battery-life M11 battery capacity issues?

[nek724]

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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?

[Derbyshire Man]

This is a bug which has been reported by several users [to Leica]. I've had it twice now. On both occasions I simply half pressed the shutter and it started back up with the previous battery percentage.

It's not affected the image capture in any way.

It seems to fit in the odd but harmless category!

Edited August 2 by Derbyshire Man

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[nek724]

4 minutes ago, Derbyshire Man said:

This is a bug which has been reported by several users [to Leica]. I've had it twice now. On both occasions I simply half pressed the shutter and it started back up with the previous battery percentage.

I see. Well, right after it turned off I clicked the shutter button few times and nothing happened. I was in disbelieve looking at the on/off position to be on and clicking all the buttons and nothing's happening. To end up pulling out the battery and battery percentage the same too. So a bug you say. Hope the firmware gets fully stabled soon.

[Derbyshire Man]

If it happens again try not turning it off but waiting until the screen clears and then half pressing the shutter. Worked for me x2.

[sdk]

I've mainly had M11 battery issues when I forget and leave the FOTOS WiFi setting on in performance mode, but I think that was really draining the battery, not just making the camera think it was losing charge.

[nek724]

19 hours ago, Derbyshire Man said:

If it happens again try not turning it off but waiting until the screen clears and then half pressing the shutter. Worked for me x2.

I think I did this after pressing the back buttons and it did nothing. I half pressed the shutter too expecting it to wake up as if the camera went to sleep, but nothing.

Question for all, the battery was at 45% so I thought I'll charge it for tomorrow because I might need it. So, USB charging: on, bottom LED: off, I left it for few hours. When I pulled it off the USB (connected to my computer, and not with the fat USB cable that came with the m11, but normal skinny USB-C cable, and usually it does charge) but when I pulled it out it was still at 45%. I turned on the bottom LED and put it back in expecting to see the green light and waited (and hope), and it did charge. So why didn't it charge in the first place? I think before having the bottom LED off still charged but it didn't this time. 😒

Edited August 3 by nek724

[Photoworks]

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55 minutes ago, nek724 said:

So why didn't it charge in the first place? I think before having the bottom LED off still charged but it didn't this time. 😒

The real question is why do you pretend a computer can deliver enough power to charge, different USB port deliver power, plus software regulates the output.

I would suggest using the indication from Leica and using the charger that was included.

to charge the battery you need the correct cable, and adapter or battery. to charge in camera you still need a Power Delivery ( PD ) cable and battery.

It is the same for charging your computer or phone, if you use a charger that is 3W it will take longer to charge than a 60w charger.

[nek724]

3 hours ago, Photoworks said:

The real question is why do you pretend a computer can deliver enough power to charge, different USB port deliver power, plus software regulates the output.

I would suggest using the indication from Leica and using the charger that was included.

to charge the battery you need the correct cable, and adapter or battery. to charge in camera you still need a Power Delivery ( PD ) cable and battery.

It is the same for charging your computer or phone, if you use a charger that is 3W it will take longer to charge than a 60w charger.

Longer is not the problem. In fact I think slower charging is better for battery usually. But I understand that manufacturer usually recommend charging with the charger that came with the purchase for battery's performance. From time to time I should use the charger, but for convenience, charging through the Mac is nice. However, in this instance, I'm just wondering why it didn't charge at all that's all.