MyFirstSLK
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Hello,
first I beg to excuse my poor english, but I am a German and schooltime is years ago ;-)
May be, my questions are asked (and answered) in other postings - but it is problematical and time-consuming to me, to read english. So would be nice, to get answers here that are already given in other places.
Will be a little much to read, but hoping to get answers anyhow.
After two DOD GS600 (front and rear), I bought a Blackvue DR500GW-HD for using in my car windshield.
This cam arrived last week.
While running the Setup, I found out, the cam has a english language - but fortunately I found on the website of the developer a firmware (1.008) with german language.
So I downloaded this and tried to install it onto my PC and the SD-Card.
After plug in the SD-card into the cam, the update starts, but failed with a endless loop of saying the message "Versionsinformation weicht ab" (what means "version information is different") and the cam seem to be bricked at this point.
So I downloaded the english FW in 1.008 and installed this one onto my PC and the SD-Card.
This update worked finaly on the cam and it was useable again.
Since I am a PC-freak, I installed a freeware Telnet onto my Android-handy, called the IP of the Wifi-Accesspoint of the cam (192.168.8.1) then and deleted the files in "\mnt\nand"
like I found described on a webpage. As logIn for the Cam I used "root" as User and "pt" as password.
The order, I used in telnet was:
"rm -r \mnt\nand" (the folder "nand" wouldn't be deleted cause protected, but it's contents)
Then I installed the german FW 1.008 again into PC and SD-Card.
The setup worked fine and complete.
After the automatical restart of the cam, it welcomes me with the german language.
Then I did reset of the a SD-Card with pressing the round button near the SD-Card-slot for a while until the cam beeped.
Now the cam works well with german language.
So far, so good.
Meanwhile I received the answer of blackview where I asked for my problem to change the language before I found out the solution for myself.
Blackview says, it is impossible to change the language of the firmware ;-)
Now to my problems and questions:
1. The cam-clock has show wrong date/time after upgrade (seems to me, it was date/time from the upgrade-file). The clock corrected itself only after start the upgrade again in the car, where a GPS-signal was availiable.
Is this normal?
2. Since the update, it is impossible to me to change the settings of the FW from cam with the android software.
The android-program says, "Configuration is impossible because data version in Micro SD Card is not compatible. Please upgrade Micro SD Card" and the FW settings can't be changed.
I think, reason for is, I use a english android program (V: 1.43 2013/8/7 9:21:1 Firmware version 1.008) with my meanwhile into german FW 1.008 changed FW on the cam.
With the german PC-program, what was delivered with the FW-file for the cam I may change the settings of the cam without problems.
Will a german language android-SW appreares some day by Blackvue?
Otherwise the German FW seems useless to me.
Why Blackvue generally makes differences generally between languages and makes nearly impossible to use FW in different language on its cams.
They makes with this restrictions(prohibition) more problems to thenself and the users of their cams than other manufactures that allows to change FW to any availiable languages for users.
3. To get a live-view of the cam on my android-screen, it is necessary to connect the cam and the handy with Wifi.
But when a Wifi-connection is etablished, the 3G-Data-Connection to the intenet is shut down same time controlled by the Android-OS.
So it should be impossible to have a live-view included the google-maps in the upper right - therfore a exlsting dataconnection to google-maps is needed in my oppinion.
But a map is displayed anyhow - what shows a city that is far away of the location the cam (and the car) stays.
If copying a existing clip from cam into the intern memory of my handy, switch of the Wifi and etablish the dataconnection to the web instead, I get same map in the upper right side of the Android-program, but this shows a city that is hundreds of miles away from the point, I've recorded the clip.
How to get this map showing the correct position?
4. In the manual I find nothing information about the "Movingsensor", what is setable in the settings.
What function does that one have? What switches this sensor?
Is the movingsensor for or switching between "N" and "P"?
The "E"-Mode is switched by the three Sliders for U/D L/R F/B?
Are clips marked with the "E" write-protected for prevent them for overwritung? Seems not so - but would be much better.
