roadkill401
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I purchased the units in January of 2017. Everything worked great for about 10 months then it started to go wrong. I had done some periodic firmware updates and perhaps that is the issue? In February the units started to make a noise that was not usual. It started with the one unit in my father's car, so I took it out and found that the unit just wasn't recording to the SD card at all. It was running Firmware 3.1 that I had updated it to around the end of the year. His screen had a funny artefact on the bottom left where it usually showed the entry for the car model, was now a line of boxes with a / in it. When you plugged it in, it would start to beep with a message of memory error. I figured it was a defective SD card and just ordered a new SD off Amazon.
Then I looked at my unit and found out that mine didn't give the error on the screen but was not writing actual mp4 files to the SD but like it was a place holder 1mb file that didn't have any video and just 1/2 second of sound. This had started around November of 2017. I thought that it was best to re-flash the units only to find that they just wouldn't. It turned out they would, you just needed to plug them into a computer and leave them for about 2 hours plugged in, and then they would decide to update. So I put on the latest flash just in case there was a download bug in the updated version I had from before.
Mine started to work fine for a while, but my fathers went right back to giving the constant beep and memory error on the screen even with a new SD card that when tested on a computer says it's working just fine and can't find any errors. Then this past weekend when driving up north, mine started doing the same thing.
I don't know if the units are pooched. Do I risk buying a new Viofo if they only last 8-10 months? The chances of getting two bum units are rather small. And if both exhibit the same issues, then is it a known manufacturing defect? Firmware incompatibility, so how do I get a copy of some old firmware?
Then I looked at my unit and found out that mine didn't give the error on the screen but was not writing actual mp4 files to the SD but like it was a place holder 1mb file that didn't have any video and just 1/2 second of sound. This had started around November of 2017. I thought that it was best to re-flash the units only to find that they just wouldn't. It turned out they would, you just needed to plug them into a computer and leave them for about 2 hours plugged in, and then they would decide to update. So I put on the latest flash just in case there was a download bug in the updated version I had from before.
Mine started to work fine for a while, but my fathers went right back to giving the constant beep and memory error on the screen even with a new SD card that when tested on a computer says it's working just fine and can't find any errors. Then this past weekend when driving up north, mine started doing the same thing.
I don't know if the units are pooched. Do I risk buying a new Viofo if they only last 8-10 months? The chances of getting two bum units are rather small. And if both exhibit the same issues, then is it a known manufacturing defect? Firmware incompatibility, so how do I get a copy of some old firmware?