Camera board • Zero 2 W clean install won't detect cameras

My Zero 2 W with clean OS installations won't detect any cameras. When I run libcamera-hello I get the classic I've checked everything from the RPi post on what to do if your camera is not detected: viewtopic.php?t=362707
Here are all the things I've tried:

- Tried both RPi AI Camera and RPi Camera Module 3.
- Tried two different RPi Zero 2 Ws. (The only RPi variety I have.)
- Tried both RPi OS Lite 32-bit Bookworm and RPi OS 64-bit Bookworm. (After each fresh install, I ran the following commands only: sudo apt update, sudo apt full-upgrade, and sudo apt install imx500-all.)
- Tried two different power supplies (both 5 V/2.5 A), one of which came in a third-party kit specifically for the RPi. (I know I could also try the official RPi power supply but wanted to exhaust all available efforts before buying anything new.)
- Tried two different camera cables - one is the 20 cm RPi camera cable and the other is a 1.5 in camera cable from Adafruit.
- Ensured both ends of camera cable are connected correctly.
- The RPi post above says you should only need to mess with /boot/firmware/config.txt if you're using a third-party camera. Others have had success with setting 'camera_auto_detect=0' and 'dtoverlay=<sensor-name>' but I even tried that but it didn't work. Reverted the file after trying the edit.

I am stumped.

Kernel (output of uname -a):OS (output of cat /etc/os-release):libcamera-apps version (output of libcamera-hello --version):

Statistics: Posted by blackbird17 — Mon Feb 03, 2025 5:13 am

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