I may have come across an error in the Find X2 Pro's camera software.
However, the camera software is faulty. With recordings and photos of my hikes (with Komoot tracks), I can 100% prove that since the first day (!) the GPS position, which the camera saves with an image, is sometimes several km away from the actual position . The error occurs systematically. Not for all photos but for about 30% of all photos on a day trip. If I take the same shots with a GCAM app (installed on the Find X2) instead of the original Oppo camera, the position is exactly right. The two screenshots attached show the difference between the GCAM and Oppo cameras.
The GPS works. The GPS position in the komoot track is correct, only the photo is shown far off the track.
Resetting the smartphone to factory settings and reinstalling it did nothing.
I was waiting for the update to Android 12 or ColorOS 12. It came with a new camera SW. Despite this, the error still occurs and it only works with the Oppo camera with a GCAM.
I claim that my problem is not a defect in my smartphone, but a SW error in all Oppo cameras, although I cannot find any references to this on the internet.
What do you think about that? Anyone have the same problems?
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Hey, new member here.
I recently aquired a HTC Aria, this is my first Android phone and It's great, only issue I found is with the camera, when I try to take pictures, the screen appears with a lot of noise color (pink areas), as per the pictures, is this related to the set up or is it a camera malfunction? The pictures taken have the same effect.
The pictures were taken a month ago- righ now the screen looks completely pink!
I'm using HTC Aria/ Android version 2.3.7/ Cyanogenmod-7.1.0.
I noticed this malfunction after downloading the Camera 360 app, tried to use it and suddenly this issue appeared.
Any support is appreciated.
Regards and thanks.
First I'd just try clearing application data for the "Camera" app to see if that makes any difference. If not, I'm not sure what else to try except doing a 100% clean install to see if the problem is with your current installation or actually a hardware issue. (Make a backup first so you can revert.)
Android 4.3 Camera Security Bug - Samsung Galaxy Nexus upgraded from 4.2.2 to 4.3 via OTA.
Anyone who recently upgraded can try and replicate this issue.
After upgrade launch the camera, try to set as default settings as you can (not sure if this matters, but try turning off the camera flash).
Use the rear facing camera, press the shutter button as fast as you can, look in the gallery. You might find that photos you previously took and deleted have resurfaced.
Try the same thing with the front facing camera.
I was able to "recover" photos taken and deleted a couple weeks ago using this method. I'm guessing that something in the software can't keep up so it finds old photos and uses them for some reason. After a few rounds of doing this, the problem went away, so maybe it cleared out some kind of cache or used up whatever leftover deleted photos there were.
Anyone else able to replicate?
Whole photos or just the thumbnail? I've had a similar thing on an archos tablet where the thumbnail is an old, deleted photo, but when you select it to display full size, it's the one that was just taken.
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It was the whole photo viewed in the gallery. Swipe left from the camera app and the previously deleted photos were viewable. Tap once, they fill the screen, pinch to zoom they enlarge. I didn't try downloading them to my computer through USB. The problem went away after a few rounds of doing this and deleting all available photos, it was quite disconcerting in terms of privacy. The front camera and rear camera seemed to have their own separate caches of deleted photos as the issue happened with each independently. I ended up doing a factory reset which hopefully will be good enough. Nothing special about my device, Galaxy Nexus GSM, purchased from the play store, always upgraded through OTA, never unlocked, never custom ROMs, never rooted, etc...
Hello,
This issue seems to have appeared recently on my device, without any particular explanation. It can be potentially be related to Photo Analyzer being disabled from the apps, but that is supposed to increase speed, not introduce lag.
The issue is that my image preview has very low fps in both Superior Auto and Manual modes. What's hilarious is that when I switch to Video mode - the lag disappears and the preview is quite smooth. Not perfect, but acceptable, and just like my photo previews used to perform in the past.
Furthermore, this lag appears only when I move the camera. If I stop moving, the next following seconds there is no lag. The lag appears once the camera detects movement. Then the little stick man walking icon appears in the lower right section of the screen, which seems to be related to the appearance of the lag.
I've tried resolving this via options, by stopping the extra settings like HDR, reducing the resolution to 8MP and clearing the camera app cache. Nothing has really helped so far and the issue is quite strange.
Any ideas on why this might occur and how to solve it? Having a Sony phone is probably the best thing for people who like to investigate problems on a daily basis. :silly:
EDIT: Just wanted to let you know, using other 3rd party apps results in no lag whatsoever. Open Camera seems to be working perfectly fine (except not detecting 20MP reso for photos for some reason).
Overall, there seems to be a problem with the specific Sony camera that I have not been able to resolve yet.
