Go cam not turning on

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Tom Pickett
Camera has worked fine for a year. Recently, won’t turn on at all. Pulled batteries and reinstalled new ones. Finally found that after putting in bottom row batteries and the the top 2 left side batteries, it will come on but just sits there with “Searching network “. Was able to reformat sd card and cleaned SIM card to no avail. Won’t restart until I install the 8 batteries.
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  • John Lockburner

    The batteries are in three groups of 4 so I'm not surprised it works after you put the top two in on the left. Have you tried defaulting the camera in it's menu? Is the cameras firmware up to date? Maybe try a different SD card as well.

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  • Tom Pickett

    Tried updating firmware, that seems to be when the trouble started. Changed sd card and what little time it came on, I formatted it. I’ll try defaulting it. Thanks. Tom

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  • Tom Pickett

    No go. I have to turn camera on to ‘setup’ put in #8 battery from the left, then it will come on. No other time will it start. Then stays on ‘searching network’

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  • Mark Fincato

    Same as above,comes on and just says searching network after 7th battery goes in while camera in setup mode.no other functions will connect.system busy. New sd card,batteries,firmware is updated. Camera is 2 days old with data plan purchased through Verizon. Expected more from this unit.

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  • John Lockburner
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    Tom & Mark, I was able to replicate the issue you're having with the batteries and turning the camera on. I was running an external but similar symptoms where the camera wouldn't turn on after I turned it off unless I unplugged the external, turned the camera to set up and then plugged it back in. Once I did a manual firmware update the switch and on and off started working normally again. I then had to format the SD card and default the camera and immediately after the default completed turn the camera off and back to set up and it found signal and started transmitting pictures again. Here's a link to the updates and instructions. Make sure to format the card before you load the firmware on to it and use the firmware for your exact camera model.
    https://my.spartancamera.com/download

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