Camera Error 100

Question

I'm testing my application on Samsung Galaxy Ace, and I get the supported sizes with

cameraParams.getSupportedPictureSizes();

It works with all of them except of (320 x 240) - the preview turns black and I get this error: Camera Error 100

Colithium: Error 100. Its the question title :-P – Chris Jul 26 '11 at 23:52 — Chris, Jul 26 '11 at 23:52

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Camera Error 100 - "Media server died. In this case, the application must release the Camera object and instantiate a new one."

Do what the SDK says and release the camera object and make a new one.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/Camera.html

Read this, too. It might help you: Droid's mediaserver dies on camera.takePicture()

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Thanks it worked!! I just had to reload the activity after that – dev mz Aug 02 '11 at 14:38

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 01 '14 at 09:04

I had error 100 on samsung galaxy s3. The problem in my case was in camera dimensions. I followed android developers camera guide and was setting video size (setVideoSize (widht,height)) in prepareVideoRecorder();

But I was setting wrong dimension what caused camera freeze,crash with error 100 and "camera server died".

The solution is:

adding next two lines

   mPreviewHeight = mCamera.getParameters().getPreviewSize().height;
   mPreviewWidth = mCamera.getParameters().getPreviewSize().width;

in block (in surfaceChange method):

  try {
      mPreviewHeight = mCamera.getParameters().getPreviewSize().height;
      mPreviewWidth = mCamera.getParameters().getPreviewSize().width;

      mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(mHolder);
      mCamera.startPreview();
  } catch (Exception e){
      Log.d(TAG, "Error starting mCamera preview: " + e.getMessage());
  }

and then in prepareVideoRecorder() setting this parameters to camera:

  mMediaRecorder.setVideoSize(mPreviewWidth, mPreviewHeight);

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 19 '15 at 08:52

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I solved the issue by removing usage or setting the of the Camera parameter:

setAutoWhiteBalanceLock(false);

edited Jun 19 '15 at 08:52

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answered Jun 19 '15 at 08:35

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 26 '17 at 09:42

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I get the error when i use camera with gLSurfaceView for preview. I fixed the bug by Comment out

//params.setRecordingHint(true);

answered May 26 '17 at 09:42

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 02 '20 at 08:44

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Removing the preview format might help in this case. I was setting the preview format as

param.setPreviewFormat(ImageFormat.YV12);

Removing above line solved the problem for me.

answered Oct 02 '20 at 08:44

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