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MartyMoose ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 01 October 2010 Country: United States Location: Seattle, WA Status: Offline Posts: 1230 |
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Does anyone have any suggestions for recovering an a6000 after a failed firmware update?
While performing the update the software recognized the connected camera, cleared the camera and then reported that the camera was disconnected. I've tried resuming the firmware update program to no avail. The camera screen is blank and doesn't start up. I fear the firmware was erased and no way to recover it. Thanks in advance. edit: It looks like I was able to recover the installation with another PC. Thanks for looking. Edited by MartyMoose - 03 February 2015 at 16:29 |
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ILCE's a6000, a7, a7ii, a6400
CZ Batis 25, 85, SEL's 55/1.8, 35/1.4, 16-70/4, 24-70/4, 70-200/4, 90/2.8G Macro, 55-210/4.5-6.3, 16-50/3.5-5.6, Rokinon E 12/2, and a modest collection of vintage lenses |
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PeterH ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 30 May 2013 Country: Netherlands Location: Utrecht Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
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In my case it failed too on the Mac, OS X 10.9. On my good old Windows laptop, no problem at all. Always problems with updates on Apple!
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stiuskr ![]() Moderator Group ![]() Joined: 01 September 2006 Country: United States Location: West Virginia Status: Offline Posts: 11499 |
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Sounds like the OP's was with Windows, when does a Mac'er called their rig a PC?
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Rob Suits Jr.
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MartyMoose ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 01 October 2010 Country: United States Location: Seattle, WA Status: Offline Posts: 1230 |
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Yeah, mine failed on my windows desktop (Win 7 x64) but I should have know better: A few days ago it wouldn't update my GPS using the same USB port.
It recognizes the attached devices but it wont complete the software installation. Though it reads and writes to a memory stick. I'm just glad the laptop was able to complete the a6000's firmware update and not leaving me with a brick ![]() |
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ILCE's a6000, a7, a7ii, a6400
CZ Batis 25, 85, SEL's 55/1.8, 35/1.4, 16-70/4, 24-70/4, 70-200/4, 90/2.8G Macro, 55-210/4.5-6.3, 16-50/3.5-5.6, Rokinon E 12/2, and a modest collection of vintage lenses |
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BertH ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 03 October 2009 Country: Netherlands Location: -2.9m NAP Status: Offline Posts: 753 |
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Tom Clancy: "Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?" |
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Pentax K-3 + Minolta Maxxum 7000i (and a Sony A6000 on the way)
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Josey ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 20 April 2015 Country: Jamaica Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
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Today I tried to perform update 1.20 on my a6000 followed all the instructions which I was already familiar with,
to my surprise the strangest thing happened, in the middle of the update the process was aborted leaving me with a non functional a6000. I tried to turn it off but nothing was happening just a red light was on at the bottom of the camera I did the battery removal thing among everything else but the camera was still dead. My only solution left was to call Sony to inform them that my a6000 was bricked but consistence prevailed and I tried some more stuff. I close the update software turned off my iMac running 10.9.5 and restart. Replace the a6000 battery but the camera was still dead only the little red light under the bottom was on, I turned on back the camera relaunch the update software do the required and then plug in the USB cable to it, to my surprise the update restarted while the camera screen was still black which was always the case, I watched nervously to the end until I was prompted to hit the finish button, the screen lit up and I hit the finish button plugged out the USB cable and my a6000 was updated to firmware: 1.20, minutes after I went on a Japanese link which took me to another update 1.21 which I did with no problems and my a6000 is working perfectly now on 1.21. I don't know if this will help anyone but I'm just sharing my almost bricked a6000 experience and what I did to bring it back to life. |
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revdocjim ![]() Moderator Group ![]() Joined: 11 September 2006 Country: Japan Location: Mt. Akagi Status: Offline Posts: 8607 |
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More to the point, there are two types of people in the world. Those who believe their computer operating system is an integral part of their identity, similar to ethnicity or religion... and those for whom a computer is just that... a computer that gets the job done. ![]() But actually none of that is really to the point. To the OP, I'm glad you got it working again. Sony stopped distributing v.1.2 and I wouldn't be surprised if these scenarios were part of the reason. |
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Micholand ![]() Admin Group ![]() Knowledgebase Contributor Joined: 30 October 2005 Country: Germany Location: MUC Status: Offline Posts: 19382 |
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Mod note: separated some posts, which were A7 specific, into a dedicated separate thread - here.
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penndragonn2001 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 08 April 2014 Country: United States Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Posts: 854 |
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MAC's ARE PC's..personal computers...Today it's more of their architecture then anything besides the Operating systems..today both are running intel CPU's. But we all know that..But you are correct. MOST MAC users DO NOT refer to their computers as a PC. Ah the elitist MAC users...gotta love em!
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mossmellow ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 31 October 2015 Status: Offline Posts: 1 |
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was in full on panic mode trying to figure out what just happened. it worked. back to normal. thank you!!!!! ] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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lev29 ![]() Newbie ![]() Joined: 07 September 2015 Country: United States Status: Offline Posts: 2 |
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I just had the same failure with my a6000 when I tried to use the Firmware Updater 2 days ago. All I get now is that little red light constantly on, whether the power switch for the camera is turned on or off, for no more than 2 hours. NOTHING ELSE ON THE CAMERA WORKS when the power button is in the "on" position. This happens with multiple batteries.
Background: my a6000 evidently had never had its Firmware Updated since I purchased it in 11/14 new. So the firmware version listed for it is 1.0. The Updater stated it's supposed to update the a6000 Firmware to version 3.1 . As above, the LCD screen is dark, so there's no means to reset the camera. Ideas? Suggestions? Thank you! |
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Micholand ![]() Admin Group ![]() Knowledgebase Contributor Joined: 30 October 2005 Country: Germany Location: MUC Status: Offline Posts: 19382 |
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Read member Josey's quoted post above yours again
![]() In short: run the update software again |
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sploosher ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 14 February 2007 Location: England Status: Offline Posts: 941 |
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when I do updates, I always transfer the update to the memory card and do it that way, never with the camera connected to the pc...........or Mac
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stiuskr ![]() Moderator Group ![]() Joined: 01 September 2006 Country: United States Location: West Virginia Status: Offline Posts: 11499 |
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After rebooting the computer. Probably wouldn't hurt to download again and run a clean install either. |
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Rob Suits Jr.
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