@Seanster - To answer some of your questions...
...Parking mode is nearly useless if I have to manually enable and disable it every single time. It has a damn gps and motion sensor, you'd think it can enter and exit parking mode on it's own..."
Yes, in ideal World and if this firmware is being developed and maintained by someone else but SeeZeus. Parking mode needs to be engaged manually. I'm guessing not all people want to use parking mode, and another thing is... some cars completely cut off power from the lighter plug when car is turned off. You'd have to connect your camera directly to the battery if you want it to keep recording in parking mode for longer than 25-30 minutes... because that's how long it will last on its own battery if unplugged from the car's power.
All that being said, I completely agree with you. It should be automatic switch with an option in firmware to turn it off manually if needed.
...Lately it's been randomly locking up in regular loop recording so that's pretty scary. I just noticed that the last 5 days went totally unrecorded. (It also seems to have entered parking mode on it's own at lest once.. so maybe it's related.) I am using 64 gb memory cards so I will have to put in a 32 and others to see if the problems continue..."
Is your motion sensor turned off? It should be if you're recording while driving. It should be on only when in parking mode, of course if you want motion sensor to be activated... for example, every single time cat jumps on your car, you have evidence little brat scratched your hood
I am not sure about 64 GB SD cards, 32 GB maximum is recommended, Class 6 and above. Since price difference is insignificant, Class 10 is the best choice. At CanadaComputers or TigerDirect you can get high quality Kingston cards for $15-$24, depending on the sale deal.
...Another bug I noticed is the gps screen saver is flaky. If I have 5 minute screen saver and 3 minute gps screen saver, it eventually just goes blank directly and skips the gps screen. The timeouts are not respected. I found that going in and out of parking mode really messes up the screen saver functions...
GPS screensaver works fine on my end, except the situations when it's constantly showing North regardless of where you're actually heading. Correct GPS data and compass are still being saved properly (another forum member and I double-checked it) even when GPS screensaver is not showing correct info. It's just screensaver is buggy, camera still functions perfectly fine. Simple reset, clears screensaver problem though... until it starts up acting again. Everything else on my end works fine.
...If I could have just a day in the source code this cam would kick so much ass.
You know what? I've been waiting for someone with this idea. Since programming is not my stronger side (I did simple, super basic things in assembler), I'd be happy if there is anyone ready to take a challenge and start developing some custom firmware. SeeZeus is not doing a s*** to make customers happy. We all paid our money, and regardless of how cheap these cameras can sound, we paid them with hard earned money. There is no simple firmware update/download/info page on SeeZeus. They never announce when there is new firmware update and what new it brings, what's fixed etc. This is really sad. Custom firmware would make this dash cam one of the best out there. Since the day one with it, I have never had a single problem with it, except for that GPS screensaver, but now I keep it off anyway, so it does not bug me at all. But sure, it would be great if someone could start working on custom one. On my end, all I have are these 2 BIN firmware files in my signature. I am not sure these can be de-compiled somehow... but one thing I am sure, SeeZeus would never let us get our hands on the original code.
