Excellent trouble shooting tips bud ! Thanks for sharing . You’ve just saved more than one person the frustration of a trail cam not working right

Great troubleshooting tips and tricks, Dave! Thanks for sharing your experiences!

Wow!!! First problem is what's been driving us crazy. My boy just got a lynx in his cam last night , but all 1 second clips instead of 30. Thanks for the vid!

Many thanks Mr. Hunting Farmer. Solved my problem of camera not recording - my batteries were rapidly running out after camera activated. Put new rechargeables in and it works all night in my garden. Great to picking up Badgers, Foxes - and the odd Cat! Thanks again - I've made a note of some of your other tips too and have subscibed. Phil Edwards. Connah's Quay, Flintshire, North Wales. UK.

I will definitely start formatting the SD card when I put it in the camera. That makes good sense to me. I had been formatting on the laptop but adding this step is a good idea. I laughed at your “shameless” battery review video reference! Great video Dave! You are the Man!!

Nicely done, Mr. HuntingFarmer! I've only had issues with one trail camera. It was one of those that supposed to be 4K... ha, right. Anyway, when you go to the menu and "Shot lag", it is suppose to take picture(s) or video when the motion occurs, and then wait until however long you have the "Shot leg" set before catching anything else. Instead, at the end of the length of time you set the "Shot lag" it would take picture(s) or video. The only use it is good for is using it for time laps. Set the "Shot lag" for 30 minutes... every 30 minutes you get a picture, etc. The motion detection didn't work at all. The company was good to respond to the emails, but never offered my money back or a replacement.

Great video and excellent tips, the inconsistent night time videos was my biggest issue, it would drive me nuts lol, I suspected it was battery related but I wasn't for sure, thanks for clearing this up! 👍👍

Great vid Dave. One more tip: Trail cams don't work from behind a glass screen - no idea why but they just don't. I had set mine to operate from behind a window - no photos then I set it outside the window and it worked well.

Excellent, I thought my camera wasn't working, then watched your video and just realised that I hadn't used it properly ( or read the booklet that comes with it) problem sorted I hope, have it all set up to record. Saved me from thinking it was broken.

Very helpful. Thanks for giving us the batteries to use, very helpful.

Great tips, Dave! I haven't had any issues (yet) with my cameras but these tips will help some day. :)

The buttons don't work on my Vanbar 4K, any ideas with this? Thanks for your video, its helped me with a couple of other issues.

I've had lots of issues with short 1s night videos, and always assumed the camera was at fault due to only running cheaper cameras. But recently my favorite camera a 24mp Browning Dark Ops started acting up mid season! It's always been dependable year round until now so I hit the internet. My search brought me here and thankfully I just got a pack of lithiums last week so I believe they will have a new home shortly, thanks for the hot tip. This problem has been dogging my cameras for years now!

Very good tips, Save a lot of headaches!

Great tips for trouble shooting, Dave.

Great review! Tanks for sharing! Have a great day!

Really useful video Dave, thanks for this. I have a similar problem to one of your fixes in as much as I have a full charge, lights when triggered but randomly records activity. Is this likely to be a SD card formatting issue or a set up issue? I am running a usogood tc91.

Some great information, thanks. We came across an issue where the camera resets the date. Even though the camera said the batteries were good, this turned out to be a battery issue too

Excellent video. I have a T70 campaign trail camera. I have horizontal and vertical lines on my display in the Setup mode. What can cause this. Batteries at 60 %. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. Harvey Silverman

Thanks for posting a comprehensive troubleshooting video! This was the first place I came to when I searched. My problem was not seeing videos in infrared. I had gotten several nights of good results. I use lithium ion rechargeables in the 4K Vikeri. The camera battery charge indicator looked full, so that's why I sought an explanation. It may be that the rechargeable Li Ions give a false reading. I also had the included memory card go bad. But the night videos are amazing once again after recharging.

