Could it be the back-up battery that is exhausted too? How can that be charged?
I would understand more if you said more you havent told me whats wrong with the camera so i gave a poor response because i had to guess what was wrong with your camera.
To me it looks like your saying how come the battery goes flat on my camera and does the reserve battery have anything to do with this.
If you said something like everytime i turn the camera on i have to keep setting the time and date then i would have gave you a different response so please explain your problem in detail then i can assist you further.
without the relevent info it would be hard for anyone to guess what your trying to say.
let me know then i can assist you further ok
Testimonial: "Thank you. I will take it to a camera shop and see if that will help."
What batterys are you using in the camera and what you mean by reserve battery you need to use high power batters as normal panasonic batterys are just not powerfull enough you need to use lithium baterys this will allow you to take more pictures.
If the internal bat was exhausted then you wouldnt get this message as this message refers to the batterys you have put into the camera.
Will the camera let you take pictures or not if it wont then the batters are not upto the job.
If i put new normal betterys in my cam say duracell heavy duty then i can onlytake upto 5 pics but lithium high power baterys lets me take about 40 pics.
If you goto camera repair shop then you can buy high power rechargable battery witch give you more power than ones you throw away so it would be a good idea to invest in good quality recharge batts as they tend to last longer and work out cheaper in the long run.
Thanks for explaining.
The internal battery will charge off either the usb or off the batterys you have put in.
These cameras are a high power device when i used to buy batterys alot of them wouldnt even switch my camera on then others would switch it on only for a couple of minutes.
If you are using rechargeable batterys then these could need replacing if they are more than 5 or 6 months old if you are using throw away batts then this is your problem alot of batts off the shelf dont work.
Have you tried getting high power batterys from a camera shop as these shops have high powered batterys that are only made for cameras.
Alot of shop brought batterys wont even switch my camera on.
The best thing for you to do is look for camera shop in your local phone book and take the camera with you and ask them to give you some batterys and ask them to put them in for you and try your camera they wont charge for doing this but then at least you would know if the camera was to fault or the batts.
If the internal batt was no good and needed replacing then all that would happen is you would need to set the time and date every time you switch the camera on.
So the internal battery will not give you this message it would not say anything it would just mess the time and date up for you.
Sorry their is no easy fix but im sure your problem will be with the batts and not the camera if you are getting that message then this looks like a battery problem so i would take a trip down to the camera shop and try the camera in front of them.
Hope this is the help you are looking for let me know if you need further assitance ok
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You Did not answer my question at all. Very poor response.
I'm sorry I did not give enough information. I assumed that since I was commenting on a previous posting that is the same issue, the information in that posting would carry forward.
To detail: When using the camera, the screen suddenly (without previous warnings of low battery) said batteries exhausted and turned itself off. I have replaced the batteries with fresh batteries (verified as good batteries)but upon turnin it on, it flashed very briefly the same message that "warning -batteries exhausted" a couple of times. Now, however, it will not even turn on for a second.
I have been researching a solution and the only thing that I can determine, is that perhaps the internal back-up battery is also exhausted. I wonder if the back-up battery has to be functioning in order to operate the camera enough to begin to charge up again. The backup battery may have may have become exhausted because I always remove the memory card to access pictures instead of using the USB connection. However, I did read that the AA batteries should also charge up the back-up battery, so maybe that is not the issue at all.
Since I am seeing that other people have had a similar problem, I think that it must be an issue with this model and not anything that I could have prevented.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions that you might have.
Hi the problem with these cameras is if you dont use high quality and high powered batterys then you will only manage between 5 and 10 pictures before the battery is flat again. The problem is when you use the screen this is what kills the power in the battery its best to use the view finder if yuors has one as this will save the battery. You can go into a camera shop or electrical repair shop and get a high powered rechargable battery and charger this will take about 30 to 40 pictures before its flat and needs charging. The problem is when they make these cameras the make them to use alot of power and their just arent the batterys out their that are upto the power of the camera. The best batterys to use are lithium high power batts some other makes of battery wont even switch the camera on. Let me know if you need furtehr assistance ok
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