Hy.
Have a SGS 3 i9300, rooted.
I use Googy Max Kernel 1.8.0, and use the dual boot feature.
As first rom, I have CyanogenMod 10.2.0, and works like a charm, no drama there.
But, as a second rom, I used the Omega Rom v 50.1, stock 4.1.2 based (as it has to be). Worked fine, except for the fact that some heavy games didn't ran, but that wasn't so bad, the main issue was camera force closed as soon as I open it. I tried a lot of camera apps, clean data/cache, clean dalvik cache, re-flashed kernel, re-flashed the rom, reinstall camera apps, clean the lens whith chlorydrix acid, hit the phone against the floor, shoot it, screem and curse, nothing worked.
Then, I flashed Gorgoid Rom, v 2.7a, a more simple and lightweight rom. The damn camera error persist. As soon I press the app icon, it loads, the camera never works, I mean the screen is black all the time, no image showed, and then it burst in a force close of hell. A little difference, some camera apps, like silent app, shows an error message before dies, "can't connect whit the camera". Another app, Camaringo Lite, shows "Unable to connext device hardware Camera .Make sure you have enough baterry. You might need to re-start the phone". No need to say I have enough baterry, have re-started the phone countless times, and all the other cleanings and basic procedures.
So, my question, how can I get the camera to work as it should?
That's my story, if someone can throw me a bone here, I would be really grateful.
Have a nice week!
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hey, first android device and first post. so i followed the rom instrutions on this thread ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1468998 ), and used odin to install on my korean S2 hd lte (that already had the new ics 4.0.3 firmware from kies) TeamLeader 1.3.7 to get around the "invalid sender" problem.
problem is, now, everything, and i mean EVERYTHING comes up as an error.
force close seems to be the norm on any app... occasionally, when messages stays on for longer than 20 seconds, i can just barely send a text message - and the invalid sender thing doesnt pop up anymore. but in a few seconds, surely enough (on pretty much any app) something, usually some obscure program, force closes.
so n00b post here, asking, what the hell did i do wrong?
i didnt do the whole fb05 thing on that link, cus i thought it was only if you wanted to back your thing up... but hell, i didnt (and still dont) even know what tegrak is supposed to do... not to flaunt ignorance, but this whole process is just way too confusing for me, and i'm desperately in need of help.
should i re-install ics? or should i get the stock firmware from gingerbread, do that fb05 and tegrak thing, then do the TL1.3?
if anyone is around in vancouver, bc, i'll be happy to pay to get this fix; otherwise, please comment! anything at all will be appreciated. thank you!
I installed TL 1.3 and when phone turned on its at the 'touch the android to begin' but google framework keeps FC and i cant do anything. Tried reflashing but still same problem. Also the Recovery Menu is not working, phone boots normally on volume up + home + power. Please help
Hi, my problem is very simple but very annoying.
every time i try to use the front camera, it pops a message "unknown error" and the camera FC.
I´ve changed the rom (xperianZ) to Pure Look HD, i´ve tried full wipe, different camera mods, 4.2 Camera from nexus, erase data from the application, etc, etc, and the problem persist.
Have anyone any idea of what is going on?? I´ve even tried different kernels and the same thing happened.
I don´t know what to do so i think maybe somebody can help me.
Thanks a lot.
Lot of custom ROM which are not based on Samsung one have some trouble with Camera because (normaly) it uses some proprietary fils that can't be integrated in other ROM (due to lack of information/documentation ?).
PS : confirmation is required ? I'm not 100% sure.
lucasmag said:
Hi, my problem is very simple but very annoying.
every time i try to use the front camera, it pops a message "unknown error" and the camera FC.
I´ve changed the rom (xperianZ) to Pure Look HD, i´ve tried full wipe, different camera mods, 4.2 Camera from nexus, erase data from the application, etc, etc, and the problem persist.
Have anyone any idea of what is going on?? I´ve even tried different kernels and the same thing happened.
