Camera doesn't save my photos anymore

[ph0bolus]

So today i tried to take a picture with my phone. All went well until I opened up my photos and saw 3 white squares.. I clicked on the square and it just exit out of the photos and back to the springboard..

I tried restarting the phone and restarting springboard, but nothing. When taking the pictures it shows the preview and saves to the photo album, but whenever i go to the album all there is a white square. What's going on?

[vspecman]

have u tried to do a hard reset (hold down power and home button until it turns off then turn it back on)

Feel free to throw me a thanks

[ph0bolus]

have u tried to do a hard reset (hold down power and home button until it turns off then turn it back on)

Feel free to throw me a thanks

Just tried it, and it didn't work. I still get the same results.

[vspecman]

either trying syncing again with itunes or if all fails sorry i suggest full restore

either trying syncing again with itunes or if all fails sorry i suggest full restore

[ph0bolus]

full restore i would have to jailbreak and do everything again?

[vspecman]

yes u will have to.....no biggy with the new programs out here....but first tell me what firmware ur phone is and how u unlocked it and ur operating system and i can lead u in the right direction

[ph0bolus]

My firmware is 1.1.1, I can't really tell you how i unlocked it because I bought it off of ebay already unlocked. I have windows XP and a macbook. Thanks.

[blue_wind]

Don't take the time for restore and reinstall everything back. you should try delete /private/var/root/Media/DCIM out of your iPhone by tool you want (such as iPhoneBrowser, iPhone PC Suite or SFTP/SSH program). Then restart iphone and try take picture.

[ph0bolus]

Thanks blue_wind deleted the folder and now the camera and photos work!

[iPooted]

have u tried to do a hard reset (hold down power and home button until it turns off then turn it back on)

Feel free to throw me a thanks

LOL @ That.

Thanks to blue_wind for the proper diagnosis and fix!

[ean13]

To follow up on blue_wind's solution.... I didn't find a DCIM folder in the /private/var/root/Media/ folder... so I did this, thanks to zenx

1. Download & install iPhone PC Suite. (or other iPhone file browsing software)
2. Open up the File folder DCIM/.MISC/Info.plist (which is a text file)
3. In that file, reset the <key> to 100 (delete the other <keys>) and reset <integer> to 0 and save the file, ie:

<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>LastFileGroupNumber-100</key>
<integer>0</integer>
</dict>
</plist>

4. Delete the additional folders (leaving only .MISC and 100APPLE in DCIM)

I AM ASSUMING that <key> maps to your folders in the DCIM and <integer> is your photo count, hence since it's now empty, you have to reset it to zero.
Also, I didn't do any full resets/restore, syncing, etc. My iPhone version is 1.1.3 and and working from Windows XP. Hope this helps.

-ean

[ediulia]

Hi all. just delete /user/media/DCIM folder and that's all. works without reboot or restore

Ed

[R Breezy]

I know this has been discussed before, and I tried to follow steps, but I could not get past the Chinese language barrier in Iphone Pc SUITE.....

Does anybody here no of any other iphone browsing file software, So I can figure how to get my camera working again!?
Any Tips, or help would be appreciated!