Hi all.
I bought a HTC One M8 after killing my Xperia Z. My dad also has an M8, and its been perfect for him since day one. I've been thoroughly impressed with the device, despite its age, and will find it hard to part with when I eventually purchase an ARA when released! This will be a lengthy post, so bare with me please.
The issues started at the beginning of the week. I hadn't done anything different, but I noticed that my camera wasn't working full stop. I'd click on the app and it would force close. So i did some research and found a couple of solutions, most of which involved Last Pass, which isn't installed on my device, however I tried those that didn't involve it, to no avail. Somewhere along the way, I must've done something wrong as I started to get the "gaaps.com has stopped" error, and the error message would reappear every few seconds, rendering the phone unusable. After a factory reset, the "gapps.com" error had stopped, but my camera issue still persisted.
It's worth noting that the night before, I did drop a dumbbell on the screen by accident, but the camera WAS working perfectly fine afterwards. The problems I described above occurred the day after.
So after getting nowhere, I decided to take the plunge and replace the camera unit. I purchased an OEM part, and then when it was delivered I continued to strip the phone down and replace the old module with the new one. That was last night. I started the phone up, and clicked on the camera. Hey Presto! The front facing camera worked. No option for the rear camera though. So i installed a 3rd party app, and in that app, the rear facing camera is upside down. I placed my finger over the bottom camera of the two rear ones (the camera i replaced) and the image wasn't blocked by my finger. I placed my finger over the top rear camera, and the image was blocked.
So my question now is, having replaced the entire lower module with a new part, what could be causing the image to be upside down on the third party app, and not showing a rear camera function at all in the stock app?
I'm 99% sure that I rebuilt the phone correctly, but I am going to strip it down again tonight and then rebuild it to make sure I hadn't missed anything out.
Any and All suggestions and questions are welcome.
Thanks,
Mylo.
I bought a HTC One M8 after killing my Xperia Z. My dad also has an M8, and its been perfect for him since day one. I've been thoroughly impressed with the device, despite its age, and will find it hard to part with when I eventually purchase an ARA when released! This will be a lengthy post, so bare with me please.
The issues started at the beginning of the week. I hadn't done anything different, but I noticed that my camera wasn't working full stop. I'd click on the app and it would force close. So i did some research and found a couple of solutions, most of which involved Last Pass, which isn't installed on my device, however I tried those that didn't involve it, to no avail. Somewhere along the way, I must've done something wrong as I started to get the "gaaps.com has stopped" error, and the error message would reappear every few seconds, rendering the phone unusable. After a factory reset, the "gapps.com" error had stopped, but my camera issue still persisted.
It's worth noting that the night before, I did drop a dumbbell on the screen by accident, but the camera WAS working perfectly fine afterwards. The problems I described above occurred the day after.
So after getting nowhere, I decided to take the plunge and replace the camera unit. I purchased an OEM part, and then when it was delivered I continued to strip the phone down and replace the old module with the new one. That was last night. I started the phone up, and clicked on the camera. Hey Presto! The front facing camera worked. No option for the rear camera though. So i installed a 3rd party app, and in that app, the rear facing camera is upside down. I placed my finger over the bottom camera of the two rear ones (the camera i replaced) and the image wasn't blocked by my finger. I placed my finger over the top rear camera, and the image was blocked.
So my question now is, having replaced the entire lower module with a new part, what could be causing the image to be upside down on the third party app, and not showing a rear camera function at all in the stock app?
I'm 99% sure that I rebuilt the phone correctly, but I am going to strip it down again tonight and then rebuild it to make sure I hadn't missed anything out.
Any and All suggestions and questions are welcome.
Thanks,
Mylo.
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