Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]good to see you are using your camera s Sent from my iPhone Steve Barbour On Aug 10, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information