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Canon R6 Freezing Up Intermittently

llehmann
Enthusiast

Anybody else having this problem with the Canon R6 freezing up. It usually starts with the camera not focusing. Its also becomes none responsive to mode changes. The on/off button doesnt work. Opening the battery door shuts it off... but still doesn't fix it. Pulling the battery out usually fixs the problem right away. But again... not always and sometimes it take a few battery removals to get it back up and running. 

This has happened while shooting both photo and video. It happens with different lenses. It happens with different memory cards. I can't recreate the problem on command. The camera works 99% of the time. But at least once a wedding shoot, over the period of 6 hours, It freezes up!

In the video below... I was attached to the Ronin gimbal. But it's happened just shooting photos and without the gimbal. Plus, when I open the battery door and try and turn the camera on/off... it still doesn't work. Has nothing to do with that.

I was on firmware version 1.4
I updated the firmware this week to version 1.5.0.
This problem has been happening for a long time... 8 months. Camera is less than a year old.

Again, at last nights wedding... it froze. 

Here is a video that I recorded when it happened.
1. Focus isn't working. Both back button and touch.
2. Display freezes up. You can still see the audio working.

3. On/off doesn't work.

4. open battery door... nothing works.

5. Pull Battery

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JAYSTATON
Contributor

In my cases of my EOS R & R6 freezing up, I never use wireless wifi enabled, so it has nothing to do with wireless wifi enabled.

Good to know, thank you!
Have you had continuous AF turned off? 
I just realized I turned mine off about a month ago which is when I started to notice these issues (but could be coincidental). Might be worth a try though?

lol sir or madam... all due respect but it's not the wireless comms. It's the autofocus - or something that triggers it during autofocus-ing specifically. My wireless comms have been off as have most of the people in this thread. I feel like you must have some kind of Canon agenda to prevent people from thinking there is a collective problem that is plaguing many cameras, and that it's better for people to think they have a different simple issue... I get it. You can keep replying that it's the wireless comms, that's fine. I live in an area with limited cell service, and use my camera in those areas too, and have the same problem. 

Yeah, lol I'm not sure how many times people in this thread can say it, before this poster believes that it's not the wireless comms? I'm sure a couple more wouldn't hurt 😂

I keep continuous auto focus on all the time.  I don't think that is the issue.

 

llehmann
Enthusiast

As the creator of this thread... I like to see the continued problems this camera is causing! So post away because the lack of support and solutions from Canon suck!

My guess is the same people will reply again and come up with the same excuses we've heard for years on this thread. 

And here we go....

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