?? intermittent error message 'e04' on my JVC digital vid cam.

[Adrian]

can any of you experts out there help??
20 months ago I bought a jvc gr-dvx80 digital vid cam, very happy
with it.

Recently though its getting this intermittent fault
... "e04 unit is in safeguard mode, remove and replace battery"

then as prompted the only way to get it happy again is to remove the
battery, occasionally also during a more happy period it comes up
"head cleaning required" - I went out and bought a head cleaning tape
but this only keeps it happy for a week or so then its back.

My question:
..anyone know what this error message means (nothing I can find in the
manual or on the jvc webpage)?

..does this need a trip to the repairers to fix or is it something
simple?

Can you help?
thnx Adrian.

[Sienny]

I've got the same problem with a JVC GR-DVM90U. Hope this is not
something
that's common to JVCs. Haven't been able to find out the cause or long
term cure yet either. If you find out any info could you post it here.
Hope it doesn't require taking it in for service.

adrian_...@hotmail.com (Adrian) wrote in message news:<8b09ecd7.02060...@posting.google.com>...

[Adrian]

<closing>... yep, turned out to be a problem on lots of JVC
camcorders. Took it to camcorder hospital they say they see this a
lot, they re-aligned the tape mechanism, cleaned it and liberated
several hundred dollars from me. Got great service through so no
worries there and now its fine.