RMF Posted Wednesday at 07:35 PM Share #21 Posted Wednesday at 07:35 PM (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) Updated both an M11 and and M11-D via Fotos. Worked seamlessly. BTW- Update the Fotos app to 5.4.1 for the M11-D to allow Secure Formatting on the internal drive. . Edited Wednesday at 07:42 PM by RMF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Edax Posted Wednesday at 07:50 PM Share #22 Posted Wednesday at 07:50 PM 40 minutes ago, Knorp said: According to the release notes (I just read it), it could take up to 75 minutes ... Yes it takes approximately 75 minutes to securely format the internal 256GB ssd on your M11-P... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMF Posted Wednesday at 08:03 PM Share #23 Posted Wednesday at 08:03 PM (edited) 48 minutes ago, Edax said: Yes it takes approximately 75 minutes to securely format the internal 256GB ssd on your M11-P... Curious if I need to plug-in a USB battery to maintain the battery running for up to 75min while the camera is doing its "secure formatting" . I was at 95% with my battery but I'm thinking the camera being on for 75 minutes would be a significant battery drain (maybe I'm wrong). The Release notes do not mention anything about that and I'm on an M11-D so battery capacity is not visible to me (*correction, it is visible inside the viewfinder... I just didn't want to touch or pickup the camera as it was doing its formatting 😀 . Edited Wednesday at 08:41 PM by RMF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edax Posted Wednesday at 08:14 PM Share #24 Posted Wednesday at 08:14 PM 6 minutes ago, RMF said: Curious if I need to plug-in a USB battery to maintain the battery running for up to 75min while the camera is doing its "secure formatting" . I was at 95% with my battery but I'm thinking the camera being on for 75 minutes would be a significent battery drain (maybe I'm wrong). The Release notes do not mention anything about that and I'm on an M11-D so battery capacity is not visible to me. The 75min secure format consumed 20-25% of battery capacity on my M11-P. Warning: after the 75 min format is finished it remains consuming battery power until the message window is manually closed... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMF Posted Wednesday at 08:20 PM Share #25 Posted Wednesday at 08:20 PM (edited) 7 minutes ago, Edax said: The 75min secure format consumed 20-25% of battery capacity on my M11-P. Warning: after the 75 min format is finished it remains consuming battery power until the message window is manually closed... thanks @Edax On the M11-D there is a Fotos notification that states "the bottom red light on the camera will stop blinking when secure formatting is complete". Mine is still blinking away but I'll plug in a USB battery brick just in case. Edited Wednesday at 08:22 PM by RMF Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J S H Posted Wednesday at 08:21 PM Share #26 Posted Wednesday at 08:21 PM 9 minutes ago, RMF said: Curious if I need to plug-in a USB battery to maintain the battery running for up to 75min while the camera is doing its "secure formatting" . I was at 95% with my battery but I'm thinking the camera being on for 75 minutes would be a significent battery drain (maybe I'm wrong). The Release notes do not mention anything about that and I'm on an M11-D so battery capacity is not visible to me. . Not a bad idea to connect it to a power adapter or battery bank...it won't hurt anything. The secure format only took 10 minutes for my M11, but I did hook up a USB cable just to be safe. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon525 Posted Wednesday at 08:22 PM Share #27 Posted Wednesday at 08:22 PM Advertisement (gone after registration) No doubt this has been answered many times before, but this is my first update with an M(M11P). Is there anyway to retain one’s settings when one updates the firmware? Mine have all disappeared. I do have a Q3 and with that one is offered the choice to save settings and reload them afterwards. Anything similar for M? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J S H Posted Wednesday at 08:25 PM Share #28 Posted Wednesday at 08:25 PM Yes, you can easily export the profile settings to the SD card before the update. However, I have never seen the profile settings actually get erased with just the firmware update. However, if you do a full reset of the camera, it will ask you about resetting the profiles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted Wednesday at 08:38 PM Share #29 Posted Wednesday at 08:38 PM 12 minutes ago, Goon525 said: this is my first update with an M(M11P). Is there anyway to retain one’s settings when one updates the firmware? Mine have all disappeared. By settings you mean user profiles i guess. Mine are stored in a file named "settings.lcse" in the SD card. You may wish to look for such a file on yours or another card. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marchyman Posted Wednesday at 08:47 PM Share #30 Posted Wednesday at 08:47 PM settings.lcse exists because you explicitly exported your settings at one time or you used the camera reset option and answered yes to the "save settings" question. It seems to me that some people don't realize they can scroll down once on the User Profile menu page. They need to do that to see the "Manage Profiles" option. