lothian
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I recently purchased a ‘TOGUARD' model CE66, yet another generic Chinaseum-quality three-camera product hustled under some private label on Amazon.
I plugged in a Class 10 64gb SD card and installed the whole shebang into my car. It seemingly worked normally for a week. Then the camera had two issues:
First: The thing cycles ON/OFF at engine startup.
When I start my car, the device powers on then powers off—three times in quick succession—before it finally stays powered on. This behavior is new—it did not occur before two days ago—and now happens consistently each time I start the car.
Second: The camera intermittently writes a bunch of non-playable MP4 files to the SD card.
Playback is fine for files created throughout its first week of operation. Afterwards, it intermittently wrote non-playable MP4 files to the SD card, always with sizes of 0, 20.06, 40.06, 60.06mb. The chinglish instructions indicate that the card can be formatted either on a PC or via the device, so I chose the latter. I was surprised to discover that the device formatted the SD card as exFAT rather than FAT32. That is extremely peculiar as FAT32 is the typical file format for most every device of this sort.
Maybe the SD card is bad, or maybe it simply needs reformatting. I'll whack two birds by formatting a new 128gb Samsung Evo as FAT32 and give it another go; though this attempt doesn't seem germane to the power cycling behavior. Ponderous, no?
Of course I discover all of this when I went to retrieve a video file of a crash that occurred in front of me. And of course the MP4 file with date/time attribute that coincides with the crash is non-playable while most files before and after the incident play just fine.
<plaintive sigh>
C'est l'vie
I plugged in a Class 10 64gb SD card and installed the whole shebang into my car. It seemingly worked normally for a week. Then the camera had two issues:
First: The thing cycles ON/OFF at engine startup.
When I start my car, the device powers on then powers off—three times in quick succession—before it finally stays powered on. This behavior is new—it did not occur before two days ago—and now happens consistently each time I start the car.
Second: The camera intermittently writes a bunch of non-playable MP4 files to the SD card.
Playback is fine for files created throughout its first week of operation. Afterwards, it intermittently wrote non-playable MP4 files to the SD card, always with sizes of 0, 20.06, 40.06, 60.06mb. The chinglish instructions indicate that the card can be formatted either on a PC or via the device, so I chose the latter. I was surprised to discover that the device formatted the SD card as exFAT rather than FAT32. That is extremely peculiar as FAT32 is the typical file format for most every device of this sort.
Maybe the SD card is bad, or maybe it simply needs reformatting. I'll whack two birds by formatting a new 128gb Samsung Evo as FAT32 and give it another go; though this attempt doesn't seem germane to the power cycling behavior. Ponderous, no?
Of course I discover all of this when I went to retrieve a video file of a crash that occurred in front of me. And of course the MP4 file with date/time attribute that coincides with the crash is non-playable while most files before and after the incident play just fine.
<plaintive sigh>
C'est l'vie
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