Tom Guelker
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Just recently I noticed the record light was not flashing, and I would get a "card full" message. I tried to format the card in the dash cam, and the whole process took less than 2 seconds which I thought was too short. I put the card in a USB adapter, and was able to do a quick format, but the full format would error out. I tried it on another computer with the same results. One thing that puzzled me was that the menu button would not do anything 90% of the time. I could turn it on and off and zoom in and out but that was it. If I took the memory card out, I could access all the functions. Thinking the memory card was faulty, I bought a new Sandisk 32GB. I formatted it in the dashcam and it also only took 2 seconds, so I guess that is normal. I put the memory card in the USB adapter and it acted the same as the previous memory card so I am thinking I wasted money on a memory card I did not need. I put the new memory card in the dashcam and formatted it from there and reset the camera to defaults, and everything works fine. I put the old memory card in the dashcam, format it using the dashcam and everything works. Apparently when I set the dashcam to defaults, something that was hosed got set right.
Originally I thought these issues were caused by the hot temperatures we have been having (the thermometer inside my car usually reads about 140F when I get off work) but now that the dashcam is cooperating, I will wait until it flakes out again and buy a new GIWH that hopefully will have the good chipset and sensor still.
Originally I thought these issues were caused by the hot temperatures we have been having (the thermometer inside my car usually reads about 140F when I get off work) but now that the dashcam is cooperating, I will wait until it flakes out again and buy a new GIWH that hopefully will have the good chipset and sensor still.