My Theta SC2 started misbehaving when I was shooting a virtual tour. I can still connect to it and take photos, but I can’t turn the camera off anymore and it’s warm to the touch.
The green LED is blinking, indicating sleep mode. If I press it once, it turns white momentarily and then starts blinking again. The OLED display turns on.
If I press it again, the OLED turns off and the green LED keeps blinking.
If I hold down the power button for 6 or 12 seconds, it pauses for a bit and then starts blinking again. Same with holding power+wifi.
Turning off wifi doesn’t help.
The battery percentage seems to alternate between “20%” and “almost full”. I don’t know what the real charge level is, because it keeps jumping around.
After the JSON factory reset, it briefly returned back to normal. One thing I noticed is that prior to the reset, the power button LED was solid/blinking green, even when running off battery. After the reset, it was solid/blinking white. I saw other posts that said it should be solid green while charging, but that isn’t the behavior I observed when it was acting up.
Now it doesn’t power on at all (regardless of whether USB power is applied). Wondering if it’s time to try a battery replacement.