a software developer.
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Check your display settings, make sure you don't have adaptive brightness or any kind of filters turned on.
If it is a software issue, flashing the stock firmware should correct the issue.
Droidriven said:
Check your display settings, make sure you don't have adaptive brightness or any kind of filters turned on.
If it is a software issue, flashing the stock firmware should correct the issue.
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Every auto, or adaptive, brightness is disabled, also, pocket mode, etc...
I couldn't find any official way to do this (flash stock), only downloading firmware from "alternative" sites. Can you point how to to do this the officially way, please?
LionManBrazza said:
Every auto, or adaptive, brightness is disabled, also, pocket mode, etc...
I couldn't find any official way to do this (flash stock), only downloading firmware from "alternative" sites. Can you point how to to do this the officially way, please?
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It doesn't have to be downloaded from an "official" site, you just need to make sure that the firmware that you download is for your specific model number.
Do a Google search for:
"Return to stock (your model number)"
That should find links to firmware, tools and instructions, if any exist for your device.
Droidriven said:
It doesn't have to be downloaded from an "official" site, you just need to make sure that the firmware that you download is for your specific model number.
Do a Google search for:
"Return to stock (your model number)"
That should find links to firmware, tools and instructions, if any exist for your device.
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Just confirmed my friend, it is already on stock android, the exact same version the shows in Xiaomi Community:
Stable ROMAuthor: MIUI Official Team
Version: V12.5.5.0.RJWMIXM（MIUI12）
Size: 2.5G
LionManBrazza said:
Just confirmed my friend, it is already on stock android, the exact same version the shows in Xiaomi Community:
Stable ROMAuthor: MIUI Official Team
Version: V12.5.5.0.RJWMIXM（MIUI12）
Size: 2.5G
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No, you aren't understanding, I'm saying that flashing the stock firmware will correct your issues if the issues are caused by your current software being corrupted. I didn't say anything about checking to see if your device is already has the.correct firmware installed or installing it if it didn't.
Droidriven said:
No, you aren't understanding, I'm saying that flashing the stock firmware will correct your issues if the issues are caused by your current software being corrupted. I didn't say anything about checking to see if your device is already has the.correct firmware installed or installing it if it didn't.
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There weren't any updates last week, that was when the problem began to happen. Anyway, after I checked the firmware, as I said above, I flashed it to MIUI 13, which I found as officially supported in global version of the telephone, i.e. just selected the zip file inside MIUI menu (settings -> about phone -> miui version).
The problem persists. What is very strange is that it works normally every time the telephone is restarted until the moment the screen turn the backlight off. Which sensor (or more broadly, system mechanism) is responsible to turn off the screen? Any idea of how to capture it in logs ?
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There weren't any updates last week, that was when the problem began to happen. Anyway, after I checked the firmware, as I said above, I flashed it to MIUI 13, which I found as officially supported in global version of the telephone, i.e. just selected the zip file inside MIUI menu (settings -> about phone -> miui version).
The problem persists. What is very strange is that it works normally every time the telephone is restarted until the moment the screen turn the backlight off. Which sensor (or more broadly, system mechanism) is responsible to turn off the screen? Any idea of how to capture it in logs ?
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You might have an issue with the proximity sensor or photo sensor.
One more information to add, I use scrcpy to mirror my screen on my computer, and it keep working normally, only that is totally black.
About the sensors you mentioned, any idea how to capture some log about it?
Droidriven said:
You might have an issue with the proximity sensor or photo sensor.
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Do you have any idea how to calibrate it?
LionManBrazza said:
Do you have any idea how to calibrate it?
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There are sensor calibration apps in the PlayStore. I don't know which is best or how effective any of them are.