mollydog
Well-Known Member
to be honest, I've never got on with my DR500GW till I used Mio's firmware upgrade, then started to get better results, but still wasn't happy with this DVR. So last August I gave it to my daughter to put it in her car.
To put you in the picture, Due to illness, she hasn't used her car since beginning of last December (2014) so the Blackviue was taken inside the house and kept there till yesterday, when she returned to work, she came home from work and said that once she started the car instead of hearing "Blackvue for your safe driving" she hears "initialising the sd card"
So I took the Blackvue in to my home and sit it up on my 12v set up, and this is what happens:
Blue LED comes on for about 3 seconds, then the blue, orange and wifi LED stay on for about 2 seconds then the orange LED turns green and the other two go off and the voice says "initialising sd card" and the green LED stays on till power is taken off, (up to 4 hours was the longest I've left it) when I do disconnect the power from the Blackvue, the green LED will still be on for about a further 20 or so seconds before going out
so first thing I did was to format the 32gig sandisk micro sd card with SDFormatter and then move across from my computer Mio's firmware upgrade, I've been using since 2013, I think the version is 1.1.1aE
when the Blackvue was in my car, this is what I did every week, format/initialising the micro sd card then move across Mio's upgraded firmware and had been OK for the past year and a half. well last night is would only go through the process I mentioned above with the LED lights then would try to initialising the micro sd card, I've tried this process with two different 32gig sandisk micro sd cards and one 8gig Kingston micro sd card and all with the same result mentioned above, these cards were just fine when the Blackvue was in my car.
don't know if this clip will be of help
Any help would be most welcome
To put you in the picture, Due to illness, she hasn't used her car since beginning of last December (2014) so the Blackviue was taken inside the house and kept there till yesterday, when she returned to work, she came home from work and said that once she started the car instead of hearing "Blackvue for your safe driving" she hears "initialising the sd card"
So I took the Blackvue in to my home and sit it up on my 12v set up, and this is what happens:
Blue LED comes on for about 3 seconds, then the blue, orange and wifi LED stay on for about 2 seconds then the orange LED turns green and the other two go off and the voice says "initialising sd card" and the green LED stays on till power is taken off, (up to 4 hours was the longest I've left it) when I do disconnect the power from the Blackvue, the green LED will still be on for about a further 20 or so seconds before going out
so first thing I did was to format the 32gig sandisk micro sd card with SDFormatter and then move across from my computer Mio's firmware upgrade, I've been using since 2013, I think the version is 1.1.1aE
when the Blackvue was in my car, this is what I did every week, format/initialising the micro sd card then move across Mio's upgraded firmware and had been OK for the past year and a half. well last night is would only go through the process I mentioned above with the LED lights then would try to initialising the micro sd card, I've tried this process with two different 32gig sandisk micro sd cards and one 8gig Kingston micro sd card and all with the same result mentioned above, these cards were just fine when the Blackvue was in my car.
don't know if this clip will be of help
Any help would be most welcome
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