Did I almost brick my Camera?

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sammyb

November 06, 2013, 12:52:40 PM
Followed this tutorial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7pn5Q6wNMY although I'm on a mac so I used macboot to set the flag, when i selected update the camera when completely blank (no UI, screen etc). Pulled battery out along with SD Card and it asked to update, so I had to use canon firmware to be able to use the camera again.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong :/

Midphase

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November 06, 2013, 06:16:14 PM
One thing that I noticed is that ML likes batteries that have a good deal of juice in them. While normally a battery with 20% left in it is quite useable, in ML this will cause the camera to not come to life at all. Not sure why.

Is it possible your battery wasn't fully charged before you started the install? Also, stopping a firmware update halfway is a sure fire way to brick your camera, not sure if that's what you did...it sounds like you stopped it before it began.

I assume you're using a 5D3?

sammyb

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November 06, 2013, 06:27:40 PM
Hey, I used a legit canon battery that was dead from a previous shoot, that was then charged for over two hours before I attempted to instal ML. I believe I was actually using the wrong files to install ML, as I reattempted to instal ML along with the Raw modules from another tutorial and it is was working fine.

However I uninstalled it because I was having some weird issues including some weird haze appearing on my liveview, attempting to shoot at higher resolutions would freeze my camera and I would only be able to use it after turning it off then back on and I attempted to run a stability test and it crashed 5 seconds into it.

Yes I'm using the 5D MK3

This is the tutorial I followed and the only one that worked for me http://www.cinema5d.com/news/?p=17898

g3gg0

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November 06, 2013, 06:31:24 PM
Quote from: Midphase on November 06, 2013, 06:16:14 PM
One thing that I noticed is that ML likes batteries that have a good deal of juice in them. While normally a battery with 20% left in it is quite useable, in ML this will cause the camera to not come to life at all. Not sure why.
uhm thats not true. ML doesnt care about battery status.
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Midphase

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November 06, 2013, 09:30:36 PM
Quote from: g3gg0 on November 06, 2013, 06:31:24 PM
uhm thats not true. ML doesnt care about battery status.

Perhaps then it's reporting the charge level incorrectly on some of my batteries? I dunno but I swear that I'm shooting, and one second I have about 20% left on the battery, and the next second the camera just shuts off and won't turn back on until I put in a freshly charged battery.

Weird...maybe it's my psychic powers at work!

RenatoPhoto

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November 07, 2013, 12:20:21 AM
Sounds like a dead battery!
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November 07, 2013, 12:44:04 AM
This never happened on your other devices? Power meter on the battery is just wrong. I have a battery that dies out quickly at 100% still

sammyb

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November 07, 2013, 04:49:43 AM
Is this tutorial the right way to instal ML Raw? It worked for me but it strays from what the other tutorials out there are doing. Also now that I'v messed with the bootflag, is my startup time going to be slow forever? Or until the amazing devs on here finalise something?

Tutorial I followed http://www.cinema5d.com/news/?p=17898
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