Handbanana
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- Dash Cam
- Cobra DriveHD Bluetooth 855
My dashcam is a Cobra DriveHD Bluetooth 855 Model.
Sometimes when I place the micro-sd card into my phone, random video files (roughly a third or so, maybe half) will appear as '0 bytes', and obviously won't play. Occasionally instead of 0 bytes, the file size is just unsually small (like 50 Mb instead of 256 Mb) but also won't play. It will return a message saying "This file type is not supported.". I want to note that they all work on the dashcam before I remove the card.
Whether a file shows up like this seems to be completely random. As a precaution, I turn off my dashcam before removing the SD card, and on my smartphone I unmount the other SD card I have before switching it with the card from the dashcam. When I place the SD card back into the dashcam, all of the files (regardless if they were viewable on the phone), are corrupt.
My guess is that the SD card is responsible. It has no brand name and was included with the dashcam (brand new), so it might just be cheap junk. Before I make that assumption and buy a new card though, I wanted to come here in case there may be other causes. I haven't tried testing it with my other SD card because it's full of important files.
Here's a screenshot:
Sometimes when I place the micro-sd card into my phone, random video files (roughly a third or so, maybe half) will appear as '0 bytes', and obviously won't play. Occasionally instead of 0 bytes, the file size is just unsually small (like 50 Mb instead of 256 Mb) but also won't play. It will return a message saying "This file type is not supported.". I want to note that they all work on the dashcam before I remove the card.
Whether a file shows up like this seems to be completely random. As a precaution, I turn off my dashcam before removing the SD card, and on my smartphone I unmount the other SD card I have before switching it with the card from the dashcam. When I place the SD card back into the dashcam, all of the files (regardless if they were viewable on the phone), are corrupt.
My guess is that the SD card is responsible. It has no brand name and was included with the dashcam (brand new), so it might just be cheap junk. Before I make that assumption and buy a new card though, I wanted to come here in case there may be other causes. I haven't tried testing it with my other SD card because it's full of important files.
Here's a screenshot:
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