Sony Cybershot DSC-W150,screen reads turn power on and off again

I was blown away when I Googled this problem and found the bizarre suggestion (rapping the lens on a frim, padded surface). I tried it -- and tried it, and tried it -- and about the SIXTH time (rapping it firmly several times on each try), it worked! This is so unbelievable! Thanks to this forum for a $00.00 solution!

So I read the solutions posted here...was thinking, hmm...hitting my sony with its lense on my knee, doesn't sound like the route I want to take. I looked some more in the various forums, nothing...so what the heck, the knee trick it is. I wasn't even particularly firm with the camera-knock-on-the-knee (three "girly taps" really), and low and behold the thing works again!! Great tipp!!

My wife gave up on the cyber-shot and so had I, so nothing to lose! 3 firm taps on the knee with the lense extended, then I powered off. Sure enough it worked perfectly when I switched it on again!!

You may not believe this,but I just got so upset that I banged the camera on my knee with the lens out and it fixed it...it truly works...

You may not believe this and I hope you haven't spent a lot of money fixing your problem. I read that some people had a different error message coming up on their Sony Cybershot DSC-W150's and in order to fix it, they literally banged the lens against their knee while the lens was out and it re-focused and the error message disappeared. I tried this while my camera was doing exactly what you described above AND IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After 2 or 3 firm blows, my LCD screen came up and focused. I can't believe it myself, but I was just desperate enough to try it and VOILA!
Good luck!!

Hi, Lens requires manually restting. If you in the U.K , I can help you out.
p.m me at kiddo242@hotmail.com