20 Most Recent Vivitar ViviCam 5385 Digital Camera - Page 8 Questions & Answers

Lens errors are fairly common. Usually it's sand or grit interfering with the lens extension mechanism. Or the camera's been dropped with the lens extended. Or the camera has been powered on, but the lens had been blocked preventing its extension. Or the battery ran down with the lens extended ...

Here's some things that you can do to try to correct it. They only seem to work for less than 50% of the lens errors, but if the camera is out of warranty, they're worth a try:

http://camerarepair.blogspot.com/2007/12/fixing-lens-error-on-digital-camera.html

Most probably find a Vivitar Vivicam 5385 manual here. Just send them a search request. Search service is not for free, but worthy.

have u checked battery? and otherwise i duno

NEED TO FIND USB CABLE FOR VIVICAM 5385

Download Free manual and drivers on the site below the manual is in PDF Adobe


http://www.vivitar.com/en-us/Support.aspx

Best Wishes Twiggy

http://www.manualnguide.com/download/manual-guide/vivitar-vivicam-5385-digital-camera-users-manual.html
Best wishes with using your camera!

Gear box problem ( not so expensive to repair ) or lens impacted ( this type of problem can be sorted out only by replacing the entire lens unit and is often uneconomical ).

Hello Tea22me,
The Driver to will depend on your Operating system.
For XP and above,you should not need any drivers for the camera. If you are still on windows 98, then please download the Mass Storage Device drivers from the following link:
http://www.opendrivers.com/driver/235333/vivitar-vivicam-5385-mass-storage-device-driver-windows-98-free-download.html

Please let me know if this works for you.

Regards,
Srinivas

when the display occures?
is there any error code?

This means that you are using the wrong type of battery. You have to purchase a battery specifically designed for Digital cameras. Also i would suggest you use rechargeable batteries.

Can't find anything on a Vivitar 3710 their site only shows 3713,3715 and 3720 but No 3710 are you sure this model number is correct ??? have a look on the Vivitar site at http://www.vivitar.com/en-us/Support.aspx

Good Luck twiggy

The internal shutter on the lens assy. is stuck.Turn on the camera look into the front of the lens and zoom,it will be possible for you to see if the shutter is open or close. If it is close you may have to replace the lens assy.

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Note- this software is works only with windows operating system so, connect your Memory Card, Phone, HDD or any other Storage Device to computer to recover data.



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Thanks

connect your harware,open my computer,your cam' or card should be in list,double clickit,open folder labled ##(or letter)123....(numbers)
select all jpegs,copy to your comp!!

Boot up the computer with camera not connected.
Connect USB cable to camera and computer if running WinXP, and turn on camera. The rest should be easy, the only setback is if you did not install the photo editing software that usually comes with the camera. If not, you might be able to use Windows software, but a few free photo editing software packages are online. Use Google to find them, the best being Google's Picasa. Good Luck!

Usually I find Walmart the best place to get items like this, especially if you can readily get to a Walmart Supercenter.
Also, you might find it online at www.pricegrabber.com to get a good price. Take care, & good luck!

Before you try to send it out to get it fixed, make sure that you can't solve the problem yourself. First, get new batteries or charge the ones you have. Make sure the battery contacts are clean and batteries are placed properly. Then attempt to start the camera and try to identify any problems.
The nearest factory service may be a long way, and shipping costs with time delays might suggest replacing the camera first.
Good luck!

Open the camera and remove the batteries. Use the eraser on the end of a pencil to reach up inside the camera and gently clean the battery contacts. Be careful not to bend the contacts. Don't use a lot of pressure or a lot of scrubbing, just let the slight abrasiveness of the pencil eraser do the cleaning. Use a pencil with a good clean eraser, not one with a dried out, hard, old eraser. Hold the camera in the normal upright position and reach in from the bottom with the pencil, so all of the eraser bits and dirt fall out of the camera. Check that there are no dirt or eraser bits left inside after you are done cleaning.

Clean the contacts on the battery compartment door the same way.

Hope this helps. It fixed my vivitar 5385 that would not turn on, and had the light blinking.

What is the extension of the file? You can use data recovery software like undelete to recover your files.

Take a look in the manual there are certain restrictions on Audio when using the Video mode

No Manual ??? take a look at
http://www.vivitar.com/en-us/Support.aspx

Twiggy