Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/15

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Subject: [Leica] M8 problems
From: hjwulff at gmail.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 13:25:36 -0800
References: <D2ED3979-9F61-4379-A3C5-F25105DD8A97@bex.net> <DF892F16-7A4A-4DE9-AE67-7A8E7E2DCEEC@verizon.net> <A07AAA00-584E-4FCB-AA36-F64A85B5C293@bex.net> <D8C4E0E2-2D5D-41D3-B542-3878E58E094F@gmail.com> <79DEA61C-3A69-42F6-ACBC-F5879F8593E4@cartersxrd.net>

That's very interesting, Ric. I must have missed a firmware update.

Henning Wulff
hjwulff at gmail.com




On 2015-11-15, at 12:51 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
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In reply to: Message from hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter) ([Leica] M8 problems)
Message from red735i at verizon.net (Frank Verizon) ([Leica] M8 problems)
Message from hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter) ([Leica] M8 problems)
Message from hjwulff at gmail.com (Henning Wulff) ([Leica] M8 problems)
Message from ric at cartersxrd.net (RicCarter) ([Leica] M8 problems)