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
2020-04-25T05:23:32+00:00 My camera started working again after a recent Windows update.
Previously I had tried all the other solutions, but non of them worked.
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Anonymous
2020-04-25T05:30:37+00:00 Can you please specify windows update code?
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Anonymous
2020-04-30T21:18:11+00:00 I have a client with the same issue! When you open the camera app it quickly flashes between "we can't find your camera" and "close other apps using camera" (hard to tell it's flashing so fast). Have checked everything and just now resorted to a clean install of Win 10. After clean install I let it get all windows updates, got latest driver from Lenovo etc. Same exact issue! I'm calling it faulty hardware as a clean install of windows with latest drivers, no 3rd party software installed it should work! My wife has the exact same machine with zero issues.
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Anonymous
2020-05-01T10:49:37+00:00 EXACTLY SAME! On my machine also, same flashing. Even I tried a new windows installation but all in vain. I have complained to Lenovo. They'll replace the camera next week and see if issue resolves. Will update here if hardware turns out to be issue!