I made a thread before concerning my camera when I thought my camera just completely crapped out for no apparent reason, but after installing a few 3rd party camera apps, I found that MY camera ISN'T as dead as I thought. This is where things just get weird: the stock camera app constantly force closes when I open it. I tried reinstalling, a battery pull , clearing the gallery data, everything logical, but to no avail.
Now, when I use the camera up lg camera, the rear camera works like a dream, but it doesnt recognize my front facing shooter. Ita the same thing qith the paper camera app. Ive had this issue aince 4.0.4 to 4.1 to 4.1.1 & now Im running a 4.2 rom.
At first i swore it was a hardware problem, but now i have no clue WTF it actually is... Please help! Im fed up!
By chance, you haven't frozen or removed the stock gallery apk have you? I believe those two (camera and gallery) are married to one another and need to both be installed to work correctly.
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So i flashed over and a JRDNEM_U3_2.34.1 based rom... (http://www.simply-android.com/discussion/704/rom-vanilla-w-eclair-1.0.1-122810/p1) and noticed the camera and camcorder shortcuts arent there. I downloaded the camcorder shortcut app and whenever i click it, i get an FC and it goes back to the homescreen. I dont see a stock camera app so i downloaded Camera 360 but the whole process with that app is too slow for me and the image gets stuck unless i play with the zoom slider to reset the camera. Its weird. Now im using Camera Magic and its great but it only captures 1024x768 which is only .8 megapixels. I want to get the camera and camcorder apps working the way they should, what should i do?
Workarounds i found was using ANcorder and Camera360/Fx Camera/Camera Magic to take pics and video but im still looking for the normal use of it. The developer of the ROM seems to have a chip on his shoulder and isnt very helpful so im wondering if any of you guys might have a different solution for getting the camera to work after flashing new ROMs and finding a that as a problem.
Hi,
I am facing this rather weird problem with my motorola defy.
A brief history: I live in India and I got my phone packed with Eclair and then i updated it to Froyo.
After that I rooted my defy and then installed MIUI Gingerbread.
But then again I started missing Blur and so I flashed a UK Motoblur rom on my Defy...
But since then the Camera is not working properly.
Actual Problem:
The camera application works fine. I mean it captures pictures and videos just as it should, but i see a black screen while doing so.
I start my camera application and its a black screen so is the case with camcoder.
I have attached a screen shot of my camera application to give you a better understanding of my problem...
I cant even watch youtube videos on my cell coz that too (videos) play with a black screen.
I dont understand what is the problem. I tried clearing the Camera application cache...but it does not help.
Is there anyone who can make me understand what is wrong with my phone.
Thanks
Have you installed 2ndinit bootmenu on the phone?
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Shrewdy said:
Hi,
I am facing this rather weird problem with my motorola defy.
A brief history: I live in India and I got my phone packed with Eclair and then i updated it to Froyo.
After that I rooted my defy and then installed MIUI Gingerbread.
But then again I started missing Blur and so I flashed a UK Motoblur rom on my Defy...
But since then the Camera is not working properly.
Actual Problem:
The camera application works fine. I mean it captures pictures and videos just as it should, but i see a black screen while doing so.
I start my camera application and its a black screen so is the case with camcoder.
I have attached a screen shot of my camera application to give you a better understanding of my problem...
I cant even watch youtube videos on my cell coz that too (videos) play with a black screen.
I dont understand what is the problem. I tried clearing the Camera application cache...but it does not help.
Is there anyone who can make me understand what is wrong with my phone.
Thanks
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did you clear camera cache and thumbnails???
happened to me once
do a factory reset
apologies for n00bishly bumping a thread, but I have the same problem.
Since I rooted my phone and installed 2nd Init (I haven't flashed a new ROM yet, still on stock) youtube just gives me a black screen (sound is fine) and the same thing happens when I take a photo; the screen is visibily photo but takes a photo fine when I press the shutter
will a factory reset undo the SIM unlock?
Try uninstalling 2ndinit bootmenu.
