About two months ago my G7 fell into the water (clean, fresh water). After allowing it to dry out for about a week, it functions as it should except for ONE problem... it drains batteries, constantly. If I put a fully charged battery in it, the battery will be drained within a day even though the camera is turned off. I have multiple batteries and it has shown the same problem with all of them, so I know it isn't an issue of one faulty battery. Any idea what could be causing this? What should I do?
Unfortunately I bought my camera on eBay, and as such it is not covered under Canon's warranty, so if I want to have it repaired it's going to cost $150. I'm hoping there is something I can do to repair it myself.
SOURCE: AA Battery Drain...just discovered a 3V battery in my camera
Usually the 3v battery holds the date and time in your camera. A lot of time with digital cameras you have to remove the batteries when there not in use for a long period of time to prevent the draining from happening.
Do you have regular AA batteries to see if the meter changes? That would be the best way to see it the camera is reporting the correct battery life.
SOURCE: camera drains charged batteries
Most likely your batteries are just not holding a charge. However, before you spend good money on new batteries, try charging them on another charger (friend or sympathetic photo shop?). Could be the charger also. Usually it's the batteries, though.
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