Camera / Camcorder stopped working

Hi,
I don't know if this was a one-off bug or maybe a problem in the making.  But I went to the Verizon store at 8am Thursday 7/15 and got the Droid-X.  By 3pm Saturday 9/17 the camera / camcorder just stopped working. Black screen. No button functionality.  Did a battery removal "reboot" and also a hard factory reset.  Didn't fix it.
My replacement Droid came 7/22 and it seems fine now.  Sad news was - on my very first trip to Philadelphia - I had no camera / camcorder on the phone to document my trip.  Oh well.  Guess that means I have to make a return trip

B33's answers do make alot of sense, but I'd like to add a possibility if I could. You may try running in safe mode, and see if your cameras and recorder works then... if so, then the culprit messing up your vid cam and sound recorder is one of your 3rd party apps. Safe mode disables these for diagnostic purposes. Worth a shot...
Restart the Device in Safe Mode - DROID Mini / DROID Ultra / DROID Maxx by Motorola

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