Sony Xperia ZR camera doesn’t work

You may have launched the camera on your Sony Xperia ZR and it displays an error text message. Thus, in cases where the camera of your Sony Xperia ZR no longer functions, sadly you may no longer take pictures. To solve this problem, we therefore decided to describe to you the steps to follow so that the camera of your Sony Xperia ZR works again. Thus we will see what you should do in cases where the camera app on your Sony Xperia ZR shows you one of the following error messages:

  • Camera is recording
  • Camera failure
  • Camera application is not responding

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How to proceed when the camera does your Sony Xperia ZR no longer functions?

1- Restart your Sony Xperia ZR

It truly is the 1st thing to do when the Sony Xperia ZR camera is not working is to restart the phone. In fact, it happens sometimes that the problem is because of a simple bug. Once this is the circumstance, a small restart will fix the issue. Whenever it still does not work, you may navigate to the next step.

2- Update your applications

From time to time the camera app does not work because it has not been updated . Thus you may update by going to Google Play and finally in My video games and apps. Whenever the application is already up to date or it still does not work, navigate to the next step.

3- Empty the camera app cache of your Sony Xperia ZR

It may be that the issue originates from the cache of the Sony Xperia ZR photo application. To repair the problem it is actually enough to empty the cache of the application. To get this done, you simply must go to the Sony Xperia ZR settings menu. When there, just click & nbsp; Apps & Notifications, then & nbsp; View apps & nbsp; & nbsp; Camera. After that go to Storage and click on Empty cache. After that try to restart the application.

4- Restart the Sony Xperia ZR in secure mode

Whenever non-e of the previous steps work, it probably means that an application that is installed on your Sony Xperia ZR is conflicting with the camera . To understand in cases where this is the case, you have got to restart your Sony Xperia ZR in secure mode. To learn how, read our tuto: Ways to start Sony Xperia ZR in secure mode. Once you have started, you must try to launch the camera application. Whenever it functions properly, this means that a recently installed application is in conflict. We for that reason recommend you to uninstall the latest applications and test if it works.