I can always reproduce this issue on my mako and I found a workaround for it: when you open camera-app just tap on screen once (you'll see a flash light for a second), after this step flash works fine and photos are no longer dark/black. This seems to work for me, not sure it will work for you too, please let me know.
Does anyone have an idea of what piece of code handles this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to qtubuntu-camera in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1322121 Title: pictures taken with flash are almost completely black Status in camera-app: Invalid Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in android package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in qtubuntu-camera package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: On the mako / Nexus 4, the camera has an LED to use for camera flash. Our camera app supports the flash, and fires it while taking a picture with flash enabled. However, the resulting image ends up severely underexposed, to the point where almost the entire image is black. Steps to reproduce: 1. Run the camera app. 2. Take a picture with flash off. 3. Turn the flash setting on and take a picture of the same scene again. 4. Go to the gallery app to view the results. Expected results: The picture with flash should appear brighter (or, at least, appear how most with-flash pictures look). Actual results: The picture with flash is almost completely black, with only a few dim details in the brightest parts of the image. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/camera-app/+bug/1322121/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
