Picture Problem When I push the button to take a picture, the red light comes on and then the screen says "recording" for a quick second and then goes away and the flash never comes on. Technically, the picture is taken, but it never took a picture this way before. Also when I try to change the quality of the picture, a letter "M" flashes at the top of the screen and doesn't allow me to change it. Any advice will be appreciated! Thank you!

Hello,
the error light sequence that you are seeing is indicating a "backlight error". Most likely you have a bad inverter board -the board that powers up the back-lights behind the display panel. They might be available via ebay if you are a DIYer, or you need to call for sony service.
Good Luck!
Rich Lilja

How many red and green blinks to you see? (What pattern?)

If you can open than open your LCD tv & checked Inverter Borad it have White & red color connector may be this board is defective.

It is rear projection TV that use 3 picture tubes of red-green-blue to show color picture on tv front screen.
Do you see standby red light blinking when TV shuts off after showing blue image for a while?
If red standby light is blinking, please count it how many times it blinks, there would be 3 seconds pause between blinks so count pause to pause and post it here to find out possible solution.
Thanks.

Hello,

I just had this issue with my camera (my 15 year old son solved it for me ;-) ).

The viewfinder was active in "record" mode and the LCD was "active" because you could see a little back light but no image. The "playback" mode would let me review pictures in the LCD though so I know it is capable of showing information.

If you push the display key/button a couple of times you can see the picture move from the viewfinder to the LCD and have just a picture and or a picture and information.

So try setting the camera to "record" mode (lens comes out) and then push the "display button" which is on the back of the camera just to the right of the LCD on the lower right side several times and see if the LCD starts to work.

It could be that somehow the display button was pushed by mistake.

Bill

This should be a quick fix. Try resoldering the vertical IC. This is a small flat IC attached to a heat sink with about 11 pins. It should be marked LA7837 or something similar. That should resolve the problem.

Keep us posted.
Dan

I would replace the control box assembly that is the most common issue with those TVs

Nothing worked, so I bought a new camera.

Thanks...Carole

my polaroid model #3200  does'nt come on!  the light goes from red to blue and nothing,the picture stays black with no flashing or flickering

after i take a picture on my nikon coolpix the screen goes black for about 30 seconds before you can take another picture.