Comments on: Samsung S630

By: magie

magie — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:54:39 +0000

hello! can someone help? I have a samsung s630 and it turns off when i click capture!

By: Pepsi

Pepsi — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:36:59 +0000

My Samsung PL57 kept giving me a whirr sound then 3 beeps without turning on. Tried numerous methods(new batteries, holding power&menu button) and non worked. Eventually I tried the stuck lens idea. Basically I placed the camera up to my ear and listened to the “Whirr” sound. Seemed like something was stuck. So I grabed a flat head screwdriver and GENTLY coaxed the space between the first and secong lens rings in an upward motion(my earlier reasoning being if it felt stuck then it needed to be unstuck i.e gently coaxed out/up) all while turning the camera on(a little hard to do all at the same time but manageable). VOILA!. After about 5 minutes of gently coaxing(with a small flathead screwdriver)the camera turned on and now works fine.
Thats my 2cents worth. Hope it helps someone. Good luck people.

By: V.Nimue

V.Nimue — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:18:54 +0000

Hi, I’ve had the Samsung S630 for four and a half years now and had very few problems with it (except for the three beep issue which was easily solved by getting some good rechargeable batteries, Energizer or Kodak work fin, and a quality charger). Unfortunately, the flash has stopped working. It doesn’t rattle when I shake it and I’m not tech savy enough to be confident about opening it up without good instructions. I’ve tried using its adjustable light/ black white settings to make up for the lack of flash, but the pics tend to look a bit overexposed and its killing my ability to take pics of my 6 and 4 year old quickly enough to capture their antics.
Does anyone know how much it costs to fix the flash? Or would a new camera be comparable?
Is there somewhere I can get instructions / parts so I can fix it myself?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I love this camera and I want it to work again.
Thank you!

By: miguel

miguel — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:42:10 +0000

Thanks Boris! Worked perfectly!!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:45:35 +0000

Mine was doing the same but high tech solution worked. Not very good Samsung, its way past the time when clouting something to make it work was the order of the day.
I have also wiped a very very small amount of WD40 on a rag around the lens barrels trying to make it run more smoothly. Nearly chucked it in the sea before I read about the “fix”. Cheers everyone.

By: Armand Hambrick

Armand Hambrick — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:17:02 +0000

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By: Callie

Callie — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:24:26 +0000

OMG YES! Saved my camera! Don’t be afraid to smack the camera. It’s been a very bad one and it needs some punishment ;) it normally doesn’t have anything to do with the low batteries; mine were full. I think it got all weird cause I kept turning it on and off and on that it just got stuck. Well, thank god it works now.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:03:03 +0000

The flash stopped working on mine too. I heard a clunking noise inside when shook, I opened it up & it turned out to be the capacitor for the flash had broken loose, the ribbon cable had come off one end. I soldered it back & it fixed it perfectly.

that was maybe 7 months ago & now I have a problem where it shows up fine on the LCD when aiming but once I take the photo, it shows up all lined, like venetian blinds, and then on 1.5+ second exposure, it turns all the brightest points into negatives, (i.e white to black) with blue outlines.

By: Caterina

Caterina — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:02:29 +0000

naomi – brilliant. i kept trying to ‘jiggle’ the lens like other people were asking and nothing was working. laid the stupid thing flat, and i could see where it was leaning a little bit funny and i pushed it in the right direction. prestoooo it works beautifully! Thank you so much – i was about to turn this gdamn thing into an oven mitt.

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:08:01 +0000

Learn to work the white balance and light settings and you won’t need the flash. Download the manual in pdf format if you don’t have the cd that came with the camera. You can take photos in low light and have great results. Happy Shooting.