I completely agree with Jon Bright
I couldn't figure out what was going on for a week, I ignored the setType on the surface holder because the SDK said it was deprecated, ie.
"This method is deprecated. this is ignored, this value is set automatically when needed."
But if you don't do that, it will crash on setPreview. This is running 1.5 SDK (I need it to be backwards compatible to that) on a Galaxy S with 2.1. So make sure you set the type. Not quite as automatic as the documentation makes it sound.
