Wyze Pan Cam V1 - I’ve had one forever, no probs, along with many other old Wyze cams. But I bought another Pan Cam V1 refurbished. Installed as normal, but then hit the Needs to Update wall. Sits updating forever. Never does. Never gets to a functional state.
After that, simply a solid yellow light, and does nothing.
I’ve tried the “factory reset” - never happens. Even tried pressing Startup for 5 minutes. Does not happen.
I tried the micro sd card method to “flash” the 3 demo.bins available online, along with another older demo.bin to which a user in the forums showed a link. (And yes, did those flash attempts correctly). Flash attempts go to the blue/yellow combo light, but after about 30 seconds just back to the solid yellow where the cam is just stuck.
THE MOST FRUSTRATING was from a Wyze Help “Wizard” where the person emailed the advice to try a different cable, a different adapter, and even a different outlet.
The yellow light was on, right? So yes the cam is getting power, which is all the outlet, adapter, cable does, right? Odd wizard.
If anyone got to this dreaded yellow light stuck point and did find a way to get a cam going again, advice appreciated.
Did you remove the SD card first? That’s a requirement for a factory reset. Also, another post suggests a smaller SD card or partition for the firmware…I’d try 8gb/fat32.
Factory reset only ever attempted with no SD card in there. 32 Samsung that works well as an SD card in other cams is all I’ve got, so no, didn’t see that other post. I suppose I should try a smaller 8GB/fat32. thx
I know it sounds completely illogical, but you’d be surprised. I know people who were getting enough power for the status light, but it turned out it wasn’t enough for the camera to function, so when they did this exact thing, it fixed their problem entirely. This is a lot more common than you’d think, especially for people who use 3rd part cords or adapters, but also for ones that have been running non-stop for several years (the adapter and cord sometimes wear out and stop pushing sufficient watts through them even if it’s enough for the status light). I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen that advice fix a person’s problem all by itself, so I also suggest this frequently, and people understandably dismiss it as ridiculous until they’re totally out of all other possibilities, and then figure why not and it’s always kind of funny when that does it because nobody ever believes that could be the issue.
I’m not saying it IS the issue for you in this case, just saying it’s not as ridiculous a request as it seems on the surface.
As for suggestions…you’re probably not going to like mine, but I think you’re now stuck with continuing trying to flash the firmware to get a resolution. I had a camera once that took me at least 2 dozen firmware flash attempts before it finally worked. I was starting to think I was insane until I finally got it to take. If I recall (it’s been a while) I thought I had to time the button release particularly right in this case, but it might’ve just been coincidence/superstition.
But yeah, definitely try a small FAT32 card. Usually 32GB works for me. Sometimes larger cards don’t work as well in some of the cams.
On a mac in terminal used diskutil to reformat 32GB micro SD to 4 (MBR) MS-DOS FAT32 partitions and put demo.bin on all 4.** No workie. Does turn blue+yellow for a while (under a minute), then just the yellow. Even let it sit for 10 mins. The Allocation Block Size is 4096, which somewhere was said to be what devices to be flashed like.
** Issued the command to create just one partition of 8GBs, and the result is one partition that is 32GBs. and yes, tried demo.bin with that also before moving on to 4 partitions…
Did find some YouTube for a Cam Pan V1 flashing that worked for that guy for a Cam Pan V1, and made a point to find and use that older demo.bin he used (older firmware files are not live, but they are out there if you modify the url for whichever cam and plug in the numbers.)
Oh bother.
