Canon PowerShot A480 Digital Camera - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

Try extracting the sd card and using a card reader its also much faster.

on the mother board, a fuse is laying, it passes the battery power,test it, if it is open just shot it with a very thin wire.

Try with Canon Powershot Low Battery Icon Fix

Google = EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free and it should recover most if not all lost photos? I lost several photos on some SD cards and i tried this free program and it worked perfect. There's other free programs like this one but this particular one worked fine for me. It is simple and fast, give it a try.

Your camera uses 2 AA batteries, but if you use Alkaline batteries they will drain very fast. You are better off buying rechargeable batteries as you can recharge them several hundred times, cheaper than Duracell or Energizer Alkaline batteries in the long run. If you buy rechargeable batteries make sure you get a high mA capacity the higher the mA which stands for Milliamp Per Hour the longer the battery will last in terms of a charge.

When you say that the camera keeps scrolling when you view a picture do mean it scrolls to the next picture ? If so, you probably have it set to Slideshow which will automatically scroll to the next picture. Go to the main menu and look for Slideshow, if it is on turn it off.

Apparently not. Do you have trouble with the date or time?

You need a computer. You need to transfer the photos from the camera to the PC via the Interface Cable IFC-400PCU and the power shot software that came on the cd. You may be able to get a card reader device and plug the memory card from the camera in the correct memory card slot of the card reader and then browse the photos via the upload photos browse in facebook on the computer. http://www.manualowl.com/m/Canon/A480/Manual/41542 http://www.canon.co.uk/Support/Consumer_Products/products/cameras/Digital_Compact/Powershot_A_series/PowerShot_A480.aspx

Take out your SD card and check to see that the switch is in the "unlocked" position.

Take out your SD card, turn it over and make sure the switch on the back is not in the "locked" position. Sometimes the switch position can be changed with handled.

cudgegong said in another forum:

To resolve the annoying "change the batteries" problem. Goto menu, choose yellow menu, select
file No. reset to ON. Turn camera off and back on.

Voila fixed.

this link is for the manualhttp://www.ecu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/132198/Canon_PowerShot_A480.pdf

See http://www.fixya.com/support/r13011856-lens_error

you need antivirus for your system try kespersky

ALTERNATE WAY TO TRANSFER PHOTOS AND VIDEOS TO A COMPUTER If your photos and videos are stored on the memory card, then remove the memory card from the camera and insert it into an USB memory card reader. Connect this USB memory card reader and memory card into the USB port of your working computer. Your computer will see this as an USB Mass Storage Device or an external storage device; you can then open the folder on the memory card and copy the photos and to your computer. Memory card reader is a handy device and is inexpensive. You can copy photos from other cameras and you can also download photos off your memory card to someone else's computer without the need of installing any programs.

The date and time (and a lot more) are stored with every picture in its EXIF metadata. Any photo viewing/editing program should be able to display this data. To print this data, please consult the documentation for whatever program you're using to print your pictures. Depending on the program and printer you may print the date on the image, in the margins, or on the back.

Try these procedures.

Yes u can restore it by using this software it can regain data even after the memory card reformatted i.e the change in the file system but have to make sure that you did not reuse the card because it may overwrite the existing hidden data .I tried it because it takes only a small amount of time but provides a good result

Try these procedures.

Try NOT connecting your camera to your computer.The best way to download pictures from your camera to your computer involves removing the memory card from the camera and plugging it into a card reader (either built-in to the computer or connected via USB or FireWire). This is likely to be faster than connecting the camera to the computer, and won't run down your camera's batteries.Once the card is plugged in, it will appear to your computer as a removable drive. You can use the operating system's drag&drop facility to copy pictures from the card to the computer's hard drive, the same way you copy any other files. Or you can use any photo cataloging program such as Picasa.