I have a blackvue & decided to vue the contents for the 1st time yesterday. Put the little card in the holder then inserted into the laptop. It powered up & downloaded the Blackvue software on the Black screen with the features & contents on the right but I couldn't get it to do anything.

The only way I could access the videos was via my documents/input? Then it came up with a huge long list & a video was every 3 lines, the rest was all text or something that wouldn't open?
Then all the videos were only one minute, I thought it was continuous?
Is this right? All I wanted to do was view the video. Then the date etc was all wrong as I was in 2036. I have little idea on how to change any of the settings

The Blackvue instructions are plain rubbish.

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I have a blackvue & decided to vue the contents for the 1st time yesterday. Put the little card in the holder then inserted into the laptop. It powered up & downloaded the Blackvue software on the Black screen with the features & contents on the right but I couldn't get it to do anything.

The only way I could access the videos was via my documents/input? Then it came up with a huge long list & a video was every 3 lines, the rest was all text or something that wouldn't open?
Then all the videos were only one minute, I thought it was continuous?
Is this right? All I wanted to do was view the video. Then the date etc was all wrong as I was in 2036. I have little idea on how to change any of the settings

The Blackvue instructions are plain rubbish.

How do you do that please? (Past) Freelander 2 HSE 2010 MY In Rimini Red.
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(Past) RR Evouque Pure Tech in Barollo Black with bespoke Firenze Red colour coding.
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Put the card in the blackvue, power it up and then press and hold the button next to the power lead, about 15 seconds or so it will bleep, let go and it will say "formatting the SD card" let it finish and do not power it down until it has come back on. Do this weekly and it will keep the card in good shape

I've never seen anything regarding battery life.

Another issue I have is that it says,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, "Parking Mode Enabled",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, When I am driving on the M25 or similar? (Past) Freelander 2 HSE 2010 MY In Rimini Red.
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M25, it expects you to be parked

Change the sensitivity settings, if you have the sensitivity low, with the smoothness of the road, it may think you are parked

ad210358 wrote:

M25, it expects you to be parked

Change the sensitivity settings, if you have the sensitivity low, with the smoothness of the road, it may think you are parked

The non video files you see listed contain gps trip information. The recordings are not continuous, they get divided up into lots of files but you can alter the size. If you use windows explorer to navigate to the SD Cards Directory BlackVue\Application\Viewer for Windows\ and run the BlackVue.exe you will get a screen up that allows you to play the videos and change the settings of the camera. 
Hung like Einstein, smart as a horse.

I prefer the files a minute long, else when you want to view them you end up having to edit so much out, sods law says the bit you want is at 4 minutes in.
You can change the settings via the App if you have an iPhone otherwise its on a PC.

Also don't try to do to much at once, Brain Overload, change things a bit at a time, see how it goes then make more changes if required

One tip with the blackvue I have is when inserting or removing the sd card from the device is cover the side of your seat with some cloth or something first, many times I have dropped the fiddly little card putting it in and luckily it always landed on the centre console and stayed there. But one time it bounced and despite watching its exact path down the side of the seat and despite moving the seat in all directions, I have never seen it since. I think its now languishing on the chassis somewhere.  
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