Hi all,
So in the last week my camera(s), which I bought in December, has moments where it decides it is not going to work.
The unit is hardwired into my car with a Power Magic PRO. I run the unit without the Battery Backup switched ON as I do not use PARKING MODE too often.
The run of events leading up to the stall is I turn on the car ignition, I get "The Blackvue is starting recording" and all seems fine. However once in a while my eye line does gaze past the camera and I then see the recording LED has either remained solid ORANGE or OFF and the GPS light is on.
Examing the card I note straight away that the card is nearly full, less than 400Mb on a 16Gb card. I was under the impression the camera loops back and records over old files that are not locked. I have noticed this happen a few times and I was working on a theory that for some reason the camera is failing due to the memory card being near to full as it tries to write the file(s).
This happend on Saturday this week and though I did not have my a laptop at hand to check the memory card was full. I disconnected the back camera and switched everything OFF on the camera. I then plugged it back in and enabled the WIFI. I asked my wife to connect the iPhone to the camera over WIFI and watch the LIVE feed. After doing this the camera worked and did not stall for the rest of the day. So this threw some doubt in to my theory that when the memory card is full the unit crashes.
Again this morning the unit stalled twice with 5 minutes of a reboot.
I have formatted the card several times using MS windows own format tools. I have also done a zero wipe of the card (write all 00 to the sectors, then write FF to the sectors and then a random ## to each sector) to effectively wipe the entire card clean. I then load the v1.03 code to the card, I then use the Pittasoft tools to then format the card again and then reload the v1.03 code a second time.
Has anyone else experience this level of problems with the unit. I have not lost faith in the camera to work as intended and can not rely on it for the purpose it was designed.
So in the last week my camera(s), which I bought in December, has moments where it decides it is not going to work.
The unit is hardwired into my car with a Power Magic PRO. I run the unit without the Battery Backup switched ON as I do not use PARKING MODE too often.
The run of events leading up to the stall is I turn on the car ignition, I get "The Blackvue is starting recording" and all seems fine. However once in a while my eye line does gaze past the camera and I then see the recording LED has either remained solid ORANGE or OFF and the GPS light is on.
Examing the card I note straight away that the card is nearly full, less than 400Mb on a 16Gb card. I was under the impression the camera loops back and records over old files that are not locked. I have noticed this happen a few times and I was working on a theory that for some reason the camera is failing due to the memory card being near to full as it tries to write the file(s).
This happend on Saturday this week and though I did not have my a laptop at hand to check the memory card was full. I disconnected the back camera and switched everything OFF on the camera. I then plugged it back in and enabled the WIFI. I asked my wife to connect the iPhone to the camera over WIFI and watch the LIVE feed. After doing this the camera worked and did not stall for the rest of the day. So this threw some doubt in to my theory that when the memory card is full the unit crashes.
Again this morning the unit stalled twice with 5 minutes of a reboot.
I have formatted the card several times using MS windows own format tools. I have also done a zero wipe of the card (write all 00 to the sectors, then write FF to the sectors and then a random ## to each sector) to effectively wipe the entire card clean. I then load the v1.03 code to the card, I then use the Pittasoft tools to then format the card again and then reload the v1.03 code a second time.
Has anyone else experience this level of problems with the unit. I have not lost faith in the camera to work as intended and can not rely on it for the purpose it was designed.