SCAREY Black squares-"patches" in camera roll

how to remove black patches in the camera roll on the iphone?....

First remove all the photos from your phone and do a hard reset (home + power buttons until the apple logo appears)... Then check to make sure you have no black boxes....
Then try installing photos in bunches rather than all at once. There are a few ways to do this using the "selected photos" option in the photo tab in iTunes. I like to do it in small groups - say 10 photos at a time - until the problem shows up again ...once I find black boxes, I would remove that group and then sync those photos one at a time until I find the problematic one... and just keep on doing this until you isolate the problems - delete the problem photos (or put them in an album that you won't sync) as you locate them.
Other people recommend syncing half your photos - if black boxes appear in that group... delete the photos from your phone and then divide that group in half (sync 1/4 of your photos), etc. etc until you find the problems.
One thing that helped me find some of my corrupt photos (18 out of more than 15,600!) was that sometimes (but not always) iTunes would give me an alert box saying that a certain photo (identified by the file name) and XX others couldn't be sync'd because it wasn't in the correct format. So this helped me locate about half of the bad ones as I was going through the process. Unfortunately, iTunes never gave me more than one file name at a time - it would be nice if Apple revised that error message to give you a list of everything that was "in the wrong format."
So as not to lose the photos, my plan was to export them from iPhoto, delete the ones in iphoto, open the exported photos in another application and resave them before importing them again into iphoto. But as it turned out, every one of my corrupt photos turned out to have a duplicate in iPhoto... I can't say if this was indicative of the issue, but if you have a lot of photos you might want to try creating an album of just your duplicate photos and see if this is indeed a bad group.
It's a time consuming process, but worth it. If those corrupt files are causing issues in the phone, they might very well be causing other issues in your system.
By the way, once I got rid of the corrupt photos, syncing was infinitely faster....so I guess they were really hanging up the process
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I have a 16GB iPhone 3G.
I updated to iOS4.0 the day it came out, and other than the slowness that everyone else was reporting, I didn't have any other issues.
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blob in my camera roll. As posted in an earlier thread, here's
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