GR IV starts faster: no more waiting or freezing when you change film
This update is for the GR IV only and fixes the two things we heard about most.
What this fixes
- The card light blinking for a long time after power-on: Each time the camera started, the card access light blinked for more than ten seconds, and changing film was slow during that time. Now it blinks a few times. The time the camera spends preparing the film library in the background went from about 23 seconds to about 2.5 seconds (measured with the 92-film library).
- The live view freezing after an early film change: If you opened GRLife Pro and changed film before the light stopped blinking, the live view could freeze when you returned to shooting, and only a restart helped. That no longer happens.
- One small change: If you press OK in the first two or three seconds after power-on, GRLife Pro waits until the camera is ready and then opens by itself. One press is enough.
Our November 11 release notes said the second problem was fixed. It was not fully fixed, and we are sorry about that. This time we found the actual cause and checked it repeatedly on a camera.
How to update
- Open GRLife Pro 2.x on the custom firmware page, import Ricoh’s official fwdc248b.bin (1.20 or 1.21), build again and flash it.
- Leave the GRLIFE folder on the card as it is. Your films, settings and shutdown picture stay.
- The GR III and GR IIIx do not have this problem and need no update.
Camera-tested on a GR IV with official firmware 1.21. Firmware 1.20 gets the same change; we have no 1.20 body, so that one is not camera-tested.
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