Servicemenu M8 ?

[loekg]

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Can somebody tell me how to reach the servicemenu on the M8 e.g. to see the number of clicks made?

[pleeson]

Take a picture.

Open in firefox with an exif viewer plugin installed.

In the exif data is a hexadecimal # that will give you the # of shutter actuations.

Here are links to two of many options:

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3905

 

Binary/Decimal/Hexadecimal Converter

[Photon42]

If you're a mac/unix user and do have exiftool installed, use something like (should be one line):

 

bla=$(exiftool myimage.dng | grep -i "image unique" | awk ' { print $5} ' | tr abcdef ABCDEF) && echo "ibase = 16; $bla" | bc

 

Regards

Ivo

[loekg]

Thanks, but this is not what I´m looking for. At the Photokina a service engineer of Leica pushed a combination of menu buttons right on the back of my M8 and could read it immediately from there. It also shows many other information. However he wouldn´t tell me how he did it. Does anyone know?

 

Loek

[SJP]

Ah the plot thickens. That would mean that there may be a "service engineer level" in the menu e.g. with a hard reset and other useful goodies. No need to drain the battery if the software crashes?

 

Anyone here on the inner curve prepared to spill the beans?

[andreas_thomsen]

now we need a hacker

cheers

andreas

[mjh]

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Many, if not all digital cameras have a service menu. Some people had managed to activate it accidentally, sometimes resulting in a bricked camera.

[scott kirkpatrick]

Thanks, but this is not what I´m looking for. At the Photokina a service engineer of Leica pushed a combination of menu buttons right on the back of my M8 and could read it immediately from there. It also shows many other information. However he wouldn´t tell me how he did it. Does anyone know?

 

Loek

 

Hmmmm, mind if I ask you a few questions? When you handed your m8 to the engineer, was it already powered on? Did he then press two buttons simultaneously? Or if it was not powered on, did he hold one or two buttons down while turning the camera on?

 

I'm familiar only with the Rich GX and GR "Easter eggs" that bring up service menus. They do it by first setting an unusual mode, then holding down an arrow key while pressing the "play" button. Since the M8 doesn't have modes and pressing the play button doesn't turn it on when it is off, I would have assumed that the trick involves pressing multiple buttons while turning the camera on with the main power switch. But maybe it is easier than that. Did he need to use two hands for the button-pushing?

 

just curious, of course.

 

scott

[loekg]

Hello Kirk,

 

I´m not sure what he did exactly. I handed him the M8 switched "on" to show that the PLAY button still didn´t work although it had been to Solms up and down. He then pushed some buttons holding the camera with both hands and showed me a menu where you can see the buttons lighten up when pushed. According to him it was ok. Nevertheless he was not able to show a picture in the normal user mode. From the service menu he could also read the number of clicks. Does it help you?

 

Thanks for responding, Loek

[pleeson]

Better be sitting in the parking lot at Solms before trying the "hacks"

A dead M8 makes a pretty expensive paperweight

 

;-]

[rpsawin]

Al,

is there a special incantation for this procedure or will the all purpose "I hope to GOD this works" suffice?

 

[JohnW.]

Does not work on my early M8.  But the following does:-

1. Turn camera on

2. Right button x4

3. Left button x3

4. Right button x1

5. Info button

6. Scroll to body debug data

7. Set

8. Scroll to Numexposures

9. Turn camera off to exit