R09 shows up when I try to take a picture. Cannot access preview screen. Camera seems frozen.

I hope you did not drop the camera. The display can be damaged and it will hinder you. But it looks you still can make good pictures, so the camera part works.
If you want to screen to be normal again, I think you should visit a repairstore or your dealer.

has the camera been in any cold weather or hot conditionds in a car?

the camera deffintly has a fault it has nothing to do with the settings any more

could be due to wearther conditions.

do u have warrenty this item? it will have to be professinally looked at i searched the web and its saying there is a seprate chip inside the camera that produces the flash unit ,and if you had to pay to get it fixed roughly 65 dollars

Usually the photo is displayed for a short period of time. Try the setup in the menu. There should be an option for previewing recent pictures.

there could be something in the card port, you should also trydown loading any pictures on the internal memory & format it the (if you can) format the card with the camera

First, the r09 refers to the amount of memory buffer photo storage is available. That's to say that 9 photos can be stored in the memory buffer, while the latest pictures are being written to the slow camera card. It's bursting 9 photos. Depending on your image quality and type, this will be a different number.

Second, make sure you are in the P or Auto mode while testing, or clarify what mode and settings you have. A picture won't take on my D300 if my lighting is too low for my current settings.

Do you mean you are expecting it to show the photo that you just took for a few seconds before it goes back to preview mode? There's a menu setting which I think is called "Picture Review" and you can set it for something like 0, 2 seconds, 5 seconds, something like that.

I hope that was it.

-Vince

Check the depth of field preview with the lens on and the camera on. If the aperture does not react, it may be a problem with the lens rather than the camera. Check the camera with another lens if you have one.

No solution for your first problem but it's normal that you cannot view your photo on the LCD screen before actually taking it. Due to the way a reflex camera is built, you can't have a live view on your LCD. The Fuji S3 Pro has this type of preview as also most recent camera (Nikon D300, Canon 40D...).

If the photos are important the first thing you want to do is get a memory card reader and use it to get the pictures off the card. A SD card reader can be found for about $5 bucks online and it will let you simply COPY and paste the pictures onto a folder on your computer. Make sure you COPY and not CUT because in case something goes wrong during the transfer you won't lose your precious photos.

It is possible that the camera driver is corrupted or deleted on your computer. Honestly it is not worth the hassle to deal with the camera drivers... it is much easier (and faster) to transfer the photos using a card reader.

do you think you broke the switch when it landed mysinse wont come out on my camera so i finally took it apart you know what i found a small watch battery on the circut board maby yours got docked when it fell i wonder how many people have dead batteries and cant figure out what is wrong with their cameras