Lollipop - Camera from lock screen

[jojo99]

Under KK and previous versions, when I swiped the camera icon, it opened with the rear facing camera, so I could take a photo of whatever was going on around me. This is useful to me as I take a lot of photo's when out hiking.

Now, when I swipe the camera open, the front camera opens in I guess, selfie mode! Which means I have to then switch to the rear camera before taking a shot., which requires TWO icon presses (first the "..." icon, then the rear camera icon, each and every damm time I pick-up the phone to take a photo.

Is there a setting somewhere to change the default setting of opening the front camera?

 

[thisISjoel]

Mine opens up to whatever I used last, as in if I used front facing first it opens to that, if I used rear facing first it opens that.

 

[xdrc45]

Same here... Mine opens to the rear facing camera every time.
Initially when I flashed 5.0 I had some odd issues happening like I had no settings menu option in the pull down menu, only the notification menu was present even with the 2 Finger swipe down... It still would only open the notification menu and not the settings menu and some other issues, like opening the camera from the lock screen and it would open the front facing camera and etc...
So I booted into recovery wiped Dalvik cache, caxhe and then performed a factory data reset and since then everything has been working properly ever since as it should.

 

[ScoobyWRX]

Mine opens on the last used setting

 

[jojo99]

OK, my bad. Yes, it apparently opens to the last used mode. I don't recall it operating like this in KK but then I take very few selfie's, so might have missed this.