takePicture failed, error=-38

Question

I noticed in my crash reporter I had several crashes on some devices with stack trace:

Fatal Exception: java.lang.RuntimeException: takePicture failed, error=-38
   at android.hardware.Camera.native_takePicture(Camera.java)
   at android.hardware.Camera.takePicture(Camera.java:1728)
   at android.hardware.Camera.takePicture(Camera.java:1661)

I know this is a common error and it can have many causes but it's one of the first time I have an error number. Where can I find a list of these error numbers and their meaning?

did you find a solution for this? – savepopulation Jun 04 '18 at 13:19 — savepopulation, Jun 04 '18 at 13:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 01 '18 at 06:09

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There can be many reasons for this in my case i was trying to take photo without preview (hidden photo) and i was using SurfaceView, So i replaced it with

SurfaceTexture surfaceTexture = new SurfaceTexture(10);
camera.setPreviewTexture(surfaceTexture);

and the problem was solved... P.S I was getting this error only on Above 6.0 devices

answered Jan 01 '18 at 06:09

Tabish

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where did you make that replacement exactly? – tirenweb Oct 09 '18 at 18:15
`SurfaceView` to `SurfaceTexture` – Tabish Oct 17 '18 at 05:51

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:32

I just found a list of errors in the file Camera.java:

private static final int NO_ERROR = 0;
private static final int EACCESS = -13;
private static final int ENODEV = -19;
private static final int EBUSY = -16;
private static final int EINVAL = -22;
private static final int ENOSYS = -38;
private static final int EUSERS = -87;
private static final int EOPNOTSUPP = -95;

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Not very useful though..

takePicture failed, error=-38

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