Capacitor Camera throwing "Unable to create photo on disk"

Description of the problem: The camera plugin works great on Android 8+ devices, but for some reason, it throws the below error on a Samsung Tab A(SM-T280) Affected platform

• Android
• iOS
• electron
• web

OS of the development machine

• Windows
• macOS
• linux

Other information:

Capacitor version: 1.2.1

node version: 10.16.3

npm version: 6.11.3

Steps to reproduce:

1. Configure the camera plugin as below on an Android 5 device

const image = await Plugins.Camera.getPhoto({
      quality: 100,
      allowEditing: false,
      resultType: CameraResultType.Base64,
      source: CameraSource.Camera
    });

1. Try opeing camera on the devices and check console for potential errors.

Logcat

10-01 12:42:20.799 20455-20642/com.uglunipart D/Capacitor/CameraUtils: Trying to save image to public external directory
10-01 12:42:50.288 20455-20642/com.uglunipart E/Capacitor/Plugin: Unable to create photo on disk
    java.io.IOException: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)
        at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:944)
        at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1009)
        at com.getcapacitor.plugin.camera.CameraUtils.createImageFile(CameraUtils.java:34)
        at com.getcapacitor.plugin.Camera.openCamera(Camera.java:199)
        at com.getcapacitor.plugin.Camera.showCamera(Camera.java:129)
        at com.getcapacitor.plugin.Camera.doShow(Camera.java:90)
        at com.getcapacitor.plugin.Camera.getPhoto(Camera.java:81)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
        at com.getcapacitor.PluginHandle.invoke(PluginHandle.java:99)
        at com.getcapacitor.Bridge$2.run(Bridge.java:529)
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739)
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95)
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145)
        at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61)
     Caused by: android.system.ErrnoException: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)
        at libcore.io.Posix.open(Native Method)
        at libcore.io.BlockGuardOs.open(BlockGuardOs.java:186)
        at java.io.File.createNewFile(File.java:937)
        at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1009) 
        at com.getcapacitor.plugin.camera.CameraUtils.createImageFile(CameraUtils.java:34) 
        at com.getcapacitor.plugin.Camera.openCamera(Camera.java:199) 
        at com.getcapacitor.plugin.Camera.showCamera(Camera.java:129) 
        at com.getcapacitor.plugin.Camera.doShow(Camera.java:90) 
        at com.getcapacitor.plugin.Camera.getPhoto(Camera.java:81) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) 
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372) 
        at com.getcapacitor.PluginHandle.invoke(PluginHandle.java:99) 
        at com.getcapacitor.Bridge$2.run(Bridge.java:529) 
        at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:739) 
        at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:95) 
        at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:145) 
        at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:61) 
10-01 12:42:50.288 20455-20642/com.uglunipart D/Capacitor: Sending plugin error: {"save":false,"callbackId":"22237336","pluginId":"Camera","methodName":"getPhoto","success":false,"error":{"message":"Unable to create photo on disk"}}
10-01 12:42:50.308 20455-20455/com.uglunipart E/Capacitor/Console: File: http://localhost/main-es2015.a5ca47b02acd21cd4cd6.js - Line 1 - Msg: ERROR Error: Uncaught (in promise): Object: {"message":"Unable to create photo on disk"}

[yigitbacakoglu]

Error still continues in the latest versions, any update?

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