One of the 4 springs in battery compartment fell off - possible to fix?

[Infinit]

Hi guys, just returned back from vacay and got very sad, My working horse Canon Rebel T3 is not turning on. I closely looked and noticed that the battery compartment inside the camera there supposed to be 4 springs that would align with the battery to make a contact and one of the string came off and is missing, therefore, the camera cannot have contact with the battery, hence, no power. Any idea whether it’s something fixable? Or perhaps it will be so expensive that it’s cheaper to buy new Rebel? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

[ebiggs1]

Bob from Boston,

Now Robert, there you go again before you get the sleepy rubbed out of your eyes.

"I am simple family using it for simple photography. Vacation and our kid mostly and I never use any T3 functions because basically each picture in order to come up nice you have to play with settings which drive me nuts. So I don't use any functions there at all, I only use No flash mode for all my shooting..."

B from B said,

"the idea that you should stop reading reviews is absurd."

Actually a lot of reviews are simply wrong.  Some are biased for the particular brand the reviewer prefers.  Some reviewers have little to no photography experience.  How do you tell the good ones form bad?  STOP, relying on them, that's how.  Do your own homework for yourself.

The fact is the G1 Mk II will best the T3. Overall.  Will it fulfill the OP's complete needs?  Probably not but neither will the T5 nor the T6.  The lens that comes on the G1x Mk II is its best feature.

[Infinit]

My T3i started to work!!!!! All by itself. I turned it on today and it is working, i'm hoping it stays that way!!!

[ebiggs1]

Here is hoping it was a fluke!  But when you are ready to get another camera come back here instead of relying on unknown origin reviews.

[Infinit]

I will surely do so!!! I really appreciate all your guys time and effort!!! Thank you and I will keep you posted if it stops working because that will mean new camera for me. I checked and I actually have T3i, not T3. hahaha, I know, I'm so ignorant and it does have video!!! OMG, like really, but I think there was something at the beginning that I didn't like about it that's why stopped using it. I have for 5 years or so. I think it was super large size of video that it does that end up taking all my space on the memory card so I carry little canon elf with me for videos, videos are crappy when the lighting is not good so I just do video when outside sunny to have some sort of memories. 🙂

[Infinit]

I posted on several forums and I did get fantastic answer. As I posted yesterday, the camera appeared to be working perfectly and some guys posted that there actually need to be only 3 contacts: one is positive, one is negative (on either side) one is for sensing battery voltage between the two and the other is used for charging, which is why one is missing in the camera since it doesn't charge. The battery grip for that camera also only uses 3 pins. So it should be 1 then gap and 2 others together, here you go! It looks like all I need to do is to clean with rubbing alcohol all the contacts after my vacation.

[RobertTheFat]

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@Infinit wrote:

I posted on several forums and I did get fantastic answer. As I posted yesterday, the camera appeared to be working perfectly and some guys posted that there actually need to be only 3 contacts: one is positive, one is negative (on either side) one is for sensing battery voltage between the two and the other is used for charging, which is why one is missing in the camera since it doesn't charge. The battery grip for that camera also only uses 3 pins. So it should be 1 then gap and 2 others together, here you go! It looks like all I need to do is to clean with rubbing alcohol all the contacts after my vacation.

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I'm afraid I have to take some responsibility for that. The probability of one of the springs falling out seemed so remote that it occurred to me to wonder whether there had ever actually been a fourth spring. But I was too lazy to dig out my wife's old T2i and try to verify my suspicion. Sorry!

[ebiggs1]

"But I was too lazy to dig out my wife's old T2i and try to verify my suspicion. Sorry!"

I am too simple minded to remember since I no longer have any of my Rebels, Sorry, #2.

[Infinit]

Well I am glad that it came out one way or the other and totally gave me lesson for life to never assume things no matter how obvious it may seem.

I can totally see the scenario where I am calling Canon service "telling" him what happened and he asks me to send for inspection that would require me to pay around $100 just for shipping to Eastern Canada because this is where their service centre is and I would totally not do it and instead just packed it and left it in my basement collecting dusk and forking out another $600 for another Rebel..... 

[RobertTheFat]

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@Waddizzle wrote:

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@Infinit wrote:

I think I currently have basic stuff 18-55 mm and as I said before I am not a fan of changing setting for every single picture. I don't care for Wifi so I guess I will look into T5. What lence would you recommend for my needs? I am weary of the idea to buy refurbished.... I think if it was fixed ones that's it....

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Refurbished does not necessarily mean it was broken.  I've bought a handful of items there.  All of the gear comes with one year warranties, just like the stuff in stores.  It just comes in a different box [Vixia, most of the time] and is sold for less. 

The gear is thoroughly checked by hand, not by machine.  Stuff even has the new smell to it.

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A couple of weeks after I bought my second 7D, I noticed that there was an annoying amount of crud in the viewfinder. Since Canon's Jamesburg repair shop is a couple of miles from the New Jersey Turnpike, and since I drive the Pike three or four times a year to visit my daughter in Philadelphia, I dropped the camera off the next time I was down that way. The guy working the counter asked me why I didn't just send it back to B&H and demand a new one. I explained that I had already worked out the AFMA corrections for all my lenses and didn't want to go through that tedious process again. So they cleaned it up and sent it back to me, and you've never seen a camera in such beautiful, mint condition.

But the bottom line is that if I had sent it back to B&H, they would have bounced it back to Canon, and it would have found itself in Jamesburg for the same treatment that it actually got. They would have then sold it as a refurb to someone who would have found it hard to believe that a "used" camera could be in such fine shape.