my Cudde Excite actually says "batt. failed". but then I turn it off and back on, it will show batt level 1 and take some more pics (only a few though). last time it did this 3-4 times before totally dead. My Bushnell was taking 25-70 pics every 2-4 days but now is only getting a couple in same time period. I just figured that the batteries were starting to die.