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It’s just the size of the fuse used. You can look in your fuse box or ask your dealer oe whatever is easiest.

Have you tried pressing and holding the power button to turn it on? After turning it off, give it a few seconds, then press and hold the power button to turn it on. Don’t just press and release but hold it for a few seconds until you see the boot logo on the screen and hear the boot up sound.

BEVs still have 12V systems in place. The only hurdles come in the form of 1) access and 2) sometimes oddball behavior regarding switched accessory power. It depends on the manufacturer and model, but access isn’t always as straightforward as typical, easy-to-reach fuse boxes in the cabin. You...

There’s not much info here. Is it set up for parking mode? What happens when you open your door? If you’re expecting it to turn off, and it doesn’t, that means it still has power from the car. If that’s not on purpose, and not related to a delayed-off accessory circuit, then “your audio guy”...

For future reference, you can't "set off" your airbag, really. You have to be trying, either intentionally shorting and providing voltage to the thing or else actually hit something to cause enough G-forces to set it off. It never hurts to disconnect the battery. But you shouldn't have to...

Are you driving an MR2? I don’t recognize the rear for certain. PS My SG setup paid for itself many times over within a year after a man backed into the side of my car at a gas station. I even laid on the horn, and it didn’t help. Did quote a bit of damage to the door, fender, and B-pillar...

That’s it, thank you! In some ways Dashcam Viewer remains to this day a step backward.

I do wish they’d mark the point at which the button was pressed on the timeline and map in Dashcam Viewer. I could swear it used to be that way in the older software I can’t remember the name of, the Russian developer who passed away. Started with an R.

So? That’s still dramatically higher than required, right? I have no experience with WD Purple cards either way, but I would think 80Mbps would be plenty.

What did Street Guardian say about it when you contacted them?

That links to the NOCO 12V socket hardwire. But be careful with cheapo USB adapters; they’re often low quality, and not all the dashcams can tolerate their dirty output.

I’d strongly recommend a hardwire, but definitely don’t go cutting cords willy-nilly. Just a super basic understanding of voltage is really all you need. Go ahead and get the 3-wire parking mode setup and wire it in properly to 12V fuses, one accessory switched and one constant power. Never...

@leggy might some of your exposure concerns be addressed by WDR? Have you since tried enabling it to see if it works better for your shadows and such?

I’ve had difficulty with that line recently, which is surprising because they used to be rock solid. It could just be bad luck, but I’d suggest at least going with the newer version if you go that route. Otherwise I just switched to the SanDisk High Endurance 256GB and have been pleased with...

Ok, just to provide an update on the original reason for this thread, I had been using Samsung EVO Select 128GB cards with consistent success for quite a while, and I put a 128GB Samsung PRO Endurance 128GB in my wife’s car since that one gets a lot more use. No problems, still working great...

I think what y’all are missing is that it’s likely similar to the old platter hard drives developing bad sectors. A low-level format may cause the controller to identify and exclude any bad sectors (cells) such that they are not used for writing and reading from that point out, extending the...

Yes, that’s how flash memory can wear over time. How does hitting the format option in the cam fix it?

How?

The replacement tested at over 25MB/sec write, so I popped it into the dashcam, formatted it as prompted, and have gone on my merry way with nary a wayward beep. The old one is on its way back to the the Borg—err Amazon—returns.

I would consider failed to be inoperable. It’s not inoperable. It’s just slow. Had the cam not beeped at me every once in a while, I’d never even know. And since a new replacement arrived today, I don’t have much incentive to let it run for hours or days to see what happens.