I did a search but no luck...
I have a 9350 (which is probably outside of warranty), and I noticed last weekend the GPS wasn't working/intermittent. A jiggle of the connector and it sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. I don't know if this was a pre-cursor to imminent failure...
It's hard-wired to the ignition and permanent power for shock sensor recording.
Today when starting the car, it did the cold startup (coloured flashing LED on right side, Lukas logo screen with Korean text, and welcome voice message) - which it normally does once it switches off due to low car battery voltage. Only this time it didn't quite manage to finish the welcome voice message, and made a horrible buzzing noise (maybe part of the voice sample on fast/short loop/repeat) and then the screen went blank, and the LED on the right stayed illuminated. I switched it off and on again using the switch on the side and the process repeated. Sometimes the LED stays on a different colour, but I don't think that indicates any particular error code and is more by chance. I was going to video what it does on my phone and upload it, but by the time I got home, the Lukas logo doesn't always show up and it wont even do the welcome voice any more. I just get the coloured LED on the right side (now with fewer colours flashing than before).
I've tried all possible scenarios without success; unplugged rear cam and GPS cables, removed each of the SD cards. With SD cards removed, it shows an image of SD card on the display and says to check the SD card. Switching off and putting in the SD cards and restarting has the same blank screen after partially restarting.
I checked the footage and it stopped recording to the SD card(s) not long after starting a 2hr drive (where I'd noticed it behaving unusual). It hadn't saved any footage from the numerous attempts at trying to restart it.
I'm at a loss as to what is wrong with it. Do Lukas dashcams have a capacitor instead of battery? If battery, maybe the battery has failed?
Maybe the firmware relies on the SD card being present, and some key files have somehow become corrupted on the SD card? The SD cards seemed fine when checking footage on the laptop. I have an old backup of the original SD card I could restore and see if that resolves the issue.
I've tried a spare set of SD cards without success (apart from reverting to Korean language as they had no config file) but the display still goes blank after Korean welcome message.
I've since re-formatted the SD cards I previously had (using Lukas Viewer on the laptop), re-saved the config files to both SD cards, but not yet tried them...
I just had a thought... If it is the main (front) camera with the problem, I could replace it with another front-only camera and re-use the existing rear camera (to save replacing the entire front & rear as a package)... but unlike the Blackvue 650-2ch I have in another vehicle, where the front camera can be bought separately, it appears Lukas don't sell just the front camera on its own...
I have a 9350 (which is probably outside of warranty), and I noticed last weekend the GPS wasn't working/intermittent. A jiggle of the connector and it sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. I don't know if this was a pre-cursor to imminent failure...
It's hard-wired to the ignition and permanent power for shock sensor recording.
Today when starting the car, it did the cold startup (coloured flashing LED on right side, Lukas logo screen with Korean text, and welcome voice message) - which it normally does once it switches off due to low car battery voltage. Only this time it didn't quite manage to finish the welcome voice message, and made a horrible buzzing noise (maybe part of the voice sample on fast/short loop/repeat) and then the screen went blank, and the LED on the right stayed illuminated. I switched it off and on again using the switch on the side and the process repeated. Sometimes the LED stays on a different colour, but I don't think that indicates any particular error code and is more by chance. I was going to video what it does on my phone and upload it, but by the time I got home, the Lukas logo doesn't always show up and it wont even do the welcome voice any more. I just get the coloured LED on the right side (now with fewer colours flashing than before).
I've tried all possible scenarios without success; unplugged rear cam and GPS cables, removed each of the SD cards. With SD cards removed, it shows an image of SD card on the display and says to check the SD card. Switching off and putting in the SD cards and restarting has the same blank screen after partially restarting.
I checked the footage and it stopped recording to the SD card(s) not long after starting a 2hr drive (where I'd noticed it behaving unusual). It hadn't saved any footage from the numerous attempts at trying to restart it.
I'm at a loss as to what is wrong with it. Do Lukas dashcams have a capacitor instead of battery? If battery, maybe the battery has failed?
Maybe the firmware relies on the SD card being present, and some key files have somehow become corrupted on the SD card? The SD cards seemed fine when checking footage on the laptop. I have an old backup of the original SD card I could restore and see if that resolves the issue.
I've tried a spare set of SD cards without success (apart from reverting to Korean language as they had no config file) but the display still goes blank after Korean welcome message.
I've since re-formatted the SD cards I previously had (using Lukas Viewer on the laptop), re-saved the config files to both SD cards, but not yet tried them...
I just had a thought... If it is the main (front) camera with the problem, I could replace it with another front-only camera and re-use the existing rear camera (to save replacing the entire front & rear as a package)... but unlike the Blackvue 650-2ch I have in another vehicle, where the front camera can be bought separately, it appears Lukas don't sell just the front camera on its own...
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