We've had our Dash Cam for nearly four years now but it's been playing up.

1) The camera isn't filling the SD card properly although we have re-formatted it. It will only record the first 5 minute loop before re-recording over it.
2) The current date and time can be set but when the Dash cam is off it reverts back to 2016.
3) I've tried recharging the small internal battery but it doesn't charge although the camera will work off a power supply.

We have not hard wired it into the car but are running it off the cigar lighter socket which is on the ignition circuit. I can't remember but should the small internal battery be big enough to run the time/date when the dash cam is not powered up?

I think it may be time to purchase a new one

Randa

Thanks for everyone's contribution to this thread. It's good to see that we're not the only ones with problems and for the price we paid for the Dash Cam 4 years ago and the price of a new model we've decided it's time to get a new one. The only thing I don't look forward to is trying to hide the charging cable as it winds its way around the joins in the dashboard.

Gone are the days where I could have wired it into a live wire somewhere which was a doddle in the days where cars had more holes in the bulkhead than a colander.

I've learnt a lot from this thread and from reading the advice on the various ads for new Dash Cams and it would appear that the small internal battery takes up to 3 hours to charge from empty to full. All the ads talk about it being an emergency battery and, if it is there to retain the time and date settings then it's little wonder it's dead. Apart from our long trips away with the Eriba we hardly do any mileage at all and most of the time the car is only used once a week and then for a 15 mile round trip to do shopping.(about 30 minutes running). Therefore I assume not enough to keep the internal Battery charged up.

We do use the supplied cigar cable to run it but I've come across the advice that a USB socket wouldn't be powerful enough to keep the camera running and charged? Is that so? I was hoping to tidy up our dash board but looking for a USB plug in instead of the cigar plug in. I suppose the same thing goes for a SatNav?

Having recently given up on ever seeing Lavina again, the sultry lady with the Joanna Lumley voice who sits in our dahboard and operates our built in SatNav, we have just forked out for a new one that sits on the dashboard and also has a cigar lighter plug in (unfortunately she has the voice of Mrs Overall ). Incidently this new one has a 240v charging cable adaptor as well as part of the kit so I tried charging the Dash Cam battery up using that in the comfort of the house. Although it ran the Dash Cam the battery didn't charge even over 4 hours.

By the way, the SatNav did come with a short USB cable. What's that for?

Randa

Yes I saw that but with my nerves and fat fingers .......................................
so I've just bought a new one.
Randa

Quote: Valjoneribafan wrote in post #13

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I had the same problem with my dash cam, tried recharging battery without success, went online and found that it is
a known problem .

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