Camera Button just stopped working

Very strange ... has been flawless since September. Starting today, when I push the Camera Button, it no longer vibrates and starts my camera APP. After I manually select the Camera App from my App drawer, the button works fine to take the picture... I've rebooted. I've pulled the battery.

Any ideas??

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Cody21

I *FINALLY* figured out what was going on ... It was in fact an APP I installed back on Dec. 12th that introduced this. It is the "NO LOCK" APP ... I used the SYSTEM MONITOR APP to browse through all my active APPS. One by one I stopped various APPS and pushed the button after each STOP ... Once I stopped "NO LOCK", the button started working as it should.

whew ... glad to have finally found it.

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crb79

I've noticed that my camera button used to open the camera app as soon as I tapped the button. I now have to hold the button down for a few seconds to open the app.

Cody21

I press it a looong time - much more than "usual". Anyway, this is very bazaar .... I went thru the pain of uninstalling any and all APPS that I recently installed over the last week - including LPP which was a total pain. 1 by 1 uninstalling, rebooting, testing camera ... It suddenly worked after an uninstall of 1 particular APP ... so I rebooted again, just to verify. It failed to respond again to pressing the button .. Rebooted again, didn't install anything, tested - it worked this time .. So honestly, I can't say any particular APP is causing this ... I reinstalled the APPS that I had uninstalled - and it is currently working .. So now am nearly convinced this intermittent bug was introduced with the latest OS update ... ugh ... It worked perfectly -- 100% of the time prior to this update.

Anyone else experiencing this ?

LoydroidX

Cody21 wrote:
I press it a looong time - much more than "usual". Anyway, this is very bazaar .... I went thru the pain of uninstalling any and all APPS that I recently installed over the last week - including LPP which was a total pain. 1 by 1 uninstalling, rebooting, testing camera ... It suddenly worked after an uninstall of 1 particular APP ... so I rebooted again, just to verify. It failed to respond again to pressing the button .. Rebooted again, didn't install anything, tested - it worked this time .. So honestly, I can't say any particular APP is causing this ... I reinstalled the APPS that I had uninstalled - and it is currently working .. So now am nearly convinced this intermittent bug was introduced with the latest OS update ... ugh ... It worked perfectly -- 100% of the time prior to this update.

Anyone else experiencing this ?

I've have the phone for over a month (yep, folks...past my 30 days. I'm keeping the Droid X!) It came with 2.2 (and I went through the latest update with no probs - knock wood), and I've always had to hold the camera button down for a few seconds. Thought it was inherent to the phone.

Cody21

I guess I haven't been making myself clear ... I press & hold the button FOREVER and the Camera does not come on. It doesn't do the slight vibrate like it normally does. It mysteriously started working after 1 of my many (manual) reboots yesterday. Then after having the phone turned off overnight, it no longer works once again today. I *never* had this issue prior to this latest OS update !!