I'm having bizarre camera issues since the KitKat update and I think it might be similar to the issues on the S5. My front camera will work after a reboot, as I'm able to take pictures of checks with my bank app that doesn't access the front facing camera. However, when I use the camera app (stock or Google) or Snapchat, the camera goes black. I then get the "camera failed" message.
I tried force stopping the camera and clearing data and cache. I also tried to factory reset and still had no luck. I went into Verizon and they told me they could only give me a refurb, not a brand new phone. I've had issues with refurbs back when I had a gnex so I want to avoid that I route.
One other thing - I do think I was rooted when I updated to KitKat. Could that have anything to do with it? I vaguely remember rooting right when I got the phone, but when I found out I couldn't unlock the bootloader I never did anything further with it.
I read about one person on here who had this issue being caused by Cerberus. I briefly had Cerberus on my phone but the trial expired and I never paid, so it basically just sat on my phone unused. I couldn't uninstall because my account had been deleted on the site. Since the factory reset, Cerberus doesn't even show up as an app.
This had been going on for a few weeks now and I've read as much as I can but I'm at a loss. Anyone have some advice for what my next steps might be?
p.s. Sorry for typos or long paragraphs. Typing from my phone so I can't really tell how readable this is!
I tried force stopping the camera and clearing data and cache. I also tried to factory reset and still had no luck. I went into Verizon and they told me they could only give me a refurb, not a brand new phone. I've had issues with refurbs back when I had a gnex so I want to avoid that I route.
One other thing - I do think I was rooted when I updated to KitKat. Could that have anything to do with it? I vaguely remember rooting right when I got the phone, but when I found out I couldn't unlock the bootloader I never did anything further with it.
I read about one person on here who had this issue being caused by Cerberus. I briefly had Cerberus on my phone but the trial expired and I never paid, so it basically just sat on my phone unused. I couldn't uninstall because my account had been deleted on the site. Since the factory reset, Cerberus doesn't even show up as an app.
This had been going on for a few weeks now and I've read as much as I can but I'm at a loss. Anyone have some advice for what my next steps might be?
p.s. Sorry for typos or long paragraphs. Typing from my phone so I can't really tell how readable this is!