Thank you for this! I had a trail camera that cost 40 bucks that worked perfectly for 2 nights, then the 3rd night it would only record videos for 5 seconds or even 1 second when I had it set to 3 minutes. I asked the people I had ordered the camera from but they were absolutely zero help, no suggestions as to what the problem could be, told me I could get a replacement but that they couldn't guarantee it wouldn't "break" within a week as well and told me I should just get one in a higher price class. So I bought a new one, from a different place, different brand, etc. for 80 bucks. 2 nights and it did the exact same thing. Set to 3 minutes, the first couple of videos were indeed 3 minutes but the rest were 45 seconds, then 7 seconds, 5 seconds... Now I finally know why! Still, for Duracell batteries to deplete that quickly.. ouch! I had no idea it would take THAT much power to film at night. It has the option to connect it to a power source (outlet) but the adapter needed for this didn't come with the camera so I'll have to do some searching for one or try the batteries you suggested!

Hi Dave, I had a problem with the Victure 100 Trail cam where the menu button would not work & another where the screen just showed as fuzzy dots after these cameras were used in my wood for 6 months to a year constantly. Just changing batteries and the cards when I needed too. I though these trail cams had broken so just put them in the garage for a couple of months. Just before I was about to throw them a way I double checked them and found the were both working properly again. I think that as they were out in all weathers & temperatures that some moisture had affected them inside. After leaving them in a warm dry environment for a wile seemed to rectify the problems I had with them. Just thought I would share this tip. Thank you for the great info on the trail cams you do my wife & I are regular watchers of your Channel in the UK. The tip about formatting I will try as just formatted in the lap top after downloading videos and get some videos that go funny with residue clips from previous footage appearing on some of the video files as a jumbled up mess. So will also try formatting in the camera too next time I put them out. Thanks again Regards John & Tracey

Thanks Dave for some great information.

Thanks! Formatting the sd was the solution! Erik (Holland)

Really helpful advice, thank you!

Thanks great video, solved my problem!

Great video Dave.2 more Problems that I have run into r not using a Grade 10 SD card .Most the time the higher Dollar Trail camera need them .The other one I have had a few times is the camera not taking pictures at night.I found that the filter is plugged. So if u go in a dark room & turn the lights off for 10 to 15 seconds then turn them back on.Do that about 5 to 8 times.Your camera may take pictures at night again 👍

Thank you for these tips! Quick question: we have a GardePro trail camera and use the mobile app to view footage, would you happen to know if there’s a way to have the camera/app notify us when movement is detected? Or do we just have to wait and check later? No worries if you’re not familiar with this, I very much appreciate this video!

Do you have a video on solar panel battery packs for a trail cam? I feel like mine is not working properly. I dont know if my battery selection in the settings should be on alkaline or night settings. It's the creative xp 4g trail camera.

Thanks for this. Doing my head in! The instructions say 'use 4 or 8 batteries but don't explain why! Forgot to switch it on too. I'll have another go now Cheers!

Sounds like good stuff I'm going to try everything you said I know my problem is not the batteries it could be a format problem I'm not quite sure but thanks for doing your video

Some awesome info! Appreciate you sharing!

Great info brother

Dave you definitely hit something’s I’ve done in the past. And a few times I’ve felt like doing what you did to it 😂😂😂

Thanks for the useful presentation. I have the following problem. It's about detection range of the PIR sensor. The camera capture the image only if something moves within about 3-4 meters, no more. According to the specification, this camera is declared for a detection range of 25 meters. I have tried many settings with no success. Could it be a low battery? I tested the voltage with a multimeter (8 x AA alkaline) which shows about 10.6 volts.

Thanks for these! Mine was working great until a few nights ago, and now it captures me when I go out and put the snacks in front of the camera but it hasn't captured any critters for several nights. Not a single video. It's def turned on and has new lithium batteries (your suggestion) which are 100% full (like I mentioned it captures me walking in front of it). I've triple checked the hours I have it set between, the sensitivity is on high (since we mostly have raccoons back there, and they don't even trigger the motion detector lights half of the time so high sensitivity is a must). Also the snacks are gone so we know the critters have been there. Also I have it pointed at exactly the same angle as a week ago when it was working fine. What else could it be?

We found your video so helpful and concise. We are trying figure out why our camera stopped picking up sound. We have gone through all of your steps above. Help? Thank you.

Do you ever have them lose PIR sensitivity over time?? My two Vikeri cameras (E2's) after about a year, don't trigger unless something the size of the space shuttle wanders by it.

Awesome troubleshooting tips! But, our Bushnell Cellucore 24 is showing no signal although we pay monthly for it. The app hasn't even updated since January. We have wiped our SD card clean & put in brand new batteries. Any tips before we buy a new one? Thanks!

Thank you so much for this!

