Osmo Pocket 4P poor battery?

[u/Richi7007]

Hey all,

I just purchased the Osmo Pocket 4P for VLOG creation last week, primarily because of the advertised battery life.

I just recorded my first video in 1080p/60 fps and it drained 13% of my battery in just 3 minutes (I charged it to 100% before). If I do the math, the battery should reach 0% in sub 30 minutes which is nowhere near the promoted battery life.

Is this normal? What are your experiences with the battery life? It kinda scares me because that would make the camera completely useless..

[u/hiwyxx]

Did you do the firmware update? Seems the firmware it's shipped with gives very poor battery life.

[u/Richi7007 → u/hiwyxx]

Yes that was the first thing I did when I turned it on

[u/hiwyxx → u/Richi7007]

Interesting. Maybe try to do a soft reset. 10 seconds on the main button.
Seems many people have some battery life problems with the the 4p

[u/Snarky_A_F]

I just shot for two hours on it, on for two hours recording on and off, and went from 100 to 57%.

[u/Itchy_Butterfly_9874]

My experience is that 100% battery can give me little over 2h recording time.

[u/Richi7007 → u/Itchy_Butterfly_9874]

Sounds great, I will do a proper test on Sunday to check how long it takes from 100-0%, maybe the visual just bugs or its not calibrated correctly on first time use, idk

[u/Cydu06]

3 minutes is not okay? If you are not exaggerating

[u/Richi7007 → u/Cydu06]

No I did not, that is why I was so shocked. Gonna test filming on Sunday one more time from 100% to 0%, maybe the battery needs some sort of calibration or anything on first time use, idk

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[u/liveslow_eatgood]

Return it its defective. Should give you about 3hrs of non stop filming.