Camera will not save pictures to phone after snapping photo

i just had to do the procedure again, and as before, it did work and doesn't take too long.

1) This is the file I deleted using spotlight became easy to find...

f1b43d3b3ecf259a3626c13a8b0cebd8ba513117.mdbackup

2) Empty the trash after dragging it to the trash. 3) Disconnect the iPhone then Erase ALL Settings. 4) Restored from backup...

3) After restore is complete, resync

Now I know, as everyone has said, when you delete, make sure you keep at least ONE picture on the camera!

I was having this problem for about a week before I finally started pulling my hair out and decided to see if I was the only one suffering.

I tried most of the options listed here, but I was just so worried about losing my contact info that I was hesitant to do anything drastic. And, just to add to my problem, my iPhone wasn't showing up on the Control Panel, though it was showing up in iTunes. And while many people have been poking around the backup files, I wasn't sure where to find them! (It seems like most people here are Mac users -- I should make the switch, shouldn't I?)

Anyway. Finally I tried *doh-boy's OPTION 4* and, voila, it worked! I have no clue why, but it worked. Until Apple pulls their head out and fixes the problem in their next update, my suggestion is to not delete photos from their phone while in an import program like iPhoto or whatever Wizard program HP prompts for photo importing (wizard... HP... no pun intended). Best to either delete the photos manually on the phone (an arduous task for us way-too-many-photos people), or go in through the Control Panel or C: and delete them that way -- for Windows, anyhow. I'm not sure how you'd do that for Mac, sorry Applettes. And just never leave your Camera Roll completely empty.

Anyway. As for Apple updating the software to fix the problem, what more can we do? To whom do we complain in order to incite some action? I don't want to have to deal with this again!

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Worked like a charm! Thank u, and also thanks to jkeegan for the indepth and perfect solution!

I found a post below that worked for me! Same issue as everyone else had. I went to his dir on my home PC:
C:\Documents and Settings\ USERNAME\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
I sorted by "date modified" and deleted the recent date (most recent backup of phone), then erased everything on my phone and restored. WORKED great, didn't lose all my stuff but it will take a long time for my music to sync.

WOOO!

This worked for me! Was able to grep for the corrupted file, kill it, erase the iPhone, and backup without losing much of anything. Thanks!

This series of steps works perfectly. It is from another web page. I'm posting it here for a few reasons, the main one of course is to help others looking, and secondly, since no one on the apple support pages uses these resources correctly. Posting a reply to someone's request for help stating "This is also happening to me" is just plain stupidity. This thread is like a garbage heap with a lost ring at the bottom. Anyway, rant over, here is a simple fix:

1. Make sure your phone has been synchronized in the version of iTunes you are using.
2. Restore your phone. (in itunes in the summary tab click the restore button)
3. After JUST the phone settings are restored, DO NOT restore your personal information from a back-up. It will prompt you for this, don't close this screen just hold off on it for now. Disconnect the iPhone and take a photo. The photo should now appear in the camera roll, as usual.
4. Reconnect the phone and import the photo into iPhoto; do NOT delete it from the iPhone. (after importing it choose "keep originals")
5. NOW go back to itunes and restore your personal information from a back-up.

Now your iphone will have everything on it, and picture taking works again.

Resource....


GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving us 2 options to fix this ANNOYING iPhone Camera bug.

I was taking pics of the severe storm/wall cloud here in Dallas, and the camera made it's clicking sound, but no pic was saved! Just an empty box!

I tried restoring, restoring, restoring and restoring and it still wouldn't work.

Then I FINALLY came across your solution, erased the data via the Settings->General option and NOW IT WORKS!!!!!

GOD BLESS YOU!

Thanks so much the third option worked for me perfectly, all I had to do was locate the file- f1b43d3b3ecf259a3626c13a8b0cebd8ba513117.mdbackup
So first I synced my iPhone so it would have the file content saved so I could later restore to that point and then I disconnected.
Next I just went into "Run" on my computer and typed- C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup
and then I clicked on the second folder which was titled- 6f0c54bc8e7b9209822f8d77d...
and the file in there was titled- f1b43d3b3ecf259a3626c13a8b0cebd8ba513117.mdbackup was near the very bottom and I right-clicked delete.
I next went onto my iPhone and went to Settings-General-
Then waited for it to "Erase"
I replugged my iPhone into the computer and waited for it to show on the Devices section in iTunes then a box showed that said "Activate iPhone" and I selected the option to restore to the recent backup and it did now my camera works again.
The only thing is that my passcode wasn't turned on any more so I turned that back on and all my music and videos and ringtones I had to sync back onto my iPhone which didn't take that long but just for the record that's what I did.

Even better, you can skip iPhoto steps above...it has nothing to do with iPhoto. I've verified this works perfectly (and still have everything, recents, txt msgs too).

Streamlined instructions:

1. Make sure your phone has been synchronized in the version of iTunes you are using.
2. Restore your phone. (in itunes in the summary tab click the restore button)
3. After JUST the phone settings are restored, DO NOT restore your personal information from a back-up. It will prompt you for this, don't close this screen just hold off on it for now.
4. Simply take a photo (no need to disconnect). The photo should now appear in the camera roll, as usual.
5. NOW go back to itunes and restore your personal information from a back-up.

Simple and easy. Fixed.

Looks like this helped me too. Thanks!

I don't have a PC. I have a Macbook air. any advise on how to find those files to repair my iphone camera on a MAC?

Yep it works perfectly now; thanks!

Yes it works great as far as keeping your notes, SMS, etc, but if you delete all photos again, you're back to square one, just keep this in mind.

My guess is that anywhere from 50 to 100% of iPhones have this issue with 1.1.4, but a lot of us don't clean out the camera roll often enough to notice it, I know my wife has every picture she's ever taken since July.

This kind of bug should've been squashed with an interim release as soon as it was identified, it's absolutely beyond comprehension why Apple doesn't fix this immediately, it cripples one of the MAIN functions of the iPhone.

You can prevent this from happening in the future.

Make sure you keep one photo on your camera roll at all times. I used to have the same problem all of you had, but found that this prevented the problem. Until APPLE releases a patch for this (I cannot believe they have neglected this problem for so long) this will do the trick.

I used to have windows move all of the photos off the phone automatically when it was plugged in, but now I do this manually to keep one photo on the roll.

I hope this helps!