Nigel
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- Dash Cam
- Gitup F1+G3ꞈꞈꞈꞈꞈ Viofo A229ꞈꞈꞈꞈꞈ Blueskysea B4K
That is what happens when your dashcam uses a battery, and why other manufacturers like SG, Blueskysea and Viofo don't use batteries in their cameras. Putting a battery in a 4K dash camera is stupid, it is very unlikely to last until the end of the warranty period, I guess Nextbase didn't think about it and assumed that they could continue with their previous scam where the batteries fail at 13 months making the camera useless, and then instead of accepting a design error and replacing it at no cost to the customer, they offer to sell their customer a refurbished camera, supposedly at the price of a battery but actually at more profit to Nextbase than they made on the original camera. Why do you think they have a good supply of refurbished units available? Clearly there is a good supply of dead ones, I doubt that Viofo have any refurbished units available!No it's worse than that. What i am saying is that due to the design flaws the camera quikly degrades, becames even more unstable than when purchased and then ceases to work all together. The first one I bricked during the firmware update. The second and third lasted around 6 months each before failing completely.