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#1202 Failed to start camera preview during lens selection
When cycling through camera IDs, one selection fails to load and causes the app to hang with the message "serious camera error". Having a setting to disable certain camera IDs would allow users to workaround this. Being able to select a default lens would be useful too.
The phone in question is a OnePlus 6 and has 2 back and 1 front lenses. OpenCamera detects a non existant 4th cam, but fails to open it.
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Anonymous
Similar problem on OnePlus Nord where the second front camera is not working. I would like to disable/hide this not working ID from the setup.
And on the Motorola moto g84 5G there is also a not existing 4th camera, but if selected the camera preview freezes and you have to terminate Open Camera and restart it to continue.
Also here it would be great if the concerning camera ID could be disabled.
Sorry, my yesterdays post (posted as Anonymous) was not correct concerning the OnePlus Nord:
On the OnePlus Nord there is no button to choose a camera at all (Open Camera V1.55). That's a different issue!
I observed the behaviour with the not working camera with ID 4 in the fork of /e/OS (v1.53.1, package foundation.e.camera) where it is possible to cycle through the camera lenses.
Thanks for the update. Open Camera only exposes cameras that are made available to third party applications. In Open Camera with the OnePlus Nord, does zooming in and out switch between different cameras? If not, it should be raised with OnePlus as a request to support multiple cameras for third party camera applications.
Open Camera now supports multiple cameras via a menu, rather than cycling through, so at least it's a bit easier to skip it. Is the problem camera still occurring, in which case please post a screenshot of the camera menu in Open Camera?