Hey, just wanted to add that clearing data from the Camera app settings resolved this issue. After doing it and re-launching the app, it no longer lags when watching the preview. This seems to be the only solution that helped me. I can speculate that disabling the Photo Analyzer did something, and clearing data resolved it. Disabling Photo Analyzer should definitely speed up the time between taking photos. Photo analyzer eats up some resources by trying to detect faces and locations, then relate them to your contacts so that photos can be sorted by the people in them. If you do not need this, disable it and clear your camera data and cache. Time between taking photos now is not instant, but is definitely significantly faster. Also, the camera app itself opens up very fast, almost instantly, INCLUDING when I activate it from the button when the phone is sleeping.
I have found the best and stable GCam for our beloved Max Pro M1.
It's the BCG's V6.2
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/changelog498/
Once you install the GCam, set the base model of Front camera to Nexus 6P.
I've seen that all the gcam ports just make my face pink-ish inspite of the good lightning. I've also found a fix to it!
Go into settings (gcam) and go further into Advanced under Photo section.
Over there you'll find a saturation section for adjusting saturation.
Set the Highlight Saturation to 0.8 & Shadow Saturation to 1.2 and then you're good to go!
This gcam also does not have any grey shutter or shutter lag in Portrait mode. Everything works fine including Night Sight.
Slo-mo works?
Mr.Ak said:
Slo-mo works?
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Not on mine
Hello after install it works and all, But I cant seem to find the shortcut icon?
"MGC_6.2.024_BSG-based_TlnNeun.apk" is the best Gcam port I've tried on this phone in terms of features and reliability.
Here's my review:
I tested "MGC_6.2.024_BSG-based_TlnNeun.apk" on Android 9. Although it has some problems, so far this is the best Gcam port I've used on this phone.
Shooting modes:
1. Camera (default)
2. Portrait
3. Panorama
4. Lens Blur
5. Video
6. Night Sight
7. Photo Sphere
8. Google Lens
The modes I care about (1-6) all work.
Here are the problems I've discovered so far:
1. Hardware details
When photos are produced by this app, sometimes the information embedded in the photo files incorrectly identifies my phone as a Huawei phone, and incorrectly identifies my camera as "Huawei ASUS_X00TD." (This is an Asus phone; it has nothing to do with Huawei.)
Strangely, sometimes the photos produced by the app will instead say that the camera used to shoot them is "asus ASUS_X00TD," which is correct. (X00TD is the generic model code for this kind of phone by Asus, and my global 4 GB variant of the phone specifically has model code X00TDB.)
To me, these inconsistent details are irrelevant.
2. Location (Coordinates) Details
By default, Location Saving was enabled by the app. However, this data did not actually save to any of the photos produced by the app. It was only after manually disabling Location within the app and then re-enabling it that the app eventually saved this data to photos.
I do care about having Location details saved to photos. Although the feature is buggy and does not work as it should by default, it thankfully can work reliably once you fiddle with it.
3. App crashes
I discovered two ways to inadvertently crash the app.
First, turning off HDR causes the app to crash with a "Camera keeps stopping error."
Fortunately, once you re-start the app, HDR is disabled and you don't see that error anymore. Presumably HDR is actually disabled until manually re-enabled by the user.
The second way I crashed the app was by going into Settings and then clicking on Help. This produced the same fatal error as disabling HDR. The app thankfully works fine once you re-start it, so the fatal crash will not recur unless you repeat your actions.
Hardware: Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1, model X00TDB (the 4 GB global variant of the phone)
Operating System: Android 9 (AospExtended-v6.6-X00TD-20190819-1346-OFFICIAL.zip)
Max Pro M1 User said:
"MGC_6.2.024_BSG-based_TlnNeun.apk" is the best Gcam port I've tried on this phone in terms of features and reliability.
Here's my review:
I tested "MGC_6.2.024_BSG-based_TlnNeun.apk" on Android 9. Although it has some problems, so far this is the best Gcam port I've used on this phone.
Shooting modes:
1. Camera (default)
2. Portrait
3. Panorama
4. Lens Blur
5. Video
6. Night Sight
7. Photo Sphere
8. Google Lens
The modes I care about (1-6) all work.
Here are the problems I've discovered so far:
1. Hardware details
When photos are produced by this app, sometimes the information embedded in the photo files incorrectly identifies my phone as a Huawei phone, and incorrectly identifies my camera as "Huawei ASUS_X00TD." (This is an Asus phone; it has nothing to do with Huawei.)
