Essential PH-1 camera doesn’t work

You may have launched the camera on your Essential PH-1 and it shows an error text. Thus, whenever the camera of your Essential PH-1 no longer works, unfortunately you may no longer take pictures. To solve this trouble, we therefore decided to describe to you the steps to follow so that the camera of your Essential PH-1 works again. Thus we will see what you have to do whenever the camera app on your Essential PH-1 shows you 1 of the following error messages:

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

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How to proceed when the camera does your Essential PH-1 no longer works?

1- Restart your Essential PH-1

It is actually the first thing to do when ever the Essential PH-1 camera is not working is to restart the phone. Indeed, it occurs sometimes that the situation is because of a simple bug. Once this is the case, a little restart will solve the issue. In the event that it still does not work, you may navigate to the next step.

2- Update your applications

Sometimes the camera app will not work as it has not been updated . Thus you may update by going to Google Play and then finally in My games and apps. In the event that the app is already up to date or it still does not work, navigate to the next step.

3- Empty the camera app cache of your Essential PH-1

It could be that the issue originates from the cache of the Essential PH-1 photo app. To solve the problem it’s enough to empty the cache of the app. To get this done, you have to go to the Essential PH-1 settings menu. Once there, select & 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 app.

4- Restart the Essential PH-1 in secure mode

In the event that non-e of the previous steps work, it perhaps means that an app that is installed on your Essential PH-1 is conflicting with the camera . To find out whenever this is the case, you will have to restart your Essential PH-1 in secure mode. To find out how, read our article: How you can start Essential PH-1 in secure mode. Once you have started, you will need to try to launch the camera application. In the event that it works properly, it implies that a recently installed app is in conflict. We consequently recommend you to uninstall the latest applications and test if it works.