Recent content by tonymy01

I will update the necro thread too, i have replaced my battery 3 times now, these things are just not durable. I don't drive my car much, it spends sometimes 2 to 3 weeks in a garage without starting, maybe it is the deep cycling of that battery which is poor too (along with great impact) ...

I find desolder wick not so successful with this fine surface mount stuff, it has the potential to heat up the tracks an awful amount to the point of lifting the track, trying to draw away enough solder for the component to lift off (mind you with all that pulling that Wozzaaa was doing he was...

Just some observations watching the video. 1. It helps sometimes to flow a bit of solder onto the joint to help desolder, make sure your iron is fully hot also. 2. Lightly tin the leads of the new battery before trying to solder it to the board will help it quickly solder back again, be careful...

1970 files are a usual indication, but with 0 byte files too? I never had that symptom. Do you have a dodgy micro SD card? Maybe first give it a format and a reboot, and see how it goes for a bit. Funny how 3 of the VW Aus guys are all active in this thread!

What is the make of that pos? The black marks up to the scene of the rear ender suggests it doesn't have ABS? I thought all cars these days had it?

MS621FE, it is detailed earlier in this thread and I think also on some Russian forums. The battery you can just see on the far right of my photo, top of bottom circuit board. The big cap taking up a good part of the photo is used to deliver the necessary power to close files and gracefully shut...

Hi, just to update the thread, I replaced the internal lithium-ion battery and have had no more troubles (about 7 weeks trouble free). One thing I noticed which may have some significance is that the speaker wire, black conductor, had melted insulation through to the wire, and was effectively...

Nice assumption, but wrong. You can see (well I can) from the log files how it is behaving, the unit gets its time from the RTC on boot up, but if the RTC is significantly less than the last file recorded time (I.e never set or the internal battery has failed) it will use the last recorded file...

Not sure what you are implying there, are you blaming user operation for a unit shortcoming? They are designed to operate fine with an erased card. It doesn't copy "crap"as you call it, it copies the fixed system(doesn't change) and config.ini, which everyone I check isn't corrupted. By doing...

Mine has just started doing this now, it will commence the next time it powers from the date of the last file saved. You can see in the log file that it does a compare of real time clock with something and if vastly different ignores rtc. It picks up GPS info fine but once it commences...

Disable motion sensor, which is obviously always going to pick up little movements of objects away from the car& triggered by video noise. Events still trigger from vibrations with motion sensor disabled, make sure your parking axis sensitivity is set up high to pick up small bumps.

The parking mode with motion sensor disabled will only save events (but at the parking G sensitivity). I am running disabled now for motion as even video noise in low light is detected as motion and so it continually records, even at the lowest sensitivity. Shame there isn't another recording...

Are you letting it shut down properly before taking the card out?

Mine switches off most times when unlocking the car, as I have the leaving home lights on in my Golf and it must drop the power briefly below 11.8V,and the power magic pro seems to cut off the moment there is a dip. I originally had it set to a higher cut off voltage but it was worse of course.

Works fine for me, no dramas to report.