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williampeck1958 · ‎05-23-2015

Canon Power Shot S2 IS (PC 1130) not working . . .

All the menus work ok, but the screen is black, and looking through the lens it's black (lens cover is off).

Wheel setting is "Auto". When I click timer, the light blinks faster and faster, and seems to take a picture, but I don't see anything. Pictures are also being recorded today, but it fails when attempting to view them on the PC,

With the wheel is changed to movie camera and I press record, it seems to be recording, but screen is black. Files are being recorded on the memory card, but when playing them on my PC, there's an error.

In it's resting state, there's a small hand with a "W" on top of it - is this "wait" ?

any ideas ?

williampeck1958 · ‎05-24-2015

fixed ! crazy solution, but I'm good to go.

Found the solution here, which is:

set the camera in TV mode,

set the shutter at 15 sec,

click to take a picture

and during that 15 secs (like, after 7 seconds) open the battery cover. After the batteries are inserted again, the camera works and I can take pictures.

original solution:

worked for me !

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Toby3 · ‎07-19-2016

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Canon camera Power Shot S2 IS / PC 1130 not working