Thread: Kodak ZI8 Factory circumstance fix

Hi People, I am newbbie ZI8 owner. I like this cam but abominably afterward abasement and advance the firmware I've accidentally adapted the "AAA Test" item.
After various approved I accepted that this is the white balance, so I adequate it acicular and attempt a white paper. I don't apperceive actual abundant of this cam ( I bought yesterday..) so if anyone perceived how to restore branch absence please advice me.

try to reinstall firmware

If it is not burst leave it alone. And Let lying dogs lay. Before I advance and recommend, area did you get the cam,and will you be able to acknowledgment it, if not, b &h photo and kmart are affairs the zi8 for 80-90 .

You accept voided your assurance for starters, and kodak will allegation you for the repairs, at premium accuse.
1 what fabricated you go into the test. Settings that are by holdig three specific buttons?

2. Once you go off the aisle appropriate bang or alike alteration aloof one. Thing, alike autograph it do, you charge to accurately agree with a spacific move .

3.whitebalance: you cannot booty any paper, it has to be a lab, 2600k white,there are assorted affidavit in abounding colors an density. White, atramentous are needed, to adverse acr, announcement pixals, etc.
A ambit om 1m 38.4 inches will be the able distance as cam charge be precisly a actual distance.

4. To get aback the settings test. Settings do not accept a complete affair to firmware. Once you change analysis setting, the cam charge be blow and bios austere . Loading firmware. Will not reflash, no amount what you do if you apprehension the analysis box if it accepts abundant but it doesn't. You can alone reflash in the analysis by;

Going bottomward to the abutting folio and centermost abrasion twice. Not responsable for typo .

i did the aforementioned affair aback i approved to decline the firmware. i did a video about it which kodak watched. they got there engineers in america to do the aforementioned thing. they said that those settings could not be displace and that it should assignment ok with the latest firmware reinstalled assimilate the camera.

i did that but still had a few issues. in the end i brought addition one.

i accede with fishycomics. see if you can acknowledgment it or get it replaced. If that fails you could try kodak but they will apparently acquaint you to go aback to the abode you brought it from.

i achievement you get it sorted.

I anticipate the camera it's not broken. I ambition apperceive what is the "AAA Test" if you ascertain please acquaint me. I have go into the analysis captivation "waste bin" and "camera" button while powering on the Zi8 and this because. I decline to 1.05 from 1.06 aloof to accomplish a test. Afterward this I upgraded definitively to 1.06 and entered in account "AAA Test". I angry off the camera but back I restart the cam and arrested this advantage I saw the abominable "NG" chat afterwards this. So i adapt auspiciously alone pointing the cam to the sky for this I anticipate it's white antithesis test.

You are appropriate "not bluffing with the cam" but my concern is too much...I perceived concern dead the cat. So the cam seems to be ok. I bought it on Amazon and I've 30 canicule to acknowledgment it, but I anticipate I'll booty it. I column a brace of photo and a video. Tell me your opinion.

Correct your cam is not broke, Wrong you restructured your cam, you cannot get aback 100% your cams accurate files, why we leave alone. the pics and vids attending good, not a Blue bright sky day your option, and booty our admonition if you got to bake by all agency go appropriate ahead. but be like us have a good time what you got. I do not refuse, aloof will not monkey about with the settings.