Kimbosqueak
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Last night I tried moving my G1W-H to my other car (which I'll call car #2) and plugged it into a cigarette lighter socket doubler, which I had used before without any issues. After a minute or so, both the cam and the other thing I had plugged in began behaving strangely. The cam's screen went black, but the red LED showed that it was still recording. Then, all accessories inside the car died, including the radio and socket. I have put it back in car #1 for now. Now all of a sudden, I noticed two issues with the cam that were nonexistent prior to this:
1. The camera will not turn off by itself when its power is cut off. Rather, it continues to record as if it's still being charged and the battery charging icon continues to flash. I have to manually stop recording and turn it off every time I park. I have tested this and it will go on for as long as I allow it. I have tried opening up the cam and disconnecting/reconnecting the battery, and tried pressing the reset button to no avail. The same thing happened to my other G1W-H, which turned out to have a bad battery that needed replacing. Problem is, I just replaced this one's battery not too long ago.
2. When I reviewed the videos from last night, the videos gradually overexposed before abruptly dropping back to normal and gradually became so grainy as to be almost unwatchable.
Video from car #1 during the aforementioned incident:
As you can see, the exposure changes before the video goes black, then comes back, overexposes again and becomes grainier.
Video from car #2 during a drive a few hours later:
The video quality is perfectly fine at first, then gradually becomes grainier and overexposed, before suddenly dropping back to no exposure and becoming unbearably grainy.
Did I fry my camera for good or is there any way to resolve this?
1. The camera will not turn off by itself when its power is cut off. Rather, it continues to record as if it's still being charged and the battery charging icon continues to flash. I have to manually stop recording and turn it off every time I park. I have tested this and it will go on for as long as I allow it. I have tried opening up the cam and disconnecting/reconnecting the battery, and tried pressing the reset button to no avail. The same thing happened to my other G1W-H, which turned out to have a bad battery that needed replacing. Problem is, I just replaced this one's battery not too long ago.
2. When I reviewed the videos from last night, the videos gradually overexposed before abruptly dropping back to normal and gradually became so grainy as to be almost unwatchable.
Video from car #1 during the aforementioned incident:
Video from car #2 during a drive a few hours later:
Did I fry my camera for good or is there any way to resolve this?