Doesnt record and shuts off about a minute after being on...

Hi Doug,
You are right in identifying the cause of the pre-mature shut-down of the camera during video recording. Battery saving features (auto-shut down) detect the camera as idle while you are recording. you could do two things to avoid this;
1. A short term practice is to manipulate the camera to stay on by using the zoom button, taking a snap-shot or anything like that from time-to-time, before the 2 minutes is up. This will keep the camera awake long enough for you to record a good length of video.
2. The second and permanent option is to program the camera - just as you mentioned. You can do that by opening the menu and under camera setting , scroll down till you find the auto-power save. Change the time to your preference

Please note: You have to switch off your camera as soon as practicable while the auto-switch-off time is set at a bigger value to conserve the battery. otherwise the battery will be drained quicker than you imagine.

I hope this helps.

The reason for the dishwasher to default to Rinse only cycle is likely the heater is faulty. Does this happen with both the drawers?

Also make sure the top panel switches are clean. Use a damp clean cloth and wipe the top panel inside drawer.
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I confirm that tiggywiggy's solution works. Just pull out the battery and hit it with your hand.

Use a lower resolution. According to page 36 of the manual, you can record up to 4GB in a single clip, and 4GB will hold about 11 minutes of full HD video.

All screens are hard to see in sunny conditions. Is the screen shutting off in one minute or is the camera shutting down in one minute? Does pressing the shutter button half-way turn it back on?

Call Flip support, problems are happening to too many people, contact Flip support, if they cannot help, contact MacWorld or other online reviewers and let them know.

Your camera has it own doctor built in, if it sees an internal error it will shut down. When a camera turns on it goes through a series of tests, if one of these test fails your camera records an error. If the lens is moving in and out your camera is trying to get the lens to function. As such you have a faulty camera.

The camera comes with only 32mb internal memory. In high resolution that will get you about 4 minutes of video if you're lucky.You need to install an SD card of up to 1GB. 1GB in low resolution will give you 5 hours of recording, high resolution about 90 minutes. When you first turn on your camera, there is a counter in the top right of the screen which tells you how many HH:MM:SS you have left in memory.

i placed my camera on the counter top of my bathroom went to get it and it dropped and hit the floor. And now when i cut it on it stays on for a few minutes and then it beeps and shuts off. i even tryed using brandnew batteries and that does not seem to be the solution. Hope you guys can help!!!!!11

Ok based on just the monitor turning off Lets try this,,
FOR WINDOWS XP
1.) Right click on your desktop
2.) Choose properties
3.) Click on the screen saver tab
4.) Click power
5.) Set The POWER SCHEME to Home/Office Desk
6.) Set the Turn Off monitor to Never
7.) Set the Turn Off hard disk and system Stand By to never
8.) Click apply then ok
9.) Repeat steps 1 - 3
10.) Set the wait time to 30 minutes
11.) Click Ok
12. Shut down and restart your system and wait 30 minutes to see if the monitor will shut off if it doesnt then Your good to go
If it does Then disable the screen saver.. and wait half hour to see what happens

POST BACK HERE AND TELL ME YOUR RESULTS OF THE ABOVE SO WE CAN TRY SOMETHING ELSE