Finally fixed.
February 21, 2011
I blogged the other week that the camera virtual shutter on my iphone 4 wasnt opening… well i took it to the apple store today because i had enough of not being able to take pictures when i needed to… it turns out it was a hardware issue. The women was pleasant and suggested i go home and do a clean wipe… i wasnt really prepared to do that (as i read on the apple support forums) so i asked if she could do it for me and we could check and guess what? after a clean wipe the camera was still not working. So she replaced my iphone.
So if you are getting a frozen shutter it's a hardware issue even though it looks like a software issue…. my guess is the shutter is closed but only opens up when it communicates with the camera so if it's broken it cant. Seems to be a common problem looking at the apple support forums.
