Built-in Chicony webcam becomes suddenly too dark on Satellite A300-1QM

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• Satellite A300 - built-in Chicony webcam does not work with Win Live Messenger

  Hello

  I just bought a * Satellite A300-1MC * (works on Vista Home Premium) and downloaded Windows Live Mail and Live Messenger.
  The integrated webcam does not work with Live Messenger; and when you select the tool, Audi + Vieo Setup in Messenger I get thye following message: "we are unable to launch the Audi video installation.
  The webcam works fine with the Camera Assistant Software.

  I tried: 1) killing the AC software and from Messenger. (2) dowanloading one driver webcam Toshiba Web site; (3) update of Windows Vista
  None of the above works.
  Any suggestion received with joy...
  Thomas

  You can try to install the CAM such as ManyCams software - http://www.manycam.com/
  Basically, the program to access your webcam video and redistribute it as a video device ManyCam.

  Richard S.

• Chicony webcame is not working on the Satellite A350-12j and Win 7 64 bit

  Hello

  The chicony webcam does not work on my toshiba Satellite A350-12j and windows 7 64 bit...

  I always get different errors as
  "graphics make it fail."
  "the device is locked by another program.
  etc...

  I tried many things and watch them on a lot of messages, but nothing does. I installed a lot of drivers and programs to solve, but nothing works.
  at first the camera was ok but now nothing seems to help and the camera is broken...

  Can you help me??

  Thank you!

  > seen as 1 million messages like mine and not even 1 right answer on how to solve it!
  I guess you didn't read all these messages correctly

  The user Symbian wrote that her webcam works fine! He used the software/driver for the Toshiba page as well

  Since the Skype reports an unknown error too, I guess that this whole thing has noting to do with the webcam software, but with your Windows 7 installed!

  Seems a registry keys, files or all what it might be, are confused upward!
  In your case, I would try a new installation! Install Win 7 and the Toshiba drivers/software.
  Then test the webcam.

  Don t install any 3rd party software before you would test the webcam!

• Driver Chicony webcam does not work on the Satellite A200-13O

  After the misfortune that occurred to my webcam, I tried to fix it by uninstalling the driver and then put it back in place (by the toshiba Web site).
  I did this twice and it does not work,
  allthought the pc installed the driver, the camera was not working because a file was for win95 and my pc has vista.

  After several reboots, I made the following
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  -all programs
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  -Right click
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  -compatibility
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  -ok
  Sorry for my English, I am Greek and my menu vista also... :))
  If anyone wants more details please to contact me.
  I hope this could help those in despair...

  Hello

  Yes I would like some details;).

  For example: manufacturer who is the camera, it is built, made, he has worked previously, and so on...

  So there is a lot to say, have you ever said to the second part, but I'm missing a few things as I've described above. By the way: you can try to recover your machine, if you really need on your camera, but it is really the LAST RESORT.

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• Chicony webcam on Satellite Pro P200 1.3 does not work properly

  This built-in Chicony webcam is slowly driving me insane.

  Sometimes it works (not since last week though). Usually, I get a message saying it is locked by another application - or it does not exist. Now, I can not even friends view webcams.

  The cam is displayed on my screen and seems perfect, but no one can see me! When I try to view the cam of friends, I am told that it is not connected.

  Now, I checked my device manager and it is not yet installed-just disappeared! I have recommended download driver Toshiba Europe (camsoft-2007081...), uncompressed, ran it, restarted, but apparently my laptop does not detect the webcam - even if a blue light flashes!

  Please get out me of my misery... someone!

  Thank you, thank you, gratias, go raibh mile, etc., etc.

  I read that sometimes the internal TV tuner would block the internal webcam and so this error message.
  But as far as I know this laptop was not equipped the internal TV tuner, and therefore, this possibility is not relevant.

  Always is it that any application locks the webcam software. In case you would you recommend to go the msconfig and disable first the webcam services that run in the background. Then turn it back on.

  In most cases, this helps!
  By the way; I noticed this problem only with yahoo messenger and ms. Skype works ok!

• Re: Satellite L550 - imported into PowerPoint Photos are too dark

  Having problems inserting JPG photos of 'Photos' Power point - they become much too dark after the transfer. Gamma-ing the JPG or upping lightness does not work. I imported the same impages using other PC and there is no problem with images in PowerPoint. The photos are A1 and taken on SLR cameras the top of the page.

