I have an HTC Android that I've had for about a month. Yesterday the camera worked fine. Today I press the Camera APP and just get a black screen. I clear the data and the cache and now it wont even work. I've tried powering down, removing the battery, removing the card and still nothing. Any ideas.
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Camera / Video Camera stopped working
- Thread starter homera
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So... what the model of your HTC mobile Phone?
AndroidMuse
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I had a similar problem with my HTC One. One day the selfie camera started showing only a black screen. The Main camera showed either a black screen or a static image of the view from when I opened the app. The Video camera seemed to work fine.
The first time it happened I backed up the phone (HTC backup on Windows) then factory-reset and restored it. This worked, but created a laborious task in getting all the preferences and screen icons back in place.
The second time, I researched it a bit and found a suggestion : turn off the phone's Fast Boot option then power cycle the phone. This fixed the problem, and it stayed fixed (so far !) even after I turned Fast Boot back on again.
The Fast Boot setting is at the very bottom of the Settings/Power menu list.
Hope you find this useful.
The first time it happened I backed up the phone (HTC backup on Windows) then factory-reset and restored it. This worked, but created a laborious task in getting all the preferences and screen icons back in place.
The second time, I researched it a bit and found a suggestion : turn off the phone's Fast Boot option then power cycle the phone. This fixed the problem, and it stayed fixed (so far !) even after I turned Fast Boot back on again.
The Fast Boot setting is at the very bottom of the Settings/Power menu list.
Hope you find this useful.
Hmm, this thread's last post before yours AndroidMuse was way back in May of 2011...
Not sure about the presences of a fastboot setting in a stock ROM (I've never seen it in the Settings menu) or the relevance to a possible solution to this ancient thread.
edit: there apparently is an HTC Settings option to enable/disable a fastboot mode ("startup and shutdown quickly") and apparently can have somewhat of a negative impact on applications in certain circumstances.
Not sure about the presences of a fastboot setting in a stock ROM (I've never seen it in the Settings menu) or the relevance to a possible solution to this ancient thread.
edit: there apparently is an HTC Settings option to enable/disable a fastboot mode ("startup and shutdown quickly") and apparently can have somewhat of a negative impact on applications in certain circumstances.
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