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Hi. I have recently obtained a Fairphone 2 second hand, and installed Ubuntu on it, but cannot get the camera to work at all. There seem to be a few people out there with similar problems. This post for example is recent, but is about a Pinephone, and not a FP2: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4679/how-to-allow-camera-app-to-use-the-camera

The symptoms on my phone are the same as the above topic, "When starting the camera app, the image stays black (controls are visible). The system security shows that 0 apps are allowed to use the camera, but there is no option to change this."

I'm wondering if this is common behaviour for the FP2 - for the camera not to be working? I would be grateful for any tips on how to resolve this.

I saw somewhere on github that the option to change permissions for the camera app has not been developed yet, since it is standard to automatically add this permission upon installation of the app, which explains why there is no option to change the permissions, but why aren't they getting set upon installation.

I've tried reinstalling the camera app a couple of time now.

@AppLee Thanks. I know how to do it through the interface but it won't let me, as it is greyed out and says that 0 apps have granted permission to the camera. I want to override this through a terminal, by editing the appropriate config file, or database entry or whatever. I am new to Ubuntu Touch, and my background is in PHP and MySQL, so how to do this is a bit of a mystery to me. I do have extensive experience with Ubuntu 16.04 though, and using the command line.