I don´t know what to do so i think maybe somebody can help me.
Thanks a lot.
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Flash a stock rom and see if the problem persists!
Sent from my GT-I9100
Hey Guys,
I use a stable 10.1.3 CM since a year on my S2. Lately the camera started to quit qorking: "can't connect to camera".
About this time the torch (LED app) app did the same thing: "unfortunately torch has stopped".
What I did: do a full data/cache/dalvik cache erase: factory reset.
The camera/torch still malfunctioning.
Then flashed the last nightly CM: cm11-20140429, but still no luck.
Then reflashed the old stable version, maybe if it'll work, but noooo.
Do you have any suggestion to resolve this issue? My phone is 2 years old, never had a problem with it. Until now.
Shall I flash something via Odin?
Is there a "deeper" way to rewrite the camera/LED firmware/code/whatever?
(I was wondering if flashing these 2 CM versions the appropiate firmware's aren't rewritten)
Thanks in advance for the replies!
you can try more ROMs. However, there is a possibility that its a hardware issue.
The camera stopped working on my galaxy S1 after a factory reset.
I never did get it working again, and I tried about 4 different camera firmwares, flashing back to stock, and replaced the camera module too. Nothing worked.
knuckles1978 said:
The camera stopped working on my galaxy S1 after a factory reset.
I never did get it working again, and I tried about 4 different camera firmwares, flashing back to stock, and replaced the camera module too. Nothing worked.
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Sorry to hear that.
I'm wondering now to replace the camera module as well.
I quickly tried this 3 ROM: aosb_kk_1.3.6_i9100, omni-4.4.4-20140728-i9100-NIGHTLY, Slim-i9100-4.4.2.build.5-OFFICIAL-4068, but with the same disappointig result: no camera, no LED.
If I first start LED/torch isntead of camera, the LED sometimes flashes:
I switch on, but nothing happens. Then switch it off: after a few sec delay the button will show the "off" state, and during this process the LED flashes for 1 sec.
I will try to revert to stock with odin, maybe...
The camera module is very easy to change. All you have to do is unplug it and plug a new one in.
You might be luckier than me.
knuckles1978 said:
The camera module is very easy to change. All you have to do is unplug it and plug a new one in.
You might be luckier than me.
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Yes, but what if the same thing will appear? Ie. I'll change the camera module, but won't work.
Isn't there an easier way to check if surely the camera moduled is dead?
Btw I downgraded it to stock ROM via Odin, but camera still dead, so it is probably not a software error. :crying:
There's no way of telling if your camera module is broken without putting a new one in.
It didn't fix it for me though. And believe me when I say I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out.
Ok then.
Thank you very much for the support!
Hello, I'm Laurent from Belgium. Juste arrived in Taiwan couple of days ago.
I put CM13 a couple of months ago on my beloved S3. (I9300 from belgium)
Everything was fine, sometimes camera plant and just have to reboot.
But Monday when I arrived in Taiwan (pity) I wanted to take a picture and than big freeze and the phone totally blocked. It was on a boot loop (logo animation).
Arrived at the hotel than I try others CM (nightly and snapchot) with or without gapps and flashed correctly but still on a boot loop, once he arrived at the first step (choose language) but as soon as i touch the screen freeze, than boot loop again.
I arrived finally to get the stock rom and put everything back on 4.3 (from updato.com/firmware-archive-select-model ).
Can't use the front camera, rear camera and flash:
- The stock camera app: i see all the buton but don't do anything if I touch them (settings, color, switch rear/front ...) and the screen is black. the menu button on bottom left just propose me "edit shortcut"
- All other app: instagram and others don't work (it launch but do nothing when I push the picture button)
- Flashlight app freeze too, when I launch, black screen and the flash never light.
