WARNING CAMERA FAILED:All Samsung phones- 9 Solutions

Here are all the possible fixes for the error Warning Camera Failed for the rear or front camera of any Samsung Phone. When you press OK the Camera usually crashes and the error reappears each time you launch the camera. This makes it impossible to actually use your Camera on your Smartphone.

[Brian-egxq]

You're my hero. I watched four other YouTube videos. None offered a solution to my S7 Camera Failed message. The third solution you offered, the one with the phone keypad method, was the right one. Thank you, Ricardo!

[jmurray]

Thank you for posting this video! You have been the savior of my phone. I haven't been able to use my camera for 3 months. I've done everything in this video including a hard reset and nothing was working. I've also taken it to 2 repair places with estimates of over $200. No one could really figure out what was wrong and wanted to replace the front camera. It wasn't until the very last minute of your video when you suggested pressing on the screen that I tried that. That worked! Apparently the front camera connection had come a little loose and all it took was a press on the top of the screen. Thank you so very much for your help!

EDIT: Worked for 5 minutes then had to get get motherboard replaced. Thanks for the tip though. Could very well be someone else's fix-all.

[wahpraise]

Thank you, have a tecno camon cm, back camera stopped working when it fell from the first floor of my hostel, cleared the camera cash and data, then off whatsapp access and restarted the phone. Now my camera is working perfectly. Thanks

[raewynbelson]

Just taking out the battery solved it, SIM card was hard to remove so I gave it a go.Success thank you.

[selvonave]

After watching many other videos about a fix, yours was the first one that correctly addressed the problem. You are the true master without a doubt! Thanks for your assistance.

[ashleypotts]

best video by FAR for how to fix your camera!! Had to watch several before i found this one, but no one has any where near the number of fixes you show... Thank you!!!

[muaazkhanofficial]

Thanks Man.Removing the battery for a while and then reapplying it again...Works for Me :)

[seanklosky]

This is great! It fixed my problem. My issue was that WhatsApp did NOT have permissions for the camera or media files. I enabled that access in WhatsApp and my camera works again.

[TheWesternWolfe]

Thank you! I searched smart stay and turned it on and off again and now it works!

[excelents]

Mine was doing this and here is something I observed and an interesting solution. Nothing I did following all the suggestions, hints, tips here on YouTube and across the Web would work. I even factory reset the phone and still it happened to the point where I was considering taking it to the shop for repair.

It was at this point that I noticed while going through various menus / apps etc that in the swipe down notification tray that the "torch" icon was showing it was in the "on" position i.e the icon was highlighted in blue but no amount of pressing it would cancel it however the LED camera flash was not physically on that is to say there was no light shining.

I have the "All In One" toolbox app installed whereupon it gives you the option to install a Torch plugin so I decided to give it a go and installed it. The torch plugin gives you two options to control the main front screen which it lights up as a bright plain white wallpaper and the other option to actually control the camera flash LED with an on / off toggle button. I turned on the LED and it lit up (as per a torch) and turned it off.

I then checked the "torch" icon in the notification drop down menu and it had switched off and wasn't highlighted in blue. I then clicked the camera and it switched back on and returned to normal operation.

So that was my discovery and it worked, so hope that helps anyone.

[fakazikhawula]

Thanks Ricardo, just had to reboot on safe mode only, because I haven't deleted any app, and my camera is now working

[josykapeku]

Thanks, I fixed my A6+ with safe mode method. I clear cache and data but all was in vain. Thanks👏

[asleo]

I deleted soundcloud, turned off phone, cleaned camera cache and data - works well now :)

[robinggful]

Thanks alot! I just bought an S8 and i kept having "camera failed" each time i opened the camera. This guide helped me out. Thumbs up!

[lindaallen]

Thank you so much as someone who isn't very technical minded I am so pleased I followed your information and twice one worked so pleased with myself 😊

[Toob]

Brilliant video thanks. Much better than the usual advice to stop the app and clear cache.

[aannafeezahir]

Thank you very
You saved me from a full on panic attack.

[shawncasey]

I cleared the cache and data. It only worked after I restarted the phone. But it works now 🙌!! Thank you!

[mairanadeem]

Thank you so much my camera had this problem for almost 2 months i saw everyvideo on youtube it didn't work the first camera solution was my thing the moment i cleared my cache and data my camera was working perfectly

[naz_dani]

Excellent I took out my Sd card and took out battery as you explained on my S5 Mini. Now my camera started working! Thank you so much.