I have the same thing written in my user manual, it's just preventative maintenance, I use good quality Sandisk Class10 cards, I know of people that have used the same 24/7 for a year and never touched the cards, put in some eBay cheapy card where the quality might not be so good and write errors more common and the results might be different, some regular preventative maintenance though might see those cheap cards working ok, how does the manufacturer know what type of card you're going to put in the camera, they don't, so telling you to format the cards is good business practice in my opinion, protects you and protects them
Arizona User said:
I'll be disabling the Gforce sensor as well, as I don't think I need that.
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the G force sensor is only a positive thing, will automatically write protect a recording in the event of an accident, I don't see any benefit in turning it off ???
Arizona User said:
Now, flashing lights on the other hand, might end up getting their wires cut.
covering the lights is perhaps a simpler solution that wouldn't impact your warranty