Webcam Randomly Turning Off During Video Calls

During a video call, my video will randomly stop. I can start it again without problem, but would love to figure out why this is occurring, so that I can stop it from happening. My video is showing perfectly fine in the Audio/Video settings.
The camera is showing as a FaceTime HD Camera. I'm on Yosemite 10.10.1 with Skype version 7.0 (653).
Has anybody experienced this before and know how to fix it?

Thank you! I'm glad I'm not alone. I've had my pre for about 6 weeks and I love it. So... I bought an INVISI-SHIELD for over $20 at Best Buy. Then the flickering and blank screens started a few days later. The only difference was the new protective, invisible, EXPENSIVE piece of plastic - so I trim it back to just the face (assuming it was a side sensor glitch) but it still didn't stop it. So I peeled off the skin tonight and it seems to be fine... for the time being.
A WARNING would've been nice before I spent my money. I want to be reimbursed by Sprint! Thanks community - it was nice to get help from YOU!

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Try a reset by pressing the home and sleep buttons until you see the Apple logo, ignoring the slider. Takes about 5-15 secs of button holding and you won't lose any data or settings.
If still a problem restore with your backup.
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My iphone 4 bought in portugal to vodafone is randomly turning off at full charge during phone calls is driving me crazy!!! It has been to vodafone twice.

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Hi, my iPhone 3GS (with iOS 5.0.1) turn off automatically during normal phone calls (i.e. without hands-free talking) after approx. 5 minutes. After a couple of minutes the iPhone come back to the normal "standby" situation, i.e. I can press the home button and unlock the iPhone to do everthing like normal (without any long phone calls). When I am using hands-free talking (like in the car) the iPhone is working as expected without any malfunction.
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Well, then I'm glad this is most probably not a hardware issue - at least not an exceptional, maybe defect of all? -. This seems to be a good idea, because 2G will nearly everywhere available, so phone calls are not likely to drop at all. I'm just a bit confused, because they promised intelligent switch even during calls. For me that means that if the better, faster connection is available, then it uses that, and if it wouldn't be, then it switches to the slower one.
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Thank you! I'm glad I'm not alone. I've had my pre for about 6 weeks and I love it. So... I bought an INVISI-SHIELD for over $20 at Best Buy. Then the flickering and blank screens started a few days later. The only difference was the new protective, invisible, EXPENSIVE piece of plastic - so I trim it back to just the face (assuming it was a side sensor glitch) but it still didn't stop it. So I peeled off the skin tonight and it seems to be fine... for the time being.
A WARNING would've been nice before I spent my money. I want to be reimbursed by Sprint! Thanks community - it was nice to get help from YOU!

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KBurd,
If the proximity sensor is covered by a case, your hand, or by being close to your face, the screen should go dark and unresponsive, but the call should not be disconnected.
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Hey all. I thought I'd ask around here because.. well, everywhere else has been entirely useless for me so far, barring improving my reception.
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Hi Awesomeist
Welcome to the forums.
This sounds like a strange situation indeed. I appreciate from your post you have tried all sorts of things to diagnose this.
If you email me at [email protected] with your account number and a link to this thread we can have this investigated.
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Me too....i am using xperia z....any update on this matter.

alexrx - I was not sure what the test is supposed to do.When I clicked on the Proximity Test in the meny I got a black screen that said "Proximity switch ON". It did not change if moving the phone around.
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Thank you for pointing me in the right direction :-D (I wish the guy at the Sony support chat had been able to do the same...)

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