I like Flip video cameras, they are simple, cheap and pretty good quality for what they are!
However they don’t have a reset button, and I have a broken one! It’s stuck on the ‘Flip Video Press for Setup’ screen – which is the first screen you get when you turn it on.
The model I have is the Flip Ultra HD 8Gb, model: U2120B, I suspect these steps would work for other cameras in the range (that don’t have a reset button!)
Here are the steps I took, with the help of Cisco support to resolve this…
So, I tried the usual things myself to fix this:
- Changing battery
- Taking battery out for a few days
- Plugging in to the USB ports of a few computers
I couldn’t fix it myself, so I contacted Flip Support by email. Here is what they suggested to try – I add this info in the hope that it may help you too!
First set of steps to fix a broken Flip video camera:
- Leave the batteries out of the camera for 48-72 hours
- Insert brand new batteries
- See if it works now!
This didn’t work for me though.
Second set of steps to fix the broken flip:
- remove the battery pack from the camcorder
- connect the camcorder to a powered USB port on your computer
- when the “Connected” indicator comes on, insert the battery pack into the camcorder
- safe eject your camcorder from your computer
- reconnect your camcorder to your computer
- the battery pack should now begin to charge within the camcorder. Leave the camcorder plugged into your computer for 24 hours.
- after 24 hours, does the camcorder turn on?
This too didn’t work for me!
Then what?
Then I was asked to post the camera back to them – the the Czech Republic!
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