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M9 Freezing without full buffer

rmeskill

New member
So my M9 has a nasty habit of freezing far too often. I'll be taking a couple pictures (always on compressed RAW only) and then the 'writing' LED will just keep flashing for 3-5 minutes. I doubt this is a buffer issue, as every time this has happened I've only taken 2 or 3 pictures. Has anyone else seen this issue or know what to do about it? I'm running the newest firmware (1.138)
 

rmeskill

New member
I think this is related to another issue, where I take a picture, the write LED flashes for a while, the picture appears on the screen as a new unique number (i.e.-if there were 10 pics on the card and I take another one the top right corner will read "11/11"), but when it goes away and I click 'Play' to view the pics the newest picture is gone. I can't seem to reproduce this issue-it comes and goes randomly. When I get back to my computer those images are "there" as placeholder files, but they're blank in Lightroom, with no data inside.
 

D&A

Well-known member
Interesting you should mention this problem. I was just shooting with an aquantences M9 (latest firmware) and it did essentually the same thing. It was repeatable with his. I took out his SDHC card which was working fine in his camera till this suddenly happened and stuck in another card. Immediately the problem disappeared. I told him to reformat the "bad" card and then try that card again. He hasn't gotten around to doing this to determine if it was a one time bad format with that potentially defective card or the card suddenly developed an issue for some unknown reason.

Dave (D&A)
 
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250swb

Member
Yes, the first thing I would suspect is the card.

Make sure its a good card, and not a fake of a good card. Then format it in the camera before using it again.

Steve
 

rmeskill

New member
This has happened to me on 2 cards now, granted both of the same manufacturer/type (SanDisk, but I got them secondhand, so not sure if they're the real deal). I have some PNY cards of my own I could try, but in the meantime I just completely formatted the card (using overwrite) in the camera. These cards were previously used on my M8 so I wonder whether the folder structure/whatever's different enough to cause issues. Haven't seen any issues yet, but haven't shot more than a dozen frames.
 

esy0345

Member
It appears to happen more often for me when shooting quickly after turning on the camera. The camera will not recognize the card and write files to the camera memory, but will not transfer the files to the card.
 

Fates

New member
Yeah, I've experienced the same thing with mine when I turn it on and shoot fast. I've had it happen three times. Stinks because you're usually after something interesting when you're responding quickly.
 
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