Help with my grip and battery level?

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Hello. I just bought a Meike grip for my Sony A200 and tried it out tonight.

When I put my original battery in with the one that came with it this is what my camera LCD display showed...

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Does this mean it is showing one battery or both of them? Should I expect the display to show the levels of both?

I was hoping the camera display would show both battery levels. Should it?

I have bought a second genuine battery but am still waiting on that to be delivered.

If it makes any difference when I put the new battery in my camera (without the grip) it shows the level as normal as 100% same as the original.

Thanks for the help

Sammy
 
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With my Meike grip on my 550D it shows 1 battery level and when that discharges it automatically switches to the other battery and shows as full power again. I don't know if this is the same with the Sony version, but it might be worth using it for a while until the battery level drops and see what happens.

I had a different make grip (can't remember what it was) with my 5D2 and although it only showed one level in the menu screen when I checked the battery info they were both depleting at a similar rate.
 
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