Here’s what I am doing, what am I doing wrong??
Open WYZE app
Select a V3 camera
Press gear (Settings)
Select Advanced Settings
Select Manage MicroSD Card
Showing 14.13 of 14.82G
Press FORMAT
Verify I want to format SD card
Says FORMATTING
After 22 seconds it finishes, there is no change in properties.
What am I doing wrong??
The same problem with the other V3 and the outdoor cam
Your steps are correct. I just followed your steps to format one of my cards in a V3 and it worked perfectly.
However, why are you wanting to shorten the life of your card by formatting it - unless there is a real need to?
Hi @Larry.bhc and welcome to the forum. 
Agree with @K6CCC formatting the card will reduce life of card.
When the uSD card is used in Wyze cam it will overwrite the oldest recording. If there is a bad cell and the camera attempts to write there it may freeze up. In that case you may need to do a low level format to mask out bad cells. Eventually you won’t be able to write to the card at all.
Should not need to Restart ( I didn’t when I tested last night ).
That’s interesting. I just tried card formats on several different cameras and never had to restart the camera after the uSD card format. All of mine have 64 GB uSD cards installed. I wonder if that relates to the reason. The cameras I have tried are:
V2 with firmware 4.9.7.798
V2 with RTSP firmware 4.28.4.29
Pan with RTSP firmware 4.29.4.49
V3 with 4.36.3.19
Not that it should make a difference, but I was using my Android with v2.23.21
I appreciate all the information, I had not realized it would overwrote the oldest data and keep on going.
Larry
Nothing?
If you’re expecting to ever see 14.82 of 14.82 available, you won’t.
100% correct
I “thought” I had seen the SD card had to be cleared. Obviously, I need a better Scotch. 