I some has a traffic accident, comes into hospital immediately, the loop-function of the cam overwrites the record that shows the accident until the driver reaches his car finaly.
kind regards
first I beg to excuse my poor english, but I am a German and schooltime is years ago ;-)
May be, my questions are asked (and answered) in other postings - but it is problematical and time-consuming to me, to read english. So would be nice, to get answers here that are already given in other places.
Will be a little much to read, but hoping to get answers anyhow.
After two DOD GS600 (front and rear), I bought a Blackvue DR500GW-HD for using in my car windshield.
This cam arrived last week.
While running the Setup, I found out, the cam has a english language - but fortunately I found on the website of the developer a firmware (1.008) with german language.
So I downloaded this and tried to install it onto my PC and the SD-Card.
After plug in the SD-card into the cam, the update starts, but failed with a endless loop of saying the message "Versionsinformation weicht ab" (what means "version information is different") and the cam seem to be bricked at this point.
So I downloaded the english FW in 1.008 and installed this one onto my PC and the SD-Card.
This update worked finaly on the cam and it was useable again.
Since I am a PC-freak, I installed a freeware Telnet onto my Android-handy, called the IP of the Wifi-Accesspoint of the cam (192.168.8.1) then and deleted the files in "\mnt\nand"
like I found described on a webpage. As logIn for the Cam I used "root" as User and "pt" as password.
The order, I used in telnet was:
"rm -r \mnt\nand" (the folder "nand" wouldn't be deleted cause protected, but it's contents)
Then I installed the german FW 1.008 again into PC and SD-Card.
The setup worked fine and complete.
After the automatical restart of the cam, it welcomes me with the german language.
Then I did reset of the a SD-Card with pressing the round button near the SD-Card-slot for a while until the cam beeped.
Now the cam works well with german language.
So far, so good.
Meanwhile I received the answer of blackview where I asked for my problem to change the language before I found out the solution for myself.
Blackview says, it is impossible to change the language of the firmware ;-)
Now to my problems and questions:
1. The cam-clock has show wrong date/time after upgrade (seems to me, it was date/time from the upgrade-file). The clock corrected itself only after start the upgrade again in the car, where a GPS-signal was availiable.
Is this normal?
2. Since the update, it is impossible to me to change the settings of the FW from cam with the android software.
The android-program says, "Configuration is impossible because data version in Micro SD Card is not compatible. Please upgrade Micro SD Card" and the FW settings can't be changed.
I think, reason for is, I use a english android program (V: 1.43 2013/8/7 9:21:1 Firmware version 1.008) with my meanwhile into german FW 1.008 changed FW on the cam.
With the german PC-program, what was delivered with the FW-file for the cam I may change the settings of the cam without problems.
Will a german language android-SW appreares some day by Blackvue?
Otherwise the German FW seems useless to me.
Why Blackvue generally makes differences generally between languages and makes nearly impossible to use FW in different language on its cams.
They makes with this restrictions(prohibition) more problems to thenself and the users of their cams than other manufactures that allows to change FW to any availiable languages for users.
3. To get a live-view of the cam on my android-screen, it is necessary to connect the cam and the handy with Wifi.
But when a Wifi-connection is etablished, the 3G-Data-Connection to the intenet is shut down same time controlled by the Android-OS.
So it should be impossible to have a live-view included the google-maps in the upper right - therfore a exlsting dataconnection to google-maps is needed in my oppinion.
But a map is displayed anyhow - what shows a city that is far away of the location the cam (and the car) stays.
If copying a existing clip from cam into the intern memory of my handy, switch of the Wifi and etablish the dataconnection to the web instead, I get same map in the upper right side of the Android-program, but this shows a city that is hundreds of miles away from the point, I've recorded the clip.
How to get this map showing the correct position?
4. In the manual I find nothing information about the "Movingsensor", what is setable in the settings.
What function does that one have? What switches this sensor?
Is the movingsensor for or switching between "N" and "P"?
The "E"-Mode is switched by the three Sliders for U/D L/R F/B?
Are clips marked with the "E" write-protected for prevent them for overwritung? Seems not so - but would be much better.
I some has a traffic accident, comes into hospital immediately, the loop-function of the cam overwrites the record that shows the accident until the driver reaches his car finaly.
kind regards