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New R5 firmware in the works?

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Ephemeris
Ephemeris Senior Member • Posts: 1,186
Re: New R5 firmware in the works?
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Victor Engel wrote:

Ephemeris wrote:

Do you have airplane mode on?

I do now. I did not until today. Until now I was working on the maybe erroneous assumption that with the camera turned off, this setting was irrelevant.

Like many devices it's similar to a standby. In this case the camera allows the WiFi connection to stay connected when off. To do this it must keep the BT radio on.

See page 597 of the advanced user manual.

I would suggest this is a majority of the power usage when off but not all.

I can't think of any use to use any radio when the camera is turned off. Turning the camera off should turn off the radios. An exception would be a GPS, which may need time to acquire satellites, but the R5 has no GPS.

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