"Can't connect to camera" while using secure lock screen (with trusted face) topic

Before I start, I would like to say I have done about an hour of google searching and scouring through the XDA forums and cannot find an answer to this anywhere, if there is one out there please point me in that direction.

Anyway, I'm using an AT&T M8, unlocked, S-Off, and converted to GPE. Running the latest lollipop OTA (5.0.1 I believe). Just today I turned on secure lock screen (pattern), and under smart unlock I turned on trusted face, which works surprisingly well. However, when I use a secure lock screen with trusted face, and I try to open the camera via the motion gesture shortcut (pickup phone in landscape and hit volume + or -) it gives me an error "Cannot connect to the camera". I have done quite a bit of trial and error and still can't get it to work correctly. I really like using this shortcut, but also really like the trusted face unlock. I'm assuming this has something to do with the front camera activating for face unlock whenever the screen comes on, and its interfering with with starting the actual camera app, but I'm really hoping there is a fix for this.

Thanks for any suggestions.