🐛 InitializationException - Device reporting less cameras than anticipated #3179

ncoen97 · 2024-09-09T18:39:26Z

What's happening?

I am encountering a crash reported in Crashlytics, related to androidx.camera.core.InitializationException. The issue seems to occur when the app attempts to initialize the camera, and it reports fewer cameras than expected, resulting in a CameraUnavailableException. This crash happens on real devices, and it mentions retrying initialization. However, I cannot reproduce the issue locally on my test devices, so I’m unable to investigate further in a controlled environment.

Reproduceable Code

const QRCodeScanner: React.FC<QRCodeScannerProps> = ({
  onCodeScanned,
  loading,
  handlePermissionBlocked,
}) => {
  const device = useCameraDevice('back');
  const camera = useRef<Camera>(null);
  const isFocused = useIsFocused();
  const appState = useAppState();
  const [cameraReady, setCameraReady] = useState(false);
  const {onLayout, layout} = useLayout();
  const hasPermission = useCameraPermissions(handlePermissionBlocked);
  const codeScanner = useCodeScanner({
    codeTypes: ['qr'],
    onCodeScanned,
  });

  const isActive = isFocused && appState === 'active' && !!layout && !loading;
  const isScanning = isActive && cameraReady;

  const onError = (err: CameraRuntimeError | string) =>
    Analytics.logError(err, 'Camera error');

  return device && hasPermission ? (
    <View style={styles.container} onLayout={onLayout}>
      {isScanning ? (
        <QRMask
          containerHeight={layout.height}
          containerWidth={layout.width}
        />
      ) : null}
      {!isScanning ? (
        <View style={styles.loaderContainer}>
          <DefaultLoader />
        </View>
      ) : null}
      <Camera
        ref={camera}
        onError={onError}
        photo={false}
        device={device}
        codeScanner={codeScanner}
        isActive={isActive}
        style={StyleSheet.absoluteFill}
        onPreviewStarted={() => setCameraReady(true)}
        onStopped={() => setCameraReady(false)}
      />
    </View>
  ) : null;
};

Relevant log output

Crashlytics report:

Fatal Exception: androidx.camera.core.InitializationException
androidx.camera.core.CameraUnavailableException: Device reporting less cameras than anticipated. On real devices: Retrying initialization might resolve temporary camera errors. On emulators: Ensure virtual camera configuration matches supported camera features as reported by PackageManager#hasSystemFeature. Available cameras: 0

androidx.camera.core.CameraX.lambda$initAndRetryRecursively$2$androidx-camera-core-CameraX (CameraX.java:433)

Camera Device

I cannot provide the JSON for the camera device since the issue occurs in production and I cannot reproduce it locally.

Device

The crash affects multiple devices, with the following breakdown: Motorola (69%) Samsung (17%) Xiaomi (14%). Operating system versions: Android 11 (62%) Android 13 (21%) Android 12 (17%).

VisionCamera Version

4.5.2

Can you reproduce this issue in the VisionCamera Example app?

No, I cannot reproduce the issue in the Example app

Additional information

I am using Expo
I have enabled Frame Processors (react-native-worklets-core)
I have read the Troubleshooting Guide
I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct
I searched for similar issues in this repository and found none.

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maintenance-hans · 2024-09-09T18:39:33Z

Guten Tag, Hans here 🍻

Thanks for your detailed report! It sounds like a tricky issue, and I appreciate you trying to gather as much information as possible. However, we need more logs to help mrousavy effectively troubleshoot this problem. Please capture the logs using adb logcat when the crash occurs on the real devices, so we can get better insights into what's happening.

If you need help with gathering the logs, feel free to ask! The more data we have, ze easier it will be to find a solution.

Looking forward to your update!

Note: If you think I made a mistake, please ping @mrousavy to take a look.

LukasMod · 2024-09-11T12:34:52Z

Hey, I have same problem on production, multiple crashes in crashlytics (its small % of users, but enough to be one of main reason for our crashes currently). Maybe my information will help you somehow to debug this.

"react-native": "0.73.8",
"react-native-vision-camera": "4.5.0"

I add stacktarce from one of crashes.
stacktrace.txt

Name of error is androidx.camera.core.CameraX.lambda$initAndRetryRecursively$2$androidx-camera-core-CameraX (CameraX.java:369). Mostly (46%) its Xiaomi devices, different androids.

nthegedus · 2024-09-11T14:24:42Z

Hi, same problem here in production too.

"react-native": "0.74.1",
"react-native-vision-camera": "4.3.2",

In Crashlytics there's this error description:

mrousavy · 2024-09-12T11:21:40Z

Well, Camera APIs on Android suck.

efstathiosntonas · 2024-09-16T20:46:11Z

Started seing this out of the sudden on Android 9 on 4.5.2, rn 0.75.3.

