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Asked: 2026-06-13T17:15:50+00:00

I am using jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap to create an app that allows users

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I am using jQuery Mobile and PhoneGap to create an app that allows users to take a picture, view it on screen, and then upload it to a server application that will ultimately post it on a website.

This works well if I take the photo in Landscape mode, but crashes the application when I take a Portrait photo. As you can see from the code snippet below I am using the correctOrientation parameter to attempt to orient the photo after it is taken. Without this parameter the application doesn’t crash, however the photo is in the wrong orientation when it gets displayed.

Right now I’m testing this on Sony XPERIA android phone.

Here is the code responsible for the work.

function onPhotoFail(message) {
    alert('Failed because: ' + message);
}

function onPhotoSuccess(imageURI) {             
    var $image = $("img#upload-image");
$image.attr("src", imageURI);
}

function capturePhoto() {
navigator.camera.getPicture(onPhotoSuccess, onPhotoFail, { quality: 50, destinationType: Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI , correctOrientation: true });     
}

Here’s the stack trace:

E/AndroidRuntime(31760): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(31760): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.graphics.Bitmap.nativeCreate(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:477)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.graphics.Bitmap.createBitmap(Bitmap.java:444)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at org.apache.cordova.CameraLauncher.getRotatedBitmap(CameraLauncher.java:483)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at org.apache.cordova.CameraLauncher.onActivityResult(CameraLauncher.java:326)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at org.apache.cordova.DroidGap.onActivityResult(DroidGap.java:823)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.app.Activity.dispatchActivityResult(Activity.java:3908)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.app.ActivityThread.deliverResults(ActivityThread.java:2549)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.app.ActivityThread.handleSendResult(ActivityThread.java:2595)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.app.ActivityThread.access$2000(ActivityThread.java:121)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:973)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3701)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:866)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:624)
E/AndroidRuntime(31760):        at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

I’ve done some searching around, and I don’t see anybody having this exact problem. Any help is appreciated

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would have to see your stack trace to be sure but it is probably an OutOfMemoryException. Android handles image manipulation very badly. It basically needs to load the entire image into memory where each pixel is 4 bytes, that means up to 40 megabytes for a lot of modern phone cameras.

    My only suggestion right now is to try to switch the quality to 100. I know it sounds counter-intuitive but it make keep there from being as much processing in the background.

    You can read my blog post talking about some of the problems with the Camera:

    http://simonmacdonald.blogspot.ca/2012/07/change-to-camera-code-in-phonegap-190.html

    Also, if I can see the stack trace it would help.

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