Help! My Rasperry Pi Camera is not being detected!

Question

So I have a Pi-Cam and a Raspberry Pi 3 B+, and I'm trying to get them to work together. Note: This camera has worked many times before today's errors.

A few things:

• The voltage is fine (red light is constantly on)
• The camera is plugged into the CSI port (in between HDMI and Ethernet)
• The metal strips on the camera are facing towards the HDMI port
• I've tested the camera with another raspberry pi, but I'd like to use it with this Pi.
• The camera is enabled from sudo raspi-config > Interfacing > Camera

The CSI connector (that little white piece at the top) is a bit broken and will fall off quiet readily if the camera is not attached. Would this be an issue?

Here's the error when I run raspistill -o image.jpg:

mmal: Cannot read camera info, keeping the defaults for OV5647  
mmal: mmal_vc_component_create: failed to create component 'vc.ril.camera' (1:ENOMEM)  
mmal: mmal_component_create_core: could not create component 'vc.ril.camera' (1)  
mmal: Failed to create camera component  
mmal: main: Failed to create camera component  
mmal: Camera is not detected. Please check carefully the camera module is installed correctly

Is there anything else that I could try to get this camera to work?

Answer 1

1. Check vcgencmd get_camera this command. It will return how many cameras supported and detected. Normally you will get "supported=1 detected=1". If you get detected=0 then camera not detected.

2. Recheck hardware connection.

3. Try setting gpu_mem=128 in /boot/config.txt

4. Enable I2C interface.

If not work, try with a different camera.