Failed to initialize camera
 

Hi everyone,

I'm a new member here. I have a PPC 6700. All of a sudden my camera has stopped working and it gives me the following error:

"Failed to initialize camera. 36001:100:1"

This phone is not on warranty anymore. I'm just wondering if anyone here knows of a solution or anything to try. I tried using another software with the camera but it wasn't able to start the source.

I heard on another forum that it might be because I don't have enough room on a MiniSD card because I set it to that or something although I don't even have a MiniSD card and the weird thing is that it did this before but than worked again.

I've tried a soft and hard reset, I've also updated to Windows Mobile 6, which didn't fix the problem.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks and sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

Re: Failed to initialize camera
 

I was able to use a friend's MiniSD just a second ago and that didn't solve the problem. Another problem I have is that the data and time gets reset everytime I soft reset the phone.

Re: Failed to initialize camera
 

Since you already tried different software and it did not fix.....it could be starting to fail and stop working in the future all together.....the intermitt problems are the hardest to solve....it could also be a cold soilder joint, the camera board not seated properly on the mother board...loose connections..etc...

Re: Failed to initialize camera
 

Thanks for the response, I've opened up some phones before but I'm wondering where I could get some sort of tool to get it open?

Re: Failed to initialize camera
 

http://www.bellybuttonporn.com/wiki/...ur_PPC/XV_6700

Here is a great link on "HOW TO" disassemble the 67

It would be awesome if you could get a hold of another camera board assy to swap to see if you have a bad camera board.

Re: Failed to initialize camera
 

That link is great. I was searching around for camera parts and I found a thread on another site where someone took out there camera. After they took it out they showed what the phone said. Guess what "Failed to initialize camera. 36001:100:1", so it must be a hardware issue. I'm going to try and take the phone apart to see if there are any loose connections.

Re: Failed to initialize camera
 

i'm curious about the date and time resetting thing. saw that once on my palm, but never on my 6700. don't suppose theres a cmos battery eh? heh.

Re: Failed to initialize camera
 

I wanted to update everybody about my situation. So I took apart the phone a bit and I found out that camera unsnapped from where it was. I snapped it back in and voila! It worked. That's for the help here, I'm very happy :)

It must have came loose when I dropped it once. Very happy :) lol

Re: Failed to initialize camera
 

I searched up about this and there was a bug or something. I cannot find the patch for it though.

Re: Failed to initialize camera
 

i looked around too. i found some stuff about always having to pick a timezone with a treo 700w, but not much else. oh well.