iPhone Camera not saving pictures

No... I refuse to believe that my old iPhone, which I took over 5000 pics with, suddenly had issues (which never occurred before), hours after I installed 1.1.4... and it's not related.
I get a NEW phone, upgrade to 1.1.4, and camera is essentially broken.

The common denominator here (aside from the whole 'iPhone' thing), is 1.1.4.

I have had the same (very annoying) issues since upgrading to 1.1.4.

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How do I ssh onto the phone as root? I think you are right on the answer. Its either the DCIM is not there, or it is no longer writable by the camera function.

This thing is plugged into a usb port on an XP box. Can I do this from the phone itself like ssh localhost or something?

RDF

Albeit the owner of the folder is mobile,
i followed your steps precisely (with -R
switch to chown command), Tada now i'm able
to see the pictures.

Thanks very much pal, thats wonderful.

Had the same problem. deleted backup & reset all. It works! waiting for sync to finish. If it still works you won't hear back from me. Mine also bummed out about a month ago. BTW; It has had a badly cracked screen for 3 months & everything else worked like a charm til the update.

thanks, it works !
but i have to say that i hade to enter:
cd /var/mobile/Media/DCIM:
and change permissions on the "100APPLE" folder to 777 and that is it !
maybe its becoz im on 1.1.4 , i dont know ...

thank you 🙂

hey 🙂
for windows you can use WinSCP (free and wireless) to enter your iphone and do whatever you want.

you can google "download WinSCP" and download it.

the ownership fix was the root of the problem... i think 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 changed owners from root to mobile because of the SDK. for some reason, it must have missed changing the owner of the DCIM folder. since the camera.app is programmed to attempt to store as mobile, it didn't have appropriate permissions.

I've got the same problem suddenly today, after taking hundreds of pictures with 1.1.4 trouble-free.

I really wish this topic contained a definitive response (from Apple!)

My wife's phone has had the problem twice. The first time it was resolved by doing a restore not from backup. Of course she lost precious notes and all of her settings. It has happened again, so I was looking for a less destructive solution. The priviliges and .xml file solutions intrigue me, but I don't know how to get to them. Is someone willing to step through that process? Does it involve Terminal? If so, I'd need very clear instructions.

Thanks

iPhone 8Gb 1.1.4

OK, this is not answered. Not by Apple in a permanent way. I am surprised I am still having this problem. Every now and then after an update, I think... maybe this time I can actually import my photos and delete the originals... and when I do... I end up with the same non-functioning camera. Seems to be a permissions problem... well maybe they could perhaps just fix the issue that causes the permissions to get changed? So yeah, restoring my phone to factory, taking a pic, then restoring my last backup works - but it also takes like an hour out of my day that I don't need to be wasting.

What do we have to do to get Apple to read this forum?

Meh.

Short of performing an unsuccessful Restore and wiping all your settings (like I did), simply try this.

1. Disconnect your iPhone from your Mac (have not tried this on Windows) that you use for Syncing.

2. Go to User/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/ and search for this file:
f1b43d3b3ecf259a3626c13a8b0cebd8ba513117.mdbackup

2. Delete said file.

3. On your iPhone, go to Settings/General/Reset/Erase All Content and Settings

4. Your camera should again shoot and capture pics, as advertised.

Worked for me (while on a beach vacation/friends' wedding trip)!
Hope this helps others.

Thanks, Scott Robinette. I was able to use your solution (posted above this) and it totally worked for me. Granted, it would have been nice to get a new iPhone but... it's just as well. Best of all, my Notepad stuff was restored perfectly too (92 notes, only 4 of which I took the precaution of backing up). Everything seems to work.

8GB

I should just copy your post as my wife's iPhone has taken the same dump twice now as well. I am trying to find a common denominator as to why this is happening. I am thinking apps that sync with the phone might be a place to look. My wife and I have our iPhoto database in a shared directory so we both access the same photos, which also causes our iPhones to sync to the same database. I am wondering if this has anything to do with it. Do you have a similar setup by chance? Maybe if one of us has iPhoto open and the other switches profiles and tries to sync their phone it freaks...? Just tossing out ideas that may or may not help this discussion figure out the issue. Thanks,

Duncan

I don't seem to have that file. I have many like them in the folder but not that one. Does it matter? Should I delete all of them? This looks kind of destructive. Are these the backups? If I blow away the phone and delete my backups then I will be hosed. Can you give more info please? Thanks,

Duncan