I just receive a new G1W look alike from HK for $9.00 including shipping. The eBay listing looked very legit except that nowhere it said it is a G1W. All pictures and specs looked like any other G1W including a Novatek NT 96650 processor. I knew it sounded too good to be true and I was curious, knowing that I would be able to get my money back if not true, I ordered it anyway.
The dashcam arrived in the standard orange box including an HDMI cable. The orange box had a backed-in layer of dust on it. The included mount didn’t fit the dashcam, I had another mount that did fit. I fully charged the battery and it looks like the battery is dead, it holds charge for about 60 second only. The dashcam records in full HD .MOV format with poor quality, possible out of focus, see picture. RTC doesn’t keep correct time, after 24 hours of being off it loses about 2 hours. All setup menus look almost identical to the menus I have seen online, except 2 entries which I never seen on any G1W, see picture. LDWS and FCWS looks like stands for Lane Departure Warning System and Forward Collision Warning System, these two functions are available on fancier dashcams and I have no idea how they work or if they do anything on this dashcam. No mention of these functions in the included user’s manual which looks worse than the standard crappy G1W manual. The eBay listing stated a 170 degree viewing angle, but the manual states only 120 degrees. The manual states 4X zoom but on the dashcam you can set only 2X.
After complaining to the vendor, I finally received a full refund. I intend to open the dashcam replace the battery, figure out the RTC problem, try to fix the focus and find out what kind of processor it uses. The Version listen on the menu is WDF20150615 so it looks like a relative new version and it had one of these hologram stickers that said WDF 2016, whatever that means. I don’t know if this dashcam is from a defective batch or what. If they would have said, “defective dashcam” I think they still would have been able to sell it for $9.00 without people complaining and getting their money back. BTW, they are all “sold out”.
I am curious if anyone knows anything about this Dashcam.
The dashcam arrived in the standard orange box including an HDMI cable. The orange box had a backed-in layer of dust on it. The included mount didn’t fit the dashcam, I had another mount that did fit. I fully charged the battery and it looks like the battery is dead, it holds charge for about 60 second only. The dashcam records in full HD .MOV format with poor quality, possible out of focus, see picture. RTC doesn’t keep correct time, after 24 hours of being off it loses about 2 hours. All setup menus look almost identical to the menus I have seen online, except 2 entries which I never seen on any G1W, see picture. LDWS and FCWS looks like stands for Lane Departure Warning System and Forward Collision Warning System, these two functions are available on fancier dashcams and I have no idea how they work or if they do anything on this dashcam. No mention of these functions in the included user’s manual which looks worse than the standard crappy G1W manual. The eBay listing stated a 170 degree viewing angle, but the manual states only 120 degrees. The manual states 4X zoom but on the dashcam you can set only 2X.
After complaining to the vendor, I finally received a full refund. I intend to open the dashcam replace the battery, figure out the RTC problem, try to fix the focus and find out what kind of processor it uses. The Version listen on the menu is WDF20150615 so it looks like a relative new version and it had one of these hologram stickers that said WDF 2016, whatever that means. I don’t know if this dashcam is from a defective batch or what. If they would have said, “defective dashcam” I think they still would have been able to sell it for $9.00 without people complaining and getting their money back. BTW, they are all “sold out”.
I am curious if anyone knows anything about this Dashcam.
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