Windows 10: Integrated camera turns into Pc camera and stops working

Hello everyone, I have a Lenovo Ideapad S340 with Windows 10. In the last month, the integrated camera has stopped working well. I had problems for the first time during a call on Zoom: after a few minutes of calling, my video started "flashing" until it went black. Checking in device manager, I saw that "integrated camera" turned into "pc camera". Since then, I've tried various solutions to fix the problem, but none have worked: - check the privacy settings of the camera; - update the drivers, both automatically and manually also by selecting older drivers; - uninstall and reinstall the dri

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Camera not found (Integrated laptop camera)

Someone else recently had a similar issue, where it was showing up under 'Hidden Devices'. Have you already checked there? If it is, and 'grayed out', it might be driver problem preventing it from connecting and making it show up as 'Hidden'. You can choose to uninstall the driver, and reboot or in some cases it can be accidentally turned off in the Bios. Otherwise it could be the hardware and / or connection inside that's failing

Hidden devices reconnection

 

camera not working

If you have the camera connected to the computer, I would suggest that you disconnect the camera and then try to open the Camera app.



If the camera app opens, follow the steps below:

• Press “Windows key + C” from your keyboard to open “Charms bar”.
• Select “Settings” option.
• Select “Permissions” option.
• Turn on “Allow this app to access your: Webcam and Microphone” option.
• Lose the app by pressing “Alt key + F4” from your keyboard.
• Reopen the Camera app.
• Connect your camera and then check how this app works.

Goodluck!

 

Integrated camera for Lenovo Thinkpad suddenly stopped working

Hi - I am using a Lenovo Thinkpad T450s with Windows 10. The computer has an integrated webcam which recently and mysteriously stopped working. I've looked at all the forums and questions online and I can't figure out how to get this to start working again.

The webcam was working fine the other day in the middle of a Skype call, then it turned off on its own. I turned it back on, it stayed on for 10-20 seconds, this happened 3-4 times, until it turned off and the option to turn the camera feed back on through
Skype disappeared. Other apps (Facebook Video Call, the Windows Camera App) didn't work either and said that the camera couldn't be found.

Here's what I've tried:

- Went to Settings > Privacy > Camera and made sure the "Let Apps Use My Camera" setting was turned on (it was).

- Used the Hardware and Devices Troubleshooter, which suggested I restart (obviously didn't work)

- Downloaded and installed the Integrated Camera Driver from the Lenovo website for the T450s (Integrated Camera Driver for Windows 10 (Version 1703 or earlier) - ThinkPad T450, T450s - Lenovo Support DE), then restarted

- Went to the Device Manager to try and uninstall/reinstall the driver; tried to look for Integrated Camera under Imaging Devices but Imaging Devices wasn't there. Went to View > turned on "Show hidden devices." Imaging Devices showed up, and under it was
the Integrated Camera but it was greyed out. Right click > Uninstall, restart computer, went back to Device Manager but this time the Integrated Camera was gone even when "Show hidden devices" was turned on. Tried to re-install the driver from the Lenovo Website
again, but this time once the files were extracted and the actual installation was about to start, I got an error message that said "Warning: No Appropriate Driver to be installed."

I got nothing at this point. Can anyone help? This was an expensive computer and Lenovo is a reputable brand - I at least expect their webcam to work. My only other thought is that somehow the camera's wiring got disconnected inside the frame?