Thanks for the tip Lunar, I will definately do it, and I hope it helps. It will not do anything bad for sure.
Also thanks for trying to reproduce the errors - where can I get the 0913 firmware? Do you think it would be possible to downgrade from 0924 to 0913?
Bests,
Beavis
Regarding firmware versions, one of the issues we have discovered during this lengthy thread, and also from feedback from joklin, who is involved in dashcam manufacture in China, and Rayman Chan, is that these camera are actually manufactured not by one manufacturer but 3 or even 4, and although all the camera 's look alike, we are told they may be slight hardware differences inside them depending where it was made. What this means...is though the firmware generally seems to work across most of the users camera's, one or more settings may not work on one camera but works on another camera. Also you have to careful to select the right version firmware for your particular camera. ie The standard model with no GPS or 8GB, then you have the GPS only version, and finally the GPS and 8GB version.
The 0913 version is for the GPS only model.
The 0922 version is for the GPS and 8GB model
I forget what the firmware version was for the standard model, but it may be the 0903 firmware, you say your's came with this installed, whats the model of your camera,..ie. GPS / GPS + 8GB or standard. ? When posting, it's probably prudent to mention which model of the camera one has, as well as mentioning firmware version, as it helps us all in seeing if there's any particular patterns forming with certain models or firmware.
Not that it's helped us much so far...LOL
Now there is another version firmware 0924, (the one you have maybe used) which according to emails from E-Prance state that the 0924 version is the latest firmware for those camera's ONLY which previously used the older .TS file format, as until a few months ago, these slightly earlier camera's output their video files in .TS format, which is the video format that techmoan mentions on his excellent revue of the camera on his
www.techmoan.com site, as the review camera he bought output in .TS files.
In fact the .TS format although less popular, and not supported in some playback software like REGISTRATOR.EXE, was very stable and worked well, they had a few issues initially when they switched to .mov files, but they seem to have worked around them now, AIS previously, mines been working great for weeks, though as you will see in the many previous pages some users have had problems similar to yours, and some experienced it stopping just a few seconds after it starts to record on power up, which is what my one camera did.. remember?
So the 0924 firmware is only for those camera which previously output .TS file, IOW to allow them to upgrade to the .MOV video format. E-Prance stated we should'nt use it unless your camera came with .TS file output. I don't think it would create major problems, but may not be 100% compatible, as there may be slight hardware differences.
The 3 versions of E-Prance firmware I mentioned are linked in the FAQ, not sure if the 0913 is, but it probably is. I have all the versions here, but for 100% compability you must use the one for your particular model.
I think the general concensus is that many of the issues some users have experienced or having issues with could perhaps have been from perhaps one manufacturer, but as there's about 4 making these things there's no way of telling, and is all based on conjecture anyway..lol but the theory may be a likely one as different users with supposedly identical camera models and fitted with the same type and class of card, sometime get opposite results, IOW one user gets no trouble at all yet the other user gets issue, only snag is we have no way of telling if they were both made in the same factory, or indeed exactly the same inside, I can only assume all my 3 were made in one factory where the units did work properly, but AIS it's all conjecture.
Let me know if you need any of the firmwares mentioned, and I'll put them on my dropbox so you can pull it down, but AIS I'm fairly certain they are available from the mini 0801 FAQ. A few pages back in the thread, is the firmware information which E-Prance emailed us with, but basically is what I mentioned above.
