Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm guessing you've tried a new or different card? My M8 never liked cards that my M9 used. Chris Williams www.zoeicaimages.net 504-231-6261 > 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