Hello everyone. I am running 4.4.4 on my Galaxy S4 and recently I've run into a camera issue. Every time I enter my camera it just says "Updating Camera firmware. Please wait..." then it just stays like and the camera won't come up. I haven't flashed any Roms or modified the phone in any way. I even factory reset the phone and it won't work. What can I do about this?
I think when you factory reset it wipes caches on your phone, but you could try long pressing on your camera app, go to app info and try clearing caches and data if you don't mind reconfiguring settings for your camera.
themadba said:
I think when you factory reset it wipes caches on your phone, but you could try long pressing on your camera app, go to app info and try clearing caches and data if you don't mind reconfiguring settings for your camera.
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How do I reconfigure camera settings?
Nikefly32 said:
How do I reconfigure camera settings?
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Well I meant like just the settings in the camera app e.g. the resolution, where you want the photos to be saved etc
themadba said:
Well I meant like just the settings in the camera app e.g. the resolution, where you want the photos to be saved etc
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Sorry but this did not work. Same issue.
Nikefly32 said:
Sorry but this did not work. Same issue.
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Try downloading a camera app off the play store and see if it works.
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I don't know what is going on with my gallery but it's really weird. A little back story. I was originally rooted and running 4.2.2 stock but I then I saw that 4.3 was out so I used the nexus root toolkit to go back to stock, reset, apply 4.3 update, and then re-root. I also used the picture backup utility in the toolkit to backup my photos, but it didn't work and none of them were restored. After I was on 4.3, I installed the CM camera app, focal. However, when I took pictures with the app and went into my gallery and scrolled to the picture I just took it would show the picture briefly and then do a pixelated transition into one of my old pictures and the new pic was nowhere to be seen. I uninstalled the app and haven't had a problem since. Up until today. I tried to download a picture off of Google images and when I go into my gallery to see it, it isn't there. Instead, there is a picture from my gallery pre factory reset and flash of 4.3. It's almost like the pictures I'm downloading are being replaced by the ones I tried to backup and restore. When I finally got a Google image to download and save to my gallery, I'll scroll over to it and it will do the weird pixel transition into an old picture I had before I wiped. Anyone know what's happening? Or even what I'm trying to say? Thanks for any help.
try clear data and cache of gallery and camera and check again
PsyOr said:
try clear data and cache of gallery and camera and check again
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After wiping the cache, I tried to go to gallery and got a message saying "no external storage." Rebooted and everything is working awesome. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
A lot of us get that error after clearing cache. A simple reboot takes care of that
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Hi guys, does anyone here uses snapchat on CM. Each time I try to record a video the app freezes and the camera is no longer accessible.
Does anyone know what to do in that case ? thanks
jordiiB said:
Hi guys, does anyone here uses snapchat on CM. Each time I try to record a video the app freezes and the camera is no longer accessible.
Does anyone know what to do in that case ? thanks
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In most cases, force stopping the app, clearing the data/cache makes the camera accessible again, but to make the recording actually work, you'll have to ask the developer of your ROM. Not every ROM gives you the ability to record because of bugs.
taha1616 said:
In most cases, force stopping the app, clearing the data/cache makes the camera accessible again, but to make the recording actually work, you'll have to ask the developer of your ROM. Not every ROM gives you the ability to record because of bugs.
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Oh alright, thank you ! I'll ask him when I'll be able to post on his thread.
Just received an update from Google. Installed it and now the camera app has stopped working !! The rear camera probably is the issue as even when I use Open Camera, I can't go to the rear camera and take pics. This is just very very frustrating! Already had issues with the native camera app and now this ! Software glitches that too with Google are really frustrating as there is no way I can reach them
Also, my flashlight isn't working. Could this be a hardware issue?
Any help or suggestions? Other than another factory reset?
Please help !
harishvr9 said:
Just received an update from Google. Installed it and now the camera app has stopped working !! The rear camera probably is the issue as even when I use Open Camera, I can't go to the rear camera and take pics. This is just very very frustrating! Already had issues with the native camera app and now this ! Software glitches that too with Google are really frustrating as there is no way I can reach them
Also, my flashlight isn't working. Could this be a hardware issue?
