Nokia N95-1 - Main Camera & Accelerometer Problems...

Over on our forums, N95users.com/forum, there is a steady increase in members experiencing these problems where their main camera, and accelerometer do not work as they should.
This is with the N95-1 model.
Several members have reported that since upgrading their handsets firmware to V30, they lost the use of their main camera, and when enabling ASR, (Auto Screen Rotation) the phone either freezes, or crashes, and ends up going round in a continuous loop, with the only way to resolve the issue is to remove the battery, as trying to switch off the device does not work.
At first, when I first started reading about members experiencing this issue, I assumed, that these members may of dropped their N95 at some point, causing hardware damage to the Accelerometer, which we know the main camera uses also, thus resulting in the combination of the two issues.
Now that there are more several registered members experiencing these problems after upgrading their firmware to either V30, or V31, not to mention many other owners no doubt who are not registered, I can only post here in the hope that someone in the know at Nokia may read this, and investigate the issue further, and try and resolve it in a future firmware release.
Its clearly a firmware related problem, hence my posting here on behalf of all the members of our forums who have posted for help, and advice with these issues.
I will link this thread within N95users.com and try, and get as many members to post up in here too, in the hope they will be heard.
If you own an N95-1, and also have experienced these problems as detailed above, please reply in this thread please.
Thanks
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Hi there! I've manage to solve my problem! I've bought the back camera (of a N95-2) and the front camera and installed them on my N95-1. And now works fine.
I've noticed that I couldn't hear the click associated with the opening of the shutter. So I knew there was something wrong with the back camera. I saw the opportunity of nice deal on E-Bay, of N95-2 5Mpx camera, and it’s the same for the N95-1. I’ve got it on the phone and the accelerometer and the back camera worked perfectly. But the front camera continued not to work, it appeared 9999 photos left (or something like that) and I couldn’t see an image. I’ve bought a new one, from E-bay, also, and now everything in the phone works perfectly for the past few weeks.
Note that I’m using the 31.0.17 firmware. But this is kind of strange, because both cameras stopped working after firmware update. I don’t know if they were damaged during the update process. For now I’ll stick to this firmware leaving updates alone.
Best Regards, and hope this info can help anyone!
PS: I’m Portuguese so, sorry for my bad English.

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