I hit the camera icon, a black screen with a white camera icon pops up briefly then disappears back to the Home screen. Tried Camcorder as well. Help.

I tried rebooting and removing the battery, but as I saw from Advanced Task Manager, when it reboots, it reloads everything that was active when you turned it off. Tried just ending camera, and some other apps I thought might affect with no avail. As a final battle cry, I smashed "End All", got sent back Home, hit Camera... problem solved.

I had same problem when I got my replacement EVO. Pulled battery for 15 minutes and that fixed the problem.

Well, now you know it can be fixed w/o a 15 min wait period Replacement EVO? You mind if I ask what happened to the first one?

From what I am seeing with others and myself there are certain programs that are affecting the camera's functions within the startup script when they run in the background. The only program I have found so far to do this is pandora. Whether there is a variable or function call named similar to the camera's script I am unaware and haven't looking into how an EVO executes code and running programs. like stated above, I would turn off all background programs and try your camera. If that works and goes out again, try turning off one at a time to narrow down what is causing the freeze up within the camer's script. Hope that helps clear up a few things, but to me it is looking more like software conflicts rather than hardware issues.

Just do a factory reset

**Make sure you back everything up first**

Originally Posted by InstantMustache

I tried rebooting and removing the battery, but as I saw from Advanced Task Manager, when it reboots, it reloads everything that was active when you turned it off. Tried just ending camera, and some other apps I thought might affect with no avail. As a final battle cry, I smashed "End All", got sent back Home, hit Camera... problem solved.

Amazing... I had a similar issue where one day randomly my camera seemed to add an effect similar to 'sephia', also on the camcorder... As I read your steps in trouble shooting, pretty much the same route I had already started, about to take out the battery, I was extremely surprised to see the pent-up frustrations out lashed into hitting the phone... As I was laughing, I looked at my phone and gave my camera a stern tap, and... Ta DA!!!! It goes to show mechanical agitation works when you'd never expect it...
Thanx Instant Mustache!!!

So i noticed my camera not loading this weekend. I immediately thought it was the custom ROM I was using. I tried 3 different ROMs with the last one being stock and still its a no go. I'm pulling the battery now for 15 mins but don't have high hopes.

Well 15 minutes had passed, I threw the battery back in and amazingly it loaded... Wow. Did not see that coming. Thanks for the tip!