Canon PowerShot A2500 User Guide - Page 93
Troubleshooting - battery life
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Troubleshooting If you think there is a problem with the camera, first check the following. If the items below do not solve your problem, contact a Canon Customer Support Help Desk. Power Nothing happens when the power button is pressed. • Confirm that the battery is charged (=10). • Confirm that the battery is inserted facing the correct way (=11). • Confirm that the memory card/battery cover is fully closed (=11). • Dirty battery terminals reduce battery performance. Try cleaning the terminals with a cotton swab and reinserting the battery a few times. The battery is depleted quickly. • Battery performance decreases at low temperatures. Try warming the battery a little by putting it in your pocket, for example, ensuring that the terminals do not touch any metal objects. • If these measures do not help and the battery is still depleted soon after charging, it has reached the end of its life. Purchase a new battery. The battery is swollen. • Battery swelling is normal and does not pose any safety concerns. However, if battery swelling prevents the battery from fitting in the camera, contact a Canon Customer Support Help Desk. Display on a TV Camera images look distorted or not displayed on a TV (=81). Shooting Cannot shoot. • In Playback mode (=14), press the shutter button halfway (=24). Strange display on the screen under low light (=24). Strange display on the screen when shooting. Note that the following display problems are not recorded in still images but are recorded in movies. • The screen may darken under bright light. • The screen may flicker under fluorescent or LED lighting. • Purplish banding may appear on the screen if you compose a shot that includes a bright light source. No date stamp is added to images. • Configure the [Date Stamp ] setting (=35). Note that date stamps are not added to images automatically, merely because you have configured the [Date/Time] setting (=77). • Date stamps are not added in shooting modes (=99) in which this setting cannot be configured (=35). [h] flashes on the screen when the shutter button is pressed, and shooting is not possible (=30). [ ] is displayed when the shutter button is pressed halfway (=34). • Set the flash mode to [h] (=56). • Increase the ISO speed (=50). Shots are out of focus. • Press the shutter button halfway to focus on subjects before pressing it all the way down to shoot (=24). • Make sure subjects are within focusing range (=104). • Set [Lamp Setting] to [On] (=38). • Confirm that unneeded functions such as macro are deactivated. • Try shooting with focus lock or AF lock (=54, 55). No AF frames are displayed and the camera does not focus when the shutter button is pressed halfway. • To have AF frames displayed and the camera focus correctly, try composing the shot with higher-contrast subject areas centered before you press the shutter button halfway. Otherwise, try pressing the shutter button halfway repeatedly. Subjects in shots look too dark. • Set the flash mode to [h] (=56). • Adjust brightness by using exposure compensation (=48). • Adjust contrast by using i-Contrast (=50, 70). Cover Preliminary Notes and Legal Information Contents: Basic Operations Basic Guide Advanced Guide 1 Camera Basics 2 Smart Auto Mode 3 Other Shooting Modes 4 P Mode 5 Playback Mode 6 Setting Menu 7 Accessories 8 Appendix Index 93