This post fueled by frustration and gummy bears.
Summer's bike was built up with a barebones di2 kit when we first built up her omni. 1 bar end shifter, a 9070 RD, a 3 port junction, and an external battery. It worked. I found a good deal on a few brake shifters and bar end shifters and figured it was finally time to make the swap to a 1x electronic group on my bike as well. I figured I add a brake lever for her to shift, and then use both left shifters to control the 1x on my bike: a little unconventional but no reason it shouldn't work. LOL.
Brake levers weren't being recognized by her bike, presumably due to firmware issues. Updated the firmware in the recommended ways (only plug in one thing at a time). A few updates later the battery and original bar end shifter are completely bricked. Not picked up via etube at all. Tried them with a non updated junction A from her road bike, still nothing. Took them into a bike shop to plug directly into the computer. Not recognized by their computers either. Just completely useless. Bummer, but I have an extra bar end shifter that is recognized and maybe it's worth updating to an internal battery anyways. Buy a new internal battery and her bike is good to go. End of chapter 1.
Piece together the wires and junctions I need for my bike. Get everything plugged into the computer (thankfully before I mounted to the bike) and everything is recognized (except for the two parts that were dead anyways). Happy so far. Swap the settings on the shifters to shift the rear rather than front, complete setup: still looking good. Unplug from e-tube project to test shifting: nothing. Hold buttons on shifters: nothing. Hold junction box button: nothing. Figure it's maybe not charged. Try to charge it and all I get is the flashing red error light button. Figure I may have underspecced cords or something. Try all combinations I have. Only get the error light. Replug into computer, battery is recognized perfectly. Try another junction box to charge the battery, error button. Test my junction with only known working di2 battery in house, working perfectly. End of chapter 2.
So now I'm left with a 'working' but unrecognizable external battery. A 'working' but unrecognizable sw671 shifter. And a 2 year old battery that is apparently not capable of holding any charge. And of course god forbid shimano has to deal directly with a customer, especially one who likes buying used parts so I haven't found any way to get in contact with them. Do I have any recourse here or am I SOL? I get that Shimano warranties only apply to the original customer so sucks for me that I bought a dead battery I guess, but for the other parts that were working perfectly 5 days ago before Shimano's own software broke them... Ugh.
Should this have gone in the cry like a little biatch thread or am I justified here?
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Summer's bike was built up with a barebones di2 kit when we first built up her omni. 1 bar end shifter, a 9070 RD, a 3 port junction, and an external battery. It worked. I found a good deal on a few brake shifters and bar end shifters and figured it was finally time to make the swap to a 1x electronic group on my bike as well. I figured I add a brake lever for her to shift, and then use both left shifters to control the 1x on my bike: a little unconventional but no reason it shouldn't work. LOL.
Brake levers weren't being recognized by her bike, presumably due to firmware issues. Updated the firmware in the recommended ways (only plug in one thing at a time). A few updates later the battery and original bar end shifter are completely bricked. Not picked up via etube at all. Tried them with a non updated junction A from her road bike, still nothing. Took them into a bike shop to plug directly into the computer. Not recognized by their computers either. Just completely useless. Bummer, but I have an extra bar end shifter that is recognized and maybe it's worth updating to an internal battery anyways. Buy a new internal battery and her bike is good to go. End of chapter 1.
Piece together the wires and junctions I need for my bike. Get everything plugged into the computer (thankfully before I mounted to the bike) and everything is recognized (except for the two parts that were dead anyways). Happy so far. Swap the settings on the shifters to shift the rear rather than front, complete setup: still looking good. Unplug from e-tube project to test shifting: nothing. Hold buttons on shifters: nothing. Hold junction box button: nothing. Figure it's maybe not charged. Try to charge it and all I get is the flashing red error light button. Figure I may have underspecced cords or something. Try all combinations I have. Only get the error light. Replug into computer, battery is recognized perfectly. Try another junction box to charge the battery, error button. Test my junction with only known working di2 battery in house, working perfectly. End of chapter 2.
So now I'm left with a 'working' but unrecognizable external battery. A 'working' but unrecognizable sw671 shifter. And a 2 year old battery that is apparently not capable of holding any charge. And of course god forbid shimano has to deal directly with a customer, especially one who likes buying used parts so I haven't found any way to get in contact with them. Do I have any recourse here or am I SOL? I get that Shimano warranties only apply to the original customer so sucks for me that I bought a dead battery I guess, but for the other parts that were working perfectly 5 days ago before Shimano's own software broke them... Ugh.
Should this have gone in the cry like a little biatch thread or am I justified here?
Benjamin Deal - Professional - Instagram - TriRig - Lodi Cyclery
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