Wyze Cam V2 Clicks, Factory Reset does not work

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I’ve read through a dozen posts about this. I have three WYZEC2 cameras. I’ve followed these instructions:

On the first camera, followed these instructions:

  1. Download latest Firmware (4.9.9.3006 as of this date).
  2. Use a 32GB MicroSDHC Card (SANDisk Ultra UHS-1).
  3. Copy the demo_4.9.9.3006.bin to the MicroSDHC card.
  4. Renames to demo.bin
  5. Insert card into camera (make sure it clicks)
  6. Holding the button, plug the card in. Yellow solid light shows.
  7. Continue to hold button for 3-6 sec’s, Light changes to solid yellow/blue light and flashing.
  8. Wait. After 3-4 min, camera reboots.
  9. After reboot, camera is ready to setup when I press the button.
  10. Went through setup, everything working great.

On other 2 cameras, this happens…

  1. Download latest Firmware (4.9.9.3006 as of this date).
  2. Use a 32GB MicroSDHC Card (SANDisk Ultra UHS-1).
  3. Copy the demo_4.9.9.3006.bin to the MicroSDHC card.
  4. Renames to demo.bin
  5. Insert card into camera (make sure it clicks)
  6. Holding the button, plug the card in. Yellow solid light shows.
  7. Continue to hold button for 3-6 sec’s, Light changes to solid yellow/blue light.
  8. Wait. After 60 Seconds, light changes from solid yellow/blue to yellow. Nothing happens after that except I hear ‘clicking’ from the camera.

I’ve copied the demo_4.9.9.3006.bin to demo.bin, FIRMWARE_660R_F.BIN and recover_wcpv2.bin and followed reboot instructions. No change.

Not sure what to do next? Cameras actually work (Yellow Light), but I can’t seem to find a way to truly reset them.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions!

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Looks like you’re flashing firmware. Should be, “Pressing the Setup button, power up the camera”

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Yep, thanks for the typo catch. “Holding down the power button, plug the camera in…” Still have the problem!

I did try to flash to the earliest version of the software I could find (demo_4.5.9.115). Flashed that, no real change other than flashing yellow/blue light now. Ugh…

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Try doing a factory reset, then flash your cam with firmware from SD card.

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Thanks! I did that. No love. I’ve even flashed back to 4.5.9.115…only change is yellow/blue flashing instead of steady yellow… Other ideas?

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What do you mean by this?

Did you copy all 3 to your SD card?

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Yep, tried it both ways. Singly and as a group. I’ve now tried a number of different versions. No change… Earlier versions after reboot flashes blue/yellow. More recent versions have a solid yellow after boot.

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FIRMWARE_660R_F.BIN is for Cam v1.

recover_wcpv2.bin is for Cam Pan v2.

Make sure only 1 file exists on your card. The file must be for Cam v2. For the Cam v2, the file must be named demo.bin and placed at the root directory.

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Thanks. Yep, read that in another post, so most of what I’ve done has been with one file, named appropriately to the version.

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Yes, I’ve tried both demo.bin and recover_wcpv2.bin (just renaming the 4.9.9.3006 file). I’ve also tried a very early version (4.9.5.115), after the camera rebooted, I saw the yellow/blue combined (purple) flashing. Assume that similar to yellow/blue alternating… Right now, the same file (4.9.9.3006) renamed either demo.bin or recover_wcpv2.bin behaves the same. Insert MicroSDHC holding button down for a few secs. Yellow/Blue combo (purple?) displays for 30-60 sec, then turns solid yellow (also hear the relay click a couple times every 60 sec or so). Stays that way for a long time just repeating that cycle (solid yellow, 60 sec wait, click twice, repeat). Unplug, remove card, plug. Solid yellow, 60 sec wait, click twice, repeat indefinitely).

Not sure what else I can do at the moment.

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I retired a V2 that was doing that clicking about two years ago.
I tried different SD cards, power adapters, cables, never could revive it.
I never tried flashing it with RTSP firmware though because I wanted it to stay in the Wyze app.
I just went ahead and replaced it with a V3.
If you must have a V2 (like for the V1 Sensor Bridge or the Wyze Car), people are still selling them on Ebay. Good Luck!

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I have the exact same issue with my wyze cam v2. Solid yellow light. Flashed all available firmwares all go back to solid yellow. Only fw 4.9.5.115 (August 31,2020) goes to alternating yellow blue after the flash. But nothing after that. Holding the setup button down doesn’t do anything.

I also followed the same instructions

  1. Downloaded and extracted firmware .bin file
  2. Tried Formatting sd card in both FAT and FAT32
  3. Copied .bin file to sd and renamed to demo.bin
  4. Ejected sd by software
  5. While camera is powered off, inserted sd card and while holding button down plugged in to power
  6. Light turns on yellow and within a few seconds it goes solid blue
  7. Stays blue for about 30 sec then i hear a click and it starts flashing yellow/blue (only with August 2020 firmware). All other firmwares go back to solid yellow
  8. Left it plugged in for about 20-30 min, no changes.
  9. Powered off, removed sd card, left unplugged for 5 min.
  10. Plugged back in, it starts solid yellow then it starts blinking yellow/blue. (Again, pressing the button for up to 2 min doesn’t reset)

Did the OP ever get it to work?