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dogatonic
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I used the solution provided by e-user001 and it worked!

My flip now recharges fine and does not say "It's Really Hot - Charging Paused".
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e-user001: The following is directly from Flip Video support and it rectified this issue for me:

If your battery pack is not charging properly, please try the following:

1) remove the battery pack from the camcorder
2) connect the camcorder to a powered USB port on your computer
3) when the "Connected" indicator comes on, insert the battery pack into the camcorder
4) safe eject your camcorder from your computer
5) reconnect your camcorder to your computer
6) the battery pack should now begin to charge within the camcorder

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hardel
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I found a program on the 309 printer installation disc called HP Photosmart studio that has the ability to design and print labels for the DC/DVD. It's true that it is not well advertised in the documentation, but it is there and works great. Full customization including pictures (images.)

Estevez
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4) safe eject your camcorder from your computer

This means you have to go to My Computer, find Flip USB device, right click and choose "Eject". It will re-connect with PC right away by my computer just then announced that new USB device has been discovered, installed something blah blah and then ... USB Device not recognized, please remove...
Anyway on another forum I found advice to simply remove battery cover when charging, it should fix the problem in many cases...

firelitefoto
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Same damn thing happens with mine. PIECE OF CRAP!! Do not buy. Now I have to have WD send me a new one, and I don't even want the damn thing!

MivecGPX
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Seem to be three issues here. Lack of support from the company, a technical glitch when the Flip is unplugged from a computer, and a genuine overheating problem. If the support isn't there, I guess we're in the business of icing the battery or following e-user001's advice. Personally, the latter has always worked, irrespective of the spurious error message announced by the Flip. Which I guess is why I'm very happy with my camera and so is my eldest son - quite literally, child's play to use. :-) Feel sorry for you folks with genuine overheating issues though - the company should really come clean on that :-(

bramerspace
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I am having the same problem and nothing seems to works. I am sitting at the PC looking at my Flip trying to charge with an ice pack on it. Goodness...

amyxshi
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so, tried the eject process listed here, still getting the overheat... so right now the flip is sitting on an icepack and charging fine.

Funksavage
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I assume that these charging issues are due to high resistance connections with the battery packs. I had the same charging problems as many as you, i.e. No Charging whatsoever. So I looked at the insulation around the bottom of the battery pack and looked at the terminal in the camera... pathetic design from what I can tell. No spring? Are you kidding me? I trimmed back the insulation on the battery pack and put it back in the camera to see if it will charge this time. I'll let you know how that works out.

Likewise
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I completely agree. Set up disc failed, prompted me to play with firewall settings, not enough documentation, No support on the Netgear website, terrible.

In the end I found this comment logged in to my browser, punched in the IP address and voila. I am no techspert but am better than the average consumer.

I do not recommend this product to anyone who wants a pleasant out of the box solution.

Castrezana
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Alcain, I tryed to remove the battery but that was not effective. The "Check Battery Pack - Charging Paused" and "It's Really Hot - Charging Paused" error messages still appearing on the display.

So, I don't know why, I put a fan in front at the open Flip during the charging process and... works! Full charged battery, for the first time ever!

sluce
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How do you take the case off to get to the battery?

regor
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I recently aquired an iomega ix2-200 and find myself victim of very unstable file permissions.
I changed the permissions on a whole directory tree (unsing NFS), and the day after they're back to some arbitrary permissions.
it seems the firmware has a process to recursively update files, which is untolerable.
Anybody knows how to prevent this from happening?
I already disabled all options that looked (even remotely) like a scan of the tree (search index, etc...)

