SL2 wont start even with newly charged battery

[vikasmg]

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I have not used my SL2 for a few weeks.  When I pulled it out yesterday to use it I realized I’d left it ‘on’ so I switched it off and then Onn again - expecting that the camera would have switched itself off to save the battery and would come on again.  It didn’t.  I swapped the battery with a new (charged) one and it still wouldn’t start up.  I charged the first battery (the charger actually showed an 80% charg but I charged it all the way anyway and this morning I put it back in the camera but still no life.

What could be happening.  Is there something I can do to make it work again (like pressing some button while turning it on)? Or does it need to go in for repair?

Any thought welcome.

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Problem fixed.  I’ll leave the message in case it helps someone else.

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Just after I posted the message above I had a thought.  With the switch turned on I removed the lens.  To my surprise I heard a sound like the shutter firing.  I then put the lens back on and everything seems to back in good order.  I don’t know what caused the original problem and I don’t know why what I did worked but it did work!

Cheers.

 

Edited March 2, 2021 by vikasmg
Problem solved

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[hofo100]

Have you tried removing all SD cards and detach lens? Some years ago my SL did freeze and I remember that this did help.

[LocalHero1953]

Also worth leaving it a couple of days without a battery at all. I think there's an internal battery that is charged from the main one. If something has got corrupted, you may need to let this go flat as well before restarting. 
I've done the same as you before (left a camera switched on and flattened the battery) but never with such results.

[Eclectic Man]

Also worth checking the electrical contacts in the camera and on the battery are ok.

[RBB]

32 minutes ago, vikasmg said:

To my surprise I heard a sound like the shutter firing

very strange, I would try it again to see what's happening, I'm going to try it myself.

[Photoworks]

sounds like a bug to report to Leica 

[LD_50]

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I would also try to connect to USB-C and see if that resurrects the camera. 

[LocalHero1953]

I have had that shutter noise before, not on the SL2 - perhaps the SL or CL. It's when the camera has shut down in a non-standard way - perhaps the shutter has been left in an intermediate state if I removed the battery while switched on. Whatever the cause, the shutter triggering open, or a full shut-open-shut-open cycle seems to sort it out and I've had no further problems.

I don't think it's a bug in the normal sense, just an error state that it has got into due to the battery going flat while switched on.

Edited March 2, 2021 by LocalHero1953

[ajmarton1]

You may have triggered a long exposure with the cap on the lens and then it went into sleep and the battery died with the shutter curtain up.  Some strange 'perfect storm' situation.  I have created the long exposure scenario inadvertently on Ms and other cameras.  

[vikasmg]

1 hour ago, ajmarton1 said:

You may have triggered a long exposure with the cap on the lens and then it went into sleep and the battery died with the shutter curtain up.  Some strange 'perfect storm' situation.  I have created the long exposure scenario inadvertently on Ms and other cameras.  

Thank you everyone for chiming in with help.  Maybe I should have put the last paragraph first that the problem resolved itself.  I thing this comment by ajmarton1 may have at least part of the answer - I wondered about just that myself.  If I’d removed and replaced the lens before trying out new batteries I would have concluded that so it may well be that.  Since the battery still had 80% charge, lack of power probably wasn’t the problem.  But the camera going to sleep in the middle of an inadvertent long exposure seems odd as well.  I would have thought that even if that was the case, my toggling the on-off switch would have corrected the problem.  Anyway, if it’s a bug it’s not a major one.  Brought about by a set of unique sequence of operations I guess.

In response to RBB, above, I tried to replicate the shutter noise by removing and re-mounting the lens again a couple of times and I could not replicate the problem.  I also took a couple of pictures in between and everything seems back to normal.

[michali]

10 hours ago, vikasmg said:

........In response to RBB, above, I tried to replicate the shutter noise by removing and re-mounting the lens again a couple of times and I could not replicate the problem.  I also took a couple of pictures in between and everything seems back to normal.

Vikas, I've had a similar issue 2 or 3 times, where the camera's died on me, like a brick.....  De-mounting & re-mouning the lens immediately solved it. At the time I could only assume that it was related to a slight misalignment of the electrical contacts on the lens & SL2 body. Pleased the you've resolved it.

Best

Mike

[vikasmg]

4 hours ago, michali said:

Vikas, I've had a similar issue 2 or 3 times, where the camera's died on me, like a brick.....  De-mounting & re-mouning the lens immediately solved it. At the time I could only assume that it was related to a slight misalignment of the electrical contacts on the lens & SL2 body. Pleased the you've resolved it.

Best

Mike

Next time I'll know what to try first.  Very strange behavior though.