Optio A20 power off

I have a Pentax Optio A20, its roughly a year old. It has worked fine so far but now it turns itself off after just 5 seconds, which makes it unuseable. The battery is fully charged but that makes no difference. It sometimes works if I hit it but I don't want to keep doind that for fear of damaging it. Has anyone else found this problem? and does anyone have a solution to it? Please.

Does the lens pop out when you turn it on for those 5 seconds before it shuts down. Could be the lens is jammed thats why its shutting down. :

Sounds like a dry joint somewhere. If so, it's a probably a write-off.

But before you ditch it, I would try a different battery. Although you believe the present one is fully charged, it may be faulty.

You haven't said where you live (hint: you can do so in your profile), but if you are in the EU, you should be able to have it seen to FOC as it is under two years old.

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Hey billy5ankles,

Did you ever solve this problem. My camera has just started doing exactly the same thing. It powers up, the lens comes out and than it shuts down again. The most annoying thing is that it was fine one night and not working the mext day.

Hope you got yours sorted.

Dirty battery contacts perhaps?