When in Doubt, RESET!

[Isabel Cutler]

Sorry if this is redundant but I think it's important.

You may not have been reading my 717 white balance problem messages so I just want to tell you that the problem was solved by pressing the reset button in the battery/MS compartment.

If your camera is doing something weird and nothing seems to fix it, try the reset button before you call Sony for service!
Isabel
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[Bill Borne]

I've been reading them and I don't know anything about the inner workings of a digital camera, but could be something as simple as "static electricity" produced a glitch in the camera that reset set back to normal. "SE" will zap puter components real fast. I once walked across the rug with socks on and touched the tv volumn knob and a huge "SE" spark zapped the volumn out of the TV rendering it useless.

Sorry if this is redundant but I think it's important.
You may not have been reading my 717 white balance problem messages
so I just want to tell you that the problem was solved by pressing
the reset button in the battery/MS compartment.
If your camera is doing something weird and nothing seems to fix
it, try the reset button before you call Sony for service!
Isabel
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http://www.pBase.com/isabel95
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[Gordon W]

Thanks for posting this, Isabel. I missed your other thread on this topic and this is good to know. Not sure I would have thought of it if it had been me, although I have to reset my PDA often enough for similar reasons (gets flaky).

Gordon

Sorry if this is redundant but I think it's important.
You may not have been reading my 717 white balance problem messages
so I just want to tell you that the problem was solved by pressing
the reset button in the battery/MS compartment.
If your camera is doing something weird and nothing seems to fix
it, try the reset button before you call Sony for service!
Isabel

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[Shutter.]

It's a royal pain in the neck afterwards. I can handle adjusting all my default settings (hologram, sound, time, etc) but what really drives me nuts is that it resets the camera count to 0 so I have several images in the 0-1,000 that have the same number, which makes me really need to be careful to not overwrite any.

But, you're right, sometimes I regretfully reset as well.

Sorry if this is redundant but I think it's important.
You may not have been reading my 717 white balance problem messages
so I just want to tell you that the problem was solved by pressing
the reset button in the battery/MS compartment.
If your camera is doing something weird and nothing seems to fix
it, try the reset button before you call Sony for service!
Isabel
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http://www.pBase.com/isabel95
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[Isabel Cutler]

STrange...mine didn't reset the numbers. I agree, it is a pain to have to reset stuff...thanks for reminding me about other settings I may have to check. Perhaps it didn't change the numbers because I put a used stick in that already had numbers on it. If you start with a fresh stick it might revert to 0.
Isabel

But, you're right, sometimes I regretfully reset as well.

Sorry if this is redundant but I think it's important.
You may not have been reading my 717 white balance problem messages
so I just want to tell you that the problem was solved by pressing
the reset button in the battery/MS compartment.
If your camera is doing something weird and nothing seems to fix
it, try the reset button before you call Sony for service!
Isabel
--
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipets/?yguid=11497599
http://www.pBase.com/isabel95
pBase supporter

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[Macro]

Interesting Jim... Isabel stated twice in her other thread that a RESET did NOT reset the frame counter in her case.

http://www.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1009&message=3936043
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But, you're right, sometimes I regretfully reset as well.

Sorry if this is redundant but I think it's important.
You may not have been reading my 717 white balance problem messages
so I just want to tell you that the problem was solved by pressing
the reset button in the battery/MS compartment.
If your camera is doing something weird and nothing seems to fix
it, try the reset button before you call Sony for service!
Isabel
--
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipets/?yguid=11497599
http://www.pBase.com/isabel95
pBase supporter

--
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Skill in photography is acquired by practice and not by purchase.
-Percy W. Harris
Our existence is determined by the truths we tell.
Why simply live and let live? Live and help live.
http://www.pbase.com/jfuglestad/galleries

 

[Charles C Lloyd]

STrange...mine didn't reset the numbers. I agree, it is a pain to
have to reset stuff...thanks for reminding me about other settings
I may have to check. Perhaps it didn't change the numbers because
I put a used stick in that already had numbers on it. If you start
with a fresh stick it might revert to 0.
Isabel

This might be explained by the thread about the counter wrapping after 10,000 pics a few weeks ago. Apparently, if you have some pictures on your memory stick and the camera counter is less than the numbers on the stick, the camera will use the stick's numbes as a base. I don't know if this is a persistent change or just for the rest of that stick.

I was going to search for the thread andprovide a link, but dpreview's searching is down as we speak.

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[Ulysses]

Shutter -

Resetting your counter shouldn't happen if you leave the stick in the camera, right?

It's a royal pain in the neck afterwards. I can handle adjusting
all my default settings (hologram, sound, time, etc) but what
really drives me nuts is that it resets the camera count to 0 so I
have several images in the 0-1,000 that have the same number, which
makes me really need to be careful to not overwrite any.

But, you're right, sometimes I regretfully reset as well.

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[Mark J]

Thanks for reposting Isabel...

I didn't even know there WAS a reset button!!

Mark J

Sorry if this is redundant but I think it's important.
You may not have been reading my 717 white balance problem messages
so I just want to tell you that the problem was solved by pressing
the reset button in the battery/MS compartment.
If your camera is doing something weird and nothing seems to fix
it, try the reset button before you call Sony for service!
Isabel
--
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipets/?yguid=11497599
http://www.pBase.com/isabel95
pBase supporter

 

[foxtrot]

Isabel, can you think of anything you may have done or something that happened to the camera that may have instigated the white balance problem in the first place or did the camera just start acting up with no indication of cause?

Sorry if this is redundant but I think it's important.
You may not have been reading my 717 white balance problem messages
so I just want to tell you that the problem was solved by pressing
the reset button in the battery/MS compartment.
If your camera is doing something weird and nothing seems to fix
it, try the reset button before you call Sony for service!
Isabel
--
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipets/?yguid=11497599
http://www.pBase.com/isabel95
pBase supporter

 

[Isabel Cutler]

...just started acting up.

Computers do that too...a bit inconvenient when you have to start redoing your personalized settings, but certainly a lot easier than sending it back to Sony to have it fixed!
Isabel

Sorry if this is redundant but I think it's important.
You may not have been reading my 717 white balance problem messages
so I just want to tell you that the problem was solved by pressing
the reset button in the battery/MS compartment.
If your camera is doing something weird and nothing seems to fix
it, try the reset button before you call Sony for service!
Isabel
--
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipets/?yguid=11497599
http://www.pBase.com/isabel95
pBase supporter

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http://www.pBase.com/isabel95
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