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G1 phone camera doesnt take pictures

I have a g1 htc phone my camera turns on but it doesnt take any pictures..doesnt snap either..all it does is shows a small green dot on top right hand side of the screen whenever i press the picture capture button

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  • syedali1987 Oct 28, 2008

    thanks for trying to fix my problem buddy but the thing is...i tried to do w.e i cud is there any way besides pushing the button longer...or harder ...i mean i have even holded the button for like 15 seconds..and also pushed it hard ..i noticed the two levels of button one for focus and second takes picture but all it does is blinks the green stupid light.

  • Anonymous Dec 08, 2008

    My phone only takes picture sometimes.  I hold the button all the way down and it just keeps focusing.  How is this camera supposed to work?  Am I doing something wrong or should i send phone back?

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As the others said, there are the two settings. I had a similar problem, then realized how it worked. You need to not press very hard while it focuses first. Then you can press all the way down, if you hold it all the way down, it doesn't recognize that you've already passed the first "Focus" pressure point and gone into the second "Capture" pressure point.

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Because the camera has Mechanical Focus the camera button has 2 Pressures, Holding The first 1/2 of the button press will enable to Mechanical Focus to work, And then once the green dot is shown telling you its in focus, pressing the button all the way down will then take your picture !

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The green dot shows up to let you know it is in focus. To take the picture you need to push the button past that point...

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