Re: [PhoneGap] App crashes after taking a picture with the camera

Simon MacDonald

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Jul 6, 2012, 2:39:52 PM7/6/12

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Can you try changing your code to use FILE_URI instead? On the S2 and S3 the cameras are very good and there may not be enough memory to load the base 64 encoded data without crashing the app.

Simon Mac Donald
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On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 5:18 AM, CarpeTemporem <trac...@googlemail.com> wrote:

Hi everybody,

Im not sure but I think I found a bug in phonegap during tests on my android-device (Samsung Galaxy S2 with android 4.0.3):
In my app (can only be used in portrait mode), I'm using the camera.getPicture-functionality - after a click on the 'take a picture'-button in my app the camera app starts, the user can take a picture, after that the camera app asks if the user wants to keep the taken picture or discard it - so far so good.

When the user takes a picture in landscape-mode everything is fine, the taken picture is available in the onSuccess-method.
The problem is: If the user takes the picture in portrait-mode and the camera-app tries o give the picture back to my app - it crashes, that means: onFail will not be called, both apps (camera-app and my app) close without a message and android shows the homescreen.

Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong? I dont know. Please find attached my code and the errorlog:

My code:

function onFotoSuccess(imageData)

{
$('#cameraFoto').attr({src:"data:image/jpeg;base64," + imageData});
}

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

}

$("#fotobutton").on("click", "", function()
{
navigator.camera.getPicture(onFotoSuccess, onFotoFail, { quality : 90,

destinationType : Camera.DestinationType.DATA_URL,
sourceType : Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA,
allowEdit : true,

encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.JPEG,
targetWidth: 1024,
targetHeight: 768,

popoverOptions: CameraPopoverOptions,
saveToPhotoAlbum: false });
});

My log - hope it helps:

07-06 11:16:44.213: V/webview(19169): singleCursorHandlerTouchEvent -getEditableSupport FASLE
07-06 11:16:44.553: I/GATE(19169): <GATE-M>DEV_ACTION_COMPLETED</GATE-M>

07-06 11:16:44.553: D/Cordova(19169): onPageFinished(file:///android_asset/www/index.html#pageDegustationStart)
07-06 11:16:44.553: D/CordovaWebView(19169): >>> loadUrlNow()
07-06 11:16:44.558: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(onNativeReady,null)

07-06 11:16:44.558: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(onPageFinished,file:///android_asset/www/index.html#pageDegustationStart)
07-06 11:16:47.923: D/dalvikvm(19169): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 237K, 6% free 10361K/10951K, paused 30ms

07-06 11:16:47.958: D/dalvikvm(19169): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 3K, 5% free 10430K/10951K, paused 20ms
07-06 11:16:47.988: D/dalvikvm(19169): GC_FOR_ALLOC freed 1K, 5% free 10569K/11079K, paused 14ms
07-06 11:16:48.508: V/webview(19169): singleCursorHandlerTouchEvent -getEditableSupport FASLE

07-06 11:16:49.003: V/webview(19169): singleCursorHandlerTouchEvent -getEditableSupport FASLE
07-06 11:16:51.373: V/webview(19169): singleCursorHandlerTouchEvent -getEditableSupport FASLE
07-06 11:16:51.818: D/CordovaWebView(19169): >>> loadUrlNow()

07-06 11:16:52.553: W/IInputConnectionWrapper(19169): showStatusIcon on inactive InputConnection
07-06 11:17:00.313: D/DroidGap(19169): onDestroy()
07-06 11:17:00.313: D/CordovaWebView(19169): >>> loadUrlNow()

07-06 11:17:00.318: D/CordovaWebView(19169): >>> loadUrlNow()
07-06 11:17:00.338: D/DroidGap(19169): DroidGap.onCreate()
07-06 11:17:00.363: I/webclipboard(19169): clipservice: android.sec.clipboard.ClipboardExManager@4164fd60

07-06 11:17:00.368: D/CordovaWebView(19169): Origin to allow: http://127.0.0.1*
07-06 11:17:00.378: I/CordovaLog(19169): Found log level DEBUG
07-06 11:17:00.378: I/CordovaLog(19169): Changing log level to DEBUG(3)

07-06 11:17:00.393: D/DroidGap(19169): DroidGap.init()
07-06 11:17:00.393: D/CordovaWebView(19169): >>> loadUrl(file:///android_asset/www/index.html)
07-06 11:17:00.393: D/PluginManager(19169): init()

07-06 11:17:00.398: D/CordovaWebView(19169): >>> loadUrlNow()
07-06 11:17:00.398: D/WML_SISO(19169): InitPasteboardJni
07-06 11:17:00.398: D/SoftKeyboardDetect(19169): Ignore this event

07-06 11:17:00.428: D/SoftKeyboardDetect(19169): Ignore this event
07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): java.lang.Throwable: EventHub.removeMessages(int what = 107) is not supported before the WebViewCore is set up.

