IanCaunce
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Hi,
I created my account especially for this post as I spent all night trudging through various threads trying to figure out how to update my blueskysea G1W-C. All the threads I read were not specifically about updating the G1W-C and hopefully this thread will make it easier for someone to update theirs.
I successfully updated from version 2013.1112.18 to 2014.0813.11
I believe the firmware is intended for the blueskysea branded cam. It may work for others but I cannot comment.
Firstly, an obligatory warning. Updating your firmware could potentially break your cam. Attempt it at your own risk. I take no responsibilities for broken cams.
In order to figure out this process, as well as reading many threads for various sites I contacted Vicky at estore009.
I would like to add an extra step to the one above. DO NOT try and update your cam using a SD card greater than 32GB in size as it won't work. I tried various different cards, all 64GB in size and none of them worked. I guess that it has something to do with the card being formatted as exFAT. Cards 32GB in size or less are formatted as FAT32 by default by your cam and that seems to work fine.
So the final steps are:
You will now notice that the green welcome screen has changed to a black blueskysea screen. I believe this is a feature of the new firmware.
Some people have mentioned that after updating, their cams are in Chinese, mine remained in English but just in case: Press the menu button twice and the third option down is the language setting.
I would like to thank Senjaya as it was his post which originally started my venture into updating my cam.
I hope this helps someone and speeds up the process of updating their cam.
Its worth noting that this firmware version has been reported to fix the last file corruption issue. I hope it also fixes the issue I am having whereby the cam will randomly stop recording. I will keep you all updated.
I created my account especially for this post as I spent all night trudging through various threads trying to figure out how to update my blueskysea G1W-C. All the threads I read were not specifically about updating the G1W-C and hopefully this thread will make it easier for someone to update theirs.
I successfully updated from version 2013.1112.18 to 2014.0813.11
I believe the firmware is intended for the blueskysea branded cam. It may work for others but I cannot comment.
Firstly, an obligatory warning. Updating your firmware could potentially break your cam. Attempt it at your own risk. I take no responsibilities for broken cams.
In order to figure out this process, as well as reading many threads for various sites I contacted Vicky at estore009.
Sorry to hear that. Could you pls update it and try again?
https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/qs862r
This is the software for G1W-c.please check!
And you can do it in this way:
1)Download this bin file to your computer
2)Format your memory card by computer;
3)copy this bin file to your memory card;
4)Plug into card into camera,and plug into camera to power camera on;
5)It will update automatically
after updating,please plug its memory card and have a test with other memory card!
Regards.
Vicky
I would like to add an extra step to the one above. DO NOT try and update your cam using a SD card greater than 32GB in size as it won't work. I tried various different cards, all 64GB in size and none of them worked. I guess that it has something to do with the card being formatted as exFAT. Cards 32GB in size or less are formatted as FAT32 by default by your cam and that seems to work fine.
So the final steps are:
- Format a SD card of 32GB or less using your cam.
- Download the rar file and extract it. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/qs862r
- Copy the file "FW96650A.bin" to the root folder of your empty SD card.
- Place your SD card into the cam whilst it is powered off.
- Power on your cam by plugging in the in car charger.
- The cam will remain black for a few seconds. Mine took about a minute. DO NOT turn off or unplug your cam in this time as it may break. Be patient and wait!
- When the cam boots, check to see if the firmware version has been updated to 2014.0813.11. If it has, format the SD card to prevent it updating again upon reboot.
You will now notice that the green welcome screen has changed to a black blueskysea screen. I believe this is a feature of the new firmware.
Some people have mentioned that after updating, their cams are in Chinese, mine remained in English but just in case: Press the menu button twice and the third option down is the language setting.
I would like to thank Senjaya as it was his post which originally started my venture into updating my cam.
FYI: My last firmware was 2013.1126.16. (issue: last file error because the unit didn't shut down properly)
For G1W-C user who have this kind of issues:
- Last File error
- unit didn't turn off properly
- Setting became default after reboot
Try this firmware. it will upgrade your firmware into 2014.0813.11 .
I've upload it to my Google Drive.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B90I_Yu3gbxGNDQ3NGg0Mi1xamM/view?usp=sharing
n.b. do it at your own risk!!!
TUTORIAL:
1. Download from the link above
2. Format your Micro SD
3. put the Bin File on root of your micro sd
4. Plug in the Micro SD
5. Plug in the USB (to power up the G1W-C)
6. The screen goes blank for few second, and then boot up
7. Check the firmware version. it should be 2014.0813.11
8. Format Your card using the G1W-C
9. Try to reboot if the problem still exist (mine works fine after 4-5times reboot)
10. Hope this work for you guys.
I hope this helps someone and speeds up the process of updating their cam.
Its worth noting that this firmware version has been reported to fix the last file corruption issue. I hope it also fixes the issue I am having whereby the cam will randomly stop recording. I will keep you all updated.
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