New camera not turning on when switched to on.

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Jacob Fogarty

Have a new GC-U4Gb and after setup I place the switch to on and the camera shuts off the green light flashes for about 5 seconds then goes out and does not take pictures. It will take pictures in the setup mode and send them so I know the network is at least communicating.  I don't want to go through the hassle of returning it but I really need to figure this out. 

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  • John Lockburner

    Have you tried different batteries or even a different SD card? Any chance it could be something in the settings causing the problem? Start stop times maybe?

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  • Jacob Fogarty

    Brand new Duracell’s and brand new sd card. Not saying the card couldn’t be the problem but batteries I doubt. As for the start stop time I was a bit confused with all of that should it all be off?

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  • Jacob Fogarty

    I have tried a different card with no luck. Should the screen just immediately go black?

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  • John Lockburner

    It does go black pretty quickly and then the green light on the front will blink for a few seconds while it's arming.

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  • John Lockburner

    Keep the start stop times all off for now and the daily limit set to zero

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    Is the camera taking pictures but not sending them or not taking pictures at all? Walk in front of the camera for a couple or three minutes, then view the card. If there are pics on the card, then the camera is taking pics but not sending. If there aren’t pics, it’s not taking them.

    What is the trigger interval you have set? If it’s “long”, the camera may be resting until it’s allowed to take another picture.

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    You mention trying a different SD card. Are these class 10 cards, name brand, 32G or smaller capacity, and standard size, not micro SD in an adapter?

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  • Jacob Fogarty

    It’s all set now it was the time settings that I had messed up thanks all!

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  • John Lockburner

    Great, glad it was something simple. If you need anything else you know where we are. Lol

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    Which time settings, just so we’ll know? It’s easy (especially when you’re first starting out) to accidentally use a setting that you really didn’t mean to.

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  • Jacob Fogarty

    The start and stop settings

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  • Christopher Cromer

    My camera will take pictures in setup mode but not on mode

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  • Jacob Fogarty

    cdcromer24,
    Mine was because I had set the start stop times not understanding them. Go into your settings and zero them out if they aren’t. Also make sure your using good batteries and the correct sd card.

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  • Elizabeth Swoope

    cdcromer24,

    is it not taking them at all (nothing on SD card) or taking but not sending? Make sure you don’t have any start stop times set, as fyrdude mentioned.

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