The feedback on the screen is not naturally helpful during a night sky timelapse, and drains the battery. Closing the screen stops the capture via intervalometer, so it must be open. The screen doesn't display the last image while capturing a new one, so it's only displaying an image between recording. If doing back-to-back frames the screen is always grey and on, so draining the battery but not offering value.
I would prefer to either display the last captured image until there is a new one, or allow the screen to be completely off.
Ideally, I would love to be able to view captured images from a physically separate device like an iPad wile recording. Touching the camera means bumping alignment and I believe stopping capture... neither an option.
I used to access the 'memory' batteries in my Maxxum 7000 and replace them. Blast from the past. Those were pretty easy though; one board located under the battery grip and a soldering iron did the trick.
As near as I can tell it takes a special battery that we can't lay hands on anyway. Here's a link to get the process rolling if you want to replace it:
Product Repair - Electronics Support | Sony USA
Your battery is shot and no amount of charging will rejuvenate it. Had my internal die on mine. Set time at startup and would have to reset again whenever the battery got swapped*. Dead to the point it wouldn't stick no matter how fast the battery got changed.
Instead of resetting each swap it was quicker to take pic of clock or slate then batch adjust all file attributes later on.
*I put up with the time/date dance until the camera went in for servicing.
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