
What other alternatives is there except buying an external card reader? It stayed complete nothing for a while and then I gave up. A dialog flashed past me saying it was unpackaging the files, then nothing. It came as a zipped dmg file with an app file on it (talk about over packaging.) Anyhow, I unzipped, mounted the dmg file and started the app. Okey fine I thought and downloaded the latest update version. Guess what? The program does not run under OS X 10.7. Grabbed my CD that came with the camera and installed the EOS utility on it. I guess we have to wait for Canon to fix this right? Oh well, I googled a bit and seems I am not the only one with this problem. The "Camera settings / Remote shooting" alternative is greyed out. However, when I plug in my camera the EOS utility doesn't seem to recognize my camera. I have no separate card reader so I planned to do it from the EOS utility, so I downloaded the latest version of it. Update should complete as normal with no issue.I am running Windows 8 on my main machine and thought I would upgrade to the new firmware for my Canon EOS 7D. Try updating again." should appear, select OK to proceed with firmware update. Reinsert battery, "Firmware update failed. Other symptoms include a display of 2978% complete and the camera turning off on its own.Ģ. The freeze can occur at any percentage of completion. In our test cases the Firmware update freezes. We have found that the EF 40mm 2.8 STM firmware update can fail on a 1D X if the Battery Info is checked right before the firmware update is applied.

Update should complete as normal with no issue.

Remove battery from camera and reattach 40mm lensĦ. Delete all registered battery info displayed.ĥ. NOTE: If "Register" is highlighted that means that no batteries are registered so you can proceed to step 5Ĥ. When the battery info is displayed press the "INFO." button found next to the MENU button to display registered batteries and select "Delete info." Reinsert the battery and in the camera's menu go to "SET UP3" and select "Battery info."ģ.

Remove the battery from the camera and remove the lens from the body, do not remove firmware update card.Ģ. To restart the firmware update please follow the below procedure.ġ. We have found that the EF 40mm 2.8 STM firmware update failure with the EOS 5D Mark III can occur if the camera has Battery Info Registered and if the Battery Info is checked right before the firmware update is applied.
