Camera icon next to "slide to unlock"

iphone 4: Why doesn't the camera appear next to "slide to unlock" bar after updating to 5.0.1 as it did in 5.0

Thank you for asking that question - I've been trying to figure this out for a while now.  I finally caved and brought my phone into the Apple store this afternoon and no one there could figure out why I didn't have the camera icon on the lock screen either.  I was told to reset my phone to the original settings, then load from the back up and that should do it - nope.  Yet no one told me, or even knew?, that you had to double tap the button.  Why don't they say that anywhere, all the advertisements on TV, and video on the website never says or shows that. 
And what's the point of the 'quick access' to the camera button from the lock screen if you have to remember to double tap the home button??  You'd think at this point they would have had that figured out - unless double tapping the home button had been used for other things in the past that I just didn't know about?  Very frustrating past couple of weeks trying to figure this out, and all over a little camera icon!  Thanks for letting us know how to access it, I honestly wouldn't have figured it out - and clearly the staff at the store didn't have a clue either!

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