Any help or suggestions? Other than another factory reset?
Please help !
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Try clearing the system cache. If that doesn't work stop the native camera app. If you get a message to undo all updates and revert to stock hit yes. Clear any app data then reboot phone. Restart camera app.
Rear camera on my zemfone max pro is working great but in front camera whenever i try to click picture after clicking it freezes. And i have to minimize itand then after removing it from recents camera app works. Unable toclick picture. But if iam enabling the bokehmode on front it is working fine.
Kumaarpradeep said:
Rear camera on my zemfone max pro is working great but in front camera whenever i try to click picture after clicking it freezes. And i have to minimize itand then after removing it from recents camera app works. Unable toclick picture. But if iam enabling the bokehmode on front it is working fine.
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clear cache and Data of the camera app...
ujilraj said:
clear cache and Data of the camera app...
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Done already, but the problem is still there.
Kumaarpradeep said:
Done already, but the problem is still there.
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Update phone man.. to April patch
Camera app not working
Due to some locking issue I had to do factory reset in my Asus Zenfone max pro M1 but after reinstalling all apps the Asus camera app is not working (to be precise it shows black screen and screen gets frozen). Any help or advice would be great.
Srijan1998 said:
Due to some locking issue I had to do factory reset in my Asus Zenfone max pro M1 but after reinstalling all apps the Asus camera app is not working (to be precise it shows black screen and screen gets frozen). Any help or advice would be great.
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Did the camera app work just after the factory reset before you installed other apps?
sroy said:
Did the camera app work just after the factory reset before you installed other apps?
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Nope, but after cleaning data and cache it has resumed it's functioning.
Sroy
To open camera go to settings Then reset,reset app prefarence,
Hi all,
Sometimes, when I try to take photos with the built-in camera app, the app closes and doesn't save the picture (see the link). However, I don't know if the problem is with the camera app or gallery. Once, when this problem happened, I tried to take a picture inside WhatsApp and it worked just fine.
https://youtu.be/uVS0dT0mk18
I bought my S10+ during Black Friday and the only other thing that caught my attention is that sometimes it requires my pin instead of my fingerprint. In my S6 it only happened when the phone restarted, but I don't know about the S10. If it is the same case then the phone is restarting randomly and that is worrisome.
Thanks in advance,
Luiz
Sounds like it might be defective and a warranty claim is needed. However, first try flashing the currenr firmware with Odin and see if that fixes it.
LuizGustavo19 said:
Hi all,
Sometimes, when I try to take photos with the built-in camera app, the app closes and doesn't save the picture (see the link). However, I don't know if the problem is with the camera app or gallery. Once, when this problem happened, I tried to take a picture inside WhatsApp and it worked just fine.
I bought my S10+ during Black Friday and the only other thing that caught my attention is that sometimes it requires my pin instead of my fingerprint. In my S6 it only happened when the phone restarted, but I don't know about the S10. If it is the same case then the phone is restarting randomly and that is worrisome.
Thanks in advance,
Luiz
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Are you using a theme?
I am using synergy, sometimes when a app updates it will crash, i have to remove the theme overlays and reinstall and rebuild the theme.
Also when i used ADB to remove gallery because i use Google Photos. I couldn't use the camera either so i had to reinstall Gallery. You could try uninstalling updates from the app settings and let it update again, see if the issue persists.
Darkat70 said:
Are you using a theme?
I am using synergy, sometimes when a app updates it will crash, i have to remove the theme overlays and reinstall and rebuild the theme.
Also when i used ADB to remove gallery because i use Google Photos. I couldn't use the camera either so i had to reinstall Gallery. You could try uninstalling updates from the app settings and let it update again, see if the issue persists.
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I may try that, as the other option of flashing the firmware is a little bit more tricky. However, I don't use any theme and it is pretty much the same as out of the box.
I confirmed with my wife and she is having the same camera problem, with the cellphone at random times asking for her pin instead of the fingerprint.
i had the same issue before and wiping cache from boot-loader solved the issue for good