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iphone software bug

dear developers,

my iphone stopped displaying my photos since shot 10,001.
they are still there when i want to access them from my computer, they show in the photo album count on my iphone, they show in the recent shot icon on the left of the camera. but they are not accessible and they are not on top of the stack.

i restarted and emptied the camera roll (which i do every so often anyways), but the count never starts over and i am still over 10,000.

i use 3.0 on a 16gb 3G and seem to be the first one to experience this problem.

formatting + restoring from back-up won’t help because the count will continue.

what can i do?

update: wow, i even got an email from an apple iphone team developer who said they were looking into the issue, and that it will be fixed with the next update.
but chris & waldemar had the right link: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9838758&tstart=0 …i downloaded the trial of phoneview, launched it, went into the folder structure and removed everything inside the DCIM folder. it acts like a camera folder with numbered subfolders. this workaround only took two minutes and now the numbering started over at IMG_0001.
oh, crowdsourcing is amazing!

  1. edscoble answered: I must says that an awful lots of photos taken and stored in the iPhone, perhaps it’s time to start deleting photos after it downloaded?
  2. joramoudenaarde answered: The most resolute option I can think of is to do a complete reset. Your iPhone manual (or the Apple support page) will tell you the key-combi
  3. 102828 answered: well i’m sure a restore to factory settings would work but there must be a better way…
  4. waldemarurban-blog answered: discussions.apple.com/t…
  5. adim86 answered: send a message to apple, im pretty sure u could get a new phone out of it, maybe the new 3GS :-)
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