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DadDadDaddyo Posted Wednesday at 09:57 PM Share #31 Posted Wednesday at 09:57 PM Updated M11 and M11M via Fotos app. Easy as slippin' off a wet log, but a lot less dramatic... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwidad Posted Thursday at 03:03 AM Share #32 Posted Thursday at 03:03 AM (edited) 9 hours ago, lct said: You did it i believe. First time i see that in an M11 firmware so far. And really a useless feature unless you sell the camera and want to stop anyone from recovering images from internal memory which last i heard no one knows how to do. A great feature for those who fear law enforcement recovering images! I guess at least they didn’t implement any encryption. Edited Thursday at 03:07 AM by kiwidad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon525 Posted Thursday at 05:25 AM Share #33 Posted Thursday at 05:25 AM 8 hours ago, lct said: By settings you mean user profiles i guess. Mine are stored in a file named "settings.lcse" in the SD card. You may wish to look for such a file on yours or another card. I didn’t just mean user profiles. There are other things that vanished, such as my menu favourites all of which disappeared from the first page of the menu. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMF Posted Thursday at 05:26 AM Share #34 Posted Thursday at 05:26 AM 2 hours ago, kiwidad said: And really a useless feature unless you sell the camera and want to stop anyone from recovering images from internal memory which last i heard no one knows how to do. A great feature for those who fear law enforcement recovering images! I guess at least they didn’t implement any encryption. Perhaps useless or less useful for some, but useful for others as it appears it might have resolved the issue of ‘internal memory full’ documented here: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmars Posted Thursday at 06:54 AM Share #35 Posted Thursday at 06:54 AM vor einer Stunde schrieb Goon525: I didn’t just mean user profiles. There are other things that vanished, such as my menu favourites all of which disappeared from the first page of the menu. Favourites are also stored in the profiles. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M11 for me Posted Thursday at 07:04 AM Share #36 Posted Thursday at 07:04 AM vor 1 Stunde schrieb Goon525: I didn’t just mean user profiles. There are other things that vanished, such as my menu favourites all of which disappeared from the first page of the menu. The user profiles (incl. favourites) you can export from camera to your SD card at any time. I do that for all my cameras and I copy these favourites (settings.lcse) to my Mac. Always something can happen (firmware update where all favourites go lost, etc). So you can easily write the files back onto the SD card, put it back into the camera and then (through camera menu) import your profiles again. Then you can format your SDcard again if you like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocalHero1953 Posted Thursday at 07:10 AM Share #37 Posted Thursday at 07:10 AM Like reformatting & overwriting a hard disk when you sell a laptop, I guess you might choose to use the secure reformatting option when you sell the camera, but not otherwise. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goon525 Posted Thursday at 07:16 AM Share #38 Posted Thursday at 07:16 AM 11 minutes ago, M11 for me said: The user profiles (incl. favourites) you can export from camera to your SD card at any time. I do that for all my cameras and I copy these favourites (settings.lcse) to my Mac. Always something can happen (firmware update where all favourites go lost, etc). So you can easily write the files back onto the SD card, put it back into the camera and then (through camera menu) import your profiles again. Then you can format your SDcard again if you like. Thanks - now I know what I should have done! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
M11 for me Posted Thursday at 07:30 AM Share #39 Posted Thursday at 07:30 AM vor 18 Minuten schrieb LocalHero1953: Like reformatting & overwriting a hard disk when you sell a laptop, I guess you might choose to use the secure reformatting option when you sell the camera, but not otherwise. This seems to be the idea of it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edax Posted Thursday at 07:35 AM Share #40 Posted Thursday at 07:35 AM 22 minutes ago, LocalHero1953 said: Like reformatting & overwriting a hard disk when you sell a laptop, I guess you might choose to use the secure reformatting option when you sell the camera, but not otherwise. Exactly; and it is (more or less) a legal EU requirement as mentioned in the release notes. Instead of putting this secure format in the format menu (with the risk of accidentally activating it) IMHO it would have been better to place it in the Camera Reset menu. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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