Fix for 1st gen S1/S1H/S1R battery drain when camera is turned off.

[80z1r]

If your camera top LCD is showing the battery life indicator and the memory cards indicator when the camera is turned off this is draining the battery. Follow these steps 1: Go into the menu Wrench(Setup) symbol. 2: Select Monitor/Display 1. 3 Scroll down and select Status-LCD. 4: Select Display While Power Off. 5: Select Off. This procedure turns off the top LCD display when the battery is installed and the camera is turned off, the top LCD will function normally when the camera is turned on.

 

[pdk42]

Thank you. That’s a useful tip. I no longer have my S1 or S1R, but wish I’d known this when I had them!

 

[80z1r]

Thank you. That’s a useful tip. I no longer have my S1 or S1R, but wish I’d known this when I had them!

It's a shame Panasonic had this top lcd active when (battery installed) camera turned off set as a factory default. Hopefully someone at Panasonic will see this and go world wide to inform and correct a major setup flaw in a brilliant camera because the OG S1R deserves it.

 

[agfa100]

Thanks a new S1H owner and wondered why my battery died so quickly.

 

[kdt]

I still have and use an S1 that I purchased when it was first introduced... How Many Years Ago? Often wondered why and removed batteries when not in use.. Thanks!

 

[Babylonia]

Turning off the top LCD, doesn’t make a great difference as by battery usage.
It drains the battery any-way. (Having a S1R camera).

Before going "on the road" to take pictures. Check a day before, and charge your batteries and spare batteries to full power.
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[kbouk]

Turning off the top LCD, doesn’t make a great difference as by battery usage.
It drains the battery any-way. (Having a S1R camera).

Before going "on the road" to take pictures. Check a day before, and charge your batteries and spare batteries to full power.
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Same thing happens to my SIR. I have two original batteries. Whatever battery stays in the body the drain will come after a few days. The extra battery outside the body holds some days more. If I don’t charge them for a month I don’t have power at all to photograph. I prefer to use the Panasonic charger , very few times just the camera circuit.

I have old batteries for the ancient Olympus E-1 and holds the power for months.

 

[kdt]

Just now tried to change this on my S1. My camera is on firmware V2.1 and I'm having difficulty downloading V2.4 . For some reason my camera is not reading the decompressed S1 V2.4 firmware. Never had an issue with a firmware update until now. Using a freshly formatted SD card.

Managed to get the monitor battery LCD set to off ...