Had the same issue, this is how it was resolved.
I've had this same HTC EVO 4G since the week it came out, rooted on Cyanogenmod (7.1 stable, currently), and I've never had a problem with the camera before.
Suddenly, the stock camera app and one other camera app (ProCapture) are broken. They show the live preview through the camera lense, but the little gallery box on the right is black (where you can see the most recent pic and tap it to open the full gallery).
BUT here's the weird part - some other camera apps work fine, Camera360 for example... so I don't think it's hardware.
I've already tried
- Clearing data
- Uninstalling "Camera.apk" stock app
- Uninstalling via Titanium
- Rebooting (duh)
- Fixing Permissions (through ROM Manager)
I'm at a loss. I can't use the video camera either, so can't record video right now (since that's part of the stock camera). It just FC after a few seconds.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Have you changed kernels?
I searched and couldn't find mind help with this. I also searched the cyanogenmod bug system. It has been mentioned in the bug system but it was basically brushed off.
Anyhow, in the stock camera app the front facing camera is fine. But in some third party apps, for example: snapchat, it's distorted. Only with the front facing camera. (took a picture of a coin which is a perfect circle and it comes out as an oval.)
This is on the most current cm11 snapshot and was also in the previous snapshot. Any known fixes would be greatly appreciated.
Really? No one has a clue about this???
I installed the latest snapshot awhile ago and recently i noticed that HDR was taking really dark pics no matter what in the stock app, and then I noticed that the front facing camera doesn't work in 3rd party apps, and hdr doesnt work at all in 3rd party apps. They either take blank pics or crash the app I've been searching for days and i cant find a single fix nothing. I'm sorry i can't be of help, just wanted to let you know I've been looking and can't find anything
I have the exact problem OP is describing for a while now. I would love if someone had an answer.
I know there are several threads about this already, but I could not find any solution in them. Here's what I've done, or at least as much as I can remember right now. All of these tests were done after wiping data/system/cache/dalvik/nose/cat/etc
Started off with LiquidSmooth LS-KK-v3.2-2014-10-27-d2lte. Just selecting the front camera would crash the phone and reboot.
Flashed different kernels. Ones I can remember are BMS_34_d2_20150203 (tried some older versions too) and lk_s3aosp_kitkat-v9.19, though I know I tried a couple others. I think BMS was the best one for it, I could select the front camera without a crash, but it would still crash if I tried to actually take a picture. However, this combo worked fine in 3rd party apps like Snapchat, front camera was usable and undistorted.
Then I tried different roms, such as:
Cyanogenmod, (maybe still latest, don't remember version)
Quantum 5.2
CARBON-KK-UNOFFICIAL-20141001-1825-d2lte
Slim-d2lte-4.4.4.build.9.0-OFFICIAL-8262
Slim-d2lte-4.4.4.build.7.0-OFFICIAL-5979
I tried stock, Lean and BMS kernel on most of those roms as well, with varying degrees or results. Pretty much all of those work fine for the front camera in the regular camera app, though with some issues. Right now I've got Slim build 9 and LeanKernel 9.19, which works for both cameras, but if I use the front camera and then switch to the back camera it will lock up. However, none of these work with 3rd party apps like Snapchat, the front camera is stretched.
So basically there was LiquidSmooth, which worked great overall and was just fine in 3rd party apps, but couldn't use the front camera in the regular camera app, or other roms that fix the regular camera app and break 3rd party ones. I prefer LiquidSmooth and would love to just have the regular camera app working properly there, but I'll take whatever gives me a functional phone with both cameras working in all apps. I've seen various "fixes", such as renaming the vendor camera .so file in /system/hw/ (not actual location, but I forgot and it was something like that), or flashing the google_camera_compatibility fix, or various "fixed" camera or gallery apks. I've been using CWM v6.0.4.5 on all of this, though I've heard mention of Philz recovery and wonder if that would make any difference.
Is there an actual fix for this? I've seen people say it works for them, seen people say they've fixed it and seen people say there is no fix yet.