title: Issues when capturing Multiple Photos: app stops responding, camera preview turns to green and no picture is saved
body: <p>I have successfully captured the single photo using camera in Android. But when I tried to capture 5 photos at once, app stops responding, camera preview turns to green and no picture is saved. What I saw in stack trace is as follows (partial)</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>03-17 14:19:54.804:
    INFO/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
    deinitPreview E 03-17 14:19:54.804:
    INFO/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
    deinitPreview X 03-17 14:19:54.804:
    DEBUG/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
    frame_thread X 03-17 14:19:54.834:
    DEBUG/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
    snapshot_thread E 03-17 14:19:54.854:
    DEBUG/CameraService(19268):
    takePicture (pid 20509) 03-17
    14:19:54.884:
    WARN/AudioFlinger(19268): write
    blocked for 85 msecs 03-17
    14:19:55.154:
    DEBUG/CameraService(19268):
    postShutter 03-17 14:19:55.284:
    DEBUG/CameraService(19268): postRaw
    03-17 14:19:55.314:
    DEBUG/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
    snapshot_thread X 03-17 14:19:55.344:
    DEBUG/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
    snapshot_thread E 03-17 14:19:55.364:
    DEBUG/CameraService(19268):
    takePicture (pid 20509) 03-17
    14:19:55.984:
    DEBUG/CameraService(19268):
    postShutter 03-17 14:19:56.064:
    DEBUG/CameraService(19268): postRaw
    03-17 14:19:56.074:
    ERROR/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
    native_jpeg_encode:
    jpeg_encoder_encode failed. 03-17
    14:19:56.074:
    ERROR/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
    jpeg encoding failed 03-17
    14:19:56.084:
    DEBUG/QualcommCameraHardware(19268):
    snapshot_thread X 03-17 14:19:56.154:
    INFO/DEBUG(19267): <strong>* <em></strong> *</em>* <strong>* <em></strong>
    *</em>* <strong>* <em></strong> *</em>* <strong>* <em></strong> *</em>* <strong>* <em></strong> *</em>* <em>*</em> 03-17 14:19:56.164: INFO/DEBUG(19267): Build fingerprint:
    'google_ion/google_ion/sapphire/sapphire:1.6/DRC83/14721:user/adp,test-keys'
    03-17 14:19:56.164: INFO/DEBUG(19267):
    pid: 19268, tid: 20813  >>>
    /system/bin/mediaserver
    ...
    ...
    ...
    14:19:59.894: INFO/ServiceManager(46):
    service 'media.camera' died 03-17
    14:19:59.894: WARN/Camera(20509):
    Camera server died! 03-17
    14:19:59.894: WARN/Camera(20509):
    ICamera died 03-17 14:19:59.894:
    ERROR/Camera(20509): Error 100 03-17
    14:19:59.915: WARN/AudioSystem(71):
    AudioFlinger server died! 03-17
    14:20:00.014: INFO/Process(71):
    Sending signal. PID: 18636 SIG: 3
    03-17 14:20:00.054:
    INFO/dalvikvm(18636): threadid=7:
    reacting to signal 3</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I am calling the <code>takePicture</code> method in a loop to capture multiple photos;</p>
  
  <pre><code>for(int m = 0 ; m &lt; 6; m++) {
  
      mPrimCamera.takePicture(null, mPictureCallbackMet, mPictureCallbackMet);
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am doing this on HTC Magic running Android 1.6. I think, I am using the wrong way to take multiple photos. <strong>What is the correct way to capture multiple photos using Android Camera API?</strong></p>