E300 not going to sleep?

Kim Walker · Jan 25, 2005

OK, I just got an E300 and got about 10 shots on a fully charged battery. I took the shots and then things got kind of busy and I put the camera in my bag without turning it off (I'm sure no one else has ever done this). A couple of hours later I grabbed the camera and the battery is flat. Does this camera not go to sleep?

I looked in the manual on page 132 and it describes the menu and how to adjust the amount of time on the SLEEP mode. The thing is, my camera doesn't seem to have " wrench icon 2 "> SLEEP on the menu and I've cycled through the menus and don't seem to find it anywhere else either. Can anyone clue me in as to what's going on here?

Thanks, Kim

Guy Parsons · Jan 25, 2005

Kim Walker said:
OK, I just got an E300 and got about 10 shots on a fully charged
battery. I took the shots and then things got kind of busy and I
put the camera in my bag without turning it off (I'm sure no one
else has ever done this). A couple of hours later I grabbed the
camera and the battery is flat. Does this camera not go to sleep?

I looked in the manual on page 132 and it describes the menu and
how to adjust the amount of time on the SLEEP mode. The thing is,
my camera doesn't seem to have " wrench icon 2 "> SLEEP on the
menu and I've cycled through the menus and don't seem to find it
anywhere else either. Can anyone clue me in as to what's going on
here?

It seems that any button being bumped or touched while in the camera bag will wake up the logic again. The default sleep time is not mentioned but I imagine it should come out of the box at 3 minutes to sleep.

It looks as if you have to find that "wrench 2" setup menu to even get the thing to go back to factory defaults. Page 128.

Aha! Just found page 195 says default sleep time is 1 minute.

Regards............ Guy

Kim Walker · Jan 26, 2005

It's a twitchy youngster, being only a couple of days old.

Thanks, Kim

Guy Parsons said:
Kim Walker said:

OK, I just got an E300 and got about 10 shots on a fully charged
battery. I took the shots and then things got kind of busy and I
put the camera in my bag without turning it off (I'm sure no one
else has ever done this). A couple of hours later I grabbed the
camera and the battery is flat. Does this camera not go to sleep?

I looked in the manual on page 132 and it describes the menu and
how to adjust the amount of time on the SLEEP mode. The thing is,
my camera doesn't seem to have " wrench icon 2 "> SLEEP on the
menu and I've cycled through the menus and don't seem to find it
anywhere else either. Can anyone clue me in as to what's going on
here?

Click to expand...

It seems that any button being bumped or touched while in the
camera bag will wake up the logic again. The default sleep time is
not mentioned but I imagine it should come out of the box at 3
minutes to sleep.

It looks as if you have to find that "wrench 2" setup menu to even
get the thing to go back to factory defaults. Page 128.

Aha! Just found page 195 says default sleep time is 1 minute.

Regards............ Guy

Adam Hair · Jan 26, 2005

Hi Kim,

Have you worked it out yet... If not...

Wrench 2, 7th from the top (you have to scroll down) should be the sleep option, right above PC Mode.

If you still can't find it, can you go to the bottom of that list, and view what firmware version you have?

Regards

Adam.

Kim Walker · Jan 26, 2005

Adam,

I did get it straightened out, thanks. I was awake most of the night before trying to figure this out. For some reason I just didn't get to the second tab by scrolling down. Doh!

I suppose that if the camera is going to activate itself by a little jostling in the bag, when leave it turned on, I'm going to have to get an extra battery. It just seems too likely that, at some point, I'm going to leave it switched on and put it in the bag.

Kim

Adam Hair said:
Hi Kim,

Have you worked it out yet... If not...

Wrench 2, 7th from the top (you have to scroll down) should be the
sleep option, right above PC Mode.

If you still can't find it, can you go to the bottom of that list,
and view what firmware version you have?

Regards

Adam.

Adam Hair · Jan 26, 2005

Hi Kim,

Kim Walker said:
I suppose that if the camera is going to activate itself by a
little jostling in the bag, when leave it turned on, I'm going to
have to get an extra battery. It just seems too likely that, at
some point, I'm going to leave it switched on and put it in the bag.

Didn't you get an extra battery with the kit? I got 2 batteries with mine...

Cheers

Adam.

Kim Walker · Jan 26, 2005

That's interesting. I only got one in my kit. I'm in the USA and maybe it's different elsewhere. I opened a fresh kit box at a department store before ordering mine and it also only had one battery. Maybe you lucked out?!

