I have formatted the card a couples times
Scandisk 128 GB
Formatted using what?
Does it literally say “Scandisk”? If so that is a well known fake brand.
Even if genuine, all SD cards have a certain lifespan, and especially if not an Endurance rated card, it may just be done.
A 128 GB card has not had time to be exhausted by any Wyze camera, since the dawn of Wyze. Any given cell of even the least expensive flash memory is designed to survive being overwritten at least 10,000 times. A 128 GB sdcard should hold at least a week of continuous recording, which means that any given memory cell is being rewritten around 50 times per year. 10,000 / 50 is 200 years.
There’s probably nothing wrong with the memory cells on your card. It’s more likely that there’s a design issue in Wyze cameras, leading to flash card interface circuit degradation, perhaps due to something like moisture intrusion or component aging.
I’ve taken the card out of a Cam Pan v3 that began intermittently failing to record and/or replay. I took that card and, without doing ANYTHING to it, placed it in a new Cam Pan v3. The new camera had no difficulty playing the card’s recordings from the old camera, and has had no difficulty continuing to record to that card and playback from it.
So my opinion is that there may not be any point in reformatting your card. It’s probably the most reliable component in your Wyze camera. (Unless, of course, you bought a bogus/counterfeit card – which is easy to do – but in that case it probably would have failed during the first week of continuous recording.)
I feel the same way, but there are others that believe you need high-endurance cards.
I have used reputable cards since 2019 with one issue that required a reformat. It was not due to a faulty card, more due to a faulty write.
Maybe we are lucky. I cannot understand why some users have cams that repeatedly damage cards and other users with cards that last and last.
One possible reason may be due to the fact that all of my cams sit inside on a window sill.
Sorry, have to disagree, a cheap (or even many decent), non-endurance 128G card with continuous recording can easily be worn out by a Wyze cam, some in months even. There is nowhere that says an SD card must be able to rewrite a cell 10,000 times, and the heat from constant write also reduces the lifespan of cards not designed for it.
I have plenty of SD cards that have not been overwritten even 1000 times that have issues and no longer work reliably. One example was in a cell phone and another in a dash cam in a car that is not used a ton. Others were just used for random various purposes. Yes one could blame it on faulty cards but if you look up the specs on these cards you’ll see the TBW/endurance rating varies heavily, and warranties do not apply to constant recording use except on the endurance cards or cards that are spec’d for it.
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OK, you’re sort of right, and I’m sort of wrong.
If you check out this Kingston document, you’ll find that the worst case limit is only 500 cycles.
So a continuously-written 128GB card could be exhausted in only 10 years, not 200.
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That’s one line of cards from one brand. It also isn’t as simple as a cycle = one write operation. There is wear levelling, garbage collection, etc.
If you don’t believe me, go pick up one of those free microcenter SD cards and run it continuous recording…
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So what card are you guys recommending cause I have this and some from micro center also and still I have to reformat them in the computer
I have 14 total. 12 are v2,v3amd v4 and 2 door bell pro. So 12 with sd cams the 2, v2 works like a horse. Never have to do anything w them
Everyone has their own favorite flavor. I happen to like these and I have never reformatted them is a computer but they are expensive and not for everyone’s needs.
I have 10 plug in cams that record 24/7 and have no issues. V3, V3 Pro and V4 cams.
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Ok thank you very much. I will look in the get some of these. Cause I have 3 more v4 to hook up that I got on Black Friday from Costco
I also use the Samsung Pro Endurance that @Antonius has. However the Sandisk High Endurance are very good too, either one should work fine. The Samsungs go on very good sale from time to time, but right now the Sandisk are pretty cheap on Amazon, 64G for $10 and 128G for $14. I had gotten 128G Samsungs for $13 on Amazon a while back but they’re at $20 right now, so the Sandisk would be the cheaper option.
If you use a site like Amazon or really any online site, make sure you are buying direct from them, not a 3rd party, and when you get it make sure it doesn’t have the white 3rd party label on it.
Samsung has a validation tool to confirm it is genuine, Sandisk probably has one too but I haven’t checked. Then after validating, just do a “quick” format using the SD card formatter from sdcard.org. After that you can use the camera’s internal formatter if you ever need to format it again, this utility just makes sure the file system is 100% correct from the beginning.
I’m joining this conv a little late. Has a anyone figured out a solution to this problem? I’m experiencing this now with my brand new wyze pan v3, after about a week of it being active and working fine.
If it is a Pan v3, does it do that from every screen or only the Events tab? The events tab is still a bug but if you try to view the event from the main camera screen at the bottom, or by going to the SD card from that screen, it should work fine. If not then as I mentioned in my other response, sounds like an SD card issue.
It is occuring when trying to view the event from the SD card button. Does buying a different SD card fix this for anyone? I was seeing some previous posts about new SD cards not resolving this issue. The SD card is new and has only been used in this camera alone, for a week.
What brand SD card and did you get it from a reputable source? It could just be a dud card, could be a fake. Or possibly the cam’s SD card slot was faulty.
Have you tried formatting the card in a PC using the SD card formatter mentioned earlier?
I’ve tried different cards and I’ve tried different formatting. It didn’t help.
The only thing that fixed the problem for me was buying a new camera.
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In some cases, sure, the camera card reader has died. But that’s far from the only reason, there are many more common explanations. Until the reader is ruled out, focus should be on the card itself as that is the weak link.
I have tried different cards, formatting cards, different format types, different sizes(128 & 256) and received a different Wyze Cam Pan v3. Nothing has worked. I get a notice of Event. It shows that it occurred in the timeline but will not play at all… no matter how you get to the SD Card… by Events or through the device to the card. Just the “Failed to load from local storage”…no video!
I had the same thing with the doorbell but I did get it working with a new disk format.
Very flaky it seems. Not happy at all without video. Why have it if I get a notice that someone is stealing and cannot produce a video to see it. Live works fine.
Anyone from Wyze able to message me what to do or do I have to toss them out? 
I had the same issue on all my Wyze cameras. The SD card had been working fine for a week and then they all had this error. I returned all the SD cards and bought one SanDisk high endurance 265GB micro SD card based on advice in other threads. I’m testing this one card out. So far it has been working. It has only been about a week, so, yet to be determined if the camera will fail to work properly, again. Already have caught video this week of tweaker neighbors breaking in to our community mailbox and talking all our mail, so, I’m glad the camera is working again… for now.
This is the card I am trying: SanDisk 256GB High Endurance microSDXC C10, U3, V30, 4k UHD
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