Surface Pro 7 Front Camera Not Working

Anonymous
2019-10-29T19:25:09+00:00

I'm not sure when it started, since I hadn't used the front camera on the device at all, but today I noticed in the Device manager that the "Surface Camera Front" has an error:

This device cannot start. (Code 10) STATUS_DEVICE_POWER_FAILURE.

Sure enough, upon opening the camera app, it acts as though I only have the back camera installed.  I am predictably unable to bring up the front camera.

Is there possibly a driver issue, or is this a hardware flaw?

Thanks!

**Edit**: Problem persists through reboots, disable/reenable, troubleshooter, etc.  Notably, I realized the front camera worked for at least the first hour that I had the device, since it shows you the camera feed when setting up Windows Hello.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-01-03T22:19:10+00:00

    I swear, this is the first and last time I bought anything from microsoft.

    This product makes me so mad. There is one problem after another emerging (surfacing - pun intended).

    First the bluescreen issue.

    Now the front camera. And as a bonus my surface is laggy and slow with random black screen flickerings (even though video still plays in the background)

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-17T13:56:23+00:00

    just a got new pro 7, rear camera showing timeout error, cant take photos or scan but the video works, went on microsoft store downloaded Camera for win 10, installed and now the rear camera is functionally correctly.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-16T14:28:30+00:00

    So you havent installed 20h2 yet. Try updating to 20h2. If that doesnt work do a full recovery :/

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-16T07:16:57+00:00

    Thanks for your question AndreSanchez5.

    However checking the history of updates, I can see that both updates were installed: Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool x64 - v5.83 (KB890830) and 2020-10 Update for Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems (KB4023057).

    There have also been follow ups of other updates mainly Cumulative Updates for.NET Framework and Windows 10 Version 1909 for x64-based Systems (KB4592449).

    Thanks

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-15T23:13:04+00:00

    what system update are you talking about? is it a cumulative update or a system firmware update, please be specific

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