CAMERA_ERROR (3): The camera device has encountered a serious error

[ahmed-shehataa]

Trying to pick a picture using camerax in android 31+ This exception happens:

2022-01-21 17:52:36.956 11841-11938/com.limeint E/CameraCaptureSession: Session 0: Exception while stopping repeating: 
    android.hardware.camera2.CameraAccessException: CAMERA_ERROR (3): The camera device has encountered a serious error
        at android.hardware.camera2.impl.CameraDeviceImpl.checkIfCameraClosedOrInError(CameraDeviceImpl.java:2405)
        at android.hardware.camera2.impl.CameraDeviceImpl.stopRepeating(CameraDeviceImpl.java:1324)
        at android.hardware.camera2.impl.CameraCaptureSessionImpl.close(CameraCaptureSessionImpl.java:579)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.SynchronizedCaptureSessionBaseImpl.close(SynchronizedCaptureSessionBaseImpl.java:463)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.CaptureSession.release(CaptureSession.java:427)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.Camera2CameraImpl.releaseSession(Camera2CameraImpl.java:488)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.Camera2CameraImpl.resetCaptureSession(Camera2CameraImpl.java:1061)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.Camera2CameraImpl.closeCamera(Camera2CameraImpl.java:402)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.Camera2CameraImpl$StateCallback.reopenCameraAfterError(Camera2CameraImpl.java:1450)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.Camera2CameraImpl$StateCallback.handleErrorOnOpen(Camera2CameraImpl.java:1423)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.Camera2CameraImpl$StateCallback.onError(Camera2CameraImpl.java:1399)
        at androidx.camera.camera2.internal.CameraDeviceStateCallbacks$ComboDeviceStateCallback.onError(CameraDeviceStateCallbacks.java:119)
        at android.hardware.camera2.impl.CameraDeviceImpl.notifyError(CameraDeviceImpl.java:1795)
        at android.hardware.camera2.impl.CameraDeviceImpl.$r8$lambda$KBQCqQRdhVVn7uHI9Xdha6OqnsU(Unknown Source:0)
        at android.hardware.camera2.impl.CameraDeviceImpl$$ExternalSyntheticLambda0.accept(Unknown Source:8)
        at com.android.internal.util.function.pooled.PooledLambdaImpl.doInvoke(PooledLambdaImpl.java:281)
        at com.android.internal.util.function.pooled.PooledLambdaImpl.invoke(PooledLambdaImpl.java:204)
        at com.android.internal.util.function.pooled.OmniFunction.run(OmniFunction.java:97)
        at androidx.camera.core.impl.utils.executor.SequentialExecutor$1.run(SequentialExecutor.java:109)
        at androidx.camera.core.impl.utils.executor.SequentialExecutor$QueueWorker.workOnQueue(SequentialExecutor.java:229)
        at androidx.camera.core.impl.utils.executor.SequentialExecutor$QueueWorker.run(SequentialExecutor.java:171)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:920)