CCWatterson
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I am interested in making this purchase and your review has been very helpful. I do have one question: Are you able to hook the UltraHD up to a standard TV to review the videos? I do not have a high-definition television and I am hesitant to purchase this camera if I am unable to connect it to the TV. I know that HDMI cords are available for HDTVs...what would someone in my case use? Please advise if you have any information.

alcain
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OK, here is the deal. Since I was not going to use the supplied battery pack that came with my flip ultra anyway, I decided to give the batteries a thorough test using my LaCrosse BT900 Charger/analyzer. I had to cut open the battery pack and un-solder the metal strip which connected the two batteries positive to negative. I placed the (now separated from each other) batteries in my charger and ran several tests on the batteries. Both rate very good. Mfr states they are 2100mAh batteries, one tested at 2210mAh, the other at 2140mAh. I will now place the dated batteries on a shelf for four weeks and measure voltage once again, to determine if these are HSD or LSD batteries. But so far, the batteries look like quality batteries. I am still pleased that I chose to use my Eneloops in the Flip rather than the supplied battery pack, because I KNOW I can trust Eneloops. They are rated at 2000mAh but do supply two full hours of use in the camera. My guess is that the internal charger of the camera isn't all that it should be, but as for the camera itself - awesome awesome images.

alcain
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Grimbeorn said: "made in China"... mmm unafortunely this advise is only visible once you open it and read the instructions"

Actually, the Sanyo Eneloops are made in China and are rated as probably the highest quality rechargeable available on the market. Batteries made in Japan are of MUCH lesser quality and those made anywhere else... forget it.

alcain
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I found this on the web, try this at your own risk. "The problem isn't in the camera, it is in the battery pack design and construction. Check the contacts on the bottom of the pack. for some reason, the plastic sheathing covers the positive contact of one of the batteries. I took an xacto knife and cut a small hole to expose that end. after that, voila, no more charging problem. I woke up to a full charge this morning."

I have not used the supplied battery pack myself, at all.

I am a pro photographer with a fairly large collection of quality rechargeable batteries and two La Crosse high quality battery charging units. Sanyo eneloops are the top rated rechargeables on the market, but the pre-charged Duracells are very good as well.

I charge all of my devices only with my La Crosse units and always with a small PC cooling fan blowing across the batteries while charging.

These batteries give me TWO FULL hours of camera running time with no ill effects at all. Energizer 2350mAh batteries should last even longer, as the supplied Flip battery pack is rated at 2100mAh. Stay away from rechargeables over 2350 mAh, as they will all suffer from a HSD (High Self Discharge) problem inherent in all brands over 2350 mAh. This means that even sitting on a shelf, a HSD battery will lose their charge in four to six weeks. LSD batteries can hold 85% of their charge on a shelf for up to a year.

The camera, Flip Ultra HD 2nd generation works flawlessly.

Hope this is of some help.

wayne.rosy@yahoo.com
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Mine has been a major headache, but conveniently (for them) after the 90 day warranty period. I will never by another product from Pure Digital! I have tried all of the suggested fixes but nothing works. It turns on for about 1 minute and then poof! It's too bad, it worked great for the first three months and now it's a piece of garbage!

kelly
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stefan1965
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I have actually removed the drive from its housing. I'ts an normal WD 1.5TB SATA drive. If you connect an other WD Sata drive which is partitioned and formatted under windows to the USB interface from the MyBook, and then connect that to your PC, it will only show a 633MB CD drive, and complains that the driver cannot be installed. Also, if you connect the 1.5TB drive from the Mybook directly in your PC using SATA, windows sees a blank non initialized drive.
This probably means that the MyBook USB interface always initiates a 633MB drive, and tries to show content from a fixed location on the drive. It then reports slightly different drive parameters to the PC. There might also be special driver software on the drive itself?
What does this mean? Well, if that special area on the drive gets lost, the drive content is also lost. It will not show as a 1.5TB USB drive anymore, and you probably can't retrieve the content by connecting the internal drive to a SATA interface on your PC.
Don't like that neither.
I could have experimented some more, for example restoring the 'firmware' from WD onto a blank drive but I didn't want to risk the content of my internal 1.5T drive for this. I'll be selling my MyBook again possibly...

diane d
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I have a HP C7280 all in one print (print,copy,scan and fax). It worked very good until
June 2009 when the fax just stopped working. It is out of warranty and I cannot figure out why the fax will not send or receive. Any suggestions?