Unplug the power cable, turn the Dash Cam on and time how long the Dash Cam stays on for. The time it takes for the battery to drain will help us identify the root cause I must say I'm having a similar problem with the battery not charging/holding its charge. I bought mine in April IIRC. Battery no longer charges - plugged into permanent live too. The rear camera is a pretty small little thing and attaches to the rear window with 3M adhesive. A spare pad is included in the box. The hinge allows the camera to be tilted up and down but also left and right, something a lot of rear cameras don’t allow for. This is handy since if your rear screen is curved and you don’t want to mount it in the middle, you can angle it to capture the right view. I'd recommend using a separate Camera such as a 312GW or 122 on the rear windscreen. You will need a separate power supply and SD card as it will not connect to your 512GW, but can be used as a Camera facing rearwards. The prices are comparable with the Series 2 Rear Cams, and if you'd like to keep using your 512GW, is the most viable option. There’s one other small but significant upgrade from the 412GW: microSD cards up to 128GB are supported so you’re not limited to storing only a couple of hours’ worth of video before it starts getting overwritten.

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Please remember that after this test your Dash Cam will once again need charging as the battery will be flat. You can also rotate the display, should you want to mount the camera upside down – although the menu buttons stay where they are. The G-sensor can be set at High, Medium or Low, or turned off. This will detect sharp motion, indicating an incident, and will mark the current video recording as an emergency, which will guard it against being overwritten. Anyone know why my 512 GW fills my protected folder with unwanted video files. I understood the files that went into this protected files folder were either the result of some sort of collision, or the driver pressing the button on the on the dashcam.Also, I have my resolution set to 1440P which I assume is the HI setting, on viewing the video files folder or Protected folder I see there is a Hi and Lo versions of each video file, another waste of card space perhaps.

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basically YES. If the rear camera is not plugged in at power on, then none of this happens ie no PiP appearance at all - and this is as it should be. Impressively, Parking Mode is available on all the Series 2 Nextbase dash cams (122-522GW). If you're wondering where the 622GW is in the new range, it doesn't yet exist - so there's no 4K Series 2 dash cam. Not yet anyway, but we've heard that it's on the cards... The 512GW is a mid-range dash cam from Nextbase, a company originally set up in 1999 to import portable entertainment systems from China. Since then, Nextbase has developed quite a large range of dash cams, so it’s a surprise that this is our first experience of the brand in this area – although we have come across the company’s other products, for example with the Walking Cinema Portable DVD Player.Considering most people use dash cameras to protect themselves against false insurance claims or in the event of an accident, Nextbase has also renewed it's partnership with SureThing!, offering those who buy a Series 2 dash cam 25% off a policy with the insurer - which is an increase on the previous 20% discount. The 522GW is the top spec, updated incarnation of the 512GW in Nextbase's brand-new dash cam range - the Series 2. As the GW in the name suggests, the 522 features GPS and WiFi - just like its predecessor - as well as a number of other impressive features. Resolution is 1440p @ 30fps with a 140-degree viewing angle and a built-in polarising filter. At a faster frame rate (60fps), resolution drops to 1080p. Even after a long car journey there is virtually nothing in the battery, so often the last recording is corrupted as it cannot save the file correctly when the ignition is switched off.