Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]WIBD! All those who insisted that the problem is most likely an SD card incompatibility were right. I put in an old 1 GB card and the M8 is perfectly happy. Hate to think though that I?m forever limited to 1 or 2 GB, despite the fact that Leica?s current tech specs say that it?ll accommodate up to 32 GB, but I suppose any one photo session is unlikely to exceed these capacities. Hope I can still find a 2 GB card?I may have tossed out my other old low-capacity ones as not worth keeping! ?howard > 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 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information