Communication issues between GP-E2 GPS receiver and EOS 2000D

[Keith_Beef]

Good day to you all.

I have two GP-E2 GPS receivers, one that I use with my Canon EOS 5Ds and the other with my older EOS 100D with communication through the hot shoe.

I recently bought another second hand APS-C body, the EOS 2000D.

I was somewhat disappointed to find that the 2000D, despite being more recent than the 100D, cannot communicate through the hot shoe with the GP-E2 and from what I have read since then it seems that the 2000D needs to be linked to the GP-E2 through the hard-to-find USB cable (type mini B to mini A) ...

Well, I tracked down and bought two suitable USB cables and tried them out on the 100D and 2000D bodies and to pile disappointment on disappointment the 2000D does not seem to detect the GP-E2.

I've tried each of the GP-E2 GPS receivers with each of the USB cable and both work correctly on the 100D, but not on the 2000D.

I've just tried three different USB type A to mini B cables to connect to my computer and the computer never detects the presence of the camera. Firmware installed in version 1.0.0, which seems to be the version dating back to the body's release in 2018.

So I'm beginning to think that the problem might be either a damaged USB connector on the camera body or a problem with the firmware. Has anybody had similar problems with this body and its USB connector?

[p4pictures]

I did find an updated firmware for the EOS 2000D camera on Canon Uk's website. There have been several updates since the 1.0.0 you said you have installed in the EOS 2000D. The latest firmware is 1.3.0.

Canon UK EOS 2000D firmware info & download

Additionally I would check the firmware version in the GP-E2, Canon UK support website has firmware version 2.0.2 available to download 

[Keith_Beef]

Well, Brian, after testing by connecting the body to a computer through a USB cable and finding that communication between the two worked, I tried the GPS receiver again and it worked...

So either the USB socket on the body had an intermittent fault or there was something (dust, fibres, etc) in the socket of either the body or the receiver. 

I'm about to go out and take a few pictures around a nearby pond, so I'll see if everything works now. I'll have a tracker program running on my phone as well, to test the possibility of getting coordinates from a GPX file and writing them to image files, using the recorded exif creation time.