My camera broke.

[duckwars]

So I took a picture, then mounted my phone and noticed the picture was not in the 100media folder.

Then I unmounted the phone, pressed the camera button and it tries to load then completely closes.

I tried erasing the DCIM folder and restarting (a couple times actually) and it still doesn't work. It doesn't work no matter what app I open the camera from (the camera app, the picture app or the camcorder app).

Help please!!

 

[DocPeanut]

Exchange it for a new one

 

[jpdaballa]

did you try a factory reset? idk if you had a pre, but I found a program like web os doctor that reboots it from the computer which is good for bricked phones... this is the link for the download

http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Supersonic/

 

[duckwars]

Thank you, but the camera decided to start working again on its own...

Technology, can't live with it, pass the beer nuts.

 

[jpdaballa]

did you just reboot the phone and try again or what?

 

[05 TypeS DC5]

this happened to my pre a while back, i was taking pictures and on one of the pictures it completely froze the camera, i was unable to use it or view the picture i took. I eventually lost the picture but a simple reboot resolved the issue. When i connected it to the computer the file was corrupted so i couldn't use it. i guess it just happens....

 

[duckwars]

did you just reboot the phone and try again or what?

I restarted a couple times, but then I also erased the DCIM folder. In my limited experience with Linux, if there is a directory a program uses, and that directory gets messed up in some way, just erase it and the program will remake the directory in a standard way.

I restarted after that and it still didn't work. After about 10 minutes I tried again and it did.

Hope this helps for posterity.

 

[Holsum]

Quick question, do you use a task killer at all?

 

[duckwars]

Quick question, do you use a task killer at all?

No, taskiller is my arch-nemesis.

 

[NM08SRT8#AC]

Mine did this after I did the first update from out of the box.. I messed with it, everything was fine, came home and prompted me for the update, so I did it and then once it fired up after the update, the camera didn't want to work. Camera logo would flash on the screen but nothing would pop up. So I pulled the battery, held the power down for a couple seconds to drain any residual power still left in the phone, waited about 30sec - 1min, popped the battery back in and the camera worked again. Didn't have to reset anything.