Lenovo Ideapad S340: Integrated Camera not working after trying F8, LEnovo Vantage and Device Manager changes

You nailed it. Exact same behaviour of the S340 here. Pressed just below the screen at different spots until *bing*, image suddenly pops up. Well spotted.

Hi All,

I am too facing the same problem. Did all suggested by support team, still the camera light is not blinking. fn8 key also does not on the camera. 

In current scenario, we need the camera post as we need to interact more online .

Please help..

Hi Vishal,

It seems that a lot of people owning the S340 are struggling with the non-responsive camera issue and I too have struggled with this for a long time (since mid-July). I purchased this laptop (Lenovo S340-15IIL) in early June for my wife (online teaching). It worked flawlessly for about six weeks and then suddenly one day the camera refused to function.......Tried everything listed on all the Lenovo support site and all the suggestions on various forums including this one.....but to no avail.......till recently.

Being a tech enthusiast for almost three decades now, I was puzzled as the for all this time the camera was being detected properly in device manager and drivers installed were correct...no yellow exclamation OR down arrows ever..!! After having tried everything and getting frustrated and not getting any reply from the Lenovo helpline...on a hunch I simple pressed the screen bezels gently on the sides of the camera and behold the camera started working immediately !!!!

After a few minutes the camera again went blink and I just pressed again......and it started working again..!!!!!

It seems the issue is simply of improperly mounted camera hardware and/or poor quality hardware by Lenovo. Its possible that they are aware of this as so many customers are facing this issue and looking by this, they should order a product recall / refit at their expense as many customers may be out of warranty now but are facing an issue due to poor hardware integration by Lenovo.

Thank you so much. This works and you saved me a lot of time.

This works, I just had to press down on the back of the camera area

Hi All,

I am too facing the same problem. Did all suggested by support team, still the camera light is not blinking. fn8 key also does not on the camera. 

In current scenario, we need the camera post as we need to interact more online .

Please help..

Hi Vishal,

It seems that a lot of people owning the S340 are struggling with the non-responsive camera issue and I too have struggled with this for a long time (since mid-July). I purchased this laptop (Lenovo S340-15IIL) in early June for my wife (online teaching). It worked flawlessly for about six weeks and then suddenly one day the camera refused to function.......Tried everything listed on all the Lenovo support site and all the suggestions on various forums including this one.....but to no avail.......till recently.

Being a tech enthusiast for almost three decades now, I was puzzled as the for all this time the camera was being detected properly in device manager and drivers installed were correct...no yellow exclamation OR down arrows ever..!! After having tried everything and getting frustrated and not getting any reply from the Lenovo helpline...on a hunch I simple pressed the screen bezels gently on the sides of the camera and behold the camera started working immediately !!!!

After a few minutes the camera again went blink and I just pressed again......and it started working again..!!!!!

It seems the issue is simply of improperly mounted camera hardware and/or poor quality hardware by Lenovo. Its possible that they are aware of this as so many customers are facing this issue and looking by this, they should order a product recall / refit at their expense as many customers may be out of warranty now but are facing an issue due to poor hardware integration by Lenovo.

Thank you so much. This works and you saved me a lot of time.

I faced lots of issues with my camera, finally figured it was issue with the camera driver.

I downloaded an alternate driver "2csc04afsmfznnb0" which looks stable and solved all my issues for good.