Droid 3 My camera is unable to initialize, help!!!

My camera just completely stopped working on me, I am completely irritated with this POSSESSED phone! Has anyone else experienced this issue, and how did it get resolved?

It may just not be recognizing your SD card.  Make sure it is fully inserted, then go to menu>settings>storage and, if the mount SD card option is shown, press it.

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