My digital camera isnt working right!!?

my digital camera (polaroid i639) isnt working the way i want it to. when i got it, it was working fine. then after a week it said the battery was low and turned off. i changed the batteries and used it, and about 10 seconds later it shut of and said battery low. i have a battery checker and checked the batteries and it said the battery was full. im confused and i think somthing is wrong with my camera? i always put new batteries in it and it still says that the battery is low!
can you help me out????

Try using high capacity NiMH rechargable batteries. I had this problem with a Kodak digital camera I had. If your are using alkalines, they just dont provide enough power for digicams.

um did you try to read the instuction manual cause it might be helpful. but if not go to their website and call the 800 number or costemer service!!

I've had the same problem and it is the batteries. Cameras are a little finnicky and require a good battery not a low end. Also the batteries will run other electronics and may show charge as good but there is a range of Full. Even new batteries may have lower volts not measurable by your meter due to shelf life.

Normal alkaline batteries just don't do it for digital cameras because of the high instantaneous current required to run a digital camera. (This includes all batteries such as "Duracell" and "Super Heavy Duty" etc) These types of batteries will appear to the camera to be flat even when they aren't because they just don't have the capacity to give the camera what it wants.

Some places still sell rechargeable Nickel Cadmium Batteries (NiCd), and these batteries cannot cut it for digital cameras. There are also rechargeable alkaline batteries and these aren't great either.

The only type of rechargeable to get is Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH), and the higher capacity the better. This capacity is typically rated in milliamp hours. A medium capacity battery for a camera will have say 1600 MAH whereas a high capacity battery will have more than 2000 MAH. Some even go as high as 2600 MAH. Get the highest that you can.

One downside is that NiMH batteries go flat in the camera if you do not use them. In a camera that uses 2 batteries, this can happen in as little as a week.

My advice is get a couple of sets of high capacity NiMH rechargeable batteries (2000 MAH or higher) and use these as much as possible. Also however buy one or two sets of Lithium batteries (non rechargeable) these last a long time but are wickedly expensive. Have one set of lithiums for backup in case you need the shot but the rechargeables are all flat. Soon as you can put freshly recharged batteries in and again keep the lithiums in reserve. Unused lithium batteries will last for years.

Many cameras have a menu setting which can flatten the batteries for you prior to recharging. ONLY IF you are using NiMH batteries is this a good idea. Vendors tell you that NiMH are not prone to "memory effect" and therefore do not need to be totally flat before being recharged, but this is not true. NiMH bateries should be discharged before being recharged. If the camera can't automatically discharge them, then keep using the camera until it won't go anymore, then recharge them.

Hope this helps.