I have 2 of these and 5 batteries for these cameras. When any fully charged battery is placed in my one camera it shows only 1/4 of the battery power is left? It does this with all 5 batteries, but when placed in the other camera it shows full battery! What needs to be done? I'm thinking of converting this camera to infared but dont want to waste the money if I can't use it.
How old are your batteries, and are they Canon brand or a cheap eBay type off brand? Most times we see this the batteries are old and won't hold a full charge or are cheap off-brand ones.
Has the camera been exposed to intense moisture or fallen into water. Water damage can drain a battery quickly.
There is a software adjustment to set the battery inhibit voltage, but you will have to take your camera to Canon as it is proprietary software only they have
also check for bent CF pins
SOURCE: Canon Powershot A540 - Change Batteries when Batteries Fully Charged
Some of The Canon Powershot A530 and A540 cameras are subject to an advisory recall. Seems that a small spring on the battery compartment door can short out the batteries. Suspect this of yours, in that you mention that your batteries aren't lasting long. If your camera is on the list, Canon should fix this for you for free, including free shipping both ways. This is regardless of your camera's warranty status. Please check the following link for more info:
http://camerarepair.blogspot.com/2007/12/canon-a530-a540-with-short-battery-life.html
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I don't know if this will work but it worked for my PowerShot A300.
Take a pencil eraser and clean the battery connections inside your camera. Just be sure not to let any eraser flakes inside the camera.
The Canon rep indicated it would work for the A300 ... Not sure why it wouldn't work with yours as well.
Good luck.
SOURCE: Battery Fully Charged Camera Won't turn on
Hi
There are several things that could cause this.
1-
Check the battery door indicator switch under the battery door and
beside the memory card slot. Is the little black switch damaged or
missing? Try pressing down gently using a pen it with the door open and
then press the power button. Does it turn on?
2- The fuse has
blown and needs to be replaced. Offhand I don't recall where it is on
the SD600 PCB or how hard it is to solder on a new one (depends on if
its tricky to get at or not). Good thing is fuses are really cheap.
3-
Other power problem with the PCB due to corrosion or impact damage. The
PCB or 'motherboard' of the camera will need to be replaced.
A couple solutions would be to either buy a defective camera online and
make one good camera from the two if you can do that sort of thing
yourself, or secondly have it repaired by somebody.
Don't bother
trying to send the camera to Canon if it is out or warranty (though you can call them and verify
what I'm about to say) because they will want $150+ to do the repair
for you. Parts are not cheap to buy from them.
I know of
one very affordable digital camera repair business... because I own it.
The name is Darntoothysam, feel free to check us out, we are on that
big auction website also (I don't plug their name for free), our seller
ID is 'darntoothysam'. If you Google "darntoothysam" you will find us.
If we can help with your repair then please let us know.
Hope this helps,
Thomas
SOURCE: My battery charger shows (green) fully charged when it is dead
THis is really a sign of a bad battery that is always being detected fully charge but its really drian , so it will be better for you to replace that battery.....
SOURCE: Low Battery when using screen
cudgegong said in another forum:
To resolve the annoying "change the batteries" problem. Goto menu, choose yellow menu, select
file No. reset to ON. Turn camera off and back on.
Voila fixed.
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