https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/My-Batteries-Are-Rapidly-Draining-To-12-After-2-Months/m-p/1627994#M55514 <P>Spec battery life is for &lt;5 minutes of recording and live viewing per day, on average. Can you verify that your usage doesn't exceed that?</P> Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:07:13 GMT jguerdat 2018-08-22T19:07:13Z https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/My-Batteries-Are-Rapidly-Draining-To-12-After-2-Months/m-p/1627988#M55513 <P>My batteries are supposed to<BR />Last 4 months and they are going down to 12% after 2 months . It actually shows even lower when I am in the app<BR />How can I get more time out of the batteries without having to recharge so often ? I just have the basic arlo not sure about model #</P> Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:06:54 GMT https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/My-Batteries-Are-Rapidly-Draining-To-12-After-2-Months/m-p/1627988#M55513 PAMA 2018-08-22T19:06:54Z https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/My-Batteries-Are-Rapidly-Draining-To-12-After-2-Months/m-p/1627994#M55514 <P>Spec battery life is for &lt;5 minutes of recording and live viewing per day, on average. Can you verify that your usage doesn't exceed that?</P> Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:07:13 GMT https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/My-Batteries-Are-Rapidly-Draining-To-12-After-2-Months/m-p/1627994#M55514 jguerdat 2018-08-22T19:07:13Z https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/My-Batteries-Are-Rapidly-Draining-To-12-After-2-Months/m-p/1628047#M55517 <P>The OEM cells use to run almost 4 months but the rechargables made it +/- to 2 months....</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The rechargables only have about half the power capacity of the OEM cells</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Not much can be done as much depends on usage ( as mentioned above )</P> Wed, 22 Aug 2018 19:07:28 GMT https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo/My-Batteries-Are-Rapidly-Draining-To-12-After-2-Months/m-p/1628047#M55517 TomMac 2018-08-22T19:07:28Z