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It’s set to low bitrate, it’s not switching upon turning the truck off, I’ll see what it does tomorrow and then maybe I need to do a factory reset
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update same as yesterday, firmware updated, factory reset, reset all settings on camera only, formatted the SD card twice, no luck, new SD card is coming tomorrow, its just dropping power it seems like, maybe I can try letting the 12v battery drain further
 
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update same as yesterday, firmware updated, factory reset, reset all settings on camera only, formatted the SD card twice, no luck, new SD card is coming tomorrow, its just dropping power it seems like, maybe I can try letting the 12v battery drain further
Is the camera turning off as soon as you turn off the truck and open the door?
 
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itll run for like 2 hours and then turn off, I believe I have the little box set to 12v shut off
So when it runs, is it recording, just not to the parking mode folder? Sounds like maybe the 12v constant and the 12v ignition might be swapped, so it's seeing the constant as the ignition so it doesn't know to switch to parking mode.
 

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So when it runs, is it recording, just not to the parking mode folder? Sounds like maybe the 12v constant and the 12v ignition might be swapped, so it's seeing the constant as the ignition so it doesn't know to switch to parking mode.
I don't think my camera is new enough to announce parking mode, the parking mode is shown on the video, it 100% worked with my Subaru when I had it hard wired, no change happens when i shut the truck off, maybe I need to check the plug on the truck with a volt meter to see if its the same as your 2024
 

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Alright so, I’ll admit I didn’t do the wiring I let my father crimp and do this, he has more experience, but not with molex, but there was an issue, and I almost blew something up in my truck, I just ripped them out forcefully and have to go back to usb for now until I can figure out a better was to get this connector to work, yes those are burns from two wires touching

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Alright so, I’ll admit I didn’t do the wiring I let my father crimp and do this, he has more experience, but not with molex, but there was an issue, and I almost blew something up in my truck, I just ripped them out forcefully and have to go back to usb for now until I can figure out a better was to get this connector to work, yes those are burns from two wires touching

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Something wasn't quite right there. I'd recommend the prewired plug because these ones are hard to pin yourself. I could definitely see a short causing some weird behavior. Might want to check the option fuse to be sure that didn't blow. I think I've linked the wiring diagram earlier in this post.
 
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Something wasn't quite right there. I'd recommend the prewired plug because these ones are hard to pin yourself. I could definitely see a short causing some weird behavior. Might want to check the option fuse to be sure that didn't blow. I think I've linked the wiring diagram earlier in this post.
the truck was fucking pissed off. I started it and everything seems good thankfully, I ripped that out and put my ugly USB-C plug back in for now, I'll see what I can find thats pre wired and I'll check that fuse tomorrow after work, its pouring rain here this evening
 

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Alright I’m back at this with the easy version of wiring the parking mode cable, it still doesn’t seem like it’s working at the moment that could change, I got the proper SD card now, and I ordered the connector with wires from AliExpress ,

What voltage cutoff do you have selected? I just put mine on 12v for now I don’t really know what else to try other than my plug isn’t going to work and I’m going to have to fuse tap which I don’t want to do

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Alright I’m back at this with the easy version of wiring the parking mode cable, it still doesn’t seem like it’s working at the moment that could change, I got the proper SD card now, and I ordered the connector with wires from AliExpress ,

What voltage cutoff do you have selected? I just put mine on 12v for now I don’t really know what else to try other than my plug isn’t going to work and I’m going to have to fuse tap which I don’t want to do

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I have it on whatever the highest cutoff is for the Viofo adapter. Can't recall off hand. The only thing I can say is make sure you don't have the constant and ignition 12V swapped. If it's just recoding and not going into parking mode it sounds like that could be it. May need to take a multimeter to the pins just to be sure. I doubt the pin out would be different since the plug is meant for the OEM camera.
 

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The wires check out, in the correct spot, my parking cutoff is set to 12.0, my battery is only reading 12.2 with my probe right now, I’ll have to try some more reading, sorry to bother ya with trouble shooting

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The wires check out, in the correct spot, my parking cutoff is set to 12.0, my battery is only reading 12.2 with my probe right now, I’ll have to try some more reading, sorry to bother ya with trouble shooting

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Dang your having a bad time at this... Maybe you have a faulty hardwire kit? Maybe just temporarily connect to the fuse box and turn on/off the truck and see if it goes to parking mode... Then you can eliminate the hardwire kit and camera.... But the camera should turn off when ignition is off then turn back on in parking mode when g-sensor or motion is detected
 

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Dang your having a bad time at this... Maybe you have a faulty hardwire kit? Maybe just temporarily connect to the fuse box and turn on/off the truck and see if it goes to parking mode... Then you can eliminate the hardwire kit and camera.... But the camera should turn off when ignition is off then turn back on in parking mode when g-sensor or motion is detected
I had this exact camera hard wired with fuse taps to my 2022 Subaru Outback and it worked fine, not having such luck here, I am planning to upgrade my dashcam, but I'm not exactly ready to right now lol
 

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At last I have solved my issue, in my Subaru I didn’t run my power directly to the GPS, I ran it to the “USB” port for parking mode, for some reason it came to me this morning and it seems to be running fine, so this may be someone’s issues somewhere in the future

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