My A129 Pro often misses footage with no warning.
Entire drives are missing. For example my drive about an hour ago home from the shops.
What is the point of this thing?
Its completely unacceptable.
Who else is experiencing this?
That's ... really concerning and not good.
I pulled my SD card for the first time today. Had 3 night trips so far.
@bigjezza For me nothing is missing or any visible skips, problems, beeps etc. so far. Looks fine to me at this stage on my 3 night trips. I am not using parking mode so far, just normal recording at maximum quality and bitrate front and rear, 30 FPS with 2 minute video chunks. Audio is nice and clear. I am running a WD Purple 256GB Surveillance video class high endurance U3, V30 card. Camera firmware v1.1.
Perhaps try a U3/V30 high speed and video grade high endurance SD card like mine and check you have good and solid voltage and ground / connections to the camera as well run the latest firmware. Just trying to think of some suggestions for the drop in recordings. A factory reset also might clear any 'issues' the camera is having as a final step. Ensure WiFi is off and remove your Bluetooth remote control locking button from the car so it doesn't connect. See if anything improves.
With that said this has been my experience so far for night quality:
The rear camera can see peoples faces and plates of the car behind me when stationary with a tinted window at night - that's rather good. Kinda bad motion blur when moving though. Street lights create a lot of 'flare' (front and rear cams) if that is the correct way to say it.
One big thing: At night the front cannot capture any license plates when there is any movement. Either they are blown out from headlights or just blurry. There is a lot of motion blur on paused frames shown on plates and street signs. My A119 Pro does a better job in this regard. That aspect is disappointing for me on the A129 Pro Duo. I expected some plate capture when moving but nothing really.
I will say you can see a lot at night on the front cam - plenty of vision (great!), just a lack of details / clarity on signs and plates.
Footage is also more grainy on the A129 Pro than my A119 Pro at night. Like a high ISO grainy effect. It is a brighter picture than the A119 Pro but that dashcam has a CPL fitted.
I am yet to install the CPL on the front - hope it helps. I am considering running an A119 V3 along side the A129 Pro for night drives but I shouldn't really have to. I know the 4K dashcams are generally poor at night but yeah I had some hope it would capture night plates like my A119 Pro does in my other car.
Now I also get some DAB interference since the install. I took care to route the rear camera cable down the opposite side of the car away from the DAB gear. I use to have rock solid reception now it drops out under semi open carparks which it did not do before.
