Camera crash / freeze during in-app video

[TheMellows]

Hi All,

Long time reader of the forum, finally registered an account.

I'm having an issue wherein the camera freezes and crashes while taking video in apps. Video works fine while recording using the camera app. I've noticed this while using the messaging app and vine. In vine the video starts recording for about .5 seconds before crashing.

I am rooted and using AOKP JB rom (latest). I would have posted in that forum but I'm not allowed since it's a new account (you guys are serious here). I've searched that forum, found a few related posts but no resolution. I have fully wiped, I have cleared app data. I think its a problem with a ROM or Kernel itself. Actually seems like a buffer issue since the video records briefly before crashing but who knows.

If anyone has had a similar issue maybe with another ROM let me know. thanks.

 

[TheMellows]

No one else has had this problem??

If there was another topic let me know, I've searched heavily but maybe I've missed it.

I'm just trying to determine if this is hardware or software (or kernel/ROM).

Can anyone confirm that they are NOT having this issue and let me know what software you're running?

Thanks.

 

[creepyncrawly]

The most reliable test of whether your problem is hardware or firmware related is to flash back to stock and try the video in the stock camera. You can make a nandroid backup and restore it afterwards to get back to where you are now.

 

[TheMellows]

On the stock GB ROM the camera works in SMS but malfunctions in some apps.

I just flashed the official JB ROM from samsung and everything works perfectly, so definitely software.

 

[pham818]

same issue here, for vine, snapchat, instagram.

 

[frogman0227]

Similar issue here, with a Samsung Galaxy 2 (SGH-T989D) running JB 4.1.2 with the official JB update, rooted.

Camera will work for 20-30 seconds and then the in-app video preview will freeze and the only way to get the camera to work again is to reboot. There is no zombie Camera process to kill. Fixing permissions doesn't help. Doesn't matter which app tries to access the camera, they all fail.

I've tried the diagnostics test (*#0*#) and have been able to determine that it's only the rear facing camera that fails, the front facing camera always works fine.

I tried various camera firmware versions (using the "Camera Firmware Standard" screen, *#34971539#), currently running version SEEH05. Other versions either didn't work at all or would perform equally poorly.

I thought it might be an SD card problem,
But after removing the external SD card, the camera performed even worse (crashed even faster).

On the other hand the phone is still under warranty from Telus, so I'm considering flashing back the unrooted ROM and returning it for repairs, unless someone can suggest something else to try.

 

[flet2]

Running PAC ROM (22.0 i think) from the ported development section and have the same issue with the rear camera but the front camera seems to work OK most of the time for Snapchat and such. A while back I tried one of the separate 4.2.2 camera APK's that's floating on this site and had the same issue still.

Has anyone tried the new leaked 4.3 camera to see if that works better/worse?

 

[vinay080]

Not sure if this would work or not, but you could probably try.
Clear out all current videos and pictures on internal sd card(of course after taking backup), wipe/reset and then do a fresh rom install.