Camera not turning on; is there a tiny battery somewhere?

[marianne]

Hello!

My poor old Canon Powershot A5 Zoom was still its job quite nicely but last week it seems to have died quietly in its sleep :( It just won't do anything which makes me suspect the power supply.
Does anyone know whether canon digital cameras have a small battery somewhere, like the analogs do, that powers the clock and such?

I just wonder whether it's worth taking it to be serviced or if I'll be wasting time and money by doing that. The camera is quite old (about 5 years, I think), but it was still doing fine for many things, and it's a bad time for me financially to be looking for a replacement.

Thanks for any tips!


Marianne

[Rhys]

Hello!

My poor old Canon Powershot A5 Zoom was still its job quite nicely but last week it seems to have died quietly in its sleep :( It just won't do anything which makes me suspect the power supply.
Does anyone know whether canon digital cameras have a small battery somewhere, like the analogs do, that powers the clock and such?

I just wonder whether it's worth taking it to be serviced or if I'll be wasting time and money by doing that. The camera is quite old (about 5 years, I think), but it was still doing fine for many things, and it's a bad time for me financially to be looking for a replacement.

Thanks for any tips!


Marianne

I suspect there could well be. I notice mine keeps the time even when the batteries are out. My Nikons don't do that!

[Newbie]

In the instruction manual of my A95, they say that inside the camera there is a small li-on battery to keep the date and time, as well as my saved settings.

The battery takes 2 hours to fully recharge from the moment you put your normal batteries in and if the camera is left without batteries for 3 weeks, then its very likely that you lost all saved settings and that u will have to charge the battery from scratch.

[marianne]

Thanks! After looking for a while for the battery, and for the manual so I could find the battery, I finally found both and changed the little battery for a new one. But the camera's still not coming to life :(

Interesting about the 3 weeks thing... and that it's rechargeable (it's not on the A5, apparently). ...at the moment I'd be happy to just lose my settings... but oh well...

Thanks to both!! :)


Marianne