Heya, great video - I have a problem where my camera settings will not allow me to switch to 'video' or 'photo and video' and I have brand new batteries and a brand new SD card in. I have no idea what to do. Thanks so much for any help you can give!

Thanks for the info.

I have an inexpensive trail cam, a WOSPORTS Trail Cam. I have used this cam for quite a while and it does what I need. My problem is that it does not recognize the SD card. I have watched your videos and appreciate them, I also don’t expect you to know everything about every brand. I have checked the card and it is a functioning card and I have also tried other known good cards and it still does not recognize the card. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you either way for taking the time to get back to me!

Thanks very helpful advice

How is the battery life on these Gardepro E6’s? Ive seen a variety of mixed reviews

A lot of common sense. Thanks.

Thanks for the helpfull video! One problem I could not solve was that my trail camera randomly stops filming during the day. It usually happens when it has been filming for a day and one night on full battery and the right SD Card. It stopped after filming the 300 th video (30 sec long). It's a VDS Online DL001. Could you have an idea of what caused the problem?

One of my Browing Recon Force Extreme will not turn, even with new batteries.

does it have to be connected to wifi all the time to take photos?

good afternoon uncle..your video is very cool..🙏🙏👍👍🇲🇨🇲🇨

Hi i was wondering if you know how to get and upload firmware update for ceyomur CY95. Its gone abit funny with recording videos. Weve tried formatting the sd card ehich is t-cell 256gb high endurance, tried resetting resetting the camera. Ive tried contacting ceyomur support so waiting to hear from them. We are using AA Duracell batteries for the backup so dont know if thats a problem as it recommends energiser batteries. Any advice will be accepted gratefully. Thanks Lynne x

You have great trail cam videos. I have 2 Campark T45-1 cameras. I have good batteries, proper spec SD card, and formatted SD card. They will take puotos for a few days to a few weeks then just seem to stop taking photos. If I turn them off and on again, they work again for a period of time. But then they quit taking photos. Any experience with this behavior?

I have two Apeman wildlife cameras. Both worked perfectly well until now. I haven't used them for a while and thought I'd get them back out again. However when I set them up they both countdown five seconds and that's it. They only take video for that amount of time. I thought they were both working so left them overnight, which I've done many times, next morning they take footage of when I open the camera to retrieve the SD card and nothing else. I do know there is activity outside overnight, but not showing on camera. Obviously operator error,, but can't find an answer in the instruction book.

I've got two issues with my trailcam. 1. It's not detecting movement that I know for sure it should day or night. I've tried all sensitivity levels and side sensors are switched on. It has brand new alkaline batteries and a 32gb HC class 10 SD card formatted on pc and the device itself. It detects me or the Mrs just fine, day or night, so surely it should detect the fox that comes each night for the food I put out?. 2. The internal clock jumps forward 3 seconds at a time, no matter how many times I reset it, leaving it hours out of sync. Hope you can help, Thanks.

I have a bolyguard trail camera and what happens is when I set the camera for a night it only shots one video and then it goes off, you think the problem is from the battery or something is wrong in the settings? Thanks for the help

thanks for the video. In my case I think that my camera just stopped working. First it was the display, which started to have some glitches and lines. But the camera was still working. Then I had no more display. Sometimes it was starting, and I put it on "trigger mode" and 1 out of 3 times it did work. But now, it just does not trigger anymore. Display still looking broken (I never dropped my camera, no water got inside it, nothing like that). It's a pity cause I think that the cmponents still work. Sensors, camera, etc. I'd love to do something with those, but I'm not an electrical engineer or anything like that. I guess I'll get a better camera. I used it for a year and it gave me great videos!

Great tips! I've found that if my batteries are showing less than 100%, I have less than 1 week of pictures left. The next download I swap them out.

Hi there, I have a uway NT50b and after not using it for a while when I turn it on the camera is fine but the remote is stuck on the start up menu, do you have any suggestions or is it possible I can buy another remote, Regards Adrian.

Great video but I recently got the stealth cam gmax32 no glo worked fine did the settings put it out comeback a week later open it can’t move through the menu can’t see any pictures so I take the sd card out and put it back in trail camera says da card error what should I do?

I have a Gosira 12mp camera, I've not used in ages and got it out the other day and can't remember what I set as the password, do you know how I can get round this?