07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.WebViewCore$EventHub.removeMessages(WebViewCore.java:2404)
07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.WebViewCore$EventHub.access$12300(WebViewCore.java:1180)

07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.WebViewCore.removeMessages(WebViewCore.java:2516)
07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.WebView.sendOurVisibleRect(WebView.java:3212)

07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.ZoomManager.setZoomScale(ZoomManager.java:938)
07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.ZoomManager.access$2100(ZoomManager.java:57)

07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.ZoomManager$PostScale.run(ZoomManager.java:1407)
07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605)

07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)

07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4507)
07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)

07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:790)

07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:557)
07-06 11:17:00.428: W/webcore(19169): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

07-06 11:17:00.428: D/SoftKeyboardDetect(19169): Ignore this event
07-06 11:17:00.463: D/SoftKeyboardDetect(19169): Ignore this event
07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): java.lang.Throwable: EventHub.removeMessages(int what = 107) is not supported before the WebViewCore is set up.

07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.WebViewCore$EventHub.removeMessages(WebViewCore.java:2404)
07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.WebViewCore$EventHub.access$12300(WebViewCore.java:1180)

07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.WebViewCore.removeMessages(WebViewCore.java:2516)
07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.WebView.sendOurVisibleRect(WebView.java:3212)

07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.ZoomManager.setZoomScale(ZoomManager.java:938)
07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.ZoomManager.access$2100(ZoomManager.java:57)

07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.webkit.ZoomManager$PostScale.run(ZoomManager.java:1407)
07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605)

07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)

07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4507)
07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)

07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:790)

07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:557)
07-06 11:17:00.473: W/webcore(19169): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

07-06 11:17:00.513: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(onPageStarted,about:blank)
07-06 11:17:00.593: I/GATE(19169): <GATE-M>DEV_ACTION_COMPLETED</GATE-M>
07-06 11:17:00.593: D/Cordova(19169): onPageFinished(about:blank)

07-06 11:17:00.593: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(onPageFinished,about:blank)
07-06 11:17:00.593: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(exit,null)
07-06 11:17:00.638: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(onPageStarted,file:///android_asset/www/index.html)

07-06 11:17:00.638: D/CordovaWebView(19169): >>> loadUrlNow()
07-06 11:17:00.828: D/DroidGap(19169): onDestroy()
07-06 11:17:00.828: D/CordovaWebView(19169): >>> loadUrlNow()

07-06 11:17:00.828: D/CordovaWebView(19169): >>> loadUrlNow()
07-06 11:17:01.188: I/GATE(19169): <GATE-M>DEV_ACTION_COMPLETED</GATE-M>
07-06 11:17:01.188: D/Cordova(19169): onPageFinished(file:///android_asset/www/index.html)

07-06 11:17:01.193: D/CordovaWebView(19169): >>> loadUrlNow()
07-06 11:17:01.193: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(onNativeReady,null)
07-06 11:17:01.193: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(onPageFinished,file:///android_asset/www/index.html)

07-06 11:17:01.228: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(onPageStarted,about:blank)
07-06 11:17:01.253: I/GATE(19169): <GATE-M>DEV_ACTION_COMPLETED</GATE-M>
07-06 11:17:01.253: D/Cordova(19169): onPageFinished(about:blank)

07-06 11:17:01.253: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(onPageFinished,about:blank)
07-06 11:17:01.258: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(exit,null)
07-06 11:17:01.978: W/IInputConnectionWrapper(19169): showStatusIcon on inactive InputConnection

07-06 11:17:03.198: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(spinner,stop)
07-06 11:17:03.268: D/DroidGap(19169): onMessage(spinner,stop)

Kind regards,
CarpeTemporem

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CarpeTemporem

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Jul 12, 2012, 4:55:22 AM7/12/12

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Hmm... if the problem would be a memory problem then it shouldn't be possible to take any pictures. The problem occures only if the user is taking a picture in portrait-mode.. I think the amount of data should be the same, regardless of landscape- oder portrait-mode. Right?

