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bigbadwulff

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All of the people I know that have Droids are telling me their camera is messing up with the latest software. I know mine is.
 
The .621 release? Now why in the world wouldn't you just root your phone and put a good ROM on there instead of upgrading to that garbage?
 
Will it actually fix the camera? Will I be left without things like Swype? I just hate to have to set up my phone, yet again. Went to Liberty once and didn't care for it. But, hey..
 
Try the camera app route first.

These are rated pretty good: Camera Zoom FX, Camera360, HDR Camera, Vignette
 
Liberty is on mine.its the kids Angry Birds phone now, but everything works on wifi. Camera, video recording, everything.
 
My camera works fine on stock with the latest update. I had some issues with video recording (saving corrupt movies) after the update, but after re-seating the SD card it seemed to go away (prob nothing to do with the update, just coincidence).
 
also define "messing up"

the DX doesn't have the best native camera anyways. I was never satisfied with mine unless it was Rom'ed or using a camera app like Col said.
 
Messing up:
Not coming up at all unless I reboot(I know of 5 people it is doing this to and not all are DXs). Not saving pictures every now and then.
 
Nothing in the Cache to clear. 0.00B

Unless I'm wrong don't other apps just utilize the standard camera and bring the pics into that app. So if the camera doesn't come up then that app is useless, right?

360: force close, soft reset. Now it seems to be working. Will post back to see if it continues to work.
 
Mine had been doing the not saving pictures thing for a few months now. It will look like it saved the pic when you take it (little thumbnail on the lower left is there), but when you click on the thumbnail or go into the gallery, it's just the gray icon and no pic. When this happens, if I go into settings and unmount/remount the sd card, that fixes it. Thought it was a problem with my card, but I replaced it, and still doing the same thing. I think this phone is starting to show its age.
 
bigbadwulff said:
Unless I'm wrong don't other apps just utilize the standard camera and bring the pics into that app. So if the camera doesn't come up then that app is useless, right?
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No, they don't utilize the stock camera app, at least not all of them.

And, the stock camera issue was usually coding to start the app based on memory - the other apps won't have that issue.
 
Doing the same thing with 360. Sometimes it comes up, sometimes it force closes/ refuses to come up. I swear it uses the stock camera and just bring the pics into the app, plus it put pics in the Gallery upside down!
 
Hrethgir said:
Mine had been doing the not saving pictures thing for a few months now. It will look like it saved the pic when you take it (little thumbnail on the lower left is there), but when you click on the thumbnail or go into the gallery, it's just the gray icon and no pic. When this happens, if I go into settings and unmount/remount the sd card, that fixes it. Thought it was a problem with my card, but I replaced it, and still doing the same thing. I think this phone is starting to show its age.
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Mine is doing that exact thing.
 
Hmm. Ok thanks. My friend's phone is having issues with the camera. As soon as he opened the camera and an image appears on the screen, that image freezes on the screen, and he can't take a picture at all. But it works fine if the phone is plugged in.

I had him look at the data storage, and it was 28kb. Is that a lot? My phone shows only 4kb.

This just started Sunday night. He has rebooted phone, done some kind of update, etc, and nothing fixed it.
 
forddna said:
Hmm. Ok thanks. My friend's phone is having issues with the camera. As soon as he opened the camera and an image appears on the screen, that image freezes on the screen, and he can't take a picture at all. But it works fine if the phone is plugged in.

I had him look at the data storage, and it was 28kb. Is that a lot? My phone shows only 4kb.
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Worth a shot to clear it and find out.
 
"Plugged in", meaning what? (AC or compute?)

Right after a picture is taken, it saves it to the sdcard.

If you're having issues with your sdcard (full, corrupt, failing), I could see where it would hang after taking a picture.

I'd remove the card, plug it into a computer with a usb adapter and scan it for errors.
 
colchiro said:
"Plugged in", meaning what? (AC or compute?)

Right after a picture is taken, it saves it to the sdcard.

If you're having issues with your sdcard (full, corrupt, failing), I could see where it would hang after taking a picture.

I'd remove the card, plug it into a computer with a usb adapter and scan it for errors.
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AC.

It's not hanging after taking a pic. It's hanging as soon as the camera opens and is unable to take a pic even if you wanted to.
 
We're not speaking anymore, so it doesn't matter. :( Thank you all for the help, though. If he gets his act together, I'll suggest those things.
 
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