Rob J
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- mini 0801/G1W-C/G1W-S/DP200/mobius v3 c2/A118C/Joovuu X
Pleased to say no issues with time/date
Pleased to say no issues with time/date
Hey Rob—I just received my G1W-C and it's running W2015.0316.11 firmware. I'm also experiencing the "last file corruption" issue. I just wanted to confirm that you downgraded (I assume it's a downgrade, based on the date—2015 vs 2014?) to 2014.0813.11 firmware and that seemed to have fixed the "last file corruption" issue for you? Also—is you date/time still sticking now that a couple weeks have passed?
Thanks,
k.
Hi,
Yes it's a downgrade and the 2014.0813.11 firmware has stopped the file corruption. I have never had any trouble with the time/date since purchasing the camera and this is still the case today when I checked. Only mentioned as Anthony Cornejo said that he had issues with the time/date on 2014.0813.11... Thankfully I don't
2014.0813.11 is 12mbps not sure about the other firmwareCan you please confirm if the bitrate in those 2014.0813.11 and 2015.0316.11 firmwares is the same, i.e. 12mbps (as opposed to G1WH's 15mbps running the most recent firmware)?
Well done!! Thanks!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:
Regarding step 5. You may be able to power and update your cam using a USB cable connected to a computer. I did not try this so I cannot say if it will work.
- 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.
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.
helloPleased to say no issues with time/date
I've been having some problems with my g1w-c so I decided to reflash its firmware.
I followed the instructions here and tried the firmware file here and the one on the main page (FWS1088.bin, I had to rename it to FW96650A.bin)
However the device does not boot past the logo. I can see that the firmware is updated because 1088.bin results in the boot logo being changed to the red Mercedes SLS while the 96650.bin logo is "blueskysea". i tried the same thing which connector is the cmos and where are the instruction to up date the firmware for blueskysea.. i asked again my seller were it was because i lost it but haven't received a replay..thanks all
Any ideas?
Edit:
OK I solved the problem shortly after posting this.
I opened up the cam and disconnected the CMOS sensor, reconnected it and problem was solved. Must have been a bad connection.
I did the update on an older G1W as per your instructions at the beginning of this thread. Not only did I plug the camera directly to the computer and transfer the file that way, I then unplugged it, removed and reinserted the card, and plugged it back into the computer. Worked like a charm, but I havent yet tested the update. Will let you know.
PS - I had tried to do the update by simply moving the rar file to the card - nothing happened. I am not stupid, but reading the original directions, it did not tell me to unzip an .rar file - something that I have not had to do before. Perhaps advising people that they need to use winzip or a similar program would be helpful.
UPDATE - the firmware brought me to 2014.0813.11 and now it saves everything I record, instead of giving me the option to pick and choose. This defeats the purpose of this camera.
2nd UPDATE - tried again and it still is doing the same thing. It wasn't before the update, the only issue was it wouldn't always save the segments that I had manually chose to save. There would be less files with the SOS than ones I would save. Any help would be appreciated.
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