Help HTC HD Camera app sometimes freezes

[Fluffmeister]

I'm using the HTC Desire HD, and use the standard camera app to take pics with it, and I prefer to use the touch-screen to take the pic rather than the physical button. Most of the time this works fine - I point the camera at a subject, a little white square appears in the middle of the screen (I think this is to do with auto-focus - if I turn off auto-focus, I don't get that), and I can take my pic.

Sometimes, though, the phone is really cranky about taking pics. I'll see the image in the main screen, I get all the buttons at the bottom of the screen, but none of them are responsive. I can't even use the back arrow to get out of the app.

I wondered if it was trying, and failing, to focus - but even turning auto-focus off doesn't cure it. I can eventually do it by pointing at various subjects - near, far and so on - and eventually it all works again. It seems to "go through phases" of doing this - some days it works fine, others it sticks like this on most photos.

Any suggestions? It's been working fine today so I can't try out the obvious step of using the physical button instead of the soft button, though obviously I'll try that next time it freezes up (I'm so used to using the soft button I'd *forgotten* there was a physical button until I started typing this post!)

 

[SUroot]

I'll ask a mod or guide to move this to the Desire HD forum

 

[Fluffmeister]

Hmm, is the software on the Desire and the Desire HD radically different? There are so few users of the HD in comparison, I'd have thought general software questions about it would apply to HTC users in general too. All the HD forums I ever post in never seem to get responses

 

[Goldheim]

The camera on the Desire HD is pants. I've had problems on and off since I got it. I'm afraid I can't help with your specific problem other than suggesting trying a photo app like Little Photo. My phone randomly deletes pictures I've taken - I'm assuming its all part of a camera software problem and nothing to do with the hardware but your case could be different?