K10D locked up

For the first time ever, my K10D has locked up. No button worked, even the on/off switch. Everything locked up until I removed the battery. (My GX10 has never locked up, btw).

Is this maybe more common than I think? Has anyone else suffered with this?

I'm on firmware v. 1.31. Card was in the camera, and all the images were intact (however, I'm only playing around with macro in the garden, so nothing important).

Hope this doesn't mean that the camera body is going to become unreliable...

Removing and replacing the battery may be all that's needed, in which case no repair will be necessary. If it does prove to be a fault then JP Service Solutions are slow but good.

Thanks John. Is this common? My computers are always doing it and I suppose that the K10D is really a small and very compact computer.

I wondered if other forum members have ever had this problem?

Has happened to my K-7 and K-5.

Never the K10D though and I had that for two and a half years.

my kr did it once.
I conclude it to be a user error.
I was shooting video with it, the first day, and by force of habit, I switched the camera off as I set it down.... it was still writing to the card and it locked up.
I take that incident and compare to what others have experienced (even on Canon's forums) and conclude that IF you or the cameras "Auto off" attempt to power the camera down WHILE it is still accessing the memory card, it will lock up.
That is my theory.
No actual evidence to back it up though, as I turned off my "Auto off" function and haven't made the mistake I made the first day since. Hasn't happened since either....

With mine it was while I was taking shots on continuous

I've had it too, twice. Not for a while, though.

Battery out cured it both times.

Happened to me a couple of times, Battery out sorted it. Both times I was up to something out of the ordinary, can't remember what though. I have had the K10 2 years now.

If you think about it, that would be brilliant for a PC, so I'm not worried.

Remember the "off switch" is not an off switch. It does not interrupt power from the battery, it simply tells the camera to ignore you until you turn it on again. This is why you have to take the batteries out.

It should also stop what Don did being a problem.

unless the "Off" command (switch or "auto off" input) while writing to card cause a glitch in the firmware to lock up the camera....
but FWIW, that video file was corrupted...unreadable..

I would have thought (hoped) that either would have checked that there was nothing important going on before it was enacted.

well, I'm not one for repeating my mistakes... but I tried it just now, and shutting it off while recording, did not lock up the camera, and the camera did play back the clip... so..... my hypothesis, based on my previous observation, may be incorrect.

I think you are slightly braver than I Don. I thought about trying it then thought about the cost of a new card and didn't get round to it.

I would have thought this was one of the main reasons for having a "soft off".