You are happily shooting away. You sync your photos with iTunes (pictures or iPhoto) and then you shoot some more pictures. Some really great ones with your kid doing his first _____. You then go to look at the pictures and there is nothing but empty squares the photos were. You shoot more and everything looks like they save including the animation effects but nothings there.
Do two hard resets (back to activation), not the backup restore in iTunes and most of the bloggers say it will work, but you've just lost everything. Oh fun. One guy in an Apple discussion, says to jailbrake it and ssh into the phone and then do these commands because this issue is with the DCIM folder's permissions since Apple added the SDK support. Oh great, so I do I have to hack my iPhone to fix it. Thankfully no.
Someone else found the photo folder's backup file in the iTunes backup sync folder. You delete it. Reset all settings in your phone and presto, your BACK!!!
Here's his instructions...
Scott Robinette
Registered: Jul 31, 2004
Re: iPhone Camera not saving pictures
Posted: Apr 21, 2008 7:14 AM in response to: Derek Schaible
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.
8GB iPhone Mac OS X (10.5.2)
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