IPod Touch 4G Camera Glitch

I'm finding it kind of weird how my ipod touch 4g (ios 5.0.1) camera's glitching. By simply touching the Camera app it starts up and as soon as the camera lense animation launches, I get a black screen. I cant switch cameras or take pics, you switch modes. But I did notice the bottom right screen where the slider between video and picture is jittery. It would flash alittle beside the camera icon and do nothing. I've tried resetting everything and restoring it, but I think its a hardware problem. Only thing thats funny is that when I enter facetime, the front camera works just fine, but when I switch to the rear camera, facetime freezes and disconnects the call. Any help? please and thank you.

To rule out a software problem try the following:
- Reset. Nothing will be lost.
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Retore from backup
- Restore to factory defaults/new iPod.

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