My Camera and Video Camera

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All of a sudden my camera stopped working. I'm using SPB mobile shell and was looking through my windows folder on my phone just to see if there was anything in there I wanted to use as a widget. I was opening some executables to see what they were and most were just standard stuff, but some didn't seem to do anything. However, now when I try to use my camera on my phone it shows the image it first sees and then freezes up and I'm forced to do a soft reset to get it working again. Also when I checked the test camera executable in windows doesn't freeze up my phone.

While google searching I came across someone saying that there is a such thing as a factory reset by typing in *#7780# that will reset the settings, but not remove any apps or data. First of all is this true and would it probably fix my problem and second of all, is there another way that I could fix this without having my settings reset. Thanks.

1. Soft reset: open the back cover, on the top of the battery, having a black button. This is the soft reset buton. Press this buton to reset.
2. Remove the program.

Originally Posted by momhandheld

1. Soft reset: open the back cover, on the top of the battery, having a black button. This is the soft reset buton. Press this buton to reset.
2. Remove the program.

Maybe it wasn't clear as to what was going on. I have done a soft reset many times because it keeps freezes up every time I try to use my camera. Doing a soft reset simply allows me to use my phone again, but if I go into the camera again it freezes up again forcing me to do a soft reset.

And remove what program? SPB mobile shell? I know that's not it because I've been using it for over a month now without any problems. The problems started when I was looking through some executables.

you probably ran the camera test / diagnostics program. There was a post about running some of the exacuteables in the windows folder somewhere around here. Not to fear though. Just hard reset.

Originally Posted by josefcrist

you probably ran the camera test / diagnostics program. There was a post about running some of the exacuteables in the windows folder somewhere around here. Not to fear though. Just hard reset.

Thanks for the info. I thought that a hard reset would probably fix it. But is there a way to fix it without loosing all my data and programs?

Not that I am aware of; dont feel bad though I did the same thing. also this is a good opportunity to flash to the newest dark rom.

I was hoping to avoid hard reseting my phone, but either way, thanks, that did fix it.

my camera always stops working

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The camera on my phone freezes from time to time. I can't find any reason for it, other than it seem to happen more often if I use the hardware camera button to launch the camera when the lock screen is on.