camMO said:So my DR500 lost GPS recently too. I bought mine from dreamseller on ebay, no warranty
I disassembled the camera, and after removing the GPS chip i found that removing the small watch battery from the GPS board, and leaving it off also brings the GPS back to life. the GPS may be a little longer to get a location at power up without the small battery, but i leave my camera on all the time with a powermagic, so not an issue for me. It's really small so soldering off/on was not do-able for me. just remove the battery by flexing it back and forth a few times, and toss it. Worked for me!
camMO said:I might have been mistaken about no warranty thru dreamseller.. Just glad the battery removal fixed it in my case. Hope this doesn't turn out to be a common problem with the 500s!
You say probably of another batterythemyst said:There's another tiny watch battery on the main board covered in silicone as well.
Mio said:Guys at whom is not working gps on a custom firmware? We have to check software reset
if you can connect using telnet to the dashcam, you can try to revive gpswozzzzza said:mine stopped working on original firmware and got a new dvr on warranty
Telnet to the dvr is easy. But how u actually do it? If too complicated, I rather wait for v.1.1 firmware. Haha.Mio said:if you can connect using telnet to the dashcam, you can try to revive gpswozzzzza said:mine stopped working on original firmware and got a new dvr on warranty
Mio said:Today one already gps revived
My gps is working fine. I dont mind to learn moreMio said:Dscheng at you not work GPS?
camMO said:So my DR500 lost GPS recently too. I bought mine from dreamseller on ebay, no warranty
I disassembled the camera, and after removing the GPS chip i found that removing the small watch battery from the GPS board, and leaving it off also brings the GPS back to life. the GPS may be a little longer to get a location at power up without the small battery, but i leave my camera on all the time with a powermagic, so not an issue for me. It's really small so soldering off/on was not do-able for me. just remove the battery by flexing it back and forth a few times, and toss it. Worked for me!
egonvdv said:so basically you broke it off the 2 small connections right?
camMO said:egonvdv said:so basically you broke it off the 2 small connections right?
Yes, I just broke it of the board. After doing that my GPS works fine. However after upgrading to 1.008, the GPS turns off in parking mode. With this new version 'feature' it takes 30 seconds or more for the GPS light to come on after being in parking mode. On top of that, parking mode first goes into event mode, so getting in and driving off from parking can be a few minutes before I get GPS. Not a big deal to me because it always works after a few minutes, and most of my drives are 30 minutes or more.
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