My old dash cam died after a number of years faithful service, so I decided to take advantage of the Halfords trade-in offer, and purchased the Nextbase 512GW (just over 1 week old now).
The 512GW and the previous unit are powered from the cigarette lighter socket; the socket is only powered when the car is on, both units at situated at at the same place on the window screen. I upgraded the firmware in the 512GW after purchase to R22.5. My previous unit had a very small capacitor to hold charge and nowhere near the 512GW's claimed 30 minutes for "parking mode".
Problems {differences?} when compared to my old dash cam:-
1. Slow to get a GPS fix, can take up to 10 minutes, my previous unit was very very quick to lock onto GPS satellites and always ‘there and ready’ when I wanted to drive off, show's 0 MPH.
2. Failure to record 2 hours driving (at the start of the day), the unit then decided to wake up and start recording for the rest of the day though I've not been able to check yet if it recorded the whole of the rest of the days driving, though it continued to be slow to lock onto satellites between stops, not the first time that it has failed to record.
3. Replay 3 – Now that’s poor isn’t it, already looking at Dashcam Viewer if I decide to keep the 512GW, but that's an extra cost.
Thoughts? I really do not want yet another visit to Halfords to address problems, thanks.
10 mins to lock on to GPS !! take it back sounds faulty, or try a factory reset, go in settings and see if its not set up right?
