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 think it?s a card I?ve used before in the M8. In any case, the M8 reads the M240?s card just fine. ?howard > On Nov 14, 2015, at 11:00 AM, chris williams <zoeica at mac.com> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information