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I just added the Leica grip, and two days later, the Q3 battery is drained. I recharge it, the scenario repeats. I remove the grip, repeat the process. The battery holds the charge normally. I added a thin PVC pad between the camera contacts and the grip base. No more issues, but no more wireless charging! Is there a solution to restore normal 100% Leica device functionality? -
Apologies if this has been posted already. I looked through several pages and didn’t see anything. It’s winter and sadly I find I can go a month or more without touching my camera. If I am spending a long time not using it, is the conventional practice to keep the battery in the charger so it’s always fully charged? Or, should I charge it periodically when not in use or is it fine keeping an uncharged battery in the camera for weeks on end? What is going to maximize battery life?
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This may seem a bit obvious, but after having followed a general principle of having a 2 minute auto power off, and being left with 50% power after a day's walking and maybe 60 images, I decided to switch to a 10 second auto power off, and I'm finding I still have a full bar indicated after the same kind of use. If you've been unhappy with battery-life, I'd recommend playing with the power-off settings and seeing what improvements you can make. For information, I'm not experiencing significant start up delays either. Just touch the shutter button and everything's good to go pretty well immediately.
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So here's the thing, I left my M11 at, if I remember correctly about 80% battery 2-3 days ago, have not touched it since. Few hours ago, I picked it up to fiddle with it a little and now it was 75-70%. I forgot exactly. I went through some menus, used the LV for few seconds, then I think I turned off the LV, and right when I put my eyes to the finder at that very second moving towards the finder, at the side of my eye I saw on the screen there was the red border lines, but it happened so quick by the time I pulled back to see I had like 0.5 seconds to read, and if I remember it right, it said something like battery is dead or something, and turned off. I clicked all the buttons and nothing. I forgot if I switched it off and on to try again or not, but I removed the battery for few seconds and put back in and it works again. I then try to click everything, cycling through menus, use the LV, just whatever to use the battery up to get it to do it again, but nope, and works fine. I don't know what to think. Could it be that this M11 was not used for a long time because when it came to me it didn't have any battery whatsoever, even the dealer said they usually charge a little before shipping it out, or could it be that the M11 was intensively used that the capacity of this battery is less than ideal now and I should get a new battery? Because during shoot (writing to card), or reviewing (reading the card) and turns off like that, that could corrupt the files, right? Don't want to encounter that again. What I will do now is try to use the battery some more until it reaches say 30-40% then charge it back up to 100%. This way, try to work it's "muscles" up? Like on the Macbook Pro, you could check the battery health, I guess there's no way for user to check on the M11? I mean if anyone know's how to access the Service Menu.... maybe there you can?
