Did EVERY GD thing and finally - the resolution was the BIOS update. Camera is now working. Lenovo is Chinese junk.
Lenovo Ideapad S340: Integrated Camera not working after trying F8, LEnovo Vantage and Device Manager changes
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Hi community. After reading some members having similar issue, I have tried some of the suggested fixes, such as activating camera through F8 (nothing happened), Checking Privacy and Permissions setting in Lenovo Vantage app (all ok), and also in Device Manager I tried Updating Drivers, Disabling/Enabling camera, Un-installing and Re-installing camera.
I have then removed Lenovo Vantage app.
No success. I tried the camera app and Skype, and still getting just a black screen instead of the camera view.
Appreciate any help with this issue.
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Anonymous
2020-03-31T01:23:23+00:00 Hi, I have tried all the steps suggested here, and am still being confronted with a camera with a line through it. Cannot get it to work. Any additional suggestions?
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Anonymous
2020-04-06T15:04:08+00:00 Hi ya.
I have the same problem and tried a few things of yours here but no result as yet. There is a 'push/open' button on the camera, could it be that the laptop doesn't recognise when this is being activated? In older versions one could do a camera test but doesn't seem to give me this option.
Many thanks
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Anonymous
2020-04-06T19:35:31+00:00 I have same problem. But mine seems more grave. Since I bought this laptop S340. Camera had some issues.
My camera is not recognised by windows. It always give, cannot find camera as error. I have tried everything possible. Tweaked registry, uninstall, reinstall, even complete OS reinstall, but nothing worked. Driver isn't connecting to the hardware. That's why the error is cannot find device.
Contacted Lenovo support, they said it's windows update patch issue, but don't think so. Please update me if someone finds a fix to this.
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Anonymous
2020-04-07T01:13:25+00:00 I had same issue. There is a switch above the camera on the edge of the laptop. Just slide it to the right and then the camera starts to work.