- When I used the code *#0*# (or something) it launch the soft but if I choose "mega cam" black screen and than "test factory is not responding" (now the front camera work with this test factory)
- when I used the code *#34971539# to launch "camerafirmware standard" I just have this title on the top but again nothing under, black (not the menu with upgrade camera firmware etc)
I try so the full wipe and reinstall without wifi etc (so don't go on my google account dl straight app etc)
I try the app manager: force stop and clear cache and clear data.
I try a small package fix camera found in a thread here
I try recovery and wipe cache, wipe data, factory reset ...
I bought a screw driver and open it and move cables etc (not totally remove the motherboard
I try to put an other kernel.
I try to update the camera firmware by recovery (but don't know if it can work or not)
I read and read and read so many thread all over google hours and hours ...
The thing is that so the flash doesn't work either: when I install the flashlight it tell me "need to access camera" so say yes of course, but so plant when I launch, so means that the app try to pass by the camera driver to open the flash no? problem is that I can't update the firmware as the samsung code plant also. I don't know if on stock I can install it by an other way or either remove/reinstall camera driver or stock camera app.
I was thinking to buy a new phone here anyway but no in a hurry and the first month here in taiwan I want to travel so take pictures as well I will try to find an old shop with broken phone and replace the camera.
ps: I'm not sure about the carrier/region of my phone ! is it possible to find it somewhere? with iemi or SN ? When I use kies he told me I'm already update, but I'm not sure if I have the right stock rom. (everything else work fine so)
GT I9300
FDD ID: A3LGTI9300A
SSN: -I9300GSMH
IMEI: 354793/05/342885/2
S/N: RF1CAEFX6HB
(internet connection in the hotel is slow, I need to go to a coffee shop to DL rom, so I can't try every other stock rom )
Thank you if you took time to read uh uh
yeah, just read some french thread.
Apparently this is a well known problem. Hardware camera...
Will try to get one for cheap.
But I don't get it that the flash and the camera stop to work in the same time. Are they linked ? if the camera is dead, the soft won't detect it so ll not run so the flash won't work as well ?
So I bought a new Poco F1 few days ago. And since I've been using it, I've been facing bugs.
So when I got the device it had Miui 9.6.14 installed on it. And I just wanted to unlock it and root it asap. As you know you have to wait 3 days to unlock it. But as soon as I put in the unlock request i.e by going to fastboot and on mi unlock it shows 99% complete then it says you have to wait for this much time.
As soon as I did that, I faced the first bug. That was related mobile network settings/usb tethering/*#*#4636#*#* code (engineering mode IDK). So when I clicked on usb tethering, turned off mobile data/wifi, or the phone lost signal, it rebooted, from boot splash (not boot logo). Maybe this was the ROM's way of preventing any big bugs why do I think that? I'll explain later. So after rebooting I could turn on/off usb tethering but not mobile data or wifi. I can turn them off as soon as the phone boots but if I do it later i.e. after unlocking the phone, it rebooted.
So this is one of the bugs that has been consistent, the one that never got away. Well sometimes it did went away but not for long. Like sometimes if I haven't turned off the internet in a long time or restarted the phone properly, the data turning on/off doesn't reboots the device, IF the device isn't connected in usb tethering. Like few days ago I discovered that usb debugging could fixed it, but that didn't lasted long either. Sometimes turning off usb tethering then mobile data very quickly afterwards worked, but didn't lasted long or only sometimes it would work.
So the advice I got earlier was that, just flash a new software. While I didn't technically flashed the new software, I flashed the similar software, deleting all user data & everything, but that didn't helped. As it seemed in the beginning, that bugs weren't there but they started appearing later on. Now IDK if I used a locked un-rooted device, these bugs wouldn't appear, not too sure about that.
