[Leica] M8 problems

[Frank Verizon]

It has been a while since I had my M8..... However, I think the biggest SD card was 4gb.... And certainly it was NOT 32gb. 

Background... This was the time of the 4gb cards being introduced to the market. 4gb and above are called SDHC, which has a different protocol from previous SD cards.  Some cameras were SW equipped, some were not. Some card makers used normal protocols, others did not. ie, it was a time of mess in the industry...  Trying to figure all this out, 9 years later is nutso making.

A 2gb card will be compatible. All of them. If you can find a 2gb card, try it. 

If this fails, the next step is a bit more painful:  formatting your card that failed..... But i can help you through that

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net

On Nov 15, 2015, at 4:27 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:

Neither a new 32GB card nor having the battery removed overnight fixed things. Since I’m not sure that I successfully used the 8GB card in the M8 in the past, now I’ll try to find an old 2 GB card and try that.

—howard


> On Nov 15, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Frank Verizon <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> We could argue all day long. If you have an old 2gb card, try it. 
> 
> The real issue is to tell if the problem is a card issue or a body issue. 
> 
> My real suspicion is that it is a card issue.  You could take the card and do a low level format (special SW required, which is free, but who wants to bother).  It is most likely something on the card that got scrambled. It is just so much easier to throw the card away and get on with life.....with a new card.
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
> 
> On Nov 15, 2015, at 3:51 PM, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote:
> 
> mine works fine with 8 and 16
> 
> ric
> 
> 
>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Henning Wulff <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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 t