George...this is going to sound silly but I found if I hold the SX mini vertical and use a nickel coin to keep the battery from falling out when I start I can get the threads to start quite a bit better. Of course I still have to do the 1/2 step back 1 step forward dance a few times but at least it saves me a little from misaligning the damned threads so much.Amanda,
The two battery debate aside you are not the first to claim that the ipv4 gets GREAT battery life. So I don't think what you are experiencing is not to be beleaved. Besides we seem to be giving Quantum a good day giggling at us.
I like the pink and black always a good combination but I will not try a wrap. I once tried putting tinted window film on my car and contact paper on the kitchen shelves. Both were a miserable failures. Actually I forgot about the protective screen film I tried to put on my cell phone that too turned out terrible between crooked and bubbles I decided that it just wasn't my forte. Which is only made worse by all the pictures people post that look so great.
As far as the battery cover I don't think the small little movement that Busardo showed in his Video would bother me at all but the long winded threads on the SXmini battery cap can be a little trying at times.
The only reason I can think that they chose such fine threads is because of that battle axe tube thingy. Otherwise bad idea!!!! Maybe a bad idea no matter why they did it.