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After 15 minutes, either you did something that increased the battery current enough to again trigger the dead-battery circuit, or possibly the small current drain caused the battery to become even more dead than it already was. Sometimes dead batteries will return to life if the are shaken.
Then it can be regarded as dead. Short answer: Think of your dead battery as the same battery but with very very reduced capacity. If you leave it alone, it shows some voltage. But as soon as you plug it into a device to extract current from it, it gets empty within milliseconds. When you try to charge it, it appears to fill up quickly.
Both effects occur as a battery is drained. The open circuit voltage goes down and the internal resistance goes up. Note that open circuit voltage is specifically measuring just the voltage the battery puts out with the internal resistance taken out of the equation.
In addition, as a battery runs out of juice, its internal resistance increases [also see] and so the slope of its IV curve increases. As you use a camera, the current requirement goes up and down. As the batteries run out of power, eventually the maximum current usage will give a voltage that is too low for your battery's voltage detection circuit.
Maybe something like "Current flow in batteries?" Actually a current will flow if you connect a conductor to any voltage, through simple electrostatics.
Sometimes dead batteries will return to life if the are shaken. This only works for batteries that have liquid energy storage chambers. I have never heard of it working with AA batteries before, but I haven't heard of a lot of things.
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That is because there is no current thru that resistance, hence no voltage drop across it. Any decent voltmeter will have at least 10 MΩ input resistance, which is so way …
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In your battery example, there is no return current path so no current will flow. There is obviously a more deep physics reason for why this works but as the question asked …
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That is because there is no current thru that resistance, hence no voltage drop across it. Any decent voltmeter will have at least 10 MΩ input resistance, which is so way more than even a dead battery as to not matter.
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