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I have searched for threads addressing this problem but without success. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

 

After a successful day shooting yesterday I turned on my M8 late last night and saw the message "SD Card Full". I knew this couldn't be correct but unsuccessfully tried to format the card anyway. Battery condition was half and shots remaining zero. I have tried replacing the battery with one known to be full, but get the same indications. I have tried another card without success. Both cards work perfectly well in my Digilux 2. At the moment I have the battery and card out of the camera in the hope that a reset will take place when the internal battery runs down. While I wait for this to happen (and how will I know it has?) does anyone have any helpful ideas?

 

John

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Chris I am using 2Gb Sandisk Extreme III cards. I can't format them, or at least the format program only runs for 2 or 3 seconds and then I still have the SD card full message, and "FULL" in the viewfinder if I try to make an exposure. This has just happened - I have been using the same setup for months.

 

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Chris I am using 2Gb Sandisk Extreme III cards. I can't format them, or at least the format program only runs for 2 or 3 seconds and then I still have the SD card full message, and "FULL" in the viewfinder if I try to make an exposure. This has just happened - I have been using the same setup for months.

 

John

Take the card out of the camera and format it on a computer. If it still reads full make sure the Lock lever isn't engaged.

 

There have been more reports of problems with SanDisc cards then any other. Persoanlly I don't use any SanDisc cards. I use Lexar and never had a problem in any camera or other device.

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This isn't a card problem. I have tried three different Sandisk cards and an Apacer. Same result with all four. None of them were locked. All of them work in my Digilux 2. I still have the camera sitting with the battery out in he hope that it will reset. Can anyone advise on this?

 

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This isn't a card problem. I have tried three different Sandisk cards and an Apacer. Same result with all four. None of them were locked. All of them work in my Digilux 2. I still have the camera sitting with the battery out in he hope that it will reset. Can anyone advise on this?

 

John

Clean the card slot contacts inside the camera.

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Thanks shootist. Do you have any suggestions as to how I might clean the internal contacts without damaging anything?

 

John

Spray contact clean. Spray it on a card and insert the card a few times.

If that doesn't fix it then it looks like a trip to Leica is in order.

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I had this issue a few times now.

All I needed to do was:

- remove the card

- set the card lock lever to "Lock" position

- card back into the camera

- camera "on" and it shows "Locked" - naturally

- remove card and unlock

- card back into M8 ..and

Bob's your uncle.

 

Worked for me.

Cheers

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  • 2 months later...

I had this problem with one of my San Disk Extreme III cards with my M8. No matter how I reformatted, nuked, scrubbed the card it would regularly lock up my M8 with exactly this error. In the end I gave up on the San Disk cards and settled on the Lexar's that have never let me down.

 

Here's a strange phenomena: I put the same card into my M8.2 and reformatted it. It now works perfectly in both cameras - same firmware 2.0 in both. Go figure? Is it the phase of the moon or other strange forces at play? I offer no explanation ... just observation.

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I tried all of the suggestions in the thread without avail. After waiting three months for the internal battery to go flat I gave up and the camera is now on its way to the Leica service centre in Hong Kong. does anyone have any experience of this organisation?

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Three years after the above posts:

 

I just had the same problem in M9: regular reformatting didn't help, different card didn't help. Then I used the 'slow reformat,' the Overwrite one, on a small card (took several minutes). Then that card worked OK – & lo-&-behold, so did a 16 GB one.

 

Either an impending electrical failure or a problem needing voodoo/exorcism.

 

Kirk

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I've had this sporadic but really annoying problem on and off for 2+ years now. I had my m8 in Leica NJ several times and had them look into it. Each time they came back with the same verdict: as it didnt happen while they had the camera in NJ, there is nothing wrong if it, or that there isnt anything they can do.

 

my verdict: m8 is a lot of great things but it is just not a reliable pro camera.

 

misha

PHOTOGRAPHY BY MISHA FRIEDMAN

 

p.s. it is still my only camera :)

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Three years after the above posts:

 

I just had the same problem in M9: regular reformatting didn't help, different card didn't help. Then I used the 'slow reformat,' the Overwrite one, on a small card (took several minutes). Then that card worked OK – & lo-&-behold, so did a 16 GB one.

 

Either an impending electrical failure or a problem needing voodoo/exorcism.

 

Kirk

Neither my M8s, nor my M9 show this problem. But then these cameras get used for this kind of shots...:p:

 

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/people/173569-gulu-wamgulu-guy.html

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