Got Camera Problems with iPhone 2.1?
Since upgrading to iPhone firmware 2.1, from time to time my camera preview — and the pictures themselves — have taken to breaking apart and re-arranging themselves into something pretty much unusable (though likely to fetch a pretty penny at the snootier, more vacuous galleries, no doubt).
The above picture was of a plain surface, now broken into a patchwork of planes. Happens with faces, people, and just about everything. It’s not happening regularly enough, however, that I’m close to considering the nu-cu-lar option — full on restore.
Anyone else having this problem?
October 5th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
The iPhone is so amazing that it creates its own artwork… what has apple NOT thought of? Apple FTW :]
October 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
This has happened to me twice, though never to the artistic effect seen above. In both cases, the next photo came out just fine. It is odd, though.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I’ve never had that happen… yet.
October 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
I have had this problem, but it was on 2.0.2, my wife has also had this problem on 2.1, both are 16 gig 3G’s, one black and one white.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
This happened to me only once, on the first day that I had my new iPhone 3G (2.0.2 software) and it freaked me out! I was considering taking it back to apple but, fortunately, it only happened the once and it seems fine now with the 2.1 software.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
I’ve had the exact same thing happen with a picture I recently took near Hana, HI. Here is a link to the picture: http://gallery.me.com/dblumberg#100082
October 5th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
happened to me twice yesterday a few hours apart. First times in 2.1
October 5th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Yep, I have that problem too. If there is a problem with 2.1 I have it!
October 5th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Hi,
i’m facing this problem too. also, camera got really really slow coming up since 2.1, and photos as well..
what have they done??
October 5th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
I am having this as well on 2.0.2. As much as I love the app store etc, it makes me want to go back to 1.1.4 where everything ran smooth and fast.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
It happened to me yesterday for the first time. The next pic was fine.
October 5th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Yea, I’ve seen this happen once on my brand new week old phone (came with 2.1 already installed). Don’t use the camera too much so I don’t know how often it happens.
October 5th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I haven’t had that problem, but like Nadav, my camera takes forever to start up now. I also don’t take a lot of pictures, so maybe it just hasn’t happened to me yet.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
I haven’t experienced the problem like the example, have noticed the camera takes a long time to open and the weirdest thing is some how I took a picture of the home screen.
October 5th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
dlester: if you hold the power button and press the home button, you take a picture of whatever’s on the screen. If you somehow manage to do this on accident, you’ll take a picture of the home screen.
October 5th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Nope. The camera works fine for me.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
I had this problem once pre-2.0.
October 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I like that picture uptere actualy, it my wallpaper on my iPhone now
October 6th, 2008 at 1:24 am
As others have said above, my phone has never taken a photo like that but I am running 2.1 and my camera application takes ages to start up. Also don’t forget how Safari still crashes randomly.
October 6th, 2008 at 6:44 am
This is happening to lots of people:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/iphonecubism/
October 6th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Nice!
October 6th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Once and never again.
October 6th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Happened to me twice just recently….
October 6th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I’m experiencing something really weird! I take the pictures and when I switch to the camera roll iPhone shows no pictures. Any suggestions?
October 10th, 2008 at 6:25 am
hasn’t happened to me (yet) (3g,16gb,2.1) but happened to my old iPhone (8gb, 2g, 2.1) on one and only photo
November 7th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
24 i have the same problem, any help?
November 13th, 2008 at 8:28 am
This has happened several times with my phone. Has apple offered any solutions yet to this one???
November 13th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Add me to the list. I get this one occasionally. When it happens, it only affects the 1st photo taken after launching the Camera App. Hope they can fix this in 2.2!
November 18th, 2008 at 10:52 am
yep – just started happening to me too on a first gen iphone with 2.1. just looking around to see if there is some fix, but i guess not. does seem to be the first picture when i launch the camera, but really annoying when i’m just trying to take a quick picture.
December 7th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Yes! Happens to me on a brand new device I purchased a few days ago with factory installed 2.1. Amusing…
February 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 pm
help – I inadvertenly lost my camera icon and i don’t know if the function is gone as well
April 16th, 2009 at 3:15 am
please help. i have the 1st iphone[4gb] and just yesterday my camera wont open up or my photos wont open up. it will go to the camera screen but before the “shutter” opens the program just closes itself. same with the photos. it will load up the white background but before it shows my folders it just closes its self
June 24th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
I have the cubism problem what can i do to fix it .. but to me it stayed on my camera my camera dosent take no normal pictures now .. what can i do?
August 14th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
the camera symbol has disapeared on my i phone what has happened to it? how do i get it back want to take more pictures?
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:35 am
hey i have the new iphone 3gs i got it ysterday, and i have the same problem as diana dodge! the camera symbol has disapeared on my i phone what has happened to it? how do i get it back want to take more pictures?
October 4th, 2009 at 2:42 am
I have the iPhone 3g with 3.0 software and my camera takes and stores the photos in the album but when I open my library the last ten photos disappear. Done this on and off for three weeks now. Any help?