iPhone: UIImagePickerController Randomly Fails to Take Picture

Question

I use a UIPickerViewController to take picture. It works 80% but seemingly at random it fails to take a picture. In tracing the code I found out that it occasionally goes to

-PinRecordNewTableViewController:viewDidUnload. 

That is where it fails because it set nil to all ivars.

@interface PinRecordNewTableViewController : UITableViewController {
}
... 
@implementation PinRecordNewTableViewController
...
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
...
        PinRecordNewPicture *pinRecordNewPicture = [[PinRecordNewPicture alloc] initWithNibName:@"PinRecordNewPicture" bundle:nil];
        pinRecordNewPicture.delegate = self;
        [self.navigationController pushViewController:pinRecordNewPicture animated:YES];    
        [pinRecordNewPicture release];  
...             
}
@interface PinRecordNewPicture : UIViewController 
...
@implementation PinRecordNewPicture
...
- (void)picturePicker:(UIImagePickerControllerSourceType)theSource {

UIImagePickerController *picker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];

picker.delegate = self;
picker.sourceType = theSource;
picker.allowsEditing = YES;

[self presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES];

[picker release];
}

- (IBAction) takePicture:(id)sender {

UIImagePickerControllerSourceType source = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera;

    if ([UIImagePickerController isSourceTypeAvailable:source]) {

       [self picturePicker:source];

    }

What did I do wrong? Did I miss something that causes it to behave "randomly"?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

If it called viewDidUnload, then it is very likely that your app is running out of memory. This could be a problem, or just the result of editing large images in phone.