Hi Everyone,

I am new to the N800 world. Just got one off ebay, It arrived yesterday and I played with it all night. It had the OS2007 with I upgrated to OS2008. I think it is great device.
My only issue so far is how to get the camera working. I am kind of thinking the canera may be dead on my unit. It would not load properly in the OS2007 and also not in the OS2008.
In OS2007 it would just say starting camera and and then wait at a white screes for 30secs or more and finaly pop up a box saying camera not responding and OK to close. In OS 2008 there was no camera program persay installed with the OS2008 so I installed the 3rd party one fron the nokia site with no issues. When I go to run the camera application it says starting camera and pops up a screen for split second (which I can't read, it is just too fast) and closes the application.

I have tried video chat and without any sucess.

Any ideas or help in troubleshooting this issue would be great.

thanks in advance.

what if you just pop up the camera?

the video chat application whould pop up, and it will work like a small mirror. Can you get this working?
If not, try:
programs -> internet -> internet call.
run this while having the camera popped up. Can you see any image?

No luck! In internet call I have selected "start when camera launched" which I believe should open Internet call program when camera is poped out. When I pop out the camera all I get is a mechancanical click nothing starts and it won't even take the N800 out of standby. I see a black window in video chat before I start a secession, when I think I should see my own video.

Looks like hardware trouble...

yup. You might want to return it to Nokia for a replacement.

@Benson: is the problem that the system does not recognize that the camera hasn't popped out, or that it just has no connection with the camera. I think it's the second; otherwise he would have an image (although black & grainy) in the camera app.

Well, it's wierd, because if it doesn't think the camera is out, it shows a headset and two swoopy lines where the video preview would be, so it looks like it thinks the camera is out.

But, if it can tell when the camera comes out, it should take it out of standby, and start Internet Call for you.

Only diagnostic I know would be, from xterm:

Run camera-test or cameratest in xterm, cannot remember which one , and look at the output.

Thanks for all the replys,

It does look like it is not detecting that the camera is out. I do get the headset and two swoopy lines in the preview window in Internet Call. (The black screen was another voip application (Gizmo5)). Everthing seems to be consistant with the N800 not sensing the camera is out.

Unfortunately I snagged this one from Ebay as a Demo unit. I don't think I have much chance of getting a replacement from Nokia. I am in Canada and I got if from the US which means it is a real pain to try and return it to the seller.

I am wondering what chance I have of fixing it myself. How does the N800 sense the camera is out. Is there a switch in the mechicism. How is the camera electrically connect to the main circuit board? Is there a flex cable the may be broken, loose or unsoldered?

I know opening it up will void any warrenty that I may still have (however slim) but I have an electronics background and am able to solder smt parts. Are there any good How to's on open up one of these units?

Thanks

Thoughtfix has a video & picture walk-through.
There is a flex, but I'm not sure the sensing goes that route.

You can tell it the camera is open by:Then it should show up in Internet Call.

maybe hardware trouble,then a big problem