0801 not responding

[Bill e]

I received my camera yesterday (Friday) so I have opened it this morning, stuck the pad to the base, took it to the van, plugged in the charger to the camera and cigar socket switched it on and I have a constant beeping from it with the blue and red lights illuminated, the on off and all other buttons don’t seem to respond. I suppose the battery will drain soon, anyone any ideas what this is? (could only happen to me!) TIA

Bill

And it's got really hot in the process.

 

[Bill e]

Further to the above, after a while the camera switched off when the battery ran out, similar to this post https://dashcamtalk.com/forum/threads/dead-hung-unit-theory.11694/ It has worked well since using the cigar socket power method. I got the hardwire kit as well but need to know whether to connect to a permanent live or a switched one (cigar supply for example) as I may want to use the motion detection in the future. as I understand it the permanant method means it will record 24/7, need to do a bit more reading on this.

 

[Prog]

If you wire it into the fusebox using a piggyback fuse tap then you can easily move it to a permanent live later if the need arises.