Hello. I have a Sony DSC-W80 When you switch it on the lens comes out but goes back in 3 times before a message appears on the screen saying turn off & on again still doesnt work. Can anyone help. Thanks

Maybe you can take a look to the Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-W80 Manual for finding the answer.

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Lens Errorfix for Digital Camera

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Hi!
If you're sure you didn't damage the lens flat cable which connect to the motherboard, the focus of the lens unit you bought on ebay doesn't work. You can simply replace the back part (with focus) of the new lens unit with your old one. It requires soldering.

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Hi, Focal lens out of sync. camera cannot initialise. Lens requires manually resetting. If you in the U.K , I can help you out.
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Lens of camera is bad and requires replacement that would cost more then camera worth. Best option is to buy another camera.

I jeremy- i was having the exact same problem today. I phoned Sony repair, who then had me take out the battery and hold down the power button for about 30 seconds..reinsert the battery and power up. Didn't fix it. I came home and read some posts on here. I ended up trying the gently twist the lens as it was zooming in and out..I twisted a little and pulled a little. About the third time, it worked. (I also held the power button down with the battery in, just to try..maybe that helped, too). Sony wants flat fee of $91 to fix..is that what they told you?

Whenever you switch on the camera the lense comes out to a certain places, stops and the camera is initialized to take the picture. In some cases when there is a friction in the movement of the lense, it does not comes out fully up to the proper position. so the camera mechanism draws it back and again pushes it out. this happens 3-4 times and if still the lense does not reaches its position it displays "turn the power off and on again" and the problem continues.

Your camera needs a repair of the lense assembly.

try gently pulling and twisting the end of the lense and i mean gentle dont pull till it pops than switch it off and on again and you problem should be solved

these are always lens error messages-the lens is stuck or off track and camera will need to be serviced

Can you please send me copy of dsc w80 software cd - if its too large to email, zip and store at mediafire.com or other file storage site.
THANKS!