Taking videos on my 3gs camera locks up (freezes) the whole phone?

Hi
If I take even short videos using the camera on my 3gs, when I try to play back (or even open the camera function), the camera freezes (with the camera "shutter" closed). It locks up the whole phone and I have to do a hard reboot.
Even doing this, the same thing happens if you try to use the camera application. The only way I can clear it is to delete the video file from the phone, via windows file manager, as the camera app freezes before you can get at the file to delete it on the phone.
I have deleted old large video files, in case it was a memory capacity issue but doesn't help. It also locks up if you go into camera roll/video mode?
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Phil

Basic troubleshooting from the User's Guide is reset, restart, restore (first from backup then as new).  Try each of these in order until the issue is resolved.

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