[android-developers] Camera picture taking memory error

In the app I'm working on, I'm using Camera.addCallbackBuffer and
Camera.setPreviewCallbackWithBuffer to control the camera preview.
BTW, this has been one of the best fixes in Froyo yet! No more GC
anymore!

I'm trying to take a picture, and sometimes it works, saving the image
to the sd card, and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't work, the
preview is frozen, but the app is still running. For instance, I can
still call up the menu. So its not locking up the app at all. I've
tracked it down to a memory allocation issue I believe. It seems that
the camera is using the buffers from the preview to store the picture
data. I could be wrong about this. I've upped the memory buffers
used in the addCallbackBuffer, and it seems it fix the problem, but
shouldn't there be a seperate buffer for the snapped picture data?

Is there a way to allocate a buffer for the Camera.takePictureCallback
routine to store the data into?
Is there a better way to make sure the Camera has enough memory to use
the addCallbackBuffers and take a full size photo?
Is anyone else experiencing this problem using the camera preview
buffers and taking a full size picture?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best,
Stephen Lebed
Developer of 'On The Level' and 'SL DigiSlate'

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