I finally got it to go from 1.011 to 2.007 - I tried EVERYTHING at two different locations (so different computers, cars, cameras), etc
I have no idea exactly what I did to get it to work, but I suspect it relates to (1) either using the old app or (2) the blank 16gb Blackvue card that comes with the camera
I'll leave all my notes here hopefully helps someone else ... none of this was OTA, all done with files copied from a laptop to the SD card
- Cam was running older 1X, tried to upgrade to 2.007, but the cam would never say updating cam ... instead, all lights would just flash over and over again, I waited as long as 5 minutes (usually the flashing stops and cam tells you it's updating within 30s)
- So then upgraded to 1.011 with no issues ... then I updated firmware settings with the OLD app ... camera rebooted and worked, but I could no longer connect to the cam via wifi ... the cam wifi icon was lit (I waited as long as 5 minutes), but my phone never saw the cam wifi network
- Held down wifi button for 12s to force the cam to reinitialize the SD card hoping this would fix the wifi issue ... no luck, so I suspect using the OLD app somehow corrupts the fw so wifi no longer works
- Removed 128gb card and inserted the 16gb Blackvue SD card that comes with the camera ... the card was completely black, reformatted with the PC Blackvue app ... cam said initializing SD card and while cam worked again, the wifi still didn't work
- Reformatted the 128gb card, put 2.007 on it and tried again to go from 1.011 to 2.007 ... worked!
Note, I've tried over 10 times to go from 1.011 to 2.007 with 3 different cams with no luck. Two of them were already on x11 and would give me the flashing lights of death every time I tried. The only "new" steps were my messing around with a blank card in between.