My iphone will not save the photos I have taken with the phone
My iphone will not save the photos I have taken with the phone. I have now been working in Italy for 3 months. Shortly after I got here my camera stopped working and this was my only camera! I use AT&T and my phone is not hacked. I have no idea how to contact help from mac. My father in the states has tryed many times to talk with apple but nothing good has come. Please, can someone help!!!!!!
My camera worked fine until today. I have used it everyday since I have owned my iPhone. All of a sudden today I take photos and my camera roll is completely blank "No photos -- you can take photos using the camera"
I did not synch my phone yesterday. I merely used the windows icon in my computer that said Apple Camera. XP off loaded the photos to my computer and then deleted the photos from my phone.
I have not tried any of the proposed fixes, mentioned in this forum yet.
Removing the f1b43d3b3ecf259a3626c13a8b0cebd8ba513117.mdbackup file from the backup archive and restoring the iPhone solved the problem for me on 1.1.2; 1.1.3 may be a similar situation.
To fix this problem, you have to go into the "settings" > "general" > "reset" (at the bottom of the menu), and then "Erase All Content and Settings"
If that doesn't work, make sure to try "Reset All Settings", then try "Erase All Content and Settings"
Today, I had to try this process THREE TIMES before my photos would save.
Very annoying...
I've diagnosed my problem as a possible problem with iPhoto...
If that sounds weird, let me try to explain...
Each time this has happened the following sequence of events have happened.
Docking my iPhone, iPhoto automatically opens and populates with the thumbnails of my photos.
I then clicked the "Import All Photos" button.
Once the photos have uploaded I hit the "Delete Originals" button.
This is when the problem occurs.
=== It has been suggested that I manually delete the photos from my iPhone instead of using the "Delete Originals" button...
BUT...
Due the poor image quality, and blurriness, I typically take 3 or 4 photos in a row so I can pick and choose the best shots later on. This leads to a large number of photos. For instance, last night I went to a concert (Van Halen!) and took 200+ photos. After uploading my photos this morning, this same scenario happened, and it took me 3 times restoring, and erasing, restoring, and erasing, restoring and erasing before the camera began to save my photos again...
In all seriousness, I had the problem you described where repeated resets didn't really solve the problem. Once I removed the specific file from my backup folder and resynced, the problem went away and didn't return.
Sorry, I'm really lazy when it comes to reading all the responses on message boards... but I do THANK YOU for sending me back to that discussion so I could find the "backup file" that was being mentioned. I'm going to give that a shot next time I'm ready to upload more photos. Rock on!
This problem is inexcusable.
First of all... the problem just APPEARED after months of no problems. Secondly, Apple appears to be unable or unwilling to deal with it.
Here's how I worked around it.... but have now discovered that the work around has a flaw.
1. Erase the Settings and Data
2. Take a Picture.
3. Restore the Backup.
4. All is well.... UNTIL you delete the picture you took before the Restore.
You're right, it shouldn't be like this, but it sadly is.
I was at my wits end -- I take dozens of photos a day on my iPhone -- until I tried the suggestion to remove the photo preferences file from the backup (referenced above, at
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6027383#6027383). Until the corrupted file is removed the camera will continue to not work right.
[Sorry about the cross-post just wanted to make sure people can see this info]
I recently updated to 1.1.3 (unlocked, jailbreak) and started experiencing the same problem. I rarely ever used the camera so I don't know if it just started in 1.1.3.
Anyway it was really annoying me so I started poking around via ssh and found that if I ran the camera application manually as root then it seemed to work just fine.
/Applications/MobileSlideShow.app/MobileSlideShow --launchedFromSB --role Camera
I could take photos and look at them, they wouldn't appear in iPhoto though. If I ran the camera as the "mobile" user which is the normal setting the problem would occur and I would see an error message each time I took a photo
/Applications/MobileSlideShow.app/MobileSlideShow --launchedFromSB --role Camera
CGImageDestinationCreate destination parameter is nil
This lead me to think that the problem is related to permissions as the behavior differed depending on the logged in user.
using the "find" command to see what files were changed today...
find / -mtime -0
I found that there were what looked to be photo files in the directory
/private/var/root/Media/DCIM/100APPLE
Now the camera preferences file has a reference to "DCFLastDirectoryNumber" and a value of "100", looking at the Media directory for the mobile user showed no "100APPLE" directory so I created the following directory
was not writeable by the mobile user so if the directory was deleted then the problem would occur again so I made in writeable by all
chmod 777 /private/var/mobile/Media/DCIM
Yes I know this poses a security risk, but then the only users on the system are root and mobile and I want them both to be able to write to the DCIM directory.
After the fix I was able to take photos, import them into iPhoto and delete the originals with no problems.
Note: This fix is maybe 10 minutes old so no guarantees. Also you need ssh access to the phone so only people with hacked phones can use this fix....
I know exactly what you're talkin' about. I made a post earlier on and apparently it helped some guy. Again, for me the key was to keep that one photo in there and you would never have the problem again. So long as you kept it there (or any other one) sitting in the camera roll you should be good to go.
No problem. It seems like my solution is really simple and it works but that you are the only one who acknowledges it. Well, it's kind of a shame but their loss, right? I'm glad I could help at least one other person.
Hi!
I have a 16GB 1.1.3 unlock, jailbroken iPhone and I am having a problem with my camera as well. But in my case, everytime I click the camera icon (or try via SSH the command you pointed, with either root or mobile user) it starts the camera then it blinks and reboots the iPhone. I can access the photo albums with no problem. The is no photo in there.
I tried many things including the ones you describe here.
I've also tried:
- refurbish (ZiPhone) and restore the firmware (the camera still does not work)
- tried to erase all data and settings and set it up as a new phone (no luck)
- tried to include a photo in the iTunes and sync to the iphone. The photo appears on the iphone, but the camera stills crashes
- to delete the DCIM directory on /var/mobile/Media and /var/root/Media (no luck)
- pray (no luck so far)
The one photo solution didn't work with mine. It started to not save photos in the middle of a series of photos taken in succession. The first 3 out of 10 photos showed up. I was able to still take photos that day until I synced again. The next time I used the camera it would not let me save any photo taken. I restored and set up a new phone sync and it fixed itself and let me take photos. Then from a much earlier backup I re-sync'd the phone to get my settings back.
Was it possible that my combination of programs and order of how I sync the info on my phone the cause of the corrupt file? I had iPhoto 4.0.1 (4E4), iTunes 7.4.2 (4), iPhone Firmware 1.1.3, OS 10.4.10.
Was it the photo that was still my wallpaper (which was deleted when I sync'd with iPhoto) somehow corrupt and was not cleaned up when I sync'd and changed the wallpaper? I had disabled every possible sync, cleaned all the cache's and still had 15.3 MB used. (A new sync in 1.1.4 has 13.4 MB)
