Hi all, I have been trying to ignore this issue but I can’t just help but think what if I needed something important from this camera ( which i have needed it before ), i would utilize the SD card recordings only to find out it didn’t record anything..
Seems to have worked fine until 2025-ish. I contacted Wyze support months earlier, but they were no help. Ive seen similar posts on here but all lead to nothing.
The camera sees the SD card but does not record. Opening the SD card files on Windows shows it hasn’t recorded since 1/17 (it’s 1/24 now). Additionally, the camera never recorded for the entirety of December 2025. Strange. In each of the files, some contains recordings for the entire day, some only contains 30 seconds.
Help me on this. I think its a bad batch of cameras or something. I bought the cam in December ‘23.
I’ve been dealing with this on BOTH my wyze cam pan V3’s. I bought them in a 2-pack in August 2023 (from the wyze Canada store fwiw).
It started with one camera which was outdoors. At first there would be gaps in the recording, then it would just stop the continuous recording (when looking at the timeline). Restarting the camera seemed to get it recording again, so I set up a nightly automation to restart that camera, and that helped it along for quite a while. Meanwhile, the other camera which was indoors took a much longer time to show any issues, but it eventually started doing the same thing.
They each have a different SD card in them, but I think they’re both basic sandisk cards. Obviously the SD cards being related to this issue is a red herring, I have V3 camera that’s been recording to an aliexpress random brand card 24/7 for years with no issues.
Nowadays, the outdoor camera BARELY detects an SD card. It will show “SD card unavailable” or “capacity unknown please format” but the Format does nothing. Tried different cards, freshly formatted cards, factory resets, no difference.
The indoor camera seems to be at an earlier stage of this issue and it still records for a few minutes after a reboot. The SD card can’t be formatted by the camera either, just shows “formatting…” but then nothing happens.
Sounds like yours is a different issue, Either an SD card that has gone bad (have you tried a different one in the problematic camera or at least formatting it in a PC to see if it succeeds)? Alternatively, water infiltration or a dying USB adapter can cause this as well.
The Panv3 is especially susceptible to water infiltration when mounted upside down (cam on bottom), not sure if that is the case with yours.
Like I wrote in my message, I’ve tried a number of VERY different SD cards, freshly formatted.
One camera was upside down, the other one was not. Both have developed the same behavior and functionally the same issue - the inability to correctly interact with any inserted SD card. Tried 3 different USB adapters, also no difference.
This seems to be some widespread hardware/software issue. I don’t like it but a lot of people are referring to a “bad batch” of pan v3 cameras and I’m HOPING that’s not the case, I HOPE that Wyze can do something to fix this.
Your symptoms are different though, with them sometimes recognizing and being able to record to the SD card, then stopping, etc. The issue being discussed in this thread (which doesn’t have a specific known cause yet) is a completely dead SD card slot that happened instantly. Either a total hardware failure of the controller for the slot, or some odd glitch with firmware or wyze back end.
For the one that was upside down, there is a high chance that got water in and corroded. You can use an SD card you don’t care much about (it will probably be fine, but just in case), get some contact cleaner down in the slot and on the contacts of the card, and insert and remove it a bunch of times (20-30 maybe). That has a chance of cleaning corrosion off the contacts, if there is any.
Drying the cam in a bag of rice for 24 hours (worked for mine that was upside down) may be worth a shot too.
I see, fair enough. I guess I’ll make another thread to report/discuss my specific pan v3 SD card issues.
I did try to clean the SD card reader contacts (it obviously didn’t help) but this all feels so pointless since I literally have a “control” sample with the second camera that was always indoors, upright, doing the same thing for the same amount of time and now behaving the same broken way. These cameras have nothing in common aside from being on the same WiFi network and coming out of the same 2-pack box, but they’re both experiencing the same issue.
I’m not sure if it happened instantly or not. But I do know it’s not 100% dead. It CAN recognize the SD card but it is intermittent. All I’m doing is that I’m running it without an sd card now.
There are a few threads on this topic, the fact that yours sees the card seems like it is a different one from the bigger issue also, I just got confused over which thread this is.
Yes, my cameras are the same! Sometimes they CAN recognize the SD card and sometimes even record to it. But they never manage to record for longer than 3-4 hours before they just stop, and after that point it becomes a mess. Maybe you restart the camera and the SD card starts recording again for a bit, maybe it no longer sees the capacity and says it needs to be formatted, maybe it no longer sees the SD card at all.
And no, there is no rhyme or reason about which SD cards are recognized and when. Sometimes freshly formatted cards work, sometimes they don’t. But ultimately none of it matters because like I said above, the “work” only last for a few hours at this point. I wish I could send debug logs to somebody to show them this behavior so they can try and figure out what’s going on and maybe fix it with a firmware update…
