It sounds like you need to charge the battery.
Put the battery in the charger for 5 hours (as the manual says).
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Having a strange problem with my camera, a Olympus Stylus 710. When turning the camera on the lens is failing to extend. It acts like its trying but fails then camera shuts down. Now heres the strange part. If I hookup camera to computer with USB cable for a few minutes the camera starts working fine again for anywhere from a hour to a couple of days. I then do the USB cable thing again and once again that fixes it temporarily . Any ideas as to whats going on here ????

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