Hello
I have bought a new OP7 Pro and I updated immediately to Android 10 beta 2.. no my smartest move apparently.
When I'm trying to focus in the dark with the main camera app just by tapping the flash does not turn on at all.. and if I try to take the picture the flash turns on and stays on like a torch not by flashing for a fraction of the second like a normal camera on any smartphone.
First I thought it is a hardware based problem and I should return the phone / I still have 10 days to do so.
Then I've installed a different camera app called LG camera and surprise! Tap to focus in dark environment turns on the flash and the camera manages to focus also when I tap to take the picture the LED only turns on to .1 seconds and works normal.
Tried a version on Gcam and it doesn't work either..
I tried the following:
- cleared data and forced stop the main camera app
- factory reset
Thank you in advance for any ideas.
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Hello, I also have the same problem with my op7pro I don't have a fix for it yet.
Does it work with the latest stable?
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I have a Nexus 5 where the back camera and flash have stopped working, even after numerous factory flashes to both 6.0.1 and 4.4.4, as well as CyanogenMod 13. The stock camera app just crashes with an error that it cannot connect to the camera, and the CyanogenMod camera will only show the inside camera with no switch button. The flashlight button is missing entirely in the menu.
I have also purchased another camera and installed it, but the problem still remains. Any help would be really appreciated.
maybe its a hardware issue.
I did try two other cameras, but I do not have another device to confirm if they work. Is there a way to check if it is hardware?
So I just decided to unblock bootloader, recovery and all that stuff to get on the custom rom.
Have been tried 2 rom: Evolution X and Pixel Exp
The rom seems to be working perfectly fine and the camera app as well but when I switch to the front camera, it just crashes all the time for any camera applications, I can use the camera and toggle the front camera then slide the phone down a bit and actually seeing the camera works through the small light gap appear on the screen but as soon as the slider full slides down, the app just stops right away without any warning.
How do I troubleshoot this ? Does anyone here encounter the same thing ?
I facetime my mother a lot so this really sucks for these recent couple of days already. Should I switch back to og software ?
If your on EvoX and use this camera: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/changelog590/
When you slide down your front camera should work immediately.
Schumi_wk said:
If your on EvoX and use this camera: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/changelog590/
When you slide down your front camera should work immediately.
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Just swap back the rom and tried the app. Well it still doesn't work. Its go black screen for a sec and close the application.
None of the application with front camera works as well.
Is this a common thing ?
No, it seems like you are the only one with this problem. If it above does not solve it, I don't know.
This is a known issue. Start the camera, switch to portrait mode, then switch to FFC. It works fine with the latest Google camera port than with the Xiaomi camera. Once the app has crashed, to recover it, dismiss the app from Recents.
I had it too i switched back to stock then i formated from twrp then if you don't know what to do when you dont have an os don't freak out just connect it to the pc and drag and drop the files/rom into the phone install and you should be good to go
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.
Guys my main camera stopped working.
The process is not blocked by any other app.
I tried service menu and test camera, it doesn't perform the test, it fails.
Only way to take pictures is to use gcam v1.4 and manually choosing wide or zoom camera.
When u choose 1x camera it stays black and crashes.
Any ideas?
collller said:
Guys my main camera stopped working.
The process is not blocked by any other app.
I tried service menu and test camera, it doesn't perform the test, it fails.
Only way to take pictures is to use gcam v1.4 and manually choosing wide or zoom camera.
When u choose 1x camera it stays black and crashes.
Any ideas?
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Have you factory reset?
I got the same problem. Just got a black screen and camera app would freeze. Did a factory reset, camera was extremely choppy for a minute or so and now back to nothing.
Tried another factory reset. It seems like if you change the default resolution settings to anything (even tapping on 'FullVision' in settings), it almost breaks the camera. Best to leave it at default 4:3 12 MP resolution.
Seems like a "driver" issue, good work LG.
Did any of you ever find a fix for this? Just got a Korean V50 Thinq and the camera is 99% of the time crashing. I tried installing gcam mods as well and they also crash, primarily while using the main camera.
Got it repaired via LG warranty. They replaced the main/motherboard. Phone has been fine ever since.
Same thing happened to my phone and warranty is expired. I tried the hard reset and may other ways, but nothing helped. Did anyone find a solution for it?
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
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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
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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