My Motion Eye is working perfectly 2.5 years after I got it, but my Network Smart Capture (or something related to it) is messed up. It tells me that I have exceeded the maximum number of pictures and that I need to delete some before I take any more, but there are no pictures saved on it at all. Still works fine as a webcam through AIM, or as a picture taker through other programs. It just doesn’t work properly through the hot-key, which is really a shame. ;_;
P.S. It’s been like that since I got it, but I bought it off Ebay for about $200 under retail and everything else was in perfect condition, so I didn’t bother trying to replace the laptop… that and it’s an imported Japanese laptop with Enlgish Windows XP Home Edition on it, so I couldn’t bring it back to the manufacturer… I still love my laptop, though ^_^
Mine died 2 weeks ago (after almost 3 years of regular use). I was on a video call from Europe when the colors suddenly changed (went purple), then black. Since then, nothing, just black and some occasional noise.
I am planning to open the camera and check the connections. Maybe I will be lucky and learn that the flex cable popped off
thought I’d add my motion eye’s death to the list. My motion eye had the ‘white death’ about a month ago. I’ve owned this TR3AP for almost exactly a year. BUT I had gotten mine through ebay so it had been used a bit longer. R.I.P.
I discovered this site when I was searching for drivers to fix by Motion Eye!
Obviously I’m not the only one to have this problem… :evil:
I have been unable to fix it so far and will probably have to report to Sony - and am out of warranty with my TR5.
I think it lasted for about 2 years but was not used regularly. Otherwise I have had no problems with the laptop, it has been my best PC purchase ever in terms of reliability.
Hi, Count me in, I noticed my motion eye black screening about a week ago, on my TR5 like the previous poster I found this site looking for a fix for my broken camera, mine lasted between 1.5 - 2 years, but I haven’t used it much either, but I don’t think it matters whether it has been used regulary or not. In network capture s/w I just get black screen, even if I shine a bright light into it, I still get black. If I go into My Computer I have a link to my VCC-U01 in video mode, if I click the icon it still open up black screen, but I get intermittent interferance. Also I think it sounds strange that we all seemed to have lost our cams around the same time, maybe it was a windows update that put all our cams out of action. Hope someone finds out the best way to correct them.
All the best psxnut
P.S. I went on e-support 3 days ago, still waiting for sony’s reply.
Hmm I don’t want to jinx myself by saying this, but my TR2’s cam is still quite happily working :shock: 3 years into use. I use it occasionally and never had an issue yet :?
After 2 years and 4 months of frequent camera use, mine “went black” yesterday on my TR3A. Worked fine last week.
I watched it go bad. Started flickering with horizontal lines (like and old B&W television hooked up to an antennea). Got worse until it went totally black. Changing the brightness makes the black turn a light gray, so that tells me that the problem is in the camera.
Losing this camera hurts. I use it a lot for photographing and emailing machine component photos in my line of work.
Here is Sony’s reply after I mentioned that hundreds of people were having the same problem.
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Thank you for contacting Sony Online Support.
We’re sorry that the camera does not work. Sony does not comment on information published or posted on any third party website. The cameras are working normally in Sony VAIO Notebooks. We suggest that you reinstall the Camera Driver from our Sony support website:
