Mine was updated the first day, about 2 weeks ago and everything is fine. I don't normally care about the battery as long as it supplies power but I checked for grins. It lists the type of battery, recharge performance, shutter count and remaining power. Is that considered "recognized"? Or are there more stats or a special moniker?
I upgraded the first day as well, with no apparent issues. The camera has been fine. I put in a fresh battery yesterday, and the LCD displays "battery not recognized, do you want to continue?". When I hit yes, everything functions normally, but there is no battery charge or life indicator on the top LCD display.
Initially I thought it was because a 3rd party battery, but when I replaced that with a canon battery, the issue continued.
I reloaded the FW today, but there is no change. The actual message says "Cannot communicate with battery, Use this battery?" If I click OK, the camera functions normally, except for the lack of LCD info about the battery charge or status.
ruhell wrote:
It might not be the reason why, but did You take the battery out of Your camera after the upgrade? If not that might be it.
I didn't remove my battery after the FW update and it reports fine.
Like computers and smartphones, sometimes camera operating code gets scrambled and you get glitches. Normally a PRAM reset (remove backup & main batteries & let sit a spell) fixes it.
It was just a thought since they've specified this in the instructions -"...remove battery from the camera for at least two seconds...".
I can't remember if they specified this on the previous updates.
I don't think the update procedures changed for 2.0; seem to remember the "take the battery" out instructions for all the previous updates I installed.
I remember there being a rash of battery comms problems being reported on DPR after 1.2.5 came out. No conclusions were ever drawn, but I remember that was one reason I stuck at 1.2.3 (the other being that 1.2.5 didn't offer me anything I needed). A trip to Canon service was usually required to fix it.
Actually, the battery when updated was an original. It was when I first changed to a new battery (3rd party) that I noticed it wouldn't communicate with the battery.
I just remembered I have a SterlingCrack fake LP-E6 and, just for you, tried it in my FW2 7D. And, hot damn, it reports that it is present and accounts for performance and remaining charge. I can't remember if that's normal or hosed since I don't normally check the battery menu but I do know it is the same info my non-fake Canon battery shows in the menu. Seems like it used to report a serial number but maybe I saw that in a dream and it's actually not real... Perhaps the key is to never pull the battery after a FW update. I've done dozens since 2003 and all have been fine.
Ok, well thanks for trying a 3rd party battery. In some sense I'm glad to hear that it works, at least to know Canon hasn't functionally blacklisted 3rd party batteries with their new firmware.
I'm still S.O.L. and looking at a trip to CPS, but hopefully it won't be too expensive.
