CM-7 Camera issue

I've been poking around the blog for a while and have picked up some great tips for my ascend. I started with rooting then went the Icarus 1.1 route. Curiosity overcame me then I flashed CM-7 (one of the earliest) and was a little overwhelmed with how bleeding edge it was. I was not happy with camera bugs so I downgraded to CM-6 for a while. This got rid of camera issues, but I liked the cyanogen tweaks more in CM-7. Finally I got bold and flashed the 05142011 release of CM-7 and everything settled in and worked fine for a few days (even the camera). Little by little I re-installed apps that I had been using on Icarus and CM-6 but something broke the camera again. After multiple reboots I got it to work briefly then exited camera then went back in only to have it FC.

I tried uninstalling those apps one by one to see which one was offending but am having no success.

Anyone else having problems with CM-7 camera after it was initially working? If you fixed it, what worked? Is it possibly related to GPS (geo-tagging)?

At this point I am going to backup and re-flash...
If that doesn't work I am going back to CM-6 for good. I need my camera to work.

 

As it turns out I found the culprit. Barcode scanners cause camera to crash on my phone. After re-flashing and installing barcode scanner, it crashed my camera immediately. I uninstalled it and cleared my caches then re-booted now the camera works ok.

 

I have been able to get the barcode reader to work occasionally but I have never had it crash my camera completely. It is something I can live without I guess until I can afford a phone with a better camera, more memory, faster processor, etc....

I did only pay about $130 for the thing with no contract, can't complain too much I 'spose. It has been a good platform to learn on. Now I know what I really want in the next phone.