First off, I am new to the mobius (and this forum), I got one for Christmas (i picked it out after techmon's review) since my last $38 china dashcam died after a flawless 10 months of service, the memory card slot failed and would not read any card, but it was a cheap cam to see if I liked having a dashcam, and I loved having one. After it failed, I felt weird driving with out recording, so I looked into getting a better one, and the mobius seemed really good, I liked the size and stealthiness of it. I have been using the mobius everyday in my car, I installed it with all the wires hidden, and the cam barely visible from outside, I am the install and forget it type user, but I do glance up to see the flashy red LED to confirm its recording almost daily. The first few weeks I would pop out SD card and watch some recordings, so I am ready for the meteor landing or plane crash to happen in front of me (like the russian videos that inspired me to look into a dashcam over a year ago). So when I had a problem, I found this forum and am SO happy I did, I love the internet for the very existence of forums for my many and diverse interests, there's a forum for everything it seems, and I love the internet for that.
So onto my reason for actually joining this forum, my mobius yesterday morning acted the same way as the original poster, Dirkzelf mobius did (noticed no flashing rear red LED, no reaction from the buttons, no reaction from my PC when plugged into it, checked cable, SD card, all good, only got the green charging LED but nothing else, reset it, nothing, I later figured the battery was toast), and yesterday I took it into my office and basically got no work done as I was reading about cold weather charging of the Li-Po battery (oops, it has been -30 C here in Canada some mornings, and I just start my car and never gave the poor mobius any consideration at all, so it was running and charging at that temp.) SO I sent the ebay seller eletoponline365 a detailed message, and he got back to me this morning with more questions to try and does it do this and that, and does this light flash or not type thing, so I was happy to get real help from the seller, but after reading many post on this forum last night, I had decided the battery needs to be replaced with the supercap option. but I did remember Dirkzelf's post, and I have had it happen with electronics before, just leave it alone for a day, and guess what, today, plugged it in, blue light came on for a few secs, then the green charging, if I take out SD card I get yellow flashing, so this is a big step up from no LED flashing yesterday. So I am letting it charge up and will play with it more later, as I have work to catch up on now.
I do love this camera, and really want it to work for me as a permanent dashcam, so I may still pursue the supercap option (I read the whole supercap thread), since I can order one that will fit and just plug right in from eletoponline365 for $10, and that may make this the perfect camera (or well on it's way to be) for the harsh cold AND hot we get in Ontario Canada.
Thank - You to everyone in this forum for the help and ideas to help me get the most out of this little gem of a gadget.
