20 Most Recent HP Photosmart M417 Digital Camera - Page 5 Questions & Answers

My M417 that I just got at a garage sale works fine but when I put a set of freshly charged NiMH batteries in it will only work for a couple of minutes before the camera will say they are dead and shuts down. When I test the "dead" batteries they each have over 1.25 volts and flow over 8 amps through a dead short (the meter). I have upgraded the firmware. Any ideas?

Rob

Hi, my M417 acted the same way. Would only power on and then any button would only make a little "tick" sound. I also tried taking the case off and my camera worked as well. What I spotted was that the switches are little metal domes which pop down in the center when the plastic button is pressed to make a connection between metal traces on the circuit board. The little domes are not attached to the board but are only held in place and located by some thick clear tape over the board. A couple of my switch domes had "drifted" out of position and so when in the case they had enough pressure for their edges to be making contact at all times so they were always on. I lifted the tape with a small knife blade and slid the domes back to where they belonged and now the camera is back to normal!

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Sound like it was dropped and somone lied about it. Mine got dropped and it behaves in a similar fashon...something about a plastic pin that hold the parts of the telephoto lens together.I had a computer wonk guy lok at mine andit is the little pin on the bottom of the lens assembly inside the ring that snaps on and off. Mine would work if you help up on te bottom of the lens but the it stopped again...lotsa luck

Sounds like the camera was either dropped or hit with the lens extended.

I had this problem and opened the camera myself and was able to realign the lens. It is not easy to play with the lens but if you have the time it is possible. Just be careful about not losing the screws or touching components unless you have a ground strap to prevent static electricity from damagin the circuits.

Try the HP website and see if they allow you to choose spanish as your language. That way the downloads may be in spanish as well.

Buy a card reader to transfer your photos. It is much easier and faster. A decent SD card reader can be found online for about $5.

If the photos are important the first thing you want to do is get a memory card reader and use it to get the pictures off the card. A SD card reader can be found for about $5 bucks online and it will let you simply COPY and paste the pictures onto a folder on your computer. Make sure you COPY and not CUT because in case something goes wrong during the transfer you won't lose your precious photos.

It is possible that the camera driver is corrupted or deleted on your computer. Honestly it is not worth the hassle to deal with the camera drivers... it is much easier (and faster) to transfer the photos using a card reader.

I have a similar problem where the product stopped working and froze. No buttons worked, replaced batteries seveal times.

Spoke to Hp Customer service where they stated buy another camera??? It was out of warranty for about 2 months.

So I bought a Kodak camera with great customer support and will never buy another HP Product again.

My problem was solved!

But is the camera working? Check out the HP technical Support team-there may be an issue that are aware of and a reworked camera will come winging your way If the camera is more than a year old-repair is not an economic option

I had the exact same problem, and i had no luck finding a solution, so i was messing around with it, and i figured out what the issue was. Go to Menu and then to the SETUP option. When you scroll down there should be a USB option. Change it from Digital Camera to Disk Drive, and your computer/camera will register that it has a card in it!

I had the exact same problem, and i had no luck finding a solution, so i was messing around with it, and i figured out what the issue was. Go to Menu and then to the SETUP option. When you scroll down there should be a USB option. Change it from Digital Camera to Disk Drive, and your computer/camera will register that it has a card in it!

I suggest you try to use a different memory card. If it doesn't happen again then it's probably a bad memory card.

Hi yban, Not sure if this will solve it but many times such problems occur from 2 reseaons A) loose parts in the battery compartment - causing cutting electricity. See if you can detect any problem there. B) when the memory card is damaged or not well placed. Try running it with an alternative memory and see if the problem reoccurs. Let me know if this helped. Thanks, D.

HP PhotoSmart 635 Digital Camera

If it's an "SD" card, there's a switch on the side of the card.

The date and time (and a lot more) are stored with every picture in its EXIF metadata. Any photo viewing/editing program should be able to display this data. To print this data, please consult the documentation for whatever program you're using to print your pictures. Depending on the program and printer you may print the date on the image, in the margins, or on the back. Some cameras can deface your pictures by scrawling a string of numbers across them. Refer to your camera's manual. If you require further assistance, please add a comment to your question and specify the model of your HP camera.