Freezing?

Wow! It works like a magic touch!
You are a genius!
Appreciate your help! You saved my day!

I just wanted to say thank you soooooo much I would have never thought to do that not only am i able to take pictures again the line in the middle of the screen is gone... You don't know how happy you just made me... and you saved me $200 bucks because i was going to by a new camera that would have been my third one....




Now i can take pics of my baby new teeth.... thank a million... :-)

The "hitting trick" did not work for my z8612. Is there any new tip to fix it. (camera hanging, it can't switched off)

Fantastic...... I was about to put it in the rubbish. My Canon A520 froze with the lens out. I took it to repair shop and they quoted £60 to repair. Having read this I gave the camera a couple of bumps against my desk and heypresto it started to work. Thanks very much for great advice and I'm not normally lucky !

ENTIRE camera not working, and you might think it is broken or the batteries are not working -- most likely you will change to new batteries, but nothing works.

"jackboy", who is a person on this site helped me; and I say thanks to him! The batteries were NOT making contact. I noticed the door has been a little uneven in one spot. After pressing the outside of that side to make the contacts on the door completely touch the batteries, IT WORKED!!! I just placed scotch tape around that one edge, and I'm taking pictures just fine!

This site is WONDERFUL!!!

Unbelievable
I have a QV-R61 that had frozen with the lense out and blank screen. I did as I was advised and gave it a few sharp taps and it worked, fantastic. The thing is I was ready to take it round the camera repairers tomorrow and pay up to £50 to get it fixed.
Colin

OMGosh the damn thing worked after hitting it a few times. Wow thanks soooo much everyone for your help. I was loosing my mind when Target wouldn't take it back and Aiptek headquarters were closed for the weekend. I can finally shut it of after it froze up on me. Thanks soooo much

Oh bother! I have had this freezing problem with my brand new S860! What I kept doing was just opening up the battery compartment and closing it back up, and it seemed to help. I will just try the hitting or shaking but......GEEZ!
BUT THIS PROBLEM IS NOT SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN. It makes me nutzzzzz.
You go to use the camera , it won't turn on. Or you go to shut off the camera, it won't shut off. There has to be a permanent fix for this stupid problem. :)

Omg, it worked right away! Thank you so much for that tip

I dont know what's wrong with my camera, tried hitting it. Its DSC H3 bought just 40 days back and it was working just a week back.

Problem: I cant switch it ono, tried my battery in other sony camera and the other camera worked :-(

any solutions please ?

Thanks in advance

Manu

Worked right away for my camera! Thanks!

HAD PROBLEM WITH MY HP733 NOT COMING ON AT ALL. CHECKED THE LITHIUM BATTERIES WITH A METER , SAID OK,, IN THE GREEN,, BUT,, CAMERA WOULD NOT FIRE UP. TRIED THE SHAKING THE CAMERA TRICK, NO LUCK.
REPLACED WITH BRAND NEW BATTERIES,,, THAT WAS THE PROBLEM, SO DONT TAKE FOR GRANTED THE BATTERIES ARE OK EVEN IF THE METER SAYS THEY ARE. WORKS LIKE NEW AGAIN AND LITHIUM IS THE ONLY BATTERY FOR A DIGITAL CAMERA. HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE.

Holy! I can't believe it worked. I have looked everywhere, in my manual, online, and nothing! No help. This was the only thing I've found. I truly had my doubts, but it worked for me. Good luck.

Awesome. I was about to go buy a new Dimage z3 because it was zoomed all the way out and useless. Gave it a slightly rough tap, and viola the lens works again!
Thank you so much!

I just tried dropping my camera, also banged it against my hand several times. It worked. My C330Kodak is back in working order.

didn't work for me! (hitting the camera) very frustrated!

Help! The "hitting" trick did NOT unlock my Pentax 33LF. Any other suggstions?! Thanks, :) Char

Thank you so much for this tip. It worked! After hours of searching the internet and waiting from a resonse from the HP support group I was about to give up when I decided to try one last time and ran into this Website. I just held the camera about an inch above my mouse pad and let it go. It really worked!!!

Worked like a champ! My PDR-3310 was locked up (open) and wouldn't respond to anything. I held it about 3/4 of an inch above a wooden table top and gave it a firm (but not too firm) rap. Cleared the problem!

THANKS!!!!

Nothing like the ole "Vertical Radical Impact Test" ...

John

This suggests a loose connector in this case, may not be so in others. An alternative is to gently squeeze the casing, here and there , particularly the battery compartment cover -a loose contact causing power loss.