For the life of me I cant get the camera to boot into firmware flash where im supposed to get a solid purple light. I know your suppose to shut the camera off (I have a switch on my flood light in my house so I just turn the switch off) then hold the setup button while powering it back on (again i j…

[image] lcstormclan: extracted the bin file to the root of the sd card and renamed it with .bin at the end like the instructions say to do. The file should already have the .bin extension. What is the actual file name you used? They are specific for each camera type. Also, since it is Wind…

[Screenshot 2023-05-24 184947] Does this look correct ? Thats with extensions on I haven’t added .bin to it

Here is another thread with helpful tips. Good luck. [image] Can't get my V3 to initiate firmware update Cameras I got a brand new V3 cam, and tried several times to initiate the firmware update by holding the button while powering it up. I already changed SD Cards, and I…

Thanks but I read that post and there isn’t a solution in there, the OP never solves it. Some guy named Mcallister had luck doing a full format with SD Format. I have that software and have tried a full format on 2 different cards, one brand new sandisk and a wyze brand sd card I already had in one …

It does look correct. Which version of the firmware did you download? I know for some of the older versions you need to do a factory reset first. Did you use FAT32 for the format on the cards?

Your the man, that was the problem I was renaming it .bin and didn’t need to. Just couldn’t remember if I had tried without renaming it and obviously I did not. The instructions however need an update then, because the only reason I even figured I had to was due to right in the instructions it tells…

Also sorry just noticed I didn’t answer you all the way. I used Fat32 yes and I did have to do a “factory reset” because I tried the firmware for v3 cam from December (the previous to this problematic one) and it was still an issue. The next available download was all the way back in May of 22’ but …

Thank You for this thread. I was in the same boat. I’ve flashed three other Wyze Cameras. 1-v2 and 2-v3’s. I grabbed a new v3 camera thinking it would be no big deal. I tried to flash to the RTSP at least 20 times and was thinking I was too late to return the camera. After reading this thread t…

Just want to add that after trying multiple times to flash V3, two different cameras, it turns out that you must use a 32gb formatted FAT32 on a computer first, Any other size card will not work.

Cam v3 Cant get firmware to flash

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StevenA May 24, 2023, 10:53pm 4

Here is another thread with helpful tips. Good luck.

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Cam v3 Cant get firmware to flash

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