japitts
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I've had a DR650GW-1CH fitted since 6 or so years and it's been great.. until the past couple of weeks. We've been on a driving holiday involving several 3 hour+ drives to get there, and then probably 500 miles every few days or so - the point being, it was suddenly doing a lot of recording. It's been used for the same trips twice a year for the past 5 or so years and it's been fine, but maybe a factor I don't know.
Anyhow... first time it played up.. normal running except for audible "please check SD card" audible warning and both LED on permanently... assumed it was an SD fault so reformatted it (card is a 64Gb as old as the camera but it's only been reformatted once before in its life) and thought nothing more of it. 4 or 5 days later...it failed to record a 200mile drive but we didn't get any audible warning. Bought a new SD card and all was ok initially... long story short, both SD are now running fine for a random period of time before the camera locks up on engine-on, and you have to alternate to the other SD.
All points at the camera, but the video files are perfect and it doesn't strike me as a "way" for a digital camera to fail. With the SD in the desktop app, the software reads as V1.00, my reading of the Blackvue site is that V1.004 is available - I will certainly try this, but wondered if anyone else has come across this behaviour previously?
Thanks
Anyhow... first time it played up.. normal running except for audible "please check SD card" audible warning and both LED on permanently... assumed it was an SD fault so reformatted it (card is a 64Gb as old as the camera but it's only been reformatted once before in its life) and thought nothing more of it. 4 or 5 days later...it failed to record a 200mile drive but we didn't get any audible warning. Bought a new SD card and all was ok initially... long story short, both SD are now running fine for a random period of time before the camera locks up on engine-on, and you have to alternate to the other SD.
All points at the camera, but the video files are perfect and it doesn't strike me as a "way" for a digital camera to fail. With the SD in the desktop app, the software reads as V1.00, my reading of the Blackvue site is that V1.004 is available - I will certainly try this, but wondered if anyone else has come across this behaviour previously?
Thanks