VIOFO Improvement Wishlist 2026

Chuck McCoy said:
Which model?
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A329S
Chuck McCoy said:
What is not working properly?
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Not that these things are "not working," more-so that there any many things that can be improved and are present/available features in other cameras currently in the US market, as you've directly shown in your Wishlist videos.

I understand no product is "perfect" and things take time to develop and test before being released as an official update, but 6 months without any updates (although technically you and others have pointed out some of these issues as far back as 1 year ago and they still persist today) seems like a long time when there is at least one other competitor who is providing updates (and much more frequently) over the same 6 month time span for their similar product
 
'updates' are generally for bug fixes rather than adding new features.

Viofo work with customers direct when issues are reported and beta firmware is tested back and forth with the customer until their issue is fixed then a general update is rolled out so others don't face the same issue.

The lack of updates is a good sign, unless people are shouting about issues that aren't being fixed.
This means they've made a good product that doesn't require constant fixes to keep working (unlike some other competitors).
 
newdriver9 said:
A329S

Not that these things are "not working," more-so that there any many things that can be improved and are present/available features in other cameras currently in the US market, as you've directly shown in your Wishlist videos.

I understand no product is "perfect" and things take time to develop and test before being released as an official update, but 6 months without any updates (although technically you and others have pointed out some of these issues as far back as 1 year ago and they still persist today) seems like a long time when there is at least one other competitor who is providing updates (and much more frequently) over the same 6 month time span for their similar product
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It's worth noting that the A329S has been available for over a year. It's received a major V2.0 firmware update, with a few bug fixes thereafter. It's a mature product by now.

Other products may have come to market later, or were less developed upon release, so they may benefit from more updates.

In any case we would typically advise that a customer buys a dashcam based on it's current feature set, bugs & all. Some manufactures release very few updates because they're always moving onto the next product.
 
Dan-UK1415 said:
'updates' are generally for bug fixes rather than adding new features.

Viofo work with customers direct when issues are reported and beta firmware is tested back and forth with the customer until their issue is fixed then a general update is rolled out so others don't face the same issue.

The lack of updates is a good sign, unless people are shouting about issues that aren't being fixed.
This means they've made a good product that doesn't require constant fixes to keep working (unlike some other competitors).
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TonyM said:
It's worth noting that the A329S has been available for over a year. It's received a major V2.0 firmware update, with a few bug fixes thereafter. It's a mature product by now.

Other products may have come to market later, or were less developed upon release, so they may benefit from more updates.

In any case we would typically advise that a customer buys a dashcam based on it's current feature set, bugs & all. Some manufactures release very few updates because they're always moving onto the next product.
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I understand what both of you are saying. However, many of these Wishlist items are not for new features but improvements of existing ones (e.g., request to reduce boot up time from nearly 19 seconds to anything faster, even if not 0.2 seconds). The updates from the competitor I mentioned are also for improvements of existing features and not bug fixes.


Of course if the camera software was truly buggy, I'm sure Viofo would respond with a timely fix. And I understand some of the issues customers are reporting may not be fixable with a firmware update and are likely more hardware related (e.g., management of how hot the camera gets / how to handle hot internal car and camera temperatures to prevent a camera shutdown) so any fix would have to come with the next product generation.

It's just personally disappointing to see a very similar product that is also mature (released only 2 months after Viofo's) and working well "as is" gets provided consistent updates that are not bug-fix related while Viofo has not released any updates since January
 
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