So, I recently bought a used Sony Cybershot camera just to carry around with me and shoot some really unprofessional, random photos. Recently, the flash began working intermittently, and I began to get worried that I wasted my money on this camera…all $50 of it. Well, I began searching for some answers on how to fix this and some were saying to reset the camera. There was one method in which you removed the batteries and held the power button to reset the camers; however, that didn’t work for me. So, I began going through the ‘Set Up’ menu in order to see if I can find some other way to reset the camera. I didn’t see anything that explicitly said ‘reset camera’, but I found some interesting item, in the last menu called ‘File Number’. It was set to ‘Series’. I really have no clue what that means. When I went to view what other options were available, I saw ‘Reset’. So, I selected that, powered off my camera, turned it back on, and the flash works….Whooo hooo!. Alhamdulillahi rabbil aalameen.

Here’s what the manual has to say about those options in the set up menu:

File Number 

Series –Assigns numbers to files in sequence even if the “Memory Stick” is changed or the recording folder is changed. 

Reset –Resets the file numbering and starts from 0001 each time the folder is changed. (When the recording folder contains a file, a number one higher than the largest number is assigned.)