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Seriously, Canon?

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EDWARD ARTISTE Regular Member • Posts: 241
Re: Seriously, Canon?

ihgold2 wrote:

EDWARD ARTISTE wrote:

Now my third one has the dreaded CLOCK RESET....every single time u swap battery. Every. Single time. Im not sure if this body has in body charging, but ill look into it..because this is some real BS. Teh internal clock battery fail is not user serviceable.

What's the story with this? After reading this, I took the battery out of my new (refurbished) m6 ii, waited a few seconds, and put it back in. Date and time reset!

It doesn't appear that any other settings have reset -- that I can tell.

I just received the camera from canon this week. Should I be notifying Canon, and sending the camera back? Or is this just "a thing" I have to deal with?

Is your's new? Still in warranty?

It is an internal battery failing, and i remember reading a while back that the battery is in a place in the body that is not user serviceable. Canon probably used some extra cheap battery. Not sure what they are saying nowadays, but i was told by canon repair that...well they don't repair these -  they just swap them.

It's a bit of Russian routlette with these unfortunately. It would be nice if they could pop it open and replace the battery / issue, but canon also said they dont carry parts for them.
If anything has changed, ill be happy to send mine in. But if its a swap, no thanks. I'm just happy this one focuses properly.

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