Unable to start camera app during call ?

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durring a call you can't take a picture or even open the camera app. anyone know how to fix this problem?

Originally Posted by zozodouce

durring a call you can't take a picture or even open the camera app. anyone know how to fix this problem?

It is pretty annoying. I ran into this today when I was in a call and I wanted to access the notification bad... TW wouldn't let me. Then I tried to pull up the app drawer and it wouldn't let me. The phone dialer app seems to lock out all of the other functionality. It really stinks.

I know that on HTC Sense you can put the call in the background (still talking) and do other tasks like opening Google Maps, Camera, etc.

I've enjoyed how fast and battery efficient TW 4.0 is, but I just keep finding more and more things about it that really bother me. Then I find out that the screen drivers are a mess and that future support of the device might be questionable... my biggest hope was to get TW off and install Cyanogenmod or another great ROM. But now it is sounding like there won't be nearly as many ROMs and support available for the TMO SGS2 as compared to the other SGS2s due to these special gpu drivers. ugh.

I don't know about you, but I'm actually able to access the notification bar and everything. Although the camera would give me "Unable to access camera while on call"

Originally Posted by DyingBlade

I don't know about you, but I'm actually able to access the notification bar and everything. Although the camera would give me "Unable to access camera while on call"

Interesting. Hopefully it was just a glitch then. I'll give it another shot as soon as I get a chance. My phone did lock up and reboot itself about 15 minutes later, my first such occurrence on a SGS2 yet.

I tried what you mentioned here and here are my findings....


- During call i pressed the home key and it took me to the home screen.
- I was able to open the camera but got the same error "cannot use camera during call".
- I have installed FXcamera as well and was able to open it and take pic during call from it.

So i guess this behavior is of the stock camera app.

This is same as when your battery is below 15% you cannot use camera but i can use FXcamera even with 1% battery.


So, install any third party cam app for taking pic in call.



Note - I have another Samsung Galaxy S5830 phone running Android GB. This camera behavior is present there too. So this is not something related to T-Mobile GS2 specifically.

Originally Posted by android4sunny

I tried what you mentioned here and here are my findings....


- During call i pressed the home key and it took me to the home screen.
- I was able to open the camera but got the same error "cannot use camera during call".
- I have installed FXcamera as well and was able to open it and take pic during call from it.

So i guess this behavior is of the stock camera app.

This is same as when your battery is below 15% you cannot use camera but i can use FXcamera even with 1% battery.


So, install any third party cam app for taking pic in call.



Note - I have another Samsung Galaxy S5830 phone running Android GB. This camera behavior is present there too. So this is not something related to T-Mobile GS2 specifically.

Same thing on the vibrant with the battery and while on a phone call.
Also if you open your camera app while listening to music it will pause or skip.

I think that's how stock is, no matter what. My G2 and G2x has this problem. Doesn't iPhone have advantage on this? :P just saying..

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