country_hick
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I can give some anecdotal evidence.
The other day my dash cam started to turn on and off over and over again as though the power was being cut off and renewed every 15-30 seconds.
Nothing I tried such as unplugging the power changed this behavior. The screen went blank (total grey scene) instead of showing the road with a button push that turns the screen on. The rear camera stopped showing up. Admittedly this is a $10 no name 1080 solo or 720 with the rear cam recording at 480 that I got for $10. If the cam had died it would be worth the purchase as it had over a years use.
I took the micro sd card out. I reformatted it in the computer. The dashcam would not work with that card inserted prior to the reformat. After reformatting and a H2test showing everything was fine then a second format the same dash cam worked flawlessly when the same micro sd card was reinstalled. I may have 10,000 miles since doing anything to the card before it got corrupted somehow.
Should you format your micro-sd card now and again? I can only say I had a strange dashcam malfunction that was apparently caused by a screwy (but not actually defective) micro-sd card and was cured by formatting that same micro-sd card. Why the card got corrupted I have no idea. Apparently the cam wrote something wrong once and that was a problem. On the other hand maybe a sector just swapped its identity on the micro-sd card for no reason causing the card to refuse more write cycles. Either way recording stopped completely.
Although I disike the method chosen I do appreciate the cam having a feature that apparently is designed to tell me when the micro-sd card has a problem by causing the cam to reboot every 15 to 30 seconds when the card can not be overwritten.
This is an example why you should carry a spare micro-sd card just in case something like this happens to you out on the road.
The other day my dash cam started to turn on and off over and over again as though the power was being cut off and renewed every 15-30 seconds.
Nothing I tried such as unplugging the power changed this behavior. The screen went blank (total grey scene) instead of showing the road with a button push that turns the screen on. The rear camera stopped showing up. Admittedly this is a $10 no name 1080 solo or 720 with the rear cam recording at 480 that I got for $10. If the cam had died it would be worth the purchase as it had over a years use.
I took the micro sd card out. I reformatted it in the computer. The dashcam would not work with that card inserted prior to the reformat. After reformatting and a H2test showing everything was fine then a second format the same dash cam worked flawlessly when the same micro sd card was reinstalled. I may have 10,000 miles since doing anything to the card before it got corrupted somehow.
Should you format your micro-sd card now and again? I can only say I had a strange dashcam malfunction that was apparently caused by a screwy (but not actually defective) micro-sd card and was cured by formatting that same micro-sd card. Why the card got corrupted I have no idea. Apparently the cam wrote something wrong once and that was a problem. On the other hand maybe a sector just swapped its identity on the micro-sd card for no reason causing the card to refuse more write cycles. Either way recording stopped completely.
Although I disike the method chosen I do appreciate the cam having a feature that apparently is designed to tell me when the micro-sd card has a problem by causing the cam to reboot every 15 to 30 seconds when the card can not be overwritten.
This is an example why you should carry a spare micro-sd card just in case something like this happens to you out on the road.