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.
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Fix for 1st gen S1/S1H/S1R battery drain when camera is turned off.
- Thread starter 80z1r
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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.