After replacing battery now Camera doesn't work

YES!!! WHOO HOO! What worked for me is to take the motherboard right out and unhook the camera, and then connect the camera to the mother board when it is out so you can get a better view and access to it. That way it is much easier to make sure that the camera has a good connection to the motherboard. Then place the motherboard and the camera back on together. It worked For me after having the same camera problems after installing a new battery.

Hope you have the same good luck as I did. GOOD Luck To Ya!

i have the same issue after replacing the battery the camera no longer works.

Brought a new camera module but its still doing the same thing.

Tried restoring, rebooting, hard powering nothing seems to work.

When i load the little camera program the shutter is closed and the icons for the camera switch to video flashes.

I thought perhaps the pins that the flexi cable plugs into might be damaged but that doesn't seem to be obviously apparent.

next option will be to take it to an apple fix shop and hope they can sort it.

hey....an solution??? I have same problem...after iphone demonting camera doesnt work...I tried it reconnect 4 times but not lucky :(( shutter still closed but i can switch between camera and photocamera...help please

Verifying the plate/pieces is screwed in properly and making contact seems to be a fix. It must work itself loose after a while though because I have had to do this a couple times. But I can confrim this works unless this is an unparralelled coincidence each time I verify it is tight and making contact.

I did the steps suggested by JeffreyV1 and it worked out!!

Thanks for sharing this @JeffreyV1!! Now my camera is back again!

So the problem for me was that the camera wasnt connected to the motherboard. These very small "metal surfaces" that connects the camera to the device have to be connected correctly. Somehow this didnt happend when i just tried to screw back the motherboard, after replacing the battery.

Here is a step by step guide of what I did to get it working:

1) Remove the motherboard and take it out of the case.

2) Remove the camera by removing a screw on top of "the camera box" (this is the screw that presses a little metal plate toward the surface)

3) Now, gently, try to remove the camera and place it next to the motherboard.

4) Connect the motherboard with the camera. This was a little tricky, (make sure that it is pluged in correctly)

5) Now take the whole package (that is the motherboard connected with the camera) and place it back in the case, push the camera back in its correct position. Try to get the motherboard to match the screw holes .. It´s a little tricky to get it in exatly but with a little patient (and a little force=) it´s gonna work out.

6) Then it is just to get everything together and hopefully your camera is working as well!

Good luck!

this worked perfectly and fixed my camera. thanks