D810 time resets with battery change

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Hi guys,

My D810 tends to reset its time when I change batteries. I bought some aftermarket ones on Amazon and they seem to be the issue but joy entirely sure. Does anyone else have this problem?

Thanks.
 
Not noticed it do it on mine, I'll have a look when I get home from work, but I'm sure some one will be along with the answer pretty soon
 
Hi Lyle

My 810 used to do this when I had daylight saving time set to on, since I turned it off it doesn't do it, I have no idea why it makes no sense to me.
 
I can't say I have noticed this on my D810 sorry I can't help maybe the internal button cell battery requires replacing ?
 
See the bottom of p5 of your camera manual.
 
Could be the on-board battery has failed which is used to maintain settings in the cameras memory.
 
jetpack said:
Well maybe not. It's solved in that my clock warning light is flashing but not sure how to fix it. Any ideas??
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I wonder if your aftermarket batteries are the problem, perhaps the camera doesn't recognise them as appropriate for charging the on-board supply. This can be tested by switching back to the OEM battery and letting the on-board system charge as per the manual. If this is the case then you need to remember to keep an OEM battery in your rotation and to make sure that once in a while the camera is left with the OEM battery in long enough to charge the clock supply..

The alternative is that the on-board supply or its charging circuit are u/s. But I'd rule out the aftermarket batteries first.
 
Alastair said:
I wonder if your aftermarket batteries are the problem, perhaps the camera doesn't recognise them as appropriate for charging the on-board supply. This can be tested by switching back to the OEM battery and letting the on-board system charge as per the manual. If this is the case then you need to remember to keep an OEM battery in your rotation and to make sure that once in a while the camera is left with the OEM battery in long enough to charge the clock supply..

The alternative is that the on-board supply or its charging circuit are u/s. But I'd rule out the aftermarket batteries first.
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Thanks for coming back to me. I've reset again with the correct battery in. I'll monitor it and see what happens with the oem battery in. Thanks for the info as well, I'm definitely wiser and can troubleshoot well now.
 
Keep the OEM battery in for two days. If the clock warning is still flashing it will require servicing... I don't think it's user replaceable on lower end bodies (I think it's actually a capacitor). Or, you could just reset the clock w/ every battery change (but I don't think the intervalometer will work).
 
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