What does a green flashing light mean on the NX300 when the camera is off?

I received my new NX300 yesterday, and when I inserted the battery, with the camera still off, the light on the rear of the camera started flashing green, and the word "SAMSUNG" was flashing on the screen.  I called Samsung, and after a review, they said it was new to them, and I should exchange the camera.

Has anyone seen this?

I was thinking it may be a faulty battery, so I looked for a local dealer.  Not only do none in the Northern California area carry the 1130 battery, but neither do Samsung or Amazon.

I'm reluctantly returning it.  (I asked this question on this forum yesterday an, hoping for some easy solution, but it was unanswered and then removed.  (Strange)

jack Hoggard wrote:

I received my new NX300 yesterday, and when I inserted the battery, with the camera still off, the light on the rear of the camera started flashing green, and the word "SAMSUNG" was flashing on the screen. I called Samsung, and after a review, they said it was new to them, and I should exchange the camera.

Has anyone seen this?

I was thinking it may be a faulty battery, so I looked for a local dealer. Not only do none in the Northern California area carry the 1130 battery, but neither do Samsung or Amazon.

I'm reluctantly returning it. (I asked this question on this forum yesterday an, hoping for some easy solution, but it was unanswered and then removed. (Strange)

Yeah, that sounds like something is faulty and it is stuck in a reboot loop?  I haven't seen that before.  The few times I do get strange behavior I just pop the battery out and stick it back in.  I don't think I have had to do that with my NX300 yet.

Sorry to hear that!  I really like my NX300 so far.  I think you can also use the 1030 battery from the NX200, NX210, etc, but I haven't tried.

Eric

Thanks.  I may get a 1030 to try before I return it.  Except for that constantly flashing light, the camera appears to work fine.

jack Hoggard wrote:

Thanks. I may get a 1030 to try before I return it. Except for that constantly flashing light, the camera appears to work fine.

Try a different memory card too, or maybe try pulling the memory card out and see if it still does it?  Like you can take photos, etc?

Eric

Try also a firmware upgrade to 1.13.

I use as a backup a 1030 non-Samsung battery that I had for an NX200; works fine in the NX300. It doesn't get as many shots, but it's a lot cheaper.

Good luck with the green light.

I have just tried a NX300 in a local shop about an hour ago, with my own BP1030 and SD (they couldn't find the original battery !). I use both of them with my NX1000 flawlessy.

And guess what ? When I put my battery in the camera (powerswitch OFF), the green light began to flash, while a Samsung logo started flickering on the screen.

I then switched it on, and it worked flawlessy. What an improvement when compared to the NX1000 ! A bit on the expensive side, but what a camera !

After my trying session, I tried to switch it off, but it started flickering and flashing again.

It's supposed to be a new and unsued unit, as they only put the batteries in the cameras on demand (prevent from stealth) and the salesman told me I was the first customer to ask about the NX300.

Finally the voice of the truth. I laugth when I read ppl not even testing the nx300 and stating it's almost the same as previous gen.

Imo nx300 over nx200/210/1000 is much a bigger step forward then nx200 was over nx100. Ok, perhaps the sensor changed less, but the overall performance, features and usability improved esponentially.

If you like nx1000, you'll adore nx300. If you don't like nx1000, you'll probably like nx300, if you are not biased.

The thing is that I used to buy my NX cameras (and lenses) very cheap, as they don't sell that much.

I've had my NX10+30mm for about 350€, my NX1000+20-50 for about 290€. But now, about 700€ for the NX300 (I wish it was the awaited NX30 - NX300 electronics in a NX20 body - for that price), it's something else ! And the first unit I saw for real seems to be a defective one !

But as I can't bear my NX1000's sluggishness (RAW only user), I may have to do a step forward !

when I had to decide whether to buy the nx300 or wait, I was also very scared by its price. I had very good deals both on nx100 (250€ including a sef15 flash) and the nx200 (290€). The nx300 was more than twice. Then I thought that this is such a good camera that all the captures I would have missed with the other two would have made for the price difference.

and I didn't regret one single moment.

ahaha I actually love this camera more than I did for any camera I owned since the yashica fx-3

I think that I finally found the perfect camera for me, after a lot of search. if only it had a high res evf and a larger buffer, I couldn't see a reason for any other camera.

I'm glad that someone else saw the flashing green light.  I'm also glad that you used a good battery, so that the problem is identified as in the camera.  I returned mine, but may end up getting another one - it has everything I'm looking for.  Thanks for the posts.

Hehe, at those times I was actually referring to the poor buffer for raw continuous shooting, where even the old nx200 gphas a significative edge (8 vs 5 files captured in a row).

This is still an open issue, that has been faced in almost all thenreviews I read about the nx300. I think it's really odd to make a camera that can capture almost 9fps and let it record just 5 frames. I still hope samsung can improve this via fw.

Nevertheless the nx300 is gorgeous for many, many aspects and if it had a strong buffer it would be perfect. My hope for a future nx camera is a buffer able to store # at least # 10 raw files, but better 20. Fast memory is very cheap, now, and a big company like samsung could install 2gb of such memory like it uses for smartphones and tablets.