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Asked: 2026-05-20T23:34:52+00:00

I have successfully captured the single photo using camera in Android. But when I

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I have successfully captured the single photo using camera in Android. But when I tried to capture 5 photos at once, app stops responding, camera preview turns to green and no picture is saved. What I saw in stack trace is as follows (partial)

03-17 14:19:54.804:
INFO/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
deinitPreview E 03-17 14:19:54.804:
INFO/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
deinitPreview X 03-17 14:19:54.804:
DEBUG/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
frame_thread X 03-17 14:19:54.834:
DEBUG/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
snapshot_thread E 03-17 14:19:54.854:
DEBUG/CameraService(19268):
takePicture (pid 20509) 03-17
14:19:54.884:
WARN/AudioFlinger(19268): write
blocked for 85 msecs 03-17
14:19:55.154:
DEBUG/CameraService(19268):
postShutter 03-17 14:19:55.284:
DEBUG/CameraService(19268): postRaw
03-17 14:19:55.314:
DEBUG/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
snapshot_thread X 03-17 14:19:55.344:
DEBUG/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
snapshot_thread E 03-17 14:19:55.364:
DEBUG/CameraService(19268):
takePicture (pid 20509) 03-17
14:19:55.984:
DEBUG/CameraService(19268):
postShutter 03-17 14:19:56.064:
DEBUG/CameraService(19268): postRaw
03-17 14:19:56.074:
ERROR/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
native_jpeg_encode:
jpeg_encoder_encode failed. 03-17
14:19:56.074:
ERROR/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
jpeg encoding failed 03-17
14:19:56.084:
DEBUG/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
snapshot_thread X 03-17 14:19:56.154:
INFO/DEBUG(19267): * ** *
** * ** * ** * ** * 03-17 14:19:56.164: INFO/DEBUG(19267): Build fingerprint:
‘google_ion/google_ion/sapphire/sapphire:1.6/DRC83/14721:user/adp,test-keys’
03-17 14:19:56.164: INFO/DEBUG(19267):
pid: 19268, tid: 20813 >>>
/system/bin/mediaserver
…
…
…
14:19:59.894: INFO/ServiceManager(46):
service ‘media.camera’ died 03-17
14:19:59.894: WARN/Camera(20509):
Camera server died! 03-17
14:19:59.894: WARN/Camera(20509):
ICamera died 03-17 14:19:59.894:
ERROR/Camera(20509): Error 100 03-17
14:19:59.915: WARN/AudioSystem(71):
AudioFlinger server died! 03-17
14:20:00.014: INFO/Process(71):
Sending signal. PID: 18636 SIG: 3
03-17 14:20:00.054:
INFO/dalvikvm(18636): threadid=7:
reacting to signal 3

I am calling the takePicture method in a loop to capture multiple photos;

for(int m = 0 ; m < 6; m++) {

    mPrimCamera.takePicture(null, mPictureCallbackMet, mPictureCallbackMet);
}

I am doing this on HTC Magic running Android 1.6. I think, I am using the wrong way to take multiple photos. What is the correct way to capture multiple photos using Android Camera API?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I didn’t find any API support for this. And repeatedly calling the takePicture method from the loop is not working. So, I get a workaround. The code is still in loop but I’m now using Thread;

    private class CaptureThread extends Thread {

        @Override
        public void run() {

            int count = 0;

            while(count < mNo) {
                mFileName = mLocation + "/pic" + count + ".jpg";

                mCamera.takePicture(null, mPictureCallback, mPictureCallback);

                count++;

                try {
                    Thread.sleep(3000);
                } catch (InterruptedException exception) {
                    exception.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }
}
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