The whacks did it for me too. Is that weird or what?

happenned to me a few times now, but my camera goes to some rough places.... a nice knock on the side of the barrel and voila !

I did the same but it became worse because now the LCD doesn´t work. Give a real solution..

Initially the 2 bangs worked , however shortly thereafter the error returned i continued two bangs and without fail the error returned. Any othersolutions? sony wants $ 159.00 to repair.

Thank god for the internet and Thanks to all who posted. IT REALLY WORKS!

Wow.. It really works... Thanks guys... If its stupid but works, it isn't stupid at all!

I found this site basically by accident in a google search when my camera started flashing this message; I had restrained myself from the initial instinct to smack it a few times, but on the advice of several people here... what do you know, it worked!

I reset my camera and gave it camera two light whacks against my hand, and now it works perfectly.

Hitting the camera (I am not sure whether I hit the the barrel) really works!! Amazing how the most primitive repairing method ever turns out to be effective again!!!

Thanks for your solution. I am so happy...I was afraid because I had the same problem and it is not my camera...I had to hit the barrel (first off all I had to know what that is because I am German)not only twice and a bit hard but now it works again...