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R7 occasionally bricks

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SteveinLouisville
SteveinLouisville Senior Member • Posts: 1,586
R7 occasionally bricks

When it bricks, taking the battery, then putting it back in brings it back to life. Happens maybe once every couple of weeks. Anybody experience anything similar?

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rmexpress22 Senior Member • Posts: 2,304
Re: R7 occasionally bricks

This happened with my R5 when I used it with an old battery and a Viltrox EF adapter. I never bothered to figure out which one was the problem but no issues with OEM adapter and battery.

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SteveinLouisville
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Re: R7 occasionally bricks

rmexpress22 wrote:

This happened with my R5 when I used it with an old battery and a Viltrox EF adapter. I never bothered to figure out which one was the problem but no issues with OEM adapter and battery.

Battery today was the OEM that came with the camera.

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bodeswell Senior Member • Posts: 1,378
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Hasn’t happened to me … yet. I have been using my R7 pretty steadily since I got it last summer. Do you do a lot of button reprogramming?

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John Photo Senior Member • Posts: 1,371
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It hasn't happened to me (I'm still running the same firmware it came with 8 months ago).

SteveinLouisville
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bodeswell wrote:

Hasn’t happened to me … yet. I have been using my R7 pretty steadily since I got it last summer. Do you do a lot of button reprogramming?

I have the exposure lock button set up as the silent shutter toggle on/off, but that's it. The camera has the latest firmware too.

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bodeswell Senior Member • Posts: 1,378
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SteveinLouisville wrote:

bodeswell wrote:

Hasn’t happened to me … yet. I have been using my R7 pretty steadily since I got it last summer. Do you do a lot of button reprogramming?

I have the exposure lock button set up as the silent shutter toggle on/off, but that's it. The camera has the latest firmware too.

Ok, that’s one more button change than I made. I have the latest firmware too. I don’t use the full electronic shutter.

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BirdShooter7 Veteran Member • Posts: 9,127
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Yes I occasionally have similar lockups. Maybe once every four or five days of use. Using OEM adapter and has also happened with RF lens mounted. Happened with OEM battery and Neweer battery. Has happened with multiple SD cards including Sony Tough v90, Sandisk Exterme Pro v90 and several other cards. Firmware is latest. No buttons reprogrammed.  Thankfully it doesn’t happen very frequently. I have had similar lockups with the R5, also very infrequent.

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Frank I Reiter
Frank I Reiter Regular Member • Posts: 158
Re: R7 occasionally bricks

SteveinLouisville wrote:

When it bricks, taking the battery, then putting it back in brings it back to life. Happens maybe once every couple of weeks. Anybody experience anything similar?

Locking up would be a better way to describe that.  Bricking means your hardware is no longer usable.

Frank.

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Adam2 Veteran Member • Posts: 7,615
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SteveinLouisville wrote:

When it bricks, taking the battery, then putting it back in brings it back to life. Happens maybe once every couple of weeks. Anybody experience anything similar?

Never encountered a single hiccup.  What lenses?  EF vs. RF?  What adapter if any?  My 100-500 lives on this camera and I've shot well north of 10k images without a pause and my R7 is highly customized in terms of buttons.

gipper51 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,901
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Are you using a USH-II memory card? If so I'd suggest trying a different memory card (even UHS-I speed) and see what happens. For me personally, I've had terrible luck with so far with UHS-II cards. 2 years ago I got the R5 and a Sony Tough UHS-II card, and the camera had frequent card errors that caused several lockups. I abandoned the Sony and went with a Sandisk UHS-1 Extreme Pro and issues went away.

The R5 was sold long ago, but fast forward to today and I had another bizarre issue with a Kinston UHS-II card on the R6II. I won't elaborate on the "weirdness" here (it never locked up, but had other problems), but the card was the cause and I exchanged it. I'm now using a Lexar 1800x UHS-II card and so far it seems OK.

I don't know if I've just been unlucky or there's still some teething problems with UHS-II cards and compatibility with Canon? I've had more media card issues with UHS-II in the last 2 years than in all the previous 20 years of shooting digital combined.

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Bramble9 Regular Member • Posts: 211
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My R7 occasionally gives me an "ERR 80, shut down camera or drop battery " message and there is no going on until I do that.  So, I just do it, the camera starts, and I go on shooting.  I don't know what causes it-- I use Lexar Pro cards, or Sandisk Pro but I don't think it has to do with the card.  Lately I've just been using the 100-500L and it does it with that lens too.  This doesn't happen very often-- Sort of a mystery to me too.

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bodeswell Senior Member • Posts: 1,378
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I have a UHS-2 Lexar Pro in my R7. No problems yet.

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SteveinLouisville
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Re: R7 occasionally bricks

Adam2 wrote:

SteveinLouisville wrote:

When it bricks, taking the battery, then putting it back in brings it back to life. Happens maybe once every couple of weeks. Anybody experience anything similar?

Never encountered a single hiccup. What lenses? EF vs. RF? What adapter if any? My 100-500 lives on this camera and I've shot well north of 10k images without a pause and my R7 is highly customized in terms of buttons.

I was using the RF-S 18-150 when the freeze occurred.

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