Camera app disabled with low battery

[ajaxkiller]

Last night I was out with some friends and at the end of the night my battery was low from showing of my new phone all day. While we were having a few drinks I went to take a picture , opened the camera app and low and behold a pop up window appeared and said low battery with the only option button as close.

Was it not one if the selling point to this phone catching life's moments ( wedding commercial )

Anyone know how to disable this and allow pictures when battery is below 5%. Don't know about you but I would like a choice about taking a photo or having my phone last another 20 minutes

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[Rocky2#AC]

Only 5% on the S3? On the Mesmerize it was <15% -_-

Other roms have the feature disabled I'm sure, not sure though if anyone's done it on the S3 yet.


Easiest solution is to download a camera app from the market.

 

[ajaxkiller]

To tell the truth It very well could be 10-15% I will test next discharge. Was a little tipsy when I noticed.

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[Almeuit]

To tell the truth It very well could be 10-15% I will test next discharge. Was a little tipsy when I noticed.

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It's 5%.I am at 6% battery at the moment and it only warns about the flash not being able to be used.. But camera stays open.

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[Almeuit]

Just opened at 5% and camera closes now.

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[Cory Keel]

Re: Camera app disabled with low battery S4

It appears that it is 5 percent battery life or less in which the camera app is disabled. I was just taking photos at about 6 or 7% battery, and upon depleting to 5%, the "close camera message" popped up. I haven't been able to figure out a work around, which is very annoying indeed. I agree that we should have the choice to take a picture or get another 20 minutes of life out of the phone. Hopefully enough people complain and we get an update.

 

[GSDer]

This was at 10% using the stock camera app.
Have you determined if using a 3rd party camera app makes any difference in if/when the two different messages appear?

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[Bo MacIsaac]

This ******* infuriates me honestly.

The role of technology is to obey the user. If I want to use the last of my battery to take a picture, technology does not tell me no. That's just terrible ******* programming.

Whoever came up with this **** is a ******* moron.

 

[Cmcloyd50]

View attachment 76514This was at 10% using the stock camera app.
Have you determined if using a 3rd party camera app makes any difference in if/when the two different messages appear?

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I'm on a AT&T Galaxy S5, not-rooted. Running the most up-to-date OS AT&T has released.

I had the same issue. After reading the quote above, I tested the premise and discovered that my VSCO Cam app was able to take pictures starting at 6%. I continued to take pics until my phones battery dropped to 5%. I got the triple beep and the popup that battery levels were extremely low. After getting rid of the popups about batt level, my VSCO Cam app was still able to take photos.

It seems that the built in camera app is the problem here.

P.s. I did have my phone in power saving mode with cpu restrictions and grayscale mode enabled.