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Subject: [Leica] M9 FW V1.196 BLOWS UP CAMERA!!!
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:07:07 -0700
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Right on!

Sent with big fingers on small buttons.

On Aug 10, 2012, at 5:01 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> All I wanted was your attention..... Relax, the new FW did nothing to my
> camera.
> 
> The other name for this thread is.....Battery Report M9 Firmware 1.196
> 
> As a follow up to all the v1.196 battery hysteria, I performed the 
> following
> "tests"...
> 
> I have had V1.176 installed on my M9.
> I have several aftermarket batteries and 2 OEM batteries.  They were in
> various stages of charge or discharge.   The highest aftermarket battery
> measured 75%.  The lowest measured under 5%.  
> I put all the batteries through the camera, turned it on and measured the
> LCD display of the % of battery life left.
> Results:  at about 10-15% of battery life left, the LCD said that I did not
> have enough battery life left, and to turn the camera off.  ( I guess it
> wanted me to charge the batteries???)  (DUH!)  Down to less than 5%, I got
> the same message.  Between 15% and 75% ( or more), the camera did not
> complain.  It was good to go.
> 
> I then downloaded V1.196 to a memory card and updated the M9 to this level
> of FW.
> I put the batteries back in the camera with the following results.....
> Absolutely the same.  Nothing different.  NADA.  None. Non Pas.  Nici una.
> Keine.  Nincs.  Niets.
> OEM batteries:  Same
> Aftermarket batteries: Same.
> 
> I then proceeded to test the backwards FW upgrade path....
> I downgraded my M9 with v1.176 FW, successfully.
> Finally, I upgraded again to V1.196.
> 
> The bottom line......
> V1.196 will NOT disallow your aftermarket batteries.
> Upgrade if you wish, go ahead and be paranoid if you wish.  Do nothing and
> have no opinion is you wish.
> 
> M9 FW V1.196 allows you go backwards on an M9 FW update, to an earlier
> revision.
> 
> The lesson I learned... It is cheaper to scare the customer into buying $15
> batteries for $175 than it is to put in a chip and alter the FW to make 
> sure
> he can not use $15 batteries.  And it can be as successful.
> 
> But I knew this to begin with.....
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
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Replies: Reply from steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] M9 FW V1.196 BLOWS UP CAMERA!!!)
In reply to: Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] M9 FW V1.196 BLOWS UP CAMERA!!!)