FP3 only selfie camera working

Hi,

I’ve been having issues with the main camera in my FP3.

At first, there was a black screen when opening the camerq, and it solved by itself with time.

Then the error came back (it said that another app might be using the camera) and again solved by itself.

Now for a while again when opening the camera only had a black screen, but no error message. I tried disasembling and assembling the camera module and that worked for a week, and now i have the same problem

Now i tried switching the camera module for a FP3 camera module, and only the selfie camera works.

I tried installing othee camera apps, but only selfie camera works. Tried looking in FP forum but couldnt find any solution.

Somebody experiencing the same?

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Sounds like a hardware problem.

Either the B2B-cable or one of the connectors are probably broken.

I agree with @msp: probably a hardware issue.

You could then open the device, pull the cable from the camera module and plug it in again. But hey, the “cable” is only 5mm long and it can easily be damaged by a mistake. A video about how to do this is here.

If you can’t solve it by this you can buy a new camera module for about 50€. If your current camera module is still original from FP3 you can replace it now by the better one from FP3+.