java - Fail to connect to camera service

Question

I had my camera set to this.setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE); and it works fine but if I change it to PORTRAIT instead of LANDSCAPE then it crashes with the following error...

07-30 12:51:37.655: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(22069): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
07-30 12:51:37.655: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(22069): java.lang.RuntimeException: Fail to connect to camera service
07-30 12:51:37.655: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(22069):     at android.hardware.Camera.native_setup(Native Method)
07-30 12:51:37.655: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(22069):     at android.hardware.Camera.<init>(Camera.java:110)
07-30 12:51:37.655: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(22069):     at android.hardware.Camera.open(Camera.java:90)
07-30 12:51:37.655: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(22069):     at org.digital.com.CamLayer.surfaceCreated(CamLayer.java:3

The method it crashes in is..

public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) {
    synchronized(this) {
        mCamera = Camera.open();

        Camera.Parameters p = mCamera.getParameters(); 
        p.setPreviewSize(800, 480);
        mCamera.setParameters(p);

        try {
            mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(holder);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            Log.e("Camera", "mCamera.setPreviewDisplay(holder);");
        }

        mCamera.startPreview();
        mCamera.setPreviewCallback(this);
    }
}

It crashes at mCamera = Camera.open();

My Manifest file has <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA"></uses-permission>

How do I fix this so I can view my app in Portrait?

Answer 1

There is some concurrency problem in platform: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6201

The workaround is to clear callback before releasing cam, that is I would recommend following clean-up code:

    @Override
public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder) {
    if (mCam != null) {
        mCam.stopPreview();
        mCam.setPreviewCallback(null);
        mCam.release();
        mCam = null;
    }
}