Adjust the Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ20 Digital Camera GPS Setting to Save Battery

Edited by Thor, Crystal, Eng, Doug Collins

Hello and welcome to VisiHow. Today I'm going to show you how to adjust the GPS setting on your Panasonic DMC TZ20 Digital Camera to preserve battery life if necessary.

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Steps

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    We're going to press the Menu button in the middle
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    Go down to GPS
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    Here's the GPS setting, select that
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    We can select ON to turn on the GPS setting, this means that it will be on all the time, even when the camera is turned off, the GPS will be active and that means it will be using a lot of battery life
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    If we select Airplane Mode, the GPS operation starts when the power is turned on
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    When the camera is off you won't be using GPS so you won't use so much battery.
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    I'm going to turn it on
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    Now if we click on GPS Setting again we can go down to info.
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    Here we can update the information if we want, we can press the center button to update it and it will tell you your location and the time
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    This is how to adjust the GPS Setting in your Panasonic TZ20 Digital Camera in order to save battery life
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    If you have a low battery you're going to want to turn the GPS Setting off and that will make your battery last longer. If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave them in the comment section below. Thank you for choosing VisiHow.
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Recent edits by: Eng, Crystal, Thor

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