PC recognising my Ipad as a camera

I am trying to get started but my laptop recognises the Ipad as a camera and will only allow me to open it with picture viewer. I tunes doesn't detect it either - I have upgraded my OS to make sure it wasn't that but still get the same error.
Can anyone help??

Hi Andie,
Is the Apple Mobile Device Service installed and running?
This article: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1495 provides general tips that might help.
Message was edited by: whatheck - The iPad should be recognized as a camera, if you have taken a screenshot.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
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Your computer thinking your iPad is a camera is a common problem. When I connect my iPad to my computer the computer starts a camera application and wants to download photos from the iPad. To work around this here are two suggestions:
1. Just quit the camera software that starts up and start up iTunes instead.
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Another way. You can use a USB flash drive & the camera connection kit.
Plug the USB flash drive (works the same with an SD card) into your computer & create a new folder titled DCIM. Then put your movie/photo files into the folder. The files must have a filename with exactly 8 characters long (no spaces) plus the file extension (i.e., my-movie.mov; DSCN0164.jpg).
Now plug the flash drive into the iPad using the camera connection kit. Open the Photos app, the movie/photo files should appear & you can import. (You can not export using the camera connection kit.)
Using The iPad Camera Connection Kit
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4101
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4106
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 Cheers, Tom

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