I have 1 pair of DSTE 1600mah decoded batteries that do work. That was the first order I did. The ones that came later does not work at ALL in my GH-2 euro body (they just shut down the camera with a message: "this battery can not be used". Tianlin2010 has no good answers for this. And no idea how to fix it, for now the last batch of GH-2 cells are just not working in my camera, they do however work as a second cell in my Ownuser grip. I also bought other cells from tianlin2010 (BLM-5 for my Olympus E-5) and they work as they should. This is a really hit and miss game. If you want something that works for sure, buy original cells from B&H, they have some of the best prices online and you will get working products and no grief. If you don't mind potentially loosing a few $ experimenting with whatever is out there then keep the reports coming. Someone in china has these batteries decoded (or copied somthing from the original DMW-BLC12), if not, then my first unoriginal battery would not have worked. If this is a deliberate scam then someone went to a lot of troubble to prove that the first batch was ok in order to scam all the later buyers. And I can't really see that the market is big enough to make such a scam worth while.

BTW: Firmware version does not matter. Either they work and work in both versions or they don't work.

Just received mine I ordered from tianlin2010 a month ago - no in camera levels, dies after ~1:20, nowhere near the advertised 1600 mAh. Verdict - another one too many crappy Chinese battery.

I'm wondering whether the first batch sent out were repackaged genuine Panasonic batteries to generate buzz that this seller had decoded the battery and attract a lot of orders at a premium price, but all subsequent shipments are just the standard knock-offs.

Thanks to report!

No way! A scam like that and you're out of business (as a wholesale seller).

Sorry, been away for a while.

Sure, I'll get some photos but it looks exactly like the one that does not work. Same numbers and everything. So it might defeat the purpose. They also look exactly like the ebay picture that tianlin2010 has on the ebay link. All I can say is that this is really a hit and miss game. Tianlin requested pictures from me to show him the camera shutdown message. Also I did a battery measure at 0.1C and the first batch was 1578mAh and 1613mAh charged with the original panny charger, the second batch was 962mAh and 983mAh. So my conclusion is the first ones I got was the real deal, the others (that I cant even use at all with my camera) are something completely different, but they all have the same plastic. It would interesting to open one of the broken ones and one of the working ones to see what the difference is. But untill one of the working ones either loose a lot of capacity or stop working i'd rather not destroy it.

My timebest2011 DSTE battery arrived today. FAKE as expected (i.e. no battery meter showing).

Thanks lsf2000.

Someone have tested this: http://www.batteryupgrade.de/shopBrowser_search.php?tracker=adwords_de_modelnummers_2250gt&adkeyword=DMW-BLC12&langId=2&gclid=CLDA7rbGmq4CFQeHDgodez3XIw#/assortmentProductId/90201988/shopGroupId

Got the DSTE battery from "timebest2011" on Ebay and he wrote: "Now this battery is full coded can show battery level in your camera LCD" – NOT TRUE, another scam.

Battery arrived today from "timebest2011". Doesn't show battery level on LCD.

The question is: was there ever a third party battery with indicator at all?

I´m using the non decoded one,from day one (actually I was the first guy who took the plunge on alibaba back then and had to order 20) , always get the non supported message but after a short on and off switch those work absolutely fabulous. How can this be?

My aftermarket battery, which I bought when I bought the camera as there were no power adapters available, does not give me a warning message of any kind, but also does not display the remaining battery time.