Not sending pics , 3G ATT
My older 3G ATT blackouts are falling fast, 3rd one in a month. This one the screen stopped displaying but it did keep on sending pics. Now it’s stopped and seems to eat batteries while not sending pics. I tried to send a manual pic since it’s a simple series of inputs even with no display but nothing comes through. The little green light does blink when the switch is put on setup. Also noticed that when the switch is moved to ON, the green light blinks and it seems just keeps on blinking long after it would normally stop.
what would a continually blinking green light when in the ON position indicate ?
I put a new battery on it yesterday , turned it on and left. Typically it would send a pic of me leaving and it didn’t. But it did send 1 pic at 4:430 this morning with the wrong date and a temp of 126deg. Walked up on it today and it didn’t take a pic. Battery was 6.3v. Turned it off and back on and noticed the green light never stopped, left it again to see what happens. But it should have taken a pic of me leaving and didn’t.
No display makes it tough. Only other thing I can think of is maybe the SD card is toast.
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You can try a different SD card. Sometimes SD cards can cause a same not to come up.
You also may have a switch problem (some of what you are describing sounds like that could be the case).
- Remove batteries and SD card.
- Put a piece of tape across the switch and another across the cursor buttons to keep the buttons attached to the inside cover when you remove it.
- Unscrew the four tiny screws (one in each corner) holding the inside front cover in place.
- Spray electronics contact cleaner on the switch and move the switch back and forth rapidly several times.
- After the contact cleaner has dried, put four batteries (two top, two bottom, leftmost side of battery compartment) in the camera, as well as the SD card.
- Turn the camera to setup and see if it comes up properly, turns on properly, shuts off properly. If it doesn’t, repeat.
- Put everything back together.
You also may need to try a manual firmware update. Try the SD card change first, and then if that doesn’t work, we’ll deal with manual FW update.
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Pulled it , but need to pick up some contact cleaner.
It seems when the button is in setup mode, it’s testing movement with the green light on the front. I don’t recall if this is a normal set up function, assume it is.
as mentioned the screen will not display ; but it did come on for a short period for the password , the right button would not work ; so I had to scroll left and loop around to the next digit. It let me take one manual pic and then the screen went out.
Pushed it back and forth and faced it to the ceiling and after a while it took a picture after waving my hand over it. But when I flip it over and look at the screen, it’s displaying Snow White. Even if somehow I can get it to keep working the screen snow will eat the battery.will pick up some contact cleaner see if I can clean the connections and see what happens.
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John , the screen displays Snow White vs off when in the On position. Clearly getting some kind of power to the screen when in the On position.
turns out while it did take and send one pic while in the on position it only took one even well after the interval time. Which is what it did in the field. One pic then no more.
hopefully contact cleaner does something.
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Since ir was showing the wrong date and time; I updated settings on the ap; turned the cam back on and it took 1 pic again with the wrong date (expected) and that’s the only pic it took. The ap shows it did update the settings after that pic to a 5 min interval and new time. But it has yet to take a second pic.
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