[Leica] M8 problems

[John McMaster]

I cannot answer about 8GB, but my M8 (original 1/8000th) has only been used
with 16GB by me....

john

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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.

Henning Wulff
hjwulff at gmail.com

On 2015-11-14, at 8:23 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

> 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
>>