in today's video I'll be showing you a couple of tips on how to extend the
battery life of your GoPro particularly the GoPro Hero 7 black so stay tuned hi
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out of the way let's get cracking so after playing around with the GoPro here
seven black for a couple months now I have to say I probably have sort of two
complaints I would say complaints may become maybe room for improvement for
GoPro one is the audio quality and second it's the battery life I find that
the battery life of my previous action camera which is the sjcam 4000 is a lot
better compared to the here seven black it's not just a hero 7 black but even
the previous GoPro models from what I've seen and heard from friends from forums
you know the battery life is one of those major sort of concerns from
consumers who bought a GoPro action camera so like said after using the
GoPro d7 black for a couple months I sort of learned how to sort of extend
the battery life I'll be showing you some of the things I've used and also
some of the tips out we taught me about can and should still be applicable to
some of the older models such as the hero 6 and the hair 5 first off is to
turn off the Wi-Fi and GPS if you're not using it personally don't use the white
bike and connections especially to my iPhone because most of the time I'm
using the GoPro you know handheld I don't normally use the GPS so I turn
that off it to turn it off all you need to do is swipe down and then hit
preference in terms of connections you know there's wireless connections they
turn that off and that should switch off your Wi-Fi and then other one is the GPS
and then scroll down to the regional and then turn off GPS
find the GPS in the white fire drains a lot of the battery battery sorry so if
you turn that off you'll definitely see sort of a huge improvement on the
battery life of your GoPro the next one that turn off is the voice commands now
I don't necessarily use the voice commands and if I'm using it somewhere
far away where I'll use the voice commands then that's when the tongue
that's where I'll turn it on and use it but for the most part it's always off to
turn it off you just need to click this and then voice commands are off pretty
simple and easy again I'll turn on the voice commands on certain scenarios such
as if I'm taking a selfie or if I don't have my iPhone connectivity to remote
control the GoPro I'll use my voice commands then I'll turn that on but
again most of the time it's always off the next one is the brightness level of
the LCD screen depending on the location or where you where you shoot and type of
you you may or may not need to adjust the brightness levels however if that's
always at a hundred percent it's gonna drain a lot of your battery life as
opposed to if it's like a 20 percent or 30 percent I find what works for me is
to you know again depends of the location whether it's a sunny day you're
indoor/outdoor I find 50 50 to 60 percent works well for me like in any
sort of mobile phone screen if you're turned brightness old levels all the way
up it's definitely gonna drain a lot of your battery life similar concept to the
GoPro again you're getting just the battery life at the touch display screen
in here hopefully you can see this depending on where you are where you are
located you know again indoor or outdoor just
really need to find a sweet spot that work for you again for me it's about 50
to 60 percent that works for me and that definitely helps you extend the battery
life of your GoPro all right the next one is to use quick capture pending on
the options you choose are there 15 seconds or 30 seconds once you hit that
quick shot it'll turn on record for 15 seconds and after that I'll turn off
very quick and easy it allows you sort of
manage your battery life especially if you're sort of out there I want to have
a burst shot shooting and you don't like the GoPro it's bad my standby mode
forever quick shots is good alternative option
that you can use to sort of not only control the amount of footage you want
to take but also the battery life of your GoPro because again it's not only
it's not powered on most of the time right once you hit that 30 or 15 or 30
second interval it'll shut down itself so do consider using the quick shots if
you want to yeah again that will help you manage the battery life of your
GoPro ok the next tip is actually setting up a duration on the auto power
of settings for the GoPro you go to the general settings as you can see here you
can set how long your GoPro must be an idle before it actually turns off get a
couple of options here 5 15 30 or never personally I would never put this or
never or 30 minutes a lighter leave it on 5 or 15 minutes that will give me
enough time to you know if I left it on idle it will I know that the GoPro will
shut itself off after 5 or 15 minutes depending on which one I choose ok
finally the last tip I wanna share to you is the screen saver the GoPro
actually comes with a screen saver options can actually set the duration of
when the screen saver will kick in especially if it's on the idle or if
you're using it go to your settings touch display and you scroll down you
can see screensaver it'll give you an option of 1 2 3 or never
almost leave it at one minute once I've framed up my shot I know what to do I'll
hit the record button and the screen set will kick in after 1 minute the screen
will just turn black doesn't mean that it's not recording it still is it's just
you know you won't be able to see anything in there not unless if you do
not touch it again and then you'll be able to see what you're recording at
screen saver will definitely help you save in a couple of minutes in your
battery life those are the settings I've used to extend the battery life of my
GoPro here 7 black pretty sure some of the tips I've shared can also be applied
to the older GoPro models such as the hero 5 or the hero 6 again
thing I miss and or if you have any other tips to extend the battery life of
the GoPro feel free to comment down below we love to it from you end of the
day if you're a heavy user of a GoPro action camera I definitely recommend
buying an extra one or two battery thank you so much for watching if you enjoyed
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