Can reproduce it locally on Pixel 4XL emulator running Android 9. @mrousavy do you need any logs or screw camera apis 😂?

efstathiosntonas · 2024-09-17T06:34:12Z

Some extra information around the bug, Simulator Pixel 4XL Android 9, same thing happens on real devices though.

Open device camera app
open your app
try to pick a photo, throws: [session/recoverable-error: An unknown error occurred while creating the Camera Session, but the Camera can recover from it.] ERROR [device/camera-already-in-use: The given Camera Device is already in use!]
Close your app
try to open device camera app again: Android throws: Camera error Can't connect to camera so it seems it brakes Android system too.
only way to recover device camera app is to cold boot the emulator

stack:

FATAL EXCEPTION: pool-26-thread-2 (Ask Gemini)
Process: com.xxxxx, PID: 10365
androidx.camera.core.InitializationException: androidx.camera.core.CameraUnavailableException: Device reporting less cameras than anticipated. On real devices: Retrying initialization might resolve temporary camera errors. On emulators: Ensure virtual camera configuration matches supported camera features as reported by PackageManager#hasSystemFeature. Available cameras: 0
 at androidx.camera.core.CameraX.lambda$initAndRetryRecursively$2$androidx-camera-core-CameraX(CameraX.java:433)
 at androidx.camera.core.CameraX$$ExternalSyntheticLambda2.run(D8$$SyntheticClass:0)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
 at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)
 Suppressed: kotlinx.coroutines.internal.DiagnosticCoroutineContextException: [StandaloneCoroutine{Cancelling}@81d901b, java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor@660c5b8[Running, pool size = 2, active threads = 1, queued tasks = 0, completed tasks = 2]]
Caused by: androidx.camera.core.CameraUnavailableException: Device reporting less cameras than anticipated. On real devices: Retrying initialization might resolve temporary camera errors. On emulators: Ensure virtual camera configuration matches supported camera features as reported by PackageManager#hasSystemFeature. Available cameras: 0

edit: tried with 4.5.3 (with CameraX@1.5.0-alpha01) and it throws the same error.

LuongTruong · 2024-09-19T08:57:58Z

Hello guys, I just found a way to reproduce the issue.

From Edit Android Emulator -> Show Advanced Settings -> Camera: Front -> None and Back -> None
Run your app on that emulator and the issue will appear

Thanks guys for pointing nearly all the versions that have the issue. As a result I use react-native-vision-camera: 4.2.1.

Below is my final version in package.json

"dependencies": {
  "react": "18.2.0",
  "react-native": "0.73.9",
  "react-native-reanimated": "3.15.2",
  "react-native-vision-camera": "4.2.1",
},

Hope it can help.

Rag0n · 2024-09-21T08:50:01Z

Same issue with react-native-vision-camera 4.5.2

Nader-CS · 2024-09-23T08:21:58Z

same issue

mannoeu · 2024-10-02T13:18:24Z

Same here:

react-native: 0.73.4
react-native-vision-camera: ^4.5.2

androidx.camera.core.InitializationException: androidx.camera.core.CameraUnavailableException: Device reporting less cameras than anticipated. On real devices: Retrying initialization might resolve temporary camera errors. On emulators: Ensure virtual camera configuration matches supported camera features as reported by PackageManager#hasSystemFeature. Available cameras: 0
        at androidx.camera.core.CameraX.lambda$initAndRetryRecursively$2$androidx-camera-core-CameraX(CameraX.java:433)
        at androidx.camera.core.CameraX$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.run(Unknown:12)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:644)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)

Caused by: androidx.camera.core.CameraUnavailableException: Device reporting less cameras than anticipated. On real devices: Retrying initialization might resolve temporary camera errors. On emulators: Ensure virtual camera configuration matches supported camera features as reported by PackageManager#hasSystemFeature. Available cameras: 0
        at androidx.camera.core.CameraX.lambda$initAndRetryRecursively$2$androidx-camera-core-CameraX(CameraX.java:433)
        at androidx.camera.core.CameraX$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.run(Unknown:12)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:644)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)

ShchipskiiYura · 2024-10-08T09:07:13Z

same problem

imamrobani · 2024-10-10T05:07:43Z

same issue

"react-native": "0.73.9",
"react-native-vision-camera": "^4.5.2"

Nader-CS · 2024-10-16T20:09:41Z

any help ?

39otrebla · 2024-10-22T11:16:50Z

Same issue here.

DarshanSavaliyaGitHub · 2024-10-29T04:47:09Z

Same issue here...

marcos-cunha-gringo · 2024-10-31T19:36:56Z

We are having the same issue here:

react-native-vision-camera: 4.5.0;
react-native: 0.74.5;

Nader-CS · 2024-12-03T14:02:25Z

any updates ?

mannoeu · 2024-12-03T23:44:23Z

any updates ?

Unfortunately, no one can reproduce the error concisely. :(

UKMIITB · 2024-12-10T09:28:11Z

Has the camerax version has been updated to 1.4.0 ?

