So I turn on my camera the other day, and the display is completely screwed up. I don't know why anything like this would happen at all, since I don't even use it all that often. I've checked the display itself, and it's not cracked. I've looked at my SD card and the battery, and those seem to be OK, too. I think there may be something wrong within my camera. :wreck:

 

Can anyone help me out with this?

Sounds like something wrong within your camera! Buy new/get repaired?

Probably. I was hoping it was just something glitchy. -siiigh- I paid for that camera myself, so I'm not thrilled to see it not last me even a year. :\

How long's the guarantee?

You say it lasted less than a year so the guarantee period should not be over yet.

If you still have the receipt you can send it in to the manufacturer and get it repaired / exchanged for free!

This is true. Unless I'm highly mistaken, however, I was the moron that threw my receipt away. :facepalm:

Depends on the company, I've never needed a receipt to get something fixed :/

I bought it from Wal-Mart, so mehhh.

 

I finally figured out what's wrong with it, though. My friend Matt knows about some of this stuff, and he told me my inner spring was broken. I'm going to have to get it replaced. :disappointed:

Just curious. What kind of camera is it?

Just curious. What kind of camera is it?

this.

 

my sister and I ( She gots hers one year before mine. ) both had casio exilims and they both just broke after two years.

 

 

The camera working fine, and then the screen goes shit.

then the picture quality goes horrible

and then after a few days it just doesn't turn back on.

 

The exact same thing happened to both cameras,

so in other word do not buy casio cameras.

It's a Sanyo VPC-X1200.

 

Hm. I've never even heard of that kind before. :tongue:

Well, thanks anyway, Christina. :p

In what way is the screen screwed up? Like what does it look like? Does it work at all or is it just black? What does it act like?

this.

 

my sister and I ( She gots hers one year before mine. ) both had casio exilims and they both just broke after two years.

 

 

The camera working fine, and then the screen goes shit.

then the picture quality goes horrible

and then after a few days it just doesn't turn back on.

 

The exact same thing happened to both cameras,

so in other word do not buy casio cameras.

 

Ah crap that's the kind I have... three months and going strong! :uhoh:

In what way is the screen screwed up? Like what does it look like? Does it work at all or is it just black? What does it act like?

 

When I turn it on, it basically looks like an inkblot.

^So a big glob in the middle of the screen?

Is it black or muliticoloured?

If you take a picture does it change at all?

When you press on a white part of the screen, does it change the colour or make any ripples on the screen?

Can someone plsssss help me? ok i took vids at muse last night on my big camera with a memory card, when i play the vids back on the camera they are fine but when uploaded them onto my computer they are all in slow motion!!!!!!! i took some vids on my little camera which are fine but the big camera has great zoom, im freaking!! can someone help me? thankies

Maybe your computer sucks for big file playback.

Ah crap that's the kind I have... three months and going strong! :uhoh:

enjoy it while you can.

:laugh4:

ours were the older models, so i doubt yours while break too.

^So a big glob in the middle of the screen?

Is it black or muliticoloured?

If you take a picture does it change at all?

When you press on a white part of the screen, does it change the colour or make any ripples on the screen?

 

Yeah, pretty much. It's black and quite spread out. When I press the button to take a picture, it does absolutely nothing, nor does it do anything when I touch it.

Yeah, pretty much. It's black and quite spread out. When I press the button to take a picture, it does absolutely nothing, nor does it do anything when I touch it.

 

:( Aw, man.

 

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it sounds like the screen suffered some sort of crush injury. There's not a lot you can do about it. Black blobs like that happen when something puts pressure on the crystals in an LCD screen- often a crack. If there's no surface damage then probably one of the back layers of the screen has been hurt. It might be some sort of a spring pushing on it like your friend said, but if the screen is that bad for that long it might still need to be replaced- the polarized layers of the screen that direct the light will have been bent.

 

I'd be looking high and low for any warranty documentation I have if it was under a year old. Even without the reciept, if it was a component inside letting go and damaging the screen (which it sounds like) someone may still honour the warranty.

It's OK. I prepared myself for such news, and although I'm highly disappointed, I'm trying to look at the brighter side of things. I'm thinking about asking my parents for a new one for my birthday, which is in less than two weeks.

 

Thanks, Mish, for your help. It's greatly appreciated. :)