Anyway.. I will give it a try and test it with FILE_URI instead and post the result here later...

CarpeTemporem

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Jul 13, 2012, 5:25:57 AM7/13/12

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Funny thing: the problem does not occure on the Samsung Galaxy S3.

I have still not tested it with DATA_URI, it is still on my todo list... I keep you informed :)

CarpeTemporem

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Jul 13, 2012, 7:42:52 AM7/13/12

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I tested it with FILE_URI instead - result: the problem still occurs.

Simon MacDonald

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Jul 13, 2012, 8:38:00 AM7/13/12

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Check "adb logcat" are you getting the same error message? Also, can
you add a ticket in JIRA to make sure we don't loose this bug.

Simon Mac Donald
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:42 AM, CarpeTemporem <trac...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I tested it with FILE_URI instead - result: the problem still occurs.
>

CarpeTemporem

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How can I create a ticket in JIRA and where I can find it? On http://phonegap.com I couldn't find a link to "report a bug" or similar...

Kind regards,

CarpeTemporem

adb logcat shows the same error message. This time - as mentioned above - I used FILE_URI:

$("#fotobutton").on("click", "", function(){

navigator.camera.getPicture(onFotoFileSuccess, onFotoFail, { quality : 90,

destinationType : Camera.DestinationType.FILE_URI,

sourceType : Camera.PictureSourceType.CAMERA,

allowEdit : true,

encodingType: Camera.EncodingType.JPEG,

targetWidth: 1024,

targetHeight: 768,

saveToPhotoAlbum: true });

});

And here is the log:

07-13 14:44:37.895: D/CordovaWebView(5281): >>> loadUrlNow()

07-13 14:44:39.410: V/webview(5281): singleCursorHandlerTouchEvent -getEditableSupport FASLE

07-13 14:44:39.580: D/DroidGap(5281): onMessage(exit,null)

07-13 14:44:40.295: D/DroidGap(5281): onDestroy()

07-13 14:44:40.295: D/CordovaWebView(5281): >>> loadUrlNow()

07-13 14:44:40.320: D/CordovaWebView(5281): >>> loadUrlNow()

07-13 14:44:40.355: D/DroidGap(5281): onMessage(onPageStarted,about:blank)

07-13 14:44:40.385: I/GATE(5281): <GATE-M>DEV_ACTION_COMPLETED</GATE-M>

07-13 14:44:40.385: D/Cordova(5281): onPageFinished(about:blank)

07-13 14:44:40.385: D/DroidGap(5281): onMessage(onPageFinished,about:blank)

07-13 14:44:40.385: D/DroidGap(5281): onMessage(exit,null)

07-13 14:44:56.135: I/GATE(6013): <GATE-M>DEV_ACTION_COMPLETED</GATE-M>

07-13 14:44:56.135: D/Cordova(6013): onPageFinished(file:///android_asset/www/index.html)

07-13 14:44:56.135: D/CordovaWebView(6013): >>> loadUrlNow()

07-13 14:44:56.135: D/DroidGap(6013): onMessage(onNativeReady,null)

07-13 14:44:56.135: D/DroidGap(6013): onMessage(onPageFinished,file:///android_asset/www/index.html)

07-13 14:44:56.145: I/SqliteDatabaseCpp(6013): sqlite returned: error code = 14, msg = cannot open file at line 27827 of [ed759d5a9e], db=xxx

07-13 14:44:56.145: I/SqliteDatabaseCpp(6013): sqlite returned: error code = 14, msg = os_unix.c: open() at line 27827 - "" errno=2 path=/CachedGeoposition.db, db=xxx

07-13 14:44:56.165: D/CordovaLog(6013): Error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

07-13 14:44:56.165: D/CordovaLog(6013): file:///android_asset/www/js/lib/prod/cordova-1.9.0.js: Line 1012 : Error: SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

07-13 14:44:56.200: D/CordovaLog(6013): Error initializing Network Connection: Class not found

07-13 14:44:56.200: D/CordovaLog(6013): file:///android_asset/www/js/lib/prod/cordova-1.9.0.js: Line 5317 : Error initializing Network Connection: Class not found

07-13 14:44:58.140: D/DroidGap(6013): onMessage(spinner,stop)