1072019 - [Camera] Switching the Camera from front facing to back facing will cause a black screen on back facing at a rapid rate

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Camera, defect)

Description

[John Thomas [:Johnt]]

Attachment: logcat_20140923_1510.txt

Description:
When the user switches between front facing and back facing rapidly the front facing view will become black.

Repro Steps:
1) Update a Flame to 20140923003005
2) Open Camera app
3) Rapidly switch from Front facing to back facing. 
(This may take up to 20 times switching between the two views.)

Actual:
Front facing view becomes a black screen.

Expected:
It is expected that the camera will display the view correctly even when rapidly switching be front facing and back facing.

Environmental Variables:
Device: Flame (319mb)
Build ID: 20140923003005
Gaia: 3742913e11f69e789dcb0aa0dedf2e5572da0129
Gecko: df42b05782aa
Version: 34.0a2 (Master)
Firmware Version: L1TC10011800
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:34.0) Gecko/34.0 Firefox/34.0

Notes: This bug is similar to a previously fixed big on an older version.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1008039

Repro frequency: 100%
See attached: Logcat, 
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_videoeditor&v=BbHYSN_HPR8

Comment 1

[John Thomas [:Johnt]]

This issue DOES occur Flame 2.1 Kitkat Base (512mb).

Description: Front facing view becomes a black screen.

Flame 2.1 KitKat Base (512mb)

Environmental Variables:
Device: Flame 2.1
BuildID: 20140923003005
Gaia: 3742913e11f69e789dcb0aa0dedf2e5572da0129
Gecko: df42b05782aa
Version: 34.0a2 (2.1)
Firmware: V180
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:34.0) Gecko/34.0 Firefox/34.0


This issue does NOT occur on the Flame 2.2 KitKat Base (319mb) and 

Flame 2.2 KitKat Base (319mb)

Result: It is expected that the camera will display the view correctly even when rapidly switching be front facing and back facing.

Environmental Variables:
Device: Flame 2.2 Master
BuildID: 20140923073003
Gaia: 37b8a812c642ca616bf9457cb9b71e45261cdfa8
Gecko: 9e193395b912
Version: 35.0a1 (2.2)
Firmware: v180
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:35.0) Gecko/35.0 Firefox/35.0

Flame 2.0 KitKat Base (319mb)

Environmental Variables:
Device: Flame 2.0
Build ID: 20140923063014
Gaia: 6449cc35a8f0704d95acac374ba857bde4b86d6c
Gecko: b930730dba81
Version: 32.0 (2.0)
Firmware Version: v180
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:32.0) Gecko/32.0 Firefox/32.0

Comment 2

[John Thomas [:Johnt]]

Please disregard the variables in comment 0. This is a Flame 2.1. Not a master device.

Environmental Variables:
Device: Flame (319mb)
Build ID: 20140923003005
Gaia: 3742913e11f69e789dcb0aa0dedf2e5572da0129
Gecko: df42b05782aa
Version: 34.0a2
Firmware Version: L1TC10011800
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:34.0) Gecko/34.0 Firefox/34.0

Comment 3

[Derek Harris [:DerekH] - Dont need info. Last day 6/5/15]

not nominating this as a blocker, as the user has to rapidly change the front to back facing camera. edge case bug.

Comment 4

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on