I’m back with a new Wyze Cam OG, after my Wyze Cam V2 would never recover from a forced security update. I have never gotten the camera to work again, despite it working flawlessly prior to the update. I’ll give Wyze another shot with the OG. We’ll see how this goes… I guess it’s to be expected in this day and time. I’m getting too old…
Welcome back.
I was starting to think V2 cams were invincible. I know someone in my state who has left his out on his back deck since it launched. It’s been buried in 4 feet of snow, rained on, beat on with really high heat and everything and still works great all these years later.
I guess it’s kryptonite is firmware.
Did you happen to try using an SD card to manually flash the firmware back to an earlier version to try to restore functionality? That usually works.
Prior to my problem, I agree, pretty bulletproof hardware. I guess that’s why I never got rid of it, despite it being non-functional. To your point, I don’t recall trying a firmware update via an SD card, but it’s been many months since I’ve tried anything with it. I may just give that a go, when I get a chance. Thanks for the tip!
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Oh yeah, for sure if you haven’t tried a “Firmware Flash” from the SD card, try that! It fixes a bricked camera 99% of the time!!!
Follow the instructions here for the Wyze Cam v2 model:
I suggest you try to download a firmware other than the one that likely bricked your camera.
I suggest using a 32GB card (sometimes other size cards don’t work well for a firmware flash).
There is one thing in those instructions that is wrong though…someone recently copy and pasted the wrong instruction…in step 4 and 5 it says to rename and copy over the “FOLDER” and this is WRONG. There is a .bin file inside the folder. You want to only copy over the demo.bin file, not the folder, and paste that file on the root directory of the SD card. If you copy the folder instead of just the file, then the firmware flash may fail every time. Everything else besides step 4 and 5 are correct though. I’ve done hundreds of firmware flashes in my day. Seriously, 99% of the time it will restore a bricked Wyze camera. Give it a try or 2. You might resurrect your V2 cam!
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Carverofchoice, you are awesome, my friend. Thanks for encouraging me to give it another try. I now have TWO functional Wyze cameras, thanks to you! Thinking back, I believe I was aware of the errors in the instructions you mentioned, but in the process, neglected to notice that the file names themselves need to be edited to the simpler name of “demo.bin”, leaving off the version number. It was a boneheaded mistake I made multiple times, but I’ll freely admit to it. So, my apologies to Wyze for blaming the firmware update. It was “operator error” on my part.
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That’s GREAT NEWS!!! The indestructible V2 LIVES ON!!!
You’re welcome, buddy. For all that, the OG cam is a pretty awesome and affordable upgrade anyway, it’s just great that your V2 is usable again. 
Thanks for the courtesy of a followup to let me know it was successful. 
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Thanks for the follow up as posting experiences like this will help the future community folks looking for help with problems like this and to it’s resolutions. 
Back in the day I had windows hide an extra extension on me and couldn’t for the life of me figure out why demo.bin (actually was demo.bin.bin) didn’t work when trying to flash the firmware. Eventually got it figured out.
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As you have experienced, I’ve had more than my share of firmware updates gone wrong, especially in early digital equipment. Perhaps I’ve become jaded and give up too easily due to these early experiences. As the forum moderator, I would like to extend my appreciation to you for the emphasis being on helpfulness, rather than rigid operation of the forum (such as where I posted my original comments). After all, this is the whole point, isn’t it?
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