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Battery draining scenarios...

Started Feb 27, 2019 | Discussions thread
Isola Verde
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Re: Battery draining scenarios...

Isola Verde wrote:

Ben Herrmann wrote:

OK - I'm sure this may have been addressed in the past, but here goes.

I'm currently maintaining the NX300, NX30 and NX500. I always keep batteries inside of the cameras and I noticed that with these Samsung models, even when not being used, they drain the battery - usually within a few weeks time-frame. I've gone through the menu several times over to see if I left anything on (i.e. IS, Wifi/Bluetooth, etc) and also ensured that they were off.

But even with all of this, I can put new batteries in the cameras and within two weeks they are at half or a quarter power.

So what am I missing, or is this par for the course with these cameras?

Mine's the lowly NX3000, but I can't help feel there was a connection between allowing the battery to run flat - and the camera's habit, since then, of losing the date/time setting every time I remove the battery.

Of 20 something digitals, it's one of only two to have thrown such a fault - and regrettably quick in doing so, within 4 years of purchase (April 2015)...

Perhaps the main battery is used to power the clock, or maybe to top up the system that does that?

Peter

It gives me great pleasure to say that - after several months of repeatedly charging the battery "in camera", and leaving it "on" occasionally - the date/time system is now again retaining its setting while I swap batteries.

So I'll now either be using the NX3000 more often, or selling it with a clear conscience!

If only my sad little Oly PM1 could be similarly revived....

Peter

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