I have an Orbea Gain and when using my range extender, I get a blinking pink light on my bike control. This has not happened before and just started.

Hans lehmann

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when turning on my range extender I get a purple flashing light and have to switch it off in order to control the levels on my bike control. This has just started happening. Had been working properly before. Has anyone else had this issue?
 
when turning on my range extender I get a purple flashing light and have to switch it off in order to control the levels on my bike control. This has just started happening. Had been working properly before. Has anyone else had this issue?
I bought the Orbea Gain M30 2020 in March and the X35 Range Extender in April of 2020. I have about 2500 miles on the bike and 2000 miles on the battery. I keep the x35 always connected. No problems with each until yesterday. Purple Light Flashing. Rode half the ride without battery and the last half with the downtube battery only because it showed I had between 74 and 50 % left and I was getting assist. The x35 was off as I stated. I researched online and learned I had the 201 error code. I charged both batteries to full and did not get purple light but within a minute I did. I disconnected the x35 fully charged it separately and also fully charged the downtube battery. Reconnected both and got the same problem. I disconnected x35 again. Now for some reason the downtube battery is showing Mode 1 45 mile range on my app when it used to show 62 which is for the most part was what I was getting. I am hoping that it is just associated with this purple flashing light problem and a software update, which I don't know how to do, will fix. I have emailed Mahle with all this info and am waiting on a response. Anybody else had this problem and how did you solve it. Just recharging batteries has not worked. Thanks in advance for any help.
 
I bought the Orbea Gain M30 2020 in March and the X35 Range Extender in April of 2020. I have about 2500 miles on the bike and 2000 miles on the battery. I keep the x35 always connected. No problems with each until yesterday. Purple Light Flashing. Rode half the ride without battery and the last half with the downtube battery only because it showed I had between 74 and 50 % left and I was getting assist. The x35 was off as I stated. I researched online and learned I had the 201 error code. I charged both batteries to full and did not get purple light but within a minute I did. I disconnected the x35 fully charged it separately and also fully charged the downtube battery. Reconnected both and got the same problem. I disconnected x35 again. Now for some reason the downtube battery is showing Mode 1 45 mile range on my app when it used to show 62 which is for the most part was what I was getting. I am hoping that it is just associated with this purple flashing light problem and a software update, which I don't know how to do, will fix. I have emailed Mahle with all this info and am waiting on a response. Anybody else had this problem and how did you solve it. Just recharging batteries has not worked. Thanks in advance for any help.
It needs a soft ware update. I took the range extender to my local bike shop and they are getting the proper patch cord and update to plug in to their computer. The shop is an Orbea dealer so hopefully it can get fixed.
 
It needs a soft ware update. I took the range extender to my local bike shop and they are getting the proper patch cord and update to plug in to their computer. The shop is an Orbea dealer so hopefully it can get fixed.
I sent X35 range extender back for an update. Range extender seems to be working fine now. Internal battery is showing 20 less miles of range since the purple light issue. Bike shop reset internal battery but app still shows 20 miles less range but on a ride this weekend without the range extender I got 56 miles even though app is showing 40 mile range. I have checked with Mahle to see if it is an app problem (EBikemotion). Yesterday I rode 37.5 miles with the range extender and internal battery connected and range extender total discharged on last 1.5 miles which is typical, BUT I started getting the purple flashing light again which started these issues back on December 30, 2020. Anybody else having these same issues and how did you correct them.
 
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