Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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