First, go into
Settings, and choose
Applications.
From the
Applications menu, choose
Running Services.
When shown the list of
Running services, press the Menu key to show the option
Show cached processes. Select
Show cached processes.
Scrolling through the list of cached processes look for the
Camera app and select it.
When you select the
Camera process you will have the option to
Stop it. Choosing
Stop should successfully release the camera hardware.
After stopping the cached camera process, return to your home screen and try relaunching the camera app or whatever other app you were trying to run when you ran into the "Camera Failed" error message. It should now successfully start with access to the camera.
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