Hi, I have a T80 camera which I bought within within the last month. However when trying to view photos I have a code that comes up on my phone which says 'camdidsetmode fail". Do you have any ideas how I can fix this please, thank you..

PLEASE HELP I just purchased a terra cell camera and it takes pictures but they seem random. I tried moving in the view of the camera to see if it would take picture of this, but it did not. Then hours later I was sent pictures of the space with nothing happening. Any ideas? I really appreciated your video (s) by the way. Thank you

I have a question about several trailcams that ALL were destroyed at the same time, not to go into a lot of useless info but we know who did it & why what we don't know is how. I found something about lazers & security cameras (keeping them steady for 4-5 mins etc) do you know/think this could also be true with out trail cams?

Good video. I am trouble shooting the lack of night videos. The only thing I have done differently is I installed the internal AA batteries to prevent losing the settings while charging the external batteries. 4 of the 5 camera's have stopped taking night videos. (Garde pro A3). Thanks from West Tennessee

Great video Dave, I hate to admit but I have not turned my camera on more than I like to admit, lol

Mine's a Wosoda G300. a little more than half the screen is white. The other side is somekind of scrambling. It was always good. Just this time it gave me this trouble. Any idea what i should do?

any suggestions for losing your keychain with the keys to your trailcam's padlocks and python locks? out of the blue, my set of keys is missing. i'm sure they'll turn up, but i've looked everywhere. frikkin python locks up here are over $30 canadian, and, the stores never seem to even have them anymore. fingers crossed they turn up, as i'm dreading taking the milwaukee cordless angle grinder out with me next time.

If you can help me figure out why my Wildview won't let me get past choosing between photo and video mode, so I can customize it from the default of 30 sec delay and 10 sec vid to 5 sec delay. Help!

i am having a prob with the working timer..i set it to 1800-5am and it didnt work..is it cause i put in 24hr format yet my time format is set to 12 hr format? thanks..and it was in the on position..i learned that quickly..

Hello I have a camera ltl acorn 5310 MG, which does not turn on the screen! Batteries work but I can't go to the menu! I would like to know how to do a reset! Thanks

No pictures as of 2 days ago. Brand new cam, never used the SD card elsewhere. I reformatted the card and we'll see if that works. Thank you for a very helpful video!

I have a wildgame camera that shows err message. Batteries are good and SD card is ok. I’ve talked to a company representative and they went through some trouble shooting and nothing they suggested worked. Any suggestions? Thanks

I have the Vikeri M9 and the battery does not even last a day? I went thru 3 sets of batteries. I believe the Manufacture says with battery it shoud last about 5 months?? I am using alkaline batteries that came with camera, and am thinking using Lithium batteries or could it be my settings that is messing with consumption of battery? Appreciate any feedback. Thanks

I have the Garde Pro E8 PCF , not getting any night time photos or videos, set it the same as yours, but nothing seems to work, changed the sensitive setting from high to low, and have reset the time to run the videos, did have 360 photos and videos during the day but nothing at night. Most of those were false triggers, many were one right after the other. Deleted all of them, though some did have ducks in the frame, Any ideas and love all your videos on the cams. Oh one more thing, I have the solar charger on both, and always shows 100% full, with the battery pack in and not the AA batteries. Really like the photos and videos I do get.👍👍👍👍

Thankyou so much 💓

The problems you covered were well done, however, they didn't help solve my problem. My display tells me firmware not detected. Downloaded a new version, copied it to SD, only to receive "Updating failed on ROM-APP" Have a GardePro A3. Tried all updates available with same result. Any advise?

I think that last method might help: The machete slash. I think I'll do that.

Hi, Thanks for the tips. My cam is Browning Spec Ops Advantage. Initially it was ok. Now it only shoots photos. However much I change it in to video mode,in few moments camera restarts automatically and settings are changed to photos, 1min delay and multishots off. I am desperate and please help me out.

Your videos have helped me tremendously but I haven't heard anything about the problem I am experiencing. When I try to view the video on my cell phone, a circle appears on the screen and it is counting a percentage. I believe it is "buffering" but I don't know how to stop this from happening. The video plays for a few second and the circle appears again. Then when it is done counting, the video plays again for a few seconds and continues this practice throughout the video. How can I overcome this problem? Thank you for any help you can give me. Michigan Resident

Great video very helpful been trying to get mine to work only takes photos ,videos for 12 hours battery's are good

Very nice🥰❤️❤️

my muddy mtc 100 was set to take 19 second videos, when i checked the card there were 25 videos but all were black! and when i went up and put card back in there is a circle that keeps spinning on the screen,any idea what this could be? there are no troubleshooting guides in your book!!! the batteries are new and are put in correctly and the camera is only 2 months old

Good man thanks.

