Cordova 3.4.0 navigator.camera.getPicture does not callback onSuccess or onFail for Android 4.3

Question

I am using Cordova 3.4 with Camera Plugin (https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/blob/master/doc/index.md)

When I call

navigator.camera.getPicture(onSuccess, onFail, {
        quality: 75,
        destinationType: window.Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
        sourceType: window.Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA,
        //allowEdit: true,
        //cameraDirection: window.Camera.Direction.FRONT,
        //encodingType: window.Camera.EncodingType.JPEG,
        //targetWidth: 100,
        //targetHeight: 100,
        //popoverOptions: window.CameraPopoverOptions,
        saveToPhotoAlbum: true
    });
function onSuccess(imageData) {
    alert(imageData);
}
function onFail(message) {
    alert('Failed because: ' + message);
}

this code works for Windows Phone 8.1 but does not work for Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean). When I step into code in eclipse I can see that it successfully saves photo under android temp directory but does not call JavaScript success or fail event on complete, that's why I cannot get image on android.

I both tried on Galaxy Note 2 real device and emulator and did not call onSuccess on both.

Is there any known issues or workaround for this problem?

Please check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23653961/cordova-plugin-callback-received-after-second-plugin-call. Do you start your application in fullscreen mode? — Volodymyr Bezuglyy, May 29 '14 at 17:11
@Teoman Is this issue fixed? I am also facing the same issue with cordova 3.5 — Konza, Dec 10 '14 at 16:33
@Aravin I believe it is not resolved yet because I see people has problem with cordova 3.5. Anyway I dropped using PhoneGap anymore I am switching gear to native & xamarin, hope Cordova will make a release to fix this problem. — Teoman shipahi, Dec 24 '14 at 18:44
@Teomanshipahi Thanks for your reply...i solved this issue ...using this one http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19809164/navigator-camera-getpicture-callback-doesnt-execute-until-2nd-call/26166831#26166831 — Aravin, Dec 25 '14 at 05:55
With cordova 5.1 & camera plugin 1.1.2 I am having same issue with Jelly Bean 4.4.2 & 4.4.4 still no clue how to fix this issue. Here is my post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37808733/cordova-navigator-camera-getpicture-not-working-in-android — Naga, Jun 26 '16 at 15:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '14 at 07:30

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Try this options:

destinationType: navigator.camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI
sourceType: source
mediaType: media

answered May 22 '14 at 07:30

Xcihnegn

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what should be the values for sourceType and mediaType? anything valid? – Teoman shipahi May 22 '14 at 13:02
source: navigator.camera.PictureSourceType.SAVEDPHOTOALBUM media: navigator.camera.MediaType.PICTURE – Xcihnegn May 22 '14 at 14:21
I made a try did not work, will change parameters and try again. Thanks for following up! – Teoman shipahi May 24 '14 at 13:44
by the way I am trying to get picture from CAMERA not from SAVEDPHOTOALBUM – Teoman shipahi May 24 '14 at 19:13
Sorry it should be camera insdead of savedphotoalbum – Xcihnegn May 24 '14 at 22:30
@PetrB not yet, I see that phonegap 3.5 is released. Hopefully it is fixed on this version. – Teoman shipahi Sep 17 '14 at 18:40

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 12 '14 at 08:33

If this isn't working, let me suggest these options. They're working as deployed on 4.2.2 (Jellybean) android and 4.4.2 (Kitkat).

navigator.camera.getPicture(this.onPhotoDataSuccess, this.onFail, {
            quality: 50,
            destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.DATA_URL,
            sourceType: Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA

        });

//reading and appending the DOM

onPhotoDataSuccess(imageData) {
        var smallImage = document.getElementById('smallImage');
        smallImage.style.display = 'block';
        smallImage.src = "data:image/jpeg;base64," + imageData;
    }

This will return a base64 encoded image.

Is your cordova provisions for phone allowing access to your phone? — Charles Schreyer, Mar 19 '15 at 13:29

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 11 '16 at 23:32

If it helps anyone, I had this very same issue. It turned out that I was calling "navigator.camera.cleanup()" in the Cordova "pause" event of the app (so it would clean up resources when the app was sent to the background). The problem here was that the camera sends the app to the background, so apparently calling cleanup was breaking things.

Cordova 3.4.0 navigator.camera.getPicture does not callback onSuccess or onFail for Android 4.3

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