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Dirtman
Former Middleweight Moss Fighting Champion
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- 2.3 (4 Cylinder)
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- Automatic
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- I poop in the furnace.
Ok so I have two dash cams, one front and one rear. They run independentantly not connect to each other. Each one has a 32GB SanDisk extreme pro card rated for 4k video (tested them and they are NOT counterfeit) both speed and size match the specs.
Ok so the cams are set on loop record so they automatically just erase the oldest video and keep recording and they work fine if you watch the videos on the cameras but the screens are tiny and basically just made to adjust settings not really to review video.
I pop the card out and they absolutely won't work on any Android device. It recognizes the card was inserted, but I get an error that says something like "unsupported format" and won't even open any files. However they work perfectly fine in my windows laptop.
This is an issue because if I'm in an accident I'm not gonna have my laptop and if I need to show the video to a cop I need them to work in my phone.
So I formatted the cards in FAT32 directly in my android phone and then reinstalled them in the cameras, tested again and one worked flawlessly (it records in .AVI format) and one would read the card fine but the videos were in ".MOV" format and wouldn't play. Ok so figured that out by downloading VLC media player and now both cards and both video formats play great.
Then I go to reinstall the cards and let the cameras run again just to double check. Rear cam running fine, reads fine on the phone, videos play great. But now the front camera shows it's recording but I pull the card and there is NO video files on it at all. Tried to reformat and try again, still no video. It shows it's recording but nothing is on the card, it doesn't even show any memory was used!!!!
I'm getting really frustrated here pulling cards in and out and testing videos and at this point it's worthless to even have them if I can't trust the damn thing is gonna have the videos when I need it!
Any ideas?
Ok so the cams are set on loop record so they automatically just erase the oldest video and keep recording and they work fine if you watch the videos on the cameras but the screens are tiny and basically just made to adjust settings not really to review video.
I pop the card out and they absolutely won't work on any Android device. It recognizes the card was inserted, but I get an error that says something like "unsupported format" and won't even open any files. However they work perfectly fine in my windows laptop.
This is an issue because if I'm in an accident I'm not gonna have my laptop and if I need to show the video to a cop I need them to work in my phone.
So I formatted the cards in FAT32 directly in my android phone and then reinstalled them in the cameras, tested again and one worked flawlessly (it records in .AVI format) and one would read the card fine but the videos were in ".MOV" format and wouldn't play. Ok so figured that out by downloading VLC media player and now both cards and both video formats play great.
Then I go to reinstall the cards and let the cameras run again just to double check. Rear cam running fine, reads fine on the phone, videos play great. But now the front camera shows it's recording but I pull the card and there is NO video files on it at all. Tried to reformat and try again, still no video. It shows it's recording but nothing is on the card, it doesn't even show any memory was used!!!!
I'm getting really frustrated here pulling cards in and out and testing videos and at this point it's worthless to even have them if I can't trust the damn thing is gonna have the videos when I need it!
Any ideas?