Kim

Adam Hair said:
Adam Hair said:

I suppose that if the camera is going to activate itself by a
little jostling in the bag, when leave it turned on, I'm going to
have to get an extra battery. It just seems too likely that, at
some point, I'm going to leave it switched on and put it in the bag.

Click to expand...

Didn't you get an extra battery with the kit? I got 2 batteries
with mine...

Cheers

Adam.

Adam Hair · Jan 26, 2005

Kim Walker said:
That's interesting. I only got one in my kit. I'm in the USA and
maybe it's different elsewhere. I opened a fresh kit box at a
department store before ordering mine and it also only had one
battery. Maybe you lucked out?!

I'd probably suggest that it must be different here in Oz. In our kit, it was listed that we get an extra battery, the 14-45mm lens, and the battery holder. (Pitty they didn't throw in the release cable with hit :-( )

Cheers

Adam.

bradleys · Jan 27, 2005

No extra battery on the UK :-(

Kim, I had the same trouble as you. Even though mine was set to sleep the battery just dies sitting in my camer bag?

I'm going to perform an experiment and just leave the camera switched on asleep and see how long the batter takes to drain.
Could someone else do it as well and we'll compare results?

Zdenek Zavadil · Jan 27, 2005

bradleys said:
Kim, I had the same trouble as you. Even though mine was set to
sleep the battery just dies sitting in my camer bag?

Hi,
same problem here...

When I left my camera on overnight, it showed me "battery empty" next day. It seems that it only pretends sleeping, while performing an unknown activity...?

As a solution I've bought a spare battery and I am trying to be more careful not leaving it on for a longer time.

bradleys said:
I'm going to perform an experiment and just leave the camera
switched on asleep and see how long the batter takes to drain.
Could someone else do it as well and we'll compare results?

Ok, I can do that experiment tomorrow.

Kim Walker · Jan 27, 2005

Well, it does appear that I'm not alone here! I will try the experiment of putting it in my bag turned on without moving it around. My battery went totally flat from fully charged in only three or four hours. I was moving around at least part of that time. I'll try it again with it sitting still. Either way, it's a pain in the .

Kim

bradleys said:
No extra battery on the UK :-(

Kim, I had the same trouble as you. Even though mine was set to
sleep the battery just dies sitting in my camer bag?

I'm going to perform an experiment and just leave the camera
switched on asleep and see how long the batter takes to drain.
Could someone else do it as well and we'll compare results?

Bob Clegg141899 · Jan 27, 2005

Hi Kim,

With th E-1, I am fairly sure that when the camera enters the sleep mode and has been asleep for a certain time ( not sure exactly how long ) even pressing a button does not waken it. When this happens I have to turn it off and on again to wake it up. It might appear as a flat battery if you weren't aware of it.

Does anyone know if the E-300 has this function ?

Regards from,

Bob

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Franklin · Jan 28, 2005

Zdenek Zavadil said:
Zdenek Zavadil said:

Kim, I had the same trouble as you. Even though mine was set to
sleep the battery just dies sitting in my camer bag?

Click to expand...

Hi,
same problem here...
When I left my camera on overnight, it showed me "battery empty"
next day. It seems that it only pretends sleeping, while performing
an unknown activity...?

Like scanning extra-terrestrial for intelligent life? Couldn't help it.

Zdenek Zavadil said:
As a solution I've bought a spare battery and I am trying to be
more careful not leaving it on for a longer time.

Zdenek Zavadil said:

I'm going to perform an experiment and just leave the camera
switched on asleep and see how long the batter takes to drain.
Could someone else do it as well and we'll compare results?

Click to expand...

Ok, I can do that experiment tomorrow.

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Zdenek Zavadil · Jan 29, 2005

Franklin said:
Franklin said:

When I left my camera on overnight, it showed me "battery empty"
next day. It seems that it only pretends sleeping, while performing
an unknown activity...?

Click to expand...

Like scanning extra-terrestrial for intelligent life? Couldn't help
it.

Who knows... ;-)

Franklin said:
Franklin said:

As a solution I've bought a spare battery and I am trying to be
more careful not leaving it on for a longer time.

Franklin said:

I'm going to perform an experiment and just leave the camera
switched on asleep and see how long the batter takes to drain.
Could someone else do it as well and we'll compare results?

Click to expand...

Ok, I can do that experiment tomorrow.

Click to expand...

Well, I started a competition with my E-300 yesterday, who will fall asleep as first.

I couldn't believe it, but I won. After an hour or more, it slept like a top. I woke it up in the morning and was almost hoping for "battery empty" message, but it showed high remaining power. Really strange... Could it be due to more recharging cycles that I've done since the last occurence of the "battery empty" problem? So now I really don't know...

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