Really, I only have a couple issues. 1. No or very low audio. 2. Time and Date stamp quit working randomly. For audio, I am tempted to drill a bit larger hole through the cover, and expose the microphone more. Time and date, I have no clue what to think...unless the squirrels are getting in there to mess with me. :D Thank Dave! Have a Happy Easter!

I have a CamPak I bought last year. For the life of me I can't get the setting right. We have a possum likely eating my wife garden gourds. I want to fing out how it's getting in or if it's trapped in the yard living under our shed. Point is I can't set up the camera. Last year I thought it was correct, took 1000 plus photo's of the bush moving in the wind...wind had to be all of 2 mph. Last night I set it up, clear area, set for less sensitivity...took max of I have no idea as it looks like a 2000 photos all the same. one I have is the same ( looks right ) under your left arm in your video back row, or from my view, back row far right. Any suggestions ...thanks

What should the exact Target Recording times be set to for early am and nighttime ? What happens if it is just turned to OFF? Will it go 24 hrs a day ? Thank you.

I enjoyed your video, lithium batteries are the best but one thing you didn't mentioned is they work better than regular batteries in low temperatures.

I have a Vickeri model A1 trail camera. The up/down buttons and the ok button are not working. There is no problem taking photos or videos at night, just moving from one video to another and playing the video. Any thoughts, thanks.

tHANK YOU VERY MUCH WAS ABOUT TO TAKE A SLEDGE AND GET BUZY

Hi - great video... lots of useful tips, but I have an issue not covered... would be interested to know if you've come across it and if so, how to fix it.... Very simply the batteries are all new and the settings are all double checked. It worked for months successfully in by garden taking videos of fox behaviour then just stopped taking videos. The issue seems to be that the camera's clock just freezes ...going in and out of the clock setting option without completely exiting the menu system seems fine as the clock advances between going into the clock setting option... but if I completely exit the menu and set the camera to live mode, the clock just stops... I know this because I set the clock, check it's ticking by going in and out of the set clock option, then exit the menus and set the camera to live mode. When I come back to it after a few hours or next day, it has taken no videos at all and when I go to clock set in the menu, it is still at the time I set it to before setting to live mode. I've never heard of a digital computer clock freezing before and nothing has changed since it last worked. I've tried setting it back to default settings but this just rests all the menu options to default and to German as the language. Set it back up again and still the same problem. The brand is Maginon and model is WK 3 HD, purchased in the UK about seven years ago. It's not new and not very high end, but everything working but the clock is very strange!

Should energizer lithium batteries be lasting longer than a week if I just do video? I'm getting misssed triggers and cut off video

You just stopped me from destroying my trail cam, Thanks for the info.

I have a Crenova game cam. Has been working great. Last time I checked the sd card there was nothing on it. I noticed when I turn the camera on it counts and shuts down. I put new batteries in and it does the same. Works fine in test mode.

Thanks for your video....put new batteries in...camera still send batteries low and switch off...please help

sounds good.......I have a problem with trailcam go ...i cannot get it to connect

Hay dave. I just bought a vikeri 4k camera. Put new batterys in it and had its sd card already in it.. went and set it up for videos, for a 30 second video. When i turn it on to start recording it will record for 30 seconds in black and white. During day time. After it records that 30 second video it wont record and more. Ive changed the time to a different time and still the same thing. Wont record anymore. I dont understand. No color at all during daylight hours. If i set it to record for 15 secs. It will do it and then stop. Nothing else. I let it run for 45 minutes and only that 15 second video is all it recorded. Everything is brand new. Please help.

Great information and a great explanation of why sd cards need to be formatted and why to format again in the camera.

Yep can't open file, take pictures but just black, thanks man would try your tips

Having a problem with msdc appearing on the screen when I flip to setup after changing the batteries, it's not connected to my pc, just set up as normal and ready to use???

h45 trailcamwont allow me to access menu,there is just a lit blank screen .allbatteries are new and energizer ones .but i just cant get into menu to set it up