Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information