  Someone had similar probs? I am using Windows 7 on my Satellite L550

  Hello

  Sometimes I have the PowerPoint user, but I've never had such a problem that pictures will get more dark after import in PowerPoint.

  In your case, I recommend you to install the latest ServicePack for your Office suite. You can get it on the Microsoft Web site. Moreover, download also all patches for the version of PowerPoint you have.

  If it doesn t work I would try reinstalling PowerPoint.

  Finally and most importantly, I think you should ask Microsoft directly on this issue. I think that it s not Toshiba associated

• Chicony Webcam not accessible after upgrade from Vista to Win 7 Home Premium

  I've upgraded or updated for Windows - 7 Edition Home Premium a couple of years on my Toshiba Satellite U305-S7448.  It has built in Chicony Webcam.  The camera used to have a Panel control that opens on the edge of the screen.  Now, no matter where I look at and I went to the Toshiba and Chicony sites to get the drivers I don't find a way to turn on the camera.  If I use Skype, it turns on and works normally for this function.  Recently, I clicked to add a profile picture on Google + and once again the camera came and worked very well.  When I look at the devices and click on the camera it tells me that it works correctly.  What escapes me that I can't use the camera as I could when I had Vista on the laptop originally?

  Thanks for all the advice and assistance to anyone.  I don't know exactly how to use these forums and technology in general.  I just want to know all that, after tripping over the Toshiba support site I finally found the solution to my problem.  There is a download for what they call the Total Value Package I think is the name.  It must be installed before the drivers webcam and then everything works as it did when the laptop was new.  Down load is listed as, util_tvap_TC00214700M, in my folder.

• Problem of camera Chicony after Vista Ultimate upgrade on the Satellite A200 - 1CZ PSAEC

  Hey all.

  I recently bought a Satellite A200-1CZ (PSAEC). It has Vista Home Premium preinstalled. But I wanted to be able to connect to my domain at work, so for this purpose, I had to upgrade to Vista Ultimate. The update itself went well, but after the upgrade, I can not the built-in Chicony webcam to work again. I tried to reinstall the software of the camera without success.

  I also tried to plug the driver installation to the place on the PC where the drivers. He says that it is indeed the correct drivers, but there could be missing a post in the INF file. It seems that it must be written specifically for ultimate.

  Anyone got a few other pilots or maybe a solution to this problem?

  -Dan

  Hi Dan

  Please don't be angry with me, but why you n t search here in the forum first?
  Advanced forum search is the option to find related discussions this topic.

  I found this:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=24169&MessageID=88745

  Also, here is the solution to your problem
  http://UK.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/FAQ.jsp?service=UK&from=search_service_options&FID = TIU00000038fc

  Greetings

• Need driver Win7 for my Satellite A300 webcam

  Hello, I am looking for the drivers on my webcam.
  My model is Toshiba Satellite A300. In the official page, it has drivers for the webcam in windows 7.

  Thank you

  I have A300 with Win7 32 bit pre-installed on it. I had the same problem and I ve installed driver webcam offered for A500. It works perfectly. You can do the same thing.

  Test it and send feedback.

• Satellite L550 & Win7: Jpg become too dark using Office PowerPoint

  Images JPG Photo instantly become too dark to use inserted once in Power point to a picture library.

  I use my new L550 with Windows 7 and Power Point Office Professional 2007.

  Jpg become too dark to fix using the brightness etc Format.
  The photos have good light in them before insertion and are at least 4 MB in size, JPG quality is not the issue.

  Someone at - he had problems similar and if so, has found a solution?

  Hi mate

  To be honest, I doubt that this has something to do with the Toshiba laptop.
  Powerpoint 2007 is a Microsoft product, and in my opinion, your question/problem is related specifically to MS PowerPoint software.

  In my opinion, you should check this page from Microsoft:
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• Satellite A300-1FP - webcam Chicony Win 7 64 bit - driver open failed

  Greetings

  I recently did a clean install of Windows 7 64 bit on my Toshiba Satellite A300 1FP. I was surprised how well it went. The only thing missing was a Windows 7 for a Chicony Webcam driver. A number of people on these forums have suggested the use of 64 bit Vista driver. I tried several times to do this work. I deleted the entry of startup, deleted and resinstalled the driver from Device Manager, etc. Everything I found on these forums that I have tried.

