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    changing camera - not recognized

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Sony Xperia X (F5121 & F5122)
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      • DJacD Offline
        DJac @DJac
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        journalctl -F _SYSTEMD_UNIT give me :

        NetworkManager-dispatcher.service
        bluetooth-touch.service
        bluetooth.service
        rtkit-daemon.service
        user@32011.service
        usb-rescue-mode-off.service
        lightdm.service
        upower.service
        usb-moded.service
        accounts-daemon.service
        sensorfwd.service
        systemd-logind.service
        lomiri-location-service.service
        ofono.service
        polkit.service
        NetworkManager.service
        wpa_supplicant.service
        workaround-session-migration-mtime.service
        urfkill.service
        udisks2.service
        hfd-service.service
        biometryd.service
        dbus.service
        repowerd.service
        nfcd.service
        systemd-udev-settle.service
        systemd-udev-trigger.service
        systemd-udevd.service
        systemd-resolved.service
        mount-halium-overlay.service
        init.scope
        systemd-timesyncd.service
        click-apparmor.service
        systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
        mount-android-partitions.service
        apparmor.service
        systemd-sysctl.service
        systemd-journald.service
        enable-timesyncd-by-default.service
        usb-moded-ssh.service
        systemd-timedated.service
        usb-moded-udhcpd.service
        lxc-android-config-disable-ssh-socket.service
        boot-hooks-new-version.service
        ssh-property-migration.service
        systemd-hostnamed.service
        boot-hooks-new-release.service
        var-lib-lxc-android-rootfs-persist.mount
        var-lib-lxc-android-rootfs-dsp.mount
        var-lib-lxc-android-rootfs-firmware.mount
        android-system.mount
        android-odm.mount
        android-data.mount
        aethercast.service
        systemd-pstore.service
        var-lib-lxc-android-rootfs-odm.mount
        var-lib-lxc-android-rootfs-system.mount
        session-c1.scope
        var-lib-usermetrics.mount

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          DJac @DJac
          last edited by DJac

          screenshot20260119_235932016.png
          is it this part ?

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            gpatel-fr @DJac
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            @DJac

            this is an extract of dmesg yes ? not looking good at first sight.
            However, should I understand from your previous post that you reinstalled Android (8) and that the camera app crashed ? If the cam don't work under Android, there is little hope that it will work under UT since UT use Android drivers.

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              DJac @gpatel-fr
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              @gpatel-fr yes, extract, from dmesg.
              it indicate errors on 'CAM-SOC' but i can't understand what that mean... is it a physical probleme, or a software one ? I don't know...

              It is the fist time that i change piece in a phone. Is there any special software thing to do, to validate the change ?

              i tried to reinstall android 8. yes.
              but it is worst (the camera app won't start). So i come back UT.
              if it is not better i will try lineageOS (juste to compare... but without hope).

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                gpatel-fr @DJac
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                @DJac said in changing camera - not recognized:

                i will try lineageOS

                If the problem is my point 2 (different hardware working but not 100% compatible) it could work since it may use a different driver version, since as far as I know this OS use native drivers (not Android) to access hardware. If it's another of the 4 possible problems I enumerated, nothing you can do at the software level will change anything.

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                  DJac
                  last edited by DJac

                  it seems that the camera is detected as dummy video device 0x0000 (app 'camera test'). is that true ?
                  screenshot20260121_212437077.png
                  but i can't choose it...

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                    DJac @gpatel-fr
                    last edited by DJac

                    @gpatel-fr said in changing camera - not recognized:

                    this is an extract of dmesg yes ? not looking good at first sight.

                    it is extract from 'dmesg | less' commande.
                    what do you mean? I personnaly don't understand (except 'error' 😅)

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                      gpatel-fr @DJac
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                      @DJac

                      Sorry but getting back to my 4 points, the only one were this is not working because of a hardware problem is 2): the new hardware is not compatible with the driver.

                      Android is (probably) not like Windows where when you pull a device from your computer and plug another in its place the system downloads another driver from the Internet: phones are not devices where you can plug and use new hardware.

                      So if the 2) point is correct, the driver installed with Android matches exactly the old camera, and not the new one. Since UT uses the Android drivers, I don't see a way forward with this camera.

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                        DJac @gpatel-fr
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                        okay... so the vendor give me wrong material ?

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                          gpatel-fr @DJac
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                          @DJac

                          I don't know what you ordered and what you received so I can't have any opinion on that.
                          Well, I'll post again the possibilities I see:

                          1) the hardware you got is defective
                          2) the hardware you got is functional, but there may be several submodels of the phone and the new camera is not 100% compatible with the previous one.
                          3) something else was damaged when the phone did fall.
                          4) there are problems with the repair.
                          

                          Whatever the reason, if you asked for the exact same model that was included in your hardware and you got another variant, the vendor has made a mistake and you can ask for a return.

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