Strangely, sometimes the photos produced by the app will instead say that the camera used to shoot them is "asus ASUS_X00TD," which is correct. (X00TD is the generic model code for this kind of phone by Asus, and my global 4 GB variant of the phone specifically has model code X00TDB.)
To me, these inconsistent details are irrelevant.
2. Location (Coordinates) Details
By default, Location Saving was enabled by the app. However, this data did not actually save to any of the photos produced by the app. It was only after manually disabling Location within the app and then re-enabling it that the app eventually saved this data to photos.
I do care about having Location details saved to photos. Although the feature is buggy and does not work as it should by default, it thankfully can work reliably once you fiddle with it.
3. App crashes
I discovered two ways to inadvertently crash the app.
First, turning off HDR causes the app to crash with a "Camera keeps stopping error."
Fortunately, once you re-start the app, HDR is disabled and you don't see that error anymore. Presumably HDR is actually disabled until manually re-enabled by the user.
The second way I crashed the app was by going into Settings and then clicking on Help. This produced the same fatal error as disabling HDR. The app thankfully works fine once you re-start it, so the fatal crash will not recur unless you repeat your actions.
Hardware: Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1, model X00TDB (the 4 GB global variant of the phone)
Operating System: Android 9 (AospExtended-v6.6-X00TD-20190819-1346-OFFICIAL.zip)
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Max Pro M1 User said:
"MGC_6.2.024_BSG-based_TlnNeun.apk" is the best Gcam port I've tried on this phone in terms of features and reliability.
Here's my review:
I tested "MGC_6.2.024_BSG-based_TlnNeun.apk" on Android 9. Although it has some problems, so far this is the best Gcam port I've used on this phone.
Shooting modes:
1. Camera (default)
2. Portrait
3. Panorama
4. Lens Blur
5. Video
6. Night Sight
7. Photo Sphere
8. Google Lens
The modes I care about (1-6) all work.
Here are the problems I've discovered so far:
1. Hardware details
When photos are produced by this app, sometimes the information embedded in the photo files incorrectly identifies my phone as a Huawei phone, and incorrectly identifies my camera as "Huawei ASUS_X00TD." (This is an Asus phone; it has nothing to do with Huawei.)
Strangely, sometimes the photos produced by the app will instead say that the camera used to shoot them is "asus ASUS_X00TD," which is correct. (X00TD is the generic model code for this kind of phone by Asus, and my global 4 GB variant of the phone specifically has model code X00TDB.)
To me, these inconsistent details are irrelevant.
2. Location (Coordinates) Details
By default, Location Saving was enabled by the app. However, this data did not actually save to any of the photos produced by the app. It was only after manually disabling Location within the app and then re-enabling it that the app eventually saved this data to photos.
I do care about having Location details saved to photos. Although the feature is buggy and does not work as it should by default, it thankfully can work reliably once you fiddle with it.
3. App crashes
I discovered two ways to inadvertently crash the app.
First, turning off HDR causes the app to crash with a "Camera keeps stopping error."
Fortunately, once you re-start the app, HDR is disabled and you don't see that error anymore. Presumably HDR is actually disabled until manually re-enabled by the user.
The second way I crashed the app was by going into Settings and then clicking on Help. This produced the same fatal error as disabling HDR. The app thankfully works fine once you re-start it, so the fatal crash will not recur unless you repeat your actions.
Hardware: Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1, model X00TDB (the 4 GB global variant of the phone)
Operating System: Android 9 (AospExtended-v6.6-X00TD-20190819-1346-OFFICIAL.zip)
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But in my asus max m1 pro device it's automatically back and it remains show me black screen only and automatically turn back I also use same device and camera to api isn't enable in my device and I'm also in same version
aryankr_147 said:
But in my asus max m1 pro device it's automatically back and it remains show me black screen only and automatically turn back I also use same device and camera to api isn't enable in my device and I'm also in same version
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Sorry, your message is not clear. I don't understand you, but it seems like you're having problems using the camera app on your Max Pro M1.
If English is not your first language, maybe try posting your message in your native language, as someone may understand it. Alternatively, maybe someone can translate for you.
I've had varying degrees of success with these Google Camera ports on my Max Pro M1:
trCamera_V1.1_Eugene_Onegin
PMGC_7.2.014_Zoom_V4
MGC_6.2.024_BSG-based_TlnNeun
MGC_7.3.020_Parrot043-v2
Max Pro M1 User said:
Sorry, your message is not clear. I don't understand you, but it seems like you're having problems using the camera app on your Max Pro M1.
If English is not your first language, maybe try posting your message in your native language, as someone may understand it. Alternatively, maybe someone can translate for you.
