[Leica] M8 problems

[Howard Ritter]

It’s an old 8 GB, which I *think* I’ve used with the M8 before, but I’m not sure. In any case, I’ll buy and try a new one.

—howard


> On Nov 14, 2015, at 7:52 PM, Frank Verizon <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> What size card?
> 
> But the other advice... Try another card... Are definitely first to try.
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
> 
> 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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