[Q] Broken Camera?

[lilhugo]

Hello all,
I recently dropped my milestone and it looked and worked fine. Just yesterday when I tried to take a picture with my phone it just showed a black screen.
The little options to change flash and stuff like that still showed up, but when I tried to press the shutter it just didn't work. It stayed black and it took no picture.
I was wondering if anyone knows what part I would need to order to fix it, or even if it's possible to fix it. =/

Thanks for the help,
lilhugo

 

[TheSSJ]

Looks like a HW damage for me...you can run dmesg and then start the camera to see if there are any errors during camera usage...the best is when you plug your phone via USB to your PC and then start "adb shell dmesg > C:\adblog.txt" while adb is running, start the cam on your phone and after 10 seconds close the camera app and onb your PC press ctrl+c to terminate adb. Check your log then for any error that occurred when using the camera...

 

[lilhugo]

Oh I see.
Hm... I'll give it a shot.
I was curious, if my milestone is still stock would the process of checking the ADB be the same? If not, would there be any other way to do it?
I learned that using ADB is useful for a rooted device, so I wasn't sure.

Thank you,
lilhugo

 

[TheSSJ]

adb works also with unrooted phones...but to be honest I don't know if dmesg can be used without root...u should try and report back...

 

[lilhugo]

adb works also with unrooted phones...but to be honest I don't know if dmesg can be used without root...u should try and report back...

Okay I tried it out and I think I would need to root it first. It said "Access is denied."
I typed in the command you gave me after I got to the "c:\sdk\tools" part. Is that supposed to happen? When I typed in just "adb shell dmesg" it gave me a huge list of things that were going on with the phone. It gave me a list of things that were Height and Width dimensions. It said "omap34xxcam omap34xxcam: w 1296, h 972 -> w 848 h 480" could that be related to the camera?

If all else fails I guess I'll try to root the phone first and then give it another shot.

Thanks,
lilhugo




Update:
I just rooted my phone and when I tried to type in "adb shell dmesg > C:\adblog.txt" it still gives me an "Access is Denied" option.
Did I happen to miss a step?
I start from the C:\sdk\tools area.
I also looked at what happened next after I typed in adb shell dmesg by itself and it says "unable to detect sensor" and "Regulator for vcam is not initialized"

 

[andrea_marcello]

Hello all,
I recently dropped my milestone and it looked and worked fine. Just yesterday when I tried to take a picture with my phone it just showed a black screen.
The little options to change flash and stuff like that still showed up, but when I tried to press the shutter it just didn't work. It stayed black and it took no picture.
I was wondering if anyone knows what part I would need to order to fix it, or even if it's possible to fix it. =/

Thanks for the help,
lilhugo

I have the same problem I could hear the sound of autofocus when start the app, but I can see only a black image near the bar of settings and if I take a picture they stuck for a while..

 

[cammiso94]

Hello all,
I recently dropped my milestone and it looked and worked fine. Just yesterday when I tried to take a picture with my phone it just showed a black screen.
The little options to change flash and stuff like that still showed up, but when I tried to press the shutter it just didn't work. It stayed black and it took no picture.
I was wondering if anyone knows what part I would need to order to fix it, or even if it's possible to fix it. =/

Thanks for the help,
lilhugo

if its hardware, the camera is seprate from the motherboard, it would be very easy to replace, just pull apart, pull out the motherboard, replace the camera, it just pops off the motherbaord.