Using front camera with camera wrapper

[juannoguera]

I am trying to take pictures with the front camera using the camera wrapper.

I figured out that to access the front camera I have to construct the CCameraEngine object with:

iCameraWrapper = CCameraEngine::NewL(1, 0, this)

that triggers a call to MCameraEngineObserver's method MceoCameraReady(), which looks like follows in my current code:

void CPictureTaker::MceoCameraReady()
	{
	if (iCameraWrapper->State() == CCameraEngine::EEngineIdle)
		{
                iCaptureSize = TSize(640, 480);   // Captured picture size
		TRAPD(err, iCameraWrapper->PrepareL(iCaptureSize));   // Prepare camera
		if(!err)
			{
			iTimer = CSPTimer::NewL(this);
			iTimer->StartL(CConfiguration::iConfiguration.iPictureTime * 1000);
			}
		}
	else
		{

		}
	}

I am trying this on a 6210, 6710 and 5800, which all have front camera. In all cases, PrepareL() leaves with -5 (KErrNotSupported). After leaving, the MCameraEngineObserver's method MceoHandleError() is also called with aErrorType = EErrAutoFocusMode and aError = -5 (KErrNotSupported).

Not sure why this is happening. I am not calling any autofocus function whatsoever yet. But the thing is that, since PrepareL() has failed, I can't actually take any picture with the front camera.

What am I doing wrong?, or is it not possible to take pictures with front camera?