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Family Hub 9 broke View Inside - Camera’s not initializing

(Topic created: 01-01-2025 07:21 AM)
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cdawson2000
Asteroid
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Kitchen and Family Hub

Hello and happy new year!

Yesterday I upgraded the software on my Samsung Fridge (RF27T5501SR) to Family Hub 9 (Tizen 7.0) . I did this by doing a factory reset of the unit.

 

After the reset was complete I noticed that the View Inside app no longer worked. A default picture appeared and the error “Image recognition failure. Please try again in a moment” message appeared.

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I am in IT so I immediately  began troubleshooting. I suspected that the upgrade broke something. Maybe a missing driver for the cameras or something since the View Inside app had been working flawlessly for the past 2 1/2 years. 

 

I found on YouTube how to enter into Engineer Mode and ran the Camera Test.

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As suspected, the Cameras failed to Initialize. 

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So here I am, unable to use one of the main reasons I purchased this product. Hopefully someone from Samsung can pass this upstream to the Software Engineering teams. I am sure I am not the only owner that has this issue given the amount of complaints I’m seeing about Family Hub 9.0.

I’m looking for a bug fix release to restore this functionality. Being in the business for a long as I have, I’m under no illusion that the fix will be out anytime soon but It would be nice to get it sometime in the next 6 months.

My family really enjoys this Fridge. I hate to lose  such an important feature. If anyone has any recommendations I’m all ears, Of course I’ve done all of the normal troubleshooting tactics, “red button” turn off, soft reset, factory reset, etc.

Best regards,

Chris

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Members_DIFsvcw
Constellation
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Kitchen and Family Hub

Has anyone found out how to downgrade the firmware with USB?  Thanks. 

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