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[EDIT]

I actually solved this adding the following line to my activity manifest:

android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"

I’m trying to save an image captured with my android phone using phonegap, however 80% of the time I press the save button, after taking the picture, my app just dies…

I’ve seen that this is a common problem with phonegap + android. I’ve already tried lowering the quality of the image, cleaning phone memory, erasing the cache directory of the app… Nothing so far, I still get this random behavior.

I’ve tried using imageData and imageURI, but still get the error.

Something to note is that everytime I rotate the phone, my app dies. Some times when I save an image, the screen automatically rotates, and that also kill the app.

Here is the code I have so far…

            // Called when a photo is successfully retrieved
            //
            function onPhotoURISuccess(imageURI) {
                // Uncomment to view the image file URI
                // console.log(imageURI);

                $('#my_div') // this div belongs to my html markup (see bellow)
                    .empty()
                    .append(
                        $('<image>')
                            .attr('src', imageURI)
                            .attr('width', '100')
                            .attr('height', '100')
                            .css({
                                'background-color' : 'red',
                                 '-webkit-border-radius': '15px',
                                 '-moz-border-radius': '15px',
                                 'border-radius': '15px'
                            })
                );
            }

            // A button will call this function
            //
            function getPhoto(source) {
                // Retrieve image file location from specified source
                navigator.camera.getPicture(
                    function (imageUri) {
                        onPhotoURISuccess(imageUri, photo_div_id);   
                    }, 
                    onFail, {
                        quality: 30,
                        destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,
                        sourceType: source
                    }
                );
            }

<div   id="my_div" class= "iconP">
   <input type="button"  name="photo_1" id="photo_1" onclick ="getPhoto()" value="photo 1"/>
</div>

Answer 1

You need to add more to your mainfest than that, otherwise you’ll run into this problem again. Add the following: android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|keyboard|screenSize|locale"