Lollipop Camera Issue

[exninja]

It's really starting to piss me off that the phone won't connect to the camera half the time, even after the update.

Sorry, had to rant.

 

[GuitarG20]

I know the feeling. I completely factory reset my phone yesterday to try and get rid of an annoying reboot issue and today i still can't connect to the camera most of the time.

I read somewhere that disabling NuPlayer might help. But I haven't tried it yet. Has anyone had any luck with that?

 

[exninja]

What do you lose by doing that?

 

[GuitarG20]

You go back to the old player, whatever was before NuPlayer (AwesomePlayer?)

It's in the developer options.

 

[exninja]

i'll give it a try. we'll see in a few days if it's "fixed"

 

[GuitarG20]

Cool. Let me know if you have any luck!

 

[James Young]

Android 5.0 was recieved & installed on my Nexus 5 phone back in mid December 2014. Suddenly my back camera & LED quit working. Retail T-Moblile employees diagnosed it as an equipment problem after performing a factory reset and ordered me a new Nexus 5 phone. The replacement Nexus 5 booted with Android 4.4.4 and keeps telling me every time I check for the latest system update that 4.4.4 is the latest update...which we all know is not true. Numerous support people at Google & T-Mobile have tried to get my device to update with NO success no matter what we try. Looks like to me that the new "Lollipop" update has caused so many unsolvable problems that Google is too afraid to send any kind of over the air android update to any Nexus 5 phone (brand new or not). The back camera & LED works under Android 4.4.4 but I think Google is too afraid to send me "Lollipop" out of fear that it will screw up my back camera & LED all over again on this newest device.

 

[GuitarG20]

That's interesting, since my LED has been working fine as well as my back camera - my issue is only with the front camera

 

[exninja]

My LED had some issues, and may still, but I attributed it to Light Manager not being up-to-date with Lollipop. It seems to work better after the app finally updated. The light always worked, just would act funky.

I'm not sure if my back camera has issues or not. I think it does, just not as bad as the front. It's hard to remember if I last used the front camera, because the camera app remembers and stays on the front camera, so it may be that each time it was on the front camera last. Trouble is that you can't go into the options to switch to back camera when the problem occurs. You have to reboot.

 

[exninja]

So far so good...

 

[exninja]

Still haven't had the camera issue. Looks like NuPlayer is the culprit.

 

[GuitarG20]

Good to know!

 

[exninja]

It's not NuPlayer.

I've been back on KitKat for the last while, and just updated to 5.1 last night. I tried using the face unlock, and nothing. Saw that the front camera wasn't working again. RRRGGGHHHH!!!!! I didn't have ANY problems with KitKat, so it's got to be a software issue. Does hardly anyone take selfies?

 

[GuitarG20]

It's not NuPlayer.

I've been back on KitKat for the last while, and just updated to 5.1 last night. I tried using the face unlock, and nothing. Saw that the front camera wasn't working again. RRRGGGHHHH!!!!! I didn't have ANY problems with KitKat, so it's got to be a software issue. Does hardly anyone take selfies?

Are you sure it's not? I only ask because with 5.1 I believe NuPlayer is now the default option.

 

[exninja]

Now you're confusing me. When I had 5.0.1, I thought NuPlayer was default and I switched back to AwesomePlayer? Last night when I went to 5.1 I definitely switched off NuPlayer and this morning the front camera didn't work. I'll try NuPlayer again I guess.

EDIT: OK, maybe NuPlayer wasn't the default before, but I thought I had turned it off both times. I just turned it on and I'll see what happens.

 

[exninja]

OK, experiment 1 complete. NuPlayer ON, error occurred. Now NuPlayer is turned off, so I'll see what happens.

 

[exninja]

NuPlayer OFF, error occurred. It doesn't have to do with NuPlayer.

 

[GuitarG20]

Noted. So I guess we are back to the drawing board yet again. Darn, I was really hoping they were gonna fix this problem with this update.

 

[exninja]

Yeah, me too. There are a few threads on the bug page but nothing from Google about it.