Horrible pictures with green background

Originally Posted by sarah11918

Hope that helps.

Worked perfectly. Now everybody can see my smiling mug shot on page 1 of this thread. Like I said, NO tint using a PE upgraded to Ermine. Thanks again.

Originally Posted by sarah11918

Verified that my camera preview of a picture (live display) is in perfect colour, then snapped a green picture. I do have 2 camera apps listed, and both are listed as "running."

UPDATE: I force closed both apps, then went to the app screen and started camera. Before doing anything, I checked under "manage application" to see which apps were listed as running, and only Camera Version 1 is listed as running.

I do not have duplicate copies of images in the gallery.

I took a picture, then went back to check my list of apps running, and now both Camera apps are running.

PS is picture taking now slow as molasses for everyone else? My exprerience:
- press the camera button
- after a second, preview freezes still
- after a couple of seconds, preview is completely dark/black
- after maybe even as much as 8 seconds of darkness, I hear the camera noise, and a picture has been taken.

Exactly the same on my EE.

Originally Posted by sarah11918

PS is picture taking now slow as molasses for everyone else? My exprerience:
- press the camera button
- after a second, preview freezes still
- after a couple of seconds, preview is completely dark/black
- after maybe even as much as 8 seconds of darkness, I hear the camera noise, and a picture has been taken.

That's definitely true for me, especially on the EE.

Recap, then:

If a green poltergeist has taken your Edge after Ermine, you may probably be experiencing:

1) Two camera apps listed in the "Manage applications" menu (versions 1, and 2.2.1).
2) No previews before shooting, just a green solid field.
3) Inacceptable green-tinted pictures after shooting.
4) Inability to uninstall either of both camera apps.
5) Force stopping useless to solve the issue.
6) Clearing data useless to solve the issue.
7) Trouble only in still picture, with video recording okay.
8) The shutter seems to work with a considerable delay.

Is there anything else to add so we can better define the issue?
Let's stay tuned to the thread until someone comes up with a solution.



As camera drivers are packed into the Android OS package, they are not easy to reinstalled individually.

Originally Posted by JL6161

That's definitely true for me, especially on the EE.

Try turning off the EE and bringing it back up to see if that cures the molasses problem. Sorry I suggested Force closing the App. It was just a thought.

Originally Posted by obsessed2

Try turning off the EE and bringing it back up to see if that cures the molasses problem.

Good idea. I've uninstalled a bunch of apps recently. I'm sure a restart would be a good idea. And I'll finally calibrate the screen, too!

Thanks for doing all that Sarah.

Good recap Paula

So a restart simply removed the initial picture freeze. Now, clicking the camera button makes the preview screen instantly black, then about 5 - 6 seconds later, a picture snaps.

Has anyone found a way to make the camera usable again. Since I upgraded to Ermine, I've been getting the grainy picture with the dark green tint but I had a viewfinder. Now the onscreen viewfinder is just a green rectangle. And while the color on the video camera is fine (suggesting the problem is software not hardware), the final "movie" is stretched out of shape so that it appears like an image in a funhouse mirror.

Another oddity is that the "still" camera requires that I hold the Edge vertically upside down so that the camera is on the bottom, but the "movie" camera requires that I hold it horizontally so that the camera is on the left side.