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The manual (perhaps only the online one) documented how to turn off the sounds, but the original firmware didn’t match the manual. I raised a ticket with Kodak when I first got my Zi6 and they were a bit embarrassed when they noticed the issue. Seems they hadn’t noticed.

I’m just hoping that they’ll come out with one that helps reduce the shaking, because other than that it’s a pretty good piece of kit.

Hey I saw this after searching how to import to imovie. I updated the firmware but I don’t have those new features. When you plug in the zi6 to your mac do you get 2 mountd drives? One is called arcsoft sw which is locked. The other called ‘No Name’ which is where all my movies are created (in the DCIM folder). To upgrade the firmware what to you do. I might be doing something wrong.

Can you help?

Hmm, I can’t remember exactly, but I thought just placing the new FW on the root of the card with the DCIM folder, then starting up with the menu was enough to flash it. I can’t do it again since I’ve flashed, but maybe I can bring up the menu and confirm. Let me know if you’re still stuck and I’ll grab my cam.

does anyone know if this new firmware has fixed the dropped frames problem that was happening before?

Seems a little silly to ask. . .The root directory is the DCIM folder yes? (whew. . .sighs) When I put the upgrade in the dcim folder and popped the sd card in, holding down delete/stop, capture and the power button, I got the menu, selected fw version (heres where I ran into trouble, there was no okay next to fw version so the installation of the new firmware doesn’t happen. Help?

The root directory is not in the DCIM folder, but rather, not in any folder at all. You just drag the firmware update in the window of the SD card on your computer.

I have the exact same problem Follow all the steps but there is 4/4 submenus you can scroll through in FW Version but it does nothing :S

help me ;(

HELLO! I SOLVED IT. I went to the kodak live help.

Okay
the only problem is you cannot have any folders or files on your memory card. delete all file folders and place .bin in the memory card, no folders.

Then follow the steps it should work fine

I think the commenter who is saying there are additional features is wrong, or ill-informed. When I updated my firmware to 1.11, I gained the ability to turn sounds on or off, and change from NTSC to PAL formats, but didn’t see those other items (#2, #3, or #4 in the above message). Also, I did *not* have to delete the files on the card before updating… I tried it both ways with the same result (no files on the card, and with files and folders from video and still photos on the card). So don’t be fooled by the “additional features” comment, or the part about deleting files on the card before flashing the update. Just follow the instructions for the update, and you’ll gain the ability to turn chimes on or off, but that’s about it.

My son got the Zi6 for Christmas it seems to be the updated firmware but I cannot get iphoto to see the video and imovie says (after downloading ) that Quicktime is missing what it needs to open these movies and that I cannot get it on the quicktime site…. I’m on Mac and running 10.3.9 ( is that the issue again!!!)

I get the red exclamation mark symbol when I put my SD cards into my Zi6. Tried with one 8 GB and another which is 32 GB. Thought this firmware update might be able to fix it, but has anyone tried this as a fix when the SD card has the red exclamation mark on it?

Gonna go home and try it out later. Just wanted to see if anyone else has tried before I did.

Hi All – massive issues with my Zi6 since upgrading to v1.11 – locks up all the time, won’t shoot more than 6-9 seconds in either HD mode….and this is with any brand of SD card I chuck at it. Had the device since Apr 09 and it was fautless until the upgrade. Kodak want to charge me for repair! Does anybody have the previous firmware version so that I can roll back?

Samuel