[Leica] M8 problems

[Henning Wulff]

That's very interesting, Ric. I must have missed a firmware update.

Henning Wulff
hjwulff at gmail.com




On 2015-11-15, at 12:51 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote:

> mine works fine with 8 and 16
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> ric
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>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Henning Wulff <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The M8 will not work with any 8Gb card. It will work with (very few, specific) 4Gb cards, and almost all 2Gb cards. But not 8Gb cards.
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>> Henning Wulff
>> hjwulff at gmail.com
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>> On 2015-11-14, at 8:23 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> —howard
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>>>> On Nov 14, 2015, at 7:52 PM, Frank Verizon <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>>> What size card?
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>>>> But the other advice... Try another card... Are definitely first to try.
>>>> 
>>>> Frank Filippone
>>>> Red735i at verizon.net
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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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