Faulty microSD Card Holder

[markbrads]

My Mini 803 arrived today via Amazon UK only to find it has a faulty card holder being unable to insert the microSD card

I have an Mini 801 and I am in two minds now weather to replace it and forget about the Mini 803.

Is it a worthy upgrade?

Is the new firmware for the 803 any good? I would really like to able to change the boot picture on either my Mini 801 or 803, could this be done, could anybody help?

Thanks in advance

 

[Tobi@s]

Seems to be reliable. Only known problems are the non working audio-mute and that the dashcam is getting pretty hot. @billknow wrote soemwhere that there will be a new 0803 with cooling fins.

 

[chris-s]

Another problem is that the camera sometimes gets stuck at start.
The most important issue IMO

 

[Tobi@s]

Never had that problem :S

 

[chris-s]

Are you using the 0803 daily with multiple start/stop?

 

[David106]

On another dashcam forum I was reading a thread about SD card reliabilty and the suggestion was that all SD cards would benefit from being reformatted every 2 weeks by a PC format application. Sounded a little dubious to me as I have SD cards in all sorts of devices and have never reformatted a card.

 

[Tobi@s]

Are you using the 0803 daily with multiple start/stop?

Yes 4 to 6 times a day

 

[chris-s]

Probably not enough, I often encounter this issue after a short stop, to buy some bread for example.