Exodies Posted March 25, 2016 Share #281 Posted March 25, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) The problem with putting out a firmware update which just removes a message one should otherwise ignore is persuading people to install it. Without the other bug fixes no one will bother. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 25, 2016 Posted March 25, 2016 Hi Exodies, Take a look here "Check Battery Age". I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
marchyman Posted March 25, 2016 Share #282 Posted March 25, 2016 And as a non programmer I suspect the fixe is very easy. Don’t change anything except delete the actual red display text in the line of code. So the line of code is left in place but the text field is now blank. Any programmers out there? Is this a viable solution? As is often the case, it depends I'm aware of one video game where during product acceptance someone felt one of the graphic elements was too distracting. A Q&D (quick and dirty) fix was made to hide those elements. After all, what harm could it do? It wasn't until after the product was shipped (meaning burned onto CDs and send to retail outlets) that a side effect was discovered -- the change created a room without doors, e.g. an area of the game that once entered gave the player no way out. Also, does the message need acknowledgement? If so you have to skip that step, too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ricoh Posted March 26, 2016 Share #283 Posted March 26, 2016 Hopefully this will serve as an epilogue to the l-o-n-g saga - Leica will eventually resolve the minor inconvenience, and in the mean time our cameras are not about to fall off the cliff, as it were. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladik Posted April 1, 2016 Share #284 Posted April 1, 2016 VW & Leica = Hidden software!! Until it comes to light"" ‘Check battery age’ appeared on My M today 1.April first reaction was ‘ohh yep’ looking at the date, but not so. My Diesel Skoda (VW engine) is awaiting new firmware as well. No hard feelings love both products. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JonathanP Posted April 1, 2016 Share #285 Posted April 1, 2016 And mine has appeared today as well - nice April 1st joke Leica, much appreciated. Now how about actually showing you care at all about your existing customers, make the one line software change to disable this and release an update? Or is that tiny change even too much for your hopeless software engineering dept? Too busy crafting special editions? Here's a tip - if you want to keep existing customers, why not show some support for them? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewDD Posted April 1, 2016 Share #286 Posted April 1, 2016 And mine has appeared today as well - nice April 1st joke Leica, much appreciated. Now how about actually showing you care at all about your existing customers, make the one line software change to disable this and release an update? Or is that tiny change even too much for your hopeless software engineering dept? Too busy crafting special editions? Here's a tip - if you want to keep existing customers, why not show some support for them? Seriously? You're going to stop using Leica because of a completely harmless message which appears once on startup? I can't see any possible reason for Leica to produce a special software release for something so utterly trivial. I'd rather they spent their money on something useful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JonathanP Posted April 1, 2016 Share #287 Posted April 1, 2016 Advertisement (gone after registration) Seriously? You're going to stop using Leica because of a completely harmless message which appears once on startup? I can't see any possible reason for Leica to produce a special software release for something so utterly trivial. I'd rather they spent their money on something useful. Err no, I didn't say that. In fact, I've been mulling buying a SL. If I wanted to sell my 240, then I guess I'm going to have to buy a £110 battery to make the message go away for the new owner - even though the existing battery is OK. So I would also rather spend my money on something more useful as well. But I forgot, on this forum everything Leica does is great and no one is allowed to say otherwise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JonathanP Posted April 1, 2016 Share #288 Posted April 1, 2016 I have also spend rather a lot of my own time and money developing a fix for the M240 green shadows (and duplicate ImageID) problems that Leica should also have fixed in software, so perhaps I can be excused a little for being a bit annoyed at Leica's unwillingness to offer software bug fixes. Jonathan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted April 1, 2016 Share #289 Posted April 1, 2016 Err no, I didn't say that. In fact, I've been mulling buying a SL. If I wanted to sell my 240, then I guess I'm going to have to buy a £110 battery to make the message go away for the new owner - even though the existing battery is OK. So I would also rather spend my money on something more useful as well. But I forgot, on this forum everything Leica does is great and no one is allowed to say otherwise. I would not sell a camera to such a person. He is sure to come back and demand a part-refund for a minor scratch he discovered using a magnifying glass. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ricoh Posted April 1, 2016 Share #290 Posted April 1, 2016 ...If I wanted to sell my 240, then I guess I'm going to have to buy a £110 battery to make the message go away for the new owner. I guess/imagine/conclude the battery could have been cheaper if it had not included a mechanism to encode the date of manufacture readable by the camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry G Posted April 2, 2016 Share #291 Posted April 2, 2016 I do! Supose the engine check light kept coming on on my one year old car. Do I forget about it, drive it or bring it to the dealer to be fixed. Now change that to my Leica. If I am off to a paying shoot, do I trust the batteries are OK even if a couple are showing this message? If the battery is actully getting to the end of its life, how will I know? Other than the battery failing. This has happened to me on a shoot with my Canon. No warning, 4 batteries died. 2 In the camera and 2 spare. They all had been charged the night before, and unknow to me at the time was that one battery in each set was dead and the other was failing. Of course on the shoot I thought it was the camera that had broken! Not a happy day, but that is why you carry two cameras on a shoot... Well, he'll have a hard time finding one without it... And if he has a modicum of intelligence, access the internet and find it is just a minor, meaningless glitch, to be addressed. Hi. I contacted Mark Brady Leica Camera Inc. / Technical Advisor. He stated that Leica Germany has become aware of an issue with the firmware bringing up false alarms. "The next firmware update for the camera is expected to address this issue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry G Posted April 2, 2016 Share #292 Posted April 2, 2016 Hi. I contacted Mark Brady Leica Camera Inc. / Technical Advisor. He stated that Leica Germany has become aware of an issue with the firmware bringing up false alarms regarding Check Battery Age. "The next firmware update for the camera is expected to address this issue." This answer came to me today April, 1, 2016 I had discharged 2 batteries and recharged them only to receive the same Check Battery Age message. The batteries are kea=ss than 2 years old and recharged less than 10 times, so it seemed that something was wrong. I was pleased to receive the answer from Leica My Leica "kit" is the following:M (TYP 240)ELMARIT-M 1:2,8/24 mm ASPH.SUMMILUX-M 1:1,4/50 mmAPO-SUMMICRON-M 1:2/90 mm ASPH.APO-TELYT-M 1:3,4/135 mm Henry G Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jto555 Posted April 2, 2016 Author Share #293 Posted April 2, 2016 I would not sell a camera to such a person. He is sure to come back and demand a part-refund for a minor scratch he discovered using a magnifying glass. "There was no scratch on the camera when it was sold. Are you sure you did not drop the magnifying glass on it? Or, did you poilsh it to hard?" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaneda Posted April 3, 2016 Share #294 Posted April 3, 2016 Phew ! I thought it was only me. Thanks for this thread and the enlightening posts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jto555 Posted April 5, 2016 Author Share #295 Posted April 5, 2016 Well, now a second battery has joined the club. I also don't think it is holding charge as long as my newer battries. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted April 6, 2016 Share #296 Posted April 6, 2016 The power of autosuggestion perhaps ... ? Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graafber Posted April 15, 2016 Share #297 Posted April 15, 2016 Lucky me, it's a virus, I have also the message since Today. Now I belong to the club Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjsphd Posted April 16, 2016 Share #298 Posted April 16, 2016 Just got the message. I feel like a real member now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinch123 Posted April 16, 2016 Share #299 Posted April 16, 2016 Happened to me today. Woohoo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdwardM Posted April 20, 2016 Share #300 Posted April 20, 2016 I am with you guys. Safari M Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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