So does your camera/photos app just crash on 2.0? I had one of my iPhones doing this and twiddled around with some things and now it’s fixed. However, before I call this a “real fix” I would like to get some feedback for others that have the same issue. So, if your camera or photos just crash please try these steps and let me know. They were tested on 2.0 firmware.
I would like some feedback as to whether or not this solved the problem for anyone with the above issue. If so, I will integrate the fix into BossPrefs.
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1. Kenyth August 4th, 2008, 2:42 am
i had a similar problem when i took a picture, it took a blank, black, picture then when i went to the home screen and opened back up photos, the black picture was delete, so i started to mess around in SSH, and i decided to set my permissions of mobile, media, and DCIM to 777 and then resprung my phone, and the camera worked smoothly again.
tell me if that helps
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2. asa August 4th, 2008, 4:27 am
Okay - glad to see someone else having this problem! I had to restore a couple times to figure out how not to have this happen. Basically, when I would open my camera it would close and the same would go for the photo album.
I realized this only happened when I also backed up my photos from itunes to my fresh Iphone. If I left them off the camera would work! Not sure this is the same problem but sounds similar.
Do you know of a good guide to help me learn how to connect SSH method using Winscp?
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PDXGeek Reply:
August 4th, 2008 at 5:05 am
The link of how to do SSH is given in the original post.
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3. asa August 4th, 2008, 5:44 am
PDXGeek - Thanks! I totally missed that…
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4. dmtelf August 4th, 2008, 7:06 am
Oh, I wish I saw this post before I restored my iPhone this morning!
If I went to Camera or Photos on my iPhone before the restore I did this morning, I’d get returned to the Springboard within 4 seconds.
I used Picasa to copy all photos from the iPhone to my laptop. The problem then happened for the 1st time after I used Picasa to delete all ~400 photos on the iPhone.
I did a post on hackintosh about the above issue and was just advised to DFU restore or SSH and “fix permissions”.
I SSH’ed, went to /var/mobile/Media/ but there was no DCIM folder there (thus no 100APPLE folders etc) so I manually created it & set permissions to 777 but it still didn’t work after respringing the iPhone so I just gave up and DFU restored & set it up as a new iPhone. It then worked fine.
BTW, I love BossPrefs & can’t wait for a Categories-style app to be released! :-)
DMTelf
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5. sendblink23 August 4th, 2008, 9:05 am
Yeah that sure does a *FIX for the camera, also added what “Kenyth” mentioned of the 777, extra flawless now ;) hehee
now wondering… I hope u pretty soon release CATEGORIES.app in 2.0 *CYDIA* I sure need it already, I already have 9 windows full of Apps, definitely need to organize it, don’t wanna simply use *Poof(because i want to separate them differently).
KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK!
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6. DaveP August 4th, 2008, 9:13 am
Hope they release Snapature for 2.0 that might also solve our problems
Thanks BOSS
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7. Kenyth August 4th, 2008, 4:13 pm
did my method help anyone??
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8. Anonymous August 6th, 2008, 4:25 am
deleting thm files in 100 apple fixed my frineds camera
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9. me August 6th, 2008, 11:56 pm
you should have posted this earlier! i had the same issue and decided to just restore. thanks anyway for writing how to avoid it
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10. jaime August 11th, 2008, 12:39 am
DUDE THIS WORKED! thank you!!!!!
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11. Anas August 12th, 2008, 5:54 am
Once I installed video recorder, the default camera and photos Icon were disappeared, picture are available in DCIM folder, installing camera pro enables camera to take pictures, but I can only get them by SSH and can not have the normal view or slide show on the Iphone; how can I get back the Camera and Potos applications.
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12. Levi August 16th, 2008, 5:35 pm
Works perfectly for me.
Thank you!
L.
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13. Anonymous August 21st, 2008, 4:02 pm
what is the source? ssh
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14. Anonymous August 22nd, 2008, 1:28 pm
i can’t see the ssh icon please help me i thinke thet i wiil restor me iphone becuse i dond know what to do.
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15. Anonymous August 26th, 2008, 12:03 am
thanks man this helped me, and got my camera and photos working. keep up the good work
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16. Anonymous August 26th, 2008, 8:54 am
Thanks this helped me, and got my camera and photos working.
Thanks again!!!
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17. Angus September 1st, 2008, 12:17 pm
Fantastic fix!
Works perfectly, and makes me bloody annoyed that apple couldn’t build their 2.0 software with assurances that this would not occur, it’s not even a complicated permissions thing (it happened for some of us before notably with mail.app).
I will be writing a tutorial on my blog (referencing yours here of course) for users in Australia such that they too can fix this blasted issue.
Nice going :]
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18. SWorks September 6th, 2008, 1:47 am
I need help. My camera will not open. I get a message THERE IS NOT ENOUGH ROOM TO TAKE PICTURES. PLEASE DELETE EXISTING PHOTOS. I tried everything, deleting songs, video, photos, apps, & restore. Started when I updated to 2.0 with a 2g iphone. Phone is not jailbreak.I search around and found this has happen to other people but no fixed. Thanks
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19. Post-it September 7th, 2008, 12:39 pm
I have tried multiple time to connect to the session by using *putty* and *Win SCP* without any results:( it keeps sayng *connection time out*…does anybody knows what’s the problem? will appreciate any help
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SWorks Reply:
September 7th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Does your iphone turns off while trying to connect? If yes, go to Auto-Lock in settings and click NEVER. iPhone must stay on. If iphone is on then wait, it takes awhile.
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Anonymous Reply:
October 7th, 2008 at 12:59 am
SSH only works for me when the wifi is on. not sure if thats just how it is or not but when i try to SSH with wifi off i get that same “connection time out” message. turn it on then it connects right away.
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Lora khaa Reply:
October 8th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
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20. Garrett October 8th, 2008, 9:19 pm
question my iphone camera will not open i press my camera icon and the black screen pops up but then it just goes back to the icon screen does any one know wats goin on
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21. Lora khaa October 8th, 2008, 10:08 pm
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22. Ilan October 13th, 2008, 10:42 am
Thanks!!!
the 777 setting worked for me..
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23. Pho October 31st, 2008, 2:44 pm
This worked for me!! Thanks so much… I LOVE YOU!!!
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