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Samyang Lens Manager Dock Bricked Lens on Update

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  1. bbrooks

    bbrooks Grand Master

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    I was gifted a Samyang Lens Manager Dock and used it successfully to update my Samyang 85 1.4 FE. I then started to update my 35 2.8 FE and it failed. Now it won't recognize the lens and it won't work with my camera. Essentially, it is bricked. By chance, does anyone here have an older copy of the software? I'm using version 2.68. Samyang hasn't been any help at this point. Some solutions have suggested downgraded to older versions and it fixed it for them. It's not a lens I use often at all, but it's the principle of it.
     
    bbrooks, 28 Dec 2022
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    Try this...

    Open lens manager and connect your working 85 lens to the lens station (for recognition).

    Click Lens Connect, as usual - detach the lens, without disconnecting in the software. Click lens connect button without the lens connected and then click disconnect.

    Click lens connect and quickly click on the now available firmware update.
    Load firmware file (first rename the firmware file of the 35 to the one for your working and recognized 85 to fool it.), still without the lens connected - attach the broken 35 lens and click update. This may fool it to believe it's updating the 85.

    You may have to click on lens connect - disconnect and connect again before clicking the update button. Fiddle around to with it

    The dock should be disconnected and process closed down before attaching a new lens for update, as some seems to hang in memory.
     
    alfern, 10 Jan 2023
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