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Subject: [Leica] M9 firmware upload problems
From: bill at grimwood.net (Bill Grimwood)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:33:11 -0500
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Yes it recognizes the card.

Bill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff Hopkinson" <hopsternew at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] M9 firmware upload problems


> Bill when you insert the card, does the camera recognise it? That is does 
> it
> say 400 exposures remaining or similar?
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
> On 10 September 2010 07:22, Bill Grimwood <bill at grimwood.net> wrote:
>
>> I have followed the instructions exactly several times.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Man" <richard at 
>> imagecraft.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 3:52 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] M9 firmware upload problems
>>
>>
>>
>> Did you follow the instructions exactly? e.g. turning it on etc.? Make 
>> sure
>>> to format the card on your camera and that it's a functional card on the
>>> camera. Make sure your battery is mostly charged also.
>>>
>>> It's correct that there is only one file. The way these embedded systems
>>> work is that the firmware sees a magic file on your SD card, and then it
>>> knows it loads it up into its internal memory.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Bill Grimwood <bill at grimwood.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have downloaded the firmware upgrade on to my SD card and extracted 
>>> what
>>>> appears to be only one file.
>>>>
>>>> I am about to go nuts because the camera does not ask if I want to
>>>> upgrade.
>>>> I have the unzipped file in the DCIM directory and have tried it by
>>>> deleting
>>>> the DCIM directory and have had it in both and nothing seems to work.
>>>>
>>>> I have had the file m9-1_138.upd as the only file on the card and still
>>>> nothing?????
>>>>
>>>> The instructions seem somewhat unclear to a non-techie like me.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help me?
>>>>
>>>> Bill Grimwood
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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