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Subject: [Leica] M8 problems
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2015 20:52:44 -0600
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> <003601d11ff9$f30824d0$d9186e70$@mcmaster.fr> <3B25DBE2-AED0-42BB-8013-6ED2F6C35932@gmail.com>

I found a reference in RF forum that said Leica M8 firmware 2.014 was the 
level needed to run an SDHC card.

from my iPad

Sonny Carter

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Henning Wulff <hjwulff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Until the M9 came out, there was no firmware that would allow the M8 to 
> work with any card above 4Gb, and 4Gb was only possible with certain cards 
> that used chips that were wired together non-conventionally. Apparently 
> later firmware solved this, but mine is still in 2Gb mode, which is fine 
> since I've dedicated a half dozen 2Gb cards to the camera, and I'll never 
> need more.
> 
> Henning Wulff
> hjwulff at gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 2015-11-15, at 3:04 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> I cannot answer about 8GB, but my M8 (original 1/8000th) has only been 
>> used
>> with 16GB by me....
>> 
>> john
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> \
>> 
>> 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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Replies: Reply from red735i at verizon.net (Frank Verizon) ([Leica] M8 problems)
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