I've heard this cam has heating and card issues. Can someone shed some light on this?
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Use a class 6 memory card. A class 10 card makes the camera have issues like videos not looping and corrupted videos. DO NOT use a class 10 memory card. The manual states this. Many people have had serious issues with class 10 cards from the camera not looping to the camera not recording. A class 6 card from a decent manufacturer is perfect, you don't need a class 10 and you shouldn't use one. The camera doesn't have "heating issues". In the summer an interior of a car can get very, very hot, this is bad for the lifespan of the camera, as the camera makes its own heat when in use. Temperatures in cars are A LOT hotter than outside temps. If the outside temp is 90F { 30C &lt;-- max external temp for operating the camera} then the temp inside your car is much higher {105F / 40C &lt;-- max. internal temp for operating the camera} etc. The cameras can fail after those temps for any real length of time. They aren't supposed to be in cold temps {36F / 2C} for any length of time either. The camera gets very warm under general use and gets very hot in those high temps. Also, depending on your car, you aren't supposed to run your A/C, headlights or rear defroster when something is plugged into your adapter socket.
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Re-seat the card and make sure that the power you connect to it is good. If you can't get good results, try in another computer (if you can) or send it back as defective.
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I have the very same problem. There must be some type of program error. I did a lot of research and gave up. I just pull the SD card and plug into my PC. There was no warranty on my camera when I found out it would not work with my PC or TV.
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I've encounter three separate problems with the card within three weeks. First time, the card failed to record an image. The second time, the camera informed me to eject the card and replace it with another card because there was an error with the Komputerbay card. Once again, the card failed to record an image. I am planning to write to the company to receive a refund due to error problems with the cards.
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DO you have other cameras and are they operating alright? Naturally check all the connections both at the camera and the recorder. Also look for any nicks or cuts at the exposed wires. I experienced a problem once when all the cameras stopped working and it turned out it was the power adapter that went out. I replaced this item and it worked just fine after that. This is a good camera for the money. I have two of these and they have been working for just over a year. I'm even thinking of replacing the other two cameras with one of these so please let me know how this turns out. Good luck
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1) I'm using 16 gb class 10 I bought the card before I read the manual so I decided to use it anyway even after I saw they claim that class 10 is too fast for this cam . 2)my card doesn't interfere with the built in memory it's a setting you could set which memory you wanna use card or built in . 3)the sticker comes in black but I wanted to be able to remove it so I cut out a small piece of Velcro and used that instead
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Mine has been running for over a month. It sits in an AV rack system, so I don't see it often. I just checked and it is only warm to the touch.
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I haven't. I had to return it to Amazon as I could not get either the camera or the microphone to work. I have replaced it with another camera/microphone which works perfectly. I do not know if it was a defect in that particular unit or an incompatibility with my system software or hardware. My business is Data Processing consulting and I know a lot about the hardware and software on my PC and could not get it to work at all, so after many different trials, I gave up and purchased a similar but different unit and it worked the first time. No trouble at all.
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Yes I messed up and bent a pin in one of the connectors, so it wasn't the hardware for me, it was my own clumsiness. So you might want to take a look at the pins in your connectors. I read elsewhere that someone wasn't getting enough power to the camera and monitor and that's what caused the blue screen for them.
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Try a different memory card. Never had that problem, even under some pretty rough conditions.
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It will stop, the built in software is very basic. There is an option that allow you to record over what's already on the card but it is a 10 minutes loop only : to me this is ridiculous !
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After charging and pressing the power button, you should see and able to record. Try the car D/C adapter. If that doesn't work, then there is something wrong with the unit. One more thing, these cams are very sensitive to extreme temperature, cold or hot. Also, do you have a micro memory card in? If not, the unit won't work. Hope this help.
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Unfortunately I'm having the same issue. It continually records but it breaks as a 2 minutes video clips. I just got this cam not too long ago so I will have to figure out how to fix this problem and I'll let you know.
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Hang on , Issue reported with battery BacPac for Hero 4 . its heat ups . Please got through following :http://cheesycam.com/gopro-hero4-overheating-battery-bacpac-test-3/
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Actually hold off, there may be a problem with video video output with the adopter. I'll look into it tonight at work and get back to you later tonight.
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Hi. Which size of card did you buy? Remember it records at a full 1080P. I bought a 32gig card for this camera, haven't had a problem since.
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Sony has updated the software to 1.1 . I have NO overheating issues. I have used it on few shoot with 3000 pix each day and haven't gotten it once to overheat