Fairphone 2 camera doesn’t work

You may have launched the camera on your Fairphone 2 and it shows an error text message. Thus, whenever the camera of your Fairphone 2 no longer works, unfortunately you can no longer take pictures. To solve this problem, we made the decision to describe to you the steps to follow so that the camera of your Fairphone 2 works again. So we will see what you have to do whenever the camera app on your Fairphone 2 shows you one of the following error messages:

  • Camera is recording
  • Camera failure
  • Camera app is not responding

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What to do when the camera does your Fairphone 2 no longer works?

1- Restart your Fairphone 2

It can be the first of all thing to do when ever the Fairphone 2 camera is not working is to restart the phone. Indeed, it occurs sometimes that the trouble is thanks to a basic bug. When this is the case, a little restart will fix the situation. In the event that it still does not work, you can go to the next section.

2- Update your applications

Oftentimes the camera application doesn’t work as it has not been updated . So you can update by going to Google Play and finally in My video games and apps. In the event that the app is already up to date or it still does not work, go to the next section.

3- Empty the camera application cache of your Fairphone 2

It could be that the situation originates from the cache of the Fairphone 2 photo app. To repair the problem it truly is enough to empty the cache of the app. To accomplish this, you need to go to the Fairphone 2 settings menu. Once there, press & nbsp; Apps & Notifications, after that & nbsp; View apps & nbsp; & nbsp; Camera. After that go to Storage and just click Empty cache. After that try to restart the app.

4- Restart the Fairphone 2 in secure mode

In the event that non-e of the previous steps work, it probably means that an app that is installed on your Fairphone 2 is conflicting with the camera . To find out whenever this is the case, you need to restart your Fairphone 2 in secure mode. To discover how, read our tuto: How to start Fairphone 2 in secure mode. Once you have started, you should try to launch the camera application. In the event that it works properly, it means that a recently installed app is in conflict. We for that reason advise you to uninstall the latest applications and test if it works.