Flash only fires using pilot button

My YN 465 will only fire when pressing the pilot button. When I try to fire it with the hot shoe it won't work. Anyone have any idea what the problem is? I have tried multiple hot shoes.

I recieved my yn460 ii today and the second I got it my yn 465 decided to stop working. wtf????

^^Read the last pages of the YN-560 thread, we're two having the same problem. Basically, your flash is hmm.... broken. Contact your seller, he may refund you or offer you a replacement.

:'( damn. ok ill try

I don't get why it would still be able to fire using the pilot button though?

Maybe the part that makes the communication from the hot shoe to the actual flash is broken. So your camera sends the signal but the main flash controller never gets it. The pilot button might directly fire the flash, without using the broken communication way.

That's just what I think, I'm not an expert in internal flash component

ugh this freaking sucks. I never even got to use the two flashes together...

Can you fire it by shorting the flash center pin and the small contact on the side of the foot? That is all the camera does. It shorts these two contacts together. Maybe a wire came off inside the flash shoe.

how do I go about shorting these contacts?

You can short it using a small screw driver. Touch the two contacts with the ned of the driver. Keep your hand on the plastic part of the driver just so that there isn't a chance of you shocking yourself or causing the test to fail.

Also, I see that you own the RF-602 system. I too have a flash that does a simular thing. It's an old Canon 420EX that won't fire if I mount it to the camera and it fires fine if I depress the test button. But if I hook a RF-602 Rx to it and fire it off camera, it works fine. Hmmm... Give it a try.

^^ I tried both, doesn't fire eith the Rf-602 and neither on camera.

I'll try that. exactly which two contacts do I touch with the screwdriver and what do I do after I short them?

I tried firing them using my rf-602rx and it still didn fire

You cannot do it with a screw driver. You will need a short wire or paper clip. You short the large center pin on the bottom of the flash foot and the contact that is in the side slot of the foot. Look in the groove of the flash foot and you will see a metal contact in that slot. Short it to the center pin on the bottom of the foot and the flash should fire. Although since your wireless triggers will not fire it, it does not sound good.

Licking the bottom of your flash will short it. If it flashes then you know the problem is the hotshoe on camera, if it doesnt then your flash is broken

mtnbkr1 wrote in post #11587138
Licking the bottom of your flash will short it. If it flashes then you know the problem is the hotshoe on camera, if it doesnt then your flash is broken

Yes, and some peope love to lick 9V batteries too! Wierd.

And yes, it isn't a screw driver that you use. Bad 80's drug flashback moment or something... The ground is that slotted tab on the side. My bad.

yeah its toast. I contacted the seller and they're replacing it for free. It just gonna take forever :/