GC-ATTb both quit sending pics
I have 4 of these cameras that I've had for about 4 years and I have used this forum for help many times and got it. For some reason 2 of these cameras will all of a sudden quit sending pictures at the same time. One of them started last year, doing it several times, and another one has joined that camera this year. I thought it had something to do with the antenna and replaced it on one of them. It is strange that they both quit at the same time, and the others keep sending pics. If I wait, they will start sending pics again within a day or 2. Also while they are not sending pics, they will still send the daily test photo, but when I go to check them out, they will not take a picture of me. Sometimes I can do a reset and get them to work again, but most times not.
Batteries new, plenty of signal,proper SD cards formatted trying different ones, reloaded software, have done resets and then formatted cards. On set up passes hello test and will send test pictures. Camera detects motion according to green light when on setup mode. Have also tried changing the APN setting with the procedure of backing out and turning camera off.
Its just strange that they both stop sending pics at the same time. They have don this several times and wil start sending them again. Just trying to figure out anything else I can try.
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Just checked them, full batteries and had signal. Neither were taking pictures but passed hello test and would send a picture. I changed and formatted SD, set to deafaults. They still would not work. They both sent a status report at midnight, which I don't have set up on them. But they took no pictures after that. Just have to wait and they will start working again in a day or 2. Just wished I could fix this.
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Any other ideas of anything I could try?
Looking at the premium credits this is what I had.
Cam 2 does not expire until 12/6
Cam 4 ran thru 11/30 9:33 and did not pick back up until 11/30 at 19:19. I had a reserve of credits.
Both these cameras quit sending pics at midnight 11/29, the start of the 12/30 day. When I went to check them yesterday 12/30 they both they would not take pictures and had not stored anything on the card since midnight.
They passed the hello test and would manually take a picture. The green light showed they detected motion.
Any idea of anything it can be? They do this every week or 2 and there is always a coon squirrel or deer to get a pic of. -
If you go to the cameras can you post a picture of the information screens please. Also if you could post pics of those status reports from the cameras acting up maybe someone at tech could look and see if there's any error logs. You will probably have to click on the settings menu on your phone browser and change top desktop view in order to see the insert image icon. Post from the very top all the way to the bottom of the status report showing the SD card info.
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I didn’t check that this time, but last time they were not. Both of these cameras are working again. On one of them, I retrieved it yesterday and did a reset, formatted card, tried another one and it still didn’t work as usual. I just left it sitting on the counter in the house turned on and it sent pics this am when I walked by it. The other one still in the field that also quit sending pics started sending pics again after midnight. I never touched it, just walked by it to see if it would send pics yesterday. It’s like these 2 cameras just quit working at the same time every week or 2 at about midnight. Both of them are in areas where there are lots of pictures taken of different game at feeders so it’s pretty obvious when they stop working.
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Even though you didn't check the SD cards before formatting them, you can look on the portal and see if there are gaps in the picture numbers. If there are, the cameras were taking pictures but couldn't send them. If there aren't gaps, the cameras weren't taking pics during the "down" time.
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One of the 2 cameras that quit working a week ago quit again last night at around midnight. I took the other one out of service so I’m not sure if it’s working or not. It appears that this happens every 7 days. Looking back the first post was 14 days ago and the second post was 7 days ago. I’m bound to have something screwed up on my settings that makes it quit taking pics once a week....
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