  None of this works. I keep getting the error message "failure of the Webcam driver open. Please restart camera or computer. »

  Even with the 'camera' Wizard the Chicony camera is really terrible. A I know before I bought the machine, I would have chosen otherwise. Too late now. Without the wizard, you only have the driver supplied with Windows 7 that allows you to use the camera, but unless you have quality Hollywood light video is so dark it is almost unusable. The "camera assistant" had at least one dose of reminder for darker rooms.

  I don't know why Toshiba never used this device in the first place.
  There are a lot of people with this same exact problem seeking help in the forums for their system.

  If anyone knows how to handle this I'd appreciate it really your. Toshiba, if you listen, what were you thinking?

  Dave

  Hello

  Just a quick question: have you tried that?
  [Why an error message "driver Open Webcam fail.] Restart the computer or the camera? | http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/Ann.jspa?annID=18]

  In addition, it would be interesting to know if the same thing happens with the factory settings. You can check this please?

  Welcome them

• Satellite A200-J01: problems with Chicony webcam with Yahoo messenger and MSN

  Dear friends

  I just bought a Satellite A200-J01 with Windows Vista Edition Home Premium pre-installed on it. My problem is when I want to use my webcam (Chicony USB built-in 2.00) to have a video call with MSN and Yahoo messenger Internet, suddenly, it stops working and it shows a message that the webcam is not connected and no webcam was found on your computer.

  And then when I log out Yahoo messenger, come out of her and run Camera Assistant Software it shows this message "Locked by another application" Although there is no other applications running.

  The problem remains, unless I restart the computer. I read all the topics and messages as in my case in this site, but none of them helped me. I want to know if someone has encountered this problem, if this chicony webcam is compatible with yahoo and msn messenger and finally what I can do about it.

  Hello

  What about software chicory and the driver update?
  Please check if the software most recent is available and has been released. If so, remove it the old an and after reboot the new install the most recent version of this software chicony.

  It seems that similar problems appear on laptops from different manufacturers that use the Chicony webcam.
  Everything looks like the chicony Vista software is not 100% compatible with MSN, yahoo Messenger, Skype etc programs.

• device of too dark photo booth

  Photo booth is too dark.

  Add a lot more light and try again.  If your images are still too dark in a very bright room, there is something wrong with your Mac.  Here are the things that users can do to solve a problem of camera:

  (1) If your Mac restart does not solve the problem,

  (2) use http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090 from Apple.

  (BTW - troubleshooting section called an "iSight" camera.  However, after that article was published, Apple has changed the name of the built-in camera on the recent "iSight" Macs "FaceTime", then "FaceTime HD."  Whatever the name of your built-in camera, the same info and troubleshooting applies.)

  Be sure to test several Apple app (photo booth, FaceTime, iMovie, QuickTime Player, etc.) in more than one user account.  Do NOT use the 'Guest' for this test account.  If you don't have more than one user account for testing, create one now.  If you need help, how is explained in http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201754.

  A 'Standard' user account is all you need for the tests.

  (3) If your camera will work correctly even with Apple applications, use OS X Recovery to completely reinstall your Mac OS since system recovery stored on your startup disk.  Don't bother test Skype or other 3rd party apps until you have your camera works with applications Apple.

  (4) If none of the suggestions above resolve your issue, contact Apple or one of the Apple-Authorized Service Provider to have your Mac professionally repaired. Don't forget to back up your Mac and Deauthorize iTunes before the call for tenders for the service.

  Post edited by: Jim EZ

  Mac OSX 10.11.5

• Satellite A200-110: Chicony webcam locked by another application integrated

  Hello

  I have trouble with my webcam built-in Chicony (Satellite A200-110). Sometimes it starts sometimes, it isn't and tells me that it's locked by another application. So, I have to restart my laptop, so it works again.

  Any suggestions why the webcam behaves like that? Another question I have is: how is it possible to record video messages with this webcam?

  Hello

  Please check this thread:
  http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=24739

  The user katerinatsoumagr has posted a nice solution.

  This thread might be also interesting:
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  Good luck.

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