Parking mode AED is only saving the last 3 hours of footage?

[EdLeafs]

I just got this dash cam and been testing the features on it. I installed it using the HK3 hardwire kit. Today I went to pull the SD memory card to take a look at all the captured footage and I noticed that AED are only saving for the last 3hrs or so and anything that was recorded in the morning are gone or were overwritten. Is this normal operation or is one of my settings wrong?

I'm using the recommend Sandisk max endurance 256GB SD card so memory is not an issue. There were over 200GB space in the card after 1 day of recording. Before anyone is saying it's due to voltage cutoff, I have tested this theory by going down to the parking lot an hour after I parked and waved my arms around saw the solid red REC light changed from blinking red. Shortly after I confirmed the recording did take place by reviewing the footage on the dashcam and could see other recorded files. It was only when I pulled the SD card to my PC to save all the footage that I realized the footage files from 8AM to 3:59PM were either overwritten or something happened that cause it to delete itself. Anyone had similar experience?

 

[Nigel]

I'm not sure what the V3 does these days, but most of the dashcams have a separate loop for the parking files, so that the parking files don't wipe out your last drive, and the next drive doesn't wipe out the parking files, so the parking files will start to be deleted after a while. I would have expected rather longer with a card that size, so maybe it is something to do with your settings, or maybe it was optimised for 64GB cards, which is what most people would have used when the V3 was released.

Looks like you have set 10 minute loop recording. You could try it with a more normal 3 minutes, might make a difference.
It might be easier to understand if you used low bitrate parking mode, since then you get more consistent files so it would be easier to understand what it is doing.

I don't think there is anything wrong, but maybe it could be improved for use with larger cards.

 

[VIOFO-Support]

I just got this dash cam and been testing the features on it. I installed it using the HK3 hardwire kit. Today I went to pull the SD memory card to take a look at all the captured footage and I noticed that AED are only saving for the last 3hrs or so and anything that was recorded in the morning are gone or were overwritten. Is this normal operation or is one of my settings wrong?

I'm using the recommend Sandisk max endurance 256GB SD card so memory is not an issue. There were over 200GB space in the card after 1 day of recording. Before anyone is saying it's due to voltage cutoff, I have tested this theory by going down to the parking lot an hour after I parked and waved my arms around saw the solid red REC light changed from blinking red. Shortly after I confirmed the recording did take place by reviewing the footage on the dashcam and could see other recorded files. It was only when I pulled the SD card to my PC to save all the footage that I realized the footage files from 8AM to 3:59PM were either overwritten or something happened that cause it to delete itself. Anyone had similar experience?

The files may be overwitten automatically becaused the card is going to be full. You can set the parking mode to Low Bitrate to test for confirmation.

 

[EdLeafs]

The files may be overwitten automatically becaused the card is going to be full. You can set the parking mode to Low Bitrate to test for confirmation.

If true, why did I even both getting a 256GB sd card over a cheaper 32/64/128GB? Reason why I got the 256GB sd card was so I would have at least a few days/week of captured footage for reviews and not have to worry about daily overwrites. I will test low bitrate mode in the coming days to compare.

 

[EdLeafs]

I'm not sure what the V3 does these days, but most of the dashcams have a separate loop for the parking files, so that the parking files don't wipe out your last drive, and the next drive doesn't wipe out the parking files, so the parking files will start to be deleted after a while. I would have expected rather longer with a card that size, so maybe it is something to do with your settings, or maybe it was optimised for 64GB cards, which is what most people would have used when the V3 was released.

Looks like you have set 10 minute loop recording. You could try it with a more normal 3 minutes, might make a difference.
It might be easier to understand if you used low bitrate parking mode, since then you get more consistent files so it would be easier to understand what it is doing.

I don't think there is anything wrong, but maybe it could be improved for use with larger cards.

Hi, thanks for your input. I will adjust loop recording to 3min and see if that makes any difference. Yes I currently have loop recording set to 10min interval because I know with a 256GB performance sd card there would be plenty of storage spaces to record for a few days/week. After just half a day of recording (12hrs) it only used up 20GB or the available 200GB space so I wasn't expecting there would be a need to overwrite files. Seems like this could easily be fixed with a firmware update but since the product has been out in the market for so long and the last update was Nov 2024 I don't expect there to be anymore support going forward. Perhaps I should have brought a more recently released product. Feeling some buyers remorse lol.

 

[Nigel]

Seems like this could easily be fixed with a firmware update but since the product has been out in the market for so long and the last update was Nov 2024 I don't expect there to be anymore support going forward.

If you can work out what is happening, so what needs to be fixed, then there is no harm in asking, there are still a lot of people buying the A119 V3 so there is support, not sure the engineers will remember how it works though, they have probably all moved on to the V4. by now!