Blurry image in Android front camera

Hey All,
I've been beating myself with this for a while, I need some help.
I am using the device's front camera. In iOS it's working great. In Android - I get this fuzzy image that shows me the front camera 3 times with black and white stripes (See image).
Here is my camera / video display related code:
<s:VideoDisplay id="vid" x="10" y="15"/>
private function getFrontCamera():Camera
   if (Camera.isSupported == false)
                                                  return null;
                                        var numCameras:int = Camera.names.length;
                                        if (numCameras == 0)
                                                  return null;
                                        if (numCameras == 1)
                                                  return Camera.getCamera("0");
                                        if (numCameras == 2)
                                                  return Camera.getCamera("1");
                                        return Camera.getCamera();
var LocalVideo:Video = new Video(vid.width, vid.height);
LocalVideo.attachCamera(cam);
vid.addChild(LocalVideo);
Note: This does not happen in Motorola for example, on other Andoird machines - it does.

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