iPhone 5 camera shutter wont open

[wakeuphicks]

OK just bought the 5 a few weeks ago and this is my first apple product. My camera worked just fine for about a day and then the camera shutter locked up and wont open now. It did come back briefly for a few minutes one time and allowed me to take a picture, but now its been locked for weeks and will not let me click anything on the camera screen at all.
Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[dictoresno]

the shutter not opening as in you see the sctual shutter closed on the screen when you enter the camer app?

this has been well documented since the iphone 4 (google search it). its usually caused by a hardware defect, namely the camera module itself failing. you can try to restore the phone and see if its a software issue. if not, bring it to apple for a free replacement.

my friend had an iphone 4 with this problem, i had to replace the camera module itself and it worked again.