efeist Posted September 21, 2010 Share #1 Posted September 21, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) On 2 occasions, my M9 has locked up. Any images in the buffer are lost. The first time it happened I had to remove the battery to restart. The second time I waited a little while and switched it on and off a few times and then it restarted. The shooting conditions were different in both cases with the exception of shooting mode being set to single. Anybody haveing a similar experience? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaapv Posted September 21, 2010 Share #2 Posted September 21, 2010 Check your SD card. Is it formatted in the camera? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
efeist Posted September 21, 2010 Author Share #3 Posted September 21, 2010 Happened with two different cards which were both formated in the camera. The first was a PNY Optima SDHC 4GB and the second a new SanDisk Ultra SDHC 32GB. Two different firmware versions as well. I wish I could reproduce the fault. It seems to be very random. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldhrads Posted September 21, 2010 Share #4 Posted September 21, 2010 This happened to me the day after I got the M9, lost some nice shots of a street musician. Hasn't happened again and honestly I have no idea why it happened or what fixed it. I did have to do a hard restart, battery out etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
efeist Posted September 21, 2010 Author Share #5 Posted September 21, 2010 Thanks for the input. I'll keep shooting and see if it happens a third time. I live near Leica New Jersey, USA. If it does happen again, I'll let them take a look at it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel buck Posted November 6, 2010 Share #6 Posted November 6, 2010 Hello, have you found a solution to this? I received my M9 today, and so far it's frozen up on me about 6 times, and I've hardly had a chance to even use it because I've been so busy at work, so I can't really narrow down what seems to make it lock up. I've got a SanDisk SDHC 4gb card (a cheap one) that I just happened to have in an audio recorder, I will be replacing it with an ultra/extreme card in a few days. I have found those to be extremely reliable in the CompactFlash cards that I've used over the years. First thing I did was I formatted the card in the camera, and had the battery is fully charged. I took about 20 photos with no problems at all, everything working perfectly. The camera is slower than the Canon 1-series that I'm used to, but I don't mind it being a bit slow. But anyway then put the card into my computer to copy the files off. I put the card back in the camera a while later, and I think that's the point at which the camera seems to start locking up. Sometimes when I'm trying to change a setting in the menu, and sometimes when I was trying to delete a photo. The redlight on the back of the camera will just keep blinking and blinking for several minutes until I pull the battery. I can't turn the camera off (I turn it off, and it stays on) so I just pull the battery out to reboot it. As it is right now, I can't even seem to format the card in the camera, it just sits there blinking away saying it's busy formatting, but it's been about 5 minutes now, it shouldn't take that long should it? when I formatted it the very first time, it only took a few seconds. So, since I can't even format the card in the camera, I'm going to try formatting it on my computer, and then again in the camera. I will order a better SD card ASAP, as I suspect this is a problem with the card. What SD card does everyone like to use with these? Are the Ultra/Extreme sandisk cards good in SDHC? I have owned no better CompactFlash card than the Sandisk Ultra/Extreme cards for my 1-series Canon, never a single problem with them. Can I assume their SDHC cards are also top notch? (edit) ok after doing a full format on the card on my computer, the card formatted in a matter of seconds inside the camera. So it looks as if maybe I accidentally added something to the card or altered it in some way when it was in the computer (maybe a temp file or something generated by windows image copier?) But in any case, it looks like it's doing ok now. I guess I'll have to be more purposeful and conscious with how I operate it, the SD card once it's in the computer in particular. :-) Any tips on SD card management? Do yall just copy the files off to the computer? do you move them? or do you generally do just anything you want and then immediately reformat it once it gets into the camera again? I think what happened was that when I put the card back into the camera, I did not imediately reformat it, I started shooting again right then and there. Does the card need to be reformatted as soon as it's put back into the camera every time the card has been in another computer? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted November 6, 2010 Share #7 Posted November 6, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) Lock the card before you read it out in the computer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enboe Posted November 6, 2010 Share #8 Posted November 6, 2010 JAAPV: That actually makes sense. Computers make small alterations to every writeable piece of media they touch. I will give that a try. To the original poster: I had similar problems, and was only able to get reliable function out of Delkin E-Film class-6 cards. Then about 6 months ago, there was a major firmware update, and that opened up use of every other card I own, from class 2 to class 10, Sandisk, Kingston, Delkin, all of them. Lesson: make sure you have the current firmware loaded. (Side note: the latest firmware seems to have brought back some card issues with my camera. Trying another card this weekend.) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel buck Posted November 6, 2010 Share #9 Posted November 6, 2010 Lock the card before you read it out in the computer. Ooh, great idea! I bet that will solve any little temp files or "touching" that a computer will do to the card. I'll give that a try. Will just have to remember to put it back before going into the camera. I assume the camera will give some sort of error if it tries to write to a locked card? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted November 6, 2010 Share #10 Posted November 6, 2010 It will say " SD card locked" Having suffered from an atrophied short-term memory all my life I lock the card as soon as I take it from the camera and only unlock it when I am sure the files have been saved and backuped. That way I cannot accidently format the card or do anything else stupid with it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel buck Posted November 8, 2010 Share #11 Posted November 8, 2010 indeed, locking the SD card during transfers seems to have been the issue, I've had zero problems since doing that :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
archi4 Posted November 8, 2010 Share #12 Posted November 8, 2010 Jaap Does locking the card apply to both Mac and Win computers? I use a Mac and haven't had any problems but prevention may well be the smart way to go. Maurice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted November 8, 2010 Share #13 Posted November 8, 2010 If you lock a card no computer can write to it, Mac or PC afaik. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mc_k Posted November 9, 2010 Share #14 Posted November 9, 2010 JaapDoes locking the card apply to both Mac and Win computers? I use a Mac and haven't had any problems but prevention may well be the smart way to go. Maurice The scuttlebutt is that the Mac OS will write to the card; I don't know for sure. I lock the cards before they go in the reader, format in-camera, and don't share cards between cameras. If anything ever goes wrong, that will be three less things to consider. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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