Received memory warning. Level=1 when showing a UIImagePickerController

Getting a "Received memory warning. Level=1" whenever I attempt to show a UIImagePickerController with a sourceType = UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3099029/received-memory-warning-level-1-when-showing-a-uiimagepickercontroller/6871294#6871294

Solution:

It is not about how much memory your app has used, because it will probably happen even when you write a very simple app which have only one view with one button, clicking the button and then open camera. I have tested on iPhone 3GS, iPad 2 and iPod touch 3G. It only happened in iPhone 3GS. I found it will not happen anymore if you restart you device before you execute you app.

Another real solution is to comment the code, [super didReceiveMemoryWarning], in your viewController.

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
    // Releases the view if it doesn't have a superview.
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];

    // Release any cached data, images, etc that aren't in use.
}

After lots of test on iPhone 3GS with iOS 4.3.2, I found the logic might like that: -> Open as much as app running on background -> Presenting a imagePicker of UIImagePickerController, clicking "Back" or "Save" from imagePicker -> ApplicationDelegate's method,applicationDidReceiveMemoryWarning:(UIApplication *)application, will be invoked -> Then ViewController's method, didReceiveMemoryWarning:, will be invoked -> Then viewDidUnload -> Then viewDidLoad

Then you could find some views have been released and the current view has been pointed to a unexpected one.

By default, [super didReceiveMemoryWarning] will run when ViewController'sdidReceiveMemoryWarning method is invoked. Commenting it, and viewDidUnload: andviewDidLoad: methods will not be invoked. It means the mem warning has been totally ignored. That's what we expected.