#Garmin dash cam 20 freezes update#
#Garmin dash cam 20 freezes full#

#Garmin dash cam 20 freezes update#

Overall not happy so far, but I'll give it another chance after turning parking mode off (even though that's disabling one of the reasons I bought this camera, I'd rather have it record more driving time because there's more idiots on the roads than thieves in the shadows).*UPDATE: Unit shipped with old Firmware, and during the process of moving the unit in to my PC to update it the charging port plastic broke. Pressing buttons does not stop the recording and makes the camera freeze up.

#Garmin dash cam 20 freezes full#

Card got full and camera never started deleting old videos even though it was in 3 minutes loop mode, so I missed 5 days of data during which an event happened that I would have like to have captured.Massively frustrating that the menu doesn't work while it is recording, so if you have parking mode enabled and it keeps recording, you can't access any menus. Maybe that was a good kind of problem to have. But, I understand that learning is always expensive, and my older battery was about five years old, so I ended up buying a new battery for the truck. I gave the S1 a four star rating because of the battery draining problem in my truck. Absent using that kit, you will have to unplug the cigarette lighter power at the end of every trip, otherwise, the camera's constant operation will drain your battery.On the bright side, if your battery is a good one and it's all charged up, and if you have to park in a potentially hazardous or dangerous location, leaving the S1 cameras powered on will record any sort of mischief going on near your car/truck.All in all, this is a very nice dual camera system. And, if the camera is always on, the cameras will eventually drain the car/truck battery after a few days of non-travel use of the car/truck.One solution to the power drain problem is to buy and use Vantrue hardwire kit to directly power the cameras, and this will turn off the cameras when battery voltage goes below about 11.6 volts. One anomaly for my installation was the fact that I used the cigarette lighter connection for camera power, and according to the factory, if the cigarette power is always on, the camera will always be running, regardless of the camera settings. I have both cameras up front in case of rare police interactions - I want any and all of them recorded.The camera control setup for me (a novice) was a bit complicated, and it took me a while to 'grok' the procedure. Great imaging and audio from both cameras, one camera looking out the front, and the other (the rear camera) recording action inside the cab. Now both cameras are mounted and both are working. But the rear camera cable was far too long for a front cab install, and I had to wait for a shorter (19') cable to arrive from Vantrue. It took a while for me to have the cabling routed and the cameras (both) mounted in the front cab on the front windshield.

This is/was my first dashcam installation and use. I received the S1 as a Christmas gift in December, 2021 for use on my older 1999 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck which I have had since January, 1999. The kit is cheaper than piecing the components together yourself (which I had to do in my other car) and it has everything you need for a variety of cars (different fuse sizes). Problem solved.So, if you have issues with using a constantly powered cigarette lighter (I theorize that it has something to do with how the power level might drop when starting the car or something), just wire it in using Vantrue's kit. The rear dashcam has a red light that comes on when it is recording and I found that annoying when I looked in the rearview mirror, so I covered the lights with electrical tape. Pleased with the result, I invested the time and effort to run the lines behind the A-pillars and headliner and now we have a very inconspicuous front & rear dashcam. Now, we have regular, reliable recording in both front a back when driving (that was the goal). But, I purchased the $19 hardwire kit that most people use for constant-on and instead of adding it to a fuse that was powered when the car was off, I added it to a fuse that was only powered when the car is on. I was getting the worst of both worlds (not working in either mode!).

I also wasn't too concerned with parking mode, this being a old car that no one would probably want to mess with and it's usually parked in secure off-street locations. But, not only did it not have any kind of parking mode, we couldn't get this thing to keep recording AT ALL when we were using the cigarette lighter to power it. So, I assumed using that would be like having it hardwired into a constant-powered line. The cigarette lighter in an '05 Jeep Liberty is constant-on power.