I have been noticing this problem for almos a week now on my Droid. It started when I installed Bugless Beast. I noticed the battery life at idle became 3 hours or less. Alot of troubleshooting, reinstalling, factory resetting, cache wiping later, still had the problem.
Finally I downloaded OS Monitor and found out that a process called "camera" was using 70 - 95 percent of the cpu's capacity! I killed the process, and the battery cooled down (from 41 degrees+ to about 30) and the cpu was at 7 percent capacity idle, and things were normal.
Until I noticed the battery heat up and the charge almost dead later that night! Sure enough "Camera" was back. Killed again, rebooted phone but it's there from the start.
I didn't realize until now that it would happen after trying to view a picture or use the camera. It seems each time I go to Gallery or try to use the camera is when that process runs that drains the cpu like that. But neither the Gallery nor the camera work! They hang and say "loading" forever, with kind of a blurry background that never changes, as if the camera tried to turn on for a second... which doesn't make much sense when just opening a picture file with the Gallery...
So I'm pretty much stuck here. I can continue killing the process when it pops up but I cant view pictures or use the camera! Fortunately i have nswPlayer to view pictures and video in the meantime
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