I've had varying degrees of success with these Google Camera ports on my Max Pro M1:
trCamera_V1.1_Eugene_Onegin
PMGC_7.2.014_Zoom_V4
MGC_6.2.024_BSG-based_TlnNeun
MGC_7.3.020_Parrot043-v2
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In my device camera to api isn't enabled
So, will this gcam work in my device
I also use asus max m1 pro. But 3/32 gb varrient
If any gcam works then I already used What you said
Suggest me a better gcam That works on this device
aryankr_147 said:
In my device camera to api isn't enabled
So, will this gcam work in my device
I also use asus max m1 pro. But 3/32 gb varrient
If any gcam works then I already used What you said
Suggest me a better gcam That works on this device
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I don't think any Gcam app will work until you enable Camera 2 API or install a custom ROM.
Why don't you enable Camera 2 API? It's not so difficult to do if you have a computer and have successfully installed the ADB program and the generic USB driver for Android phones.
Hi,
I am using LG V30+ (LG-H930DS) past one year. For past two months, my default camera app stopped working. I have tried with restarting the mobile, clearing the data and cache, force stopped the app also. Nothing works. I am receiving the following error
"Camera Error;Camera unavailable"
Also in other camera applications the selfie cam is not opening. If I select the change camera option to take photo in front camera, its redirecting again to rear camera. I am unable to open the camera through applications like WhatsApp also. Even face detection is not working.
I haven't dropped my mobile or damaged by any other means like water also.
So can anyone of the members in our forum could help to rectify this error?
My mobile IS currently running in May 1 2019 security patch. Software version is V20f-IND-XX.
Premdrums said:
Hi,
I am using LG V30+ (LG-H930DS) past one year. For past two months, my default camera app stopped working. I have tried with restarting the mobile, clearing the data and cache, force stopped the app also. Nothing works. I am receiving the following error
"Camera Error;Camera unavailable"
Also in other camera applications the selfie cam is not opening. If I select the change camera option to take photo in front camera, its redirecting again to rear camera. I am unable to open the camera through applications like WhatsApp also. Even face detection is not working.
I haven't dropped my mobile or damaged by any other means like water also.
So can anyone of the members in our forum could help to rectify this error?
My mobile IS currently running in May 1 2019 security patch. Software version is V20f-IND-XX.
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KDZ back to stock to see if it's hardware failure
Premdrums said:
Hi,
I am using LG V30+ (LG-H930DS) past one year. For past two months, my default camera app stopped working. I have tried with restarting the mobile, clearing the data and cache, force stopped the app also. Nothing works. I am receiving the following error
"Camera Error;Camera unavailable"
Also in other camera applications the selfie cam is not opening. If I select the change camera option to take photo in front camera, its redirecting again to rear camera. I am unable to open the camera through applications like WhatsApp also. Even face detection is not working.
I haven't dropped my mobile or damaged by any other means like water also.
So can anyone of the members in our forum could help to rectify this error?
My mobile IS currently running in May 1 2019 security patch. Software version is V20f-IND-XX.
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1) Perhaps there's a conflict:
"Camera Error;Camera unavailable"
"Also in other camera applications the selfie cam is not opening".
That first error usually means something else is using the camera. Uninstall the other camera applications to test. You can always re-install later.
Back when I had Moto Maxx XT1225 and custom ROM, I ended up with two Galleries and my camera would crash when I tried to use it. I ended up having to freeze one of the Galleries in Titanium Backup.
If you have multiple camera apps, it's possible one of them is always running in the background or something which prevents the others from using the camera. Just a suggestion to uninstall them, temporarily go back to stock LG camera only and see if that solves the issue. Then you can add them back one by one, rebooting in between, see if there's a conflict again (if that's the reason).
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2) Yeah, could be hardware failure. In one instance, someone's selfie camera was not working -- wouldn't open. But turns out the problem was actually the rear camera. They had to REPLACE THE REAR CAMERA and then the selfie camera worked. The rear camera was faulty and wouldn't switch to the selfie camera.
This camera error, camera unavailable just happened to me. This is the 2nd time its happened and rhe first time i had to do a complete factory reset to restore my camera function....i didnt know what caused it then but it happened again and I think I know what may have caused it.
So this time just like last time I had my SD card filled with photos mounted and taking photos with this new phone created a 2nd "camera" folder.
I moved all the photos out of that folder into my existing SD card "camera" named folder and this inadvertently deleted my newly created LG "camera" folder...
I noticed my next time I went to take a pic I got the error....im thinking its related? Any weight to that? How do it restore or create that folder again...? To check before im forced to factor restore again??
Thank you!