Why won’t a Neewer TT560 fire on a Canon 4000D / T100 hot shoe?

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I bought a used Neewer TT560 Speedlite for my Canon 4000D / T100. The flash powers on and fires normally with its test button, but it does not fire when mounted on the camera and I press the shutter.

I’ve already tried:

  • Manual exposure mode
  • 1/200 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100
  • Confirming flash firing is enabled in the camera menu
  • Changing flash power settings

Is this a compatibility issue between the TT560 and the 4000D/T100, or does it suggest a fault with the flash or camera hot shoe?

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The Confused Guy

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TL;DR: return the Neewer TT560, and if you can, replace it with a Godox TT685 II-C. Or, in a pinch, an X2T-C transmitter and a Godox TT600.

The Neewer TT560 (which is actually a rebranded Godox TT560 and was also, for a while, the Amazon Basics flash) is what is known as a single-pin manual "universal" flash. It can only do the bare minimum of receiving the "sync" (fire) signal from a camera hotshoe and fire the flash. Nothing else. If you turn it over and look at its foot, you'll see it only has the one pin in the center.

Now look at the hotshoe of your 4000D (T100). It probably looks like this:

T7/T100/SL3 hotshoe that's missing the center sync contact

So the one signal a Neewer TT560 can receive from a hotshoe is the one signal a 4000D/T100's hotshoe cannot send. (Canon did the same thing to the 2000D/T7, and 250D/SL3).

The only Godox flashes that will work with that hotshoe are the TTL/HSS-capable ones, like the TT685 II or V1 that have pins for the remaining four contacts on that hotshoe and can communicate around the missing sync signal.

Alternatively, you can get the Godox X2T-C radio transmitter and mount that on the hotshoe, and that will give you a full five-contact hotshoe that can work with single-pin gear. But it's not a great match with a Neewer TT560, because the TT560 doesn't have any built-in radio remote control. A Godox TT600 is still single-pin and manual only but could also be used off-camera and communicate over radio with an X2T-C. And you'd not only be able to fire it remotely, but also have M power control and HSS (no TTL, though).

See also: What features should one look for when selecting a flash?

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This is most likely a compatibility issue, not a faulty flash.

The Neewer TT560 is a single-pin manual flash: it only uses the center sync contact on the hot shoe to know when to fire. The Canon 4000D / T100 hot shoe does not provide that standard center-pin sync contact in the usual way, so a simple single-pin flash like the TT560 won’t trigger from the camera.

That matches your symptoms: the flash works from its test button, but not from the shutter.

So the TT560 is generally not a good match for this camera. The practical fix is to return or replace it with a flash made specifically for Canon hot-shoe compatibility, or use a compatible radio trigger/flash system designed for Canon.

In short: your settings are not the problem—the TT560 and 4000D/T100 are incompatible on-camera.

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