[Leica] M8 problems

[Sonny Carter]

My recollection is there was a point that you need to have upgraded firmware to use sdhc cards.  Transcend and Sandisk always worked for me.  I think there were a few brands that didn't make the quality cut and were not on the compatible list. 

I can't find that list on the Leica website anymore.

from my iPad

Sonny Carter

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 5:04 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
> 
> I cannot answer about 8GB, but my M8 (original 1/8000th) has only been used
> with 16GB by me....
> 
> john
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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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
> 
> 
> 
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