Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/14

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Subject: [Leica] M8 problems
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:08:11 -0500
References: <D2ED3979-9F61-4379-A3C5-F25105DD8A97@bex.net> <9C7F16A6-20C6-4311-ABF6-CB8C26F52F88@mac.com>

I think it?s a card I?ve used before in the M8. In any case, the M8 reads 
the M240?s card just fine.

?howard


> On Nov 14, 2015, at 11:00 AM, chris williams <zoeica at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm guessing you've tried a new or different card? My M8 never liked cards 
> that my M9 used. 
> 
> 
> 
> Chris Williams
> www.zoeicaimages.net
> 504-231-6261
> 
> 
>> On Nov 14, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
>> 
>> When I turn my M8 on, the first thing I see is the message: ?SD-Card 
>> full?. But it isn?t, not nearly. When I push the PLAY button, it tells 
>> me: ?No valid image to play?. But there are images. (The card is read 
>> normally, and its images displayed, by the M240.) When I press the M8?s 
>> MENU button, the menu is displayed normally. But when I select Format 
>> SD-Card, it will not reformat the card?it doesn?t progress beyond the ?Do 
>> you want to format the SD-Card?? screen when I push the Yes button. All 
>> that happens is the red light flashes rapidly. I have to remove the 
>> battery to get out.
>> 
>> Reformatting the same card in the M240 proceeds normally, but the 
>> situation is the same when it?s put back into the M8, and the M8 gives 
>> the same notices when I try the M240?s SD card in it.
>> 
>> When I try to install the current firmware update that?s been downloaded 
>> onto the SD card, again the M8 reports ?SD-Card full?.
>> 
>> (By the way, all you M8 users: Contrary to Leica?s online instructions, 
>> the M8 firmware update file is NOT a .zip file, and does not need to be 
>> decompressed into a .upd file that gets put onto your SD card. It?s 
>> already a .upd file and only needs to be downloaded and transferred in 
>> its native state to your SD card. (Sorry if this is common knowledge 
>> that?s already been shared, but I haven?t updated my M8 in years.) The 
>> instructions for the M240 are different, and the update file for it is a 
>> .fw file that likewise isn?t a compressed file, or at least not one that 
>> needs decompressing by the user.)
>> 
>> Any solution short of sending it on a trip to NJ?
>> 
>> ?howard
>> 
>> 
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