Camera warning

[Ihazterbo]

So all day today I can bring up the camera and it locks up and then tells me warning camera failed and shuts down. Anyone else have this issue?

 

[mustang7757]

So all day today I can bring up the camera and it locks up and then tells me warning camera failed and shuts down. Anyone else have this issue?

No issues on mine , have you tried restarting or force close the camera app?

 

[Ihazterbo]

No issues on mine , have you tried restarting or force close the camera app?

Did force close a few times. Restarted this morning before this issue but will attempt again now.

 

[anon(10562251)]

Did force close a few times. Restarted this morning before this issue but will attempt again now.

Hardware may be fried. Do you notice excessive heat and/or battery drain as well?

 

[Casey Cheung]

Wow! You too?! My S9 phone has the same camera failure issue, but it's sporadic and totally random. Sometimes the problem persists for a few minutes, other times it goes away quickly. Just the other day, I took a picture of a computer monitor screen, but instead of showing a pic of the screen, there was a completely blank green screen instead...a totally green screen showed up. So strange.

 

[mustang7757]

Wow! You too?! My S9 phone has the same camera failure issue, but it's sporadic and totally random. Sometimes the problem persists for a few minutes, other times it goes away quickly. Just the other day, I took a picture of a computer monitor screen, but instead of showing a pic of the screen, there was a completely blank green screen instead...a totally green screen showed up. So strange.

That sounds like hardware issue, do you have insurance?

 

[Casey Cheung]

No I don't have insurance on my phone. I don't consider this a serious issue...yet. But it might get worse, who knows?

Attached is a screenshot of the "green screen". I took a simple snapshot picture of my computer monitor, nothing special. But instead of a monitor image, I got this totally green screen pic. Well, I suppose I should be thankful for not getting a camera failure warning, haha.

In all the years I've used "smart" phones, dating back to the Palm Treo/Pre era, I've never experienced a phone that decided to give me a green screen.

By the way, for over 10 years, I was deeply into high end digital photography using my Nikon DSLR cameras dating back to the Nikon D1x. Having shot literally many hundreds of thousands of digital images, I have experienced all types of strange problems inherent with digital cameras. But not even my old Samsung Note 2, 3, 4 phones ever gave me this weird camera problem.

 

[mustang7757]

No I don't have insurance on my phone. I don't consider this a serious issue...yet. But it might get worse, who knows?

Attached is a screenshot of the "green screen". I took a simple snapshot picture of my computer monitor, nothing special. But instead of a monitor image, I got this totally green screen pic. Well, I suppose I should be thankful for not getting a camera failure warning, haha.

In all the years I've used "smart" phones, dating back to the Palm Treo/Pre era, I've never experienced a phone that decided to give me a green screen.

By the way, for over 10 years, I was deeply into high end digital photography using my Nikon DSLR cameras dating back to the Nikon D1x. Having shot literally many hundreds of thousands of digital images, I have experienced all types of strange problems inherent with digital cameras. But not even my old Samsung Note 2, 3, 4 phones ever gave me this weird camera problem.

Is this your screen or when you open the camera?

 

[Casey Cheung]

After I took a picture with the phone, the green image immediately showed up in my Gallery. When I swipe up on the image, it shows all the EXIF information, such as 206.99 KB, Resolution 4032x3024, date and path, plus exposure information. I know this is not a "real" image, since the "Size" is only 206.99 KB. My phone camera usually shows a size around 3 to 4 MB for a picture taken.

 

[Ihazterbo]

Hardware may be fried. Do you notice excessive heat and/or battery drain as well?

Battery is good to go. It lasts about 2 days still. No heat either. I did a restart this morning and so far so good. *crosses fingers*

 

[Casey Cheung]

Doing a simple phone restart does help to at least temporarily get rid of the camera failure issue. I've already done this a few times.

 

[anon(10562251)]

Doing a simple phone restart does help to at least temporarily get rid of the camera failure issue. I've already done this a few times.

Yes, and Samsung even has a setting where you can schedule device restarts so I suppose that is an admission regular device restarts are needed to keep things running smoothly.

 

[Casey Cheung]

I used to do the automatic phone restart scheduled for 3am daily. But I didn't like it because the entire phone would lock up and require a PIN # for access which would take around 20 to 30 seconds to finish unlocking. I found this annoying. When I get out of bed in the morning, I want to see whatever notifications on my screen right away, not the lock screen and PIN # required to open the phone.