I am also facing this issue post version update & have raised it here.
Please upvote if the issue is same

Have raised it here
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/383220395

mrousavy · 2024-12-10T11:53:25Z

Has the camerax version has been updated to 1.4.0 ?

react-native-vision-camera/package/android/build.gradle

Lines 185 to 192 in 54df86a

    
           // CameraX dependency 
        
           def camerax_version = "1.5.0-alpha03" 
        
           implementation "androidx.camera:camera-core:${camerax_version}" 
        
           implementation "androidx.camera:camera-camera2:${camerax_version}" 
        
           implementation "androidx.camera:camera-lifecycle:${camerax_version}" 
        
           implementation "androidx.camera:camera-video:${camerax_version}" 
        
           implementation "androidx.camera:camera-view:${camerax_version}" 
        
           implementation "androidx.camera:camera-extensions:${camerax_version}"

hongying-yang · 2024-12-11T03:22:53Z

@mrousavy We are using version 4.6.1, and our build.gradle file is the same as the one you provided, 1.5.0-alpha03. However, some phones are still reporting this error.

Nader-CS · 2024-12-11T12:04:33Z

still same

hozdemir · 2024-12-24T12:30:36Z

still same, we get this error on some devices. do you have any suggestions for a solution?

kadiraydinli · 2024-12-27T11:09:22Z

Still same. Is there a solution for this?

Nader-CS · 2024-12-27T17:33:00Z

any updates ? thie issue happen today for 15 user.

JuhilGajeraGitHub · 2025-01-01T05:36:03Z

I am also getting this crash in firebase crashlytics

levepic · 2025-01-06T12:35:33Z

So do i

litinskii · 2025-01-12T09:00:00Z

+1 Same issue

rb-adnan · 2025-01-12T14:19:41Z

i am also getting the same error.
-- i am not able to reproduce exactly but getting this log from some devices listed below with OS version

here's some stacktrace from dynatrace:

details:
"react-native": "0.75.4",
"react-native-vision-camera": "^4.5.3",

Devices
P30 Pro (46.6 %)
Galaxy A51 (26.2 %)
HUAWEI nova 5T (3.4 %)
Infinix HOT 40i (2.43 %)
Others (21.4 %)

Operating system
Android 10 (50 %)
Android 13 (31.1 %)
Android 11 (6.31 %)
Android 12 (4.37 %)
Others (8.25 %)

`androidx.camera.core.InitializationException: androidx.camera.core.CameraUnavailableException: Device reporting less cameras than anticipated. On real devices: Retrying initialization might resolve temporary camera errors. On emulators: Ensure virtual camera configuration matches supported camera features as reported by PackageManager#hasSystemFeature. Available cameras: 0

at

androidx.camera.core.CameraX.lambda$initAndRetryRecursively$2$androidx-camera-core-CameraX(CameraX.java:433)

at

androidx.camera.core.CameraX$$ExternalSyntheticLambda2.run(D8$$SyntheticClass:0)

at

java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.processTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1187)

at

java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1152)

at

java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)

at

java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:784)`

UKMIITB · 2025-01-16T15:12:17Z

Hi everyone,
As mentioned in the above issue tracker that this is an expected behaviour
It was happening previously as well (with older versions), just that it was failing silently.
And now the exception is thrown.

Handling for this is to wrap the cameraProviderFuture.get() call with try catch block
Sample is shared here
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/383220395#comment3

mannoeu · 2025-01-17T03:08:12Z

Hi everyone, As mentioned in the above issue tracker that this is an expected behaviour It was happening previously as well (with older versions), just that it was failing silently. And now the exception is thrown.

Handling for this is to wrap the cameraProviderFuture.get() call with try catch block Sample is shared here https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/383220395#comment3

The app will crash? Can i ignore this error?

mrousavy · 2025-01-20T09:42:59Z

created a PR to potentially fix this: #3373

Nader-CS · 2025-01-24T22:53:38Z

anyone can confirm if this pr works ?

rb-adnan · 2025-01-26T07:09:37Z

@Nader-CS you need fix the variable declaration for provider, then should work fine.

sorenfrederiksen · 2025-01-27T11:31:08Z

created a PR to potentially fix this: #3373

Awesome! Thanks for looking into this, @mrousavy - really appreciate your hard work 💪

How many people in this long thread are considering supporting Marc's work? We really should be.

sorenfrederiksen · 2025-01-27T14:39:06Z

created a PR to potentially fix this: #3373

Hey @mrousavy,

When you've got a spare moment, can you maybe review my PR aiming to fix this issue? #3385

It follows through on what I think were your intentions, with your PR, and seems to work locally.

(And would be my first contribution to the library, so if you like making people feel special, there's that, too 💫)

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fix: Catch InitializationException and rethrow in onError callback #3373

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fix: camera initialization error (#3179) #3385

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What's happening?

Reproduceable Code

Relevant log output

Camera Device

Device

VisionCamera Version

Can you reproduce this issue in the VisionCamera Example app?

Additional information

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