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Error! Camera not Available!

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Ellisse
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Error! Camera not Available!

I've had my Z1 for approximately 2 weeks now and I've just gone to take a picture and it's sitting on a black screen for about 6 seconds and then popping up a box "Error! Camera not available!" After having this phone for such a short period of time, and the camera being the main selling point of the phone I'm somewhat dissapointed that I'm having issues already. Any suggestions on what might be causing this issue? Or anybody else having this issue/had this issue and knows of a fix? Last thing I want is to be stuck with a phone that has no camera for a 2 year contract when the entire reason for getting a new phone was to double as a camera for the start of Uni... Already had one night worth of pictures missed now because of this let down...

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YUDHISTIRA1
Visitor

THANKS VERY MUCH. ITS WORKING 100%
rydeen
Visitor

My sony xperia M5 has the same issue, it can't start the camera, but sometimes the front camera is still working on style potrait mode, please send a feedback if you know something

amitgauli
Visitor

Even I tried for more than 20 times, there occurs a problem of my camera, when I click the app camera it says error camera not available. I want quick recovery !! plz help me !!
adriandiamond
Visitor

Sorry...........................forget everything I wrote below!! Just checked phone again and still getting "Camera not available" error message. It has got to be something pretty simple......................but what???

Hi Guys I have the Sony Xperia M Aqua and have the same "camera not available" problem. I read on here that it may be an issue with over heating and funnily enough yesterday I mentioned to my son that I thought the battery seemed quite hot. Tonight I tried to use the camera and just got "Camera not available" so I removed the  phone case from the phone and felt the battery, it was quite warm. I must add here that I very rarely use the phone so it is not through use that it has overheated. After removing the case the camera is working fine so it could well be a heating issue. I then though is perhaps the case holding the camera button in and that is causing the camera not to work but on checking the button has lots of clearance so it's not that. I will leave the phone out of the case for now and keep checking at different intervals if the camera comes on without the error message.

Will keep you posted on my findings.

berregys
Visitor

Somebody have an idea. phone has now worked for 14 days , suddenly the camera is out of order?

Restarted the phone, cleared memory etc.

Also started in safe mode.. No result .

Installing new  app doesn't help

peterclemo
Visitor

Um!! naaaaah!! It doesn't reset the camera..does anyone know how to remove the camera app and re-install it

adelmocalvino
Visitor

That's also my permanent problem. I've been trying reseting original settings, xperia companion repair, clear data and nothing happens. Still the same error message. Any suggestions. Thank you
Nocattle1
Visitor

Not a program error. Physical problem with camera. Installed new camera worked for me.
Karshie
Visitor

Can someone help me. My camera suddenly not working it appeara error unknown error or sometimes error camera nit avaialable.i already tried clearing all on tha camera apps and restarting my phone.but it doesnt work
Please.help thank u
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Christofer
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Hi @Karshie, sorry to hear that.

I moved your post to this topic. Please see the previous suggestions here.