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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Hoek, the Netherlands
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Battery problems since firmware update
As owner of a PDW-F330 I experience battery problems after the firmware upgrade last october. My camera seems to restart itself at random. It blacks out totaly for a moment and then turns back to normal operation. This bug makes one battery, a Sony BP-L90A nearly unusable. Another Sony battery has this problem too, but not so often. I hoped for a fix with the latest firmware update. The document that came with the update mentions a problem like mine. But the problem seems getting worse.
Has someone else experienced the same problem with older Sony batteries? Any suggestions? Last edited by Klaas van Urk; March 18th, 2007 at 02:07 AM. |
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The problem had noting to do with the update at all. I bought one of the first cameras. The pins on the bottom of the battery-plate were of a new type. After a few month they where worn out. Resulting in unreliable contact between battery and camera. Prime support replaced them with the ones used on former models. The problem is solved.
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I did have a different but strange occurrance yesterday. While having the camera attached to my laptop in FAM mode, I was creating a clip list and wasn't accessing the camera although it was powered on and attached, showing 'PC Remote' on the display. All of a sudden, I hear Windows make its little device disconnect sound and looked over to find the camera no longer showing pc remote. I cycled the power to the camera and all was okay again. -gb- |
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: San Diego, CA
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Sometimes that windows "Be-bunk!" sound can be caused by a shoddy firewire cable. Check that first.
Then, it could be a driver conflict. I battled this with a GVG laptop for a long time, and finally found the offending driver and killed it. So frustrating because it's seemingly random. Might stay on for hours, might not connect at all. Grrr. |
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Germany
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I am using a firewire connection for a Primera Bravo Disc Copier/Printer - sometimes I plug it in and hear an windows connection on AND off sound directly - cant get it running without rebooting.
Never found out why but SOMETIMES firewire behaves a bit strange (same with my video pc, sometimes he doesnt find my cam , reboot helps) So I wouldnt worry to much but have an eye on (or try a different cable if problem steadily occurs) ULI |
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