Accessing the Camera - Lag of 5 seconds

tobru

Opening the camera app (or any other app which uses the camera) takes around 5 seconds until the camera is showing a picture. What can I do to speed this up?

Welteam

Which device ?

tobru

It's happening on the Pixel 4a (5G)

Welteam

I don't have a P5 or P4 5G so maybe someone else can confirm but I've never heard of this issue so it's probably specific to your device.
Can you confirm that this happen with the GOS camera app?
Also do you have the green camera indicator before you open the app? This may indicate another app is hogging the camera and causing the delay. I'm grasping at straws here but I don't really know what could cause this issue

tobru

Welteam Can you confirm that this happen with the GOS camera app?

It does not only happen with the GOS camera, but with every app accessing the camera.

Welteam Also do you have the green camera indicator before you open the app?

No, it only appears after opening the app.

Another thing I noticed: The slowness / lag only happens when the camera hasn't been used for some time. When the camera was used right before, it's ready relatively fast.