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brian trahey

Bought my camera with Verizon service last year. Had worked flawlessly until about 10 days ago as it has stopped sending pictures. I currently have the camera in my hand and everything seems fine. There are pictures being taken but just not being sent. I have 11 credits remaining and firmware is updated. Service is 3+ bars with new SD card and batteries. Any suggestions?

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    What happens when you take/send a photo manually? What does the screen say? What model camera (GC-what)? 

    Have you tried a different SD card? (Class 10, formatted in the camera)

    Have you checked the portal to see whether the pics are making it there but not to the app?

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  • brian trahey

    I may have forgot how to take a photo but when I go to “setup” after initializing, I hit “ok”’twice and then it says “setting”
    For a while then “fail”

    GCV4Gb

    SD card is a SanDisk 128gb Extreme Pro. Have not tried anything else.

    The portal does not have the pictures either .

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    Those cameras cannot use an SD card any larger than 32 G. It’s probably failing because of that. Do you have a lower capacity SD card?

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  • brian trahey

    Yes. I will try soon. Thanks

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    Also, it needs to be a standard sized SD card, not a micro SD in an adapter.

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  • brian trahey

    Is there anyway to delete all photos from an SD card all at once when in the camera?

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    Yes. In setup mode, third tab, Format. You really want to do that when you put an SD card in the camera whether it has pics on it or not.

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  • brian trahey

    I also might add that I have not been getting my weekly status reports either.

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  • brian trahey

    So I put my old 8gb SD card in that worked all of last year perfectly in, formatted it, look a
    Picture and tried to send it and it said “failed”

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    What class is that 8G card? 4 or 10? (Number in a little circle)

    You may want to reset the camera to default (third tab). Then see if it will take/send manual photo. If it does, then you’ll want to request a setting update from the app (you don’t need to change anything) and then take/send another manual photo or two. 

    Before you do any of that, please try the hello test. Once the camera is logged into the network, fourth tab, Diagnostics, hello test. If it passes that, you do have a data connection. If it doesn’t, then there’s something wrong with the data/network connection.

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  • brian trahey

    The hello test failed

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    For whatever reason, you don’t have a data connection. Is your camera on your Verizon account? If so, you may need to call them and verify that the camera is on the account an active. 

    Is your old SD card class 10? 

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  • brian trahey

    SD card is a 4. No reason why my account with Verizon would be an issue as it is in the same plan as other devices. I will check though. Is there a limit to the amount of photos per month that can be sent? Can’t remember. I did have a branch in front of it causing it to take a crazy amount of photos.

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    You are lucky that the class 4 card worked. I’m suspicious of it.

    There’s no logical reason that your Verizon account should be an issue BUT it’s always best to check. There’s no limit on the number of photos. The camera uses your account data to send pics, no counting involved. If there were any kind of problem as far as data usage goes, it would affect your other cameras.

    Do you have a class 10 card that is 32G or less, name brand (like SanDisk), standard size that you can try?

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  • brian trahey

    I will get one tomorrow and try it. Thanks for all of your help.

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    You’re welcome. I just hope that fixes the problems. I have seen so many oddball things be caused by the “wrong” SD card, things that you would not think an SD card could possibly cause. I run nothing but class 10 cards in my cell cams.

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  • brian trahey

    So I went out and bought a new SanDisk 16GB “10” SD card. Put it in camera and formatted it. It took a few pictures but still nothing sent.

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  • John Lockburner

     Are you taking the manual photos while the camera is in set up mode? If so what does it say on the screen after you press OK the second time to send the picture now that you have a new memory card in the camera? If you want to email me your portal log in information I can take a look at things for you, my email is johnny.lockburner@spartancamera.com

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  • brian trahey

    It says “setting...”. then “fail”. I will email you my stuff. Thanks

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