Ipod touch camera will not open and bottom is flickering.
So, this has happened before. A long time ago, last year, my ipod had water damage. So i turned it off, left it in rice for a few days and it worked again. It's been working for about a year up until now again. As far as i know, the ipod has had no water damage what-so-ever since then. But, just to be sure, I immediately turned it off and put it in rice. That didn't solve the problem. So I went online and people said If I updated my ipod software to ios.5 then it would resolve the problem... It didn't. I've turned my ipod off for days and turned it back on to still find the problem. I've even reset my ipod 5 times. I don't know what to do... When I press the camera, it's either all black or the shutter is closed. And almost always at the bottom, the camera/video slider is flickering. Please please please help.
And, it's never been broken or cracked, and protected when dropped... So I doubt it's a hardware problem
- Have you tried just restoreing the iPod to factorydefaults/new iPOd?
- Also see this previous long-running discussion
Camera shutter issue: Apple Support Communities
- The problem may be due to the previous liquid intrusion. Sometimes it can take awhile for some damage to occur.
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