Not turning on

so long as the battery is fully charged it should turn on, you can't take a photo without a sd card but you should be able to turn the camera on and navigate menus.
it sounds like you have a defective unit

Welcome to FixYa.

Two reasons why the camera automatically switch off.

1. The battery is exhausted
- try to insert fully charged battery or replaced a new fully charged battery.
2. The camera stopped due to malfunction.
- removed/ re-insert battery and switch the camera on.
For more details and troubleshooting steps of your camera, here is the link for your free manual. Just click here

I hope this solution will help.
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SOunds like your battery is bad. try discharing it :

1. Place the battery in your camera until it itself turns off. In this situation, the battery is fully discharged.
2. Take out your battery and slide it into your battery charger.
3. Connect your charger with power to fully charge the battery. It is normal for a new battery that battery indicator shows 100% capacity in 10 to 15 minutes. Please keep charging until there is no time left for charging.
4. Fully charged and fully discharged or "cycled" as much as five times to condition them into performing at full capacity.

Try it and see if it works? If the batteries are not rechargeable then the problem is in the cameras power supply and you need to take it in or replace it.

In order to clearly determine the fault the model of your KODAK camera is needed
However hope this will help:
If your cam use AA batt.:

Here are the steps:
1. Make sure you will install a new or fully charged battery/batteries into your camera.Pls. use lithium batteries Ni-Mh or rechargeable Batteries (2000 M.Amp or higher).
2. Clean the battery contacts.
a. Remove the battery/batteries and the memory card from your camera, then wipe the battery contacts with a soft, clean cloth.
b. Reinstall the battery/batteries into your camera
3. Without the memory card,turn on your camera.

Contact KODAK:
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=14563&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=3490

If your cam use manufactors rechargeble batt.:
Make sure that you are installing a fresh/ full charge battery
Here are the steps:
1. Make sure you will install a new or fully charged battery/batteries into your camera.
2. Clean the battery contacts.
a. Remove the battery/batteries and the memory card from your camera, then wipe the battery contacts with a soft, clean cloth.
b. Reinstall the battery/batteries into your camera
3. Without the memory card,turn on your camera.
4. Pls test with an alt. batt.
If you do not have access to a dif. battery.
Pls. take the batt out of the camera. Insert the charger into the unit from the main socket and turn the camera on. If the camera works you will need to replace the batt. If not you will need to order a No power repair or new cable.

Contact KODAK:
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=14563&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=3490

Pls. use lithium batteries Ni-Mh or rechargeable Batteries (2000 M.Amp or higher).

Here are the steps:
1. Make sure you will install a new or fully charged battery/batteries into your camera.
2. Clean the battery contacts.
a. Remove the battery/batteries and the memory card from your camera, then wipe the battery contacts with a soft, clean cloth.
b. Reinstall the battery/batteries into your camera
3. Without the memory card,turn on your camera.

Contact KODAK:
http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=14563&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=3490

Here are the steps:

1. Make sure you will install a new or fully charged battery/batteries into your camera.

2. Clean the battery contacts.

a. Remove the battery/batteries and the memory card from your camera, then wipe the battery contacts with a soft, clean cloth.
b. Reinstall the battery/batteries into your camera

3. Without the memory card,turn on your camera.

If issue persists, call 1.800.235.6325 for repair.

first check the battery... charge or replace it... else reset the camera or repair

The symptoms you describe sound very much like a failing battery. How old is your battery? Rechargeable batteries are only meant to last for a couple years, regardless of use.

Hi -

We have two of these cameras. If it has been dropped, it can affect the way the camera "reads" the case sliding. Please turn the camera over and check on the bottom, and see where the cover is sliding to. If it is off track, it will not read it properly.

Also, rechargable batteries don't really work in this model worth a hoot. It is a power user. We've found only ONE kind of batteries that really make this camera work smoothly - the energizer "e" batteries in the silver and BLUE packaging. I take a LOT of pictures, and have had these last up to a month. (I am always curious about battery life and date them with a sharpie when I put them in.) Even after they no longer power the camera, they have plenty of oomph left for powering other regular items. (Our hair trimmers have been running for two months on AA taken out of the camera.)

Also, please close the slider a couple times and reopen it, making sure it is going all the way over. It doesn't always lock into place, and the camera mis-reads it as still being closed. It is a pain in the rump, and something I hope subsequent models get a modification on!

Also, simple, but double-check your batteries, and be sure they are not inserted backwards. Oftentimes, this is the reason ours won't turn on - in haste, we've put one or both in the wrong direction! Ha!

Hope that is the only problem for you.

it need to be opened by an specialist... it is sure there is nothing you can do for it without open it.