Gabolinche
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- Viofo A119 V3, Mobius A-Lens, Powerucc Panorama II (RIP)
A while ago I bought a Mobius to install in the wife's car. I use a Panorama II in my car but the wife thinks it's "ugly and big" so the Mobius was a perfect fit with her requirements to allow the installation. I must say I'm impressed by the size of the thing, you keep reading about it but never quite grasp it until you hold one in your hand. Video quality is excellent, not as good as the Panorama II but almost there (at least during the day).
Anyway, I configured and installed the Mobius (FW 1.13) a couple of months ago. I'm no expert on the thing and have been trying to read as much as I can on this forum, but every time I drive her car I notice this behavior:
Any ideas on what may be happening? At first I thought the camera was freezing up and I can't do anything until the battery runs out (see step 9). But then I apply power again on step 10 and get three fast blinks meaning the battery is still full. Also, on step 8 I've tried everything from briefly pressing buttons to keeping them pressed for a minute to pressing combinations of buttons, but nothing works.
Could this be an overheating problem? I touch the aluminum heat sinks and they're pretty hot, not burning hot but almost. The weird thing is that this keeps happening on any day (extreme heat around 38°C and cool night weather around 25°C). The minutes it runs normally (step 4) tend to vary, sometimes it runs ok for more than 40 minutes, sometimes it just runs for about 5 minutes and freezes. From mental notes, time running doesn't seem to correlate with ambient temperature. "Resting" period of step 9 also varies, I've had times when the LEDs turn off 10 minutes after power is disconnected and times when they take more than 40 minutes to turn off.
I don't have the camera with me so I can't take a pic of the current configuration but, off the top of my head: it's running firmware v1.13, motion detection is off, power on delay fast, power on auto record is set to both, power-off delay 10s, data rate standard.
Any help and/or suggestions are greatly appreciated! If I can get this little wonder to work as reliably as my Panorama II it will definitely replace it in every car (front and back). Cheers!
Anyway, I configured and installed the Mobius (FW 1.13) a couple of months ago. I'm no expert on the thing and have been trying to read as much as I can on this forum, but every time I drive her car I notice this behavior:
- I turn on the car (no ignition problems like others have reported, apparently this car keeps voltage high enough during ignition)
- Three fast blinks from the back red LED indicate the battery's level.
- Then a steady slow blinking from the back red LED (in sync with the top yellow LED) indicate auto-recording is happening on mode 1.
- Drive around for a few minutes and so far so good, everything is being recorded.
- After a few minutes the back and top LEDs stop blinking and "freeze", both LEDs are not blinking but constantly lit (back red, top yellow) and no recording is happening at this time.
- Pressing any button in the camera does not change a thing, both LEDs keep frozen.
- Disconnecting power (either pulling the plug or turning off the car) does not change a thing, both LEDs keep frozen.
- Pressing buttons after disconnecting power still doesn't work.
- Let the camera "rest" for anywhere between 10 - 45 minutes and eventually both LEDs turn off.
- Apply power again and I get three fast blinks from the back red LED and auto-recording starts again as if nothing had happened before.
- Go to step 4 and repeat.
Any ideas on what may be happening? At first I thought the camera was freezing up and I can't do anything until the battery runs out (see step 9). But then I apply power again on step 10 and get three fast blinks meaning the battery is still full. Also, on step 8 I've tried everything from briefly pressing buttons to keeping them pressed for a minute to pressing combinations of buttons, but nothing works.
Could this be an overheating problem? I touch the aluminum heat sinks and they're pretty hot, not burning hot but almost. The weird thing is that this keeps happening on any day (extreme heat around 38°C and cool night weather around 25°C). The minutes it runs normally (step 4) tend to vary, sometimes it runs ok for more than 40 minutes, sometimes it just runs for about 5 minutes and freezes. From mental notes, time running doesn't seem to correlate with ambient temperature. "Resting" period of step 9 also varies, I've had times when the LEDs turn off 10 minutes after power is disconnected and times when they take more than 40 minutes to turn off.
I don't have the camera with me so I can't take a pic of the current configuration but, off the top of my head: it's running firmware v1.13, motion detection is off, power on delay fast, power on auto record is set to both, power-off delay 10s, data rate standard.
Any help and/or suggestions are greatly appreciated! If I can get this little wonder to work as reliably as my Panorama II it will definitely replace it in every car (front and back). Cheers!