Cannot connect to camera error when you try to load camera on Nexus 5 or other android phones? Camera has stopped working unexpectedly ?

It is very common issue that many of Nexus smartphone owners are experiencing. Sepcially, the can’t connect to camera issue often happens on Nexus 5. Currently, there is no true answer for this since you can see this error when you load camera from many different third party apps, but there are few things you can try. Also often on android based devices, camera has stopped unexpectedly error occurs too. The following method also can be tried to fix the problem. We are hoping that Google will resolve the issue quickly as possible.

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Try the following one at a time: Can’t connect to camera | Camera has stopped unexpectedly

Method 1. Before you use camera funtion from any third party apps, close the camera app on your Nexus.

Method 2. Close all apps and re-load again and try

Method 3. Go to Settings — Developer options — find “Use NuPlayer” and uncheck it & restart.

(If you can’t find the Developer options, go to Settings — About phone — Touch “Build number” 7 times to enable the Developer option)

Method 4. If you have Android Kitkat 4.4, go to Settings — Developer options — Select runtime — make sure it is Dalvik instead of ART

Method 5. Restart your Nexus 5 or Nexus 4 everytime this error occurs.

Method 6. Backup everything and reset the device

We will keep update if there are different solution for the Nexus camera issue. Hope you resolved the camera issue on Nexus smartphone through the method. Thank you and have a wonderful day!

9 Comments

Bhupesh on January 29, 2015 at 8:47 am

Sir whenever i click an image then my phone restarts automatically. Plz help me
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- pntbrother on February 3, 2015 at 11:31 pm
  
  1. Try to use different web browser first
  2. Delete cache of your default photo viewer
  3. if it keep happens, try to use different photo viewer app instead of one that you have installed now. Hope this will fix the issue.
  Thank you.
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Daniel on February 3, 2015 at 11:49 pm

THANK YOU!!!
Camera is working again!!
D
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Mary on March 24, 2015 at 7:02 am

Thanks!
Method 3. Go to Settings – Developer options — find “Use NuPlayer” and uncheck it & restart solved the problem.
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G on April 20, 2015 at 11:11 pm

Thank you so very much. I’ve been without my camera for months and it’s been driving me increasingly crazy. Really what is a smart phone without a camera? Method 3 seems to have done the trick. I really hope it stays fixed. Thanks again!
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imran on May 28, 2015 at 12:45 pm

Even after trying all those tips I could’nt turn on my camera.i even lost the camera icon in my phone menu.bt I have it on screen lock.when I click it the same message “can’t connect to the camera” comes.plz help
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- Marina on July 16, 2015 at 8:23 am
  
  I had the exactly same problem. Do you know how to fix?
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  - pntbrother on July 21, 2015 at 1:17 pm
    
    Have you tried the above methods ?
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Edgar on February 10, 2016 at 6:31 pm

Hi! I lived few months without the camera on my Nexus 4 (the icon was missing as well), tried all the methods available on the internet to recover it – thinking about a software problem, but the real problem was the hardware. So you can buy a new one on Ebay (really cheap, 2 or 3 dollars) and watch on Youtube a disassembly guide (which is quite easy, trust me!). Hope this will be helpful!
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