Camera hasn't worked properly since Android upgrade

[MikeBond]

It starts slowly, it takes seconds to take a photo, we know this already. But since the Android upgrade a few weeks ago, now the Exposure is broken too. It is very dark, or black, in most lighting conditions. You go into Settings, and select or deselect Manual Exposure: makes no difference (and no manual scale appears!) The selfie camera sometimes shows the image onscreen upside down. “Panoramic” has disappeared from the left-swipe menu of modes. You see other phones bristling with cameras that can sing and dance in 4D, but my phone can’t take a basic photo…
Also my FP2 gets red-hot when you use Maps, and needs a new battery; and I’m thinking good-money-after-bad… physically it’s fine, but the software is killing it!

[yvmuell]

There are known bugs with stock camera app and Android 9 which can be resolved by using the Open Camera App. Only Panorama function does not work at all with Android 9.

Redefining longevity: Android 9 now available for Fairphone 2

The issue is that the gyroscope doesn’t comply with specific Android requirements (see CDD/CTS for details). Those specific checks were not present in Android 7 and before, therefore we only had to disable it now since Android 9. LineageOS and /e/ are not certified by Google, so they are not affected by this. We plan to re-enable the gyroscope again in some way in future releases, but we don’t have a clear timeline on that yet.

My FP is running ok with LOS 17.1 Android 10, hopefully soon LOS 18.1 Android 11, for sure this depends on the apps etc used

[MikeBond]

Thank you so much - Open Camera works fine!
Phone saved for another month…

[Joel_Enwald]

Same issues here, photos come out way too dark so the exposure seems to be off. Panorama doesn’t exist and yes sometimes the front camera preview is upside down.