And you maybe saying, well you didn't flashed the newer version of the rom, then that's the problem, Well IMO it isn't. Here's why - So when I flashed the same rom, the phone got locked cause I forgot to select the "clean all" option in MI flash instead of "clean all and lock". So I unlocked it again, flashed twrp and as you may know that when booting twrp for the first time it asks you two options, "allow system modifications" & "read only". And the last time I flashed it I chose the read only option. But this time it didn't asked me. Now do you understand? As I'm not an expert in this, the guy who gave me this solution said maybe the device tree wasn't cleared. So how does flashing a new version is gonna make a difference if all of the files don't get deleted? If it's not gonna start fresh? I also used the command "fastboot erase recovery" (as suggested by that fella), that didn't helped either, just an FYI.
So I decided to install other roms, thinking maybe that could help. It seemed like working in the beginning but soon it started to fall down. First OS I installed, Pixel Experience, didn't had such bugs earlier, but there was a little one. If I disconnected the phone while it was in usb tethering mode, it would reboot the same way it did with miui. If you turned usb-teth off first, it didn't rebooted. So I thought I could live with that. But later more bugs started to appear. The same thing, turn off the internet and the phone restarts.
Remember when I first said maybe it was OS's way of not having bigger bugs, So that happened this time. New bugs like when I try to get into an app's info, the settings would crash (stopped working). BTW you could getting into an app's info if you are able to find the said app, by going into storage, then to apps. Moreover sometimes when I'd try to open the camera it would just show blank, or very dark image of the environment, not moving though, and sometimes, it would just work.
Then I installed Lineage OS. Didn't find such bugs, but I'm pretty sure if I do all this usb tethering stuff in there as well, I'm gonna find these bugs.
Now you might be thinking that how am I installing all these roms, well that's cause of MultiROM. And if anyone here is gonna say well that's the problem. STOP! Stop right there. These bugs were present there before I even used MultiROM.
Some other bugs I'm facing RN in Miui -
Auto Rotate not working. If I want to go landscape, I'd have to open an app/game that opens in landscape and switch from there, cause it gets stuck, vice versa for portrait. And you can only view it in default position i.e. you can't rotate to other landscape position if you wanted.
Camera not working, showing "can't connect to camera" error.
When I play offline games while these bugs occur. When I connect the headphones, the audio also comes out of the speakers. After I restart the phone properly, that stops. (This bug was also present in earlier stages when MultiROM wasn't used)
When going into second space, I created a txt file in mixplorer and when I try to open it, the system reboots. And I just checked by installing a root checker in second space, it says not rooted, wow!
When going to default file manager and tapping on storage, it said "disconnected" and few seconds later saying something like "couldn't add error 10000". This used to happen before but not now, neither I use the default file manager anymore. Though if I'm too quick and unlock the phone, open a file manager or any app that uses storage, it would go blank. Don't know if the storage crashes or something else. But after a restart, it's fine.
One thing, after the phone restarts when these bugs happen, "Find My Device stopped working" or something similar always appear, I don't remember the exact message.
[*]There are somethings Gcam related but I don't think they're 100% bugs related. Cause I installed the latest version on Lineage OS and it works as far as I used it even features like Night Sight and Slo Motion. Now those errors could be related to older android versions or something else IDK. Things like camera lagging in picture mode not in video mode and some version just straight up not working even when they're supported by older android 8.1.
Now could it be a hardware problem, IDK as I said I'm not an expert. These other bugs could've appeared cause of MultiROM or me flashing a new firmware over older rom version in order to install PE, again IDK.
Fair warning : If you're just gonna come here and say, Oh! this all cause of MultiROM or cause you didn't installed newer miui, then don't waste your time, cause I'm not gonna read any arrogant answers. Neither if you say, try to do this or that. I'm not here for that either. Cause if I wanted to do hit and trial, I could've done it myself
But if you understand the situation and can provide expert help, then only please reply. So if you're willing to help & understand properly, and you want anything from me, like logs etc. just tell me how to do it, I'll provide. Or if you know some way to do proper fresh install, only if that can fix the bugs so that I don't have to deal with them anymore, I'm looking forward to your reply.