DashCamUser123
Active Member
Recently, my A139 3-channel has been acting up. Used this cam for a year or over?
I press the middle yellow button to change from 2-channel to 3-channel and back. I keep my fingers pressed. In the past it would automatically activate the 2-channel or 3-channel mode with the 2 beeps. Recently, when I press that button, not all the time but often enough, the "Video Saved" is activated with multiple rapid beeps. I keep my fingers on the button hoping it will overside that error, "Video Saved mode is still on. Finally one beep goes and I get messages like "1 channel recording", lights keep moving (red, blue, red, etc.) and finally with my intervention by pressing the bluetooth button, it goes 2-channel recording or goes '1-channel recording' or '3-channel recording'.
Is that yellow button failing? Internals failing?
Sometimes I can haer the camera rebooting after I switch from 2-channel to 3-channel and back. It is summer here in Ottawa so not sure if heat plays a part in the cam internals?
Nothing personal against Viofo but the A139 design with the very senstive wire connector is flawed. They were probably trying a new design to compete with other companies but it's the connectors to the cams that is flawed. They have gone back to a more stable USB connector in the A229 Plus and Pro series like in previous models in the A129 series. This issue is not related to the problem I am experiencing above.
Anyone else experience these issues in the A139 cams?
I press the middle yellow button to change from 2-channel to 3-channel and back. I keep my fingers pressed. In the past it would automatically activate the 2-channel or 3-channel mode with the 2 beeps. Recently, when I press that button, not all the time but often enough, the "Video Saved" is activated with multiple rapid beeps. I keep my fingers on the button hoping it will overside that error, "Video Saved mode is still on. Finally one beep goes and I get messages like "1 channel recording", lights keep moving (red, blue, red, etc.) and finally with my intervention by pressing the bluetooth button, it goes 2-channel recording or goes '1-channel recording' or '3-channel recording'.
Is that yellow button failing? Internals failing?
Sometimes I can haer the camera rebooting after I switch from 2-channel to 3-channel and back. It is summer here in Ottawa so not sure if heat plays a part in the cam internals?
Nothing personal against Viofo but the A139 design with the very senstive wire connector is flawed. They were probably trying a new design to compete with other companies but it's the connectors to the cams that is flawed. They have gone back to a more stable USB connector in the A229 Plus and Pro series like in previous models in the A129 series. This issue is not related to the problem I am experiencing above.
Anyone else experience these issues in the A139 cams?
